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With Biden's Infrastructure Plan and the recent recovery in the metal sector, Ryerson (NYSE:RYI) expects significant demand. Notice that the company’s most relevant clients develop industrial equipment, green energy technology, and construction equipment. I don’t think that analysts did take into account the American Jobs Plan while assessing future sales growth. In any case, Ryerson has an upside potential because the company trades at only 6x forward EBITDA with expected EBITDA growth of 52% and declining net debt/ EBITDA ratio.
Incorporated in Delaware, Ryerson is a distributor and processor of metals with operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China. Targeting a market valued at more than $250 billion, RYI sells products to industrial clients that expect massive growth in the coming years:
Source: Presentation
The company’s most relevant clients, which are responsible for 25% of 2020 sales, operate in the metal fabrication sector. According to RYI, many of the company’s clients sell products to the electric vehicle industry, e-commerce logistics, and automation amid other growing industries:
Source: Presentation
RYI will profit from the new American Jobs Plan proposed by Biden. Right now, we know little about the new plan. So, it's unclear how much will RYI’s revenue increase thanks to the new plan. With that, the management noted to investors that the plan may generate demand for the company’s products:
We believe the additional government spending on infrastructure projects contemplated under the American Jobs Plan, as proposed, may generate additional demand for our products especially within the industrial equipment, construction, green energy, and transportation industries. Accordingly, we would anticipate that the Jobs Plan would be beneficial to the Company, but ultimately the impact on the Company’s operations and ability to attract new business and retain existing customers is unclear. Source: 10-Q
RYI could benefit more than large competitors with operations all over the world. According to the last annual report, net sales to international clients accounted for only 10.9% of 2020 sales. The American Jobs Plan is expected to be designed to help people in the United States. So, with more than 89% of its sales in the United States, RYI will most likely benefit quite a bit from the new plan:
Net sales of our international locations (based on where the shipments originated) accounted for 10.9% of our consolidated 2020 net sales, or $376.9 million. Source: 10-K
RYI will most likely see significant demand for its products because many statistics show that the metal sector is recovering. In 2021, commodity prices are increasing, and the demand for all end markets is increasing. Besides, industrial production increased sharply in March 2021:
Source: Presentation
RYI will become cheaper when the company reduces its debt, which is among the plans of the management. On March 31, 2021, the company had $43 million in cash, long-term debt of $723 million, and short-term debt of $18 million. Thus, the net debt stays at $698 million. If we assume 2022 EBITDA of $245 million, the company’s net debt / 2022 EBITDA becomes 2.8x:
Source: 10-Q
Source: 10-Q
As shown in the presentation below, very recently, the net debt decreased from $1.127 billion to $698 billion. According to RYI, the company is borrowing at lower rates and extending maturities, which will most likely lead to an increase in the company’s profitability. With this in mind, I believe that the company’s financial shape will look better in the coming months. The enterprise price value could decrease. So, when investors notice the reduction in debt, the demand for the stock will most likely increase:
Source: Presentation
Market analysts are expecting 45% sales growth in 2021, and EBITDA growth of 52%. The company also is expected to show positive net income of $75 million and $146 million in 2021 and 2022 respectively:
Source: Market Screener
I believe that RYI’s expected sales figures were calculated before Biden announced its plan. In any case, RYI’s numbers could be larger than expected. We don’t know everything about Biden's infrastructure plan. The president is still negotiating the size of the plan with Senate Republicans. In May 2021, Biden offered $1.7 trillion, and he is still waiting for a counter offer. The last offer from Senate Republicans was $568 billion. If the final number is larger than what the market expects, RYI will most likely report more sales than expected:
Source: SeekingAlpha.com
I think that most investors are not aware of the company’s expected EBITDA growth and overall business improvement. Currently, the company trades at 29x EBITDA with competitors trading at 4x-11x EBITDA. However, next year, the company is expected to report a significant decline in its EV/EBITDA. The company could go from reporting 29x EBITDA to 6x Forward EBITDA. The decline in the company’s EV/EBITDA is larger than that of peers. In my view, the expected decrease in net debt and EBITDA growth are responsible for the improvement:
Source: YCharts
Source: YCharts
In the last six years, RYI traded at 5x-12.5x. Next year, analysts are expecting an EV/forward EBITDA of 6x. So, the company’s valuation will be close to the lowest mark in six years. Buying shares right now and waiting for almost a year represent quite an attractive strategy. When investors get to know the company’s new EV/EBITDA, the demand for the stock will increase:
Source: Ycharts
Source: YCharts
In 2018 and 2019, tariffs on imported steel and aluminum products limited the amount of products exported to the United States by foreign metal producers. It was somewhat beneficial for RYI. With that, if the Biden administration decides to decrease tariffs, foreign steel may be again sold in the United States, which will most likely decrease U.S. metal prices. In that case scenario, RYI’s EBITDA margins could decline:
If these trade actions are relaxed, repealed, or if relatively higher U.S. metal prices make it attractive for foreign metal producers to export their products to the U.S., despite the presence of duties or tariffs, the resurgence of substantial imports of foreign steel could create downward pressure on U.S. metal prices which could have a material adverse effect on sales prices and future results of operations. To the extent these tariffs and other trade actions result in a decrease in demand for steel and aluminum, or products manufactured therefrom and, produced in the United States, or otherwise negatively impact demand for our products, our business may be adversely impacted. Source: 10-K
Inflation could damage the company’s EBITDA margins. If clients are not willing to pay for an eventual increase in costs, RYI will have a serious issue. According to FRED, the five-year forward inflation expectation rate is 2%-2.4%. The company disclosed this risk in the annual report:
Inflation impacts the costs at which we can procure product and the ability to increase prices to customers over time. Source: 10-K
The company is making a lot of efforts to reduce its net debt/EBITDA ratio, but the total long term debt is not limited. If interest rates increase, RYI will have to pay more interest expenses. As a result, future net income will most likely be less significant than expected. In that case scenario, RYI’s valuation could decline:
We are exposed to market risk related to our fixed-rate and variable-rate long-term debt. Changes in interest rates may affect the market value of our fixed-rate debt. The estimated fair value of our long-term debt and the current portions thereof using quoted market prices of Company debt securities recently traded and market-based prices of similar securities for those securities not recently traded was $796.2 million at March 31, 2021 and $800.3 million at December 31, 2020 as compared with the carrying value of $741.4 million and $740.0 million at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively. We manage interest rate risk in our capital structure by holding a combination of variable and fixed-rate debt. Source: 10-K
With the new infrastructure plan and the recovery of the metal industry, RYI stock appears quite interesting. I appreciate that 89% of the total amount of sales come from the United States. It means that Biden's infrastructure plan will be extremely beneficial for the company. With demand for the company’s products and expected EBITDA growth, RYI’s EV/EBITDA is expected to go from 29x to 6x in one year. Besides, if the management continues to decrease its level of debt, more investors will most likely buy shares. Putting it all together, I believe that the RYI represents a compelling opportunity for investors.
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Following a daily order volume increase of 30x in 2021, Sharebite raises new funding round led by Prosus
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharebite, the leading food benefits platform designed for the modern workforce, announced today the closing of its $39 million Series B financing round to expand its footprint and launch products that serve the evolving needs of modern workplaces. With a tightening labor force, companies are increasingly looking to augment employee benefits and food is a leading choice for driving employee well-being and fostering high-performing cultures, especially for global companies and hybrid work models. With Sharebite, companies can centralize and simplify food ordering and expense management for employees who work in offices and remotely. On a one-for-one basis, every transaction supports a meal donation to food-insecure families via Sharebite's non-profit partners, including City Harvest and Feeding America.
The Series B investment was led by Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world. This investment marks Prosus' entry into the United States' food tech space, as Sharebite joins a leading portfolio including several of the world's largest food tech companies. Additionally, the round was backed by Fiserv and Contour Venture Partners, along with existing investors, Reign Ventures, London Technology Club, Packy McCormick's Not Boring Fund, and others.
Sharebite's enterprise-focused technology enables companies to easily deliver food to employees and manage expense allocation across all levels of the organization. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Sharebite supported local restaurants by waiving all commission fees and it tripled its donations to New York City's largest food rescue organization, City Harvest. It also coordinated the delivery of nearly one million lunch orders from local restaurants to first responders and frontline workers at every New York City hospital. To date, Sharebite remains one of the few companies that did not lay off a single employee due to the pandemic.
"Since day one, our technology was purpose-built for companies as an enabling mechanism for maximum employee engagement," says Dilip Rao, CEO & Co-founder of Sharebite. "Our Series B funding round enables us to further accelerate our market share within the highly profitable corporate segment. "With the backing of world-class partners like Prosus, along with Fiserv, Contour Ventures, Reign Ventures, and others, we will launch new products and optimize our offering to help companies create a better place to work for employees, with food benefits."
Founded in 2015 by Dilip Rao and Mohsin Memon, today Sharebite is the most comprehensive U.S. corporate food ordering platform. Sharebite empowers leading companies such as Activision Blizzard, WeWork, Neuberger Berman, and Harry's, by centrally managing employee food ordering and facilitating contactless deliveries at designated drop-off points inside office buildings. In early 2021, Sharebite launched its first fintech product called Passport which enables companies with hybrid work models to equitably provision meal allowances to employees so that they can purchase meals at any restaurant they choose. Sharebite restaurant partners benefit from the economies of scale associated with preparing and delivering large quantities of orders in batches ordered in advance. Each transaction made via Sharebite results in a donation made to City Harvest and Feeding America to help alleviate hunger in local communities. In all, Sharebite enables its corporate clients to save money, inspire workforces, support local restaurants, and commit to helping the community.
"Corporate meals represent a significant and largely neglected sector, creating room for an innovative and energetic start-up to thrive," said Brian Krivoy, Principal, Prosus Food. "Sharebite's comprehensive product offering, purpose-built B2B tech, and mission-driven orientation position it to fully capitalize on this opportunity. We are delighted to support the exceptional Sharebite team as they expand across the United States."
To learn more about Sharebite, visit www.sharebite.com.
Sharebite is the leading food benefits platform designed for the modern workforce. Combining team orders, flexible solutions, centralized meal allowances, curated restaurant choices, and community impact, Sharebite helps the world's best companies elevate employee engagement. Sharebite's corporate clients include category-leading companies across financial services, tech, legal, consulting, entertainment, agency, real estate, and other verticals. Every transaction made on the Sharebite platform results in a donation to alleviate hunger in local communities, via its partnerships with Feeding America and City Harvest.
Prosus is a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Operating and investing globally in markets with long-term growth potential, Prosus builds leading consumer internet companies that empower people and enrich communities. The group is focused on building meaningful businesses in the online classifieds, food delivery, payments and fintech, and education technology sectors.
Each month, more than 2 billion customers across the globe use the products and services of companies that Prosus has invested in, acquired, or built. To find out more, please visit www.prosus.com.
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Woody Allen told Alec Baldwin during a live interview Tuesday on Instagram that he is mulling ending his movie-making career, saying directing has lost its luster.
The two men — each facing significant controversies — steered clear of addressing either the abuse allegations against Allen or the shooting last year on Baldwin's movie set.
The public comment options were turned off, and the 45-minute interview attracted a modest audience of between 2,400-2,700. The two men chatted about Allen's writing, the use of profanity in films and the current state of Broadway. Allen lost his connection several times, with his screen freezing.
Allen, 87, said movie-making is not as exciting now that his films spend a few days in movie theaters and then directly go to streaming. “A lot of the thrill is gone,” he said. “It's not as enjoyable as it was.” Still, he plans to make his next movie later this year in Paris. "I’m going to make another one, and I’ll see how it feels.”
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Amid Attacks and Thefts, Some Retail Workers Want to Fight Back
There was the customer who stomped on the face of a private security guard. Then the one who lit herself on fire inside a store. The person who drank gasoline and the one who brandished an ax. An intoxicated shopper who pelted a worker with soup cans. A shoplifter who punched a night manager twice in the head and then shot him in the chest.
And there was the shooting that killed 10 people, including three workers, at the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, in March 2021. Another shooting left 10 more people dead at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store last month.
In her 37 years in the grocery industry, said Kim Cordova, a union president in Colorado, she had never experienced the level of violence that her members face today.
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So when she was negotiating contracts for 21,000 grocery workers in Colorado this past winter, the usual issues of wages and scheduling were certainly on the table. But just as critical, if not more so, was safety.
“What happened with COVID?” said Cordova, president of Local 7 of the United Food and Commercial Workers. “People have changed. Sometimes I wonder if I am living in a Netflix movie. This can’t be real.”
The union negotiated a contract that ensures workers have the right to defend themselves if a customer attacks them. It is a grim acknowledgment of not only the violence plaguing many facets of American society but the increasing unwillingness of retail employees to keep turning the other cheek to crime in their stores.
During the early months of the pandemic, stores became tinderboxes for a society frazzled by lockdowns, protests and mask mandates. Many workers say that tension persists, even as pandemic tensions recede, and that they need more protections.
According to a New York Times analysis of FBI assault data, the number of assaults in many retail establishments has been increasing at a faster pace than the national average.
From 2018 to 2020, assaults reported to the FBI by law enforcement agencies overall rose 42%; they increased 63% in grocery stores and 75% in convenience stores. The assault numbers can fluctuate depending on how many local police departments and other law enforcement agencies report to the FBI, and more departments reported in 2020 than 2018. Of the more than 2 million assaults reported to the FBI by law enforcement agencies across the country in 2020, more than 82,000 — about 4% — were at shopping malls, convenience stores and other similar locations.
Last year, the FBI said, more than half of active shooter attacks — in which an individual with a gun is killing or trying to kill people in a busy area — occurred in places of commerce, including stores.
“Violence in and around retail settings is definitely increasing, and it is a concern,” said Jason Straczewski, a vice president of government relations and political affairs at the National Retail Federation.
Tracking retail theft is more difficult because many prosecutors and retailers rarely press charges. Still, some politicians have seized on viral videos of brazen shoplifting to portray left-leaning city leaders as soft on crime. Others have accused the industry of grossly exaggerating losses and warned that the thefts were being used as a pretext to roll back criminal justice reforms.
“These crimes deserve to be taken seriously, but they are also being weaponized ahead of the midterm elections,” said Jonathan Simon, a professor of criminal justice at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School.
While the political debate swirls about the extent of the crime and its causes, many of the people staffing the stores say retailers have been too permissive of crime, particularly theft. Some employees want more armed security guards who can take an active role in stopping theft, and they want more stores to permanently bar rowdy or violent customers, just as airlines have been taking a hard line with unruly passengers.
Store employees have begun capturing episodes of violence, either against workers or between customers, on their phones in an effort to bring attention to the problem. A selection of videos were shared with the Times by a person who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation by the employers.
Stores, by their very design, can be a catch basin for society’s gravest challenges, such as homelessness and gun violence. And until those issues are solved more broadly, it is difficult to fortify spaces where the public is encouraged to roam freely and shop.
The crime is also a byproduct, in many ways, of the modern retailer’s business model, which arranges products out in the open in a spacious store to entice shoppers to buy more. Thin staffing and increased automation have boosted profits but make it easier for crime to flourish, workers say.
“These criminals feel like they own the store,” said Tony Settles, a clerk at a Safeway in downtown Denver. “The No. 1 thing that can fix this is accountability.”
Settles, 60, recently shouted at a man who had jumped over the customer service counter and stolen cartons of cigarettes. The man swore at him and then walked out of the supermarket unimpeded.
Employees typically lose their jobs if they physically try to stop or confront a shoplifter, a policy meant to protect them from harm. But this policy can seem to invite more crime, said Settles, who is on the executive board of Local 7 and has been trying to raise the alarm about employee safety and lobby for more security.
“If an employee gets caught stealing a candy bar, they get fired,” said Settles, who has worked in the grocery industry for 40 years. “But you have shoplifters who come in here and steal a whole buggy full of Tide. They leave, and we tell them not to come back. But they come back a few days later.”
In a statement, Safeway said: “Safeguarding our associates and customers is our No. 1 priority. For that reason, we permit only specially trained store personnel and security professionals to approach an alleged shoplifter.”
The statement added: “While acts of violence have increased across the country, we work closely with police departments to mitigate and address any threats of violence that may occur in and around our stores. The company also provides training to associates designed to protect their safety, including active shooter training.”
Some workers say companies are slow to act when they point out a potentially dangerous customer. Eden Hill, who works at a Fred Meyer supermarket in Richland, Washington, said colleagues had constantly warned management about a man who would spend hours in the store, talking especially to children. The store finally barred him, but “it took months,” Hill, 21, said.
Still, she said, she did not worry too much about her own safety until a man came into the store in February and shot and killed an Instacart worker and seriously injured a Fred Meyer employee.
After the shooting, Hill was so shaken that she needed colleagues to walk with her through the store. “I didn’t feel safe walking the floor anymore,” she said.
The grocery giant Kroger, which owns Fred Meyer, did not respond to requests for comment.
Some unions are demanding that retailers make official accommodations for employees who experience anxiety working with the public by finding them store roles where they do not regularly interact with customers.
“My members are open targets,” Cordova said.
David Brokke, 30, who works in the produce department at a Fred Meyer in Bellingham, Washington, said that one of his tires was slashed in the store’s parking lot a few months ago, and that the gas lines of colleagues’ cars had been cut while they worked.
Brokke had to take a sick day to get his tire fixed, and the company did not compensate him for the damage, he said. “I felt disrespected,” he said. “I was doing work for them, and this happened in their parking lot, and they don’t protect us.”
Kyong Barry, a front-end manager at a Safeway in Auburn, Washington, has no qualms about confronting a rude customer, she said, but she is deeply afraid of being caught in a mass shooting like the one in Buffalo last month.
“A lot of people are angry and frustrated and take it out on workers,” Barry said. “People are very touchy right now. There is something in the air. It is strange.”
She thinks the hands-off approach to shoplifting is leading to a broader breakdown. Barry, 59, who has been working in the grocery industry for more than 20 years and is a member of UFCW Local 3000, said she had recently noticed that regular customers were walking out the door without paying for items.
“It’s like a disease,” she said. “When there are no consequences, some people think: Why should I pay if others are not?”
Over the years, retailers have vacillated between taking a hard line on thieves and unruly customers and letting them go.
When Tony Sheppard started as a store detective for Montgomery Ward in Detroit in the 1990s, he carried handcuffs with him and had the authority to detain thieves. The next department store where he worked, in Boston, had a cell where he could lock up suspected transgressors.
“The industry took a hands-on approach back then,” said Sheppard, who is now a senior director at ThinkLP, a theft-prevention software firm. “But that could lead to legal issues if a suspect or a bystander got hurt.”
Punishments for retail theft have been eased over the past few decades in part to reduce incarceration rates. Many states now have a felony theft threshold of $1,000 or more, so even if a store reported a shoplifting case, some police departments would not be likely to make it a priority.
Retailers have tried imposing civil penalties on shoplifters, essentially threatening to sue them to cover the value of the stolen merchandise. But large companies like Walmart discontinued that practice after it was revealed that the retailers were hounding falsely accused customers.
The industry says it is putting much of its focus on stopping organized rings of thieves who resell stolen items online or on the street. They point to big cases like the recent indictment of dozens of people who are accused of stealing millions of dollars in merchandise from stores like Sephora, Bloomingdale’s and CVS.
But it is not clear how much of the crime is organized. Matthew Fernandez, 49, who works at a King Soopers in Broomfield, Colorado, said he was stunned when he watched a thief walk out with a cart full of makeup, laundry detergent and meat and drive off in a Mercedes-Benz SUV.
“The ones you think are going to steal are not the ones doing it,” he said. “From high class to low class, they are all doing it.”
Barry often gives money to the homeless people who come into her store so they can buy food. She also knows the financial pressures on people with lower incomes as the cost of living soars.
When people steal, she said, the company can write off the loss. But those losses mean less money for workers.
“That is part of my raise and benefits that is walking out the door,” she said. “That is money we deserve.”
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Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Tuesday he will lead the legal fight on behalf of Randy Cox, a Black man who was seriously injured in the back of a police van in Connecticut when the driver braked suddenly.
Crump also called for a federal civil rights investigation into the treatment of Cox, 36, who was being taken June 19 to a police station in New Haven, Connecticut, for processing on a weapons charge when his head struck the back wall of the van.
Crump said police mocked Cox’s cries for help and later dragged him by his feet from the van and placed him in a holding cell before he was taken to a hospital. Cox, whose legal first name is Richard, is in intensive care, paralyzed from the chest down, Crump said.
At a news conference Tuesday in front of New Haven Superior Court, Crump, who has been called Black America’s attorney general for his work on civil rights cases, led a crowd in chants of “Justice for Randy Cox.”
His co-counsel, Jack O’Donnell, said the legal team expects to file a federal lawsuit within 60 days, once it has reviewed all the evidence, including more than two hours of video.
Some of that, including footage from a camera that recorded the moments when Cox was injured, has been released publicly.
“I am here because when I looked at that video, it shocked my conscience,” Crump said. “And I believe when you all see that video, it’s going to shock your conscience. The only question is, why, when the police look at Randy Cox saying, ‘I can’t move,’ why doesn’t it shock their conscience?”
Five members of the New Haven police department have been put on leave while the episode is investigated.
Cox was handcuffed when he was in the back of the New Haven police van, which was not equipped with seat belts. He flew headfirst into a wall when Officer Oscar Diaz braked hard; he said it was to avoid a collision, police said.
Diaz resumed driving to the police department, despite Cox calling for help and saying he was injured and couldn’t move, according to the video and officials. A few minutes later, Diaz stopped the van to check on Cox, who was lying motionless on the floor.
Diaz then called paramedics but told them to meet him at the station instead of waiting for them where he was, police said.
At the station, officers dragged Cox out of the van by his feet and put him in a wheelchair, video shows. Police then booked Cox, took him out of the wheelchair and dragged him into a cell, where he was left on the floor, video shows.
Paramedics arrived minutes later and took Cox to a hospital, officials said.
Crump said Cox was accused of lying and told to get up several times by police.
“Where’s the first aid training? Where’s the on the job training? Where’s the accountability?” said Latoya Boomer, Crump’s sister, who attended the news conference with several other family members. “I want to know, where’s the person who sees what’s going on and says, ’Maybe he’s not joking. Maybe he’s not drunk. Maybe he is in distress.”
Scot Esdaile, the president of the Connecticut branch of the NAACP, said he is not convinced the hard braking of the van was an accident.
“People from the community have been coming to us for years talking about how they torture people in the back of paddy wagons,” he said. “They put people in the back of the paddy wagon; they go real fast and then they slam the brakes.”
New Haven Mayor Justin said last week that prisoner transport vans not equipped with seatbelts have been taken out of service and that the police department is working to install seatbelts in them.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981 apologized for his actions Tuesday and said he doesn’t remember what he was feeling when he fired the shots that also wounded three others.
John Hinckley Jr. told CBS Mornings in his first televised interview since he was freed from all court oversight this month that he feels sorry for all the lives his actions affected.
“I feel badly for all of them. I have true remorse for what I did,” Hinckley said. “I know that they probably can’t forgive me now, but I just want them to know that I am sorry for what I did.”
Going back to that day, Hinckley recalled Reagan walking out of the Washington Hilton after giving a speech: “And I was right there, and I fired shots at him, which so unfortunately hit other people, too.”
Asked what feelings led him to shoot, Hinckley said he can’t remember those emotions and doesn’t want to.
“It’s such another lifetime ago. I can’t tell you now the emotion I had right as (Reagan) came walking out. I can’t tell you that,” he said, later adding: “It’s something I don’t want to remember.”
