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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Cameron Smith charged his way into history on the Old Course, a Sunday stunner at St. Andrews that sent the Australian to his first major by overcoming Rory McIlroy to win the British Open.
The stage was set for McIlroy to end his eight-year drought in the majors and cap off a week of celebration at the home of golf in the 150th Open.
Instead, Smith stole the show by running off five straight birdies to start the back nine and delivering more clutch moments at the end. His 8-under 64 was the lowest final round by a champion in the 30 times golf’s oldest championship has been played at St. Andrews.
Smith won by one shot over Cameron Young, who holed a 15-foot eagle putt on the final hole to ever-so-briefly tie for the lead.
It wasn’t enough, and neither was anything McIlroy could muster.
McIlroy couldn’t make a putt early. He couldn’t hit it close enough late. His last good chance was a 15-foot birdie attempt on the scary Road Hole at No. 17, and it narrowly missed to the left.
Smith, who saved par on the 17th with a 10-foot putt, was at the front of the 18th green with his tee shot. From 80 feet away, his pace up the slope and toward the cup was close to perfect, leaving him a tap-in birdie to finish at 20-under 268.
Smith matched the major championship record to par, last reached by Dustin Johnson in the 2020 Masters held in November.
McIlroy needed eagle to tie him, and his chip through the Valley of Sin had no chance. He missed the birdie and wound up with a 70 to finish third.
Smith is the first Australian to win at St. Andrews since Kel Nagle in 1960, when he topped a rising American star named Arnold Palmer, the people’s choice.
That’s what McIlroy is now, and all day there was an energy along the humps and hollows of the Old Course, all of them waiting to celebrate McIlroy as an Open champion at St. Andrews.
He gave them little to cheer — two birdies, 16 pars, more disappointment.
“The putter went cold on me,” McIlroy said. “When both Camerons — especially Smith — went on that run on the back nine, I had to dig deep to make birdies. And I just couldn’t. I got beaten by the better player this week. To go out and shoot 64 to win the Open Championship at St. Andrews is a hell of a showing. Hats off to Cam.”
Under that hat is a mullet the 28-year-old Aussie has been growing for the last few years, and now he has a far greater identity: champion golfer of the year — at St. Andrews, no less.
He won for the third time this year — most recently The Players Championship — and moves to No. 2 in the world behind Masters champion Scottie Scheffler.
Smith is the first Australian to win the Open since Greg Norman in 1993 at Royal St. George’s. Norman was asked not to return this year — there was no indication he was coming — because of his Saudi-funded LIV Golf that has offered millions to attract players like Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau, major champions who finished in the top 10.
But this day belonged to Smith and that magical putter.
He started the final round four shots behind and was still three behind when he made the turn. McIlroy was playing controlled golf, his only birdie a two-putt from 18 feet on the par-5 fifth. Viktor Hovland, who started the final round tied with McIlroy, was never a factor. He didn’t make his first birdie until the 12th hole and closed with a 74.
That run by Smith on the back nine is now part of Open lore.
He hit a nifty pitch to 5 feet for birdie on the short 10th. He was bold to a back pin on the par-3 11th and holed a 15-foot birdie, and he birdied the next two holes from about that length. His fifth in a row was a putt from 90 feet on the par-5 14th, over a huge mound and down the slope to tap-in range that gave him the lead for the first time.
McIlroy couldn’t catch up. His lag putting was terrific. That wasn’t what he needed. And he got no help from Smith, whose one missed shot set up his biggest challenge.
The nefarious Road Hole bunker was between him and the flag on the 17th. He used his putter to ride over the right edge of the bunker and onto the green, 10 feet away, and he poured in another putt, this one for par to stay in front.
Young had his chances in his Open debut. He left short a 6-foot putt with about a foot of break on the 15th. He came up short with a wedge on the next hole. He drilled his drive and approach to the 17th, only to leave another birdie chance short.
He finally delivered, but all that got him was a 65 and the silver medal.
Smith made his last birdie and the engraver went to work on that silver claret jug, a prize first awarded to the 1873 champion at St. Andrews. There’s a lot of history around this gray, old town, and Smith became part of it in a big way.
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2022-07-17T19:08:50+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/smith-rallies-to-beat-mcilroy-at-british-open-for-1st-major/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A man with a knife was arrested after a series of stabbings in Southern California early Monday that killed a woman and wounded three other people, authorities said.
Yohance Sharp, 21, of Long Beach was booked on suspicion of murder and his bail was set at $2 million, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Sharp had an attorney to speak on his behalf.
Officers near downtown Long Beach responded to a report of a stabbing at around 5:30 a.m. and found a woman in her 60s who had been stabbed several times in her upper body, police said.
Investigators learned that the woman had simply been standing on Atlantic Avenue when a man came up and attacked her, police said.
The woman, whose name wasn’t immediately released, was pronounced dead at a hospital, police spokesperson Brandon Fahey said.
About an hour later, police were sent to another reported stabbing about a half-mile (0.8 km) to the south. A man was hospitalized with non-life threatening stab wounds to the upper torso, Fahey told reporters.
Shortly after 7 a.m., two men were stabbed about a mile (1.6 km) south of where the second attack occurred. They were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Fahey said.
Sharp was carrying a knife when he was arrested near the scene of the third stabbing, police said.
“The motive for all attacks remains under investigation,” a police statement said. “However, detectives believe the stabbings were unprovoked and the suspect and victims did not know each other.”
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2022-10-19T08:37:05+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-california-stabbing-suspect-arrested-after-1-killed-3-hurt/
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With a commitment to environment and sustainability efforts, Virginia Natural Gas (VNG) is reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions through innovation and the use of its existing safe and reliable infrastructure.
In a recent landmark study released earlier this year by VNG's parent company, Southern Company Gas, consulting firm ICF details pathways for VNG to support Southern Company's goals to reach net-zero direct greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The pathways reveal that the use of the existing safe and reliable natural gas infrastructure is foundational to supporting a net-zero, clean energy future with the greatest consumer affordability.
One of the ways VNG is already reducing emissions is through the modernization of its existing natural gas infrastructure to ensure the continued safety and reliability of the system. Through the company's Steps to Advance Virginia's Energy Program (SAVE), VNG is renewing its natural gas infrastructure by replacing aging pipes with new, more durable materials that are less expensive to maintain and help reduce methane emissions.
"At Virginia Natural Gas, the safe, reliable delivery of natural gas is our top priority as we continue to modernize our pipeline infrastructure throughout our service territory," said Robert Duvall, president of Virginia Natural Gas. "While our current system is safe and has performed well, as technology has advanced, it's critical to continually upgrade our pipeline system. It is more important than ever to make progress in safety and environmental goals simultaneously, keeping our employees' and customers' interests top of mind while also contributing to nationwide and global environmental goals."
Virginia Natural Gas received approval for a plan to expedite the replacement of aging infrastructure by the Virginia State Corporation Commission (VSCC) through the SAVE Act. The program allowed VNG to launch an aggressive multi-year program, replacing nearly 500 miles of the aging pipeline since the program began in 2012, resulting in a more than 27% reduction in methane emissions. Additionally, 100% of the system's low-pressure cast iron pipeline was retired in 2018.
"The amount of pipeline we have replaced and upgraded in our system these past 10 years is the approximate driving distance from Virginia Beach to Savannah, Georgia," said Amanda Bouchonville, SAVE Program manager at VNG. "The new plastic pipes we are installing are more flexible and can better withstand our region's weather extremes. Upgrading this infrastructure will result in reduced maintenance costs, enhanced system reliability, reduced emissions and increased safety for many years to come."
Since 2019, VNG has invested nearly $184 million of the $360 million authorized on SAVE infrastructure projects, and this year, will invest up to $70 million in the community to ensure the reliability and safety of its system and continue to reduce emissions that will contribute to broader emissions reduction goals.
In addition to enhanced safety and reliability, the company expects that accelerating the rate of construction projects will further support both Southern Company's and the state's environmental goals.
"Our SAVE projects will allow us to continue to make substantial capital improvements to modernize our system to ensure safety, durability and reliability for our customers for years to come," added Duvall. "Investing in our infrastructure is important to achieving meaningful environmental progress."
Along with SAVE pipeline modernization projects, other emission reduction efforts at VNG include innovative technologies for environmental work, such as the use of artificial intelligence to predict third-party damages to critical infrastructure and the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for inspections of critical infrastructure, right-of-way assessments, and the inspection of more than 5,500 miles of gas pipeline.
Additionally, VNG is reducing emissions by using innovative cross-compression technologies to capture natural gas removed during operations activities and reinsert it back into the pipeline system for continued use. This results in less gas or methane entering the atmosphere.
"Our sustainability goals and activities align with the key pillars and goals of our parent company, Southern Company Gas," added Duvall. The steps we are taking today are a roadmap for achieving concrete goals, leveraging existing initiatives and exploring opportunities that meet both unique energy demand and emission targets."
About Virginia Natural Gas
Virginia Natural Gas is one of four natural gas distribution companies of Southern Company Gas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO). Virginia Natural Gas provides clean, safe, reliable and affordable natural gas service to more than 300,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in southeast Virginia. Consistently ranked in the top quartile for customer satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates, the company also has been recognized by the Virginia Department of Energy (Virginia Energy) and the Virginia Oil and Gas Association for its safety, innovation, environmental stewardship, community outreach and educational programs, and has been named Local Distribution Company of the Year five times since 2015. The company has been ranked by its business customers as one of the most Trusted Business Partners in the utility industry according to Cogent Reports, and a Top Workplaces in Hampton Roads by Inside Business. For more information, visit virginianaturalgas.com and connect with the company on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Nextdoor.
About Southern Company Gas
Southern Company Gas is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE:SO), America's premier energy company. Southern Company Gas serves approximately 4.3 million natural gas utility customers through its regulated distribution companies in four states with approximately 600,000 retail customers through its companies that market natural gas. Other nonutility businesses include investments in interstate pipelines and ownership and operation of natural gas storage facilities. For more information, visit southerncompanygas.com.
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2022-09-16T18:20:27+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/09/16/virginia-natural-gas-taking-steps-reduce-methane-emissions-protect-environment-through-pipeline-modernization-project/
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Total Revenue 2022 YTD increase 41% Y/Y & Earning 2022 YTD increased 38% Y/Y
Total Assets Exceeding $74M Second Quarter June 30, 2022
HOUSTON, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Houston Natural Resources Corp. (OTC: HNRC) ("HNR or the Company") announced today record results for the second quarter 2022, quarter ending June 30, 2022. The company's second quarter revenues of $5,125,473 and $8,687,641 for the first six months of 2022 a 41% increase compared to $7,614,534 through June 30, 2021.
The company's net earnings have increased 38% to $5,526,987 for the six-month period ending June 30, 2022, compared to $4,006,260 for the same period ending June 30, 2021. This equates to $0.18 per share in earnings per share (EPS) for the first six months of 2022.
The company's net assets have increased to $74,111,221 and the company's net asset value is $2.43 per share for the period ending June 30, 2022.
In the first quarter the company sponsored HNR Acquisition Corp a special purpose acquisition corporation that raised $86 million for a business combination. The company is currently working on sponsoring a second special purpose acquisition. The company plans to make an up listing to the OTCQB in the fourth quarter.
The second Quarter the company announced a $53M non energy asset spin-off into Worldwide Diversified Holdings, Inc. (WDHI) in 2022 and HNRC's shareholders would receive a dividend of $1.75 of WDHI shares for each HNRC share owned as announced on June 30, 2022. The spin-off changes the focus of the company towards its energy reserves, primarily 83 oil wells, estimated 33 million barrels in Texas among other interests.
About Houston Natural Resources Corp
Houston Natural Resources Corp. (OTCMKTS: HNRC) (www.hnrcholdings.com) is a diversified energy company with oil and gas interests as well as wastewater treatment facilities. The Halff Oil Field in Crockett County, Texas, 83 oil wells, estimated 33 million barrels of oil and water treatment and appraised reserves of $69 million. The company will also continue to seek new oil and gas and wastewater acquisitions as it focuses on creating more value for HNRC investors.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties.
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2022-08-01T13:41:07+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/08/01/houston-natural-resources-corp-reports-2q-financials-june-30-2022/
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CINCINNATI, Ohio (WCPO) — A grand jury indicted a woman who prosecutors say lost her second child as a result of co-sleeping.
Prosecutors in Cincinnati, Ohio, say Brooke Hunter's infant died in June as a result of co-sleeping.
Hunter reportedly lost another child about a year earlier because of co-sleeping.
The Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office said Hunter was warned about the dangers of co-sleeping after her first child died.
Co-sleeping, or bed-sharing, is when a parent sleeps in close physical or social contact with their child — often in the same bed or on a couch or chair.
The Centers for Disease Control says parents are encouraged to share a room with a baby, "but not the same bed." The CDC reports that there are about 3,500 sleep-related deaths among babies in the U.S. every year.
Prosecutors say since Hunter had been warned about the dangers of co-sleeping, her second child's death is considered a homicide. She was indicted on involuntary manslaughter and endangering children charges.
This story was originally reported by Taylor Weiter on wcpo.com.
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2022-09-19T20:52:08+00:00
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kjrh.com
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https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/woman-indicted-after-second-child-dies-from-co-sleeping
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A three-alarm fire destroyed four units at the Sheffield Mews Condominium Complex on Dancaster Court in Sayreville Sunday afternoon. The blaze may have been started by a gas line issue, police said.
About 60 firefighters from the four Sayreville fire companies, in addition to firefighters from neighboring Iselin, Hopelawn, Perth Amboy and South Amboy fire departments fought the stubborn blaze for hours on Sunday after it was reported at 12:40 p.m., said Sayreville Police Lt. James Kovak.
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2022-12-19T00:39:22+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/news/2022/12/4-families-displaced-after-blaze-guts-four-condos.html
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ROCHESTER, Minn. - Sunday was an unseasonably warm day to get outside as temperatures reached into the 70s in the Med City.
The wind didn’t stop plenty of people from taking advantage of the sunshine at Quarry Hill Sunday afternoon.
Many out enjoying the trails, walking their dogs, and enjoying their favorite parts of fall in Minnesota.
“The leaves. The colors - which we didn't really get this year - but Minnesota has such great nature to walk out in and so much greenery and obviously, fall colors,” says Steve, Melissa and Aleria from Stewartville.
“We'll take it since we had below freezing nights already - and I'm not ready for that - we're gonna try to get out as much as we can this week,” Melissa adds.
Rooney and Adam Sternke say, “You have to get a jacket on you're gonna get cold..." "No I’m not." "And you said I don't need a jacket and here we are. You said I'm gonna leave the jacket in the car 'cause it's so nice out… and I’ll probably have to take this off ‘cause it's so nice - but we're loving it. Taking advantage of it as much as we can before the impending winter eventually comes.”
“That cold snap came and we're like alright well fall is here in a heartbeat. It was nice, and then all of a sudden it was cold. So we’re getting hunkered down, getting the cushions out on our patio…we were enjoying it this morning,” Adam adds.
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2022-10-24T01:56:27+00:00
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kimt.com
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https://www.kimt.com/news/rochester-enjoys-the-weather-at-quarry-hill-on-a-70-degree-day-in-october/article_2029907e-532e-11ed-9247-5b56a061c5ea.html
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Initial Launch To Be Accessible For Those With Alpha Access; Starting Today, Developers Can Register Interest For Public Launch On Ready Player Me's Website
First Premium Avatar Collection, The Outer Kingdoms, Is Now Available For Sale Directly on HiberWorld, Spatial, Wink, and Omlet Arcade
NEW YORK, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ready Player Me, the world's leading avatar platform, today released alpha access to a new suite of monetization tools and premium avatar collections. These innovations let app creators tap into the $100+ billion dollar digital goods economy by selling avatar skins, clothing, and items directly in their apps. Alpha partners utilizing the tools include virtual world apps like Hiber and Spatial, and social networking and streaming apps like Wink and Omlet Arcade; other Ready Player Me developers can apply for beta access to the tools here.
"Partnering with Ready Player Me enables us to move our monetization strategy forward by delivering embeddable 3D commerce experiences to brands, artists and creators," said Michael Yngfors, Co-Founder & CEO of Hiber. "We've seamlessly worked with their new tools and APIs to launch an in-world storefront in HiberWorld for The Outer Kingdoms collection. Now, any brand or artist can use HiberWorld to easily create their own 3D commerce experience for avatar outfits and reach millions of users."
As part of this alpha launch with selected partners, Ready Player Me is opening access to its new Asset Manager, Transaction API, and their first sellable avatar collections.
- The Asset Manager let's developers create, upload, and publish outfits for sale directly in their app. Additionally published assets will soon be available for sale throughout the entire Ready Player Me Network, giving developers the ability to sell cross-game.
- The Transactions API powers transactions and revenue sharing, giving developers the ability to build storefronts — either through app interfaces or directly in virtual stores that can be visited in-world.
- The first avatar collection, The Outer Kingdoms, is available for sale directly through partner storefronts. The launch partners include HiberWorld, Wink, and Omlet Arcade. Additional avatar collections will be launched on an ongoing basis.
The in-app purchase market in 2022 was a staggering $141.75B, and expected to compound yearly. With much of this spend going to avatars, developers increasingly need better ways to monetize through skin, clothing, and item sales. These new features are built API-first, with native integration into game engines such as Unity, Unreal, or Hiber 3d – allowing broad access and saving development time and resources. Through Ready Player Me's interoperable network, assets will achieve peak cross-game potential through their utility in not one, but over thousands of different apps and games.
"Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Roblox have proved the game economy of the future is powered by avatar monetization," said Timmu Toke, Co-Founder & CEO of Ready Player Me. "Until now, unless you were a AAA studio, you couldn't take advantage of the avatar economy. Now, we've made it possible for every developer, regardless of size, to create and sell avatar skins and items in-game, and across thousands of connected experiences that integrate with our platform."
The alpha launch is available to select Ready Player Me developers. To apply for future beta access, developers need to apply using this form. Developers who have not yet signed up with Ready Player Me can do so at readyplayer.me/developers.
About Ready Player Me
Ready Player Me is the world's leading avatar platform. It empowers developers to integrate, optimize, manage, and monetize avatars and outfits for their users to personalize their digital identity. Unlike traditional avatar systems that lock avatars to a single experience, avatars created with Ready Player Me are interoperable across 9,000+ apps and games already integrated with the platform that are played by tens of millions users monthly.
CONTACT: Teddy Burnette, tburnette@virgo-pr.com
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2023-06-16T18:11:21+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2023/06/16/ready-player-mes-new-monetization-tools-help-developers-grow-revenue-through-in-app-purchases/
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Which vampire costume is best?
Vampire costumes are enduringly popular for Halloween. Whether your inspiration is more Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, there’s a rich tradition of vampire books, films, myths and legends to work from.
Classic vampire costumes are the most common, but you can opt for something more contemporary. If you’re looking for a standout costume and don’t mind buying accessories separately, the Colorful House Plus-Size Medieval Dress is ideal.
What to know before you buy a vampire costume
Kids vs. adults
You can find both Halloween costumes for kids and adult costumes. So it’s equally good news if you’re looking to dress as a vampire or you’re looking for a costume for your child.
- Kids costumes: Kids vampire costumes are usually spooky but not too scary. You can find them in a range of sizes to fit babies, toddlers, little kids and big kids.
- Adult costumes: Adults’ vampire costumes are usually moderately spooky, but they can be more scary, gory or revealing than kids versions.
Costume contents
Vampire costumes can consist of various types of clothing. There are no hard-and-fast rules about who can wear what, but make sure you know what you’re getting and that you’re happy with it. Also, be aware that some costumes may require you to supply some of your own clothes, such as your own pants or skirt.
- Dress: Some vampire outfits feature dresses. These are usually long and flowing with a gothic flair, but they can be short.
- Pants: Pants are usually black and simple, but they can be of poor quality in cheap costumes, so you may prefer an option where you supply your own pants.
- Top: Frilly white shirts and waistcoats are typical of vampire costumes. Sometimes these are combined into one garment.
- Cape: Although you don’t need a cape for a vampire costume, it can help complete the look.
Accessories
Some costumes come with all the accessories you need, but in some cases you must buy them separately.
- Fangs: Fangs transform a vampire costume, but cheap plastic ones can be uncomfortable to wear. If you’re serious about your costume, consider buying fangs that adhere to your canine teeth.
- Fake blood: Some carefully placed fake blood adds a more horrific effect to your vampire look.
- Makeup and effects: You might choose to use makeup to complete your outfit. You can also buy transfers and prosthetics to transform your brow if you want to dress as a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” vampire.
What to look for in a quality vampire costume
Flourishes
The little flourishes in a costume turn it from basic to breathtaking. Frilly shirt collars, stand-up cape collars, antique-style buttons, bell sleeves and lace detailing all add to the outfit’s appearance.
Colors
Most costumes are black, red and a touch of white feature widely in vampire outfits. If you want a classic costume, it’s best to stick to this color palette, but it’s also fine to break the rules.
How much you can expect to spend on a vampire costume
Basic kids’ costumes can cost less than $20, while the most elaborate options cost over $100.
Vampire costume FAQ
How do you make a simple vampire costume?
A. If you want to make a simple vampire costume or are on a strict budget, a cape and a pair of fangs go a long way. Wear them with a basic black outfit and you can easily transform yourself into a creature of the night.
How do you make your face pale like a vampire?
A. In most stories and legends, vampires can’t go out in daylight, so they’re often characterized as having pale skin. Of course, this isn’t necessarily accurate (hypothetically speaking), since vampires could have any natural skin tone and come from any ethnic background. However, if you want to make your complexion paler as part of your vampire costume, use a pale foundation or even white face paint.
What do vampires wear?
A. Most vampire costumes focus on traditional Victorian style, such as long, flowing dresses or dress pants, shirts and waistcoats. This helps make costumes instantly recognizable. That said, if vampires were real, they wouldn’t necessarily dress in fashions from centuries past. In modern vampire movies and TV shows, they often dress in contemporary clothes. So, with the right accessories, you could dress as a vampire in your street clothes.
What’s the best vampire costume to buy?
Top vampire costume
Colorful House Plus-Size Medieval Dress
What you need to know: Although it isn’t explicitly a vampire costume, its black and wine-red velvet and hooded design make it perfect with the right accessories.
What you’ll love: It has gorgeous detailing, such as bell sleeves and a laced bodice. It looks vampiric in black and deep red with a gold trim, but there’s also a dark green version. You can choose from sizes M-3XL.
What you should consider: The material is somewhat thin and slightly translucent, so you may want to wear a tank top and shorts underneath.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top vampire costume for the money
Lingway Toys Kids Vampire of Darkness Costume
What you need to know: With a shirt and waistcoat and cape, you just need to add black pants and fangs to complete the look.
What you’ll love: There’s nice attention to detail, such as the antique-style buttons and cape fastening. It comes in a range of sizes to fit kids roughly 3 to 14 years old.
What you should consider: Pants aren’t included, so you’ll need to find suitable ones.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
California Costumes Child Royal Vampire Costume
What you need to know: The dramatic sleeves and collar make this vampire costume stand out.
What you’ll love: The black-and-red dress is elegant and looks fit for a creature of darkness. It also comes with a cameo choker to nicely complete the look. Sizes range from kids S-XXL, to fit kids from around ages 6 to 8, through to teenagers.
What you should consider: It’s slightly long, so it may need to be taken up for younger and shorter kids.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2022-10-25T13:29:27+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/reviews/br/toys-games-br/holiday-costumes-br/best-vampire-costume/
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Best blood pressure monitors
Blood pressure is an incisive indicator of your overall health. High or low blood pressure can help doctors form a complete picture of your health and assist them with diagnosing many types of conditions.
There are many reasons a person may need or choose to monitor their own blood pressure at home regularly, but the most important thing is ensuring that you’re testing it properly and reading the results correctly. Luckily, there are some great products to help you with both.
Why should you monitor your blood pressure?
Reasons to monitor high blood pressure
High blood pressure can indicate that you’re at serious (and even immediate) risk of life-threatening incidents such as heart attack or stroke. Chronic high blood pressure usually needs to be managed on an ongoing basis through prescription medication.
Sometimes, blood pressure can momentarily spike due to a number of reasons, such as stress and extreme physical activity. Continually monitoring your blood pressure over a period of time is a much better indicator of your overall health.
Reasons to monitor low blood pressure
While it occurs less frequently than high blood pressure, low blood pressure can also indicate a serious health issue and lead to other symptoms such as dizziness and nausea. According to the Mayo Clinic, low blood pressure can be caused by serious infections in the blood, known as septicemia, hormone-related disorders or diseases and dehydration, among other things.
Types of blood pressure monitoring products
Aneroid sphygmomanometer
An aneroid sphygmomanometer is the traditional blood pressure reading device you’re probably used to seeing at the doctor’s office. It’s manually operated using a squeeze pump to inflate the cuff on your arm with an aneroid dial to read the results.
While they’re accurate, these types of devices are best if you have a good understanding of how to read blood pressure results. On the upside, they never run out of batteries and can last for years.
Electronic monitoring device
Today, most blood pressure monitoring devices are battery-operated LED displays connected to an arm cuff. Buttons on the device start the process of swelling the cuff before reading your blood pressure as it deflates.
Wireless monitoring device
Some manufacturers have developed wireless monitoring devices that use Bluetooth to send the data from the arm cuff to a separate LED display or to an app on your mobile device. The benefit of this is that you can store endless amounts of blood pressure data over a long period of time for closer analysis by your doctor.
Fitness watches
An ongoing trend in wearable technology, fitness monitoring watches often incorporate blood pressure readings along with things like sleep, heart rate, heart rhythm and more.
What to buy to monitor your blood pressure
This blood pressure monitor is easy to use, as it only takes one push of a button once the cuff is fitted. Two users can store their blood pressure results so you can monitor changes or consistency over time.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
The large backlit LED screen makes this blood pressure monitor very easy to use and read. It’s sensitive enough to detect other issues such as heart arrhythmia. The cuff is great for larger frames, providing up to 17 inches of diameter.
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QardioArm Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor
This wireless machine uses Wi-Fi and an app on your phone to display results and track your blood pressure, so you can maintain an unlimited history of your readings. It’s small and compact, which is perfect for traveling or monitoring on the go.
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Dixie Ems Deluxe Aneroid Sphygmomanometer Blood Pressure Set
If buttons and machinery are too complex or you prefer to go old-school with your blood pressure reading, this traditional manual cuff and inflation set is ideal. It’s a durable piece of equipment, and you won’t have to worry about replacing the batteries.
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Omron 7 Series Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor
This monitor provides clinician-level accuracy of your blood pressure reading and alerts for irregular heartbeats. It provides you with an average result as well as the ability to store up to 60 readings.
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MorePro Health Monitor Smartwatch
This fitness and health tracking watch monitors your heart rate, rhythm, blood oxygen and blood pressure. If you need very frequent blood pressure monitoring, this device means it’s always available and discreet, although it’s not as accurate as other blood pressure monitoring devices.
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Drive Medical Economy Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor
To save you from replacing the batteries frequently, this monitor has an auto shut-off function. It also measures your results against the World Health Organization average and records up to 120 readings.
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Vive Precision Aneroid Sphygmomanometer Manual Blood Pressure Cuff
This manual blood pressure monitoring device is a little more time-consuming to use and read but provides a highly accurate reading. The sphygmomanometer also comes with a case for storage and travel.
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Bestinn Smart Watch Fitness Tracker
This wristwatch measures blood pressure, blood oxygen, body temperature and heart rate to give you an all-over picture of your health. The results wirelessly load to an app available for both iOS and Android users to monitor trends and spikes.
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iHealth Track Smart Upper Arm Blood Pressure Monitor
With wireless functionality, this device uses Bluetooth to send your cuff reading to the monitor. Along with your detailed results, a simple red, green and amber indicator lets you know whether your reading is healthy or not. An unlimited amount of readings can be stored in an app that connects to the device.
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2023-01-27T18:58:14+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/reviews/monitoring-your-blood-pressure-can-be-a-hassle-these-10-products-make-it-easier/
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EVERETT, Wash. – A Washington city's dress code ordinance saying bikini baristas must cover their bodies at work has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal court.
The decision in a partial summary judgment this week comes after a lengthy legal battle between bikini baristas and the city of Everett over the rights of workers to wear what they want, the Everett Herald reported. Everett is about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Seattle.
U.S. District Court in Seattle found Everett’s dress code ordinance violated the Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. and Washington state constitutions. The Court found that the ordinance was, at least in part, shaped by a gender-based discriminatory purpose, according to a 19-page ruling signed by U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez.
It is difficult to imagine, the court wrote, how the ordinance would be equally applied to men and women in practice because it prohibits clothing “typically worn by women rather than men,” including midriff and scoop-back shirts, as well as bikinis.
Bikini baristas were “clearly” a target of the ordinance, the court also ruled, adding that the profession is comprised of a workforce that is almost entirely women.
In 2017, the city enacted its dress code ordinance, requiring all employees, owners and operators of “quick service facilities” to wear clothing that covers the upper and lower body. The ordinance listed coffee stands, fast food restaurants, delis, food trucks and coffee shops as examples of quick service businesses.
The owner of Everett bikini barista stand Hillbilly Hotties and some employees filed a legal complaint challenging the constitutionality of the dress code ordinance. They also challenged the city's lewd conduct ordinance, but the court dismissed all the baristas' claims but the dress code question.
The court directed the city of Everett to meet with the plaintiffs within 14 days to discuss next steps.
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2022-10-30T00:06:19+00:00
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wsls.com
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https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2022/10/29/federal-judge-rules-in-favor-of-bikini-baristas-over-dress/
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SpaceX to launch Falcon Heavy for first time in 3 years
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch from the Cape for the first time in three years as it carries multiple satellites for the US Space Force.
While SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from the Cape are going up almost every week, the heavy-lift SpaceX rocket has not launched since 2019. And that’s about to change thanks to the construction of private space stations as the International Space Station is due to be retired in 2030.
“I fully expect this is going to pick up sometime soon. Especially, for example, the ISS is going to be decommissioned in the next few years. There are commercial space stations designed,” Julie Brisset of UCF’s Florida Space Institute.
The US Space Force, SpaceX’s client on this mission, announced a Falcon Heavy will launch by the end of the month.
It’s the most powerful rocket operating with five million pounds of thrust. Essentially, the Heavy is three Falcon 9 rockets lined up next to each other. Two will land back on Earth, while the third will continue placing the satellites into their orbits.