Hinckley was 25 and suffering from acute psychosis when his gunshots wounded Reagan and three others. The assassination attempt paralyzed Reagan press secretary James Brady, who died in 2014. It also wounded a police officer and a Secret Service agent.
Hinckley told Major Garrett, CBS News’ chief Washington correspondent, that he’s glad he didn’t succeed. He said that at the time of the shooting he did “not have a good heart” and was doing things “a good person doesn’t do.”
Jurors found Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity and he spent decades at a mental hospital in Washington.
“I was not just a cold, calculating criminal in 1981,” he said. “I truly believe I had a serious mental illness that was preventing me from knowing right from wrong back then.”
Hinckley began making visits to his parents’ home in Williamsburg, Virginia, in the early 2000s. A 2016 court order granted him permission to live with his mother full time, albeit under various restrictions, after experts said his mental illness had been in remission for decades.
He signed a lease on a one-bedroom apartment in the Williamsburg area last year and has been living alone there with his cat, according to court documents. His mother died in July. He’s also been releasing songs online and looking for a venue willing to let him sing and play guitar before a live audience.
Hinckley had previously been under restrictions that barred him from owning a gun, using drugs or alcohol or contacting members of the victims’ families. But a federal judge in Washington had said months ago that he would free Hinckley from those restrictions if he remained mentally stable. Those restrictions were lifted on June 15.
Tuesday’s apology was not Hinckley’s first. His attorney Barry Levine said during a court hearing last year that Hinckley wanted to express his “heartfelt” apologies and “profound regret” to the people he shot and their families as well as to actress Jodie Foster, who he was obsessed with at the time of the shooting, and to the American people.
As Hinckley expressed his regrets on Tuesday, he said he hopes to soften the public’s perception of him.
“I’m just trying to show people I’m kind of an ordinary guy who’s just trying to get along like everybody else,” he said.
But he doesn’t expect to see forgiveness from his victims, saying: “I really don’t think that the Brady family or the Reagan family or Jodie Foster – I don’t think they want to hear from me.”
“I feel terrible for what I did,” he said. “If I could take it all back, I would. I swear — I would take it all back.”
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England U19 2-1 Italy U19: Jarell Quansah nets late winner as Young Lions come from behind to reach European Championships final
- Italy awarded penalty after Brooke Norton-Cuffy fouled Fabio Miretti
- Matthew Cox got a hand to Miretti's spot-kick but couldn't keep it out
- Alex Scott powered a header beyond the keeper from Alfie Devine's corner
- Jarell Quansah then headed home the winning goal from close range
Second-half goals from Alex Scott and Jarell Quansah saw England come from behind to book their place in the European Under-19 Championship final after beating Italy 2-1.
The semi-final victory means that Ian Foster's side will now face either France or Israel in Friday's final.
Italy took the lead after 12 minutes when Fabio Miretti was fouled inside the box and the midfielder slotted home from the spot.
Jarell Quansah (2nd left) celebrates with his teammates after scoring the second goal
Moments after coming onto the pitch, substitute Scott struck an equaliser in the 58th minute with a header from an Alfie Devine corner.
Quansah found the winner in the 82nd minute, heading home from another corner to ultimately fire England into the final.
Italy twice almost snatched injury-time equalisers though. First the immense Cox had to deny Gabriele Mulazzi when one-on-one and then from the resulting corner, Baldanzi sent an impressive half-volley from range towards the top corner and the Brentford goalkeeper needed to produce yet another superb save.
England could have wrapped up the game when two-on-one with the goalkeeper but Oyegoke decided to take the shot on instead of passing to Chukwuemeka and it was saved by Desplanches.
It meant the Young Lions had to endure a nervy final couple of minutes but they held for a memorable comeback win and a place in the final.
Alerx Scott equalises with a header moments after coming on as a substitute
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IRIDEX Corporation (NASDAQ:IRIX) Q1 2020 Earnings Conference Call May 11, 2020 5:00 PM ET
Company Participants
Leigh Salvo - Investor Relations
David Bruce - Chief Executive Officer
Jim MacKaness - Interim Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Tom Stephan - Stifel
Scott Henry - Roth Capital
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the First Quarter 2020 IRIDEX Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today Leigh Salvo, Investor Relations. Please go ahead ma'am.
Leigh Salvo
Thank you and thank you all for participating in today's call. Joining me are David Bruce, Chief Executive Officer; and Jim MacKaness, Interim Chief Financial Officer. Earlier today IRIDEX released financial results for the quarter ended March 28, 2020. A copy of the press release is available on the company's website.
Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that management will make statements during this call that include forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws which are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Any statements made during this call that are not statements of historical fact including but not limited to statements concerning our strategic goals and priorities, product development matters, sales trends, and the markets in which we operate. All forward-looking statements are based upon our current estimates and various assumptions.
These statements involve material risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to materially differ from those anticipated or implied by these forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should not place reliance on these statements.
For a discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with our business, please see our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the SEC. IRIDEX does not place any intention or obligation except as required by law to update or revise any financial projections or forward-looking statements whether because of new information, future events, or otherwise. This conference call contains time-sensitive information and is accurate only as of live broadcast today May 11 2020.
And with that I'll turn the call over to Dave.
David Bruce
Thank you, Leigh. Good afternoon and thank you all for joining us. Our last earnings call was only 60 days ago, but during that short time so much has changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all in many ways. We are especially appreciative of all who have been working tirelessly to deal with the COVID-19 incursion and continue to be inspired by their dedication, skills, and compassion of everyone from first responders to the medical staff to care facility workers who selflessly take on the personal risk of returning to the front lines every day.
I would also like to thank the IRIDEX team as we all reacted quickly in March to shift our headquarters operation to function remotely our sales and marketing activities to be effective in a virtual environment and coming together as a team showing dedication and flexibility under extraordinary circumstances.
For today's call I'd like to flip the order of discussion. I'd like to introduce to you Jim MacKaness who rejoined IRIDEX in March as Interim CFO who will start with a brief review of our first quarter performance.
Jim was previously the company's Chief Operating Officer from 2012 to 2015 and also served as CFO from 2008 to 2012. We're happy to have him back and value his expertise in these unprecedented times.
Following Jim's remarks, I'll comment on our response to the pandemic and our commitment to supporting physicians in glaucoma patients and current trends in our business plus our positioning for the long-term.
With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Jim.
Jim MacKaness
Good afternoon everyone and thank you Dave for the warm welcome. We find ourselves in very unusual circumstances with the advent of COVID-19, but I'm excited to be part of the IRIDEX team again.
I've always thought the Cyclo G6 product line represents a great opportunity for the company and have been impressed by the steps Dave and the team have taken in driving adoption and explaining the associated patient benefits to glaucoma physicians around the world.
With that said, I'll now turn to our Q1 results. Despite a strong start to 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread rapidly throughout the world and many regions began implementing strict guidelines for deferrable procedures consistent with many other medical device companies, we too were impacted.
Total revenue was $9.0 million, down from $10.6 million or 15% from the first quarter of last year. However, we should point out that revenues from our G6 probes increased $0.2 million over the comparable period last year.
We shipped 13,050 Cyclo G6 probes in the quarter and although that is lower than the 14,000 number shipped in Q1 last year, repeat customer sales were up as growing physician adoption offset the bulk discount placements offered last year.
We have previously mentioned that the move away from bulk discount placements towards probe utilization was part of our change in sales strategy and this shift has impacted our G6 system sales. We shipped 38 G6 systems in the quarter compared to 114 in the prior year period, the reduction being partially due to the shift in sales strategy and partially due to the COVID-induced capital purchase deferrals.
Overall, revenues for the Cyclo G6 product family was $2.9 million down 6% compared to the first quarter of 2019. The majority of the decline in total revenues compared to last year was experienced in our retina business down 25%. It should be noted that a large portion of our retina business is for the sales of capital equipment and these purchases tend to be back-end loaded in a quarter and a significant portion were deferred due to COVID-19.
Other revenues, which include royalties, service and other legacy products, increased 4% to $2.0 million in the first quarter of 2020 compared to 2019. Gross margin in the first quarter of 2020 was 43% compared to 40% in the first quarter of 2019. The increase in gross margin was primarily attributable to a favorable shift in product mix to per procedure products and discontinue the bulk discount placements of the Cyclo G6 product offering, which is our long-term strategy; and a decrease in manufacturing overhead spending partially offset by an increase in manufacturing overhead variances.
Operating expenses for the first quarter of 2020 decreased 24% to $5.6 million compared to $7.3 million in the same period of the prior year. The decrease in operating expenses was the result of significant cost-saving measures implemented in the second half of 2019.
The benefits of these cost-saving measures showed up in the narrowing of our operating loss even with reduced revenues. In the first quarter of 2020, we recorded a loss of $1.7 million versus $3.0 million in the prior year and the cash used in our operations for Q1 2020 was $1.5 million for the quarter compared to $3.8 million this time last year.
From a balance sheet perspective, we ended the first quarter of 2020 with $11.1 million in cash and cash equivalents and we continue to carry no debt. Subsequent to the quarter end, we received a $2.5 million loan under the U.S. Treasury Department's Paychecks Protection Program.
We welcome the intended purpose of the program, which has enabled IRIDEX to retain our team on payroll during the severe activity dislocation brought on by COVID-19 and we intend to use these funds for payroll to bridge the period until activities begin to recover and we will monitor and adjust our business activities as the U.S. and countries worldwide emerge from the pandemic.
Which brings us to guidance. We continue to believe that with COVID-19 outbreak and related uncertainties create a broadly variable business environment for us and as a result we are unable to provide a meaningful guidance range for 2020.
And with that I'd like to turn the call back to Dave.
David Bruce
Thanks, Jim. Prior to the onset of COVID-19, we saw a very encouraging momentum in the first couple of months of 2020 as the U.S. rollout of our revised MP3 probe expanded the interest of glaucoma physicians and our non-incisional MicroPulse laser therapy. As we noted in our Q4 earnings call in early March, interest at the American Glaucoma Society meeting doubled versus last year's meeting.
Previously, dormant customers were reengaging with us attracted to the improvements embodied in the revised probe and we had surpassed the 50% conversion of sites in the U.S. and we're well on our way to reaching our goal of completion by mid-year.
It's important to keep in mind that glaucoma is a progressive disease without a cure whose treatment paradigm requires a sequence of increasingly invasive approaches to slow the rate of disease progression. Therefore, the glaucoma procedures deferred because of COVID-driven restrictions still need to be performed and within an acceptable timeframe before incremental permanent damage could occur to patients' vision.
The interest in our non-incisional glaucoma therapy that effectively lowers IOP and extends the runway before patients need more complex incision-based surgeries remains intact despite the limits on current procedure volume and patient visit. Given this dynamic, we are confident in our intermediate and longer-term growth potential remaining very promising.
Late in Q1, measures began to be implemented to stop the spread of COVID-19 such as mandated shelter-in-place orders, recommendations for non-COVID patients to avoid hospitals, recommendations by the medical societies and governments to defer all non-urgent procedures and most ophthalmology offices closing and staffing furloughed or reduced to minimal activity for only urgent patient visits and procedures.
This resulted in our physician customers experiencing significant short-term limitations to conducting procedures and they also made decisions to defer capital equipment purchases in the second half of March that persisted through April. In fact in our outreach to existing G6 accounts during this period, approximately 25% were closed and the remainder were solely treating emergency cases.
IRIDEX has also taken steps to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 to our business operations and limit risk for our customer's, employees. We made adjustments to our business methods to remain in close contact with our customers employing more digital and virtual meetings and selectively visiting customers who were accessible and needed in order to continue to drive forward the momentum we achieved in the beginning of this year.
We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area and as such followed the recommendations from county government and health care agencies, in mid-March IRIDEX quickly transitioned almost all employees to a remote work environment. A small number of our team continues to support essential operations at our facilities after we instituted social distancing and other recommended measures to ensure their safety. We'll continue to follow local and national guidelines to determine the appropriate time to resume in-office functions.
Our sales organization has largely shifted to virtual sales activity and encouragingly has been able to continue strong engagement with customers. While not a replacement for global industry conferences, face-to-face meetings and on-site clinical training, we have effectively shifted to a broad virtual program, hosting a number of widely attended sales events and maintained continuity with key accounts as closely as possible.
One opportunity of the clinic and surgicenter closures is that physicians and staff are more available to engage with us. We've conducted over a dozen grand rounds in clinical training with eight to 15 physicians engaging in these virtual sessions, many more than we could typically engage at one-time when their clinical and surgical schedules were full.
As we speak today near the midpoint of the second quarter, we see two phases of activity within the quarter. In the first half there was widespread shutdown; and in the second half, we expect to see staged reopening. In the shutdown environment, only urgent procedures were performed in our transscleral laser therapy was a desirable choice for patients with high intraocular pressure that urgently needed treatment.
Early in April, we conducted a webinar discussing treatment choices and the role of IRIDEX procedures as a tool for that environment. We attracted over 300 registrants, 150 attendees and hundreds of follow-on viewings that demonstrated to us position interest in exploring the solution. Customers are telling us they were selecting our therapy for those urgent procedures, because the short procedure time and non-incisional effective IOP reduction was a solution that minimized exposure risk and especially important required only minimum patient follow-up.
The reopening phase is starting now. Surveys show 30% to 50% of surgery centers plan to reopen in May and many of the rest plan to reopen in June. And in a recent survey of ophthalmologists nearly half indicated they anticipated rescheduling patient cases before the end of second quarter. But our customers are also telling us to expect initially to be operating under reduced capacity to allow extended time for safe patient management and equipment cleaning. Some are estimating capacity at 50% initially and grown to 75% over a couple of months.
In this environment, we're encouraged to hear our customers saying the simplicity of our procedure and minimal patient follow-up are highly valued. So, while we've been promoting these value elements all along to drive adoption of extended non-incisional runway for progressing glaucoma patients, the importance and attractiveness has increased in this COVID environment.
We are engaged and ready to support our customers in the new environment by conducting remote proctoring for cases, web-based physician certification and educational seminars supporting customers and prospective customers.
For example, in the U.S. we've conducted more than 60 virtual physician trainings often with multi-doctor participation, including large groups at several major top-tier teaching institutions. We are encouraged by the engagement with our customers and progress that's achievable through these methods. Our international sales in glaucoma are primarily through premier distributors around the world. Our plans were to roll out the revised version of our MP3 probe internationally, but had to be adjusted in the restricted COVID world. In April, we conducted a worldwide virtual training for distributors with over 240 attendees, which was a record online meeting for us.
We followed that up with direct virtual detailed training with individual country distributors, staff and key opinion leaders in that country. Again, we're encouraged with the engagement and focus indicating the intermediate and longer-term potential remains very strong.
In the U.S., we're getting updates from our field team and are monitoring the news and market reports to determine the actual return of elective surgeries state-by-state and are encouraged by our strong presence in many states that are easing restrictions or plan to use such restrictions in the near term.
In regions outside the U.S., procedure recovery is progressing at various rates with Asia Pacific leading; the European Union showing limited recovery is starting, but still uncertain capacity or pace of opening; and Latin America and other regions are still evolving. Therefore, at this stage, there are simply too many variables to quantitatively predict procedure volumes, which type of procedures will be prioritized and in which markets.
Summarizing glaucoma, for all the reasons I've discussed, we believe IRIDEX is well positioned to recover and grow our volume as various regions of the U.S. and worldwide begin to expand patient visits and procedure volumes.
Our team is eager to move forward where it's safe and appropriate to do so, to support our customers and continue expanding the role for effective, durable, non-incisional glaucoma procedures.
Turning to our retina business. Our comprehensive medical and surgical platform continues to hold a leadership position in the treatment of a broad range of retinal diseases, however, that market remains competitive and price-sensitive.
Customers are also experiencing significant economic impacts from the deferral of procedure revenue, so we expect but can't yet quantify their shift in appetite for capital purchases. Some deferrals are clear, because of the shutdown periods at offices and surgery centers, and we experienced that at the end of the first quarter.
How laser system purchase volume recovers and to what degree short-term and longer-term is still uncertain. However, it's important to note that a significant portion of sales in a mature segment, like our retina and surgical laser systems, is replacement of old or failing equipment and tends to be more resilient. We expect that business to reflect the overall economic recovery of the practices.
An additional important segment of our retina business is disposable surgical EndoProbes. That is likely to follow a similar recovery for ophthalmic surgeries as we've discussed for our glaucoma probes.
In 2019, the combination of retina EndoProbes and glaucoma probes made up about half our overall revenue, and we're well positioned in both procedures for volume recovery to drive sales recovery.
However, so much variability in how recovery progresses makes forecasting difficult. What we control is our efforts to support and promote the benefits we deliver to which our team is fully committed.
With regards to our product development projects, we reported to you in March that our development and manufacturing partner for new laser systems in Wuhan, China, had experienced shutdowns and project delays as the Chinese government acted to restrict transmission of COVID-19.
They came back online in mid-March about the time IRIDEX became subject to shelter-in-place orders and began to work remotely. However, we are effectively working closely and making good progress toward a goal to achieve product launches later this year.
As we reported in March, we remain confident that we have a stable supply chain to meet projected demand and the operational efficiencies and capital resources to support our business during this period.
We believe normalcy will eventually return as the world works through the COVID-19 outbreak and we will accelerate our initiatives to drive demand for our glaucoma therapy.
We are optimistic we have newfound recognition in the glaucoma community for the enhanced role of our non-incisional effective and durable lowering of intraocular pressure that requires minimal patient follow-up. We continue to see the opportunity for significantly increasing our share of the treatment for the millions of moderate to severe glaucoma patients worldwide.
With that, I'd like to turn the call over to the operator for questions. Operator?
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Jon Block of Stifel. Your line is now open.
Tom Stephan
This is Tom on for Jon. Thanks for taking my questions. Maybe to start off --
David Bruce
Hi, Tom.
Tom Stephan
…any update on – how's it going? Any update on what percent of the G6 installed base is trained on the new P3 probe? I think, pre-COVID, the thought was to have 95% of the base trained by the end of 2Q, 2020, but now are there any new expectations as to when you might be able to train the majority of the installed base?
David Bruce
Yes. So we were about 50% of the way there, before the COVID restrictions kicked in. We have been conducting virtual training sessions, as I described and we're making progress. It's tough to quantify right now whether we're going to hit that 95% by the end of the second quarter.
But the interest is extremely strong and so the ability to proctor cases and move from virtual education to real case support virtually is still there just -- it may be delayed slightly, but we don't see it as a significant extension to the time to get that introduced and people converted over.
And then, internationally, we've shifted to a virtual approach as opposed to an in-person approach. And we're encouraged both with the participation by our distributor partners, but also our ability to reach through in conjunction with them on these virtual meetings to engage directly with key opinion leaders and leading customers. So we think that's going to progress very close to, as planned, and we're still thrilled with the response we're getting from users of the revised probe.
Tom Stephan
Got it. And maybe to stick with the revised probe. Is there any early data or any reads on utilization of it, so maybe from the doctors, you converted early on in the rollout sort of late last year? And maybe have any reorders kicked in yet from early adopters, or did COVID kind of throw a wrench on that?
David Bruce
No, they're absolutely reordering. Once someone converts over, they're typically very pleased with how much easier the procedure is to perform. And they're looking at their patient data outcomes to confirm consistency of outcomes and such. But remember that's a 30-day period before they do their first, call it, read on what the outcome is expected to be.
And then, I think, they also, in their mind, want to see three months, six months experience. So they are converting and continuing with the volume or more that they had done before. And we fully expect that they see the consistency that that same-store sales growth can continue upward, as they gain confidence in the procedure.
Tom Stephan
Got it. Okay. And then, last one, just switching gears to capital. Can you share with us how placements of the system trended in the first two months of the year, so just pre-COVID?
David Bruce
Yes. I mean, most of the system placements were in those first two months of the year, but typically capital equipment is backloaded. So you expect a higher portion of your volume in the last month and often in the last couple of weeks, which is right in the timing where COVID came along and deferred cases. So we're optimistic that it's solely a short-term economic impact and it's not a reduction in the interest.
And in fact, we think the contrary that there's stronger interest in our procedure, because of its benign profile in this environment. But capital equipment is going to experience some deferrals. Most of the information is anecdotal so far, so it's hard to quantify impact. But we expect there to be some and we're not quite sure how long that will last.
Tom Stephan
Great. Thanks, guys.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Scott Henry of Roth Capital. Your line is now open.
Scott Henry
Thank you. Good afternoon. I've got a few questions. First, I think, I've missed the retina number for the quarter. Could you give me that again?
Jim MacKaness
I'm looking down here. I don't know, if we called it out. We just called out 25%. Let me come back to you with the absolute number, yeah?
Scott Henry
Okay. It was down 25%? I see.
Jim MacKaness
Yeah. From Q1 of last year.
Scott Henry
Okay. I think I can estimate it at least from there. Second, when I look at spending in Q1 G&A in sales and marketing were down pretty good certainly from one year ago not as much from the second half of 2019. The question is do you think those are sustainably low rates, or will those bounce up? How should we think about spending going forward?
David Bruce
Spending in the first quarter was really the result of the significant adjustments, we made in the second half of last year. And we've talked about those and primarily reflective of those adjustments in the first quarter. If sales are down somewhat, there are incremental areas of sensitivity like commissions. Toward the end of the quarter, there was some reduction in travel and travel-related expenses. But by and large that's the run rate that we tried to set in place in advance of all this, not in anticipation of it but to put our cost structure in a position where our cash burn was under control as we grew the glaucoma business into breakeven and profitability.
Going forward, there are incremental savings in things like trade shows that can't be – that have been canceled and won't be attended. There's virtually been no travel quarter to date. We'll see how that opens as access improves in the second part of this quarter. But we think those reductions are sustainable and there are other incremental things that I've just mentioned that can help us keep the expense rate under control as we drive the recovery.
Scott Henry
Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that color. And I know you're not giving guidance so this isn't meant to gauge any specific projections. But I'm just wondering, how we should think about Q2 versus Q1? Obviously Q1, you had the first two months which were probably relatively un-impacted but you end up doing most of your business in the last month of the quarter. So in 2Q, you're probably not doing much business at all as far as capital equipment sales. But then maybe in June you will or won't you? I mean, I'm just trying to think of how – what kind of lag we might see before people start buying capital equipment again? And just your thoughts on Q2 relative to Q1?
David Bruce
Yeah. In Q2, obviously for the first half, it's had a significant essentially shutdown of disposables and not that, we haven't seen a flow, because of emergency procedures but that's pretty significant impact. And it's just very difficult to predict what happens in the second half with disposable procedures. Now, we do know and hear from physicians that they're eager to get procedures back online and going both from a patient therapy standpoint, because there's only a limited amount of delay that is available for glaucoma patients in their therapies but also for their own economics to get the business back on track. So on that we see it as really limited by their ability to come back online and what efficiency, what operating rate capacity compared to their prior call it 100% capacity.
In terms of capital equipment we do think that there's going to be delays. There has been so far in the quarter as you would expect with most practices being shut down and remains to be seen how the end of quarter order demand appears. But we think it's going to be a tough quarter for capital equipment.
Scott Henry
Okay. And the probe sales in Q1 were strong. Certainly for the first quarter of the year and given what went on. My question is how do you think probe inventory is at your customers? Is it normal such that probe utilization can reflect end user demand, or might there be an inventory work down out there given that nothing's really happening right now?
David Bruce
I think since the introduction of the Rev two version of the probe there has been some inventory management aspects to it working off the older inventory and not ordering as much. And whether it's been worked through in the fourth quarter and the first quarter, there's more to be done in the second quarter as volumes come back.
It's hard to be precise but we expect a lot of that has been worked through at least in the United States where we have direct contact with the customers. And we think – it's hard to know when a procedure is done how long – how much inventory they burn before they order and then what their shelf stock goals are and those kinds of things. But we think going forward be more closely representative of procedure volume even if it lags a bit.
Scott Henry
Okay. And just a final question. You grouped revenue into the three categories G6 retina and other. How does that other tend to hold up? I mean is that a little more of a stable business line than retina and G6? Just curious as it is kind of a catch-all but – any color would be appreciated.
Jim MacKaness
It's going to show a little bit of stability to begin with. It will potentially sort of have more an inflection later. The reason is these components are we have a royalty component reported from a partner which is a one quarter lag. So their Q1 report comes into our Q2. And then it's also a lot of its service – a bit of paid service but also service contracts. So within Q2 probably holding up fairly well and then there'll be a little bit of a lag and we might see a little bit of compression in Q3 before it sort of recovers.
Scott Henry
Okay. Great. Thank you for taking the questions.
Operator
Thank you. And ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude our question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the call back over to David Bruce, CEO for any closing remarks.
David Bruce
Thank you, again and thanks everyone for joining the call today. We look forward to updating you on our progress as we continue to execute our initiatives and drive the recovery from COVID-19.
Operator
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
8-9-6-9
(eight, nine, six, nine)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
8-9-6-9
(eight, nine, six, nine) | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17271829.php | 2022-06-28T18:20:12Z | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17271829.php | true | null |
Neal Brown has added some support up front.
WVU received its second offensive line commitment on Tuesday after tackle Johnny Williams IV announced his intent to join the program on Twitter. Williams is the 17th commitment for the Mountaineers in its 2023 class, which was ranked No. 15 in the country before his addition.
Williams, a product of Northeast High in Macon, Georgia, is listed at 6-foot-7, 315 pounds. He fielded offers from several Power Five programs, including Miami, Oregon, NC State, Georgia and Florida State.
The offensive tackle is a consensus three-star prospect and the 30th-ranked tackle in the nation by 247Sports, and the No. 70 tackle by Rivals. | https://www.wboy.com/goldandbluenation/wvu-football/2023-offensive-line-prospect-picks-wvu/ | 2022-06-28T18:20:50Z | https://www.wboy.com/goldandbluenation/wvu-football/2023-offensive-line-prospect-picks-wvu/ | false | null |
Arrests reported by the Marshall Police Department
- Rickey Joe Kuykendall, 69, of Marshall was arrested and charged with a warrant issued by another agency on Saturday.
Incidents reported by the Marshall Police Department
- Deadly conduct discharge of a firearm was reported on S Indian Springs Dr. on Saturday.
- Aggravated assault causes serious bodily injury was reported on W Pinecrest Dr. on Sunday.
- Criminal mischief was reported on I20E On Monday.
Arrests reported by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office
- Dustin Leigh Bias, 29, of Hallsville was arrested on assault causing bodily injury, family violence and interfering with public duties on Sunday.
- Terry Wayne Bruton, 50, of Texarkana was arrested for possession of a controlled substance on Monday.
- Tammy McCathran Decker, 49, of Marshall was arrested for organized retail theft between $50 and $500 on Monday.
- Jacortney Doughtery, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on Monday.
- Ryan Tyler Eley, 32, of Paris was arrested and charged with fraud use or possession of identifiable information on Friday.
- Jose Alfredo Guevara-Reyes, 42, of Longview was arrested and charged with failure to maintain financial registration, speeding, speeding 10 percent above limit, and no drivers license.
- Orozco Irvin Jaimes, was arrested on Monday for reckless driving.
- Andru Lamarcus Kelly, 42, of Longview was arrested and charged with evading arrest or detention with vehicle, unsafe speed, driving while license invalid on Friday.
- Lyndon Ray Maguire, 56, of Diana was arrested and charged with interfering with public duties and possession of drug paraphernalia on Sunday.
- Cindy Lou Marshall, 60, of Diana was arrested and charged with theft of a firearm, possession of drug paraphernalia and disorderly conduct on Sunday.
- Taye Thoma Payne, 24, of Shreveport LA. was arrested and charged with reckless driving, possession of marijuana, and no drivers license on Saturday.
- Alejandro Enrique Lawrence Perez, 20, of Marshall was arrested and charged with engaging in organized criminal activity, theft of property between $100 and $750 on Friday.
Luwrence Richard Siford, 59, of Marshall was arrested and charged with terroristic threat of a family or household member on Sunday. | https://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/police-reports/article_bae1ad08-f646-11ec-8c1c-27dcdb11118f.html | 2022-06-28T18:23:04Z | https://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/police-reports/article_bae1ad08-f646-11ec-8c1c-27dcdb11118f.html | true | 1 |
Ethan Hawke Breaks Down One of the Creepiest Aspects of His Menacing Mask in ‘The Black Phone’
The Black Phone is the latest horror movie from director Scott Derrickson, and it brings to life the horrors of the Grabber (played by Ethan Hawke), who preys on young boys and traps them in his basement to play deadly “games” with them. The film is based on story by Joe Hill and is named as such because of a disconnected black phone that rings to the main character Finney (Mason Thames) as he’s trying to escape the Grabber’s clutches.
One of the things that makes Hawke’s portrayal of the Grabber so menacing is his ever-evolving mask. The Grabber’s mask will shift, from showing a portion of his face to fully covering it with a frown, or splitting his face, and any range of combinations. And the fear of what mask the Grabber is going to have when he comes to see Finney is one that leaves you on the edge of your seat.
Tom Savini designed the masks, and Hawke had nothing but praise for the work that Savini did with them. “The man who designed the masks is a kind of brilliant designer, and he and Scott had the idea that the wouldn’t it be interesting if the mask constantly evolved?” Hawke said to me at the roundtable. “So it had one kind of iconic image, but that it was constantly changing, smiling, frowning, no mouth, the left side of the face, the right side of the face, the top, the bottom. And just any mask work gives you a sense of playfulness and it makes body language so important and it makes vocal work so important. But the idea that the mask itself was evolving and could say something about who the character was. It was so fun to have all these different masks out and decide which one to wear for which scene. And Scott always had really good ideas about what he wanted and it was so new for me.”
Hawke went on to compare the mask work to that of how a Greek tragedy would work and how it allowed him freedom. “I mean, playing this type of horrible human being was new,” he said. “And also, there’s an aspect of Greek tragedy at work, right? You know, those old fashioned Greek dramas where you are representing this evil id of the universe in this basement. I don’t know what I like about the first horror movie I did with Scott, Sinister, and with this one, there was a real sense of play. We were just playing and like it’s midnight and you’re sitting around a campfire and you’re just telling everybody a spooky story and you get really into it. You know, that’s the fun of this genre.”
You can see Ethan Hawke as the Grabber in The Black Phone, in theaters now.
(featured image: Universal)
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SVALBARD Sign To Nuclear Blast Records
June 28, 2022, 43 minutes ago
Nuclear Blast Records has announced that Svalbard has signed to the label globally. Formed in Bristol, UK in 2011, the blackened post-hardcore group has since released three studio albums, three EPs, and several split releases. Their latest studio album, When I Die, Will I Get Better?, cemented Svalbard as a powerful and vital component of our global music scene.
Svalbard's Serena Cherry stated, "I have many fond memories of visiting my local record shop and buying anything that had the Nuclear Blast logo stamped on it. You always knew you were in for a tasty metal treat with a Nuclear Blast band! Most days I have to pinch myself that we have now joined Nuclear Blast, it is a real dream come true for me to work with this amazing label."
Svalbard's Liam Phelan stated, "I'm absolutely thrilled that we have been welcomed into the Nuclear Blast family with open arms and cannot wait to work with this iconic label."
Nathan Barley Phillips, Senior Nuclear Blast A&R stated, "I'm absolutely delighted to welcome Svalbard to Nuclear Blast! Ever since I heard the raw and visceral emotion of 'Disparity' back in 2015, I was an instant fan. With biting lyrics and a keen observation of today's societal issues, Svalbard continues to be one of the most important and challenging voices in the heavy scene today. I’m delighted to be able to amplify this voice as the band gets set to make an indelible mark on our genre."
Svalbard's back-catalogue is now available via Nuclear Blast, rediscover the catalog here.
Svalbard will be touring Europe in March 2023 with Cult Of Luna and Russian Circles.
Lineup:
Vocals/Guitar - Serena Cherry
Guitar - Liam Phelan
Drums - Mark Lilley
Bass - Matt Francis | https://bravewords.com/news/svalbard-sign-to-nuclear-blast-records | 2022-06-28T18:23:40Z | https://bravewords.com/news/svalbard-sign-to-nuclear-blast-records | true | 1 |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
1-7-5-6, Fireball: 6
(one, seven, five, six; Fireball: six)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
1-7-5-6, Fireball: 6
(one, seven, five, six; Fireball: six) | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Midday-game-17271781.php | 2022-06-28T18:28:10Z | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Midday-game-17271781.php | true | null |
Rahul Gandhi holds meeting with Karnataka Cong leaders, discusses strategy for assembly polls
- Country:
- India
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday held a meeting with senior leaders from Karnataka and discussed the party's preparedness and campaign strategy for the upcoming assembly elections in the southern state.
Among those present in the meeting included former Karnataka chief minister Siddharamaiah, PCC president D K Shiv Kumar, AICC general secretary in-charge for Karnataka affairs Randeep Surjewala and AICC general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal.
''Along with K C Venugopal ji and Randeep Surjewala ji, met senior leaders from Karnataka Congress, Siddaramaiah ji and D K Shivakumar ji. We had fruitful discussions on the party’s preparations, campaigns and strategy for the forthcoming assembly elections in Karnataka,'' Gandhi later said on Facebook, while sharing the pictures of the meeting.
The Congress is seeking to wrest power from the ruling BJP in the upcoming assembly elections in Karnataka which are due next year.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Priyanka Gandhi, CMs Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel join Rahul Gandhi in march to ED office. | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/politics/2090348-rahul-gandhi-holds-meeting-with-karnataka-cong-leaders-discusses-strategy-for-assembly-polls | 2022-06-28T18:28:42Z | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/politics/2090348-rahul-gandhi-holds-meeting-with-karnataka-cong-leaders-discusses-strategy-for-assembly-polls | true | 1 |
Manchester United have had peaks and troughs since Sir Alex Ferguson left the club in 2013, but overall it’s been something of a wilderness that the clubs finds itself in nearly a decade on. New manager Erik ten Hag is trying to restore the glory days at Old Trafford and is even planning on returning to some of Ferguson’s old rules.
The Dutch manager has made some crucial changes to the routine at Carrington, which includes having the players at the training ground for 09:00am, harking back to one of the rules that has been lost since Ferguson departed. That was reported by The Mirror along with several other changes.
As well as bringing in double-sessions in order to improve fitness, ten Hag is trying to ensure that the drills being done are more varied in a bid to increase the speed of adaptation to his methods. Players will now be required to eat at the training ground together to foster team cohesion and the grass has been cut shorter in order to quicken the pace of the ball.
These methods are not ground-breaking changes, yet the fact they weren’t already in place shows the margin for improvement at Old Trafford. While ten Hag undoubtedly has a large task, it appears he is taking a hands-on approach and leaving nothing to chance. Whether he can get everyone on board with his revolution could be decisive. | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/06/28/erik-ten-hag-continues-manchester-united-revolution-with-changes-in-training/ | 2022-06-28T18:28:57Z | https://www.caughtoffside.com/2022/06/28/erik-ten-hag-continues-manchester-united-revolution-with-changes-in-training/ | false | 1 |
Augur (REP) traded down 1.7% against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 13:00 PM E.T. on June 28th. During the last seven days, Augur has traded 4.4% higher against the US dollar. One Augur coin can now be purchased for $8.53 or 0.00041334 BTC on major exchanges. Augur has a market capitalization of $93.82 million and $16.73 million worth of Augur was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004849 BTC.
- Mammoth (MMT) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.78 or 0.00008644 BTC.
- BITCOIN ADDITIONAL (BTCA) traded 30.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $14,477.48 or 0.70160000 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00004845 BTC.
- THETA (THETA) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $5.25 or 0.00010640 BTC.
- yOUcash (YOUC) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.51 or 0.00002473 BTC.
About Augur
According to CryptoCompare, “This page represents Augur v2, which is a fork of the Augur prediction market protocol designed to improve efficiency. Prediction markets like Augur v2 are designed so users can place bets on a variety of different events. With this fork, Augur v2 rolled out a suite of improvements around dispute management, settlements, forking, and more. Prediction markets are widely considered the best forecasting tool. Augur is an open, global platform where anyone anywhere can create, monitor or trade in prediction markets about any topic. Think of it as an “Early Warning System'' with the most accurate event forecasts, a potential “Google Search”, “Bloomberg Terminal” or “Reuters Terminal” for crowdsourced event forecasts. The system plans to use the “Wisdom of Crowds'' (“collective intelligence'') via market incentives, “Long Tail'' dynamics and blockchain technology to securely generate a more accurate, robust and unfiltered array of dynamic event forecasts than any alternative can match. Augur is decentralized, self-regulating, pseudonymous and autonomous. It offers the promise of markets without exposure to counterparty risk, principal-agent problems or central points of control, failure or censorship. No person is ever in direct control of someone else’s funds or in a position to single-handedly threaten the system’s integrity. The software is comprised of smart contracts perpetually deployed on a blockchain network, which enables applications deployed to be immune to local outages while benefiting from the entire community's security. All interactions with markets are communicated as database transactions between unique accounts powered by immutable software instructions. Augur v2 Launches “The Augur v2 protocol contracts have been successfully deployed to the Ethereum Mainnet. The contracts have been verified on Etherscan, and the deployers address can be found here.” See more info on the Augur V2 deployment here. “
Buying and Selling Augur
It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Augur directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Augur should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, Coinbase or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Augur using one of the exchanges listed above.
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WASHINGTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regent University and Family Research Council released a new report today titled "Why International Religious Freedom is Vital to International Development: Causal Connections and Policy Recommendations." The report focuses on how agencies responsible for administering America's foreign development assistance should promote religious freedom abroad. This report also points to the evidence that economic growth can only be fully realized for developing nations when religious freedom is protected.
Regent's Dr. A. J. Nolte and FRC's Arielle Del Turco, who jointly authored the report, observe: "According to USAID's mission statement, it exists in part to 'promote and demonstrate democratic values abroad, and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world.' One of the most meaningful ways USAID can do this is by promoting religious freedom around the world. The reality is that the expansion of religious freedom contributes to many international development goals, and programming geared toward promoting international religious freedom (IRF) can play a positive role in advancing this fundamental human right for all people."
The report goes on to assert: "Because of the correlation between religious freedom and economic growth, the U.S. government's foreign assistance efforts would greatly benefit from promoting international religious freedom programming and projects. If the U.S. government wants to have a long-lasting impact in the countries it seeks to strengthen, then promoting religious freedom must be a part of the solution."
The report's co-author Arielle Del Turco commented on the study:
"Research demonstrates a strong link between religious freedom and economic growth and development. If the U.S. government wants to have a positive long-term impact on developing societies, then advancing religious freedom must be a part of the game plan. U.S. development efforts should be focusing on protecting persecuted communities and contributing to stable societies that embrace religious freedom. This will allow them to prosper."
"Religious freedom—defined as the ability to choose, change, and live in accordance with your faith—is core to who we are. We do people in the developing world a serious disservice by overlooking this fundamental human right. By fostering religious freedom in the developing world, we can help set countries up for success," Del Turco concluded.
The full report, and the corresponding issue brief, can be found here: https://www.frc.org/internationaldevelopment
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The Central government’s reported plan to create 75 Tiruppur-like textile hubs in the country reflects over-ambition as it has come at a time when the survival of even the existing cotton-based industry is at stake due to high prices and shortage of the basic raw material. Cotton prices are ruling at an 11-year high, rising by nearly 30 per cent in the past year alone, due to virtual stagnation in production and bourgeoning domestic and export demand. Nearly 10 per cent of the spinning units in the South, including many in Tiruppur, have shut down and most factories elsewhere are operating at less than half their capacity. The competitiveness of the Indian cotton products, including garments, has been hit hard, resulting in some export orders getting diverted to rivals such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Worse still, the situation is predicted to endure even in the next cotton year (2022-23) as the remedial measures taken by the government have failed to produce the desired results.
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US migrant deaths: what we know
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Fifty undocumented migrants died after the tractor-trailer rig they were being smuggled in was abandoned Monday outside of San Antonio, Texas. Here is what we know about the tragedy:
- Who were the migrants? -
Officials at the scene intially put the toll at 46, and said 16 people, 12 adults and four children, were taken to hospital. The toll was later increased to 50, and media reports said several had died in hospital.
US officials did not give any breakdown by age, gender or nationality of the dead. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said 22 were from Mexico, seven from Guatemala and two from Honduras. Lopez Obrador said he did not have information about the nationality of the others.
It is unclear whether there were other people who escaped earlier from the trailer.
- How were they found? -
The large tractor-trailer they were in was abandoned on the side of a road in a sparsely populated area about eight miles (14 kilometers) from the center of San Antonio. It was beside a railroad track and near several auto junkyards and car parts businesses.
It was also just a short distance from Interstate 35, which connects San Antonio with Laredo, a major hub on the Texas-Mexico border, 250 kilometers (150 miles) to the south.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said authorities were first alerted to the trailer by an emergency call at about 5:50 pm local time (2250 GMT).
He said a worker in a nearby building heard a cry for help and went to investigate. The worker found the trailer with its door partly open, and looked in to see a number of dead bodies.
- How did they die? -
San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said the trailer was designed as a refrigerated space yet did not have a working air conditioning unit.
Sixteen people, including four children, were taken from the trailer alive apparently suffering from acute heatstroke and dehydration. The high temperature in San Antonio Monday was 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39.4 degrees Celsius).
According to Patterson, which makes cooling equipment for trailers, temperatures in hot weather can rise to as much as 150 degrees inside an uncooled, unvented trailer.
- Who's behind the tragedy? -
Still unknown. McManus said three people have been detained, but added that officials were not certain they were involved. Border officials say well-organized human smuggling rings run such operations, earning large sums of money from those wanting to sneak into the United States.
On June 14, 80 people from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador were discovered inside a tractor-trailer at a highway checkpoint north of Laredo, Texas. Three weeks earlier, agents intercepted a trailer with 48 people inside near Sierra Blanca, Texas.
President Joe Biden said the incident "underscores the need to go after the multi-billion-dollar criminal smuggling industry preying on migrants and leading to far too many innocent deaths." | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10962223/US-migrant-deaths-know.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-06-28T18:37:35Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-10962223/US-migrant-deaths-know.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true | 4 |
Updated June 28, 2022 at 2:36 PM ET
The Jan. 6 committee is holding a hearing Tuesday with Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Mark Meadows aide, as a witness. The committee announced the hearing on Monday "to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony" after saying there would be no additional hearings until July.
Given the urgency of the hearing and the significant pieces of information Hutchinson already shared with the Democrat-led committee, expectations are growing that this former top Republican staffer will reveal something explosive when she sits down to testify.
This story will be updated throughout Tuesday's 1 p.m. hearing. Watch the livestream above and follow live updates below.
Update 2:35 p.m. ET:
Flynn pleads the fifth: Former President Trump spoke with former political adviser Roger Stone and former national security adviser Michael Flynn on the evening of Jan. 5, according to Hutchinson. Stone was photographed with members of the Oath Keepers on Jan. 6, a militia with members who have pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy in connection with Jan. 6.
Text messages released by a member of the Oath Keepers have shown they discussed providing security for Flynn and Stone on Jan. 6.
Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., showed testimony in which Flynn pleaded the Fifth Amendment several times, including in this exchange:
Cheney: "General do you believe in the peaceful transition of power in the United States?"
Flynn: "Fifth."
Cheney noted that Trump granted Stone clemency and pardoned Flynn, who were both convicted on charges related to misleading federal investigators.
Meadows dialed into a meeting at the Willard Hotel where Trump allies including Rudy Giuliani had set up what they called a "war room" in advance of Jan. 6, Hutchinson testified. She said she urged Meadows against attending in person, which was his original plan.
Update 2:21 p.m. ET:
In the car after the speech: The president was under the impression that he would be taken to the Capitol following his rally speech, Hutchinson said.
When he learned there were no security assets and Trump would have to return to the White House, Trump grew "irate" and attempted to grab the steering wheel of the car, she testified. Hutchinson was not in the car, but heard it from others with no one correcting the record, she said.
" 'I am the effing president, take me up to the Capitol now,' " Hutchinson testified that the president said.
Trump talked about walking to the Capitol, where he might give a speech or enter the House chamber. And when staff stopped those plans, Trump attempted to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limousine to drive there, she said.
Update 1:55 p.m. ET:
Cipollone's warning: Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone warned Hutchinson on Jan 3. against going to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
"He said to me, 'We need to make sure that this doesn't happen. This would be a legally terrible idea for us' ... he then urged me to continue relaying that to Mr. Meadows," she told the panel.
On the morning of Jan. 6, Cipollone issued another warning.
" 'Please make sure we don't go up to the Capitol, Cassidy ...We're going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen,'" she said, adding that charges discussed in the days leading up to the rally were defrauding the electoral count or obstructing justice.
Cipollone, a key attorney in Trump's Senate impeachment defense, was among the Trump aides who pushed back against a plan to pressure the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a Senate Judiciary Committee report
Update 1:45 p.m. ET:
Trump knew some in crowd on Jan. 6 were armed before urging them to march on the Capitol: In a videotaped testimony, Hutchinson said that when she attended the Jan. 6 rally at the White House ellipse, she overheard a conversation with the president saying he knew people had "many weapons."
"When we were in the off-stage announce tent, I was part of a conversation ... I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the president say something to the effect of, 'You know, I don't effing care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the effing [magnetometers] away,'" Hutchinson said during her testimony,
"He said something to the effect of, you know, eff the Secret Service. I'm the president. Take the effing mags away. They're not here to hurt me,'" she added.
Hutchinson also said the White House counsel's office was worried about Trump's plans to march to the Capitol would cause legal issues, and were concerned about lines in Trump's speech that day, including telling people to march on the Capitol and to "fight."
Trump was informed people were armed by Tony Ornato, his deputy chief of staff for operations who oversaw all security at the White House, according to Hutchinson. She said that Meadows did not act on the information.
Police radio transmissions played by the Jan. 6th committee revealed that among the thousands of people attending the Stop the Steal rally before the attack on the Capitol, some were armed with AR-15s and glocks, including someone in a tree that Secret Service was aware of who had an AR-15.
Hutchinson testified that she had heard reports of D.C. police arresting people with firearms or ammunition on the night of Jan. 5 at a pro-Trump rally on Freedom Plaza.
Update 1:40 p.m. ET:
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers: Hutchinson previously testified to hearing the words "Proud Boys" and "Oath Keepers" more often on the days leading up to Jan. 6. She testified to intelligence reports that warned of the potential for violence that week.
Some of the reports included listings for events like "Fight for Trump" with descriptions like: "We need to flood the Capitol Building and show America, and the senators and representatives inside voting that we won't stand for election fraud!"
The White House continued to receive information including about extremist groups like the Proud Boys, who were planning these events for Jan. 6, Hutchinson said.
Capitol Police warned that Proud Boys and other groups were planning to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 and "unlike previous post-election protests, the targets of the pro-Trump supporters are not necessarily the counter-protesters as they were previously, but Congress itself if the target on the 6th," according to reports shown by the committee.