The Falcon Heavy, and other large rockets in development, are designed to help build the infrastructure for deep space exploration.
“You can design things all you want–space stations, lunar bases. If you don’t have the capacity to launch all the required materials and components, you will never make it to competition,” Brisset said.
There are two more Falcon Heavy launches on this year’s schedule, including another one for the Space Force.
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2022-10-18T01:44:32+00:00
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wesh.com
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https://www.wesh.com/article/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch/41661661
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Browns All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett remains in hospital care as doctors assess non-life-threatening injuries he suffered while flipping his Porsche in a one-car accident following practice Monday.
As of 11:50 p.m., Garrett was still being evaluated following the accident, which happened on a rural road a few hours after the team’s practice. The Browns did not provide any details about Garrett’s injuries or condition.
Garett’s agent, Nicole Lynn, said in a statement posted on Twitter that the star has been “alert and responsive” while receiving medical attention. She said, “we are waiting to learn the extent of his injuries.”
On behalf of Garrett’s family, Lynn thanked medical personnel for getting the 26-year-old and an unidentified female passenger out of his mangled vehicle and transporting them to a hospital.
Lynn told AP in a text message that Garrett did not break any bones and she expects him to be discharged ether Monday night or into Tuesday.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said it responded to a rollover crash around 3 p.m. When troopers arrived, they found a gray Porsche 911 Turbo S on the right side of the road with extensive damage.
The crash is still under investigation, but the highway patrol said “impairment from alcohol/or drugs is not suspected.” Garrett and his passenger were wearing safety belts.
Several local media outlets posted photos of the damaged sports car, which can reach speeds of 205 mph.
Garrett and his teammates returned to practice Monday at the team’s facility in Berea, Ohio, following a long weekend after their 29-17 home win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night.
The 26-year-old Garrett was in the locker room following the morning workout.
It’s not yet known if Garrett’s playing status for Sunday’s game in Atlanta will be altered by the accident.
Garrett needs just one sack to become the team’s career leader. He was held to two assisted tackles in Thursday’s win over the Steelers. He missed one practice last week with an unspecified neck issue.
One of the NFL’s most dominant players, Garrett was selected with the No. 1 overall pick by Cleveland in 2017. He set a team single-season record with 16 sacks last season, and has recorded 61 1/2 sacks in 71 games.
Garret has three sacks and forced a fumble this season. The three-time Pro Bowler is often double- and triple-teamed by blockers. Last week, Garrett got even more attention from the Steelers as Cleveland was missing end Jadeveon Clowney due to an ankle injury.
Clowney didn’t practice Monday, but hasn’t been ruled out yet for the Falcons.
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2022-09-27T04:29:41+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-browns-garrett-in-accident-injuries-not-life-threatening/
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People turned out for a rally in Kansas City, Mo., to honor Ralph Yarl, the 16-year-old who mistakenly went to the wrong house and was shot. The homeowner has been charged in the case.
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People turned out for a rally in Kansas City, Mo., to honor Ralph Yarl, the 16-year-old who mistakenly went to the wrong house and was shot. The homeowner has been charged in the case.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-04-19T12:05:06+00:00
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kosu.org
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https://www.kosu.org/u-s-news/u-s-news/2023-04-19/activists-in-kansas-city-protest-the-shooting-of-ralph-yarl-call-for-strict-sentence
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Proceeds will be mainly utilized to:
- Further strengthen the Company's position in kidney transplantation through the continued support of ongoing European commercial launch activities for Idefirix (imlifidase) and execution of the U.S. ConfIdeS trial of imlifidase, which is expected to support a potential Biologics License Application (BLA) submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the accelerated approval pathway in the first half of 2024. In addition, Hansa will advance the global Phase 3 clinical trial of imlifidase in anti-GBM antibody disease and ongoing clinical programs in other indications
LUND, Sweden, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hansa Biopharma AB, (Hansa), (Nasdaq Stockholm: HNSA), a pioneer in enzyme technology for rare immunological conditions, today announces that the Company has entered into an agreement with U.S.-based NovaQuest Capital Management, securing $70 million in non-dilutive financing.
"This transaction, which extends our cash runway through 2024, helps bolster our ability to invest in the continued development of our unique antibody-cleaving enzyme technology platform across multiple therapeutic areas," said Donato Spota, Chief Financial Officer of Hansa Biopharma.
Mr. Spota continued, "We now have the resources we need to fully fund our U.S. ConfIdeS trial, which is evaluating imlifidase as a potential desensitization therapy to enable kidney transplants in highly sensitized patients waiting for a deceased donor kidney through the U.S. kidney allocation system and is expected to support submission of a BLA to the FDA under the accelerated approval pathway in the first half of 2024, as well as our global Phase 3 development program in anti-GBM antibody disease, which is expected to commence this year. The funds, together with our existing cash, may also be used to complete our existing Phase 2 programs in antibody mediated kidney transplant rejection (AMR) and Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) and to advance our next generation of enzymes (NiceR) into clinical development."
"The team at Hansa has demonstrated the clinical benefit of imlifidase for enabling kidney transplantation in highly sensitized patients sufficiently to gain EMA approval and appropriate reimbursement in an expanding number of key European countries," said Brett Fleshman, Managing Director at NovaQuest Capital Management, "NovaQuest is delighted that Hansa has chosen to fund the ongoing launch in Europe, and US pivotal trials for kidney transplantation and anti-GBM antibody disease through this unique Product Finance transaction.", he continued.
$70 million in financing
Under the terms of the agreement, NovaQuest will provide Hansa with $70 million within 15 business days from the execution of the agreement. In return, Hansa will make quarterly mid single-digit royalty payments to NovaQuest on future worldwide annual net sales of imlifidase, commencing upon approval by the FDA of imlifidase in kidney transplantation or anti-GBM. In addition, Hansa will make certain milestone payments to NovaQuest upon FDA approval of imlifidase in kidney transplantation or anti-GBM. Total payments by Hansa to NovaQuest are capped.at $140 million. The agreement also provides for time-based catch-up payments within the payment cap if specified payment amounts have not been received by NovaQuest by specified dates, with the last potential catch-up payment due on December 31, 2028. In addition, the transaction includes customary diligence, governance, and information obligations as well as non-financial covenants. Hansa and NovaQuest have also entered into a security agreement to provide NovaQuest a customary security interest in and lien upon right, title and interest in certain of Hansa's assets and IP.
Hansa is on a mission to become a global leader in rare diseases through the development of innovative, life-saving and life-altering treatments for patients with rare immunological conditions. The Company's strategy builds upon its proprietary enzyme technology platform, with the goal of developing and commercializing immunomodulatory first-in-class or best-in-class treatments for organ transplants, rare IgG-mediated autoimmune conditions and gene therapy, as well as exploring the potential of the technology in oncology.
Hansa obtained conditional approval for Idefirix® in Europe in August 2020. Pricing and reimbursement processes have been completed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands, as well as on an individual hospital basis in Finland and Greece. In addition, Hansa was granted access in France through a fully reimbursed early access program earlier this year, while Switzerland and Israel, also earlier this year, granted temporary and full marketing authorization, respectively, for Idefirix®. Additional market access procedures are currently ongoing in 11 countries, including Spain and Italy.
This is information that Hansa Biopharma AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through Hansa Biopharma and the contact persons set out below, at 21:00 CET on July 18 2022.
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2022-07-19T02:56:51+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/07/18/hansa-biopharma-announces-70-million-non-dilutive-product-finance-transaction-with-novaquest-support-continued-development-companys-antibody-cleaving-enzyme-technology-platform/
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In a counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces have claimed swaths in the east of the country, dealing a heavy blow to Russian forces as the war marks 200 days.
Greg Myre is a national security correspondent with a focus on the intelligence community, a position that follows his many years as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts around the globe.
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2022-09-12T21:37:27+00:00
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kpcc.org
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https://www.kpcc.org/2022-09-12/how-ukraine-broke-the-stalemate-with-russia
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WELCOME HOME to this well-maintained very spacious home with top of the line finishes! Gleaming hardwoods throughout main living on first floor with loads of natural light. Spacious dining for entertaining! Bright chefs kitchen includes SS appliances, granite counters, kitchen island, white cabinetry, tile backsplash & breakfast room. Large living room opens to kitchen with access to tranquil screened in porch with ceiling fan for relaxing! The large owners suite w/ trey ceiling offers huge WIC with shelving, attached bath with double vanity, garden tub & separate shower with tile surround. 16" tile in all baths throughout. 2nd BR on main level with full bath is perfect for guests. Two more large bedrooms with walk in closets share a full bath and a loft complete the second floor. Resort-style amenities include pool, splash pad, basketball, volleyball, and tennis courts, miles of sidewalks and planned community events for all ages! Landscaping provided by the HOA. Love where you live!
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2023-04-22T06:23:16+00:00
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greensboro.com
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https://greensboro.com/4-bedroom-home-in-burlington---470-000/article_f2197862-6909-53a2-834f-c3c7fd9cb99a.html
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A court in Nigeria has been asked to stop the planned inauguration of the country’s next president and to extend the incumbent’s tenure, court documents obtained Friday show.
Five Nigerians made the request to the Federal High Court in Abuja, arguing that President-elect Bola Tinubu was illegally declared the winner of the Feb. 25 presidential election and therefore should not be sworn into office on May 29.
The petition is among several challenges to the ruling party’s victory and raised concerns in the West African nation about a possible constitutional crisis should President Muhammadu Buhari remain in office until the case is decided.
Chuks Nwachuku, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, said Tinubu’s being declared president-elect was unconstitutional because he failed to win at least 25% of the votes cast in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city.
To be elected president, the Nigerian Constitution requires a candidate to win both the highest number of votes overall and not less than one-quarter of the votes in each of at least two-thirds of the country’s 36 states and Abuja.
The interpretation of that constitutional provision has remained a subject of debate in Nigeria.
“There can be no swearing in of anyone who has not satisfied the provisions of the constitution. We are asking for a declaration that the president remains in office until the issue of succession is sorted out,” Nwachuku told The Associated Press.
Nigeria’s two main opposition parties previously contested the All Progressives Congress party’s presidential victory, alleging the election results were rigged.
While the opposition’s election challenge was not expected to stop Tinubu’s inauguration, analysts warned that extending Buhari’s tenure could create a crisis for a country with a checkered history of long military rule and electoral violence.
“The petition is a recipe for crisis. All the previous elections were disputed, but at no point in time did anybody push that the constitutional provision of inaugurating the winner should be stopped, so it is very worrying,” Idayat Hassan, who leads the Center for Democracy and Development, a research and advocacy organization based in Abuja.
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2023-05-13T05:21:12+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/international/nigerian-court-asked-to-stop-president-elects-inauguration-extend-incumbents-tenure/
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Starting next February, Orlandoans will again have a professional football team to root for.
Dwayne Johnson, famous from his time in wrestling as "The Rock" and burgeoning acting career, is bringing the XFL football league to the City Beautiful. He co-owns the league with Dany Garcia, having purchased it in 2020. The XFL's previous owner was Johnson's former boss at the WWE, Vince McMahon.
Johnson and Garcia announced during an XFL Townhall that Orlando will join seven other cities participating in this XFL 2.0, as it were. (Or 3.0 if you count the attempted 2020 relaunch, derailed by the pandemic.)
Terrell Buckley was named coach of the as-yet-unnamed Orlando team. Buckley was previously coaching at the University of Mississippi. Beyond coaching, Buckley was a credentialed player in his own right as a 14-year NFL veteran and Super Bowl XXXVI champion. "I’m excited to announce that I am the head coach of Orlando’s brand new XFL Franchise," said Buckley on Twitter. "This city is known for making dreams come true and I can’t wait to help add to that tradition."
The team's home field will be Camping World Stadium, and ESPN will be the XFL's official broadcast partner.
And we'd be remiss if we didn't remind you, because we are a nerdy alt-weekly who hates fun, that Orlando was indeed part of the first iteration of the XFL in 2001 with the Orlando Rage. The team, and the league, would only last for one season before ceasing operations.
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2022-07-26T03:02:07+00:00
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orlandoweekly.com
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https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando-will-be-part-of-dwayne-the-rock-johnsons-xfl-football-league-again-32101263
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Pop star Lay Zhang to headline festival hosted by MC Jin featuring additional performances from artists making their arena debut in the United States including 9m88, Karencici, ØZI and Sury Su
--Tickets on-sale THIS Friday, July 15 at seatgeek.com--
BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The MetaMoon Music Festival, a single-day festival and cultural experience to celebrate the Asian American diaspora, is coming to Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. Founded by Hong Kong-based Graceful Media and produced in partnership with Live Nation, the inaugural MetaMoon Music Festival will showcase the global reach and impact of Asian artists, music, and fans, while emphasizing the culturally rich and diverse communities in Brooklyn and across New York City.
MetaMoon Music Festival's mission is to bridge the gap between Asia and the United States and show that music is a universal language. The Asian community has been historically underrepresented in American entertainment and now more than ever, cultural exchanges and the power of pop culture can counteract the polarizing politics and geopolitical challenges at play in society.
Graceful Media set out to create a platform in the United States for Asian and Asian American artists, who may not receive the visibility they deserve, to have a space where their fans can connect and celebrate while discovering new music and artists. New York City has the largest Asian-American population in the United States – almost 15% of the entire city's population – making Barclays Center the perfect host venue for the festival.
"There is a great need for stronger Asian representation in pop culture and in the media, and the mission of MetaMoon Music Festival is to give artists the ability to shine from a prominent stage, in the heart of Brooklyn," said Grace Chen, Founder of Graceful Media. "Now more than ever, music is truly a global language, and talent, no matter where they come from, will resonate with fans across cultures if given the opportunity to share their passion and creativity."
The inaugural MetaMoon Music Festival will feature performers from Asia, including many who will be making their United States debut, as well as other artists who may have previously toured the United States.
Lay Zhang, from K-pop super group EXO, will be headlining the event, along with 9m88, Karencici, ØZI, and Sury Su, who will be making their arena debuts in the US. More artists and special guests are expected to be announced and MC Jin will be hosting the evening. Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, July 15 at 10 a.m. EST and can be purchased online at seatgeek.com and barclayscenter.com.
"Live Nation is committed to creating endless opportunities to connect artists of all genres and backgrounds with their fans," said Geoff Gordon, Regional President, Live Nation Northeast. "The inaugural MetaMoon Music Festival will inspire and create new and exciting opportunities for many of today's Asian artists, from both here and abroad, to shine brightly, and engage their fans in this epic and unforgettable event."
"Since opening our doors in 2012, Barclays Center has hosted some of the biggest names in the music industry, bringing countless fans and artists together in the heart of Brooklyn," said Laurie Jacoby, Executive Vice President and Chief Entertainment Officer at BSE Global, parent company of Barclays Center. "Our goal is for MetaMoon Music Festival to highlight the importance of the Asian community while simultaneously celebrating the diverse and exciting culture of our city."
For more information on the MetaMoon Music Festival, please visit www.metamoonfest.com.
Graceful Media operates at the intersection of music, sports, pop culture, content and the world's second largest economy. Based in Hong Kong, Graceful Media works with talent on their market entry strategy into China, and advises companies on the media and entertainment landscape in the region. Graceful Media created the MetaMoon Music Festival as a platform for Asian and Asian American artists to share their talent and music with the world.
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:LYV) is the world's leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship.
Barclays Center opened on September 28, 2012 and is a major sports and entertainment venue in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. The arena is home to the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA's New York Liberty. Since opening with the first of eight consecutive sold out shows by JAY-Z, Barclays Center has established itself as an industry leader in sports and entertainment, hosting some of the greatest entertainers in the world including Barbra Streisand, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Drake, Justin Bieber, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Paul McCartney, Rihanna, and The Rolling Stones, as well as major events such as the MTV Video Music Awards, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, 2015 NBA All-Star weekend, nine NBA Drafts, and nationally broadcast New Year's Eve shows. Barclays Center has become one of the most popular and recognizable arenas in the world – consistently ranked as a top venue by Billboard, Pollstar, and Venues Now.
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2022-07-11T13:54:24+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/07/11/inaugural-metamoon-music-festival-celebrates-asian-talent-culture-with-global-fans-coming-barclays-center-brooklyn-saturday-nov-26/
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Father, infant son fatally shot while sitting on front porch, police say
MONROE, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) – A father and his infant son were shot and killed outside their North Carolina home Sunday night, police said.
According to Monroe police, 25-year-old Darion McClendon and 4-month-old Da’Mari McClendon were shot just after 10 p.m. Sunday.
Family members said McClendon and his family were sitting on the porch having just come back from a picnic at the park when they were shot.
“They’re just shooting people just to shoot people. This man was cooking on the grill for his family, this man was having a good time with his family, and this is what happened,” a family member said.
McClendon’s girlfriend’s family said baby Da’Mari was always happy, brought his mom a lot of joy, and loved Mickey Mouse.
McClendon, who was affectionately known as Debo, was described as a hard-working, caring father of two sons.
“My cousin lost her baby and her boyfriend,” one family member said. “Debo wasn’t a bad guy. Debo went to work, they had just went to the park with my kids and their baby.”
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, has children who were also at the home when the shooting happened. She is thankful they are OK physically, but knows they’re traumatized from witnessing their loved ones get killed in front of them.
Monroe Police Department Chief Bryan Gilliard said the aftermath of the fatal shooting is a difficult time for the community and for officers.
“We are committed to bringing the perpetrator of this crime to justice. If anyone has any information, please come forward. We need people in the community to help us in this process,” Gilliard said.
The family is also pleading with the public to come forward and help the police make an arrest.
Anyone with any information about this crime should contact the Monroe Police Department at 704-282-4700 or Union County Crime Stoppers at 704-283-5600. A cash reward of up to $5,000 is available for information leading to an arrest.
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2022-05-31T21:48:42+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/2022/05/31/father-infant-son-fatally-shot-while-sitting-front-porch-police-say/
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FILE - Huts made of branches and cloth provide shelter to Somalis displaced by drought on the outskirts outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 19, 2022. Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so. It’s one of the main priorities for the African Group of Negotiators at the United Nations climate summit, known as COP27, currently underway in Egypt.
FILE - An old hotel is submerged by rising water levels in Lake Baringo in Kampi ya Samaki, Kenya, July 20, 2022. Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so. It’s one of the main priorities for the African Group of Negotiators at the United Nations climate summit, known as COP27, currently underway in Egypt.
FILE - World Food Program chief David Beasley looks at carcasses of animals that died of hunger in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so. It’s one of the main priorities for the African Group of Negotiators at the United Nations climate summit, known as COP27, currently underway in Egypt.
African nations push for funding to adapt to climate change
Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate summit
FILE - Huts made of branches and cloth provide shelter to Somalis displaced by drought on the outskirts outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 19, 2022. Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so. It’s one of the main priorities for the African Group of Negotiators at the United Nations climate summit, known as COP27, currently underway in Egypt.
Jerome Delay - staff, AP
FILE - An old hotel is submerged by rising water levels in Lake Baringo in Kampi ya Samaki, Kenya, July 20, 2022. Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so. It’s one of the main priorities for the African Group of Negotiators at the United Nations climate summit, known as COP27, currently underway in Egypt.
Brian Inganga - stringer, AP
FILE - World Food Program chief David Beasley looks at carcasses of animals that died of hunger in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so. It’s one of the main priorities for the African Group of Negotiators at the United Nations climate summit, known as COP27, currently underway in Egypt.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Battling droughts, sandstorms, floods, wildfires, coastal erosion, cyclones and other weather events exacerbated by climate change, the African continent needs to adapt, but it needs funds to do so, leaders and negotiators from the continent said at the U.N. climate summit.
It's one of the main priorities for the African Group of Negotiators at the summit, known as COP27, currently underway in Egypt. Ephraim Shitima, the group's chair, said Africa is keen to see the outcomes of the negotiations translated into action for the continent where millions are facing climate-related disasters.
Shitima said the summit “should provide solutions to the millions of people in the continent,” adding that Africa needs finance to adapt to extreme weather as well as “to facilitate just energy transition and boost renewable energy uptake.”
A recent study released by the World Bank said that climate-related events will squeeze more than 132 million people into poverty worldwide with African countries losing between 10% and 15% of their GDP by 2050.
Africa produces only 4% of the world's planet warming emissions despite making up 17% of the world's population but is particularly vulnerable to climate change.
Climate finance for adapting to climate-related disasters and stopping them from getting worse remains a thorny issue at climate negotiations. A promise of $100 billion a year in climate funding is yet to be fulfilled despite being two years past its deadline.
Speakers at the Africa Pavilion at the conference mulled over how to close the gap between the continent's financial needs on climate and what it actually receives, which is currently estimated by the African Development Bank to be between $160 billion and $340 billion by 2030.
Earlier this week Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne called for the taxing of fossil fuel firms profits to support developing countries and small island states to adapt to climate change and move toward clean energy.
“We know they make extortionate profits,” he said. He added that countries would seek compensation for climate harms from major polluters, known as loss and damage in climate negotiations.
“We see this loss and damage funding as a form of solidarity of nations standing with each other and as form of funding to countries that are in distress," Brown said.
Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan said leaders in the Alliance of Small Island States are also seeking new finance facilities for loss and damage.
"We are definitely pushing for that,” Ramkalawan told The Associated Press.
The Least Developing Countries group, which represents some 46 low income nations have also put money for adaptation and loss and damage among their top demands.
“COP27 must keep adaptation at the center,” said Madeleine Sarr, the chair of the LDC group, adding that the group "want to see how the shortfall in the $100 billion per year promise will be made up.”
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(NEXSTAR) – A 28-year-old woman from the U.S. is facing charges and potential visa cancellation after Australian authorities say they found a 24-carat gold-plated handgun in her luggage over the weekend.
The woman, who hasn’t yet been identified, was arrested at Sydney Airport on Sunday after officers with the Australian Border Force, using “sophisticated detection technology” found the firearm in her luggage.
According to ABF, the firearm was unregistered and the woman, who was traveling from Los Angeles, lacked a permit to import or possess a firearm in Australia.
The woman was charged and, if convicted, could face up to 10 years in prison, ABF wrote in a press release.
While details are limited, the woman appeared before a court on Monday and received bail. Pending court proceedings, the woman could have her visa canceled and be removed from Australia.
Another court hearing is scheduled for May, according to 7News Australia.
Airline passengers in the U.S. are permitted to have unloaded firearms, stored in locked, hard-sided containers, in their checked luggage only, TSA explains.
Firearms should be declared with the airline, and passengers traveling internationally are encouraged to check their destination country’s regulations with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
“When traveling, comply with the laws concerning possession of firearms as they vary by local, state and international governments,” the TSA advises.
Australia has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, The Hill reports. After a gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle killed 35 people at the Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania, and a series of mass shootings in the years prior, the Australian Parliament passed the National Firearms Agreement.
In addition to banning certain rifles and shotguns, the policy created strict licensing requirements, which include a mandatory training program for a new licensee. Since the 1996 law took effect, Australia has had no mass shootings.
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2023-04-25T22:14:23+00:00
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Man, 30, shot and killed in Wilmington, police say
WILMINGTON, Del. - Wilmington Police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead on Tuesday afternoon.
Authorities say that at around 3:39 p.m., officers responded to the 2300 block of North Pine Street for reports of a shooting.
Upon arrival, police say they located a 30-year-old man with a gunshot wound.
The victim was transported to a local hospital where officials say he succumbed to his injuries.
Wilmington police are actively investigating this incident, and they are encouraging anyone with information to contact Detective Derek Haines at 302-576-3656.
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2022-09-14T00:53:33+00:00
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Forecast issued ahead of 2023 hurricane season
Forecast issued ahead of 2023 hurricane season
AT THE AWARDS IN ORLANDO. GOING TO LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AWAY FROM THE BEGINNING OF HURRICANE SEASON. AND TODAY WE’RE GETTING AN IDEA OF WHAT KIND OF STORMS WE COULD FACE THIS YEAR. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY JUST ISSUED THEIR HURRICANE SEASON FORECAST FOR SORTING METEOROLOGIST. ERIC BURRIS HAS THE NUMBERS THAT’S RIGHT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT THE WARMING OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN HAS IMPACTS OVER ON OUR ATLANTIC SIDE, WHICH IS A BIG INFLUENCE IN DR. PHIL KLOTZBACH’S FORECAST. SO LET’S GET RIGHT TO THE NUMBERS THIS YEAR. HE AND HIS TEAM ARE CALLING FOR 13 NAMED STORMS, SIX HURRICANES AND TWO MAJOR HURRICANES. THAT WOULD MAKE THIS A SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN AVERAGE SEASON, BUT DR. KLOTZBACH GOES ON TO SAY THAT WHILE THE NUMBERS MAY BE A TOUCH LOWER THE CHANCES FOR IMPACT TO LAND RAMIN NEARLY THE SAME NOW THAT THIS FORECAST IS OUT. LET’S LOOK AT HOW THE COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FORECAST COMPARES TO OUR WESH TO HURRICANE SEASON FOR CAST BOTH CALLING FOR NEAR AVERAGE SEASONS BOTH INDICATING LANDFALL CHANCES STILL NEARLY AVERAGE AND BOTH SHOWING THAT RESIDENTS HERE IN FLORIDA NEED TO BE PREPARING OF COURSE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY THE LIFEBLOOD OF YOUR PREPS IS YOUR SUPPLY KIT. JUST HEAD OVER TO WEST.COM AND THE HURRICANE SECTION THERE SEE EXACTLY WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE ON HAND THIS SEASON THAT WAY IT’S TAKEN CARE OF AHEAD OF TIME AND YOU WON’T BE IN A PANIC WHEN A STORM MOVES OUR W
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Hurricane season is less than two months away.
Thursday, Colorado State University issued their forecast on what we could see this year.
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This year, they're calling for 13 named storms, six hurricanes, and two major hurricanes.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In nominations to its 29th annual awards, the Screen Actors Guild heaped honors on the casts of the anarchic indie hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and the Irish tragicomedy “The Banshees of Inisherin,” while throwing some curve balls into the Oscar race.
The awards contenders, voted on by the Hollywood actors’ guild SAG-AFTRA, were announced Wednesday on Instagram Live by Haley Lu Richardson (“The White Lotus”) and Ashley Park (“Emily in Paris”). The nominees for the guild’s top award, best ensemble, are: “Babylon,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans” and “Women Talking.”
The SAG Awards are considered one of the most reliable Oscar bellwethers. Seldom does a movie or performance not nominated by the screen actors end up winning at the Academy Awards. Actors make up the biggest percentage of the film academy, so their choices have the largest sway.
Missing out on a SAG ensemble nomination usually means a film’s best-picture hopes are over. Last year, all the top SAG winners — the cast of “CODA,” Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Troy Kotsur and Ariana DeBose — all repeated their wins at the Oscars.
That means the road ahead for either of the year’s top box-office hits — “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” — just got a lot harder. After striking out with the actors guild, neither is likely to win best picture. Each film picked a nod from SAG for its stunt ensemble.
Coming off their wins at the Golden Globes on Tuesday night, Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” and Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” (a co-leading five SAG nods) increasingly look like this year’s frontrunners, along with Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (also five SAG nominations).
The directors to those three films all landed nominations from the Directors Guild Awards on Wednesday, along with Todd Field ( “Tár”) and Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”). A DGA nod usually corresponds with an Oscar directing nomination. It also suggests those five films are safely in as best-picture nominees. Since the best-picture category expanded in 2009, only one DGA-nominated film hasn’t also landed a best-picture nod.
After back-to-back DGA wins for Chloe Zhao (“Nomadland”) and Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”), no female filmmakers were nominated. And, in a surprise, James Cameron (“Avatar: The Way of Water”) went unnominated.
Gaining the most from the SAG Award nominations, perhaps, was Damien Chazelle’s extravagant silent film era ode “Babylon” and Sarah Polley’s feminist allegory “Women Talking.” Before landing best ensembled nominations (albeit no individual nods), both films had struggled to find traction this awards season.
Up for best performance by an female actor in a leading role are: Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Viola Davis (“The Woman King”), Ana de Armas (“Blonde”), Danielle Deadwyler (“Till”) and Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”).
In a crowded field, notably overlooked was Michelle Williams, who’s been lauded for performance in “The Fabelmans.” Williams, a four-time nominee, has never won an Oscar. Instead, the fifth spot may have gone to de Armas, who had fallen off most lists after the Marilyn Monroe drama was poorly received.
Nominated for best performance by a male actor in leading role are: Austin Butler (“Elvis”), Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”), Bill Nighy (“Living”) and Adam Sandler (“Hustle”).
Sandler’s nomination for the Netflix basketball drama “Hustle” was less expected — though he gave one of the season’s best speeches as a tribute honoree at the Gotham Awards in November. Tom Cruise was shut out.
Nominated for male actor in a supporting role are: Paul Dano (“The Fabelmans”), Brendan Gleeson (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Barry Keoghan (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Eddie Redmayne (“The Good Nurse”) and the category’s likely favorite, Ke Huy Quan for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
“I’ve loved performing ever since I was a child and that hasn’t changed,” Quan, the former “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” child star, said in a statement Wednesday, the morning after he won best supporting actor at the Globes. “I feel lucky just to still be here doing this.”
Up for female actor in a supporting role are: Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”), Hong Chau (“The Whale”), Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and Stephanie Hsu (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”).
On the TV side, nominated for best ensemble in a drama series are: “Better Call Saul,” “The Crown,” “Ozark,” “Severance” and “The White Lotus.” Up for best comedy series ensemble are the casts of “Abbott Elementary,” “Barry,” “The Bear,” “Hacks” and “Only Murders in the Building.” Julia Garner came away a double nominee, for “Ozark” and “Inventing Anna.” Zendaya scored her first SAG nomination for her leading performance in “Euphoria.”
After losing their longtime broadcast home on TNT and TBS, the SAG Awards on Wednesday announced a new multiyear partnership with Netflix to stream the ceremony. This year’s show, to take place Feb. 26, will livestream on Netflix’s YouTube page. Next year’s SAG Awards will be streamed directly on Netflix.
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ROMULUS, MI – Six giant African snails were recently seized from a traveler who had arrived in Michigan from Ghana with the invasive species in their suitcase, officials said.
The live snails, which were intended for consumption, were discovered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agricultural specialists at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, according to a news release. They were seized for further analysis.