Update 1:35 p.m. ET:
Hutchinson's conversations leading up to Jan. 6: In response to questions from Cheney about a conversation with Rudy Giuliani on Jan. 2, Hutchinson told the panel that was the first night she was scared as planning for the rally continued.
Giuliani, Hutchinson said, told her that on Jan. 6 the president and others would go to the Capitol. Hutchinson asked Meadows about the conversation and asked him about those plans.
"He didn't look up from his phone and said something to the effect of 'there's a lot going on, Cass, but I don't know, things might get real, real bad on Jan. 6,'" she recalled. "In the days before Jan. 2 I was apprehensive about the 6th ... when hearing Rudy's take on the 6th and Mark's response, that was the first moment that I remember feeling scared and nervous about what could happen."
In previously recorded video interviews, Hutchinson said that former Trump Director of Intelligence John Ratcliff didn't believe that the administration should be attempting to overturn the election and disagreed with the White House's handling of the post-election period.
Update 1:10 p.m. ET:
Opening statement from Vice Chair Liz Cheney: The leading Republican on the Democrat-led panel introduced Cassidy Hutchinson as the principal aide of Meadows who worked in the West wing.
Hutchinson is expected to testify on firsthand observations of Trump and his advisors' conduct on Jan. 6, and what they knew about the prospect of violence on that day. She will be questioned live and previous testimony will be seen through videos.
Opening statement from Chair Bennie Thompson: Committee Chair D-Miss., Bennie Thompson explains the purpose of the Tuesday's last-minute hearing, saying:
"The Select Committee has obtained new information dealing with what was going on in the White House on January 6th and in the days prior . . . specific, detailed information about what the former president and his top aides were doing and saying in those critical hours."
"The truth won't be buried," he added.
Update 12:45 p.m. ET:
A meeting before the hearing: Members of the Jan. 6 met in a sensitive compartmented information facility, according to two people familiar with the meeting, a secured House briefing room usually used for dealing with classified information that requires extra protection against leaks and eavesdropping technology.
Original story posted at 8:50 a.m. ET:
Cassidy Hutchinson, the Mark Meadows aide who appeared in videotaped testimony before the Jan. 6 committee last week, is the panel's surprise witness for Tuesday's hearing, NPR has confirmed.
The committee announced Monday that it would hold a hearing Tuesday "to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony."
The hearing announcement was unexpected; the committee was on brief hiatus until the week of July 11.
This will be the sixth hearing for the Democrat-led committee, which has spent the last few weeks building a case around former President Donald Trump and his influence on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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Hitch-Mounted Cargo Carriers for Road Trippers
Forget roof racks. For a more accessible way to stow your gear, check out these hitch-mounted carriers.
Packing the car for a road trip can be stressful when you're working with limited space. If you can't get everything to fit using your best Tetris skills, then it may be time to consider some external storage options.
While roof racks are popular, they're not great for your vehicle's aerodynamics or your back. Hitch-mounted cargo carriers, on the other hand, can be easy to load and unload, and since they're tucked behind the vehicle, they carry less of a fuel-economy penalty than a roof box. Plus, some boast impressive volume and weight capacities that roof racks can't touch.
We talked to experts from Car and Driver about which hitch-mounted cargo carriers they use and recommend. We also searched Amazon for the top consumer-rated picks. Here are the ones you should consider. Just don't forget the hitch.
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Senators ask minor leaguers for information on MLB antitrust
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to an advocacy group for minor leaguers asking questions about baseball's antitrust exemption.
Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who chairs the committee, and Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, sent the letter Tuesday to Harry Marino, executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers. The letter, first reported by The Washington Post, also was signed by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
The senators asked for information on “the impact of the antitrust exemption on the negotiation of minor league players' length of contract, wages, housing or other working conditions.”
Baseball's antitrust exemption was created by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1922 case involving the Federal League, when Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a decision that baseball was not interstate commerce but exhibitions exempt from antitrust laws. The Supreme Court reaffirmed the decision in a 1953 case involving New York Yankees farmhand George Toolson and in the 1972 Curt Flood decision, saying any changes should come from Congress.
The Curt Flood Act of 1998, which President Bill Clinton signed, applies antitrust laws to MLB affecting the employment of major league players at the major league level.
Perhaps the biggest impact of the exemption is that it allows MLB to prevent a franchise from moving to a different city without MLB permission.
The U.S. Justice Department filed a statement of interest this month in a lawsuit filed by four minor league teams urging that “lower courts should limit the `baseball exemption' to conduct that is central to the business of offering professional baseball games to the public.” The lawsuit, by teams that lost their big league affiliations when MLB cut the minors before the 2021 season, is pending in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Congress exempted minor league players from federal minimum wage and overtime laws when the Save America's Pastime Act was enacted in 2018.
The senators' letter asked what the impact of repealing that act would be.
MLB and minor leaguers reached a settlement in April in a long-running lawsuit alleging teams violated minimum wage laws. Two people familiar with the negotiations, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the release of details was not authorized, said the possible settlement was in the $200 million range. The two sides asked a federal court in California for permission to file by July 11 for approval of the settlement.
MLB declined comment.
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2023: Ohanaeze tasks INEC on adequate ad hoc, machines for CVR
The Secretary-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural orgainzation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against truncating the will of Nigerian electorates as he called on the nation’s electoral umpire to ensure no section of the country is given undue advantage in the continuous registration and Revalidation of Permanent Voters Cards (PVC) being conducted across the states of the federation on the basis of ethnic, political and religion leanings.
This comes on the heels of the recent call for extension of the continuous registration and revalidation exercise for Permanent Voters Cards, and also, the recent order of an Abuja High Court which restrained INEC from ending the exercise on June 30th.
Isiguzoro, while reacting in an interview with newsmen on Saturday in Umuahia, the Abia state capital, regretted at the hitches being experienced by the eligible Nigerian citizens from the inception of the registration exercise, and also asked INEC to ensure all qualified Nigerians are captured in the ongoing electoral process to enable them perform their civic rights in the forthcoming elections now the majority of populaces in the nation yearns for responsive and effective leaderships in Nigeria.
He reminded the electoral commission that, injustice, insecurity, ethnic succession agitations and other myriads of challenges ravaging the Nigeria nation calls for change of baton of leadership at all levels, noting also that the current mood of the electorate is the enthronement of purposeful, peoples-oriented and development-oriented governments in the country.
Isiguzoro also warned against short-changing people of the southeast and south south of the Igbo extractions in the ongoing registration exercise for permanent voters cards, but to ensure all eligible populaces in the two geopolitical zones are completely captured in the current electoral process ahead of the 2023 elections.
The Secretary-General further warned that any tendency contrary to the demand for transparency in the registration and revalidation of the voters cards, amount to disservice and total sabotage on the igbo nation, as all citizens are vested with the constitutional rights to participate in selection of those to lead them to foster and enhance the needed socio-economic and Infrastructural growths and development in the regions and entire nation.
Asked to speak on the demand by critical stakeholders in Nigeria’s electoral process for the resignation of the INEC officials by the main opposition parties and socio-cultural and political groups in Nigeria over alleged malpractice and display of incompetence, Mazi Isiguzoro backed the call for resignation of the chairman of the electoral commission, Yakubu Mahmoud and the spokesman, Festus Okoye, and also regretted the internal leadership crisis rocking the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and berated the Independent National Electoral Commission for its alleged refusal to obey the ruling of the supreme court which affirmed Edozie Njoku-led National Working Committee (NWC), as the substantive national chairman of the party. | https://dailypost.ng/2022/06/28/2023-ohanaeze-tasks-inec-on-adequate-ad-hoc-machines-for-cvr/ | 2022-06-28T18:44:43Z | https://dailypost.ng/2022/06/28/2023-ohanaeze-tasks-inec-on-adequate-ad-hoc-machines-for-cvr/ | true | 1 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters will decide in November whether to guarantee the right to an abortion in their state constitution, a question sure to boost turnout on both sides of the debate during a pivotal midterm election year as Democrats try to keep control of Congress after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The court’s ruling on Friday lets states decide for themselves whether to allow abortion. California is controlled by Democrats who support abortion rights, so access to the procedure won’t be threatened anytime soon.
But the legal right to an abortion in California is based upon the “right to privacy” in the state constitution. The Supreme Court’s ruling declared that a right to privacy does not guarantee the right to an abortion. California Democrats fear this ruling could leave the state’s abortion laws vulnerable to challenge in state courts.
To address that, state lawmakers on Monday agreed to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot this year that would leave no doubt about the status of abortion in California.
“While for now we may feel safe here in California, we cannot rest on our laurels,” said Assembly member Sabrina Cervantes, a Democrat from Riverside. “It is only a matter of time before this will directly affect you and the people you love.”
The amendment would declare that the state “shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.”
It would become law only if a majority of voters approve it this November. Of California’s likely voters, 76% oppose overturning Roe v. Wade, according to a poll conducted in May by the Public Policy Institute of California.
That could give a boost to Democrats’ chances of retaining control of Congress. Despite its progressive reputation, California has a number of competitive House races that will help determine which party wins the most seats in November for the remainder of Democratic President Joe Biden’s first term.
Republicans opposed the amendment, arguing it is too broad and would allow for abortions late in pregnancy when a fetus is capable of surviving outside of the womb. California law currently restricts abortion to only before a fetus is viable, which is usually defined as around 24 weeks of pregnancy.
“The wording of this says nothing about late term. It puts no restrictions on it,” said Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher, who noted his twin sons had complications at about 30 weeks of pregnancy. “Babies like my twins at 30 weeks, their lives could be taken.”
Assembly member Akilah Weber, a Democrat from San Diego and practicing obstetrician-gynecologist, said many factors other than the gestational age of the fetus determine viability, arguing the decision is best left to the patient and her doctor.
“This amendment … is not only compassionate, but it is rooted in the current state of science, evidence-based medicine and the legal landscape,” she said.
California joins Vermont in trying to protect abortion in its state constitution. The Vermont proposal, also on the ballot this November, does not include the word “abortion” but would protect “personal reproductive autonomy” — although there is an exception “justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.”
The amendment in California is part of Democrats’ aggressive strategy to make California a sanctuary for women seeking abortions. Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law aimed at shielding California abortion providers and volunteers from lawsuits in other states — a measure aimed at blunting a Texas law that allows private citizens to sue people who help women in that state get an abortion.
California’s massive operating budget — scheduled for a vote later this week — contains more than $200 million in new spending to expand access to abortion in the state. The money would pay for abortions for women who can’t afford them, scholarships for people studying how to provide abortions and money to help women pay for logistics like travel, lodging and child care — but only within the state of California.
Monday’s abortion debate in the state Legislature was colored with the emotion of personal experiences as many lawmakers detailed their own experiences with abortion. Assembly member Buffy Wicks said she chose abortion during an unplanned pregnancy when she was 25, and it allowed her “to have a family when I was ready.”
Assembly member Isaac Bryan said his mother “got pregnant from a rape” and chose to have him and put him up for adoption.
“I get asked all the time why that doesn’t make me pro-life,” Bryan said. “It’s because my mother had options. She had choices, and they were hers to make. And I refuse to be tokenized to undermine the bodily autonomy of women and childbearing people.” | https://wreg.com/news/your-voice-your-vote/ap-politics/california-voters-to-weigh-constitutional-right-to-abortion/ | 2022-06-28T18:45:46Z | https://wreg.com/news/your-voice-your-vote/ap-politics/california-voters-to-weigh-constitutional-right-to-abortion/ | true | 42 |
Drones, RFIDs, security convoys to secure Amarnath Yatra routes this year
Amid the threat of militant attacks, tight security measures have been put in place for the smooth conduct of the Amarnath Yatra, which will commence on June 30.
Published: 28th June 2022 10:38 AM | Last Updated: 28th June 2022 10:38 AM | A+A A-
SRINAGAR: Amid the threat of militant attacks, tight security measures have been put in place for the smooth conduct of the Amarnath Yatra, which will commence on June 30. A security official said the strong security arrangements have been made in view of the threat perception and possible use of sticky bombs by militants to target pilgrims going to the Himalayan cave shrine located at a height of 3,880m.
The police, army, CRPF, BSF and SSB forces have been deployed on both sides of the yatra routes – the 48km traditional Pahalgam route, and the 14 km Baltal route. Lt Governor Manoj Sinha said security forces are alert and have made adequate arrangements for the smooth conduct of the pilgrimage.
According to a security official, the yatra convoys would be escorted by security vehicles. The authorities have also made radio frequency identification (RFID) compulsory this year for real-time tracking and monitoring of pilgrims.
Another security official said additional troops have also been rushed to Kashmir. The security apparatus along the Line of Control and the international border in J&K has also been intensified. The government is expecting about 8 lakh pilgrims to travel to Amarnath this year. The pilgrimage will conclude on Aug. 11.
The yatra is taking place after three years. It was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. In 2019, it was cut short ahead of the abrogation of Article 370 by the Centre. | https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/jun/28/drones-rfids-security-convoys-tosecure-amarnath-yatra-routes-this-year-2470505.html | 2022-06-28T18:46:51Z | https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/jun/28/drones-rfids-security-convoys-tosecure-amarnath-yatra-routes-this-year-2470505.html | false | 1 |
Which hard-anodized cookware set is best?
For those seeking a balance of durability and versatility when it comes to cooking in the kitchen, hard-anodized aluminum is often the material of choice. Less expensive than copper and often easier to use and clean than stainless steel, hard-anodized cookware reinforces basic aluminum to increase its longevity.
Calphalon, among the leaders in quality cookware, offers a Hard-Anodized 11-Piece Nonstick Set that demonstrates impressive convenience and agility. Most major cookware brands make hard-anodized cookware, but piece count, construction and price influence which set is the best for your kitchen.
What to know before you buy a hard-anodized cookware set
What is hard-anodized cookware?
Aluminum is a popular choice for cookware, as it’s cheap and provides terrific heat conductivity. However, it’s not particularly strong or durable. Pots and pans will undergo a chemical process to create a hard-anodized surface that strengthens the cookware. The process increases the price somewhat while significantly increasing its lifespan.
Nonstick
The process to create hard-anodized cookware creates a basic nonstick coating on the surface of the pots and pans. However, it doesn’t stand up well to repeated use. As such, hard-anodized cookware often comes with an additional nonstick coating to ensure viability and make it easy to cook delicate items and clean.
Piece count
Most cookware sets include between 10 and 17 pieces comprising a variety of useful pots and pans. The basic essentials included in almost all sets are a pair of fry pans, a pair of saute pans and a soup or stockpot. In addition, some options may include matching utensils, while other notable extras include a Dutch oven, griddle pan and steamer basket.
What to look for in a quality hard-anodized cookware set
Reinforcement
While hard-anodized cookware features improved durability as compared to basic aluminum, not every process is done equally. Some companies may further reinforce their cookware with options that feature three or even five layers of construction to increase longevity and offer better heat retention and distribution. Those layers may include aluminum, titanium or even copper to enhance the product. More layers and inclusions of high-quality metals will increase the price.
Oven safe
Many hard-anodized pots and pans are oven-safe to a certain degree, but the temperature limit will vary based on the construction and quality of the piece. While 350 degrees Fahrenheit is a common cap, higher-end options may work in ovens up to 450 degrees or even 500 degrees. However, in most cases, lids won’t be safe above 350 degrees.
Color
The exterior of hard-anodized pots and pans may be coated in a specific color. Options available will depend on the brand; Rachael Ray, in particular, offers a wide range of bright and rustic color options. While some colors may coat the entire exterior, others may only be seen on the handle and lid.
How much you can expect to spend on a hard-anodized cookware set
Hard-anodized cookware sets come in a wide range of prices depending on piece count and construction. You may pay $100-$400 for a set.
Hard-anodized cookware set FAQ
How do you clean and store hard-anodized cookware?
A. Due to the nonstick surface, some hard-anodized cookware will have to be cleaned by hand with gentle soap and warm water. However, there are plenty of options that boast as being dishwasher-safe. While this is true, the nonstick coating will likely wear down more quickly over time with dishwasher use, especially if the machine or detergent is not of the highest quality.
Once completely dry, cookware should be hung instead of stacked to avoid scratching the surface. However, some sets are designed to resist scratching and are advertised as “stackable.”
How does hard-anodized cookware compare to stainless steel?
A. Hard-anodized cookware is easy to use and clean and is ideal for cooking delicate items. It’s also strong yet lightweight. Some can be slow to heat up, and others may have a low heat limit. Hard-anodized cookware is generally cheaper.
On the other hand, stainless steel cookware is durable and non-reactive, catering to all kinds of foods and cooking methods. It also offers elegance and modernity in the kitchen. While cheaper options exist, they are typically poor conductors of heat. Reinforced options will prove more useful but also come at a higher price.
What’s the best hard-anodized cookware set to buy?
Top hard-anodized cookware set
Calphalon Hard-Anodized 11-Piece Nonstick Set
What you need to know: From a leading cookware brand comes this well-constructed set that champions versatility and durability in the kitchen.
What you’ll love: This heavy-duty, hard-anodized set is reinforced for frequent, long-lasting usage. Safe to use in the oven and dishwasher. Though nonstick, it’s safe for metal utensils.
What you should consider: This well-made set comes at a very high price, especially for only 11 pieces.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed, Bath & Beyond
Top hard-anodized cookware set for the money
T-fal Ultimate Hard-Anodized 12-piece Set
What you need to know: There’s a terrific value in this 12-piece set that offers functionality, reliability and a bit of color when it comes to cooking.
What you’ll love: Pots and pans heat quickly and evenly; thermal indicator alerts when preheating is complete. The surface is nonstick and scratch-resistant. The set is easy to clean and affordably priced.
What you should consider: They are oven-safe up to 350 degrees. The set lacks useful extras.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Cuisinart Chef’s Classic Hard-Anodized-17-Piece Set
What you need to know: This comprehensive set comes from a leading brand and offers a wide range of cooking options for large, diverse households.
What you’ll love: The impressive set boasts three fry pans, three saucepans, a Dutch oven and a stockpot. A steamer insert and saute pan are also included. Rims are tapered to resist dripping, and the set is oven safe up to 500 degrees.
What you should consider: The items are not dishwasher-safe. This large set takes up a lot of space.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MENDON, Mo. (AP) — An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said.
Two of those killed were on the train and one was in the truck, Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Justin Dunn said. It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were hurt, the patrol said, but hospitals reported receiving more than 40 patients from the crash and were expecting more.
Amtrak’s Southwest Chief was carrying about 207 passengers and crew members when the collision happened near Mendon at a rural intersection on a gravel road with no lights or electronic controls, according to the highway patrol. Officials were still trying to determine the exact number of people aboard. Seven cars derailed, the patrol said.
Rob Nightingale said he was dozing off in his sleeper compartment when the lights flickered and the train rocked back and forth.
“It was like slow motion. Then all of a sudden I felt it tip my way. I saw the ground coming toward my window, and all the debris and dust,” Nightingale told The Associated Press. “Then it sat on its side and it was complete silence. I sat there and didn’t hear anything. Then I heard a little girl next door crying.”
Nightingale was unhurt and he and other passengers were able to climb out of the overturned train car through a window.
The collision broke the dump truck apart, he said.
“It was all over the tracks,” said Nightingale, an art gallery owner from Taos, New Mexico, who said he rides Amtrak regularly to Chicago.
It’s too early to speculate on why the truck was on the tracks, said National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy. A team of NTSB investigators will arrive Tuesday, she said. Trains won’t be able to run on the track for “a matter of days” while they gather evidence, she added.
At one point, KMBC-TV helicopter video showed rail cars on their side as emergency responders used ladders to climb into one of them. Six medical helicopters parked nearby were waiting to transport patients.
Close to 20 local and state law enforcement agencies, ambulance services, fire department and medical helicopter services responded, Dunn said. The first emergency responders arrived within 20 minutes of receiving a 911 call, he said.
Passenger Dian Couture was in the dining car with her husband celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary when she heard a loud noise and the train wobbled and then crashed onto its side.
“The people on our left-hand side flew across and hit us, and then we were standing on the windows on the right-hand side of the car,” Couture told WDAF-TV. “Two gentlemen in the front came up, stacked a bunch of things and popped out the window and literally pulled us out by our hands.”
Passengers included 16 youths and eight adults from two Boy Scout troops who were traveling home to Appleton, Wisconsin, after a backcountry excursion at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. No one in the group was seriously injured, said Scott Armstrong, director of national media relations for the Boy Scouts of America. The Scouts administered first aid to several injured passengers, including the driver of the dump truck, Armstrong said.
High school students from Pleasant Ridge High School in Easton, Kansas, who were headed to a Future Business Leaders of America conference in Chicago, were also aboard, Superintendent Tim Beying told The Kansas City Star.
Cheryl Benjamin was on her way home to East Lansing, Michigan, after an Alasksan cruise and a trip to Disneyland. She said she felt a bump, then heard a squeal, then looked out the window and saw the cars in front of her falling to the right. Then her car fell, the last to derail. It all took about 45 seconds.
Benjamin told The Associated Press that the passengers organized themselves to escape the cars. Some of the Boy Scouts on board helped her climb out of the train and onto the ground. She was spending Monday evening in a local high school gym, where community members had brought in food for the passengers as they waited for buses to take them to hotels.
Republican state Rep. Peggy McGaugh was at the high school. She said locals heard about the crash and started frying chicken, making sandwiches and delivering pallets of water.
“Being the small community this is, nobody wants to be the hero but everyone wants to help,” McGaugh said.
Mike Spencer, who grows corn and soybeans on the land surrounding the intersection where the crash occurred, said everyone in Mendon understands that the intersection is dangerous, especially for those driving heavy, slow farm equipment. The approach to the tracks is on an inclining gravel road and it’s difficult to see trains coming in either direction, he said.
Spencer said he had contacted state transportation officials, Chariton County commissioners and BNSF Railway, which owns the track, about the potential danger. Spencer, who is on the board of a local levy district, said the dump truck driver was hauling rock for a levy on a local creek, a project that had been ongoing for a couple days.
Amtrak is a federally supported company that operates more than 300 passenger trains daily in nearly every contiguous U.S. state and parts of Canada.
It was the second Amtrak collision in as many days. Three people in a car were killed Sunday afternoon when an Amtrak commuter train smashed into it in Northern California, authorities said.
The Southwest Chief takes about two days to travel from Los Angeles to Chicago, picking up passengers at stops in between. Mendon, with a population of about 160, is about 84 miles (135 kilometers) northeast of Kansas City.
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Associated Press reporters Margaret Stafford in Liberty, Mo., Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, S.D., Grant Schulte in Omaha, Neb., and Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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The Sultan of Sokoto and President General, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has directed the Nigerian Muslim Ummah to look out for the new moon of Dhul Hijja,1443AH as from Wednesday, June 29.
Sultan Abubakar said this in a statement in Sokoto on Tuesday, signed by Prof. Sambo Junaidu, the chairman, advisory committee on Religious Affairs, Sultanate Council, Sokoto.
“This is to inform the Muslim Ummah that Wednesday June 29 which is equivalent to 29th of Dhul-Qidah 1443AH shall be the day to look out for the new moon of Dhul-Hijjah 1443AH.
“Muslims are therefore, requested to start looking for the new moon on Wednesday and report its sighting to the nearest district or village head for onward communication to the Sultan,’’ he said.
The Sultan prayed Allah to assist the Muslim Ummah in the discharge of its religious duties.
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Court lets Tennessee 6-week abortion ban take effect
By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal court has allowed Tennessee’s ban on abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy to take effect after the Supreme Court’s decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights case. The action by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes before Tennessee’s other abortion ban, known as the so-called trigger ban, is set to restrict abortion almost entirely in less than a month. Both measures would make performing an abortion a felony and subject doctors to a maximum of 15 years in prison. Republican state Attorney General Herbert Slatery filed an emergency motion on Friday to allow the state to begin implementing the six-week ban. | https://kesq.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/28/court-lets-tennessee-6-week-abortion-ban-take-effect/ | 2022-06-28T18:52:35Z | https://kesq.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/28/court-lets-tennessee-6-week-abortion-ban-take-effect/ | true | null |
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2-4-8, WB: 8
(two, four, eight; WB: eight)
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2-4-8, WB: 8
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Ukraine’s first lady says her country ‘cannot see the end of our suffering’
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By Emmet Lyons and Nicholas Pearce, CNN
Five months of war have forced Ukrainians to adjust their expectations. After readying for a conflict they thought would be a sprint, many are now grappling with the likelihood of a “marathon,” said Olena Zelenska, Ukraine’s first lady.
“It’s very difficult to hold on for five months,” Zelenska told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “We need to accumulate our strength, we need to save our energy.”
“We cannot see the end of our suffering,” she said.
Zelenska spoke to CNN at a crucial moment in the fight. Though Kyiv racked up a series of early victories in the initial aftermath of Russia’s invasion, the tide appears to be turning in the Kremlin’s favor, especially in the east.
Russian forces have eliminated most Ukrainian defenses in the Luhansk region and consolidated control of a belt of territory in the south. Luhansk and neighboring Donetsk together make up Ukraine’s Donbas region, an industrial heartland dotted with factories and coal fields that has been home to sporadic fighting since 2014, when Russian-backed separatists seized control of two territories — the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic.
Zelenska’s husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, told the leaders of the G7 Monday that he wants to bring the war in Ukraine to an end by the start of next year.
For now, fighting continues to rage in the east, with missiles striking targets throughout the country — including, on Monday, a shopping mall where at least 1,000 people were inside when the air raid siren sounded. At least 18 people were killed and dozens remain missing.
Like her husband, Zelenska called the attack “terrorism.” While she said she was “shocked” by the incident, she explained that she was exasperated by just how many times the methods of the Russian military have left her flabbergasted.
“We were shocked many times. I don’t know what else the occupiers can shock us with,” Zelenska said.
A family uprooted
Zelenska said she and her children did not see Zelensky for two months of the war. During the early days of the war, the president lived in his office and his family was forbidden to stay there to keep them safe.
The fighting has since moved further from Kyiv, allowing the family to get together — but not for extended periods of time.
Their experience, Zelenska said, is not unique. She estimated that half of all Ukrainian families have been separated by the war.
“Our relationship is on pause, just as it is for all Ukrainians,” she said. “We, just like every family, are waiting to be reunited, to be together again.”
Zelenska said she and others are trying to are coping by “trying to find joy in simple things,” even if they are fleeting. She likened herself to a photograph in the city of Borodianka, a city east of Kyiv occupied by Russian forces in the early days of the war.
The image, Zelenska said, showed a series of bombed out, flattened buildings, with only one thing remaining — a cupboard.
“I’m like that cupboard in Borodianka,” Zelenska said. “I’m trying to hold on, just like that cupboard.”
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Indian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Mohammad Zubair, and cease harassing him in retaliation for his work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday.
In the evening of Monday, June 27, officers with the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations unit of the Delhi police arrested Zubair, co-founder of the fact-checking website Alt News, after summoning him for questioning, according to multiple news reports and a tweet by Alt News co-founder Pratik Sinha.
Sinha wrote that Zubair had been summoned for questioning in relation to a 2020 criminal investigation over his social media posts, for which he was already granted protection from arrest by the Delhi High Court.
When Zubair responded to that summons, officers arrested him in relation to a criminal investigation opened earlier this month following a post about Zubair by an anonymous Twitter user with the account @balajikijaiin, according to those news reports.
Police accuse Zubair of promoting enmity between different groups and committing malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings, those reports said; if charged and convicted, he could face up to three years of prison and a fine for each offense, according to the Indian penal code.
“The arrest of journalist Mohammad Zubair marks another low for press freedom in India, where the government has created a hostile and unsafe environment for members of the press reporting on sectarian issues,” said Steven Butler, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator, in Washington, D.C. “Authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Zubair, and allow him to pursue his journalistic work without further interference.”
The @balajikijaiin account features a profile photo of the Hindu god Hanuman; its most recent tweet was on June 19, in which it reposted a 2018 tweet by Zubair commenting on a hotel changing its name from “Honeymoon Hotel” to “Hanuman Hotel” after the ruling Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party came to power.
In its June 19 tweet, @balajikijaiin tagged the Delhi Police, called Zubair’s comment a “direct insult of Hindus,” and asked the police to “kindly take action against this guy.”
Zubair, who is Muslim, has repeatedly been targeted in criminal cases in retaliation for his posts on Twitter, where he has about 550,000 followers and which he uses for journalistic work.
Police in the Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh opened a criminal investigation into Zubair on June 3 after he tweeted that three right-wing Hindu activists were “hate mongers,” as CPJ documented at the time. On June 10, the Allahabad High Court refused to dismiss that case, according to news reports.
Uttar Pradesh police also opened a criminal investigation into Zubair in June 2021 over his social media posts about a video depicting a group of Hindu men beating an elderly Muslim man.
Sinha did not immediately respond to CPJ’s calls and WhatsApp messages requesting comment. CPJ was unable to contact @balajikijaiin on Twitter, as the account had disabled its direct messages function.
Delhi police spokesperson Suman Nalwa did not immediately respond to CPJ’s request for comment sent via messaging app.
CPJ’s 2021 annual prison census found that seven journalists were detained in India and Jammu and Kashmir as of December 1, 2021, setting the country’s record for the highest number of detained journalists since at least 1992.
Originally published by CJP.org | https://countercurrents.org/2022/06/release-journalist-mohammad-zubair/ | 2022-06-28T19:00:51Z | https://countercurrents.org/2022/06/release-journalist-mohammad-zubair/ | false | 4 |
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Maternal mortality rate spiked during COVID-19, study says
Published: Jun. 28, 2022 at 1:29 PM CDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
(CNN) – More pregnant women died during the first year of the pandemic than in the two years before the pandemic.
Between April 2020 and December 2020, there were 25 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births compared to 19 deaths between 2018 and the beginning of 2020.
The latest stats come from a study published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open.
The increase was especially high among Hispanic and Black women.
Researchers say the primary reason for this wasn’t COVID-19, it was other things like “viral diseases, infections, respiratory issues and diabetes.”
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NHS services were too busy trying to diagnose schoolgirl, 14, with autism rather than monitor her depression before she hanged herself despite suicide attempts, inquest hears
- Robyn Skilton, 14, disappeared from her £670,000 family home in May
- She was found hanged a month after being discharged last year in Horsham
- CAMHS wanted to assess for autism as 'pointed towards being neuro-diverse'
- The NHS were chasing the autism assessment but they 'lost time' as a result
Robyn Skilton, 14, was found hanged a month after she was discharged from an NHS mental health programme, an inquest heard.
She had already been referred to a children's mental health service under the NHS but one of its officials admitted their risk assessment 'was not detailed enough'.
The schoolgirl, who regularly self-harmed and expressed suicidal ideations, should have been assigned a 'crisis team', the official also said.
Robyn's inquest heard she was not given 'adequate' assessments for her mental health despite a long-history of self-harm and displaying worrying signs.
The teenager was already on its 'red-list' which means she was high risk.
Robyn from Horsham in West Sussex, was found hanged in Southwater Country Park on May 7 last year after disappearing from the £670,000 family home.
CAMHS clinical specialist, Velani Bhebhe, said the teenagers risk 'was fluctuating from very significantly high risk to reduced risk'
A month earlier, on April 9, 2021, she was discharged from Sussex Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services [CAMHS].
When she started suffering low moods and self-harming in 2018, her parents Alan and Victoria said 'we tried everything we could to help' their daughter.
But, her inquest at West Sussex Coroner's Court in Chichester heard she didn't receive proper assessments or treatment, with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust admitting their failings.
Robyn's father, software company director Mr Skilton, said he was 'astonished' at the lack of support she received.
The inquest heard Robyn was on CAMHS 'red-list', which is reserved for unique cases of patients with fluctuating risks who need careful monitoring.
CAMHS clinical specialist, Velani Bhebhe, said her risk 'was fluctuating from very significantly high risk to reduced risk'.
Mr Bhebhe, the first point of contact for CAMHS, said the NHS service for adolescents wanted to assess for autism as Robyn 'pointed towards being neuro-diverse'.
He said CAMHS was focusing on updating Robyn's risk assessment following her hospital admission and chasing the autism assessment.
But, he said discussions about conducting the assessment with Robyn's school were 'slow-moving' and they 'lost time' as a result.
CAMHS focused on updating Robyn's risk assessment following her hospital admission and chasing the autism assessment despite it being 'slow-moving'
Further, he admitted he didn't know Robyn was on the red-list when she was discharged.
Barrister Nia Frobisher, for Robyn's family, argued that CAMHS should have been focusing on her worrying mental health and self-harming - not chasing an autism diagnosis.
Quizzing Mr Bhebhe, Ms Frobisher said: 'This was a girl who said she was looking forward to ending her life, that when she found the least painful way, she would do it.
'Despite these real serious concerns about Robyn wanting to throw away her life, was there any other plans?'
Mr Bhebhe replied: 'We were satisfied that the safety plan was in place.'
Mr Bhebhe admitted it was 'very standard' safety plan.
He said it comprised of telling the family not to have sharp objects in reach or easy access to tablets, to 'make sure they knew where she was' and that she didn't have 'unexplained absences, and to having contact numbers in case of a 'crisis'.
He admitted: 'There's a crisis team, I'm not entirely sure why we didn't involve the crisis team then. It was a point where it might have been appropriate to involve a crisis team.'
The inquest heard Barrister Nia Frobisher, for Robyn's family, argue that CAMHS should have been focusing on her worrying mental health and self-harming - not chasing an autism diagnosis Pictured: Edes House, Chichester where the inquest was heard
He said Robyn was discharged as they were not actually 'providing her with any mental health support at the time'.
In hindsight, he accepted Robyn's risk assessment 'was not detailed enough'.
Mr Bhebhe also accepted he was not aware Robyn was supposed to have twice-weekly calls with a specialist and that he didn't speak to the teenager for a follow-up call after she was discharged from hospital.
Speaking to Robyn's family, Mr Bhebhe said: 'I'm sorry we could not do more for Robyn.'
Mr Bhebhe said CAMHS had a lot of work. 'It was very busy', Mr Bhebhe said.
He said lockdown also hampered case work.
Mr Bhebhe said: 'During lockdown we were in a unique set of circumstances.... There was a lot of people being referred.
'CAMHS was over saturated. For the time it was a unique situation in Horsham, but I'm aware that this was a different time globally.'
When asked about why Robyn's first referral was not accepted, he said referrals are a 'grey area'.
The inquest continues.
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PARIS, Ill. (WTHI) - You can celebrate the 4th of July with a free concert this weekend.
The United States Air Force Concert Band will host a Sunday concert in Paris, Illinois. The concert gets underway at 1:00 P.M.
The band will also be joined by the Singing Sergeants.
You can find information on how to reserve your seat at this link.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
3-9-1-1, WB: 6
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3-9-1-1, WB: 6
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Nissan is recalling nearly 323,000 Pathfinder SUVs in the U.S. because the hoods can unexpectedly fly open and block the driver's view.The recall covers Pathfinders from the 2013 through 2016 model years.The automaker says in documents posted Tuesday by U.S. safety regulators that dust and dirt can accumulate on the secondary hood latch. That can cause it to malfunction and stay unlatched even when the hood is closed. The hood could fly open if the main latch is inadvertently released or not closed properly after engine service.Nissan is working on a remedy. Owners are expected to be notified by letter starting July 18. They'll be notified again once a repair is developed.
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Turks are rightly proud of the success of Bayraktar drones in the conflict in Ukraine. Ukraine has also celebrated the success of Bayraktar drones against Russian armour, particularly in turning the tide in the first few weeks in the Battle of Kyiv – with songs even produced and sung by Ukrainians soldiers to acclaim the battlefield changing nature of this high-end Turkish technology. Turks like to view this as a great example of the country’s new-found technological and military prowess, but also their willingness to show support for Ukraine despite obvious risks to damaging valuable relations with Russia.
Ukrainians are though beginning to doubt Turkey’s commitment to their cause, notwithstanding the undoubted success of Bayraktar. Turkey’s stance on peace talks in Antalya in March and again over trying to broker a deal to break the grain blockade of Ukrainian ports has left a distinct impression in Kyiv that Ankara is too keen to tow the Russian line and force a Russian friendly peace deal down their throats.
In Antalya the Turkish side were confident a deal was to be done, and even sold a deal as in the offing, but this seemed to be close to terms being offered by Moscow, with little effort to accept or even understand the Ukrainian position. Predictably the Antalya peace process eventually collapsed. The fact that Ankara seems tone deaf to Ukraine’s position was also evident on talks on-going over breaking the grain blockade, with Ankara negotiating directly with Moscow and seemingly little effort being made to involve the Ukrainian side – even though any plan involves decisions about unblocking Ukrainian ports.
On the ports issue, Turkey seemed unable to comprehend the Ukrainian position that getting agreement to de-mine ports was worthless unless there were also security guarantees to ensure that Russian forces did not use this as an opportunity to launch amphibious landings against Odessa, Mikolaiv, et al.
Turkey appeared naïve in both the Antalya talks and the talks over ending the grain blockade. The Turkish side appeared to be adopting a peace deal at any (to Ukraine) cost strategy, but with zero effort to understand the Ukrainian position.
But key to understanding the Turkish position on the war in Ukraine, and its seemingly blinkered effort to bring peace at almost any cost (to Ukraine), is that the Erdogan administration views all of this through its very narrow electoral lens. And therein it faces difficult elections within the next year, with opinion polls not looking good for either Erdogan or his ruling AKP, while the economy is in a desperately weak position. A degree of desperation and wishful thinking is hence evident in Turkey’s approach to the war in Ukraine.
On the latter, over the past decade, under Erdogan’s failed monetary policy mantra that, “high interest rates cause inflation,” the economy has been in an almost constant state of balance payments crisis. Erdogan continually prioritises growth over inflation and exchange rate stability, as in the past credit growth has delivered real GDP growth, jobs and votes. But this has meant the economy has been run too hot, the price of which has been wide current account deficits, large external financing requirements, and constant pressure on the lira to weaken.
An orthodox response would be to tighten monetary and/or fiscal policy to slow domestic demand, lower import demand and with it the trade and current account deficits thereby alleviating pressure on the lira. But Erdogan’s interest rate ideology has removed this option for the CBRT, meaning that the lira has had to take the strain, which has in turn fuelled inflation.
Turks are unhappy with inflation and a constantly weakening lira. They feel poorer, which explains Erdogan’s lowly popularity. But Erdogan still thinks he can win the election by pulling a few more rabbits out of the hat – including the recent exchange rate protected deposit scheme, and more recently restrictions on corporates borrowing in lira if they have large FX deposits. Erdogan thinks that this can buy him some time, helping slow dollarisation, anchor the lira enough for him to push the growth agenda just one more time to win the next election.
In normal times it would be touch and go whether this strategy could hold things stable enough to get through to elections by June 2023 and deliver Erdogan a win. But the war in Ukraine has just made the maths here even more difficult – higher energy and food import costs and the threat of the loss of key Ukrainian and Russian tourism receipts (one quarter of the total), are pushing the current account deficit wider and putting even more pressure on the lira. Erdogan needs this war to end and soon, otherwise he risks getting rolled over in an extreme balance of payments crisis which would scupper any remaining popularity he has.
So, Erdogan has been happy to allow Bayraktar drones to go to Ukraine – they advertise Turkish engineering prowess and generate important export earnings. But beyond that Turkey has done little to help Ukraine’s cause. And, as noted, if anything the Antalya peace talks and the talks over unblocking grain deliveries from Ukraine have undermined Ukraine’s position.
Turkey has also failed to join Western sanctions on Russia – arguing that it simply cannot afford to, given its challenging balance of payments position. If relations with the West were better, it might have hoped for financial support to offset losses from sanctions and the war in Ukraine. But this option is constrained by broader Western concern about policy choices made by Erdogan, including over monetary policy.
Some close to the Erdogan administration have even argued that Turkey could benefit from sanctions by acting as a middle-man similar to its position on Iranian sanctions. Some think that Turkey could benefit as Russian companies look to reflag to avoid sanctions, as Russian capital and business look to exit and evade sanctions, and also by being a conduit for Russian capital – tourism. The latter being the scenario where Russians seek to holiday in Turkey but using this as an opportunity to park capital by opening Turkish bank accounts and buying property. To some extent facilitating capital flight from Russia is a benefit for the West in heaping the economic pressure on Russia, but there is a fine dividing line for Turkey here from being seen to profit from the conflict, and concern that some of the activity might be on the edge of actual sanctions breaking. A recent visit by US Treasury officials to Turkey likely was meant to draw clear lines as to what is and is not acceptable.
And then there is the whole furore around Turkey’s stalling on Finland and Sweden’s bid to join Nato. As Nato allies have highlighted, Turkey does have understandable security concerns over Scandi support for various Kurdish groups. It has leverage now to force Sweden and Finland to rein these in. And playing hardball on this issue will play very well with the domestic nationalist constituency in Turkey before elections. It's potentially a win-win for Turkey. But the risk is if Erdogan overplays his hand and permanently damages relations with the West. He needs to realise that for the US and the rest of its Nato allies, Russia is the priority and is seen as a clear and present danger, and an existential threat to Ukraine and the West. Finnish and Swedish Nato entry is a huge win for the West, for Ukraine, and a major snub to Putin. If Erdogan now blocks this at the Nato summit in Madrid later this month, relations with the West will I think be permanently soured. And likely the West will adopt an openly hostile, as opposed to largely neutral, approach to Erdogan’s re-election by June 2023. Blocking Swedish and Finnish membership would also stall rising hopes of a deal over Turkey’s compensation for leaving the F35 project, through purchase of additional F16s and upgrade kits. This would damage Turkey’s defence capability. Now playing hardball to the end of this could turn the next election in Erdogan’s favour, and I think he will have to balance this off against the risk of a major balance of payments crisis if he plays hardball too long. And with the West angered, he would have few tools to allay any such BOP crisis – he does not want to hike policy rates or go to the IMF, capital controls are counterproductive and will damage business, the CBRT has limited reserves and FX adjustment just leads to more inflation. If he faces a BOP crisis after vetoing Finnish and Swedish Nato membership, I think the West would stand on the side-lines as a full balance of payments crisis washes over Erdogan. And likely Erdogan would lose the next election. Logic would suggest that Erdogan would play very hardball to the Madrid summit – get deals over Kurdish groups in Sweden and Finland, easing of arms sanctions, and new agreements over new arms purchases like the F16. He can tell electors at home that he played hard ball and won concessions. He will hope the West is grateful enough to keep capital markets open to allow him to finance his external borrowing needs.
All this feels pretty binary. But I think in all this Erdogan needs to realise that for the West the crisis in Ukraine is a defining moment, a definitive challenge they face, and it’s a time to ask if allies are with the West or against it. Erdogan has tried staying on the fence, to some extent trying to play one side off against the other. I think time for such an approach is fast running out. Madrid will likely be the time when Erdogan has to decide whose side he is on. An important week is in store for Nato and Turkey. | https://www.intellinews.com/ash-turkey-playing-a-delicate-balancing-act-between-ukraine-russia-and-nato-248887/ | 2022-06-28T19:14:55Z | https://www.intellinews.com/ash-turkey-playing-a-delicate-balancing-act-between-ukraine-russia-and-nato-248887/ | false | 3 |
TORONTO (AP)Toronto’s Kevin Gausman gave the Red Sox a rough time as Boston got back to playing its biggest foes in the AL East.
Gausman matched a season high with 10 strikeouts over seven innings, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit one of three Toronto home runs and the Blue Jays halted Boston’s seven-game winning streak, beating the Red Sox 7-2 Monday night.
”The first game of the homestand you’re trying to set the tone, especially as the starter,” Gausman said
The Red Sox, who came in 7-14 against AL East opponents, lost the opener of a stretch in which they face Toronto, Tampa Bay and the New York Yankees 20 times in 23 games.
”Every team in this division can pitch, every team in this division can hit the ball out of the ballpark.” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. ”It’s going to be a grind. We’re going to be banging heads for the rest of the season.”
The Red Sox have 16 games remaining against both the Rays and Yankees.
Boston hadn’t faced the Blue Jays, Rays or Yankees since losing three of four in Toronto from April 25-28.
”It’s always a dogfight in this division, especially in recent years,” Boston’s Bobby Dalbec said.
Only five of Boston’s previous 50 games had been against division foes, all of them against Baltimore. The Red Sox went 2-3 in those games, while going 31-14 against other opponents.
Guerrero hit a two-run home run, his 18th of the season, Matt Chapman also hit a two-run blast and George Springer added a solo shot as Toronto improved to 6-2 against Boston.
Guerrero has nine home runs in June. Only Aaron Judge (10) has more among AL hitters.
Gausman (6-6) snapped a four-start winless streak, winning for the first time since May 31 against the White Sox. Three of the four hits Gausman allowed were singles.
”He looked as sharp as ever tonight,” Chapman said. ”That’s an awesome seven shutout innings from him.”
Gausman is 2-0 with a 0.43 ERA in three starts against the Red Sox this season.
”He pounds the strike zone early on and then he expands,” Cora said. ”If you expand with him, you’re going to have nights like this.”
Boston’s only runs came off newly promoted right-hander Shaun Anderson in the ninth, when Trevor Story hit a sacrifice fly and Dalbec added an RBI single that struck Anderson on the foot.
Making his first start of the season and the second of his big league career, Red Sox right-hander Connor Seabold (0-1) allowed seven runs and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings.
”I made too many mistakes,” Seabold said.
Bo Bichette hit an RBI double in the first, and Springer made it 2-0 when he homered in the third, his 14th of the season.
BIchette followed with a single before Guerrero homered to center.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. drove in a run with a fielder’s choice in the fifth and Chapman made it 7-0 with a two-out homer to left, his 11th.
The Blue Jays are 21-10 when they hit two or more home runs.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: LHP Chris Sale threw a bullpen Monday and remains on track to make his second minor league rehab start at Double-A Portland on Thursday. . RHP Garrett Whitlock (right hip) threw a bullpen session in Toronto on Monday. . INF Kike Hernandez (right hip) played catch Monday but has yet to resume swinging, manager Alex Cora said.
Blue Jays: RHP Trevor Richards (strained neck) threw a live batting practice session to a group of hitters including C Danny Jansen (broken finger). Richards has been sidelined since June 18.
ROSTER MOVES
Red Sox: Boston put RHP Tanner Houck and OF Jarren Duran on the restricted list, recalled Seabold from Triple-A Worcester and selected INF Yolmer Sanchez from Triple-A.
Blue Jays: Toronto selected Anderson from Triple-A Buffalo and optioned RHP Jeremy Beasley to Triple-A. To make room on the 40-man roster, LHP Hyun Jin Ryu (shoulder) was transferred to the 60-day IL.
EXTRA BASE
Rafael Devers got the only extra-base hit off Gausman, a ball that bounced off the second base bag and into shallow left field.