The snails pose significant health risks to humans and the environment and are considered an invasive species.
“Our CBP officers and agriculture specialists work diligently to target, detect and intercept potential threats before they have a chance to do harm to U.S. interests,” said Port Director Robert Larkin. “The discovery of this highly invasive pest truly benefits the health and well-being of the American people.”
Giant African snails can carry a parasitic nematode that can lead to meningitis in humans. Their diet includes at least 500 different types of plants, plus plaster and stucco, which means they can cause significant damage to structures and ecosystems.
Although popular for consumption and kept as pets in other countries, giant African snails are a prohibited in the United States.
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2023-03-20T17:26:44+00:00
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BUFFALO, N.Y., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank Corporation (NYSE:MTB)("M&T") will participate in the RBC Capital Markets Global Financial Institutions Conference being held in New York City. Representatives of M&T are scheduled to deliver a presentation to investors and analysts on March 8, 2023 at 9:20 a.m. (ET).
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Gunnar Henderson told his girlfriend, Katherine Lee Bishop, to screenshot the text. He wanted there to be a record of his aspirations — tangible evidence of what he planned to do this season from the onset of the campaign.
Back then, at the beginning of the season, Henderson wasn’t yet the top prospect in baseball. He had reached Double-A Bowie as a 20-year-old, but his target was so much higher. So he sent that text, telling Bishop he’d make the major leagues by the time the season was over.
Standing in the visitor’s clubhouse at Progressive Field ahead of his major league debut, Henderson, who will bat sixth and play third base on Wednesday, recalled that moment. He called his parents first Tuesday night, when he learned he’d be heading to Cleveland, then called Bishop. He didn’t need any reminding of the text.
“It was pretty cool to be able to accomplish that,” Henderson said.
And then, the now-21-year-old Orioles infielder shifted his focus in the same way that allowed him to become the youngest position player to make his Baltimore debut since Manny Machado in 2012 — and the youngest to debut in Major League Baseball this season.
“The road is just now starting,” Henderson said, “so the work keeps on going.”
That work will begin Wednesday evening against the Guardians. His parents, brothers, girlfriend and grandparents will be in attendance, having booked plane tickets in a rush to be here for this moment.
Few players performed better than Henderson had in the minor leagues, leading him to become Baseball America’s top-ranked prospect. He’s the second No. 1 prospect Baltimore has promoted this season, following catcher Adley Rutschman in May.
“It shows you the depth,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “Those guys have done a great job building the organization with the talent level we have down there, and it’s fun to see these guys graduate to the big leagues.”
They join a club in the middle of a postseason push, entering Wednesday three games back of the final American League wild-card spot.
With Triple-A Norfolk, Henderson posted a .894 OPS in 65 games. He ranks 10th among minor leaguers with a 43% hard-hit rate, according to Sports Info Solutions. And while his strikeout rate rose in Triple-A, Henderson’s left-on-left splits improved. He has still yet to face a pitcher younger than him, and that likely won’t change for some time.
“I always want to temper expectations with young players,” Hyde said. “I know how hard it is. He’s going to play Cleveland tonight. He’s gonna face [Triston] McKenzie, he’s gonna face [Shane] Bieber tomorrow. This is not easy. It’s not easy for a veteran player, it’s not easy for a young player. I just want him, like when Adley came up, to take really good at-bats, as best you possibly can, try to contribute, play well defensively and hopefully we win.”
Henderson has moved around the infield over the last month for the Tides, playing as a second baseman and first baseman a combined nine times. Henderson said he took those opportunities in stride as a chance to add more versatility to his game, but Hyde plans to use Henderson mainly on the left side of the infield.
On the field pregame, Henderson threw with infielder Terrin Vavra and ran the bases with outfielder Kyle Stowers — two players he spent considerable time with in the minors. Now they’re all in Cleveland together, playing for the Orioles.
Henderson said the reality that he could achieve his goal of playing in the majors by the season’s end became clearer once he began performing for Triple-A Norfolk. And now he’s here, with a text message serving as a prediction.
“Can’t thank God enough for putting me in this position,” Henderson said. “Really looking forward to it.”
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DECATUR — It sounds like the real estate bargain of the century: the iconic Powers-Jarvis Mansion in Decatur, which sold for more than $400,000 in 2005, is now listed for a song at just $130,000.
The devil of course, is in the detail.
The soaring circa 1909, three-story Greek revival-style home, sitting on a 1.3 acre corner lot at 357 W. Decatur St., is currently in foreclosure and for sale.
History of the Heartland, a group of Decatur activists dedicated to historic preservation, said the real estate professional involved told them the current tenant and former owner is refusing to leave.
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So whoever buys the property buys it with the interior sight unseen and must make their own arrangements to evict the occupant.
The listing agent is named as Renee Sommer of County Line Realty; she didn’t immediately return a call from the Herald & Review. A check of the listing details on Zillow, however, confirms the $130,000 price tag. And it does point out that room sizes in the five bedroom, five bath, 7,700-square-feet interior (newspaper records say 9,400 square feet) are “estimated” and the place is being sold “AS IS and occupied.”
The house was bought at auction in 2005 for $400,000, plus a 5% buyer’s premium, to a person the Herald & Review identified as Anthony Garson. A check of legal records shows that a man named as “Anthony J. Grason” is the subject of a foreclosure action by U.S. Bank NA, as trustee, on behalf of the J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust.
“The principal balance due on the note, mortgage and modification agreement is $458,465.83…” according to the foreclosure complaint. “Amount of modified indebtedness: $467,245.12.”
Grason is also listed in legal documents as being locked in a legal battle with the city of Decatur after he filed a temporary restraining order seeking to stop the city from shutting off the mansion's water supply May 5.
“Plaintiff Grason contends there exist exceptional and emergency circumstances; such relief would preserve the status quo and avoid unnecessary hardship,” said the complaint filed by Grason, who is representing himself in the Macon County Circuit Court proceedings.
The Herald & Review called at the home Tuesday afternoon but received no answer at the weathered front door, which is missing its doorbell and knocker.
Bret Robertson, chairman of the History of the Heartland group, said it appears the mansion has deteriorated and is in rough shape. But he believes it could be brought back to the glittering magnificence of its past under the care of the right owner.
“That would be wonderful and that was our hope in drawing attention to it,” said Robertson.
“It would take a very special buyer, somebody who is going to have to put up with an uncertain process to be in possession of the house to begin with and, even after they buy it, there are great unknowns about the condition of it. So it will take somebody with deep pockets and a tolerance for risk and a passion for this type of Gilded Age mansion.”
That’s also the view of Decatur real estate expert Tom Nolan, managing broker with Nolan & Associates, who said the house was a gem and could shine again. “I think with the right owner, yes, it could return to its original grandeur very easily,” he added.
The house is certainly loaded with history. Built by business magnate Charles Powers, whose family was one of the biggest landowners in Macon County, it was designed to impress with its own ballroom.
Later it was owned by oil tycoon Vernon Jarvis and Hollywood star Nancy Walters, the sister of Jarvis’s wife, often stayed at the home. She visited there for an extended stay in 1961 after she finished shooting “Blue Hawaii” with Elvis Presley; it’s even rumored the King of Rock n’ Roll once came to visit her there.
Later years were less than kind: the house stood empty and forlorn by the end of the 1960s, was damaged by an arson fire in 1970 and even faced a threat to bulldoze it in the mid-1970s to clear the way for a housing complex for the elderly. The mansion was saved after a chorus of local protests and a planning dispute forced the developers to abandon the project.
The mansion’s luck got better in 1988 when the Bachrach family, who owned Decatur-based Bachrach Clothing Inc., bought and restored the home and used it as a training center for their business before it was sold at the 2005 auction.
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2023-05-24T00:49:49+00:00
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It launched as the new president’s ambitious plan for rebuilding America — a $2.3 trillion domestic infrastructure investment coupled with a $1.8 trillion plan to bolster U.S. families with support for health care, child care, college costs, unseen in generations.
Totaling more than $4 trillion when President Joe Biden unveiled the American Jobs and American Rescue plans in spring, what the administration called the “Build Back Better” agenda was instantly compared to those of his Democratic predecessors, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society.
And it was almost instantly shunned by Sen. Joe Manchin.
The conservative West Virginia Democrat said the proposals were too big, too costly, too much. As he engaged in negotiations, always the center of attention, the outcome was almost always reductive, cutting the size and scope of the package. His vote, in the even-split Senate, like those of every Democrat, would be needed for anything to pass.
This week, after more than 15 months of breathtaking political pivots, Manchin has reduced Biden’s big ideas for a sweeping investment to just two: Reducing the costs of prescription drugs and shoring up the subsidies some families receive to buy health insurance.
While Manchin and Biden had agreed on a smaller infrastructure bill that eventually became law, the investments the president sought for families and to tackle climate change remain deeply in flux. On Friday, citing the nation’s spiking inflation — as he did last year — Manchin wants another pause.
Here’s a look of what Biden envisioned when he declared America is “arising anew” with his proposals, and what remains within reach with Manchin.
LOWERING HEALTH CARE, DRUG COSTS
Manchin stunned Washington again this week when it was disclosed that he wanted to drastically reduce the scope of revived package he was negotiating with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Democrats are racing to prop up Biden’s signature domestic proposal ahead of the midterm elections, and narrowed on a $1 trillion package — far smaller than first envisioned and about half the size of the $2 trillion package that passed the House late last year before Manchin walked away from talks.
What Manchin would be willing to do now was two proposals: Reduce the price of prescription drugs by allowing the federal government to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies, while capping seniors’ out-of-pocket expenses to $2,000, and put the savings into subsidies that families are relying on to buy their own health care but that are about to expire.
Both are big Democratic priorities and would be consequential for Americans struggling to pay always high health care bills.
But compared to what could have been, they amount to about $300 billion.
WHAT BIDEN ENVISIONED FOR FAMILIES…
Biden’s American Families Plan envisioned a vast investment for the nation’s families.
The cornerstone an enhanced $300 monthly child tax credit, first approved during the pandemic, that for a time was sending extra cast straight into parents’ bank accounts. It substantially reduced poverty and boosted households during the crisis. Biden wanted to extend it.
There was free pre-kindergarten for all, a $200 billion preschool program for 3- and 4-year olds to provide early childhood education and to help working parents juggle child care. Also, a $225 billion national paid family leave program so people could take time off, paid up to $4,000 monthly, at pivotal junctures — births, deaths and to care for loved ones.
Biden wanted to also provide free community college and funds for housing and other basic needs.
Eventually versions of the plan included free dental and vision for seniors, a nod to a top priority from Biden’s one-time rival Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
…. AND WHAT BIDEN WANTED FOR CLIMATE
The centerpiece of Biden’s climate change agenda was a $150 billion clean energy plan that would have rewarded power providers that use clean sources and penalized those that don’t.
But that approach had to be scrapped when Manchin objected.
More recently Manchin and Schumer were in talks over a slimmed back package, about $375 billion, of tax incentives and credits that the administration had hoped could achieve similar goals in reducing carbon emissions.
But that, too, is now scrapped. Manchin, among the post powerful coal state senators, prefers a “fuel neutral” approach that doesn’t hurt his home state industry.
While Biden, Manchin and others had successfully negotiated the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law last year, it, too, fell short of the administration’s climate goals.
Rather than a massive $174 billion investment in electric vehicles and a network of charging stations, the bipartisan compromise provided $7.5 billion for electric vehicles with fewer charging stations, along with money for electric school buses.
INFRASTRUCTURE COMRPROMISES
To be sure, the bipartisan infrastructure bill Manchin signed on to with Biden and the others made substantial investments in roads, bridges, broadband — all areas where Congress typically can find some agreement.
Yet even that bill, a hard-fought compromise, is much smaller than the White House envisioned in many areas — it provided half as much, $55 billion, as the administration wanted for removing lead pipes.
IDEAS LONG GONE
Other Democratic priorities that rose and fell during more than a year of negotiations over Biden’s once sweeping vision are long gone.
Also no longer on the table are the tax hikes on wealthy Americans and corporations that Biden and his party envisioned, in different variations, to pay for his big plan.
Biden had proposed raising the tax rate on those earning more than $400,000 a year, $450,000 for couples, back to 39.6% where it was before the 2017 GOP tax cuts. He wanted to lift the corporate rate to 28%.
In talks Democrats considered other options — a corporate minimum tax or a tax on billionaires.
It wasn’t Manchin who necessarily stopped those options. In fact, he supported some. But another Democrat, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, had been a key hold out to many proposals for higher taxes.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Security personnel and police officers rescued a puppy left in a car parked at a Las Vegas Strip casino with its mouth taped shut and temperatures inside the vehicle reaching triple digits, they said.
Raul Carbajal, of Corona Del Mar, California, faces a charge of animal abuse, records showed Thursday. The dog, a 3-month-old puppy, was found inside the car, which was parked in the direct sunlight on the garage’s top floor, police said.
Officers responded to a report of an animal in distress at a parking garage at the Bellagio hotel around 3 p.m. Wednesday. Hotel security was able to remove the puppy from the car by climbing through the vehicle’s sunroof.
Hotel security said the vehicle was parked around 1 p.m. Carbajal was in the hotel for about an hour before he was arrested, police said.
The temperature inside the car was nearly 108 degrees, police said. The animal was left without food, water, or air conditioning.
A gaming ticket found in Carbajal’s clothing showed a cash out of 75 cents, police said.
Carbajal posted bond by Thursday and is due in court next week. Police documents indicate the dog did not die in the incident.
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2022-07-22T01:37:32+00:00
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WINNSBORO, La. (AP) — State prosecutors have charged three Louisiana State Police troopers accused of beating a Black motorist, hoisting him to his feet by his hair braids and bragging in text messages that the “whoopin’” would give him “nightmares for a long time.”
The misdemeanor simple battery charges in the 2020 arrest of Antonio Harris come amid mounting scrutiny of the state’s premier law enforcement agency over allegations of excessive force — particularly against Black people — and an institutional instinct to cover it up.
Jacob Brown, Dakota DeMoss and George “Kam” Harper, who are white, were seen on body-camera video piling onto Harris following a high-speed chase that ended next to a cornfield in rural Franklin Parish, kneeing, slapping and punching him even though he had surrendered face down with his arms and legs splayed.
The troopers’ attorneys declined to comment Thursday. State police spokesperson Lt. Melissa Matey said the troopers’ actions “are inexcusable and have no place in professional public safety services.”
State police had arrested the troopers in February 2021 on felony charges of malfeasance in office, but local prosecutors elected not to bring that count last week when filing a bill of information in Franklin Parish. Misdemeanor simple battery in Louisiana carries up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
“Obviously we would have liked stronger charges but we’re still hopeful the Department of Justice will bring a case,” said Harris’ attorney, Michael Sterling.
A federal grand jury in Lafayette has been hearing testimony in the case following a months-long investigation into whether the troopers used excessive force. But it remains unclear whether the U.S. Justice Department intends to move forward with a civil rights case.
A similar uncertainty hangs over the federal investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, another Black motorist beaten by state police. A federal grand jury also has been hearing testimony in that case, in which troopers stunned, punched and dragged Greene before he died on a rural roadside in Union Parish, outside Monroe. The Associated Press reported this week that the Justice Department is increasingly skeptical it can bring a successful case against the troopers.
State lawmakers, meanwhile, are probing allegations of a cover-up in Greene’s death and voted Wednesday to hold the former head of thestate police in contemptfor defying a subpoena and refusing to turn over the handwritten journals he kept while leading the agency. Former Col. Kevin Reeves was separately held in contempt Thursday for not complying with a subpoena from the commission that oversees discipline of state troopers. Reeves’ attorney, Lewis Unglesby, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the Harris beating, an internal investigation found the troopers filed “wholly untrue” reports claiming the man kept trying to flee, refused to obey commands and fought with troopers before they began to pummel him with what Brown called “tactical strikes.”
“They kept saying ‘Stop resisting’ but I was never resisting,” Harris told investigators. “As soon as they got to me, one of them kneed me in my face. One of them was squeezing my eyes.”
The troopers also later exchanged 14 text messages peppered with “lol” and “haha” responses in which they boasted about the beating and mocked Harris, who spit up blood and suffered from sore ribs and stomach pain for days after the arrest.
“He gonna be sore tomorrow for sure,” Brown wrote in one of the texts. “Warms my heart knowing we could educate that young man.”
Brown, Harper and DeMoss, who were part of a notoriously violent division of troopers patrolling the northeastern part of the state, were arrested in the case last year. DeMoss and Harper were fired and Brown, who in October pleaded not guilty in a separate federal case accusing him of pummeling another Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight, resigned.
DeMoss has also come under investigation for his role in Greene’s death, which authorities initially blamed on a car crash at the end of a chase before the AP last year published troopers’ long-withheld body-camera video showing a violent arrest.
Greene and Harris’ arrests were amongat least 12 cases over the past decade in which an AP investigation found troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. Dozens of current and former troopers told the AP the beatings were countenanced by a culture of impunity, nepotismand, in some cases, outright racism.
Harris’ case began after Brown pulled him over for a minor traffic violation on Interstate 20. The trooper conducted a criminal history check and discovered Harris had a suspended driver’s license and outstanding warrants.
Harris sped away from the traffic stop in a Hyundai Sonata, leading troopers on a 29-mile (47- kilometer) chase that reached speeds of 150 miles (241 kph) before it was finally stopped with the help of a tire-puncturing spike strip.
Even though Harris had already surrendered, DeMoss, the first arriving trooper, “delivered a knee strike” and slapped him in the face with an open palm before powering off his body-worn camera, court records show.
Harper, meanwhile, punched Harris in the head several times with a fist “reinforced” by a flashlight and threatened to “punish” Harris, while Brown pulled the man’s hair, an internal investigation concluded. DeMoss can later be seen on the footage lifting Harris to his feet by his braids.
Investigators determined Brown never informed state prosecutors that any body-worn camera video of the arrest existed.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The body of an Israeli teen that was snatched by Palestinian militants from a West Bank hospital was returned to his family on Thursday, the Israeli military said.
The teenager was from Israel’s Druze Arab minority. Its members serve in the Israeli security forces and also have links to Palestinians. The incident threatened to ratchet up already boiling tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.
The family of 17-year-old Tiran Fero said Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin entered the hospital where he was being treated after a car crash. They disconnected him from hospital equipment while he was still alive and took him away, according to his father, Husam Fero.
The Israeli military said Tiran Fero was already dead when he was snatched and that the circumstances of his death remained under investigation. The military did not offer evidence and Fero's father did not elaborate on his claim that his son was alive when he was taken.
An Israeli military official said the return of the body was conducted through the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited autonomy in areas of the West Bank, and that no negotiations were made with the gunmen who held the body. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Akram Rajoub, the Palestinian governor of Jenin, told Israel’s Kan public radio that the abduction of Fero's body was “a big mistake,” and that Palestinian officials made great efforts to secure its release. He extended condolences to Fero's family and the Druze community.
It was not immediately clear what prompted the abduction and no militant group has claimed responsibility for the act. Palestinian militants in the past have carried out kidnappings to seek concessions from Israel.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz thanked Palestinian officials “who worked tirelessly” for the return of Fero’s body.
“This is a basic, humanitarian measure taken after a horrific incident,” he said.
The incident angered the Druze community, which demanded the body be returned.
Police said on Thursday that they were investigating an incident in which three Palestinian laborers were allegedly attacked by residents of the overwhelmingly Druze village of Yarka in the Galilee. Police said officers found the three Palestinians, injured and bound, and freed them.
The police did not say whether the incident was related to the snatching of Fero.
Also Thursday, thousands of mourners took part in the funeral of two Palestinians who had died of wounds they suffered earlier from Israeli fire. A 22-year-old civilian, Mohammed Abu Kushuk, was wounded Tuesday night during an Israeli raid in Nablus. Militant Mohammed Herzallah, 30, was wounded during clashes with Israeli forces in July.
More than 130 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year, making 2022 the deadliest year since 2006. The fighting has surged since a series of Palestinian attacks in the spring killed 19 people in Israel.
The Israeli army says most of the Palestinians killed have been militants. But stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and others not involved in confrontations have also been killed.
Another eight Israelis have been killed in a fresh wave of Palestinian attacks in recent weeks. On Wednesday, twin explosions at two bus stops in Jerusalem killed a teen and wounded at least 18 people.
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BERLIN (AP) — King Charles III became the first monarch to address Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, on Thursday as part of a high-profile visit by the U.K. head of state aimed at bolstering ties between the two European powers.
Speaking to lawmakers and other dignitaries in the packed lower house, Charles stressed the close bonds between the United Kingdom and Germany going back centuries, including his own family links to the royal House of Hannover, and the present-day economic, scientific, cultural and military cooperation between the two countries.
Charles noted that London and Berlin have provided considerable aid to Ukraine in its efforts to fend off Russia’s invasion, a point that will appeal to German government officials more used to hearing how their country isn’t doing enough to help Kyiv.
“Germany’s decision to provide so much military support to Ukraine is extremely brave, important and welcome,” Charles said.
Speaking mostly in fluent German, he noted how the intertwined history of the two nations could be seen in the home of the Bundestag itself. The restoration in the 1990s of the former Reichstag building, that was heavily damaged during World War II, was capped with a glass cupola designed by British architect Norman Foster intended as a symbol of transparency and accountability.
“From here the citizens can actually watch their politicians work,” Charles said. “Democracy in action.”
The 74-year-old largely trod on safe territory, making gentle jokes about soccer rivalry, national humor and mutual admiration for each other’s cultures — from the Beatles to Kraftwerk and from Brahms to Byron. Charles briefly touched on the grim history of Nazism and WWII.
Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, will visit Hamburg on Friday to pay respects at a memorial to the Kindertransporte, or children’s transports, which saw more than 10,000 Jewish children rescued from Nazi Germany 85 years ago. They will also commemorate the more than 30,000 people — most of them civilians — killed in the Allied bombing of Hamburg in July 1943.
“Heeding the lessons of the past is our sacred responsibility, but it can only be fully discharged through a commitment to our shared future,” he said. “Together we must be vigilant against threats to our values and freedoms, and resolute in our determination to confront them. Together we must strive for the security, prosperity and well-being that our people deserve.”
When Charles finished his speech, the lawmakers rose for a long, standing ovation, something rarely seen in Germany’s parliament.
Charles is on his inaugural foreign trip since becoming king. He and Camilla arrived in Berlin on Wednesday. Crowds of well-wishers and Germany’s head of state, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, greeted the couple at the capital’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. They later attended a banquet in their honor at the presidential palace.
Pomp and royal glamour aside, the three-day visit has a decidedly political purpose. The U.K. government is trying to mend frayed ties with its continental partners following the painful Brexit process.
The fallout has been considerable: Britain’s departure from the European Union’s common market has resulted in trade barriers and labor shortages, and locked the country out of key European science programs. By devoting special attention to the EU’s two biggest powers — France and Germany — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes to normalize relations with the 27-nation bloc.
Charles originally planned to stop in France first, but anti-government protests there delayed that part of his trip. That put the focus on Germany, where the U.K. royal family and particularly the late Queen Elizabeth II have long commanded interest and admiration.
Not all were pleased by the visit, however. Jan Korte, a lawmaker with the opposition Left party, said it wasn’t in keeping with Germany’s democratic tradition to have Charles address the country’s highest political body, the Bundestag.
“A king isn’t elected,” Korte told public broadcaster ZDF. “He can obviously speak everywhere and is very welcome, including by me, but I think that particularly in the Bundestag, which is about representing the people, it’s not really appropriate to have a monarch speak.”
Charles has spoken to the Bundestag before, at an event in 2020 commemorating the victims of WWII, though he was still the Prince of Wales at the time.
Before his speech Charles met briefly with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and visited a farmers’ market in Berlin.
After his speech, Charles visited a refugee center for Ukrainians at Berlin’s former Tegel airport, and met representatives from a joint German and U.K. military unit stationed near Berlin to see a demonstration of their bridge-building amphibious vehicles.
Later on Thursday afternoon, he visited an organic farm 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of the capital where he helped make an orange-colored cheese with a crown imprint.
His drive to the countryside was slowed down by torrential rain, and he had to skip a tour of the cowshed with newborn calves. Still, Charles had enough time to try a special, crown-shaped cake made by the farm’s pastry chef in his honor.
When the king’s motorcade left the farm, a few royal fans huddled under umbrellas on a nearby lawn shouted in German “Long live the king,” as Charles waved good-bye from his car.
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Kirsten Grieshaber contributed.
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2023-03-31T00:11:39+00:00
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https://www.upmatters.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/king-charles-iii-to-speak-to-german-parliament-meet-scholz/
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(NEXSTAR) – Jacky Oh, a model, actress and entrepreneur who formerly appeared on the comedy improv series “Wild ‘N Out,” has passed away at the age of 32, according to the show’s social media pages.
Jacky Oh, whose real name was Jacklyn Smith, shared three children with her partner DC Young Fly, a cast member on the VH1 series.
“We thank everyone for their well wishes and ask for privacy during this difficult time,” a representative for DC Young Fly wrote in a statement provided to USA Today.
Jacky Oh died Wednesday, sources for TMZ said. A since-deleted social media post, viewed by the outlet, indicated she had been in Miami for a “mommy makeover” when she passed.
Her cause of death has not been made public.
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of Jacklyn Smith, known to the world as Jacky Oh, a talented Wild N’ Out family member whose impact will be forever treasured and missed,” a spokesperson for the BET Media Group wrote in a statement shared to the official “Wild ‘N Out” and VH1 social media pages. “Jacky Oh was a loving friend and beloved colleague of the Wild N’ Out cast throughout five seasons. More importantly, she was a tremendous mother to three beautiful children. The BET Media Group extends our sincere condolences to the Smith family, DC Young Fly, B Simone, Nick Cannon, and all friends who loved and cared for Jacky Oh during this difficult time.”
In addition to appearing on “Wild ‘N Out,” Jacky Oh had launched a line of lip glosses as well as a real estate venture, according to her social media pages.
“Wild ‘N Out” is currently in its 19th season. A representative for the BET Media Group, the parent company of VH1, was not immediately available for additional comment.
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2023-06-02T20:59:37+00:00
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Fire reports for June 7, 2022 Jun 7, 2022 7 hrs ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Following are times, addresses and nature of emergency runs made by the Lawton Fire Department:SUNDAY6:58 p.m. — 200 block NW Lindy, medical.7:08 p.m. — 100 block SW 18th, medical.7:21 p.m. — 1200 block SW Lee, medical.8:01 p.m. — 200 block SE 7th, automatic fire alarm.8:06 p.m. — 100 block NE Cimarron Trail, automatic fire alarm.8:31 p.m. — 2200 block NW Pollard, medical.10:16 p.m. — 700 block SW 52nd. service call.10:14 p.m. — 7700 block SW Franks Court, medical.10:24 p.m. — 2100 block NW Sheridan Road, medical.11:22 p.m. — Southwest 14th Street and Southwest F Avenue, medical.MONDAY1:22 a.m. — 1600 block NW 27th, service call.1:39 a.m. — 2000 NW 52nd, medical.1:39 a.m. — 100 block NW Bell, medical.1:44 p.m. — 4700 block NW Motif Manor, medical.3:45 a.m. — 200 block SE 7th, automatic fire alarm.4:15 a.m. — 1700 block SW B, service call.4:23 a.m. — 2200 block NW Hoover, service call.4:35 a.m. — 2200 block NW Hoover, medical.4:44 p.m. — 5300 block Cache Road, medical.6:09 a.m. — 2200 block NW 26th, service call.6:14 a.m. — 8800 block SW Lee, automatic fire alarm.8:27 a.m. — 6800 block NW Surreywood Circle, medical.9:00 a.m. — 1200 block Logan, medical.9:00 a.m. — 7600 block NW Quanah Parker Trailway, service call.9:53 a.m. — 1300 block NW Euclid, medical.10:05 a.m. — 2200 block NW Hoover, service call.10:06 a.m. — Southeast Lee Boulevard and Southeast 1st Street, service call.10:24 a.m. — 7800 block NW Welco, medical.10:32 a.m. — 3100 block Cache Roa, medical.10:46 a.m. — 1300 block NW Victory, medical.11:17 a.m. — Northwest Laird Boulevard and Northwest Maple Avenue, service call.11:20 a.m. — 4400 block W Gore, medical.11:21 a.m. — 1500 block W. Gore, structure fire.11:44 a.m. — 5300 block NW Euclid, medical.11:56 a.m. — 300 block SW 68th, medical alarm.12:27 p.m. — 1100 block SW Monroe, medical.1:09 p.m. — 1600 block SW N H Jones, medical. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Tags Medical Following Medicine Geometry Mathematics Social Services Southwest Emergency Address Lawton Fire Department Southeast Recommended for you Online Poll In the wake of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, do you support gun reform? Do you You voted: Support raising the age to buy a gun to 21? Support more stringent background checks? Support banning the sale of assault weapons? Do you support all of the above? Not support any gun reforms? Vote View Results Back Sign Up For Newsletters Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Obituaries Receive the most recent obituaries from The Lawton Constitution every Morning in you E-mail. Signup today! Headlines / e-Edition Would you like to receive our daily news from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Sports Headlines Would you like to receive our daily sports from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Breaking News Get the latest breaking news from The Lawton Constitution. Sign up today! You must select at least one email list. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists
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Fall's cooler temperatures have inspired a festive mood around the city.
City Pork, 18143 Perkins Road, is offering up the perfect event to fit the bill to enjoy the pleasant fall weather.
The restaurant will host a Fall Harvest Wine Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27. The dinner will feature five courses paired with curated Fess Parker Wines.
Tickets are $125 by visiting sevn.ly/xgBhN8UW.
Pancake festival
Tickets are on sale for the 73rd annual Baton Rouge Kiwanis Club of Baton Rouge's Pancake Festival, which begins at 6 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Carl Maddox Field House, Nicholson Drive on the LSU campus.
All proceeds will support the Kiwanis Club of Baton Rouge's community projects and partners, including the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, Boys & Girls Club, Big Buddy and Young Leaders Academy.
Advance tickets are $8 by visiting ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/KiwanisPancakeFestival. Tickets are $9 at the door.
At Tin Roof Brewing
Tin Roof Brewing Co., 1624 Wyoming St., will host Plant Based Junk Food from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1.
Stop by for some of the best vegan comfort food around. All items are cooked in oil that contains soy, and the menu is entirely nut-free.