WORK LOAD
Gausman threw a season-high 110 pitches, fanning Dalbec with his final pitch.
”I feel like he gets stronger as the game goes on against us,” Dalbec said. ”He gets more vertical, more late life on the fastball.”
UP NEXT
Red Sox RHP Michael Wacha (6-1, 2.34) starts Tuesday against Blue Jays RHP Ross Stripling (4-2, 3.08). Wacha is 3-0 with a 2.19 ERA in four June starts. Stripling has a 6.52 ERA in seven career games against Boston.
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Ishq Vishk fame Shenaz Treasury recently took to her social media account to share that she has been diagnosed with prosopagnosia. The actress also said that she used to face issues remembering peoples' faces but was good at remembering them by their voices.
Shenaz Treasury Opens Up About Being Diagnosed With Prosopagnosia, Says She Cannot Recognise Faces
Shenaz took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday and wrote, “I have been diagnosed with prosopagnosia 2. Now, I understand why I've never been able to put faces together. It's a cognitive disorder. I always felt ashamed that I can't recognise faces. I recognise voices.”
In her next slide, she spoke about its symptoms and added, “Signs and symptoms of face blindness/prosopagnosia. 1. You have failed to recognise a close friend or family member, especially when you weren't expecting to see them. Yes, that is me. Takes me a minute to register who the person is. Sometimes even a close friend I haven't seen in a while."
The actress further shared added people have difficulty recognising neighbours, friends, co-workers, clients, schoolmates whilst people you know expect you to recognise them. She then stated that many sufferers report losing friends and offending co-workers because they have failed to recognise them and she is one of them.
Shenaz also wrote about how the affected people confuse characters in movies or on television more so than other people. She shared that she cannot tell the difference if two characters have the same height and build and hairstyle. The actress concluded by asking everyone to please understand that this is a real disorder and not just her being aloof or snobbish.
Shenaz, who has appeared in films such as Umar, Aagey Se Right, Radio, Luv Ka The End, Delhi Belly, and many others, is currently working as a travel blogger. | https://www.filmibeat.com/amphtml/bollywood/news/2022/shenaz-treasury-opens-up-about-being-diagnosed-with-prosopagnosia-says-she-cannot-recognise-faces-336916.html | 2022-06-28T19:16:40Z | https://www.filmibeat.com/amphtml/bollywood/news/2022/shenaz-treasury-opens-up-about-being-diagnosed-with-prosopagnosia-says-she-cannot-recognise-faces-336916.html | true | 2 |
New Delhi, Jun 28: The Opposition and media bodies on Tuesday condemned the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair and demanded his immediate release, even as the BJP said he had a "chequered past" and posted tweets which hurt religious feelings of a large section of the Hindu society.
Oppn, media bodies condemn Zubair's arrest; BJP points to 'chequered past'
A group of activists also said it was "absolute hypocrisy" of the government that his arrest came on a day India committed at the G7 Summit to defend democratic principles and protect the freedom of expression. The fact-checking website's co-founder was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police on Monday on charges of promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and deliberate acts to outrage religious feeling of the Indian Penal Code.
A Delhi court on Tuesday extended by four days the custodial interrogation of Zubair in a case related to an "objectionable tweet" he had posted in 2018 against a Hindu deity. The Editors Guild of India and the Press Club of India described the arrest of Zubair on charges of hurting religious sentiments as "extremely disturbing" and demanded his immediate release.
Both the media bodies pointed out that the action against Zubair came on a day when India joined G7 and four other countries to protect free speech, "online and offline". The Mumbai Press Club also condemned the arrest of Zubair. Criticising the arrests, All India Progressive Women's Association member Kavita Krishnan alleged it was "absolute hypocrisy" of the prime minister to "use the Constitution of India as window dressing" while he is acting in revenge against activists and journalists who is holding his party accountable.
Aakar Patel, chair of board for Amnesty International India, said the Indian authorities are targeting Zubair for his crucial work to combat the rise in fake news and disinformation and call out the discrimination against minorities. To questions about Zubair's arrest and opposition leaders' protest against it, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said one cannot become a fact-checker only by proclaiming himself to be one.
He has a chequered past and has posted tweets which have hurt religious feelings of a large section of Hindu society, Bhatia said. Criticising Zubair, Bhatia said if somebody is doing fact-check, then he cannot be selective. If he posts content which suits some political party or a community, then he is not objective, Bhatia claimed. The Opposition condemned Zubair's arrest and hit out at the ruling BJP for it. The Congress said the "coward" government is sending out a message to those who expose its "fake news".
Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said without getting into the legalities, the big message by the BJP-led Centre is that the perpetrators of hate speeches would get political patronage and will be out either on bail or otherwise, and people who report that will be behind bars. She said those spreading hate are becoming leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while those speaking out against their hate are being put behind bars.
Left parties also hit out at the government over Zubair's arrest, asking it how those who spread hate are free, and someone who exposes them is behind bars. The parties demanded his immediate release. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also lashed out at the Centre over the arrests of Zubair and social activist Teesta Setalvad for "trying to expose the truth" and wondered how those who spread hatred among communities are roaming free.
Prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Tuesday termed as "discriminatory" the arrest of the Alt News co-founder and demanded that the government take "fair action" in the matter respecting the country's reputation at the international level. Jamiat president Maulana Mahmood Madani also wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, saying "the discriminatory nature" of the functioning of law enforcement agencies is condemnable. Zubair was produced before court on the expiry of his one-day custodial interrogation.
The police told the court that the accused did not cooperate with the investigating agency and that custodial interrogation was required to gather information regarding the device from which the tweet was made by the accused. PTI | https://www.oneindia.com/amphtml/india/oppn-media-bodies-condemn-zubair-s-arrest-bjp-points-to-chequered-past-3426691.html | 2022-06-28T19:18:34Z | https://www.oneindia.com/amphtml/india/oppn-media-bodies-condemn-zubair-s-arrest-bjp-points-to-chequered-past-3426691.html | false | 3 |
Nura is often lauded for its personalized sound technology, which tests your ears to automatically find optimal EQ settings. But its latest earbuds, the NuraTrue Pro, take things to a new level—they support CD-quality lossless audio.
The NuraTrue Pro earbuds are an early adopter of Snapdragon Sound, a high-res codec developed by Qualcomm. They support 44.1kHz 16-bit audio over a wireless connection, plus multipoint pairing and ANC. Impressively, these features come with a total 32-hour battery life and a Spatial Audio mode, which emulates the 360-degree sound of music in a room.
Nura calls this product “the world’s first wireless earbuds with CD-quality lossless audio,” which is plainly false. Over a dozen wireless earbuds use the Snapdragon Sound codec for 44.1kHz 16-bit audio. That said, Nura is one of the few brands to market this technology outside of Asia.
I should note that Snapdragon Sound is only supported by a handful of phones, mainly Chinese brands. It will take a few years for Snapdragon Sound to become a common audio codec in the global smartphone market. (Nura plans to sell a Bluetooth 5.3 USB adapter, which sort of remedies this problem.)
You can pre-order the NuraTrue Pro earbuds now on Kickstarter. Pricing ranges from $200 to $250, depending on when you place your order (the final retail price will be $330). This project is already way past its goal, and Nura is a trusted brand, so you don’t need to worry about the fact that it’s on Kickstarter—it’s just a way to build hype. | https://www.reviewgeek.com/121878/nuras-new-earbuds-combine-lossless-audio-with-personalized-sound/ | 2022-06-28T19:19:13Z | https://www.reviewgeek.com/121878/nuras-new-earbuds-combine-lossless-audio-with-personalized-sound/ | true | 1 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1,000 Air National Guard troops who are assigned to space missions are mired in an identity crisis.
Torn between the Air Force, where they have historically been assigned, and the military’s shiny new Space Force where they now work, their units have become orphans, according to commanders, as state and federal leaders wrangle over whether to create a Space National Guard.
For federal authorities, the issue is mainly about the money. A Space Guard, they say, will create unneeded bureaucracy and cost up to $500 million a year. They argue it’s too high a price to slap a new name on a patch for an airman doing the same job at the same desk as a year ago.
But state Guard leaders say what’s at stake is more than than just uniform patches. They say the split has caused budgeting gaps, training delays and recruiting problems, and if unresolved will lead to bigger divisions, eroding units’ readiness in some of the nation’s critical space warfighting and nuclear command and control jobs.
The state leaders don’t buy the money argument. They say a Space Guard will be needed in only seven states and Guam, where the Air Guard members who support space missions already reside. The cost, they say, will only be about $250,000, for new signs, tags and other administrative changes.
“When they removed all the space operators out of the Air Force, the Air Force no longer really does space,” said Air Guard Lt. Col. Jeremiah Hitchner, commander of the 109th Space Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron in Guam.
Hitchner was referring to the decision to shift active-duty Air Force troops doing space missions into the new Space Force. “They left us in the Air Force. So we were — for lack of a better term — orphaned. We were left on our own to survive.”
Across the country, there are 1,008 Air National Guard citizen-airmen performing space jobs in Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, New York, Ohio and Guam.
Many of those Guard members work with America’s highly sensitive and technical military satellite communications and missile warning systems. They are responsible for ensuring that those systems can survive and operate under all peace and wartime conditions.
President Donald Trump ordered the creation of a Space Force in June 2018. But even before then, it had already been under discussion within the Air Force as a way to better defend U.S. interests in space, especially navigation and communication satellites.
Unlike the Army, Navy and Air Force, the Space Force is not its own military department. Instead, it’s administered by the Air Force secretary, is led by a four-star general and provides forces for U.S. Space Command, which oversees the military’s space operations.
To limit costs and avoid establishing a vast space bureaucracy, only a few military career fields were created for the Space Force: mainly space operations, cyber and intelligence jobs. Active-duty airmen who were doing those missions became Space Force Guardians.
There are about 7,000 active-duty Guardians, and a similar number of civilians, with a budget of about $18 billion for this fiscal year. Other duties — including legal, medical, public affairs and some administrative posts — continue to be carried out by Air Force staff.
The opposition to creating a small Space Guard appears to be centered at the White House and Office of Management and Budget. Last September, the budget office said it strongly opposed a Space National Guard, citing Congressional Budget Office estimates that it could cost about $500 million a year.
“Establishing a Space National Guard would not deliver new capabilities — it would instead create new government bureaucracy,” OMB said. “The Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units with space missions have effectively performed their roles with no adverse effect on DOD’s space mission since the establishment of the Space Force.” DOD refers to the Department of Defense.
While having a Space Guard was part of the initial Air Force plan, the funding limits have become the overriding issue. There are worries that creating a Guard structure would mean more overhead costs, including the need for a Space Guard commander and other senior staff. Also, there is a distant fear that once that structure was in place, other states could lobby for their own units, again expanding the costs.
In the states, Guard members say they are struggling with increased bureaucracy and that it’s becoming harder to get training slots for new recruits.
Sitting alongside the active-duty Space Guardians, the Air Guard members say they’re doing their same jobs, but without a formal link to the Space Force. As the Space Force develops its own job descriptions and requirements, Air Guard troops complain it’s more difficult to be promoted in space mission jobs.
“We need to be aligned with people that understand the space mission, have responsibility for the space mission, and have all the authorities and alignment in the space mission,” said Senior Master Sgt. Harry Smith, flight chief for the 137th Space Warning Squadron in Colorado. “The Air Force should be focused on air power.”
Commanders said that over time, the disconnect will worsen. Already, they said, funding is becoming a problem because they are requesting money from the Air Force for a Space Force mission or equipment.
“The Space Force and Air Force now have their own fund lines. They’re appropriated completely different,” said Hitchner. “That makes an issue for me because I’m in the air side trying to spend Space Force money. It’s sometimes legally not possible.”
Some members of Congress are pushing for a Space Guard, citing many of the same efficiency and bureaucracy reasons. Legislation has been proposed but has not passed.
In a letter to President Joe Biden, the National Guard Association of the U.S. argued that OMB incorrectly inflated the price tag and ignored Air Force studies that concluded creating a Guard would be more efficient.
“The personnel are already on the payroll and the equipment and facilities are in place.” said retired Brig. Gen. J. Roy Robinson, the association’s president. “A Space National Guard could grow in the future, but only to meet requirements specified by the Space Force.” | https://fox2now.com/news/politics/ap-politics/air-guard-troops-doing-space-missions-face-identity-crisis/ | 2022-06-28T19:19:35Z | https://fox2now.com/news/politics/ap-politics/air-guard-troops-doing-space-missions-face-identity-crisis/ | true | 46 |
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 1961, BayPort Credit Union has supported members by funding their educational pursuits. Over that time, BayPort has awarded more than $1 million in scholarships and grants. Today, the credit union's philanthropic arm, the BayPort Foundation, continues the focus of educational scholarships by providing $100,000 in scholarships annually to member students in surrounding local communities.
BayPort's scholarship program is open to students of all ages including credit union employee dependents, high school seniors, college students, and working adults attending a college, university, trade, or vocational school. This year, the Foundation awarded scholarships to a total of 36 students attending 23 schools.
The Foundation has partnered with WAVY TV-10 and FOX 43 TV to honor its 2022 scholarship recipients as part of the BayPort Foundation Scholarship Salute recognition program. The Scholarship Salute will air daily between June 27 and July 24. For more information and to view the entire voluntary Scholarship Salute series, please visit BayPort's YouTube channel.
The BayPort Foundation 2022 scholarship recipients are as follows:
Beard-Bennett Memorial Scholarship
Amanda Grimsley, First Colonial High School
Ellie Ross, New Kent High School
Hannah Smith, Smithfield High School
Kyle Crosby, Warwick High School
Maya Joyner, Woodside High School
Rebecca Miller, Christopher Newport University
Burton P. Hill Scholarship
Brian Tafazoli, University of Virginia
Directors Scholarship
Anthony Nelson Jr., Louisiana State University
Colten Reece, James Madison University
Keymari Reese, Old Dominion University
Krystal McRae, ECPI University
Mason Ponton, Thomas Nelson Community College
Nichole Gilliam, ECPI University
Quinton McWilliams, Old Dominion University
Donald I. Steppe Memorial Scholarship
Maggie Smith, James Madison University
George R. Dudley, Jr. Scholarship
Allison Fales, Smithfield High School
McGee Family Scholarship
Cherami Earls, Thomas Nelson Community College
Student-Run Credit Union Member Scholarship
Amanda Ambuter, Denbigh High School
Dakota Brown, Woodside High School
Ellen Jones, York High School
Sarai Brown, Heritage High School
Trenton Conklin, Kecoughtan High School
Xavier Gardner, King's Fork High School
Student-Run Credit Union Teller Scholarship
Ariyahna Cheeks, King's Fork High School
Diego Vega-Nazario, Peninsula Catholic High School
Mary Ann Harris, Summit Christian Academy
Skylar Cowling, Heritage High School
Sydney Harris, Kecoughtan High School
Tuition Booster Scholarship
Ekaterina Shelton, Regent University
Frances Tillman, Saint Leo University
Miriam Gourdine, Old Dominion University
Rusbel Garcia, Tidewater Community College
Shaunte Lafferty, Tidewater Community College
Sherrell Porter, Strayer University
Wiatt Memorial Apprentice School Scholarship
John Vasquez, Old Dominion University
Tyler Sutton, Old Dominion University
About BayPort Foundation
BayPort Foundation is the charitable arm of BayPort Credit Union and was established to extend the credit union's philosophy of "people helping people." The BayPort Foundation's mission focuses on four philanthropic efforts: educational scholarships, financial literacy education, promoting family health and wellness, and hardship and emergency assistance in communities where BayPort members live and work. For more information, visit bayportfoundation.org.
About BayPort Credit Union
In 1928, nine shipyard workers from Newport News Shipbuilding formed an organization with a specific purpose as a low-interest source of loans and a trusted place to deposit money. Today, BayPort Credit Union is rated a Superior 5-Star credit union by Bauer Financial, managing $2.2 billion in assets and servicing nearly 148,000 individuals and businesses with 27 branch locations across the Virginia Peninsula and Southside communities. Visit us at www.bayportcu.org.
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New York Yankees, Oakland A's announce Tuesday night starting lineups
The New York Yankees play the middle game of a three-game home series against the Oakland A's on Tuesday night.
First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m. at Yankee Stadium. The game will be broadcast on the YES Network in New York.
Frankie Montas (3-7, 3.21) will start for Oakland, while JP Sears (2-0, 0.00) will go for New York.
The Yankees won, 9-5, in the series opener on Monday.
Here are the lineups announced by the teams on Tuesday afternoon:
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The restaurant industry in California has been my life ever since my father immigrated here 31 years ago and saved every penny to open his first Burger King franchise in Santa Ana. Since then, we’ve worked hard to grow our family business to 21 locations, providing opportunities for our 500 employees. Our story is the epitome of the American Dream and a powerful reminder of the opportunity the franchise business model provides.
But our dream, as well as those of countless other small business owners in California, is under attack by pending legislation – AB 257, the so-called Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, which is scheduled to be heard Tuesday morning in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
As I franchisee, I am responsible for day-to-day decisions in the same way my non-franchised neighboring business owners are. Hiring, pay, leave and benefits – these decisions cross my desk every day. If enacted, AB 257 would take these decisions out of my hands and instead empower an unelected and unaccountable council of political appointees to determine policies for my employees.
Under AB 257, my brand would have no choice but to have a role in decisions for my business, essentially relegating me to middle management. That’s not why my father became a franchisee and certainly not why I left a career in marketing to join and grow our family business. Other California businesses like mine would not have to shoulder this burden. AB 257 would unlevel my playing field simply based on my business being a franchise.
To make matters worse, this measure will lead to higher costs for me as a business owner, at a time we’re already struggling with increased costs and worrying about how we’ll keep our doors open. For many, additional costs would be passed along to customers at a time when inflation is at a 40-year high and families are struggling to put food on the table, gas in their car and keep a roof over their heads.
The bill’s proponents cited inferior working conditions in the counter-service restaurant space as the reason they’re pushing AB 257. However, the state’s own data does not support that rationale. I care about the welfare of workers in my industry, which is why I follow all labor, wage and health laws set forth by the state.
If proponents are concerned about counter-service industry employees, they wouldn’t be pushing for the creation of an entity with no enforcement powers. They would instead be urging the Legislature to fully fund, rather than slash the budget, of the Department of Industrial Relations and would be imploring the state to fill vacancies and speed up the review of cases.
I am a proponent of full enforcement of the laws we have on the books, which are the strongest in the country. When others in the industry flout the law, it’s a disservice to the rest of us who take our jobs and responsibility to care for our employees seriously.
As a female business owner, it is important to highlight the franchise business model affords women and minorities a higher rate of business ownership, nearly 30%, as compared to non-franchised small businesses with women ownership rates closer to 17%. This business model has allowed me to take what my father started and grow it into the business I have today.
The proponents of AB 257 would have you believe small business owners exploit their employees in the effort to make a few extra bucks. In reality, the small-business owners I know are just like me – behind the cash register every day, partnering with our diverse employees to better their lives and provide them with opportunities to grow.
I hope the Legislature and the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee see AB 257 for what it really is – the wrong measure at the wrong time for small business owners, their employees and California consumers.
Sanna Shere is a Southern California small business owner. | https://www.sgvtribune.com/2022/06/28/assembly-bill-257-is-a-threat-to-small-business-owners/ | 2022-06-28T19:29:45Z | https://www.sgvtribune.com/2022/06/28/assembly-bill-257-is-a-threat-to-small-business-owners/ | false | 10 |
- If you see an Error Code 42 in Disney Plus, it means the video can't be played because of a connectivity issue.
- You can check to see if the Disney Plus service is working and double check your WiFi.
- Here are seven simple ways to troubleshoot Error Code 42 on Disney Plus.
Disney Plus is a leading streaming service that launched in 2019 and has content from Disney's classic archives along with Marvel and Star Wars franchises, just to name a few. While it usually works exactly the way you expect, if you subscribe to Disney Plus, you might sometimes be confronted by the service's "Error Code 42."
The Error Code 42, which reads, "We're sorry; we're having trouble connecting you to the service. Please check to see that you are still connected to the internet and try again," is a fairly generic message that indicates the video you want to watch can't be displayed. It's usually due to an internet or connectivity error.
You can take a break and go read a book for a few hours, or you can try to solve the problem so you can get back to bingeing. Some problems are beyond your control, but there are a handful of troubleshooting steps that can potentially solve Disney Plus's Error Code 42.
Restart your streaming device
If you see Error Code 42 when you select a TV show or movie in Disney Plus, the easiest first step is to reset the device. If you're using a streaming media player like a Roku, for example, unplug it, wait two minutes, then plug it in again. If the problem is happening on your computer, tablet, or phone, shut the device down and restart it as well.
Sign out and into Disney Plus
Sometimes, simply signing out and then back into Disney Plus on your streaming device could do the trick. For most devices, start the Disney Plus app, select your account icon, and then choose Log Out. After you're completely logged out, sign back in using your username and password and try again.
See if Disney Plus is down
Unfortunately, the problem might not be something you can fix at your end; it might be an outage with Disney Plus. This is rare, but it does happen. The easiest way to check is to go to the Disney Plus network status page at Downdetector, or just type "is Disney Plus down" in a Google search.
Check your WiFi connection
Here's a pro tip: If you have a second device, try using Disney Plus on that. If you get the same error message on both devices — and Downdetector doesn't report an outage — then your WiFi network is a likely culprit.
Reboot your WiFi router and internet modem. To do that, unplug both for at least two minutes, then turn on the modem, let it fully start, and then turn on the WiFi router. After your system is back up and running, make sure you have a strong WiFi signal wherever you are trying to stream.
Check your WiFi speed
Just because you have a strong WiFi signal, that doesn't mean your internet connection is fast enough to satisfy Disney's speed requirements. A slow internet connection can be interpreted by Disney Plus as poor connectivity and generate Error Code 42.
To test your internet speed, go to Google in a web browser and search for "internet speed test." At the top of the search results, click Run Speed Test. The test will run automatically. If you get a poor result, you might need to contact your internet service provider.
Clear your cache
If you're trying to watch Disney Plus on a mobile device like a phone or tablet, there could be a problem with the app's data cache which is interfering with its ability to make a reliable connection.
If you are using an Android device, it's easy to clear the cache. The steps might vary depending upon which version of Android you have, but here's the general procedure:
1. Start the Settings app.
2. Tap Apps.
3. Go to the list of apps and tap Disney Plus.
4. Tap Storage & cache.
5. Tap Clear cache.
If you have an iPhone or iPad, there's no way to clear the cache without uninstalling the app, so go ahead and do that — uninstall Disney Plus, and then reinstall it from the App Store and sign back into your Disney Plus account.
Reinstall your Disney Plus app
If nothing else has worked, you can try to uninstall and reinstall the Disney Plus app. This could solve the problem if you've narrowed the problem to a specific device — it works on other devices on the same WiFi network, for example — and clearing the cache had no effect, or you were unable to clear the cache.
Uninstall the Disney Plus app from the problematic device. The exact method varies but here is a guide to uninstalling apps from most common devices, and here is how to uninstall a streaming channel from Roku. After you've uninstalled Disney Plus, reinstall it from the device's app store and sign back into your account. Then test and see if that has cleared Error Code 42. | https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-plus-error-code-42 | 2022-06-28T19:30:19Z | https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-plus-error-code-42 | false | 1 |
Marlo Hampton is flaunting her peach.
The “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star proved she’s the queen of style down south on Monday, stepping out in a “naked” illusion dress ($680) from the Lotta Volkova x John Paul Gaultier collection that made her appear fully nude.