For more information, call (225) 377-7022 or visit tinroofbeer.com.
Fall cocktail class
Tickets are on sale for In the Mix: Festive Fall Cocktail Class from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, at Martin Wine & Spirits in Studio Park, 1670 Lobdell Ave.
This class will be taught by Martin’s Keaton McCrory and Maranda Howell of The Tipsy Librarian. Your ticket gets you snacks, cocktails and a barware set that you’ll use during the class, then take home to continue crafting great cocktails.
Tickets are $75 by visiting eventbrite.com/e/in-the-mix-festive-fall-cocktail-class-tickets-428184510397.
Haunted gingerbread house
Tickets are on sale for a Haunted Gingerbread House Workshop from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28 or Saturday, Oct. 29, for ages 13-16 at the Young Chefs Academy of Baton Rouge, 7970 Jefferson Highway.
Gather around the table to decorate your very own chilling centerpiece with loads of candy and treats. Learn spook-tacular piping and decorating techniques as your own unique, enchanted creation mysteriously comes to life.
Tickets are $65 by visiting youngchefsacademybatonrougela.liveeditaurora.com/workshops-special-events.
Spirits and wines
Tickets are on sale for Spooky Spirits & Witchy Wines from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, at Martin's on Moss Side, 6463 Moss Side Lane.
Throw on a costume and get in the Halloween spirit while sampling four cocktails, eight wines and tasty bites.
Tickets are $30 by visiting eventbrite.com/e/spooky-spirits-witchy-wines-tickets-439288944057?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.
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2022-10-25T12:18:58+00:00
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theadvocate.com
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, walked back comments over the weekend which sparked backlash among members of her own party, in which she referred to Israel as "a racist state."
Her controversial comments came as she addressed pro-Palestinian protesters who interrupted a Netroots Nation panel discussion in Chicago on Saturday.
"Can I say something as somebody who's been in the streets and participated in a lot of demonstrations?" Jayapal told the crowd. "I want you to know that we have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state, that the Palestinian people deserve self-determination and autonomy, that the dream of a two-state solution is slipping away from us — that it doesn't even feel possible."
The Washington Democrat sought to clarify her comments on Sunday, writing in a statement that she apologizes to "those who I have hurt with my words."
"At a conference, I attempted to defuse a tense situation during a panel where fellow members of Congress were being protested. Words do matter and so it is important that I clarify my statement. I do not believe the idea of Israel as a nation is racist," the statement read.
"I do, however, believe that Netanyahu's extreme right-wing government has engaged in discriminatory and outright racist policies and that there are extreme racists driving that policy within the leadership of the current government," Jayapal added.
House Democratic leadership responded Sunday.
"Israel is not a racist state," said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Reps. Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar and Ted Lieu in a joint statement that did not mention Jayapal by name.
Jayapal's remarks came days before Israeli President Isaac Herzog is scheduled to address a joint meeting of Congress.
Several House progressive lawmakers, including New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman, as well as Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, have said they will not attend, citing concerns about human rights.
Herzog is scheduled to meet with President Biden on Tuesday.
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2023-07-17T16:15:40+00:00
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klcc.org
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https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/2023-07-17/top-house-democrats-reject-rep-jayapals-comments-calling-israel-a-racist-state
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meijer announced Jan. 26, 2023 as the opening day for its first two Meijer Grocery stores in Orion Township and Macomb Township.
"By opening Meijer Grocery stores, we're introducing a new way for our customers to shop that provides convenience, value and the great quality our customers have always come to expect from Meijer," Meijer President & CEO Rick Keyes said. "Our customers' needs are always evolving, and we're committed to meeting them where they are. That's why we're excited to share this new Meijer experience with the Orion and Macomb Township communities."
Meijer Grocery is a new type of Meijer store focused on simplifying the customer shopping experience. The stores are designed with convenience and ease in mind. For example, parking will wrap around a singular corner entrance to maximize the number of parking spaces near the door. The stores will be 75,000-90,000 square feet each and feature all the categories customers need for a weekly trip to restock the home, including:
- Produce and grocery
- Meat counter with in-store meat cutters
- Bakery equipped with in-store cake decorators
- Full-service deli
- Pharmacy
- Health & beauty care
- Baby, pets and consumables
- Card & party and floral
"Orion and Macomb Townships are already very familiar with our Meijer supercenters, but we believe they will benefit from the added convenience Meijer Grocery will bring to their neighborhoods," said Don Sanderson, Senior Vice President of Merchandising at Meijer. "We specifically chose to launch this new store format in southeast Michigan because we're a Michigan company that has been serving customers in Metro Detroit for decades."
Meijer opened its first Metro Detroit supercenter in Canton in 1974, and now has more than 45 stores in the community, including two neighborhood markets – Woodward Corner and Rivertown Markets.
Sanderson added that the Meijer Grocery stores will feature local brands across its departments, staying true to the company's ongoing commitment to supporting local businesses.
For example, the bakery sections will feature local favorites, including Ann Arbor-based Zingerman's cinnamon rolls, banana breads, brownies and cakes, as well as pies from Achatz Handmade Pie Company and artisan bread from Crispelli's Bakery.
Additionally, the Meijer Grocery meat departments highlight southeast Michigan-made products from vendors, including Rinaldi Fresh Sausage, Dearborn Brand, Kowalski Sausage Company and The Brinery. The new stores will also carry frozen pizza from the popular Detroit-style pizza chain, Buddy's Pizza.
Meijer Grocery will also offer the same saving and shopping technology customers expect from a Meijer supercenter, including mPerks, Shop and Scan, Meijer Home Delivery and Pickup.
More details regarding the new stores' openings will be confirmed prior to opening day. For more information and to stay up-to-date on the new concept stores, visit www.meijer.com/meijer-grocery.
About Meijer: Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer that operates 499 supercenters, neighborhood markets and Express locations throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. A privately-owned and family-operated company since 1934, Meijer pioneered the "one-stop shopping" concept and has evolved through the years to include expanded fresh produce and meat departments, as well as pharmacies, comprehensive apparel departments, pet departments, garden centers, toys and electronics. For additional information on Meijer, please visit www.meijer.com. Follow Meijer on Twitter @Meijer and @MeijerPR or become a fan on Facebook.
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2022-12-05T21:10:50+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/12/05/meijer-announces-opening-date-new-meijer-grocery-store-concept/
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FIRST TEAM
Christina D’Agostino, UTL, Coral Springs Charter freshman: Two-year starter batted .397; 27 Hits, 4 2B, 3B, 4 HR, 21 RS, 24 RBI, .446 on-base-percentage, 6 stolen bases, .661 slugging percentage; hit first-ever grand slam in playoff game against Calvary Christian.
Chantale Guillou, P, Archbishop McCarthy sophomore: Versatile player batted .346 Avg., 18 Hits, 5 2B, 3B, HR, 19 RS, 17 RBI, .538 SLG; was 12-2 on the mound with 14 complete games; 1.57 ERA with 98 Ks and one no-hitter against American Heritage; helped Mavericks win first district title in 10 years.
McKenzie Jewell, P/OF, Pompano Beach junior: Two-way player was team captain and a third-year varsity starter; batted .400 with 30 hits, 4 doubles, 2 triples, 2 HRs, 17 RS, 15 RBI, 7 stolen bases, .586 slugging percentage; was 2-1 with two saves with 27Ks in 23 IP for the Golden Tornadoes; led county in HRs in 2021 and starter on basketball team.
Emily LeGette, INF, American Heritage junior: Five-year varsity member and Virginia Tech commit worked on speed and agility and finished season with 20 stolen bases; batted .471 with 33 hits, 8 doubles, 3 HRs, 17 RS, 27 RBI,.714 slugging percentage; said playing softball has helped shape her into the player she is today; also bowls for the school.
Kate Maston, OF, Coral Springs Charter sophomore: One year varsity baseball and one year of varsity softball; most proud of hitting a HR in first softball game; batted .408 with 29 hits, 5 doubles, 2 triples, 5 HRs, 22 RS, 24 RBI, 2 stolen bases, .746 slugging percentage; made USA women’s national development baseball team as 14-year-old.
Sammy Murphy, P/3B, Pompano Beach junior: Team captain and third-year starter batted .400 with 26 hits, 3 doubles, HR, 10 RS, 15 RBI, 2 stolen bases, .465 slugging percentage; 7-4 pitching, save, 3 CG, 1.25 ERA, 120 Ks in 67 IP; said playing against the best teams in the Big 8 was her season highlight.
Megan Rasmussen, OF, Pembroke Pines Charter junior: Three-year varsity starter said she was most proud of hitting her first career home run to tie game against Key West this season; batted .387 with 29 hits, doubles, HR, 10 RBI, 10 stolen bases, .440 slugging percentage, 465 on-base-percentage; 2018 USA Softball All-American.
Heather Robertson, INF, Coral Springs Charter freshman: Batted .435 with 20 hits, 3 doubles, 4 HRs, 18 runs, 20 RBI, 4 stolen bases, .760 slugging percentage; said making varsity and starting in state semifinal was season highlight; on-base-percentage; hit first varsity home tun to score two runs and win game in Big 8.
Ava Salvino, 1B/P, Westminster Academy freshman: All-purpose player hit .424 with 36 hits, 8 doubles, 2 HRs, 11 runs, 25 RBI, .952 fielding percentage on 182 chances; also went 12-9 on mound, 2 no-hitters with five shutouts; district champions.
Kelly Van Sciver, 1B/CF, Cardinal Gibbons senior: Team captain and four-year starter batted .608 with 31 hits, 3 doubles, 5 triples, 28 runs, 19 RBI, 15 stolen bases, 1.118 slugging percentage; went 4-for-5 with single, two doubles and triple to win first game of districts; had 10-game hitting streak with at least 2 hits in each game; headed to UF (for school).
Lauren Westerfeld, SS/OF, Pompano Beach senior: The West Point Army commit was three-year starter and batted .452 with 33 hits, 2 doubles, 4 triples, 21 runs, 10 RBI, 18 stolen bases, .590 slugging percentage; team-leader in hits, triples; also played flag football; career highlight winning districts for first time.
Alicia Marzouca, C/SS, Pine Crest sophomore: Two-year captain batted .575 with 35 hits, 8 doubles, 7 triples, 2 HRs, 30 runs, 26 RBI, 9 stolen bases, .926 slugging percentage; career highlight came in last game of the season when she took a relay from left and gunned down the runner at home.
Marissa Thompson, UTL, American Heritage senior: The University of West Georgia signee batted .360 with 31 hits, 2 doubles, a career-high 6 HRs, 14 runs, 28 RBI; finished career with .410 BA, 93 hits, 13 HRs, 42 runs, 84 RBI; 25-16 pitching record, 41 complete games, 2.19 ERA, 243 Ks, 2 no-hitters, including one against Oxbridge when they were undefeated.
SECOND TEAM
Stephanie Basso, C, Coral Springs Charter sophomore
Bella Bertorelli, UTL, Coral Springs Charter junior
Taylor Brown, INF, Archbishop McCarthy senior
Victoria Carmona, SS, Somerset seventh grader
Isabella Chemet, OF, Archbishop McCarthy senior
Lindsey Eldridge, UTL, Pine Crest sophomore
Brooke Febles, OF, American Heritage senior
Juliana Hooker, OF/P, Pompano Beach senior
Addison Mittauer, UTL, Calvary Christian Academy freshman
Dianna Montidoro, INF, Westminster Academy freshman
Sofia Santana, OF, American Heritage senior
Alanah Velaquez, 3B, Pembroke Pines Charter junior
Belle Williams, SS, Pompano Beach freshman
HONORABLE MENTION
American Heritage: Charlotte Laidler, Sidney Miller, Bree Villano; Archbishop McCarthy: Leila Hernandez; Calvary Christian Academy: Sofie Fine, Kelcy Keller, Hanna Lamb, Reese Mittauer; Cardinal Gibbons: Sophia Berg, Angela Dooley; Chaminade-Madonna: Annabelle Coleman, Angelina Giolito, Lucy McLogan, Mia Rodriguez; Coral Springs Charter: Sophia Bertorelli, Julia Estroff, Taylor Golden, Addison Michel; Pembroke Pines Charter: Cassie Bonilla, Ally Brady, Madison Garcia, Mia Hernandez; Pine Crest: Julia Aronberg, Lindsey Eldridge, Ava Friesen, Molly Schliesinger; Pompano Beach: Taylor Grace, Kaitlyn Hudson, Sydney Lumpkins, Ella Russo; Somerset Academy: Katie Bailey, Victoria Carmona, Kendall Casteel, Analie Diaz; Westminster Academy: Kamryn Casey, Olivia Holland, Kyleigh Hope, Savanna Lee.
COACH OF THE YEAR
Mark Montimurro, Coral Springs Charter: Led Panthers to 23-4 season despite only two seniors. Won districts, regionals, BCAA Big 8 runner-up and state semifinalist. “It was an amazing season with some big wins over some top teams. It was a solid season of improvement and growth. You just never want to end the season with a loss. However, all things considered, we put ourselves in a position to win another title., which is all you can ask of your players.”
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2022-06-18T14:11:37+00:00
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sun-sentinel.com
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/highschool/all-county/fl-sp-ac-br-soft-small-rail-20220619-wcb6qmqhifbtjntuxtm24w7tli-story.html
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MIAMI, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A national survey of Hispanic voters released today by Americano Media, the nation's first national conservative Hispanic network in Spanish, proves the Republican Party may be on the cusp of a profound Hispanic voter realignment, adding a last-minute burst of undecided voters worried about the economy.
"Our poll shows that while 14 percent of Hispanics are still undecided, half are leaning heavily toward voting for the GOP in the midterms," Americano Media chief executive officer Ivan Garcia-Hidalgo said. "In some close races, how these still-undecided Hispanic voters break may decide the day. We think this indicates a very possible spike in Hispanic votes this year for Republican candidates."
The Americano poll shows what Garcia-Hidalgo called "a perfect storm of frustration and pessimism among undecided Hispanics with the economic policies of President Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, and they are motivated to vote. While our poll confirms the rightward shift of Hispanic voters, we discovered that number seems set to jump on Election Day."
With 43 percent of respondents self-identified as Democrats and 27 percent as GOP, Democrats lead the congressional generic ballot 50/36, with 14 percent undecided and split similarly among the two parties and independents. This is a remarkable finding, considering this 14-point margin is down from 30 percent in 2020 and 40 percent in 2018, according to exit polls.
Among this largely Democrat population, President Joe Biden is the only national politician with a positive image rating. Biden predictably wins a rematch with Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 race, 54/37 - remarkably, only half his margin over Trump with Hispanics in 2020. Biden also leads all other Democrats in a theoretical primary matchup, beating second place finisher former First Lady Michelle Obama, 36/14.
In a theoretical primary matchup Trump beats Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, 48/30. Still, according to Americano's Florida-focused research, DeSantis beats his gubernatorial re-election opponent Congressman Charlie Crist among Hispanics 49/45. While DeSantis has a 52 percent favorable and 44 percent unfavorable rating with Florida Hispanics, Crist is at 40/46, proving many Hispanic Independents and Democrats plan to vote for DeSantis.
A significant majority of Hispanics (71%) consider the country headed in the wrong direction and that the economy is also headed in the wrong direction. The economy matters most to this demographic, with inflation and jobs logging in at 40 percent of people's top priority. Among Hispanics, the economy completely eclipses the wedge social issues the media often focuses on. In fact, by a 65/31 margin, inflation is more important to deciding their vote than abortion.
The Americano poll, conducted October 11-20 by Fabrizio-Lee and Associates, interviewed 1,200 Hispanic registered voters and has a margin of error of 2.8 percent. The team also oversampled Florida Hispanic registered voters to discover valid answers to Florida-specific questions. Interviewers conducted the poll using landline, mobile phone and text-to-online methods. The poll was offered in English and Spanish, with 78 percent responding in English and 22 percent in Spanish.
For more information and topline findings, please go to www.AmericanoMediaPoll.com to download the Americano poll results.
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2022-10-27T19:28:53+00:00
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wymt.com
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Powell: Fed’s inflation fight could bring ‘pain,’ job losses
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday: The Fed is determined to fight inflation with more sharp interest rate hikes, which will likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses. “These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation,” Powell said in a high-profile speech at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole. “But a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.” Investors had been hoping for a signal from Powell that the Fed might soon moderate its rate increases later this year if inflation were to show further signs of easing. But the Fed chair indicated that that time may not be near.
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Dow drops 1,008 after Fed’s Powell says rates will stay high
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed sharply lower after the head of the Federal Reserve dashed Wall Street’s hopes that it may soon ease up on high interest rates in its effort to tame inflation. The S&P 500 lost 3.4% Friday, its biggest drop in two months, after Jerome Powell said the Fed will likely need to keep interest rates high enough to slow the economy for some time in order to beat back the high inflation sweeping the country. Tech stocks led the way lower, pulling the Nasdaq composite down even more. Higher rates help corral inflation, but they also hurt asset prices.
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Hints of cooling prices, but Fed vows firm inflation stance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation eased last month as energy prices tumbled, raising hopes that the surging costs of everything from gasoline to food may have peaked. According to a Commerce Department report Friday that is closely watched by the Federal Reserve, consumer prices rose 6.3% in July from a year earlier after posting an annual increase of 6.8% in June, the biggest jump since 1982. Energy prices made the difference in July: They dropped last month after surging in June. Yet on Friday at the Federal Reserve’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message: The Fed will likely impose more large interest rate hikes in coming months and is resolutely focused on taming inflation.
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Britain to see 80% spike in energy bills as crisis deepens
LONDON (AP) — British residents will see an 80% increase in their annual household energy bills. The U.K.’s energy regulator announced Friday that costs will go from 1,971 pounds a year to 3,549 pounds in October. It follows a record 54% annual spike in April. The costs are roiling the British economy, which has the highest inflation rate among the Group of Seven wealthiest democracies and seen disruptive strikes for months as workers push for pay to keep pace with the increasingly expensive cost of living. Charities, public health leaders and even energy firms warn of catastrophic effects on poorer people already struggling to afford essentials.
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US, China reach deal in dispute over Chinese company audits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and China have reached a preliminary agreement allowing U.S. regulators to inspect the audits of China-based companies whose stocks are traded on U.S. exchanges. In a long-festering dispute, U.S. regulators have threatened to boot a number of Chinese companies off U.S. exchanges if China doesn’t permit the inspections. The deal was announced Friday. If it does work out, the agreement means U.S. investors could maintain access to shares of important Chinese companies while at the same time being protected by the integrity of the companies’ audits.
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Moderna sues Pfizer, BioNTech over COVID-19 vaccine patents
COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing its main competitors Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech. It’s accusing the rivals of copying Moderna’s technology in order to make their own vaccine. Moderna said Friday that Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine Comirnaty infringes on patents Moderna filed several years ago protecting the technology behind its preventive shot, Spikevax. The company filed patent infringement lawsuits in both U.S. federal court and a German court. A Pfizer spokeswoman says the drugmaker will vigorously defend itself against any allegations in the case.
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CNN management intent on changing perception of the network
NEW YORK (AP) — The first steps toward change at CNN have been slow and incremental — at least until the network cancelled its long-running media criticism show ‘Reliable Sources’ and cut loose its host, Brian Stelter. CNN’s new leadership is trying to recover a brand perception that it is an unbiased news source, one that was clearly damaged during Donald Trump’s presidency. Under its new chairman, Chris Licht, CNN is trying to do away with ‘food fight’ panels of experts fighting over extreme opinions. He’s also reached out to Republican leaders to encourage GOP politicians to appear for more interviews on the network.
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Michigan Chipotle store’s workers unionize, a 1st for chain
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A union says workers at a Chipotle store in Michigan have voted to unionize, becoming the first of the Mexican fast-food chain’s 3,000 locations to do so. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters says workers at a Chipotle store in Lansing, Michigan, “voted overwhelmingly” Thursday to form a union with the Teamsters. The union says the workers “are forming a union to improve their work schedules, increase wages, and gain the respect from management that they’ve rightfully earned.” Chipotle, based in Newport Beach, California, said Friday that it is “disappointed” the store’s employees “chose to have a third party speak on their behalf.” The Lansing store’s vote to unionize comes amid a broader unionization push across the country.
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The S&P 500 tumbled 141.46 points, or 3.4%, to 4,057.66. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 1,008.38 points, or 3%, to 32,283.40. The Nasdaq lost 497.56 points, or 3.9%, to 12,141.71. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 64.81 points, or 3.3%, to 1,899.83.
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2022-08-26T22:55:42+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/Business-Highlights-Fed-s-fight-Wall-Street-17401180.php
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating a Ford Motor Co. recall of more than a quarter-million Explorer SUVs in the U.S. after receiving complaints about repairs intended to prevent the vehicles from unexpectedly rolling away even while placed in park.
The problem, ascribed to fractures of a rear axle mounting bolt that could lead the drive shaft to disconnect, was addressed by a Ford software update designed to apply the electronic parking brake if the drive shaft failed, the agency said. But according to two complaints from vehicle owners, their SUVs behaved erratically following the repair.
In one of those cases, the Explorer would reportedly slam to a complete stop at speeds of up to 30 or 40 miles per hour. In the other, it would reportedly lurch into motion while the driver was attempting to disengage the electronic brake. No injuries were reported in these cases, although the first driver reported striking a utility pole when the Explorer started rolling downhill following an abrupt stop, seemingly because the drivetrain was disengaged.
The original recall covered certain 2020 through 2022 Explorers with 2.3-liter engines, as well as 3-liter and 3.3-liter hybrids, and the 3-liter ST. Also included were 2020 and 2021 Explorer Police hybrids and those with 3.3-liter gas engines. Both of the reported incidents involved 2021 Explorers.
A Ford representative said the company is working with the NHTSA on the matter.
SEE MORE: Ford recalls 310,000 trucks to fix problem with driver's front air bag
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2023-06-25T15:07:25+00:00
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koaa.com
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https://www.koaa.com/ford-explorer-recall-prompts-transportation-department-investigation
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – ABQ Ride is spreading the love for Rider Appreciation Day. They are partnering with Papa Murphy’s to give their customers something special.
ABQ Ride and Papa Murphy’s will be around Albuquerque for the 2022 Rider Appreciation Day. This Wednesday, October 29, ABQ Ride staff will be riding various routes throughout the day to hand out coupons for a free pizza, which can be used at four participating Papa Murphy’s locations in Albuquerque. For more information visit their website.
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2022-10-17T17:59:50+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/abq-ride-hosts-rider-appreciation-day/
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2022-11-22T20:30:44+00:00
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PHILADELPHIA – Sesame Place has announced the implementation of diversity and inclusion training for its employees following a $25 million class-action lawsuit alleging multiple incidents of discrimination after outcry sparked from a video of a costumed character snubbing two 6-year-old Black girls went viral online.
The Sesame Street-themed park, operated by SeaWorld Parks, in a statement Tuesday said that all employees will be mandated to participate in training created to address bias, promote inclusion and prevent discrimination by the end of September.
The training — which was developed by civil rights educators — will also be integrated into onboarding for all new employees and “will become a regular part of our training and workforce development,” the statement said.
Outrage ensued online in July when a video went viral showing a Sesame Street character waving off the two Black girls during a parade at Sesame Place. Jodi Brown, the mother of one of the girls, posted the video on Instagram.
President of Sesame Place Philadelphia Cathy Valeriano said the park has already begun implementing temporary measures while a review of the park continues.
“We are committed to making sure our guests feel welcome, included and enriched by their visits to our park,” Valeriano said.
SeaWorld’s CEO, Marc Swanson, is scheduled to meet with the Brown family alongside Rev. Jesse Jackson on Thursday to “address the deficiencies we have noted from this most recent press release,” said B’Ivory LaMarr, the family's attorney.
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2022-08-10T22:48:06+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/news/2022/08/10/sesame-place-to-train-employees-on-diversity-and-inclusion/
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Education Educators speak on the importance of the new AP African-American studies course By Brianna Scott, William Troop, Ailsa Chang Published February 27, 2023 at 3:44 PM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with three educators who are currently teaching the new AP course on African-American studies. Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-02-27T22:13:06+00:00
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kgou.org
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https://www.kgou.org/education/education/2023-02-27/educators-speak-on-the-importance-of-the-new-ap-african-american-studies-course
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Jiménez drives in 4, Abreu homers, White Sox beat Royals 9-2
By ANDREW SELIGMAN
AP Sports Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — Eloy Jiménez had three hits and four RBIs, José Abreu homered and the Chicago White Sox pounded the Kansas City Royals 9-2. The White Sox made no major moves prior to the trade deadline and will bank on improvement from within as they try to overtake Minnesota and Cleveland to win their second straight AL Central championship. This one wasn’t exactly pristine, but the White Sox will take the lopsided win. Jiménez singled and scored in a three-run first inning and smacked a two-run double in the fourth to bump Chicago’s lead to 5-2. He added a long sacrifice fly in the sixth before Abreu chased Royals starter Brad Keller with a two-run homer off the left-field foul pole, making it 8-2.
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2022-08-03T05:34:00+00:00
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kyma.com
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https://kyma.com/sports/ap-sports/2022/08/02/jimenez-drives-in-4-abreu-homers-white-sox-beat-royals-9-2/
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GENEVA (AP) — Picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago, FIFA’s president at the time Sepp Blatter said Tuesday, again citing a meeting between Nicolas Sarkozy and Michel Platini for swaying key votes.
The 86-year-old Blatter spoke with the Swiss newspaper group Tamedia in his first major interview since being acquitted with Platini in July of financial misconduct at FIFA after a trial at federal criminal court.
“It’s a country that’s too small,” Blatter said of Qatar, the smallest host by size since the 1954 tournament in Switzerland. “Football and the World Cup are too big for that.”
The 32 teams will play 64 games in eight stadiums in and around the city of Doha which has been transformed since 2010 by massive construction projects to prepare for the World Cup.
Games start on Nov. 20 with about 1.2 million international visitors expected to arrive in Qatar during the World Cup. With limited places to stay in the host nation, some will commute in from neighboring states.
“It was a bad choice. And I was responsible for that as president at the time,” said Blatter, who has long said he voted for the United States. Its bid was beaten by Qatar in the final round of a five-candidate contest to be 2022 host.
It became part of FIFA lore that an expected U.S. victory swung toward Qatar at a meeting Sarkozy hosted in Paris in the week before the Dec. 2, 2010 vote by FIFA’s executive committee.
French soccer great Platini, then president of European soccer body UEFA and a vice president of FIFA, was invited by then-state president Sarkozy to his official residence. The crown prince of Qatar, now the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, was also there.
Blatter on Tuesday repeated his claim that Sarkozy put pressure on Platini, and again gave his version of a telephone call Platini made to him after the Paris meeting that the World Cup voting plan had changed.
“Thanks to the four votes of Platini and his (UEFA) team, the World Cup went to Qatar rather than the United States. It’s the truth,” Blatter said of the 14-8 voting result.
In comments to the Associated Press in 2015, Platini broadly confirmed the significance of that meeting in Paris.
“Sarkozy never asked me to vote for Qatar, but I knew what would be good,” Platini told an AP reporter in Zurich seven years ago. He acknowledged that he “might have told” American officials that he would be voting for their 2022 bid.
Blatter did not specifically refer to criticism of Qatar on labor and human rights issues since 2010.
However, he did question why his successor as FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, has moved to live in Qatar for at least the past year.
Blatter noted growing calls, by rights groups and several FIFA member federations including the U.S. and England, to create a compensation fund for families of workers who died or were injured. Qatar’s government has resisted the calls and described them as a “publicity stunt.”
“What can FIFA say if its president is in the same boat as Qatar?” Blatter said of Infantino choosing to live in Doha.
FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the interview.
Blatter, who went to Moscow during the 2018 World Cup as a guest of Russia while he and Platini were suspended by FIFA from soccer, told the Swiss newspaper reporters he would watch games in the coming weeks on television at his apartment in Zurich.
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2022-11-08T20:24:50+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-blatter-says-picking-qatar-as-world-cup-host-was-a-mistake/
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RESTON, Va., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet Society Foundation has launched a second round of grants through its Resiliency program, which aims to help communities enhance preparedness and build Internet resiliency when faced with adverse events. This funding will support projects that increase network resiliency in communities prone to natural and climate-related disasters, ensuring these communities are better able to prepare for and withstand the effects of a disaster on Internet connectivity. A resilient Internet connection is one that maintains an acceptable level of service in the face of faults and challenges to normal operation.
"Connectivity to the Internet becomes a vital tool when disaster strikes, both for people in need and those responding to the emergency," noted Sarah Armstrong, Executive Director of the Internet Society Foundation. "Through these grants, we aim to support communities to reduce vulnerabilities and build the capacity and resilience to navigate future emergencies."
Examples of the types of projects the Foundation will support include: supporting development of temporary networks for crisis response, protecting data centers and Internet exchange points (IXPs) against environmental threats, fortifying sub-sea cables and/or stations, and supporting Internet service providers (ISPs) to upgrade infrastructure.
Organizations currently implementing projects around the world through the Resiliency grant program include Help.NGO, NetHope, Inc., and Télécoms Sans Frontières.
The Resiliency program will open for applications between 25 July and 19 August. Grants of up to US$500,000 will be awarded for projects lasting up to 12 months.
More information on the grant including the application process can be found at: https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/resiliency-grant-program/
About The Internet Society Foundation:
The Internet Society Foundation was established in 2019 to support the positive difference the Internet can make to people everywhere. Guided by our vision of an Internet for Everyone, the Foundation champions ideas and enables communities to unlock the Internet's potential to tackle the world's evolving challenges. Focusing in five program areas, the Foundation awards grants to Internet Society Chapters as well as non-profit organizations and individuals dedicated to providing meaningful access to an open, globally connected, secure and trustworthy Internet for everyone.
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2022-07-26T13:56:29+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/07/26/internet-society-foundation-announces-us15-million-funding-promote-internet-resiliency/
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The three leading Democratic candidates hoping to become Hawaii’s next governor are scheduled to make their first live, joint appearance in a special one-hour, digital town hall on the Honolulu Star- Advertiser’s “Spotlight Hawaii” livestream program starting at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Read more
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2022-06-28T11:32:54+00:00
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staradvertiser.com
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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/06/28/hawaii-news/democratic-hopefuls-for-governor-to-hold-first-joint-appearance/
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HARRISBURG — In his first media interview since having a stroke two months ago, Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said Wednesday he is “100% able to run fully and to win” against Republican Mehmet Oz in November.