Hampton, who finally nabbed a spot as a full-time “Housewife” after years of serving as a friend of the cast, posted the risqué look on Instagram Monday, with “Real Housewife of Potomac” Mia Thorton commenting, “YES, MA’AM” and “RHOBH” star Sutton Stracke calling her outfit, “The. Best.”
Not only did the fashion diva free the nipple — and the nether regions — with a front view of the trompe l’oeil style, but she also bent over to give followers a glimpse of the rear.
And her dress wasn’t just for show; Hampton even took the look to the club, posting a TikTok while out in her designer duds.
Despite her many fashionable finds, Marlo did not have to dip into Le’Archive for her statement-making dress — the maxi was originally available for purchase online, although it’s now sold out.
Celebs have been snapping up styles from the Volkova collab since it launched in May; Kylie Jenner wore a “naked” bikini from the line earlier this month, while Tove Lo made fans look twice with her trompe l’oeil top.
Stars including Bella Thorne, Iggy Azalea and Demi Lovato have similarly embraced nude-illusion designs lately. | https://pagesix.com/2022/06/28/rhoa-star-marlo-hampton-flaunts-her-peach-in-naked-dress/ | 2022-06-28T19:31:29Z | https://pagesix.com/2022/06/28/rhoa-star-marlo-hampton-flaunts-her-peach-in-naked-dress/ | false | 1 |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
3-5-6, Fireball: 4
(three, five, six; Fireball: four)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
3-5-6, Fireball: 4
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Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (NYSE:NYSE:PSTH) announced a deal to acquire 10% of Universal Music Group from Vivendi (OTCPK:VIVHY) this morning in a deal seems designed to extend Pershing Square's ability to do other deals, but doesn't seem to excite investors as shares are trading lower pre-market. In this article, I'll explain why I'm not excited about this deal, but it could provide opportunities for keen investors in the future.
The first thing to know about this transaction is that Bill Ackman, head of Pershing Square, is a well-known hedge fund manager and Wall Street deal maker. Some of his transactions like buying General Growth Properties (now a part of Brookfield Property Partners (BPY)) out of bankruptcy after the financial crisis produced amazing returns. Others such as his attempt to remake J. C. Penny (JCPNQ) were significant failures. In addition to his hedge fund Pershing Square, Ackman runs another publicly traded company Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd. (OTCPK:PSHZF) which owns a limited partner interest in his hedge fund. The results have been good lately, but underperformed the S&P 500 owned in an ETF such as SPY since inception five years ago: All this is to say that while Ackman is an accomplished investor, not all of his deals are "can't miss."
Last fall, Ackman tried to take advantage of the wave of SPAC financing that became available as the stock market began its rise and he went public with Pershing Square Tontine Holdings. Like other SPACs, Tontine is a "blank check" company in which a sponsor takes cash and attempts to buy a private company, or otherwise return the cash. Many SPACs have a reputation for giving great terms to their sponsors and insiders while leaving less for outside shareholders.
Ackman has tried to create a more shareholder-friendly version. While PSTH was the subject of a number of different rumors, this is the deal Ackman finally came up with. At times the stock has traded at a significant premium to its asset value, and some of the decline in share price pre-market this morning seems to be a sign of investor disappointment in the transaction.
The property being acquired here is Universal Music Group, the world's largest owner of songs and artistic property. For example, Universal buys things such as the rights to Paul McCartney's catalogue. Well-managed intellectual property can be a great asset to own, and Ackman certainly thinks so as he said in the company press release. Universal is currently operated as a segment of Vivendi, so we can get some summary financial information from Vivendi's annual report:As you can see above, Universal had 7.4 billion euros of revenue on which it earned 1.4 billion euros of net income. If this had been a stand-alone business, some corporate overhead would be allocated to Universal, but we don't have enough information to evaluate that yet.
Pershing's deal is to buy 10% of the company for $4 billion for a total price of $40 billion, so exchanging the 1.4 billion euros to dollars gives us a conversion of $1.7 billion. So it appears that the price values Universal at 23 times last year's income from operations. Net income takes out taxes and overhead, so this could be a price closer to 20 times net income.
I don't have a firm opinion on whether this is a particularly good price for these assets. On the one hand, owning well-managed marquis assets is a great business to be in because among other things it can be inflation-friendly; you can charge more for new content with inflation, but you don't have to go repurchase your old library of content. On the other hand, in a world where new media and content is being created and disseminated in new ways every year (Netflix, Podcasts, Social Media can all make stars out of people today), who knows what the value Paul McCartney's catalogue is anymore?
The rationale for this Pershing Square purchase of 10% of Universal seems a little hard to grasp, especially because Vivendi is planning to list Universal on its own in the near future anyhow.
So finally, that leads us to consider the last two pieces of this deal as described by the press release, which I believe reveal the real motive behind this transaction: the continued listing of PSTH and the new "SPARC" vehicle. As Pershing Square's press release explains, in addition to the shares of Universal Music, PSTH holders will also receive:
This transaction to use most of the PSTH's money to acquire a share of Universal, and this appears to meet the "two-year rule" that keeps the company from having to return money to shareholders if they don't do a deal, so the money remaining from PSTH is still available to Ackman, but now without a deadline. The second item appears to be a newly listed variation on the SPAC - cleverly called here a "SPARC." As far as I can tell, this vehicle is the same "blank check company" that the SPAC was, but replacing the two year window with a five-year one.
For the reasons stated above, I don't see any outstanding opportunities today based on this acquisition of PSTH for shares in Universal. I would be interested to learn more about Universal's controlling shareholder Bollore as described in this article. I'll also continue to track PSTH going forward in case confusion around the deal and its different moving pieces create the opportunity to buy merger securities or spin-offs in the open market.
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Newswise — For a successful climate change strategy, it is crucial to understand how the impacts of global warming may evolve over time. A new study led by the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) presents the future periods for which aberrant drought conditions will become more frequent, thereby creating a new normal.
Global warming is expected to increase the intensity and frequency of future drought in several global regions, adversely affecting the water resource, agriculture, and energy sectors. Given that the current water management practices and existing infrastructures in these sectors are based on historical statistics or experiences, under a changing climate, these practices and infrastructures may eventually become insufficient. Therefore, it is critical to better understand when severe drought conditions expressed as “unprecedented” will become frequent.
“Regarding precipitation and temperature, preceding studies report the timing at which the impact of climate change emerges. However, no study had successfully estimated the timing in terms of drought focusing on river discharge at a global scale,” said Tokuta Yokohata, a coauthor and a Chief Senior Researcher of the Earth System Risk Analysis Section at the Earth System Division, NIES. “A temporal evaluation about future drought conditions in comparison to our historical experiences is essential to take appropriate climate change strategies, especially for climate adaptations, in the long term and in time.”
The paper published in Nature Communications estimates the periods when drought conditions will shift to an unprecedented state in a warmer world. The research group evaluated changes in drought day frequency for 59 global subcontinental regions until the end of the 21st century. They estimated the time of first emergence (TFE) of consecutive unprecedented drought, which is the first onset of exceedance beyond the maximum bound of the historical climate variability during the reference period (1865-2005) that occurs consecutively for a certain number of years. For instance, TFE5 indicates that the regional drought frequency remains larger than the maximum value during the reference 141-year period for more than five years. The scientists analyzed their river discharge simulation dataset, which was derived from combinations of five global hydrological models and four climate model projections. The study considered low and high greenhouse gas concentration scenarios to evaluate the consequences of society’s decisions on the climate mitigation pathway.
Large regional disparity in the pace of growing warming impacts
“The projected impacts of warming show significant regional disparities in their intensity and the pace of their growth over time,” said the corresponding lead author Yusuke Satoh, a research associate professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology. By the middle of this century, increases in drought frequency are statistically significant in 25% and 28% of the global land under low and high greenhouse gas concentration scenarios, respectively. Specific regions show substantial increases of more than double the current frequency. Under both scenarios, so-called hotspots of drought increases include the Mediterranean regions, southern and central South America, Australia, etc. “Some regions exhibit steady increases in drought frequency. The projected increases are highly likely by the middle of this century compared to the historical period”.
This new study considers consecutive exceedances of more than five years and detects TFE5 in 18 out of 59 regions by the end of this century under a high greenhouse gas concentration scenario. Even for a low greenhouse gas concentration scenario that assumes stringent mitigation strategies, 11 regions are projected to reach TFE5 within the century. “Under high and low greenhouse gas concentration scenarios, respectively, seven and five regions show TFE5 in approximately 30 years, which is before or around an expected climate stabilization in case of the low climate change scenario. Importantly, the results imply unavoidable unprecedented states in these regions,” said Hideo Shiogama, a co-author and the head of the Earth System Risk Analysis Section at NIES. In particular, southwestern South America and the Mediterranean regions consistently show early and robust TFE5 in both scenarios. On the other hand, the differences between greenhouse gas concentration scenarios indicate that our choice of mitigation strategies produces a noticeable difference in the timing and robustness of the projection. “Appropriate and feasible climate mitigation and adaptation plans are essential for overcoming the expected extraordinarily severe dry conditions. Particularly regarding adaptation, it is crucial to improve our preparedness in the given time horizon before unprecedented drought conditions emerge,” said Satoh. | https://www.newswise.com/articles/in-the-near-future-unprecedented-drought-conditions-are-projected-to-be-more-frequent-and-consecutive-in-certain-regions | 2022-06-28T19:42:03Z | https://www.newswise.com/articles/in-the-near-future-unprecedented-drought-conditions-are-projected-to-be-more-frequent-and-consecutive-in-certain-regions | false | 5 |
The world is uniting against Russian president Vladimir Putin over his “war of aggression” in Ukraine, Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said Tuesday ahead of a Nato summit in Madrid.
Albanese also condemned the Russian missile strike on Monday that hit a busy shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk.
“It’s one of the reasons why I’m here at Nato and will be a focus of the democratic nations which make up Nato and also the Asia-Pacific Four who’ve been invited to this important forum,” he told reporters in Madrid. EFE
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NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dfinity Foundation today filed a lawsuit against The New York Times, Times reporters Andrew Ross Sorkin and Ephrat Livni, Arkham Intelligence, Inc, Arkham's founder and Chief Executive Officer Miguel Morel, and other current or former Arkham officers, agents and employees, for defamation and unfair business and trade practices. It is expected that additional defendants will also be added to the lawsuit as the situation evolves.
The Dfinity Foundation is a Swiss not-for-profit organization, headquartered in Zürich, with additional research centers in California and remote teams around the world. It currently employs a team of more than 270 people, which consists primarily of senior engineers, research scientists, and cryptographers, many of whom are famous in their respective fields, and who have earned more than 86,000 research citations. The organization's purpose is to advance technology that supports the "Internet Computer", advocate for its wider use, and assist thousands of entrepreneurs and developers currently using the platform to build Web3 online services and decentralized applications ("dapps"), including next-generation social media, gaming and metaverse ventures, and millions of end users.
The Internet Computer is one of the most disruptive innovations in tech. It is a public compute platform that provides an open alternative to centralized traditional IT, such as Amazon Web Services cloud computing, server computers, databases and web servers. This compute platform is in fact an advanced blockchain, powered by revolutionary mathematics, that runs at web speed, with web-levels of efficiency, that is capable of processing almost any amount of data and computation. Using this open platform, entrepreneurs and developers can build almost anything exclusively using next-generation blockchain code ("smart contracts") that directly serves interactive content to end users over the World Wide Web. The use and management of the blockchain network involves its ICP token, which enables participation in network governance, and produces fuel that powers computation. ICP tokens were made publicly available in February 2017, and became transferrable when the blockchain underwent "genesis" on May 10th, 2021 – whereupon the blockchain transitioned into full production mode and became part of the public internet.
The lawsuit alleges that wealthy and powerful individuals used the Times and the willingness of its star business reporter, Andrew Ross Sorkin, who together knowingly published, with actual malice, a false and defamatory story about a "hit piece" report (the "Arkham Report") on June 28th 2021—a report that was secretly bought and paid for by wealthy elites who sought to personally profit from the scheme. As a direct result of the Times publishing the story, which relied upon and promoted the bought-and-paid-for Arkham hit piece, the scheme harmed the Internet Computer ecosystem's operations and reputation. The lawsuit also alleges that the defamation scheme involves unfair business and trade practices, because it was motivated by a desire to reduce the threat that the Internet Computer poses to competitive blockchains. The lawsuit resulted from recent revelations made by Crypto Leaks (https://cryptoleaks.info).
According to the Dfinity Foundation's Founder and Chief Scientist, Dominic Williams, who has been working on the Internet Computer for many years: "After the Internet Computer network underwent genesis May 10th last year, a large number of vicious attacks were directed towards us. Most of these were motivated by a desire to harm and undermine the Internet Computer's ecosystem to reduce the threat it poses to competitive blockchains. One of the worst attacks was Arkham Intelligence's hit piece report, which made many false and baseless claims, which I believe was carefully crafted to defame the project and cause maximum harm. Arkham was an unknown outfit, with no track record, which had never produced a report before, and has never produced a report since, which would have gone unnoticed had the New York Times not published and promoted it with malice. I am grateful for the Crypto Leaks case investigation that shed light on the real goings-on, which has spurred us to seek a remedy by pursuing the perpetrators. We at Dfinity will use all means to defend the Internet Computer, the thousands of entrepreneurs and developers building on the network, the end users of services and applications they build, and the incredible and brilliant teams of engineers, computer science researchers and cryptographers that work tirelessly on supporting technology."
A copy of the lawsuit can be found here: https://dfinity.org/complaint.pdf
The lawsuit was filed by renowned defamation and media attorney Charles Harder of Harder LLP.
According to the lawsuit:
"This action shows how wealthy and powerful individuals specifically used the Times and the willingness of its star reporter, Andrew Ross Sorkin, to knowingly publish with actual malice, a false and defamatory story about a "hit piece" report (the "Arkham Report")—a report that was secretly bought and paid for by the wealthy elites who sought to personally profit from the scheme. As a direct result of the Times, through its celebrity reporter Sorkin, publishing the story which relied solely on the false Arkham bought-and-paid for hit piece, the scheme worked and Dfinity suffered extraordinary damages.
"The Times Defendants' actual malice in publishing the Arkham Report is demonstrated by a number of facts, including:
a. "Arkham is a self-proclaimed "crypto analysis" firm that has released only one single report—the Arkham Report—in the entire duration of its existence. Arkham and its purported founder and CEO, Morel, were previously completely unknown within the world of cryptocurrency analysis.
b. "Arkham's Twitter account has a total of seven (7) tweets, the first one dated on June 28, 2021—all of them concern the Arkham Report.
c. "Like Morel, the other authors of the Arkham Report all appear to be in their 20's with zero experience reporting on the blockchain industry, but many of whom have connections to Dfinity's competitor, Reserve Protocol ("Reserve").
d. "On information and belief, one of Arkham's investors is a billionaire who has significant investments in competing crypto projects. On information and belief, the Times Defendants consciously disregarded that Arkham was paid by an as-yet- unidentified individual or individuals to produce the defamatory Arkham Report hit piece.
e. "Simply stated, even minimal journalistic diligence would have demonstrated that the Arkham Report was created for only one purpose: to cause reputational and financial damage to Dfinity and the Internet Computer Protocol.
f. "The article published in the Times does not include any facts relating to the unknown status and inexperience of Arkham, even though such information was surely known to Times reporters. Nor does the article contain any significant information about Arkham's motives, or who was funding Arkham, even though the Times reporters surely had suspicions or obvious reasons to suspect such motives and funding.
g. "The Times Defendants decided not to disclose to Dfinity the existence or contents of the Arkham Report when it sought comment from Dfinity on the Sunday night before the article was published the next day on Monday, June 28, 2021.
h. "Before publication, Dfinity provided detailed information to the Times refuting key aspects of the article. Rather than take the time to investigate the claims made by Dfinity to determine whether the article could still be published or would need to be substantially modified or spiked, the Times Defendants went ahead and published the article based on the defamatory Arkham Report, complete with false statements of fact, the next day. In maliciously publishing the article, the Times Defendants knew that the article would have an immediate, negative impact on the infancy of the decentralized Web3 technology that Dfinity is pioneering. And, in fact, that is precisely what happened as alleged herein.
"Despite what clearly was almost no due diligence into Arkham, the Article cites Arkham's CEO Morel and the Arkham Report as its primary sources... The Article relies on Morel and Arkham even though both were completely previously unknown in the crypto industry and plainly unreliable sources with ulterior motives.
"Notably, the Arkham Report itself states that Morel is the co-founder of Reserve. The Article states this important fact in passing but does not mention that as of the date of publication of the Arkham Report and the Article, Reserve was a wannabe competitor of Dfinity in the cryptocurrency industry or the inherent unreliability of a competitor's statements about another crypto company. Nor does the Times mention the fact that Arkham has, as its "angel" investor, a noted billionaire investor in other crypto projects—or that an undisclosed third party paid to commission the defamatory Arkham Report. And of course, the Article does not mention that Arkham had no previous existence covering the crypto industry, or any of the other dubious facts about the Arkham Defendants, their lack of experience and qualifications, and malicious ulterior motives in attacking and defaming Dfinity.
"(I)t can be reasonably inferred that Arkham was founded and capitalized for only one purpose, to cause reputational damage to Dfinity and its investors. Simply stated, there is no way that the Arkham Defendants, acting alone, could have gotten access to Sorkin, let alone coordinated this scheme and convinced Sorkin and his editors to publish the Article based on the intentionally false facts contained in the bought-and-paid for Arkham Report.
"In June 2022, online investigative video footage posted on Crypto Leaks shows Arkham representatives admitting that Arkham was in fact hired and paid a significant sum by a wealthy individual to create the Arkham Report. On information and belief, this wealthy individual has investments in the cryptocurrency space that are competitive with Dfinity, and paid Arkham and Morel to create the Arkham Report, knowing that the report would make false and defamatory statements about Dfinity therein, and with the intent and purpose that the report and statements would be shared with Sorkin and Livni at the Times and republished in an article, to provide instant legitimacy to and bolster the Arkham Report's supposed reliability, and publicize throughout the world the false and highly damaging statements in the Arkham Report.
"In a taped interview available at Crypto Leaks, Nick Longo of Arkham, when asked if Arkham has an 'angel', responds in the affirmative, naming a billionaire crypto investor.2
"On information and belief, Defendants carried out their malicious actions—simply put, a coordinated hit job—to intentionally harm Dfinity and its reputation, interfere with its business dealings and relationships, including to gain a competitive advantage for the Arkham Defendants and their financier(s) in the cryptocurrency industry, and potentially bankrupt Dfinity in the process. On information and belief, the named Arkham Defendants and their sponsors also profited in additional ways from their actions. or reputations for their alleged expertise or any legitimate basis for their supposed and very serious "findings" about Dfinity and ICP.
"The Times Defendants doubted or had obvious reasons to doubt the veracity of their sources and the sources' claims about Dfinity. Nevertheless, on the very same day the Arkham Report was released, the Times Defendants, without any serious investigation into the backgrounds, ulterior motives, and obvious conflicts of interest of the Arkham Defendants, and also without investigating the truth or falsity of the claims contained in the Arkham Report, even though it would naturally cause tremendous reputational and economic harm to Dfinity, published and repeated the false and defamatory statements about Dfinity contained in the Arkham Report. The Times Defendants purposefully avoided investigation or further investigation, with an intent to avoid the truth. Any "investigation" by the Times Defendants was deliberately skewed to avoid uncovering the truth—or, worse yet, simply ignored the truth.
"The fact that Sorkin, who writes about the influence the uber-wealthy has on the media,3 and Livni (a lawyer), conducted no diligence on their primary (and apparently only) source for the Article is alarming and strongly suggests undue influence by a third party, causing these seasoned reporters to ignore the Times' own standards for reporting and ethics. Dfinity finds it highly suspicious that a company with no track record (Arkham) and an individual with limited work experience (Morel) managed to convince veteran Times reporters to base an entire story on a dubious paid-for report that made unsubstantiated and defamatory allegations unless the Times reporters were unduly influenced by a third party with direct access to the reporters. Dfinity believes discovery will reveal that Sorkin and/or Livni were unduly influenced by an uber-wealthy and influential third party to be an accomplice in this coordinated hit job along with Arkham and its financier(s) (competitors to Dfinity who, on information and belief, also used their inside and advanced knowledge that Sorkin and the Times would maliciously publish the Article based on the Arkham Report to personally profit in additional ways) to cause substantial damage to Dfinity's business and reputation.
"In June 2022, online investigative video footage posted on Crypto Leaks shows Arkham representatives admitting that Arkham was in fact hired and paid a significant sum by a wealthy individual to create the Arkham Report. On information and belief, this wealthy individual has investments in the cryptocurrency space that are competitive with Dfinity, and paid Arkham and Morel to create the Arkham Report, knowing that the report would make false and defamatory statements about Dfinity therein, and with the intent and purpose that the report and statements would be shared with Sorkin and Livni at the Times and republished in an article, to provide instant legitimacy to and bolster the Arkham Report's supposed reliability, and publicize throughout the world the false and highly damaging statements in the Arkham Report.
"In a taped interview available at Crypto Leaks, Nick Longo of Arkham, when asked if Arkham has an "angel", responds in the affirmative, naming a billionaire crypto investor.2 On information and belief, Defendants carried out their malicious actions—simply put, a coordinated hit job—to intentionally harm Dfinity and its reputation, interfere with its business dealings and relationships, including to gain a competitive advantage for the Arkham Defendants and their financier(s) in the cryptocurrency industry, and potentially bankrupt Dfinity in the process. On information and belief, the named Arkham Defendants and their sponsors also profited in additional ways from their actions to further his second career in the content creation industry.
1 https://cryptoleaks.info/case-no-2
2 https://cryptoleaks.info/case-no-2
"Defendants' false and defamatory statements and tortious conduct have caused, and will continue to cause, extraordinary damages to Dfinity and the Internet Computer Protocol. Defendants must be held accountable for the harm they foreseeably caused Dfinity and the Internet Computer Protocol by their defamatory statements made with actual malice and their tortious conduct."
A copy of the lawsuit can be found here: https://dfinity.org/complaint.pdf
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SILVER SPRING, Md., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an update on additional steps it has taken that will lead to more infant formula available in the U.S. under the agency's recent increased flexibilities.
Company (Product Origin): Abbott Nutrition (Ireland)
Product(s): Similac Advance 2'-FL Stage 1
Type of Formula: General
Estimated Quantity: 18,677 cans (about 35,000 pounds or about 535,000 full-size, 8-ounce bottles)
Availability: Mid-July. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is evaluating options for getting the product to the U.S. as quickly as possible.
More Information and Where to Find the Products: Abbott Nutrition will reserve a portion of the inventory to provide free of charge product for critical needs to Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) agencies. Abbott will also use online outlets (Similac.com, Abbottstore.com, Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Target.com, and others to maximize availability nationwide for the balance of the product.
The FDA is exercising enforcement discretion for the importation of the infant formula products listed above following the review of information provided pertaining to nutritional adequacy and safety, including microbiological testing, labeling and additional information about facility production and inspection history.
The agency is leveraging a number of flexibilities to bolster the supply of products that serve as the sole source of nutrition for many infants while ensuring the infant formula can be used safely and provides adequate nutrition. The FDA remains in further discussions with manufacturers and suppliers regarding additional supply to ensure there's adequate infant formula available wherever and whenever parents and caregivers need it.