Fetterman, speaking over video with a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter, disclosed for the first time that he is having lingering, sporadic difficulties with hearing and speaking. But Fetterman, 52, insisted he has “no physical limits,” noted he is working with a speech therapist and said he would not run if he thought he could not endure the demands of a campaign.
“I would never be in this if we were not absolutely, 100% able to run fully and to win — and we believe that we are,” Fetterman, the current lieutenant governor, told the newspaper.
Fetterman’s health has been a dominant issue in the Senate race since the days before the May 17 primary, when his campaign revealed that he had a stroke. He required surgery to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator, and later disclosed that he also had a serious heart condition.
He has stayed off the campaign trail while he recovers but told the newspaper that he expected to return “very soon” to making public appearances. On Thursday night, he was scheduled to appear in person at a fundraiser with Democratic Jewish Outreach Pennsylvania in suburban Philadelphia. The event will not be open to the media.
Democrats and Republicans alike have closely watched Fetterman’s recovery. Democratic hopes to maintain — or even expand — their fragile Senate majority hinge on the party’s ability to capture the seat held by Republican Pat Toomey, who is retiring.
Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon and former host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Republican groups have tried to raise questions about Fetterman’s status, posting a fake “Have You Seen This Person?” poster online that shows Fetterman’s face underneath and says, “Last Seen: 05/13/2022.”
Despite Fetterman’s absence, he is ahead of the largely self-funded Oz in fundraising. Fetterman had $5.5 million on hand as of June 30, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Oz, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, had $1.1 million on hand.
Fetterman said he walks several miles every day and did not lose any memory as a result of the stroke. In the 20-minute interview with the newspaper, Fetterman used closed-captioning to ensure he did not miss any words, a campaign spokesperson told the Post-Gazette.
Fetterman has been recovering at home but working daily with campaign aides, meeting via video with donors and trolling Oz with viral social media posts emphasizing the doctor’s recent move from New Jersey.
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2022-07-20T22:55:15+00:00
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pennlive.com
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https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2022/07/john-fetterman-says-hes-100-able-to-run-for-pa-senate-after-stroke.html
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Public aims to offer UK investors a best-in-class experience for investing in US markets, with over 5,000 US-listed equities, advanced portfolio tools and data, with a transparent, low fee structure.
LONDON, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Public, a US-based multi-asset investing platform, launches today in the United Kingdom, entering its first market outside the United States. With the firm's UK expansion, Public aims to be the preeminent place to invest in US-listed equities, offering over 5,000 stocks, deep data and insights, and a simple and transparent fee structure with zero commission trading and low FX fees.
UK members can build a portfolio on the Public app with over 5,000 US-listed equities and access features that provide additional data and context, such as custom company metrics, Morningstar research, earnings call recordings, and insights from a community of millions of investors, all in one place.
Starting today, members can access the app on a rolling basis on both iOS and Android devices. Key product features available at launch include:
- Over 5,000 stocks: Public has over 5,000 US-listed equities on its platform, providing UK investors with a broad range of options to build their portfolios, from large-cap tech to dividend stocks, to emerging markets stocks. The platform aims to offer the widest range of US-listed equities available to UK investors.
- Commission-free trading and low FX fees: Public members can trade stocks commission-free during market hours. Unlike many other brokerages, Public converts members' currency from GBP to USD when they deposit funds rather than on every individual trade, which can result in fewer FX transactions and significantly lower fees.*
- Advanced data and insights: Investors can access data and context that can help them make more informed investment decisions. UK members can access custom company metrics, Morningstar research, earnings reports, and breaking news, all in the same place they invest. Investors can tune into daily live shows about the markets and access a community of analysts, company executives, and creators to discuss the markets. Many of these features are available to all Public members, while some are part of Public Premium, the company's paid subscription tier.
"London and the broader UK market has always been the financial epicenter of Europe, so it's a natural place for Public to start our international expansion," said Leif Abraham, co-CEO and co-founder of Public. "Public has always had European roots: my co-founder and I are both European, and we have a team across multiple European countries, including the UK. We're excited that now it won't just be the team in Europe and the UK, but the members we serve."
"Our first goal with launching Public in the UK is to be the best place to invest in US stocks," said Dann Bibas, GM of International at Public. "With over 5,000 US listed stocks, competitive FX fees, commission-free trading during US market hours, and comprehensive data on all listed stocks, we aim to be the best place for UK investors who want to explore the US markets."
Public has raised over $300M in venture capital funding. Investors include Accel, Greycroft, Lakestar, and Maria Sharapova and JJ Watt, the NFL star and new owner of Burnley FC. The company has team members in New York, Copenhagen, London, and Amsterdam. Public does not participate in Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) as a source of revenue. Instead, all orders are routed directly to the exchanges and other execution venues.
Currently, the US product offers additional asset classes, such as ETFs, Treasuries, crypto, and alternatives, which may be available in future releases in the UK. Public aims to launch Investment Plans in the UK, a tool that allows members to create customized recurring investments.
Download the app and learn more here: public.com/uk
About Public
Public is an investing platform that allows everyone to invest in stocks, treasuries, ETFs, crypto, and alternative assets, like fine art and collectibles—all in one place. We help people be better investors with access to custom company metrics, live shows about the markets, and insights from a community of millions of investors, creators, and analysts. Learn more at www.public.com.
* For a detailed list of fees you may pay, please see our Fee Schedule.
This content is not investment advice. When you invest, your capital is at risk. The value of your investments may go up or down. The past performance of a security or financial product does not guarantee future results or returns. There is always the potential of losing money when you invest in securities or other financial products. Investors should consider their investment objectives and risks carefully before investing.
'Public' is a trading name of Public Investing UK Limited is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 13760183 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Public Holdings, Inc. Registered office at C/O Browne Jacobson LLP 6 Bevis Marks, Bury Court, London, United Kingdom, EC3A 7BA.Public Investing UK Limited (FRN: 985994) is an appointed representative of Khepri Advisors Limited (FRN: 692447) which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Brokerage services for US-listed, registered securities are offered by Open to the Public Investing, Inc., member FINRA & SIPC. Brokerage services for alternative assets are offered by Dalmore Group, LLC, member FINRA & SIPC. Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions LLC (NMLS ID 1828849), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Brokerage services for U.S. Treasuries are offered by Jiko Securities, Inc., member FINRA & SIPC. Banking services are offered by Jiko Bank, a division of Mid-Central National Bank. Securities investments: Not FDIC Insured; No Bank Guarantee; May Lose Value.
See public.com/disclosures for more information.
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2023-07-13T08:40:33+00:00
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The unlimited sale will last for 24 hours beginning April 9 on Foundation
NEW YORK, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Fortune announced the details of its second NFT drop, which will take place on April 9, 2023, and allow collectors to bid on an iconic magazine cover by the trailblazing generative artist and creative coder Itzel Yard, also known as Ix Shells. The piece, titled Fortune: Crypto Climbs Back From The Worst Year Ever, will be available for 0.1 ETH during the 24 hour sale.
The unlimited sale will go live on Sunday, April 9, at 1:00 pm EDT on Foundation, a platform building no-code tools for the web3 creator community. The release will be an editioned ERC-721 NFT in collaboration with Yard and generative art agency ARTXCODE. The NFT will contain an animated version of the historic cover, which you can see here and will be distributed as a limited edition for the April/May 2023 U.S. of the magazine and the sole cover of the Europe and Asia editions, all of which will be available on newsstands beginning April 25, 2023.
Yard's Fortune debut follows the groundbreaking release of popular NFT artist pplpleasr's whimsical Fortune cover art in August of 2021, which coincided with the peak of the last crypto boom and came as a celebration of the crypto industry. The new cover by Yard reflects different themes—ones of building and resilience—and is being sold at an accessible price point (around $170) to allow for the broadest possible section of the crypto community to participate and express support for the industry as it emerges from one of its darkest times.
Yard's piece represents hope for the world of crypto, where her artistic practice has found its home. This is reflected in the seemingly magical growth of pixels in her artwork. The shifting of the building blocks in Fortune: Crypto Climbs Back From The Worst Year Ever move up and down, and in a steady clockwise motion. This continuity, despite the ups and downs, mirrors the strides that have been made in the crypto ecosystem over the last year. Created in Touch Designer, a node-based visual programming language for real time, interactive, multimedia content, Yard's artwork was created with a 3D displacement program, a noise algorithm, and geometries.
"The algorithm I used to make the artwork is something that expands pixels and can convert a small black square into a more extensive geometric shape," said Yard. "For me it looks like when I'm walking in the middle of a city and I look up and see all the buildings."
The 32-year-old Panamanian artist also used the cover project to express her view of crypto and NFTs as a long-term mission, and to celebrate those who have been building through good times and bad.
"Me and the community I surround myself with are the ones that are building instead of just looking for a way to get rich quick or to get famous. I'd like to demonstrate that, although it was a hard year for everyone in crypto economically, a lot of things are evolving very quickly like with AI, ChatGPT, and other tools that one way or another are connected with the NFT and blockchain revolution. I want people to see that growth, instead of becoming collectively mired in negative thoughts."
Fortune has been on the forefront of reporting on business and finance trends and technologies since its launch in 1930 and is one of the earliest mainstream outlets to dedicate regular space to cryptocurrency with its 2017 launch of The Ledger franchise. Under Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell's leadership, Fortune has greatly expanded the scope of its coverage of web3 and A.I. It featured an exclusive look at Katie Haun's historic $1.5 billion crypto fund launch, the rapid rise of elusive Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, questioned whether Sam Bankman-Fried would crash and burn, and explored why OpenAI founder Sam Altman says the A.I. future could be spectacular—unless it goes spectacularly wrong—on cover stories of Fortune magazine. Last year, Fortune also launched Fortune Crypto under Crypto Editor Jeff John Roberts, author of the book Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street.
Yard is a self-taught creative coder and artist based in Panama with a background in Architectural Technology and Computer Science. She has become one of the most recognizable names in contemporary generative art. In 2021, her breakout work, "Dreaming at Dusk," a collaboration with the Tor Project, which also sold on Foundation, sold for 500 ETH—over 2 million dollars at the time of sale. That same year, Fortune named Yard to the Fortune NFTy 50, a ranking of the most influential builders, creatives, and influencers on the NFT scene.
This collaboration marks a partnership between a pillar of the crypto-native community and a legacy global media outlet. This is Fortune's second release in the web3 space, following a limited release with the artist pplpleasr in 2021 that won an EPPY award for Best Innovation Project on a Website. Half of the proceeds of that sale, approximately $660,000 when the contribution was made, were donated to four journalistic nonprofit organizations via the Fortune Journalism PleasrFund, a decentralized donor-advised fund run entirely on the Ethereum blockchain through Endaoment. Fortune's continued active participation in the world of web3 reflects its commitment to covering the crypto economy and acknowledging its continued importance in the conversation about business.
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2023-04-04T15:40:07+00:00
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KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — A group of Sri Lankans held captive by Russian forces in an agricultural factory in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that they were beaten and abused for months before escaping on foot as the Russians withdrew from the Kharkiv region this month.
Recounting their ordeal to reporters in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, one of the seven Sri Lankans said he was shot in the foot; another had his toenail ripped off and was slammed in the head with the butt of a rifle.
Ukrainian officials described their treatment as torture.
“Every day we were cleaning toilets and bathrooms,” Dilukshan Robertclive, one of the former captives, said in English. “Some days Russians came and beat our people, our Sri Lanka people.”
Four of the seven were medical students in the city of Kupiansk and three were working there when Russian forces poured across the border in late February and occupied large swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine.
The group said they were captured at the first checkpoint out of Kupiansk and then taken to Vovchansk, near the border with Russia, where they were held in the factory with around 20 Ukrainians.
“They took our passports, other documents, phones, clothes, and locked us up in a room,” said Sharujan Gianeswaran, speaking in Tamil to an Associated Press journalist by phone. “There were also Ukrainian people with us, and they were questioned and sent away in 10 days, 15 days or one month. With us they never spoke, because they could not understand our language.”
Police said the factory housed a Russian “torture center” — one of 18 in the Kharkiv region.
“They were bound and blindfolded. After that they were captured and then taken to the city of Vovchansk,” said Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the National Police in Kharkiv.
Six among the group said they were held in a large upstairs room. The seventh, the only woman, was kept in a dark cell by herself, her companions said. The woman wept silently and did not speak as the group told their story Saturday.
One man said he was shot in the foot by the Russian captors. Another had a toenail ripped off after the soldiers repeatedly bashed it with the butt of a rifle. The men showed their injuries to journalists.
“Most of the time we could not understand what they told us and we were beaten for that,” Gianeswaran said.
It dawned upon the Sri Lankans that the battle lines were shifting only when Russian soldiers ordered them to help load trucks with food and weapons.
As the last trucks raced away, the group asked fruitlessly for their passports and papers back, knowing that to move around without them would be impossible in a country filled with checkpoints.
Russian troops captured several cities and towns in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region early in the war. Ukrainian troops retook the area during a swift counteroffensive earlier this month.
When the Sri Lankans realized the Russians were gone, on Sept. 10, the group left the factory and started walking toward the city of Kharkiv, having no real idea how to get to the regional capital which had remained in Ukrainian hands.
“We walked on that road for two days and were exhausted and hungry. We had no food or money to buy food,” Gianeswaran said.
They slept on the side of the road and walked until they reached a river. But with so many bridges in the region destroyed by one side or the other in months of fighting, they could find no way to cross.
Finally someone noticed their plight, gave them shelter and called for a ride from security forces.
Police said the group was picked up in the Chuhuiv area, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) from where they started. They are in Kharkiv now, with no idea of what the future holds. Robertclive said they are psychologically damaged by their months in captivity.
But the men smiled when asked how they felt when they realized the worst of their ordeal was at an end.
“They (Ukrainians) have given us food and clothing,” Gianeswaran said. “We thought we were going to die but we are saved and are being well looked after.”
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2022-09-29T09:42:36+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-sri-lankans-describe-abuse-as-russian-captives-in-ukraine/
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MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecutors need more time to review it, the chief prosecutor said Wednesday.
District Attorney Jason Schmidt of Chautauqua County in western New York said his office is reviewing about “30,000 files,” without providing details. He asked for more time to comply with a legal requirement to turn over evidence to suspect Hadi Matar’s attorney, the Observer of Dunkirk reported.
Matar’s lawyer, Nathaniel Barone, questioned the need for delay.
“Just because there may be volumes of discovery out there, that doesn’t change the fact that that’s their job,” Barone said after the hearing. “They better get to it and we’re entitled to it.”
Prosecutors say Matar, 24, stabbed Rushdie in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye at a literary event in western New York, before onlookers intervened. Rushdie had been sitting in a chair onstage at the Chautauqua Institution waiting to be introduced for an Aug. 12 discussion of protections for writers in exile and freedom of expression.
The author was recovering in a Pennsylvania hospital in the days after the attack. A Rushdie family lawyer did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking an update on his condition.
Henry Reese, the cofounder of Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, was onstage with Rushdie and suffered a gash to his forehead, bruises and other minor injuries.
Matar, who has been held without bail since his arrest, arrived at Chautauqua County Court in a black-and-white striped jail jumpsuit, wearing shackles and a white medical face mask.
The judge reserved decision on whether to grant prosecutors more time to share evidence, and ordered the sides to return Sept. 13.
Matar, who lived with his mother in Fairview, New Jersey, is charged with attempted murder and assault. He has pleaded not guilty. Schmidt, the district attorney, did not rule out additional charges Wednesday, pending the continuing investigation.
In a jailhouse interview with The New York Post after his arrest, Matar spoke about disliking Rushdie and praised Iran’s late supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khomeini issued an edict in 1989 demanding Rushdie’s death over his novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Iran has denied involvement in the attack.
Rushdie spent years in hiding but had traveled freely over the past two decades.
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2022-09-07T20:29:23+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-prosecutors-in-rushdie-attack-want-delay-to-review-evidence/
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Walt Disney Co. announced a companywide cost-cutting drive, including a hiring freeze on all but the most important jobs, days after a wider loss in streaming led to its worst one-day stock rout in more than 20 years.
A new executive committee that includes Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy and General Counsel Horacio Gutierrez will spearhead the savings efforts, according to a memo Friday from Chief Executive Officer Bob Chapek. That will include staff cuts.
The entertainment giant shocked investors this week when it reported lower-than-expected quarterly sales and profit, with two its key businesses — streaming and parks — registering disappointing results.
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“We are limiting headcount additions through a targeted hiring freeze,” Chapek said in the memo. “Hiring for the small subset of the most critical, business-driving positions will continue, but all other roles are on hold.”
The company also instructed employees to take only essential trips for business travel, and said it will require management approval to attend conferences and other events.
Losses at Disney’s direct-to-consumer arm, driven by the Disney+ streaming service, more than doubled to $1.47 billion in the company’s fiscal fourth quarter, due to higher programming expenses and the cost of rolling the service in new countries.
The shortfall led management to pledge it would seek “meaningful efficiencies” in areas like marketing. Chapek said at the time that the company’s streaming losses were peaking.
“While we will not sacrifice quality or the strength of our unrivaled synergy machine, we must ensure our investments are both efficient and come with tangible benefits to both audiences and the company,” Chapek wrote on Friday.
CNBC reported earlier Friday on the cost-cutting drive.
Shares of Disney rose fractionally to $95.51 in extended market trading. The stock is down 39 percent this year, including a 13 percent drop on Nov. 9, the day after the company reported financial results.
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2022-11-12T00:38:09+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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New estimate U.S. could face default on debt by early June
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. could face an unprecedented default on its obligations as soon as early June if Congress does not act to lift the debt limit, a Washington think tank said Wednesday.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, which forecasts the approximate “X-date” when the government will no longer be able to meet its financial obligations on time, said the U.S. will reach its statutory debt limit as soon as the summer or early fall of 2023. That inches up from the center’s previous prediction in June 2022 that the “extraordinary measures” that U.S. Treasury uses to pay the government’s bills would not be exhausted before the third quarter of 2023.
Previewing the data for reporters on a morning call, Shai Akabas, the center’s director of economic policy, said the new projections reflect “considerable uncertainty in our nation’s current economic outlook.”
“Policymakers have an opportunity now to inject certainty into the U.S. and global economy by beginning, in earnest, bipartisan negotiations around our nation’s fiscal health and taking action to uphold the full faith and credit of the United States well before the X-Date,” he said.
Akabas said the December 2022 big spending bill, an extended pause on student loan repayments and high interest rates resulting in higher costs to service U.S. debt have contributed to moving up the X-date.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress in January that her agency was resorting to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default, and that “it is unlikely that cash and extraordinary measures will be exhausted before early June.”
Yellen said her actions will buy time until Congress can pass legislation that will either raise the nation’s $31.4 trillion borrowing authority or suspend the limit for a period of time. But she said it’s “critical that Congress act in a timely manner.”
President Joe Biden and new Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy met once earlier this month to talk about the debt limit, but expectations are low for quick progress as GOP lawmakers push for steep spending cuts in exchange for a debt ceiling deal.
Biden has since used his bully pulpit to accuse Republicans of plans to cut Medicare and Social Security programs. McCarthy, however, has said those cuts are not in the picture, as has Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell.
Treasury first used extraordinary measures in 1985 and has used them at least 16 times since, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal watchdog.
Some economists have said in the midst of debt limit negotiations, Treasury could prioritize certain payments to bondholders in order to buy time for policymakers to resolve the issue.
Biden administration officials have said they will not prioritize payments to bondholders if the country passes the “X-date” without an agreement. Yellen has said debt payment prioritization is default by another name.
“Failure on the part of the United States to meet any obligation, whether its debt holders, to members of our military or to Social Security recipients, is effectively a default,” she told reporters in Dakar, Senegal in January.
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2023-02-22T16:01:45+00:00
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kttc.com
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https://www.kttc.com/2023/02/22/new-estimate-us-could-face-default-debt-by-early-june/
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Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder’s future is on the agenda for discussion at upcoming committee meetings in Florida ahead of the annual NFL meeting in Arizona in late March, according to a person familiar with the docket.
The person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the person wasn’t authorized to release details, said voting to oust Snyder if he chooses not to sell the team remains a possibility.
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, at a league meeting in October, said there’s “merit to remove” Snyder. That would take an unprecedented vote of 24 of the other 31 team owners to happen.
Two weeks after Irsay’s comments, and with multiple investigations ongoing into the team’s workplace culture, finances and Snyder himself, he and wife Tanya hired a firm to “consider possible transactions.” Asked at the time if the Snyders were considering selling part or all of the team, a spokesperson said, “We are exploring all options.”
The sales process has since included the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils owner Josh Harris and Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta getting involved to various degrees. The New York Post reported that Snyder was blocking Bezos from putting in for a bid, despite him hiring a firm to explore that possibility.
The Commanders are taking issue with the contents of a newspaper report about the sale process and demands being made by Snyder. The team, in a statement late Monday, said a story published hours earlier by The Washington Post is “simply untrue.”
Citing anonymous sources, the Post reported that Snyder and his attorneys have demanded that NFL owners and the league indemnify him against future legal liability and costs if he sells the team and threatened to sue if not. The Post said Snyder also wants the findings of a league investigation into him kept private and that his demands angered owners and renewed discussion about possibly taking a vote to remove him.
An NFL spokesperson declined to comment Tuesday on the Post report.
In the aftermath of The Washington Post story about Snyder seeking indemnification, ESPN on Tuesday reported that a federal grand jury has issued subpoenas related to team finances after prosecutors launched an inquiry into a $55 million loan he took out without the knowledge and approval of his then-minority owners. ESPN said the criminal inquiry is being led by a team of FBI and IRS agents.
Snyder bought out minority owners Fred Smith, Dwight Schar and Bob Rothman in spring 2021 after they sued him the previous November seeking an injunction to allow them to sell their shares of the team. That transaction was approved by league owners.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement sent to The Associated Press that Snyder and his previous minority owners “had a series of disputes” before going through mediation with an arbitrator and Commissioner Roger Goodell and coming away with an agreement. McCarthy added, “The agreement included full releases of all claims that were or could have been asserted by any party in the arbitration proceeding.”
Commanders counsel John Brownlee said in a statement that the team has been fully cooperating with the Eastern District of Virginia since it received a request for records last year.
“The requested records only relate to customer security deposits and the team’s ticket sales and revenue,” Brownlee said. “The team will continue to cooperate with this investigation.”
A team spokesperson added that the Commanders are “completely transparent in sharing all financials with the league for their review and oversight.”
Snyder and the team are still under investigation by former U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, who was retained by the league to look into various aspects of the organization stemming from a congressional probe into workplace misconduct that also included a referral to the Federal Trade Commission for potential business improprieties, which the Commanders denied.
The Attorney General for the District of Columbia filed two suits in civil court against the Commanders late last year: one for a scheme to cheat fans out of ticket money and another naming Snyder, Goodell and the league, saying they colluded to deceive fans about an investigation into the team’s workplace culture that ended with a $10 million fine and no written report. The Commanders settled with the state of Maryland, agreeing to return security deposits to former season ticket holders and pay a $250,000 penalty.
An investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform, launched in October 2021 and including testimony from Snyder, Goodell and many others, said the team fostered a toxic workplace culture. A final report by Democrats overseeing the investigation said the team had a pattern of “ignoring and downplaying sexual misconduct” and what female former employees described as hundreds of instances of sexual harassment by men at the top levels of the organization.
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2023-03-01T12:17:53+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/sports/ap-ap-source-nfl-owners-to-discuss-snyder-at-upcoming-meeting/
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Industry veterans Tracy Vasquez and Steven Getty to lead hotel-franchise practice within
newly expanded Restaurant and Hospitality Finance team
NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) announced today the expansion of its restaurant-finance platform to cover hotel franchises with the hiring of two veteran bankers to its Restaurant and Hospitality Finance team, which is part of MUFG's Corporate and Investment Banking division.
Director Tracy Vasquez will lead loan underwriting and portfolio management of hotel-franchisee clients, and report to Quinn Hall, the team's Head of Loan Underwriting and Portfolio Management. Director Steven Getty will serve a senior relationship management function spearheading business development within the hospitality industry, and will report to Brian Geraghty, the team's Head of Loan Originations.
"With the addition of Tracy and Steven, we are scaling out our deep talent bench and expertise in franchise lending to pursue a significant new platform expansion in the hospitality industry," says Nick Cole, Head of Restaurant and Hospitality Finance. "Tracy and Steven are seasoned professionals who position us to deliver robust financing and advisory capabilities to franchisees of mid-scale, limited-service hotel chains, which represent a market segment with attractive risk/return credit characteristics, as well as growth opportunities for MUFG."
Ms. Vasquez will be based in Scottsdale, AZ, and has two decades of industry experience. Previously she was a Director of Underwriting and Portfolio Management for Wells Fargo's hotel-loan portfolio. Before then, Vasquez held senior roles at GE Capital's Franchise Finance Unit and at Western Alliance Bank that included the management of hotel-loan portfolios and underwriting responsibilities.
Mr. Getty will be based in Atlanta, GA. He was previously a Director of Hotel Franchise Finance at Wells Fargo, where he helped develop relationships with hotel investors and drove loan origination. Formerly, Getty assumed a number of key positions with similar responsibilities at Western Alliance Bancorporation's and GE Capital's Franchise Finance businesses.
MUFG's newly expanded Restaurant and Hospitality Finance team comprises investment banking professionals across multiple other locations including San Diego, Chicago, and Boston.
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646-767-1326
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About Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.'s U.S. Operations including MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation
The U.S. operations of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups, has total assets of $342.4 billion at June 30, 2022. As part of that total, MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation (MUAH), a financial holding company, bank holding company, and intermediate holding company, has total assets of $152.5 billion at June 30, 2022. MUAH's main subsidiaries are MUFG Union Bank, N.A. and MUFG Securities Americas Inc. MUFG Union Bank, N.A. provides a wide range of financial services to consumers, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. As of June 30, 2022, MUFG Union Bank, N.A. operated 297 branches, consisting primarily of retail banking branches in the West Coast states. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. is a registered securities broker-dealer which engages in capital markets origination transactions, domestic and foreign debt and equities securities transactions, private placements, collateralized financings, and securities borrowing and lending transactions. MUAH is owned by MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. MUFG Bank, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and Canada. Visit www.unionbank.com or www.mufgamericas.com for more information.
About MUFG
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with approximately 2,400 locations in more than 50 countries. The Group has about 170,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. The Group aims to "be the world's most trusted financial group" through close collaboration among our operating companies and flexibly respond to all of the financial needs of our customers, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. MUFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges. For more information, visit https://www.mufg.jp/english
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2022-09-12T15:59:10+00:00
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The happiest professional athlete outside of soccer about Lionel Messiwinning the World Cup might be hockey star Alex Ovechkin.
A longtime fan of Messi, Ovechkin is reveling in Messi getting the job done with Argentina, including scoring twice and converting his kick in penalties in the instant-classic final against France on Sunday.
“I was very excited,” Ovechkin said Monday. “Of course, everybody knows he’s my favorite player and to see finally he get his dream and win the World Cup, it’s pretty big for him and I’m very happy for him.”
Ovechkin got a Messi Barcelona jersey and a trip to Spain to watch him play there and go behind the scenes as a gift from teammates to celebrate his 1,000th NHL game three years ago. He has met him and taken pictures with him.
There are plenty of parallels between Ovechkin finally hoisting the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals in his 13th NHL season and Messi winning the World Cup in likely his last opportunity at age 35. Much like Ovechkin drove the bus on the Capitals’ first title run in franchise history and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, Messi was dominant throughout the tournament, becoming the first player to score in group play and each of the knockout rounds.
“Yeah, but I don’t know how he’s going to celebrate,” Ovechkin said. “That’s a different part of the story.”
Ovechkin and the Capitals famously went swimming in fountains in Washington and partied with the Cup like few teams have done in recent history. Messi would have to put on quite the show in Buenos Aires to match that feat.
While watching Messi fulfill his dream, Ovechkin is on the verge of making more history in his sport. Last week he became just the third player to reach the 800-goal mark and he is one short of tying and two from passing Gordie Howe for second on the NHL career list.
Ovechkin met Howe, who died in 2016, at the 2009 All-Star Game in Montreal and has a picture of them in his home autographed by “Mr. Hockey.”
“It’s probably my top thing in my collection,” Ovechkin said. “Obviously, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky’s stick, Mario Lemieux’s stick, it’s probably the top one.”
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2022-12-20T12:31:23+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/sports/ap-ovechkin-revels-in-messi-winning-world-cup-with-argentina/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Monica Lewinsky had a tempered, compassionate response to the death of Ken Starr, the former independent counsel whose investigation of Bill Clinton helped reveal her affair with the president and, she once wrote, made her life a “living hell.”
“As I’m sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings,” she tweeted Tuesday after reports that Starr had died at age 76. “But of more importance, is that i imagine it’s a painful loss for those who love him.”
Lewinsky was a White House intern in the mid-1990s, in her early 20s, when she began a relationship with Clinton, one that Starr would document in exhaustive, explicit detail. Starr had initially been retained to look into an Arkansas real estate deal Bill and Hillary Clinton were involved in, but his investigation shifted after he learned of allegations about the president’s private behavior. Lewinsky denied their affair in a sworn affidavit, but did not know that her former colleague, Linda Tripp, had been taping their phone conversations about Bill Clinton and would turn them over to Starr.
Lewinsky would recall with horror being interrogated for hours in 1998 by Starr’s prosecutors — but not Starr himself — and threatened with prison if she didn’t cooperate with their investigation, a demand she initially refused. Months later, she agreed to testify about the affair, and turned over to prosecutors a dress stained with the president’s semen, in return for immunity.
Lewinsky later wrote that she was diagnosed with “post-traumatic stress disorder, mainly from the ordeal of having been publicly outed and ostracized,” and was for years subjected to crude jokes. But starting with a Vanity Fair essay in 2014 and a TED talk she gave in 2015 on “The Price of Shame,” she has become a widely respected anti-bullying activist. David Letterman and John Oliver are among those who have apologized for once mocking her.
Writing in Vanity Fair in 2018, Lewinsky remembered finally encountering Starr in person, at a Greenwich Village restaurant the previous Christmas Eve. Starr stepped forward with a “warm, incongruous smile,” and introduced himself to Lewinsky, who was dining with her family.
“Ken Starr asked me several times if I was ‘doing O.K.’ A stranger might have surmised from his tone that he had actually worried about me over the years. His demeanor, almost pastoral, was somewhere between avuncular and creepy. He kept touching my arm and elbow, which made me uncomfortable,” she wrote.
“I turned and introduced him to my family. Bizarre as it may sound, I felt determined, then and there, to remind him that, 20 years before, he and his team of prosecutors hadn’t hounded and terrorized just me but also my family — threatening to prosecute my mom (if she didn’t disclose the private confidences I had shared with her), hinting that they would investigate my dad’s medical practice, and even deposing my aunt, with whom I was eating dinner that night.”
Starr would write about Lewinsky in his 2018 memoir “Contempt,” describing how “Monica screamed, she cried, she pouted, and complained bitterly about her scheming, no-good, so-called friend (Tripp).” But their threats, and the urging of Lewinsky’s mother to accept the prosecutors’ terms, did not change her mind.
“Monica overruled her mother. She would fall on her sword rather than implicate the president of the United States,” Starr wrote. “It was becoming increasingly clear: in thinking she was a naive, starstruck young woman in love who would quickly cooperate, we underestimated her. In her determination to protect the president, Monica kept a team of experienced FBI agents and career prosecutors twiddling their thumbs for much of the day.”
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2022-09-14T08:12:31+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/politics/ap-politics/ap-lewinsky-says-starrs-death-painful-for-those-who-love-him/
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Veteran advertising executive brings 25+ years of industry experience and will lend commerce data expertise to fortify Attain's strategy and growth
CHICAGO, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Attain, a leading permissioned commerce data platform that powers sales transaction measurement and purchase-based data activation for brands, today announced that Jonah Goodhart will join its Board of Directors. Goodhart, the former CEO and co-founder of Moat, former executive at Oracle Data Cloud, founding investor and board member of Right Media, and investor in 100+ technology companies, brings a unique perspective and know-how to Attain's product innovation and go-to-market strategy.
"Jonah's extensive experience across commerce data and the media industry will be invaluable to Attain as we accelerate our growth strategy," said Brian Mandelbaum, Attain's CEO and cofounder. "His seasoned insights will be a significant asset to our Board as we scale our platform to further improve brand outcomes."
Attain's platform sees over half a billion dollars of purchase data in real-time, daily. Its data provides deeper insights into how, what, when and where consumers spend, and will spend, their money. With his new position on the board, Goodhart's expertise will support Attain's continued disruption of the digital marketing and advertising industry.
"Attain's ability to leverage their footprint across retailers and merchants, including online and offline, is truly unique," said Goodhart. "With $600B+ in global digital ad spend this year, marketers must have trusted transaction measurement to make decisions that drive ROI. Attain's real-time transaction data creates actionability that is both accurate and scaled."
Goodhart's appointment comes on the heels of a major partnership agreement with global advertising leader The Trade Desk, announced in May.
For more information on Attain's leadership team, visit: attaindata.io/about/.
About Attain
Attain's mission is to empower marketers to drive better outcomes by providing access to firstparty permissioned commerce data. Powered by a financial services app, retail loyalty account linking, receipt capture and survey results, Attain is uniquely positioned to provide deeper insights into how, what, when and where consumers spend their money.
Co-founded by CEO Brian Mandelbaum & CTO Dominic Bennett, Attain, formerly known as Klover, was founded in 2019 and is based in Chicago.
For more information on Attain, visit attaindata.io
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2023-06-14T15:25:34+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/06/14/serial-entrepreneur-jonah-goodhart-joins-attain-board-directors/
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Mint House at Metro St. Petersburg Will Open Its Doors In Spring 2023, Marking The Third Florida Location For The Tech-First Hospitality Brand
NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mint House, the premier tech-enabled residential hospitality brand offering spacious, high end apartment-style accommodations across the U.S., announced today the impending opening of Mint House at Metro St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, Florida in Spring 2023. The newly constructed residential hospitality property – fully operated by Mint House – will offer 100 apartment-style hospitality units in the thriving EDGE district downtown. The transaction marks the third Florida location for the next-gen hospitality brand (which is currently operating two locations in Miami) and the first on the gulf coast.
Mint House at Metro St. Petersburg will offer luxurious amenities for guests staying a night or for multiple weeks, and will include a resort-style pool, wellness-focused fitness center, bicycle rental program and valet parking, plus direct access to the EDGE District's Main Street, St. Petersburg's hottest neighborhood for shopping, dining, nightlife and art. Each apartment-style hospitality unit will be equipped with a full kitchen, living and dining areas, and ample workspace.
"Mint House at Metro St. Petersburg will offer Mint House guests premium residential hospitality accommodations, bringing a truly differentiated experience to downtown St. Petersburg. Located in the exciting EDGE district, guests will enjoy high-end apartment style stays, incredible amenities and great walkability whether for a night or several weeks, while traveling on business, leisure, or a combination of the two" said Elizabeth Herzberg, Mint House's Senior Vice President of Real Estate Development.
"Mint House at Metro St. Petersburg represents the type of quality growth Mint House has experienced in the past couple of years: high-end apartment-style accommodations in thriving and growing markets like St. Petersburg," said Paul Sacco, Mint House's Chief Growth & Development Officer. "Mint House will be approaching 2,000 units active or signed in 2023, and this exciting new project is a terrific example of the Mint House offering."
In addition to offering tech-first spaces to work, stay and play, Mint House at Metro St. Petersburg will offer Mint House's signature Stock Your Stay program, allowing guests to pre-stock their apartment with groceries prior to arrival. Both properties will also participate in Mint House's subscription Mint Pass program, offering frequent travelers perks, and each create less CO2 emissions than a traditional hotel with smart thermostats, as well as zero soap and plastic waste.
Today, Mint House has more than 25 artfully designed, tech-first properties in more than 16 major U.S. cities including New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Austin and Nashville, with recent openings in Scottsdale, Dallas and Birmingham.
About Mint House
Mint House is transforming the traditional hotel model and creating a new category of hospitality that is fundamentally changing the way we live, work and play away from home—all powered by technology. Mint House's award-winning properties are thoughtfully designed with full kitchens, expansive living areas and connected workspaces in prime downtown locations—offering a new kind of stay that's smarter and more comfortable than a hotel and delivers on the personalized service and consistency travelers have come to expect. Mint House's proprietary tech stack and mobile-first model powers a seamless and feature-rich guest experience including mobile check-in and keyless entry, pre-stocked groceries, 24/7 digital concierge services, on-demand fitness, smart thermostats and shoppable spaces. For more, visit minthouse.com and @staymint.
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2023-01-30T18:26:42+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2023/01/30/mint-house-announces-new-location-st-petersburg-florida/
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least 10 people died when the bus they were traveling in left the road and rolled several times in southern Kenya, police said Sunday.
The passengers were on their way back to the coastal city of Mombasa after attending a funeral in the Mwatate area, Taita Taveta County, on Saturday evening.
Mwatate Police Chief Morris Okul told The Associated Press that the driver of the bus survived and was hospitalized in critical condition.
“The survivors told us they were 34 people on board excluding children,” Okul said. Children in Kenya often travel sitting on parents’ laps, even up to the age of 15.
The accident happened in a hilly area that is a known accident blackspot.
Okul said the bus brakes failed, but the Inspector General of Police, Japhet Koome, said the driver may have been coasting in neutral when he lost control.
“There’s a tendency of long distance drivers freewheeling to save on fuel. This is carelessness because in case of an emergency one has no control,” he said.
The mourners had traveled more than 150 kilometers (more than 90 miles) to attend the funeral and were returning late in the evening.
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2023-04-17T02:50:41+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/10-people-returning-from-a-funeral-die-in-kenya-bus-crash/
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Halfway through the 2022 season it appears NFL defenses have finally started catching up.
After a five-year run of hot-shot quarterbacks lighting up scoreboards and leaving defenses with few answers, the pendulum has turned away from the offense for a change.
With star quarterbacks like Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady and Russell Wilson showing signs of decline as they age, a new crop led by five first-round draft picks in 2021 has been slow to develop. And defenses geared toward limiting big plays in the passing game have put offensive production in a significant decline at the halfway mark.
The 21.8 points per game average through nine weeks is the lowest at this stage of the season since 2010, when teams averaged 21.7 points per game. Scoring is down a staggering 3.5 points per game from this point two years ago when offenses peaked in partly empty stadiums due to the pandemic, and 1.6 points per game from last season.
While rushing production is at its highest mark since 1987 thanks to defenses willing to cede yards on the ground, passing has been harder than it’s been in years, with the NFL passer rating of 89.2 the lowest through nine weeks since 2017 and the 6.12 yards per drop back the lowest since 2006.
The decline in passing production has led to 33 games already when the winning team scored 20 or fewer points, tied for the most through nine weeks since 2007. There have also been only nine games this season when the losing team scored at least 30, down from 21 at this point in 2020.
The lack of offense has helped keep games close, with the NFL having a record 72 games decided by seven points or fewer — the most ever through nine weeks. The average point differential per game of 9.4 points is the lowest through nine weeks in the Super Bowl era.
RECORD WATCH
The passing slowdown hasn’t made it to Miami, where new receiver Tyreek Hill is thriving under first-year coach Mike McDaniel and is on a record-setting pace.
Hill has 1,104 yards receiving, the most for a player through nine games since Charley Hennigan had 1,122 for the Houston Oilers of the old AFL in 1961. The last NFL player with more was Raymond Berry with 1,147 for the Colts in 1960.
Hill could become the NFL’s first 2,000-yard receiver. He is on pace for 2,085 yards receiving — 121 more than Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson’s record 1,964 in 2012. While Hill could benefit from a 17th game, his 16-game pace is just 1 yard off Johnson’s record.
Dolphins teammate Jaylen Waddle has 812 yards receiving, and their 1,916 yards combined are the most for a duo in the Super Bowl era.
DIVISION DOINGS
It’s been rare in the eight-division format starting in 2002 for an entire division to be full of winners or losers.
Through nine weeks this season, the NFL has one of each.
All four teams in the AFC East have a winning record through nine weeks, marking the fifth time that’s happened since 2002. It happened in both the AFC North and AFC West last season, as well as the 2014 AFC North and 2008 NFC East.
The NFC East has three winners, with Washington bringing up the rear at 4-5. But the .727 combined win percentage for the division is the highest through nine weeks since 2002.
The NFC South is at the other end of the spectrum, with no teams with winning records. The only other times that happened through nine weeks since 2002 were in the 2020 NFC East and 2015 AFC South.
UNDEFEATED WATCH
The Eagles became the 29th team in the Super Bowl era to win their first eight games of the season as they try to join the 1972 Dolphins as the only squads with a perfect season.
Miami was one of eight of those 8-0 teams to win the Super Bowl, with New Orleans the last to do it in the 2009 season. The other champions were Dallas (1977), Chicago (1985), the Giants (1990), Washington (1991), Denver (1998) and Indianapolis (2006).
Seven other 8-0 teams went to the Super Bowl and lost. The 49ers were the last to do that in 2019, along with the only undefeated regular-season team since ’72 in the 2007 Patriots.
While all 28 made the playoffs, 10 of those teams didn’t win a single game in the postseason, with the 2020 Steelers the last to go out in their playoff opener.
BLOWN LEADS
There have been 27 games this season when a team has overcome a deficit of at least 10 points to win or tie a game — the third-most through nine weeks in NFL history behind the 31 in 1987 and 29 in 2020.
No team has been worse at protecting big leads than the Las Vegas Raiders.
For the third time this season they lost a game they led by at least 17 points as they blew a 20-0 lead to Arizona in Week 2, a 17-0 advantage over Kansas City in Week 5 and a 17-0 lead over Jacksonville on Sunday.
Las Vegas joined the 2020 Chargers and 2003 Falcons as the only teams to lose three games in a season after leading by at least 17.
The Raiders have lost as many games after leading by at least 17 points in eight games with Josh McDaniels as coach as they did in the 628 regular-season and playoff games before he arrived. They had a 106-3 record (.972) when leading by at least 17 points since 1984 but are 1-3 this season under McDaniels.
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2022-11-09T23:38:27+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/sports/nfl/ap-nfl-scoring-down-to-lowest-level-since-2010-at-halfway-point/
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2023-04-20T15:07:24+00:00
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(WJET/WFXP/YourErie.com) — Governor Tom Wolf, along with First Lady Frances Wolf, on Wednesday highlighted an investment in ByHeart, the first new FDA-registered formula manufacturer to hit the nationwide market in 15 years.
“The United States is facing a critical infant formula shortage that’s causing pain for families right here in Pennsylvania. The shortage is fueled, in part, by the fact that the nationwide market is dominated by just a few manufacturers,” said Governor Wolf. “I’m honored to have had the opportunity to invest in a solution and that ByHeart chose Pennsylvania as home. They’re simultaneously feeding families and feeding our local economy.”
Governor Wolf invested $1.75 million in ByHeart from a Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant, which enabled them to complete their canning line and dry blend area at their new facility in Reading.
The state investment also supports the creation of 50 new jobs for the Reading community.
“When we founded ByHeart, we made a commitment to own and oversee our supply chain – to take a path no new entrant has in decades and acquire manufacturing, directly source all of our ingredients, conduct the largest clinical trial from a new brand in over 25 years. That decision was motivated by quality and innovation,” explained ByHeart Co-Founder and President Mia Funt. “We knew we had to do the hard work to deliver the most wholesome and nutritious alternative to breast milk – with cleanest ingredients – so parents could feel confident about how they feed. What we didn’t know at the time was how valuable this approach would become in having levers in our control to show up for parents in this shortage crisis, and we appreciate all support and investment from the Commonwealth towards ByHeart’s continuing efforts to fortify infant nutrition’s critical infrastructure.”
According to the governor’s office, Pennsylvania is the first state in the nation to directly invest in a partial solution to the nation’s formula shortage.
“Mothers like me have been desperate to find formula—crossing state lines, posting on social media—to feed our children,” said Isabella Torres, Reading-area mother of a three-month-old. “While I am still worried, I am also grateful and hopeful. Hopeful that investments in facilities like ByHeart will increase baby formula production so that parents like me don’t need to worry any longer.”
“The ongoing infant formula shortage has taken a toll on parents in the commonwealth and the entire country. Pennsylvania’s rich food production industries place us in a position to help ease the burden people are feeling and increase the supply of a product that is crucial to the health and wellbeing of babies,” said Senator Judy Schwank. “ByHeart is a company that saw all of the positives the commonwealth had to offer and made a big investment here in Pennsylvania that will benefit our economy while helping to ease the shortage nationwide.”
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2022-06-01T19:44:45+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/news/gov-wolf-highlights-state-investment-in-byheart-first-new-formula-manufacturer-in-15-years/
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The Dodge Charger and Challenger as we know them are going away after the 2023 model year, so Dodge is celebrating with a series of seven Last Call models, the fifth of which was unveiled Wednesday.
That fifth installment is the 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona, which joins the Challenger Shakedown, Charger Super Bee, and Challenger and Charger Scat Pack Swinger models. Dodge will reveal another Last Call model Sept. 21 before showing the final seventh model at the 2022 SEMA show, which starts Nov 1.
The King Daytona is a tribute to 1960s/1970s-era drag racer William “Big Willie” Robinson, who raced a 1969 Dodge Charger named “King Daytona,” and also used the car in a campaign against street racing.
The modern King Daytona is based on the Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye, but bumps output from the supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 by 10 hp for a total of 807 hp. Orange 6-piston Brembo brake calipers help rein in the speed produced by all that power.
The special edition also gets a Go Mango exterior with a satin black hood, spoiler, and graphics. Hood pins and 20-inch Satin Carbon Warp Speed wheels complete the exterior changes.
The interior has black nappa leather/Alcantara seats and an Alcantara-wrapped steering wheel. Orange contrast stitching on the seats, instrument panel, steering wheel, center console, and door panels ties the interior to the exterior. Dodge also throws in a Harman Kardon audio system, a sunroof, and navigation.
Production is limited to 300 units and ordering information will be announced in the fall. In addition to the Last Call models, all 2023 Charger and Challenger models will feature signifiers that they are the last of their kind. While this will vary from model to model, all will come with a commemorative plaque under the hood bearing the scripts “Last Call,” “Designed in Auburn Hills,” and “Assembled in Brampton.”
The retirement of the current Charger and Challenger makes way for an electric muscle car based on the Charger Daytona SRT concept and scheduled to go on sale in 2024.
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- 2023 Dodge Charger Super Bee revealed with drag radials as second of seven Last Call buzz models
- 2023 Mercedes-Benz AMG C63 spy shots and video: Electrified 4-banger replaces V-8
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2022-09-15T07:05:33+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/automotive/internet-brands/2023-dodge-charger-king-daytona-arrives-with-807-hp-as-fifth-last-call-model/
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LOS ANGELES – Two Los Angeles police officers shot by a wanted parolee have been released from the hospital and a third is in stable condition, police said Friday.
The officers, all members of a K-9 dog-handling unit, were wounded Wednesday in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood near downtown. Two were released on Thursday, a police statement said.
The gunman, Jonathan Magana, 32, was found dead more than two hours after the shooting. The coroner’s office will determine whether he died by suicide or was shot by police during the confrontation.
Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, plainclothes officers from a drug enforcement detail were looking for Magana, who was on parole after being released last year after serving time for robbery, according to police. He also was a suspect in an extortion incident, law enforcement said.
Officers spotted Magana walking, but then lost sight of him. They called in uniformed officers to help surround an area and asked K-9 officers to assist in searching it, the police statement said.
One dog alerted officers to the downstairs room of what appeared to be a converted multiunit living space that was under construction.
Officers surrounded the unit and called on Magana to surrender. When he didn't, they fired a chemical gas. Magana then opened fire, hitting three officers, who were pulled to a safe location as other officers shot back, according to police. The wounded officers were taken to a nearby hospital in ambulances.
With the area surrounded, SWAT teams were called in and robots were sent in to keep an eye on the suspect. One, equipped with a video camera, went into the room and found Magana, who wasn't moving.
He was later declared dead at the scene.
Police said they found two semi-automatic handguns — one of them an unregistered "ghost gun" — and a loaded high-capacity magazine.
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2023-03-11T01:17:23+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/03/11/2-la-police-officers-shot-by-parolee-released-from-hospital/
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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Smart Cities Connect Media and Research, a division of TechConnect, opened applications for the seventh annual Smart 50 Awards, which celebrates the most innovative and influential smart municipal and regional-scale projects in the world.
"Each project showcases unique elements in unique communities, and that's what makes it all so fascinating; but what they have in common is a commitment to utilize data in meaningful ways that improve quality of life for residents," said Laura Murphree, Smart Cities Connect Media & Research Managing Editor. "We aren't necessarily looking for anything fancy or expensive, though those projects do bubble up. We're mostly interested in impact, and we can't wait to see what everyone has been up to over the last 12 months."
In 2022, 30% of all winning projects assisted with urban operations, 26% supported improved mobility, and another 26% featured digital transformation. Eligible focus areas span all aspects of municipal communities, including but not limited to: public policy, funding, inclusion, governance, data, AI, sensors, Internet of Things, cyber security, privacy, blockchain, public transportation, autonomous transit, mobility, rideshare, networks, 5G, utilities, energy, grid, lighting, water and wastewater, public safety, emergency response, and sustainability.
TechConnect and a robust community of government leaders, solution providers, technology scouts, and media will celebrate the winners and award recipients in-person at an awards reception on May 15, 2023 in Denver, Colorado, co-located with Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo. Attendees will enjoy exclusive networking with awardees and other change-makers. Smart Cities Connect will announce three winning projects out of the 50 total awardees. The three winners represent the highest echelon of smart city achievement.
For more information about this Challenge, to enter by the February 24 deadline, and to view a list of 2022 winners, visit https://spring.smartcitiesconnect.org/Smart50Awards/. To attend the Smart 50 Awards Reception and meet the 2023 awardees in May, visit https://spring.smartcitiesconnect.org/register.html.
With 25+ years of experience connecting emerging technologies with unique funding and partnership opportunities, TechConnect boasts the most robust research and innovation network in the world. It employs a broad scope of tools to deliver top technologies, including open innovation programs, conferences, and open-access publications. Each year, TechConnect prospects, vets, and connects thousands of emerging technologies with corporate, investment, municipal, and national defense clients. TechConnect is a division of Advanced Technology International. https://techconnect.org
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2023-01-10T17:59:00+00:00
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BRAMPTON, Ontario — The Canadian government has restored funding to Hockey Canada.
Hockey Canada and the woman quietly settled a $3.55 million lawsuit out of court.
The organization then announced members of the 2003 men’s world junior roster — the last time Halifax hosted — were also being investigated for a group sexual assault.
It was also revealed that Hockey Canada’s little-known National Equity Fund – maintained by fees collected from players across the country – had been used to pay for uninsured liabilities, including sexual abuse claims.
Hockey Canada executives in July revealed that they paid out $8.9 million in sexual abuse settlements since 1989, excluding the 2018 deal.
In order to have its funding reinstated, Hockey Canada needed to meet three conditions outlined by St-Onge:
- Become a full-signatory to Abuse-Free Sport and the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC);
- Review and implement the recommendations from an independent governance review led by retired Justice Thomas Cromwell;
- And commit to more frequent reporting to the federal government.
“Today marks an important milestone for Hockey Canada in our journey to earn and maintain the trust of Canadians,” Hockey Canada chair Hugh L. Fraser said in a statement. “While I would like to thank Minister St-Onge and the government for their vote of confidence and for their ongoing efforts to prioritize safe sport in Canada, I also wish to stress that we still have work to do to change the culture of our sport.
“This is a significant moment for the future of Hockey Canada, and hockey in Canada, as it will enable us to further our commitment to supporting all levels of the sport”
Hockey Canada elected a new nine-member board in December after the previous board resigned and CEO Scott Smith was ousted as a result of the controversies.
Cromwell recommended the new board serve only a one-year term focused on improving the organization’s governance and safety across the sport.
Hockey Canada has yet to hire a new CEO.
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2023-04-16T23:56:10+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/04/16/hockey-canada-funding-restored/2f35b9f6-dca6-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Declaring a mission to liberate “Taco Tuesday” for all, Taco Bell is asking U.S. regulators to force Wyoming-based Taco John’s to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark.
Too many businesses and others refer to “Taco Tuesday” for Taco John’s to be able to have exclusive rights to the phrase, Taco Bell asserts in a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filing that is, of course, dated Tuesday.
It’s the latest development in a long-running beef over “Taco Tuesday” that even included NBA star LeBron James making an unsuccessful attempt to claim the trademark in 2019.
“Taco Bell believes ‘Taco Tuesday’ is critical to everyone’s Tuesday. To deprive anyone of saying ‘Taco Tuesday’ — be it Taco Bell or anyone who provides tacos to the world — is like depriving the world of sunshine itself,” the Taco Bell filing reads.
A key question is whether “Taco Tuesday” over the years has succumbed to “genericide,” New York trademark law attorney Emily Poler said. That’s the term for when a word or phrase become so widely used for similar products — or in this case, sales promotions — they’re no longer associated with the trademark holder.
Well-known examples of genericide victims include “cellophane,” “escalator” and “trampoline.”
“Basically what this is about is you cannot trademark something that is ‘generic,’” Poler said. “That means it doesn’t have any association with that particular source or product.”
James — a well-known taco lover — encountered this problem when he tried to trademark “Taco Tuesday” in 2019. The Patent and Trademark Office, in a ruling that didn’t refer to Taco John’s, deemed “Taco Tuesday” too much of a “commonplace term” to qualify as a trademark.
With more than 7,200 locations in the U.S. and internationally, Taco Bell — a Yum! Brands chain along with Pizza Hut, KFC and The Habit Burger Grill — is vastly bigger than Cheyenne-based Taco John’s. Begun as a food truck more than 50 years ago, Taco John’s now has about 370 locations in 23 mainly Midwestern and Western states.
The chain’s relatively small size hasn’t discouraged big-time enforcement of “Taco Tuesday” as trademark, which dates to the 1980s. In 2019, the company sent a letter to a brewery just five blocks from its corporate headquarters, warning it to stop using “Taco Tuesday” to promote a taco truck parked outside on Tuesdays.
Actively defending a trademark is required to maintain claim to it, and the letter was just one example of Taco John’s telling restaurants far and wide to stop having “Taco Tuesdays.”
Taco John’s responded to Taco Bell’s filing by announcing a new two-week Taco Tuesday promotion, with a large side of riposte.
“I’d like to thank our worthy competitors at Taco Bell for reminding everyone that Taco Tuesday is best celebrated at Taco John’s,” CEO Jim Creel said in an emailed statement. “We love celebrating Taco Tuesday with taco lovers everywhere, and we even want to offer a special invitation to fans of Taco Bell to liberate themselves by coming by to see how flavorful and bold tacos can be at Taco John’s all month long.”
The filing is one of two from Taco Bell involving “Taco Tuesday.” One contests Taco John’s claim to “Taco Tuesday” in 49 states, while a similar filing contests a New Jersey restaurant and bar’s claim to “Taco Tuesday” in that state. Both Taco John’s and Gregory’s Restaurant and Bar in Somers Point, New Jersey, have been using “Taco Tuesday” for over 40 years.
A Taco John’s franchisee in Minnesota came up with “Taco Twosday” to promote two tacos for 99 cents on a slow day of the week, Creel told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.
The Patent and Trademark Office approved the Taco John’s “Taco Tuesday” trademark in 1989. Even with its many letters, Creel said, the company has never had to go to court over the phrase.
He’s not feeling too picked on, either, by the much bigger Taco Bell.
“It’s OK. It’s kind of nice that they’ve noticed,” Creel said.
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2023-05-17T11:01:46+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/business/ap-business/taco-tuesday-trademark-tiff-flares-anew-between-fast-food-competitors/
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Having added protection at home helps homeowners feel safer and security cameras are an easy, convenient way to keep an eye on a property, especially when you’re when traveling. They also act as deterrents to burglars.
If you’re thinking about buying one ahead of your summer travels, you might consider this deal: Walmart is offering the Topvision Wireless Security Camera online at $94 off the regular price of $129.99 for only $35.99. It just might provide that added peace of mind to truly let go while on vacation, and it definitely won’t cut into your travel budget!
With an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, it comes highly rated. The HD WiFi, waterproof, battery-operated camera is wire-free, which makes it easy to install. It boasts a 130-degree wide angle view with Smart PIR Body Detection and infrared night vision, so it can detect people and wildlife in range, even in the dark, and will send a notification to your phone. Plus, it works across a wide spectrum of temperatures, from -4 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
This camera can also make it easier for parents to communicate with their children as they play out in the yard. Footage can be stored on the cloud or through a local SD card.
Reviewers liked how clear the footage was and appreciated how easy it was to install. They also enjoyed its intelligent alert system, which lets users set specific triggers for notifications.
To get the deal, simply add to your cart, no discount code is needed. If you think having a security camera would help you feel safer, while at home or on vacation, you might want to act fast. There’s no telling how long this camera will be on sale.
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2023-06-01T18:09:53+00:00
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kivitv.com
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https://www.kivitv.com/topvision-wireless-security-camera-sale-june-1-2023
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Data at meeting illustrate company's progress in addressing unmet needs in a broad range of hard-to-treat solid tumors and hematologic malignancies
TOKYO, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") will share new research from across its expanding portfolio of approved and investigational cancer therapies during the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting from June 2-6. A total of 15 abstracts, covering three approved medicines and one investigational therapy, will be presented underscoring the company's focus on pursuing targeted therapies for hard-to-treat cancers where few therapies exist, including prostate, urothelial, gastric/gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) and head & neck cancers, as well as acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
"The research presented at ASCO reflects our intense focus on how we are continuing to grow the breadth and utility of our oncology portfolio and pipeline for the oncology community and patients with cancer, particularly those with advanced disease," said Ahsan Arozullah, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Head of Oncology Development, Astellas. "Across our clinical development programs, these data add to the growing body of evidence and support our efforts to identify ways we can impact the course of disease, and redefine what is possible for patients who need it most."
Highlights at the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting include:
- A rapid abstract update presentation of investigational data from the Phase 3 GLOW clinical trial, evaluating the efficacy and safety of zolbetuximab – an investigational first-in-class Claudin-18.2 (CLDN18.2) targeted monoclonal antibody – in combination with CAPOX (a combination chemotherapy regimen that includes capecitabine and oxaliplatin) for the first-line treatment of patients with CLDN18.2-positive, HER2-negative, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or GEJ adenocarcinoma.
- The first clinical data from the Phase 1 EV-104 study evaluating intravesical administration of enfortumab vedotin, an antibody-drug conjugate developed in partnership with Seagen, in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
- The first clinical data from the Phase 2 EV-202 study evaluating enfortumab vedotin monotherapy in previously treated advanced head & neck cancers.
"For the first time, we will present clinical data at ASCO investigating the potential of enfortumab vedotin as monotherapy in patients with previously treated advanced head and neck cancers, who have ongoing and unmet therapeutic needs," said Erhan Berrak, MD, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Oncology Therapeutic Area Head, Astellas. "Additionally, Astellas is pleased to share investigational data at ASCO that demonstrate continued progress for our zolbetuximab clinical development program in locally advanced or metastatic gastric and GEJ cancers, which have limited effective treatment options."
Astellas Presentations at 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting
Enfortumab Vedotin
Enzalutamide
Zolbetuximab
Gilteritinib
About Enfortumab Vedotin and the Astellas and Seagen Collaboration
Astellas and Seagen are co-developing enfortumab vedotin under a 50:50 worldwide development and commercialization collaboration. In the United States, Astellas and Seagen co-promote enfortumab vedotin. In the Americas outside the U.S., Seagen holds responsibility for commercialization activities and regulatory filings. Outside of the Americas, Astellas holds responsibility for commercialization activities and regulatory filings.
About the Astellas, Seagen and Merck Collaboration
Astellas and Seagen entered a clinical collaboration agreement with Merck to evaluate the combination of Astellas' and Seagen's PADCEV® (enfortumab vedotin-ejfv) and Merck's KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in patients with previously untreated metastatic urothelial cancer. KEYTRUDA is a registered trademark of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.
About XTANDI and the Pfizer/Astellas Collaboration
In October 2009, Medivation, Inc., which is now part of Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), and Astellas (TSE: 4503) entered into a commercial agreement to jointly develop and commercialize XTANDI® (enzalutamide) in the United States, while Astellas has responsibility for manufacturing and all additional regulatory filings globally, as well as commercializing the product outside the U.S. Pfizer receives alliance revenues as a share of U.S. profits and receives royalties on sales outside the U.S.
About Astellas
Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are promoting the Focus Area Approach that is designed to identify opportunities for the continuous creation of new drugs to address diseases with high unmet medical needs by focusing on Biology and Modality. Furthermore, we are also looking beyond our foundational Rx focus to create Rx+® healthcare solutions that combine our expertise and knowledge with cutting-edge technology in different fields of external partners. Through these efforts, Astellas stands on the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.astellas.com/en.
Cautionary Notes
In this press release, statements made with respect to current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of Astellas. These statements are based on management's current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in general economic conditions and in laws and regulations, relating to pharmaceutical markets, (ii) currency exchange rate fluctuations, (iii) delays in new product launches, (iv) the inability of Astellas to market existing and new products effectively, (v) the inability of Astellas to continue to effectively research and develop products accepted by customers in highly competitive markets, and (vi) infringements of Astellas' intellectual property rights by third parties.
The safety and efficacy of the agents discussed herein are under investigation and have not been established. There is no guarantee that the agents will receive regulatory approval and become commercially available for uses being investigated. Information about pharmaceutical products (including products currently in development) which is included in this press release is not intended to constitute an advertisement or medical advice.
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2023-05-25T22:51:56+00:00
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MILWAUKEE — Leinenkugel's beer solves a problem many of us have: not enough sun at our desk jobs. The Canoebicle, a canoe-cubic hybrid, was recently introduced by the company as a way to enjoy beer and the sun whilst working “from home.”
The packages come with free wifi, storage spaces, sunglasses, a mini-desk, and other necessities for working in the sun.
The Canoebicle can be enjoyed on the Milwaukee River with booking starting July 3 at 12 p.m.
In order to participate, members must be 21 and older, as a 6-pack of Leinenkugel’s beer is provided with each session ($16).
For more information, visit Leinenkugel’s website.
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2023-06-22T00:05:40+00:00
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https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/leinenkugels-canoebicle-offers-chance-to-work-from-the-water
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Dealership owner, salesman rolled back mileage on cars before reselling them, police say
OWENSBORO, Ky. (WFIE/Gray News) – Two men in Kentucky were arrested Thursday after police say they rolled back mileage on used cars at a dealership before reselling them.
The Owensboro Police Department said officers received information in February that workers at Discount Motors in Owensboro were tampering with odometers.
Investigators said they determined that dealership owner Eddie Howard and salesman Donald Adams were involved in the fraud.
During a search of the business on Thursday, investigators seized $350,000 in cash, three guns, more than 100 oxycodone pills, two vehicles and electronic devices used to carry out fraud.
Howard, 63, and Adams, 60, were both booked into the Daviess County Detention Center.
Both men were charged with 20 counts of tampering with a motor vehicle/odometer. Both men were also charged with trafficking in controlled substances and prescription controlled substances not in a proper container.
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2023-04-14T18:54:52+00:00
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/04/14/dealership-owner-salesman-rolled-back-mileage-cars-before-reselling-them-police-say/
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — In 1992, officers received a call about a body found along the banks of the Rio Grande.
Nearly 20 years later, the case remains unsolved.
On Oct. 26, 1992, the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office received information that there was a body buried along the banks of the Rio Grande in the area of FM 1419.
The next day, investigators found a shallow grave with the body of a man wrapped in a blue tarp. After forensic testing, the body was identified as 17-year-old Marcelino Velazco.
Velazco had previously been reported missing. He was last seen on Aug. 22, 1992, getting inside of a small, red two-door T-top vehicle at the 6000 block of Camelia Street in Brownsville.
The Sheriff’s Office said that there were two “unknown” men in the vehicle.
An autopsy revealed that Velazco was struck by a bullet in the upper spinal cord.
In a 1992 report by the Valley Morning Star, Cameron County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Ernesto Flores said the murder was “drug-related”, stating Velazco had been involved in trafficking.
Authorities said that the murder could have been connected to the slaying of three other men who were found on a Mexican ranch.
Previous reports revealed that the suspects tied Velazco with a heavy rope and that his remains had been clawed by animals roaming the area.
According to the Valley Morning Star’s report, Velazco’s mother told deputies that two men in Matamoros had confessed to the murder.
The two men, Victor Rivera, 19, and Heriberto Ortego Ruiz, were incarcerated for confessing to the murder of three Matamoros residents.
“I talked to Mexican authorities, and they said the men arrested never confessed to killing Velazco,” Flores said in the Valley Morning Star’s report.
Those with information are asked to contact the Cameron County Crime Stoppers at (956) 350-5551.
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2022-09-24T17:20:19+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/rgv-true-crimes/rgv-true-crime-teen-found-in-shallow-grave-along-rio-grande/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden likely contracted a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly through the United States, and now has body aches and a sore throat since his positive test, according to an update from his doctor on Saturday.
The variant, known as BA.5, is an offshoot of the omicron strain that emerged late last year, and it’s believed to be responsible for the vast majority of coronavirus cases in the country.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, wrote in his latest update on Biden’s condition that Biden’s earlier symptoms, including a runny nose and a cough, have become “less troublesome.” O’Connor’s earlier notes did not mention the sore throat or body aches.
Biden’s vital signs, such as blood pressure and respiratory rate, “remain entirely normal,” and his oxygen saturation levels are “excellent” with “no shortness of breath at all,” the doctor wrote.
O’Connor said the results of the preliminary sequencing that indicated the BA.5 variant do not affect Biden’s treatment plan “in any way.”
Biden tested positive for the virus on Thursday morning. He has been isolating in the White House residence since then. Administration officials have emphasized that his symptoms are mild because he has received four vaccine doses, and he started taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid after becoming infected.
During a virtual meeting with economic advisers on Friday, Biden was hoarse but insisted, “I feel much better than I sound.”
In his previous update on Biden’s health, O’Connor said the president had an elevated temperature of 99.4 F on Thursday evening, but it returned to normal after taking Tylenol.
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2022-07-23T18:09:20+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/politics/ap-politics/doctor-biden-likely-has-highly-contagious-covid-19-strain/
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Babyganics issues voluntary recall of one of its products
(Gray News) - Babyganics has issued a voluntary recall for some of its bubble bath due to the presence of the bacteria Pluralibacter gergoviae.
According to the FDA, the bacteria doesn’t usually cause healthy individuals to become sick, but it could pose a risk of infection to those who are immunocompromised or have broken or irritated skin, like diaper rash.
The FDA says infants may be more susceptible than adults.
According to Babyganics, no illnesses have been reported in connection with the voluntary recall at this time.
The specific products involved in the recall include: Babyganics 20-ounce chamomile verbena bubble bath, UPC 8 13277 01375 4, with lot codes Y314 and Y315 found at the bottom of the packaging and contained in a white plastic bottle with a green plastic lid.
Babyganics is offering a full refund to anyone with the affected product.
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2022-04-21T17:09:56+00:00
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https://www.wymt.com/2022/04/21/babyganics-issues-voluntary-recall-one-its-products/
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Only 38 percent of incidents of a prison staff member engaging in sexual misconduct against an inmate resulted in legal action over a three-year study period, according to a new Department of Justice (DOJ) report.
The report from the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics covered the number of reported incidents of sexual victimization from 2016 to 2018. Authorities reported 2,229 such incidents conducted by staff members and 2,666 conducted by inmates during that period.
The report states that authorities recorded 1,598 staff members who perpetrated sexual misconduct, while 716 staff members perpetrated sexual harassment. Two-thirds of those who engaged in sexual misconduct were female, while almost 70 percent of those who engaged in sexual harassment were male.
Sexual misconduct from staff members resulted in their discharge, firing or contract not being renewed only 44 percent of the time. Staff members who sexually harassed inmates were reprimanded or disciplined 43 percent of the time.
About 80 percent of the perpetrators were full-time staffers, while 17 percent were contractors. A majority of the staff members who engaged in sexual misconduct, 64 percent, were correctional officers or supervisory staff, while 13 percent were maintenance or facility support staff and 10 percent were medical or health care staff.
The DOJ report comes after a bipartisan report from the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released in December showed that employees for the Federal Bureau of Prisons abused female prisoners in at least two-thirds of the federal prisons over the past decade.
“Let me be absolutely clear: this situation is intolerable,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), chairman of the subcommittee, said at the time. “Sexual abuse of inmates is a gross abuse of human and Constitutional rights and cannot be tolerated by the United States Congress. It is cruel and unusual punishment that violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and basic standards of human decency.”
The bureau’s report showed legal action against staff members only happened in less than 5 percent of incidents of sexual harassment.
Half of the nonconsensual sexual acts that an inmate did on another inmate resulted in some type of legal action.
A report from June 2021 from the bureau showed the number of allegations of sexual victimization rose significantly after 2012 following the issuance of national standards to prevent, detect and respond to rape in prison, but the number of substantiated incidents based on a preponderance of evidence only slightly increased.
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2023-02-01T22:12:16+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/hill-politics/doj-report-only-38-percent-of-prison-staff-on-inmate-sexual-misconduct-results-in-legal-action/
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US: Taliban release 2 Americans in ‘goodwill gesture’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taliban have released two Americans held in Afghanistan in what appeared to be a “goodwill gesture,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday.
The release was not part of any larger prisoner swap, and no money changed hands, he told reporters.
A senior administration official said the U.S. government was currently assisting the two, and that they would soon be reunited soon with their families. The official was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Neither Price nor the official identified the two Americans.
The U.S. does not formally recognize Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, who took power from a U.S.-backed government after U.S. forces withdrew in 2021.
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AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to this report.
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2022-12-20T22:14:01+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2022/12/20/us-taliban-release-2-americans-goodwill-gesture/
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NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Rollins, Inc. (NYSE: ROL) resulting from allegations that Rollins may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Rollins securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=2735 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On October 28, 2020, Rollins disclosed that a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation had been initiated and believed the SEC's focus to be how accruals and reserves were established at period ends and their impact on reported earnings going as far back as January 2015.
Then on February 26, 2021, Rollins announced that an internal investigation into the same matters found "a significant deficiency in the Company's internal controls relating to the documentation and review of accounting entries for certain reserves and accruals." On this news, Rollins share prices fell $0.87, or 2.5%, to close at $33.17 per share on February 26, 2021, damaging investors.
Then on April 18, 2022, the SEC announced that Rollins agreed to pay $8 million to settle the charges that Rollins made unsupported reductions to its accounting reserves to improperly boost its earnings per share. On this news, Rollins share price fell $0.55, or approximately 1.7%, to close at $34.29 on April 18, 2022, damaging investors.
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DEAR ABBY: I have worked for the same company for 20 years. For the last eight years, I was part of an office book club, mostly because I was pressured regularly by the boss to participate. The members were mostly a clique of "mean girls." I never felt a part of it or comfortable, but I pushed through the once-a-month meetings to keep the peace. When COVID sent everyone home to work the past two years, the book club was over, or so I thought, hoped and prayed. As things are loosening up now, though, the pressure is mounting again. I do not want to return to that routine, but the powers that be don't seem to accept any excuse or reason. After 24 months of freedom, forcing me back into it is causing great anxiety. What would you advise me to say or do to be left out of this without antagonizing the boss? -- WANNA-BE-DROPOUT
DEAR WANNA-BE-DROPOUT: If you really feel your job is in jeopardy if you refuse to participate in the book club, start looking for other employment. Tell your boss you are no longer interested in participating because reading those books interferes with your personal time and, since the COVID disruption, you have developed other interests. Then suggest another person be chosen if a quorum is required.
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DEAR ABBY: The letter signed "Redo in the East" (June 7), from the lady who wanted to rewrite her husband's rushed obit, caught my attention. For 18 years I was part of an American Legion Honor Guard, during which time we did more than 900 funerals. I also read the deceased veterans' obituaries. Because of this experience, I constantly advise people to write their OWN obit. After all, who knows the most about them? This accomplishes two things: First, it greatly reduces the stress on those trying to write one under difficult conditions. Second, it ensures the accuracy of the information in it. I wrote mine 20 years ago. Of course, it needs updating, but upon my demise there will be only a few blanks to fill in and it's ready to go. -- VETERAN IN VIRGINIA
DEAR VETERAN: Thank you for the service you have so generously provided all these years, and for the sage advice you have shared with my readers today.
DEAR ABBY: I recently stayed in a historical inn, which had very thin walls. An occupant in the adjoining room sneezed. I heard it and wondered: "Should I say 'bless you'?" The sneeze came in the midst of conversation I had respectfully tried to avoid overhearing, but which was clearly audible. My thought was to ignore the sneeze so as not to intrude on their privacy. An office mate believes I should have responded to the sneeze. Your thoughts would be appreciated. -- BEING POLITE IN THE MIDWEST
DEAR BEING POLITE: I agree with your office mate. If you had responded to the sneeze, it would have alerted your neighbors that their conversation wasn't necessarily private, which would have done them a favor.
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2022-08-05T22:14:15+00:00
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billingsgazette.com
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MILAN (AP) — Kim Kardashian took Milan by storm on Saturday, curating a new collection for Dolce&Gabbana that took inspiration from 20 years of archival looks.
It was a day of debuts in Milan, including Maximilian Davis, a 27-yeaer-old British designer with Afro-Caribbean roots, at the creative helm of Salvatore Ferragamo and Filipino American designer Rhuigi Villasenor at Bally, as the brand returns to the runway for the first time in 20 years.
Some highlights from the fourth day of Milan Fashion Week previews of mostly womenswear for next spring and summer:
KIM KARDASHIAN AND DOLCE & GABBANA: THE BACKSTORY
Kim Kardashian’s love of Dolce & Gabbana goes way back, and the affection showed in her curation of their latest collection, drawing on archival looks from 1987-2007.
She remembers growing up watching her mother dress in Dolce & Gabbana for date nights with her stepfather, recalling “she always looked so smart and so strong.” One year, Kardashian’s borrowed one of her mom’s black Dolce & Gabbana dresses with a built-in bra and choker to wear for a family Christmas card, a look, she said, “I will never forget.”
When Kardashian and her sisters owned a store, she borrowed her father’s credit card to buy a bunch of D&G dresses, jeans and belts before her paycheck came in.
Even the family dogs were named Dolce and Gabbana. Gabbana was a black labrador, Dolce a tiny chihuahua.
“It is very close to reality,’’ Stefano Gabbana quipped in a presentation for the new collection.
But no matter how hard she tried, even deploying her mother, Kris Jenner, to help make her case, the designers refused to open their archives. “The past is the past,’’ Domenico Dolce explained. “We try to go ahead with the new generation.”
That is, until Kardashian proved she had the right stuff.
When Kourtney Kardashian married Travis Barker in Italy, social media swarmed with the vintage Dolce & Gabbana dresses she and her sisters wore. They were all from Kim Kardashian’s private collection, which she accrued with the help of a book of more than 100 desired Dolce & Gabbana looks she and her stylist compiled years before.
“Everything looked insane. It was so fun,’’ Kardashian said of the wedding looks. “I think (the designers) were surprised I came with all my own stuff and I had been collecting it for years.”
Dolce said the wedding photos persuaded them to dig into the archives, and he approached Kardashian about the project.
“We were afraid that the vintages dresses would look old. Instead, they were still contemporary,’’ Dolce said.
And so the new Spring-Summer 2023 collection was born, with the designers selecting looks from the past that they loved, many with memories attached working with models like Linda Evangelista and Monica Bellucci. Kardashian curated from there.
“After all these years, this is all of the stuff we would wear today,’’ Kardashian said. “As a designer, I would just think that is so cool, to see everyone trying to emulate the looks. And why not do a full collection, obviously with some new pieces in there, but just reimagined in a way that we would wear it today, which is so similar to how it was shot and worn back then.”
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HASHTAG CIAO,KIM AT DOLCE & GABBANA
Designers Dolce and Gabbana presented their Spring-Summer 2023 collection curated by Kim Kardashian against the backdrop of a film showing Kardashian, styled as a starlet, sensually eating a plate of pasta.
And indeed, Kardashian’s curation showed her full embrace of Dolce & Gabbana’s Italian roots.
“You just don’t take shit from anyone when you are here and wearing Dolce & Gabbana,’’ Kardashian told reporters. “You feel powerful, and strong and sexy at the same time.”
Lingerie strongly inspired the collection. There were corsets, incorporated bras and bodysuits, employing all of the designer’s best tricks, from rigid bones for structural elements, to pretty lace and eye-catching crystals. They were worn with gartered stockings and long gloves, or under beautiful wraps.
Kardashian adhered to a mostly neutral palette: black, gray and beige, with some burgundy. And she the drew the line at prints, completely rejecting the brand’s fruits and florals, causing Gabbana to lament: “She killed me. I said ‘Noooo!’”
But she went all in on the leopard.
“I would say the boys brought out the leopard in me,’’ Kardashian said. “I think you will see that for me, color is the crystals.’’
The collection was designed with women of all ages and shapes in mind, Kardashian said, with the goal of simplifying designs to help some of the more ornate pieces feel less intimidating.
“If you simplify it, more people can feel confident wearing it. And I think we really achieved that in the show,” she said.
Kardashian’s mom, three of her children and sister Khloe sat in the front row. Proud mamma Kris Jenner filming the entire show on her phone.
JIL SANDER’S TRANQUILITY
Jil Sander created a tranquil island in Milan’s chaotic fashion week, filling a temporary show space in a distant field with a thicket of wildflowers and grasses, along with soothing pastels and forgiving silhouettes.
The collection lends itself to easy layering and defies all gender stereotypes. Creative directors Lucie and Luke Maier continued to dabble in embellishments, adding sequins, feathers and metallic accents to the brand’s minimalist silhouette.
Sleeveless suiting worked across genders, and men wore long pastel kilts with button-down shirts. Knitwear was distressed, with rough edges and slits, in both tops and dresses. The designers chose a single print, featuring blurry points of light.
Models carried umbrellas to protect the looks from the seasonal rainfall — inconvenient for an outdoor show but welcome in Italy after months of drought.
FERRAGAMO’S NEW DAWN
Maximilian Davis created a vermillion red background for his Salvatore Ferragamo debut in the courtyard of a 17th century baroque and neoclassical palace — all the better to highlight the fashion house’s new direction.
The 27-year-old British designer worked strong silhouettes and simple elements, like tank tops and leggings, or full-on bodysuits, all the better to highlight the bag of the season, oversized cutout bags in highly polished leather with a canvas interior. Dresses were slinky in solid colors or flowing chiffon in degradé prints; a red trouser and skin-tight top combo popped with crystals. Strappy sandals featured a distinctive circular heel.
The male silhouette was challenged with an off-shoulder, sheer ombre dyed top, the colors an homage to the California sunset. Davis tapped Ferragamo’s leather heritage with boyishly short leather shorts paired with a leather blazer. Any male divo can make a red-carpet entrance with a silver sheer off-shoulder top that flows dramatically into a trailing scarf.
Models trod across red sand that covered the entire courtyard, a reference to Ferragamo’s Hollywood origins near the California beaches, and Davis’ own Caribbean heritage.
The sea and the sand mean for him “a place where you can go to reflect, and feel at one,’’ he said. “I wanted to show that perspective, but now through the Ferragamo lens.”
Super model Naomi Campbell turned out for the debut.
BALLY REBOOTED
Filippino American designer Rhuigi Villasenor, best known for his U.S. streetwear brand, is seeking to drive a transition at the storied Swiss brand Bally, founded in 1851.
His debut collection paid tribute to the brand’s heritage of quiet elegance, while introducing an edge. A plunging V-neck swimsuit was worn with snakeskin boots, while a long beaded skirt featured a waist-high slit and was paired casually with a denim top. For him, a flashy reptile leather jacket was worn with a mesh top and jeans, but there was also a dark blue double-breasted suit for more formal business occasions.
Villasenor said he was inspired by “the brand’s codes around art, graphic design, architecture and nature.”
BOTTEGA VENETA’S TROMP L’OEUIEL
To the uninitiated, Kate Moss looked downright dressed down on the Bottega Veneta runway, in a pair of loose jeans and a plaid shirt. But that is the genius of designer Matthieu Blazy, who replayed a trick from his first season, showing leather pants that replicate the look of jeans.
Every piece in Blazy’s sophomore collection was strong: from the intarsia knitwear that have ice blue and red vying for the starring role, to the leather shift dresses and jackets with unexpected folds, to the shredded leather skirts and dresses, and sheer dresses embellished with velvety floral appliques.
At Bottega Veneta, leather is king. Bags include beautifully crafted fishing bags that fit neatly on the body, either in flat leather or a basket weave, to bucket-bags worn flung over the shoulder.
Blazy collaborated with Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce on the sculptural resin runway and 400 unique chairs, some with hand drawings, used for guests at the show and destined for Design Miami.
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2022-09-25T12:42:54+00:00
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pix11.com
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The water temperature around the tip of Florida has hit triple digits — hot tub levels — two days in a row. Meteorologists say it could be the hottest seawater ever measured, although some questions about the reading remain.
Scientists are already seeing devastating effects from prolonged hot water surrounding Florida — coral bleaching and even the death of some corals in what had been one of the Florida Keys' most resilient reefs. Climate change has set temperature records across the globe this month.
The warmer water is also fuel for hurricanes.
Scientists were careful to say there is some uncertainty with the reading. But the buoy at Manatee Bay hit 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit (38.4 degrees Celsius) Monday evening, according to National Weather Service meteorologist George Rizzuto. The night before, that buoy showed an online reading of 100.2 F (37.9 C).
“That is a potential record," Rizzuto said.
“This is a hot tub. I like my hot tub around 100, 101, (37.8, 38.3 C). That's what was recorded yesterday,” said Yale Climate Connections meteorologist Jeff Masters.
If verified, the Monday reading would be nearly 1.5 degrees Fharenheit higher than what is regarded as the prior record, set in the waters off Kuwait three summers ago, 99.7 degrees Fahrenheit (37.6 degrees Celsius).
“We've never seen a record-breaking event like this before,” Masters said.
The consequences for sea corals are serious. NOAA researcher Andrew Ibarra, who took his kayak out to the area, "found that the entire reef was bleached out. Every single coral colony was exhibiting some form of paling, partial bleaching or full out bleaching.”
Some coral even had died, he said. This comes on top of bleaching seen last week by the University of Miami, when NOAA increased the alert level for coral earlier this month.
Until the 1980s, coral bleaching was mostly unheard of. But “now we’ve reached the point where it’s become routine,” Enochs said. Bleaching, which doesn’t kill coral but weakens it and can lead to death, occurs when water temperatures exceed the upper 80s (low 30s Celsius), Enochs said.
Masters and University of Miami tropical meteorologist Brian McNoldy said while the hot temperatures do fit with what's happening around Florida, Monday's reading may not be accepted as a record because the area is shallow, has sea grasses in it and may be influenced by warm land in the nearby Everglades National Park.
Still, McNoldy said, “it's amazing.”
The fact that two 100 degree measurements were taken on consecutive days lends credence to them, McNoldy said. Water temperatures have been in the upper 90s in the area for more than two weeks.
There aren't many coral reefs in Manatee Bay, but elsewhere in the Florida Keys, scientists diving at Cheeca Rocks found bleaching and even death in some of the Keys most resilient corals, said Ian Enochs, lead of the coral program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.
“This is more, earlier than we have ever seen,” Enochs said. “I’m nervous by how early this is occurring.”
This all comes as sea surface temperatures worldwide have broken monthly records for heat in April, May and June, according to NOAA. And temperatures in the north Atlantic Ocean are off the charts — as much as 9 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit (5 to 6 degrees Celsius) warmer than normal in some spots near Newfoundland, McNoldy said.
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2023-07-26T15:33:26+00:00
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese television stuck to its live coverage from Miami for almost two hours after Japan defeated the United States 3-2 to win the World Baseball Classic.
This was must see viewing — over and over and over.
Shohei Ohtani striking out Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout on a pitch away to end the game was replayed repeatedly between player interviews, beer-sprayed clubhouse interludes, and the traditional “doage” — team members tossing the winning manager and players into the air.
The country’s top circulating newspaper Yomiuri rolled out a special Wednesday afternoon edition for commuters, usually reserved for serious matters of state, late-breaking election news, or as it was last year — the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
“Japan, the World’s No. 1,” the headline read in Japanese, with commuters at Shibuya station pushing and shoving to grab the collector’s item.
The victory and the focus on Ohtani for the past two weeks provided a distraction from economic malaise, missile threats from North Korea, and China’s rise across Asia and its implications for Japan.
It also gave a boost in Japan to baseball, which has been challenged by soccer as the country’s favorite sport. Japan is unlikely in the short-term to win soccer’s World Cup, but its baseball is world class. Its won three of the five WBC titles, dating to the first event in 2006.
Japan joined the Dominican Republic in 2013 as the only unbeaten champions of baseball’s premier national team tournament.
“I was OK with either losing or winning,” said Hiroya Kuroda, a 44-year-old in a crowd of about 400 watching the game in a studio at Tokyo Tower. “But I was very moved by the fact that they showed us a dramatic game on that stage in the United States.”
Toshiya Ishii, a 29-year-old fan, broke down crying at the victory.
“Thank you Ohtani,” he said. ”Congratulations Samurai Japan. Thank you.”
Japan beat the Americans at their own game, and it wasn’t the first time.
American teachers and missionaries popularized the game in Japan in the 1870s and 1880s, but it was a game in 1896 in Yokohama between Americans and Japanese that Japan won 29-4 that helped baseball take root in the country.
“The greatest decision I ever made,” said Lars Nootbaar, the St. Louis Cardinals outfielder who was the first to play for Japan by ancestry. He spoke in a television interview after the game, and then hugged his mother, Kumiko, who was standing alongside.
“Nippon daisuki,” Nootbaar said in Japanese. “Arigato.”
“I love Japan. Thank you.”
Nootbaar, Ohtani, pitcher Yu Darvish, and manager Hideki Kuriyama were among those tossed into the air by celebrating teammates.
“That’s the first time I’ve ever been lifted up like that before,” Nootbaar said. “I hope I got a picture of it because that’s something that I want to remember forever.”
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Video journalist Koji Ueda contributed to this report.
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2023-03-22T12:11:15+00:00
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Charlie Duke is part of a tiny fraternity that’s getting even smaller: People who walked on the moon.
Duke, 86, visited his Apollo 16 spaceship on Wednesday at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center to mark the 50th anniversary of his one and only trip to the lunar surface. Only four of the 12 U.S. astronauts who walked on the moon are still alive, and Duke stays busy with speaking engagements.
Duke said he still has vivid memories from the journey, which was the next-to-last U.S. mission to land on the moon. His face lit up during an interview recalling his initial thoughts upon stepping off the lunar lander on to the dusty surface.
“I mean, ‘I’m on the moon!’ I can’t believe it. Even today it’s an exciting thought,” the North Carolina native said.
The late John Young was first out of the lander and walked on the moon with Duke, while Ken Mattingly orbited the moon in the command module, nicknamed “Casper.”
Duke said after Apollo ended, the U.S. focused on the space shuttle program, the space station and remote missions into deep space, and he doesn’t hold it against NASA for failing to return to the moon. But he is looking forward to NASA’s upcoming flight to the moon with its new Space Launch System rocket that’s at the core of the Artemis program.
The first of the huge rockets is supposed to blast off for a trip to the moon without crew later this year, and Duke hopes he can attend the first flight with a crew within a few years.
“The moon was really a beautiful environment. Desolate, but yet it had beauty about it,” he said. “The different contrasts, the mountains that we saw. The blackness of space on the surface of the moon and shades of gray. It just was very captivating.”
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2022-04-22T00:20:13+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/apollo-16-moonwalker-reflects-on-missions-50th-anniversary/
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CAMBRIDGE, England and WALTHAM, Mass., May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Abcam plc ("Abcam," "Company," "Group") (Nasdaq: ABCM), a global leader in the supply of life science research tools, today provides the following updates.
As part of the five-year strategy set out in 2019, focusing on generating durable revenue growth, the Company invested to remove scalability constraints through critical investments in its people, processes, facilities and technology.
Abcam has now successfully transitioned from implementation of these growth initiatives to focus on driving operating leverage from these investments, including the recently implemented Oracle Cloud ERP.
Over the past several months, management and the Board have undertaken a broad review of the installed capabilities with an emphasis on delivering excellent customer experience, tightening operational efficiency and positioning the organisation for long term growth.
Today, the Company is announcing incremental cost refinement actions which are expected to result in a reduction in annualised run rate operating expenses in excess of £15 million by 2024.
The Company expects to achieve these savings through consolidating elements of its global footprint by leveraging the investment in the expansion of our Waltham, MA site, streamlining its organization by reducing management structures, including consolidation of sales and marketing functions, and eliminating redundant processes for faster and more effective decision making.
Revenue growth remains a priority, and the Company continues to invest in its people and the strategic enterprise tools that will enhance efficiency and customer experience in FY2023 and beyond.
These changes are already underway. The costs of implementation will be taken as an adjusting item in FY2023.
FY2023 Outlook
Based on the expected phasing of these actions and the impact on this year's operating expenses, the Company is providing guidance on FY2023 adjusted operating profit margins, which are expected to be between 27% to 28%.
The Company reiterates its reported revenue guidance of approximately £420 million to £440 million, representing 15% to 20% constant exchange rate revenue growth.
FY2024 Goal
The Company is reiterating its 2024 revenue goals of £450 million to £525 million[1] with adjusted operating profit margins of greater than 30%.
About Abcam plc
As an innovator in reagents and tools, Abcam's purpose is to serve life science researchers globally to achieve their mission faster. Providing the research and clinical communities with tools and scientific support, the Company offers highly validated antibodies, assays, and other research tools to address important targets in critical biological pathways.
Already a pioneer in data sharing and ecommerce in the life sciences, Abcam's ambition is to be the most influential company in life sciences by helping advance global understanding of biology and causes of disease, which, in turn, will drive new treatments and improved health.
Abcam's worldwide customer base of approximately 750,000 life science researchers' uses Abcam's antibodies, reagents, biomarkers, and assays. By actively listening to and collaborating with these researchers, the Company continuously advances its portfolio to address their needs. A transparent program of customer reviews and datasheets, combined with industry-leading validation initiatives, gives researchers increased confidence in their results.
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the Company has served customers in more than 130 countries. Abcam's American Depositary Shares (ADSs) trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (Nasdaq: ABCM).
For more information, please visit www.abcam.com or www.abcamplc.com
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This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the following words: "may," "might," "will," "could," "would," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "intend," "seek," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential," "continue," "contemplate," "possible" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words. They are not historical facts, nor are they guarantees of future performance. Any express or implied statements contained in this announcement that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding Abcam's portfolio and ambitions, cost refinement and efficiency initiatives, and our future results of operations and financial position such as our outlook for FY2023 and performance goals for FY2024 are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, including, without limitation: challenges in implementing our strategies for revenue growth in light of competitive challenges; the development of new products or the enhancement of existing products, and the need to adapt to significant technological changes or respond to the introduction of new products by competitors to remain competitive; our customers discontinuing or spending less on research, development, production or other scientific endeavors; failing to successfully identify or integrate acquired businesses or assets into our operations or fully recognize the anticipated benefits of businesses or assets that we acquire; the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, including variants, continues to affect our business, including impacts on our operations and supply chains; failing to successfully use, access and maintain information systems and implement new systems to handle our changing needs; cyber security risks and any failure to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our computer hardware, software and internet applications and related tools and functions; failing to successfully manage our current and potential future growth; any significant interruptions in our operations; our products failing to satisfy applicable quality criteria, specifications and performance standards; failing to maintain and enhance our brand and reputation; ability to react to unfavorable geopolitical or economic changes that affect life science funding; failing to deliver on transformational growth projects; our dependence upon management and highly skilled employees and our ability to attract and retain these highly skilled employees; and as a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from a number of rules under the U.S. securities laws and Nasdaq corporate governance rules and are permitted to file less information with the SEC than U.S. companies, which may limit the information available to holders of our American Depositary Shares ("ADS"); and the other important factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in Abcam's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2022 ("Annual Report") with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 20, 2023, which is available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov, as such factors may be updated from time to time in Abcam's subsequent filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement speak only as of the date hereof and accordingly undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Abcam disclaims any obligation or undertaking to update or revise any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than to the extent required by applicable law.
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To supplement our audited financial results prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") we present Adjusted Operating Profit, Adjusted Operating Profit Margin, Total Constant Exchange Rate Revenue ("CER revenue"), which are financial measures not prepared in accordance with IFRS ("non-IFRS financial measures"). We believe that the presentation of these non-IFRS financial measures provide useful information about our operating results and enhances the overall understanding of our past financial performance and future prospects, allowing for greater transparency with respect to key measures used by management in its financial and operational decision making. These non-IFRS financial measures are supplemental in nature as they include and/or exclude certain items not included and/or excluded in the most directly comparable IFRS financial measures and should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for, financial measures prepared in accordance with IFRS. Further, other companies may calculate these non-IFRS financial measures differently than we do, which may limit the usefulness of those measures for comparative purposes.
Management believes that the presentation of (a) Adjusted Operating Profit, Adjusted Operating Profit Margin, provide useful information to investors and others as management regularly reviews these measures as important indicators of our operating performance and makes decisions based on them, (b) CER revenue provides useful information to investors and others as management regularly reviews this measure to identify period-on-period or year-on-year performance of the business and makes decisions based on it, and (c) Adjusted Selling, General and Administrative expenses and Adjusted Research & Development expenses provide useful information to investors and others as management regularly reviews these measures to identify period-on-period or year-on-year performance of the business and makes decisions based on it, and (d) Free Cash Flow provides useful information to investors and others because management regularly reviews this measure as an important indicator of how much cash is generated by business operations, excluding capital related items, and provides an indication of the amount of cash available for discretionary investing or financing after removing capital related items, and makes decisions based on it.
Please see the following "Non-IFRS Financial Measures" for a qualitative reconciliation of non-IFRS financial measures presented in this Trading Update to their most directly comparable IFRS financial measures. We define:
- Adjusted Operating Profit as profit for the period / year before taking account of finance income, finance costs, tax, exceptional items, share-based payments, restructuring activities, and amortization of acquisition intangibles. Exceptional items consist of certain cash and non-cash items that we believe are not reflective of the normal course of our business; and we identify and determine items to be exceptional based on their nature and incidence or by or by their significance ("exceptional items"). As a result, the composition of exceptional items may vary from period to period / year to year.
- Adjusted Operating Profit Margin as adjusted operating profit calculated as a percentage of revenue.
- CER as our total revenue growth from one fiscal period / year to the next on a constant exchange rate basis.
Management is unable to present quantitative reconciliations of Adjusted Operating Profit, Adjusted Operating Profit Margin, and CER revenue to their respective most directly comparable IFRS financial measures of Operating Profit, Operating Profit Margin and Reported Revenue on a forward-looking basis, because items that impact these IFRS financial measures are not within our control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted. Such information may have a significant, and potentially unpredictable, impact on our future financial results.
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2023-05-04T21:33:14+00:00
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wlox.com
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The 1937 Group, in conjunction with KVL International,
brings this one-of-a-kind event to Chicago on Saturday, November 5
CHICAGO, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KVL International (www.kvlinternational.com), in conjunction with The 1937 Group, Ltd - the first minority-owned vertically-integrated cannabis company in Illinois - are hosting the KVL International Flower Ball - a one-day fusion of fashion, music, art and cannabis.
The KVL Flower Ball features multiple immersive experiences, including a fashion show co-hosted by Power 92.3's Money MAHA and an after party powered by legendary local DJ Nehpets.
The event will be held on Saturday, November 5 at the world-renowned CineCity Chicago Studios located west of downtown Chicago.
The event will include:
- Activations by notable cannabis and fashion brands, manufacturers, and operators
- Merchandise and apparel for sale
- An immersive fashion runway show co-hosted by Power 92.3's Money MAHA
- A live performance by Vic Mensa (founder of the 93 Boyz cannabis line)
- Live shoe designs by Matt Burzec of Kicks of Chicago
- On-site mural painting by Chicago's own Darrius Dennis
- After-party set by Power 92.3's DJ Nehpets
The KVL International Flower Ball features a three-part experience: a cannabis exhibition that leads into a fashion runway show followed by an after party.
This is the first ever Cannabis/Fashion/Art/Music Expo in Illinois.
Attendance to this event is open to anyone 21+ with a valid ID.
Click here to purchase tickets. Doors will close and entry will end at 7pm.
Event Schedule:
- Expo 12:30pm
- Cocktail Hour 6:00 - 7:00pm
- Runway Show 7:30pm
- Vic Mensa Live - 10:00pm
- After Party - 10:30pm - 12:30am
Helpful Information:
- Dress Code: Cocktail Attire
- Valet is included with VIP ticket
- Non-VIP Valet: $20
- Coat Check Available $5
- Food trucks will be on site all day
- Event is restricted to persons 21+. Government issued ID will be required at the door.
Event Location:
CineCity Studios Chicago
2429 West 14th Street
Chicago, IL 60608
We encourage rideshare if you are not planning to valet. There is almost no parking near the venue as it is gated off in a private location.
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www.kvlinternational.com
www.the1937group.com
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2022-11-02T14:49:03+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/11/02/kvl-international-flower-ball-coming-chicago/
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BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Every loudmouth from Yarmouth and Masshole from Athol has descended on The Country Club this week, when 14 golfers in the U.S. Open field will face the American public for the first time since defecting to an upstart, Saudi Arabian-backed tour.
The injection of genuine international intrigue is expected to energize the legendarily obnoxious Boston sports fan and make the staid, secretive enclave look more like a Sam Adams commercial casting call.
Guys named Sully and Fitz lined the fairways and greens at the 140-year-old club during the practice rounds, ready to greet their least favorite golfers with the same reception their ancestors gave the Redcoats at Lexington and Concord.
“It’s going to be loud, and it’s going to be a lot of fun,” said defending U.S. Open champion Jon Rahm, who has stuck with the PGA Tour and eschewed the bigger, guaranteed paydays offered by LIV Golf.
“There hasn’t been a U.S. Open here in a very long time, so they’re hungry for it, and you can tell,” Rahm said. “It almost feels like with what’s going on in the world of golf, they almost want to show their presence even more. I don’t know exactly what to expect, but I’m really looking forward to it.”
More tentative was Phil Mickleson, a six-time major champion who is the biggest name among the LIV XIV. He said in February that Saudi regime funding the new tour had some “scary (expletive)” but still took a reported $200 million to play on it.
One of the most popular players in the world, Mickelson said on Monday that he was unsure if his supporters would abandon him.
Just in case, he buttered up the locals like a Parker House roll.
“The Boston crowds are some of the best in sports,” Mickelson said during a 25-minute media session after arriving in this Boston suburb from last week’s LIV event outside of London.
“I think that their excitement and energy is what creates such a great atmosphere,” he said. “So whether it’s positive or negative towards me directly, I think it’s going to provide an incredible atmosphere to hold this championship.”
Golf is typically the most genteel of sports, with its hushed greenside whispers and polite, muffled applause. It is rude to talk during a player’s swing; cheering a rival’s miss simply is not done.
Sill, there are exceptions.
The Phoenix Open is a beer-fueled revelry that would not be out of place in the Yankee Stadium bleachers. And here at The Country Club, the 1999 Ryder Cup erupted into a hullaballoo that lives on as “The Battle of Brookline.”
During the biennial competition between golfers from the United States and a team from Europe, doughy Scotsman Colin Montgomerie was relentlessly heckled for his resemblance to the Robin Williams-in-drag movie character Mrs. Doubtfire (as well as former New England Patriots coach Bill Parcells, nicknamed “Tuna”).
Some of the sport’s other niceties were likewise ignored, notably the American celebration after Justin Leonard’s Cup-clinching birdie on the 17th green — before José María Olazábal had a chance to putt out. The Europeans fumed.
But those antics were mild compared to what other visiting athletes have experienced in Boston.
Yankees shortstop Bucky Dent has acquired a new middle name — it rhymes with “Bucky” — for the crime of hitting a home run against the Red Sox. Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving had a water bottle thrown at him after a postseason game; he had the nerve to leave the Celtics after professing his love for the city.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was hidden from view at the New England Patriots Super Bowl banner-raising in 2017, lest it trigger fans still angry over his decision to suspend quarterback Tom Brady for his role in the Deflategate cheating saga.
And just last week, Celtics fans greeted Golden State Warriors antagonist and NBA Finals opponent Draymond Green with a vulgar chant. (It also, somewhat unimaginatively, rhymed with “Bucky.”)
“Classy. Very classy,” said Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who was heckled by a Duck Boat driver — albeit amiably — while walking around town.
“That’s just Boston being Boston,” The Boston Globe explained on Wednesday in a deep dive into the characteristic cold shoulder of the city’s sports fans. “Rude gestures are simply how we say ‘hi’ around here.”
The U.S. Open crowds were thick but well-behaved early in the week as golfers played their practice rounds. Two graying women discussed their online bridge matches while waiting to cross the 18th fairway. Men wearing golf shirts from their home clubs discussed business, or their latest round.
Mickelson had a handful of police walking with him on Tuesday — not unusual for one of the sport’s biggest names, even if they did seem to be on higher alert than usual. They heard only cheers as their protectee made his way around the course.
“Good stuff, Phil!” shouted Kameron Luthea, a Cumberland, Rhode Island, man who watched Mickelson tee off on No. 6 on Tuesday. “Boston loves you, Phil!”
Luthea said he became a Mickelson fan because they are both left-handed. Asked if he was troubled by the connection to the repressive Saudi regime, Luthea said carefully: “I support Phil and his golf game.”
“I like the way he plays,” Luthea said. “He’s in it to win it. He’s got no fear.”
In fact, Mickelson may have nothing to fear this week other than the punishing Country Club layout. The 51-year-old San Diegan, who turns 52 on Thursday, has won every major tournament except the U.S. Open, which bills itself as “golf’s toughest test,” finishing second a record six times.
“Don’t be killing the Boston fans,” Larry Costello, a resident of the nearby West Roxbury neighborhood, told a reporter after Mickelson came over to the gallery to greet an acquaintance. Fans took selfies and reached out with items for the golfer to sign before he headed off down the fairway to complete his round.
The gallery followed, but not before Luthea offered one last thought:
“Screw Kyrie,” he shouted to a reporter. “You can throw that in there.”
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2022-06-16T20:56:00+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/wicked-rude-liv-xiv-ready-for-a-traditional-boston-welcome/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate unexpectedly launched a new push Wednesday to protect same-sex marriage in federal law after a surprising number of Republicans helped pass landmark legislation in the House. Some GOP senators are already signaling support.
The legislation started as an election-season political effort to confront the new Supreme Court majority after the court overturned abortion access in Roe v. Wade, raising concerns that other rights were at risk. But suddenly it has a shot at becoming law. Pressure is mounting on Republicans to drop their longstanding opposition and join in a bipartisan moment for gay rights.
“This legislation was so important,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said as he opened the chamber Wednesday.
The Democratic leader marveled over the House’s 267-157 tally, with 47 Republicans — almost one-fifth of the GOP lawmakers — voting for the bill late Tuesday.
“I want to bring this bill to the floor,” Schumer said, “and we’re working to get the necessary Senate Republican support to ensure it would pass.”
Political odds are still long for the legislation, the Respect for Marriage Act, which would enshrine same-sex and interracial marriages as protected under federal law. Conservatives, including House GOP leaders, largely opposed the bill, and the vast majority of Republicans voted against it.
But in a sign of shifting political attitudes and a need for an election-year win, some Republicans are signaling there may be an opening. Few Republicans spoke directly against gay marriage during Tuesday’s floor debate in the House. And Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was notably silent when asked about the bill, saying he would take a look if it comes to the Senate.
“I’m going to delay announcing anything on that issue,” McConnell said, adding he would wait to see if Schumer brings it forward.
President Joe Biden wants Congress to send him the bill to sign as soon as possible.
“This is something that’s personal to the president,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters traveling with the president.
Biden is “a proud champion of the right for people to marry whom they love and is grateful to see bipartisan support for that right,” she said. “He believes it is non-negotiable and that the Senate should act swiftly to get this to the president’s desk. He wants to sign it, so we need this legislation and we urge Congress to move as quickly as possible.”
So far, the legislation has just two Senate Republican co-sponsors, Susan Collins of Maine and Rob Portman of Ohio. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina are among others closely watched for possible support.
In all 10 Republican senators would need to join with all Democrats to reach the 60 vote threshold to overcome a GOP filibuster.
“We’re seeing progress on this, and I’ll take progress,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., the bill’s chief sponsor, told reporters at the Capitol.
The No. 2 Republican, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, was doubtful Tuesday, calling the proposed legislation little more than a political message.
Social issues including same-sex marriage and abortion have sprinted to the top of the congressional agenda this summer in reaction to the Supreme Court’s action overturning Roe v. Wade, a stunning ruling that ended the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion access. It set off alarms that other rights conservatives have targeted could be next.
While Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, insisted the Roe v. Wade ruling pertained only to abortion access, it demonstrated the new conservative muscle with three Trump-era justices tipping the court’s balance. A concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, who has gained stature in the new majority, raised questions about gay marriage and other rights.
“We take Justice Thomas — and the extremist movement behind him — at their word,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi during the House debate. “This is what they intend to do.”
Both Pelosi and Schumer criticized Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who said over the weekend that the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges decision upholding gay marriage was “clearly wrong.”
The Respect for Marriage Act was rushed to the House floor in an election year with polling showing a majority of Americans favor preserving rights to marry, regardless of sex, gender, race or ethnicity, a long-building shift in modern mores toward inclusion.
A Gallup poll in June showed broad and increasing support for same-sex marriage, with 70% of U.S. adults saying they think such unions should be recognized by law. The poll showed majority support among both Democrats (83%) and Republicans (55%).
Approval of interracial marriage in the U.S. hit a six-decade high at 94% in September, according to Gallup.
McConnell, the Republican leader, is eager to regain control of the Senate, now evenly split 50-50, and his views on whether his party should support or oppose the same-sex marriage protections will almost certainly be viewed through that political lens.
Unlike the abortion issue, where views are deeply held with little room for Congress to find common ground, attitudes toward same-sex continue to evolve and shift among lawmakers.
Incumbent Republican senators seeking to win reelection and GOP candidates running for office may want a chance to support the gay marriage issue that is popular with many voters. Strong Republican-led opposition could be seen as detrimental to the party’s candidates in swing states that McConnell needs to win to regain control.
One Republican hopeful, Joe O’Dea, who is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado, said he was glad to see the same-sex marriage bill pass in the House.
“You’ve got a lot of politicians in both political parties who spend way too much time trying to tell people how to live their lives. That’s just not me. I live my life. You live yours,” O’Dea said. “Let’s get on with solving the huge challenges facing the American people.”
Still, some vocal leaders in the Republican Party, including Cruz and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, both potential presidential candidates, have indicated likely opposition to the legislation.
The Respect for Marriage Act would repeal the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act, which put into federal law the definition of marriage as a heterosexual union between a man and woman. That 1996 law was largely overshadowed by subsequent court rulings, including Obergefell vs. Hodges in 2015, legalizing gay marriage nationwide.
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Associated Press writers Farnoush Amiri, Mary Clare Jalonick and Darlene Superville in Washington and Nicholas Riccardi in Denver contributed to this report.
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2022-07-21T04:21:37+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/pressure-on-senate-gop-after-same-sex-marriage-passes-house/
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The NFL posted significant gains in hiring women for coaching, team front-office and league-headquarters positions, according to an annual diversity report.
Thursday’s report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at Central Florida assigned an overall B grade for the league, with a B-plus for racial hiring and a B for gender hiring. The report examined a range of positions at the league office and within franchises using data for the 2022 season.
The gender results were an upgrade from last year’s C grade. Specifically, the numerical score of 81.4 represented an increase of 6.4 percentage points from 2021. That led to a slight gain in the overall score (83.2) despite a decline in the racial hiring score (85.0) due to updated census data.
As with last year, team-level grades typically lagged behind the league’s office.
TIDES director and lead report author Richard Lapchick told The Associated Press that the gender gains were ”the biggest positive, and it’s bucking the trend of most of the leagues where gender scores have been going down.”
”I think the league office has placed that emphasis,” Lapchick said. ”Dasha Smith, who’s the head of that sector of the office (as executive vice president and chief people officer), is one of the highest-ranking women in professional sports. I think it’s something she’s paid particular attention to – certainly not exclusively – but her leadership has been key.”
Women who’ve been hired for prominent positions included Catherine Raiche, who is now the Cleveland Browns’ assistant general manager and vice president of football operations. That came a year after the Denver Broncos hired Kelly Kleine as executive director of football operations.
The study also reported 15 women working in coaching roles during training camp – the highest number for all men’s leagues evaluated annually by TIDES – and six in full-time coaching roles, with four being people of color.
Additionally, women held an all-time high of 41.3% of positions at the NFL headquarters, representing a significant climb from 27.9% a decade ago and 30.3% in 2015.
”We are pleased with the recent progress we have made with increasing diversity in almost all areas at the clubs and the league office, especially with women, but realize there is still much work to do throughout the organization,” NFL senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer Jonathan Beane said in a statement to the AP.
”It takes a collective effort to drive sustainable results and we have committed ourselves to do so. The NFL remains committed to diversity, equity and inclusion as core values of our league and we are continuously working to make sure our hiring practices across all levels reflect that.”
The league received A-minus grades for both racial and gender hiring at the NFL headquarters. Those were higher than team-level categories such as executive leadership (C in racial, C-minus in gender), vice presidents (C in racial, D-plus in gender) and senior administration (C-plus racial, C gender).
The NFL also posted racial hiring gains in the two most high-profile positions: head coach and general manager.
The league started the year with six people of color as head coaches for a C grade and currently has seven: Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin, Houston’s Lovie Smith, Tampa Bay’s Todd Bowles and Carolina’s Steve Wilks, who are Black; Miami’s Mike McDaniel, who is biracial; the Jets’ Robert Saleh, who is of Lebanese heritage; and Washington’s Ron Rivera, who is Hispanic.
Smith, Bowles and McDaniel are in their first season. Wilks joined the list last month after taking over as the Panthers’ interim coach following the firing of Matt Rhule, though the racial makeup of the league’s head coaching ranks remains a long-running issue.
There were eight minorities as GMs to start the season for a B-minus grade: Cleveland’s Andrew Berry, Atlanta’s Terry Fontenot, Miami’s Chris Grier, Detroit’s Brad Holmes, Washington’s Martin Mayhew, Chicago’s Ryan Poles, Minnesota’s Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Pittsburgh’s Omar Khan. Poles, Adofo-Mensah and Khan are in their first year.
The league also received an A-plus grade for initiatives to improve diversity hiring.
TIDES issues annual report cards on racial- and gender-hiring practices in professional leagues such as the NBA, WNBA, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer, as well as for college sports in diversity hiring and graduation rates.
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2022-11-11T21:21:45+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/nfl/nfl-dallas/nfl-sees-higher-grades-for-gender-hiring-in-diversity-study/
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Company surpasses goal of 1 GW in first year post-RTO
TORONTO, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Westbridge Energy Corporation (TSXV: WEB) (OTCQB: WEGYF) (FRA: PUQ3) ("Westbridge" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the addition of the Dolcy Solar and Battery Storage Project ("the Dolcy Project"), located in the Municipality of Provost, in east-central Alberta, Canada, to its portfolio. The Project is targeting a total capacity of 250MWac solar photovoltaic and 100MW of Battery Energy Storage System ("BESS").
Stefano Romanin, CEO, commented, "With the addition of Dolcy to our portfolio, we now control four utility-scale solar PV development projects totalling 985 MW, and 300 MW of battery storage capacity for a total of 1,285 MW. This project complements our robust portfolio in Alberta, where we continue to see significant opportunities for origination and acquisitions, particularly as we progress the Georgetown solar project. The Dolcy Project confirms our ability to originate greenfield projects and allows the Company to surpass our 1GW target before the anticipated milestone of 12 months after RTO."
The Dolcy Project has secured site control in the form of a long-term solar lease covering approximately 1,025 acres with private landowners. It is currently in Stage 1 of the Alberta Electric System Operator (the "AESO") interconnection process, with environmental studies underway in accordance with Alberta Environment and Parks guidelines.
The Company's origination team continues to evaluate multiple solar and battery storage development projects to further scale and strengthen its portfolio, with a vision of maximizing the return on renewable energy assets through accretive project monetization and retention of royalties. This approach is expected to enhance long-term cashflow and build long-term shareholder value. The current portfolio of projects is listed below.
Westbridge Energy Corporation develops best-in-class solar PV projects. The Company plans to deliver attractive, long-term returns by originating, executing, and developing an international portfolio of renewable assets for investors and utilities. Management has a strong track-record with 40+ projects developed worldwide, obtaining, and executing permits on time and within budget. As one of the very few listed pure-play Canadian solar development companies, Westbridge provides its investors with valuable access to greenfield solar projects. This means the Company can invest at the earliest stage of solar energy development benefiting from the full value chain as well as the expected wider adoption of renewable energy going forward. Westbridge brings together regulators, corporate buyers, and landowners with the goal of delivering clean, sustainable electricity to end users.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Scott M. Kelly
Executive Chair & Director
Westbridge Energy Corporation
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information set forth in this document contains forward-looking information and statements including, without limitation, management's business strategy, management's assessment of future plans and operations. Such forward-looking statements or information are provided for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Forward-looking statements or information typically contain statements with words such as "anticipate", "believe", "expect", "plan", "intend", "estimate", "propose", "project", "potential" or similar words suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding future performance and outlook. Readers are cautioned that assumptions used in the preparation of such information may prove to be incorrect. Events or circumstances may cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted as a result of numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the Company.
This news release contains forward-looking statements about the Dolcy Project, the expansion of the Company's solar PV portfolio, if at all, the need to obtain additional financing to develop the Company's solar PV projects, the uncertainty of meeting anticipated program milestones for the Company's solar PV projects and anticipated steps, timing and costs thereof, exits of projects, if any, the Company's objectives and strategies, the ability of the Company to achieve its goals, each of which are forward-looking in nature and, as a result, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on them as actual results may differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include general business, economic, competitive, regulatory, policy and social uncertainties, and availability of permits and financing upon terms acceptable to the Company or at all. Applicable risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to regulatory risks, risks related to the COVID-19 global pandemic, changes in laws, market risks, operating history, competition, and the other risks identified under the headings "Risk Factors" in the Company's management's discussion and analysis dated March 29, 2022 and other disclosure documents available on the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements or information, except as required by law.
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2022-06-01T11:10:49+00:00
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CHICAGO (AP) — A 25-year-old woman was fatally shot and six other people were wounded early Sunday when gunfire erupted in Chicago during a remembrance for a man who died in a car crash, police said.
A large group of people had gathered about 1 a.m. to mark four years since a man’s fatal crash when there was an altercation and shots rang out, said Deputy Chief Adnardo Gutierrez of the Chicago Police Department, WLS-TV reported.
Seven people were wounded and one of them, a 25-year-old woman, was pronounced dead at a hospital, he said. The six other shooting victims were hospitalized, one in critical condition.
“They were out there celebrating and then something happened and a verbal altercation occurred and somebody began shooting, or multiple people began shooting,” Gutierrez said at a Sunday briefing.
He said it’s still under investigation how many people opened fire, but he said the gunshots were fired by a person or persons who were taking part in the remembrance.
Gutierrez said a witness told officers an altercation occurred before the shooting, which happened as the group was in a street in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side.
Among the six other victims, a 29-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition with a chest wound. The five others, a 17-year-old girl, a 28-year-old woman, and three men ages 27, 28 and 29, were hospitalized in good condition, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Police detectives were investigating the shooting, and no one was in custody as of midmorning Sunday.
Gutierrez said detectives were still working to find and interview witnesses. He urged anyone with information about the shooting to contact police and pass that information along.
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2023-06-05T13:18:51+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/news/ap-top-headlines/7-shot-1-fatally-in-chicago-when-gunfire-erupts-amid-remembrance-for-man-killed-in-car-crash/
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DALLAS, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Almaden Genomics has named David Gascoigne as CEO. A life sciences industry veteran with three decades of leadership experience scaling businesses from early stage to prominent market position, Gascoigne will leverage his background in integrative healthcare data analytics to drive Almaden as it accelerates genomic research and discovery through streamlined bioinformatics.
"David is a significant addition to the original Almaden team of bioinformaticians, engineers, and industry professionals that developed g.nome, our cloud-native platform designed to streamline genomic workflows," said Tricia D'Cruz, Executive Chairperson of Almaden Genomics. "After spinning out Almaden as a standalone company late last year, we found an executive that possesses a deep understanding of health sciences, integrated data sets, and machine learning who also has a proven record of successfully building and scaling businesses. We couldn't be more thrilled to welcome David to this role."
Almaden's g.nome™ dramatically accelerates bioinformatic pipeline building from what previously has taken months to mere hours. From promising drug development, diagnosis of genetic disease, and the realization of personalized medicine, g.nome helps speed discovery in genomic research. It leverages an advanced visual drag-and-drop workflow builder and curated library of open-source tools, enabling users to have confidence in their results, get to market faster and scale profitably.
A serial entrepreneur who has experience in corporate development including mergers and acquisitions, Gascoigne joins Almaden from Sutherland Global Services where he served as Head of Healthcare Analytics. In this role, he was responsible for the commercialization of high-value and innovative analytics solutions and services, prior to which he was Chief Operating Officer of GNS Healthcare, a global leader for Causal AI and simulation across life sciences. At GNS, he helped facilitate the discovery of novel therapies and accelerate R&D in rare diseases. Gascoigne has also held roles as General Manager of Analytics Services for IQVIA, Executive Vice President of Analytics and Innovation for Symphony Health, and was a Partner in Digital Analytics with Accenture. He graduated from Sheffield University in the U.K. with an advanced degree in Applied Statistics.
Almaden is the latest in a series of spinoffs by Catalyze Dallas to speed time-to-market for technology harvested from the Fortune 100. Catalyze launches scalable companies that accelerate commercialization of intellectual property sourced from the world's most innovative global corporations, unleashing the full value and potential of their investments in technology.
About Almaden Genomics
Almaden Genomics is accelerating genomic discovery with g.nome™, a cloud-native platform designed to streamline genomic workflows. Brought to market by a team of bioinformaticians, engineers and industry professionals, g.nome accelerates genomic discovery through automation and optimization of the research process. With g.nome, teams spend less time and money developing infrastructure, iterating workflows and managing compute costs, and more time making scientific breakthroughs. Formerly part of IBM Research, Almaden Genomics became a new standalone company under Catalyze Dallas' ownership in 2022. For more information, visit www.almaden.io
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2023-01-25T17:38:54+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2023/01/25/almaden-genomics-names-david-gascoigne-ceo/
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LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday in a protest over the soaring cost of living in Britain.
Huge crowds flooded into the British capital for the rally to demand that the government do more to help people faced with bills and other expenses that are rising more quickly than their wages.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been criticized for being slow to respond to the cost-of-living crisis. Inflation in Britain and across Europe has been surging, as Russia’s war in Ukraine crimped supplies of energy and food staples like wheat. Prices were already rising before the war, as the global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in strong consumer demand.
Demonstrators carried banners with messages such as “Cut war not welfare.” They booed when they passed by 10 Downing Street, the prime minister’s residence, according to videos posted on social media.
Ben Robinson, who works for a housing charity in south London’s Brixton neighborhood, said the government doesn’t realize how bad things are going to be for the poor.
“We’ve got residents who are coming into our offices who are choosing between feeding their own kids, not themselves, their own kids, and paying rent and heating,” he said. “That is just not a choice that anyone should have to face, you know, in the fourth biggest economy in the world.”
The TUC, an umbrella organization for labor unions that organized the protest, said its research suggests workers have effectively lost a total of almost 20,000 pounds ($24,450) since 2008 because pay hasn’t kept pace with inflation.
Johnson’s government is facing heavy pressure to do more to help Britons struggling with soaring fuel and food prices and domestic energy bills. In one example of the crunch for household finances, a data firm said the average cost of filling up a typical family car exceeding 100 pounds ($125).
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2022-06-19T04:32:43+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/business/big-crowds-take-to-london-streets-to-protest-soaring-costs/
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