The FDA issued guidance on May 16 that outlined a process by which the agency would not object to the importation of certain infant formula products intended for a foreign market or distribution in the U.S. of products manufactured here for export to foreign countries. This guidance also may provide flexibilities to those who manufacture infant formula products domestically and may be able to further increase the quantity of domestically-produced product for the U.S. market. The agency has posted a webpage that will be updated with information about additional products headed to the U.S.
Ongoing FDA Steps to Increase Availability of Safe, Nutritious Infant Formula
The agency's around-the-clock work as part of the all-of-government efforts has already begun to improve supply and availability. The agency expects that the measures and steps it is taking, and the resumption of production at the Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Mich., facility, will mean more and more supply is on the way or on store shelves moving forward.
The FDA continues to advise against making infant formulas at home or diluting formula. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to work with their child's health care provider for recommendations on changing feeding practices, if needed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also has additional information available at HHS.gov/formula, including information to help families find infant formula.
The agency also monitors online marketplaces for fraudulent products and works with major online retailers to remove violative and harmful products offered for sale on their sites. Additionally, since many of these fraudulent products originate overseas, the agency targets and examines these products at ports of entry. The FDA also monitors and follows up on various external signals such as consumer complaints about potential counterfeit and fraudulent products.
The FDA will continue to dedicate all available resources to help ensure that safe and nutritious infant formula products remain available for use in the U.S. and will keep the public informed of progress updates.
Additional Information:
- Infant Formula Information and Ongoing FDA Efforts to Increase Supply
- Enforcement Discretion to Manufacturers to Increase Infant Formula Supplies
- HHS.gov/formula
- HHS.gov/news
- FDA Investigation of Cronobacter Infections: Powdered Infant Formula (February 2022)
- Powdered Infant Formula Recall: What to Know
- CDC Information on Cronobacter Infection and Infants
Media Contact: FDA Office of Media Affairs, 301-796-4540
Consumer Inquiries: 888-723-3366
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Nearly a month and a half have passed since the first Overwatch 2 beta test period ended, giving developers ample time to add new content for this next round, which began today, June 28.
An extensive set of patch notes outlines all of the changes players can expect when they get into the game. These include widely-discussed additions like the Junker Queen, Overwatch’s newest tank, and new Hybrid map Paraíso, formerly known as Rio de Janeiro. That said, the patch also includes a lot of previously-unknown changes to heroes that could affect gameplay.
The full June 28 patch notes are quite a read, but we’ve honed in on the most important parts to note before you jump into a five-vs-five battle today.
General changes
Quick Play games will now use the competitive ruleset, allowing teams to play both sides of a map. Role Queue and Open Queue are now available in Quick Play, but otherwise, the mode remains mostly the same.
The Ping system has been updated in various ways and now includes low and critical health indicators, which can be triggered with abilities like Windowmaker’s Infra-sight. Updated visuals include new icons and animated offscreen pings to draw attention. Players can also now ping the enemy that eliminated them for up to three seconds after death.
Similarly, the scoreboard system has been overhauled with a reorganized layout and increased transparency to be less visually intrusive. New statistics, like Damage Mitigated, will also be included on the scoreboard.
Map changes
Paraíso, formerly known as Rio de Janeiro, is the game’s newest Hybrid map. Travel through the colorful streets of Rio all the way to Lucío’s club.
Control map Busan, with night lighting, has been added to the Overwatch 2 beta map pool. Junkertown—with morning lighting—is also now available in the Escort pool. Kanezaka and Malevento are available for deathmatch.
Hero changes
Damage heroes have a new passive that replaces the previous movement speed buff. Instead, swapping to a new hero maintains up to 30 percent of your ultimate charge. This way, players can make adjustments to their composition without sacrificing progress. The support role passive’s time to activate self-healing has been increased from one second to 1.5 seconds.
Overwatch 2 visual updates have also been added to all heroes. These new looks can be equipped by selecting “Classic II” in the Hero Gallery.
Tank heroes
Reinhardt
- Armor reduced from 350 to 300.
- Health increased from 300 to 325.
Winston
- Barrier Projector health reduced from 800 to 700
- Primal Rage ultimate cost increased 10 percent.
D.Va
- Mech Armor increased from 200 to 300.
- Mech Health decreased from 450 to 350.
Doomfist
- Seismic Slam no longer slows enemies.
- Power Block damage reduction reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent.
Orisa
- Augmented Fusion Driver damage increased from 10 to 12.
- Projectile size no longer scales with distance.
- Projectile initial size reduced from 0.3 to 0.1.
- Critical damage bonus increased from 50 percent to 100 percent.
- Damage falloff at maximum range reduced from 70 percent to 50 percent.
- Maximum falloff range reduced from 15-35 meters to 15-25 meters.
- Fortify’s 20 percent movement speed penalty removed. Headshot immunity removed.
- Javelin Spin cooldown decreased from 10 to seven seconds.
- Speed boost reduced from 65 percent to 40 percent. Knockback increased.
- Energy Javelin impact damage reduced from 80 to 60. Cooldown increased from 6.5 to eight seconds
- Terra Surge max damage increased from 275 to 500.
- Damage begins to ramp after the old 200 damage timing.
Support heroes
Mercy
- Guardian Angel can no longer be canceled using crouch for a big vertical boost.
- Now automatically launches you upwards if you reach the end of Guardian Angel
- Angelic Descent will now additionally slow ascent speed if held, not just descent speed
- This means you can dampen vertical knockbacks (such as Junkrat’s Concussive Mine) but also reduce the amount of height that the GA vertical boost gives you.
Zenyatta
- Orb of Discord’s time to fall off target when not in line of sight reduced from three to two seconds.
Damage heroes
Bastion
- A-36 Tactical Grenade cooldown reduced from 10 to eight seconds.
Cassidy
- Combat Roll now grants 50 percent damage reduction for its 0.4 second duration.
Junkrat
- Steel Trap fully locks movement again. Projectile speed increased from 10 to 15.
- Frag Launcher projectile size increased from 0.2 to 0.25.
Pharah
- Rocket Launcher reload starts 0.25 seconds sooner when out of ammo.
- Concussive Blast now deals 30 damage and deals additional knockback on direct hits.
Symmetra
- Photon Projector (Primary Fire) maximum ammo increased from 70 to 100. No longer generates ammo when damaging barriers.
- Photon Projector (Secondary Fire) projectile speed increased from 25 to 50.
- Max damage reduced from 120 to 90 (45 impact, 45 explosion).
- Max charge projectile size reduced from 0.5 to 0.4.
- Ammo cost increased from seven to 10.
- Charge time increased from one to 1.2 seconds.
- Teleporter build time reduced from two to one second.
- Now has a maximum lifetime of 10 seconds.
- Cooldown increased from 10 to 16 seconds.
- Cooldown starts when Teleporter is placed.
- Health reduced from 300 to 200 (50 health, 150 shields).
- Range reduced from 30 to 22.
- Sentry Turret travel speed increased from 15 to 20. Movement speed reduction on targets reduced from 20 percent per turret to 15 percent per turret.
Torbjörn
- Rivet Gun (Primary Fire) recovery reduced from 0.6 to 0.55 seconds.
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SAS recognized as the winner of 2022 Microsoft Global Independent Software Vendor Partner of the Year
CARY, N.C., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SAS today announced it has won Microsoft's Global Independent Software Vendor (ISV) 2022 Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
SAS and Microsoft continue finding new ways to serve customers as they migrate and modernize with SAS® Viya® on Azure.
"Two years ago, we formed the SAS and Microsoft strategic partnership with a shared goal of making it easier for customers to drive better decisions in the cloud," said Gavin Day, Senior Vice President of Corporate Programs at SAS. "This award emphasizes the power of our combined expertise in helping organizations across industries and around the world successfully solve their toughest analytical challenges."
SAS and Microsoft have continued finding new ways to serve customers as they migrate and modernize with SAS® Viya® on Microsoft Azure.
"SAS Viya on Azure helps us to better serve our customers by providing them more targeted offers, improving customer service and, in turn, the long-term relationship with our customers," said Iikka Kuosa, Senior Vice President of Products and IT at S-Bank, a SAS Viya on Azure customer. "We need to use data to enable better decision making, to better understand motivation and to continue meeting our customers' evolving needs."
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. SAS was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Global ISV.
The Global ISV Partner of the Year Award recognizes the Microsoft globally managed ISV that has demonstrated strong customer focus and success by partnering deeply with Microsoft on a global scale. The winning partner offers clearly differentiated value and customer experiences by building on Microsoft's cloud platform. The partner's solutions provide strong examples of how the Microsoft Cloud Platform can be leveraged to drive product differentiation, solution innovation and create new business models and approaches. In addition, the partner will illustrate how their engagement with Microsoft has accelerated their business growth, especially by leveraging Microsoft's partner programs and offerings.
"I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards," said Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. "These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees and I'm continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for their customers."
Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually prior to the company's global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which will take place on July 19-20 this year. Additional details on the 2022 awards are available on the Microsoft Partner Network blog: https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/congratulations-to-the-2022-microsoft-partner-of-theyear-awards-winners-and-finalists/. The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found at https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/inspire/awards.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City's Hard Rock Hotel & Casino marked its fourth anniversary on Tuesday by making donations to four local charities, putting the casino's total charitable donations past the $1 million mark.
The casino donated $10,000 each to the Atlantic City Rescue Mission, CASA of Atlantic and Cape May Counties, Avanzar and Veterans Haven South.
The casino's president, Joe Lupo, said giving back to the community was part of Hard Rock's business plan long before the casino opened June 28, 2018.
“Philanthropy is in our soul and in our DNA,” he said during a ceremony inside the casino, during which actors impersonating the musicians Gene Simmons of Kiss, Cher and Prince assisted with festivities. “It has been very important for our ownership to give back to the community.”
Hard Rock International is owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Atlantic City Hard Rock has three local investment partners.
The casino has made donations to 450 community groups in Atlantic City and Atlantic County in the four years it has been operating.
It hosted regular meetings with Black churches and community groups in the years leading up to its opening, and its owners have sponsored training and apprenticeship programs for local youths and adults to help them get jobs at the casino and in the building trades industry.
Hard Rock is the former Trump Taj Mahal casino, which closed in October 2016. Hard Rock bought the building in March 2017 from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, then gutted and renovated it.
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Bucher Industries (OTCMKTS:BCHHF – Get Rating) had its target price lowered by analysts at Berenberg Bank from CHF 650 to CHF 537 in a research report issued on Tuesday, The Fly reports. The firm presently has a “buy” rating on the stock.
A number of other equities analysts have also commented on the stock. Credit Suisse Group dropped their price target on shares of Bucher Industries from CHF 478 to CHF 402 in a research report on Thursday, May 5th. UBS Group dropped their target price on shares of Bucher Industries from CHF 517 to CHF 499 in a research report on Thursday, March 31st.
OTCMKTS BCHHF remained flat at $$322.45 during trading on Tuesday. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $335.05 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $411.13. Bucher Industries has a 52 week low of $311.85 and a 52 week high of $553.50.
Bucher Industries AG develops, manufactures, and sells machinery, vehicles, hydraulic components, and manufacturing equipment for use in harvesting, food producing and packaging, and roads and public spaces cleaning in Asia, the Americas, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through five divisions: Kuhn Group, Bucher Municipal, Bucher Hydraulics, Bucher Emhart Glass, and Bucher Specials.
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A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for Trinidad and Tobago. A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions (sustained winds of 63 km/h or greater) are likely over the warning area within 36 hours or less. At 2:00 pm this afternoon, the centre of Potential Tropical Cyclone Two (PTC2) was located near 10.0ºN latitude 58.2ºW longitude or about 340 km East of Trinidad.
PTC2 is still a strong Tropical Wave however there is potential for intensification into a Tropical Cyclone over the next 24 hours.
The system is moving toward the west at 37 km/h and a west to north-westward motion is expected over the next few days. PTC2 will pass over portions of the southern Windward Islands by this evening and tropical storm conditions are possible from 6pm this evening.
Ahead of the system, isolated afternoon heavy showers/thunderstorms can develop, which can produce gusty winds in excess of 55 km/h. Regardless of intensification, as the system moves over the islands this evening into tonight, it is likely to produce periods of heavy to intense showers and/or thunderstorms which can result in rainfall accumulations in excess of 50 mm in some areas and wind gusts in excess of 70km/h. These wind gusts are capable of breaking tree branches, displacing unsecured roofs and loose outdoor objects, and can even topple over unhealthy trees.
Heavy rainfall can produce ponding and localized flash flooding. Marine activities can be adversely affected, as sea conditions will become rough with wave heights reaching occasionally above 3m in open waters and choppy in sheltered areas. The risk of landslides/landslips is likely in areas so prone.
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WASHINGTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- World Learning, a global organization that advances peace through education, development, and exchange, celebrated its 90th anniversary on June 23 with a reception at the downtown museum Planet Word.
On June 23, 1932, sociologist Donald Watt launched World Learning's flagship program, The Experiment in International Living, which focuses on intercultural exchange. This program led to the establishment of both School for International Training (SIT) and World Learning. The anniversary's theme, "One World, Learning," highlights how the organization's distinct yet interconnected branches work to create a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world.
"We are all here to celebrate an organization that has made such a huge difference in our lives and the lives of lots of other people around the world. It has been a force for good and for peace for 90 years," said Ann Friedman, an educator, conservationist, and philanthropist who participated in the Experiment as a student and group leader and served on World Learning's board of trustees.
World Learning CEO Carol Jenkins and Board Chair Lawrence Cooley welcomed more than 100 guests at the museum, which was founded by Friedman in 2020.
"With each year, my belief in World Learning's work to solve our time's most pressing problems grows ever greater. We serve individuals around the world, in fragile and conflict areas, with different cultures, policies, governments, ideologies, resources, and risks," said Jenkins. "Addressing complex issues through a framework of human connections and education is an effective and powerful way to make lasting change."
Lee Satterfield, assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the State Department, was also a featured speaker. Both Satterfield and Cooley noted that exchange programs are often born from conflict.
"Public diplomacy, through people-to-people exchanges, is more important now than ever, as our world continues to evolve and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the growing threats of the climate crisis, the current war in Ukraine, and threats against democracy," Satterfield said. "Program participants and alumni are confronting these issues head-on and are real leaders in their communities. We need these informed citizen diplomats to fight for change and build a more stable and prosperous world."
Satterfield specifically noted World Learning's Digital Communications Network, citing it as one of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' "flagship projects to counter disinformation and build healthy, resilient communities."
"The network's superpower is bringing organizations and governments together around this shared goal," she said.
World Learning began with Watt's modest vision – that people could learn to live together by living together. He promoted peace through intercultural understanding by taking young Americans abroad to live with and learn from people of other cultures.
"I think it was a foresighted notion that somehow he knew that the world was either going to grow together or grow apart, and he was going to do his part to see that it grew together," Cooley said. "He saw that somehow it is harder to hate people that you really know. And if you really put the extra effort in seeing the humanity in another person, there are possibilities that open up that just wouldn't be there."
Cooley also highlighted several milestones throughout World Learning's history in his remarks but concluded with a reflection on today's world.
"I think we're in a situation where polarization is poison, where people think the worst possible things about the other. But if we are going to find our way through this, we need organizations as well as individuals that are willing to lead. And I can't think of one that's positioned themselves better to do so than World Learning," he said.
Today there are more than 130,000 Experiment and SIT alumni. They include SIT Graduate Institute alumna Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to ban landmines. World Learning Trustee Wangari Maathai won the prize in 2004 as the founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement. The founder of SIT's CONTACT peacebuilding program was recognized by the Dalai Lama, and World Learning and SIT are currently partnering with a national refugee resettlement organization to house and teach Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban regime.
World Learning is based in both Vermont and Washington, D.C., and works in more than 150 countries worldwide. The Washington, D.C., event was one of several planned this year to commemorate the organization's anniversary. Prior to the speakers, attendees toured Planet Word's exhibits which aim to explore cultures and show how language has shaped the world.
"If The Experiment had taught me anything, it was that interaction with others and using words and language in authentic situations could help build bridges and create empathy. Those were the tools that could bring people closer and develop understanding across cultures," Friedman said.
World Learning Inc. is a thriving global organization made up of World Learning, a global development and exchange nonprofit organization, The Experiment in International Living, the nation's most experienced provider of intercultural exchange programs abroad and virtual for high school students; and School for International Training, offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through SIT Study Abroad, including the comparative International Honors Program, and internationally focused master's degrees, certificate programs, and a doctorate through SIT Graduate Institute. The organization is now in its 90th year delivering international education, cultural exchanges, and sustainable development. For more information, visit worldlearning.org.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an update on additional steps it has taken that will lead to more infant formula available in the U.S. under the agency's recent increased flexibilities.
Company (Product Origin): Abbott Nutrition (Ireland)
Product(s): Similac Advance 2'-FL Stage 1
Type of Formula: General
Estimated Quantity: 18,677 cans (about 35,000 pounds or about 535,000 full-size, 8-ounce bottles)
Availability: Mid-July. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is evaluating options for getting the product to the U.S. as quickly as possible.
More Information and Where to Find the Products: Abbott Nutrition will reserve a portion of the inventory to provide free of charge product for critical needs to Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) agencies. Abbott will also use online outlets (Similac.com, Abbottstore.com, Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Target.com, and others to maximize availability nationwide for the balance of the product.
The FDA is exercising enforcement discretion for the importation of the infant formula products listed above following the review of information provided pertaining to nutritional adequacy and safety, including microbiological testing, labeling and additional information about facility production and inspection history.
The agency is leveraging a number of flexibilities to bolster the supply of products that serve as the sole source of nutrition for many infants while ensuring the infant formula can be used safely and provides adequate nutrition. The FDA remains in further discussions with manufacturers and suppliers regarding additional supply to ensure there's adequate infant formula available wherever and whenever parents and caregivers need it.
The FDA issued guidance on May 16 that outlined a process by which the agency would not object to the importation of certain infant formula products intended for a foreign market or distribution in the U.S. of products manufactured here for export to foreign countries. This guidance also may provide flexibilities to those who manufacture infant formula products domestically and may be able to further increase the quantity of domestically-produced product for the U.S. market. The agency has posted a webpage that will be updated with information about additional products headed to the U.S.
Ongoing FDA Steps to Increase Availability of Safe, Nutritious Infant Formula
The agency's around-the-clock work as part of the all-of-government efforts has already begun to improve supply and availability. The agency expects that the measures and steps it is taking, and the resumption of production at the Abbott Nutrition's Sturgis, Mich., facility, will mean more and more supply is on the way or on store shelves moving forward.
The FDA continues to advise against making infant formulas at home or diluting formula. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to work with their child's health care provider for recommendations on changing feeding practices, if needed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services also has additional information available at HHS.gov/formula, including information to help families find infant formula.
The agency also monitors online marketplaces for fraudulent products and works with major online retailers to remove violative and harmful products offered for sale on their sites. Additionally, since many of these fraudulent products originate overseas, the agency targets and examines these products at ports of entry. The FDA also monitors and follows up on various external signals such as consumer complaints about potential counterfeit and fraudulent products.
The FDA will continue to dedicate all available resources to help ensure that safe and nutritious infant formula products remain available for use in the U.S. and will keep the public informed of progress updates.
Additional Information:
- Infant Formula Information and Ongoing FDA Efforts to Increase Supply
- Enforcement Discretion to Manufacturers to Increase Infant Formula Supplies
- HHS.gov/formula
- HHS.gov/news
- FDA Investigation of Cronobacter Infections: Powdered Infant Formula (February 2022)
- Powdered Infant Formula Recall: What to Know
- CDC Information on Cronobacter Infection and Infants
Media Contact: FDA Office of Media Affairs, 301-796-4540
Consumer Inquiries: 888-723-3366
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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Joyce H. Merten, 88, St. Cloud
January 17, 1934 - June 20, 2022
Funeral Services will be 11 a.m. on Friday, June 24, 2022 at the Daniel Funeral Home in St. Cloud for Joyce H. Merten, age 88, of St. Cloud. Joyce passed away peacefully on June 20, 2022 at Arlington Place in St. Joseph with family at her side. Deacon Steve Yanish will officiate. Entombment will take place in the Assumption Cemetery Mausoleum in St. Cloud. Visitation will begin after 9:30 a.m. on Friday at the funeral home.
Joyce was born January 17, 1934 in St. Cloud to Ralph and Helen (Becker) Rymer. She married the love of her life Nicholas Merten on June 17, 1954 at Holy Angels Catholic Church in St. Cloud. She enjoyed gardening, artistic painting, holiday decorating, cooking, dancing and music. She will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She was a member of St. Mary’s Cathedral Parish.
Joyce is survived by her children Robert (Carolyn) Merten of St. Cloud, Cynthia Haugen of St. Cloud, Tammy (Scott) Kramer of Waite Park and Kelly (Ileana) Merten of Rice; 9 grandchildren Melissa Madsen, Matthew Merten, Brooke Wolak, Nicholas Haugen, Nicole Rhoda, Courtney Peine, Ilexa Merten, Mitchell Merten and Johanna Merten; 6 great grandchildren Carla, Kolbie, Pacey, Mack, Sophie, and Theodore; brother Gary (Nancy) Rymer and sister Brenda (Peter) Albin.
Joyce is preceded in death by her parents, husband Nick, brother Ralph Rymer Jr. and sister Elaine Ritchie.
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New alliance gives 10 European tour players PGA Tour cards
The PGA Tour is awarding cards to the leading 10 players from the European tour and bringing back a direct path to the PGA Tour through Q-school.
The Canadian Press
The PGA Tour is awarding cards to the leading 10 players from the European tour and bringing back a direct path to the PGA Tour through Q-school.
The changes were outlined Tuesday as part of an extended partnership between the PGA Tour and European tour through 2035. As part of the joint venture, the PGA Tour has increased its share in European Tour Productions from 15% to 40%.
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan last week outlined significant changes to the schedule that will feature a January-to-August season starting in 2024 and create purses of $20 million on average for eight elite events.
The recent changes give European tour players immediate access to the PGA Tour. The leading 10 players — excluding those already on the PGA Tour, such as Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm — will have full cards for the following year.
The tour now offers 25 cards to the top players on the Korn Ferry Tour, with an additional 25 cards from a three-tournament Korn Ferry Tour Finals series.
Starting in 2023, the top 30 players from the Korn Ferry Tour will move on to the PGA Tour. The qualifying tournament will offer PGA Tour cards to the top five and ties, while everyone else gets some variety of Korn Ferry Tour access.
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A six-game road trip will get underway for the Atlanta Braves Tuesday night when they begin a three-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies. Atlanta just completed a 4-3 home stand against two of the NL west’s best teams in the Giants and the Dodgers. Atlanta took three of four from San Francisco and came within a strike twice in the ninth inning of a series win against Los Angeles. The Dodgers rallied from a two-run deficit against Kenley Jansen and went on to win 5-3 in 11 innings.
Even more problematic, the Braves placed Jansen on the 15-day injured list Tuesday with an irregular heartbeat. That is an issue that Jansen has dealt with multiple times throughout his career with the last coming in 2018. He underwent heart surgery in November of that season to help correct the issue. Atlanta recalled right-hander Jesus Cruz to take Jansen’s spot on the active roster. A.J. Minter and Will Smith seem like the most likeliest candidates to fill the closer role while Jansen is out.
There is also questions around the status of outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. Acuña exited Saturday’s game after the eighth inning due to soreness in his left foot. He fouled a ball off the foot during the third inning and said that the pain became worse as the game continued. X-rays and an MRI came back clean, but Acuña was on a scooter in the clubhouse Sunday and said he was unable to put any weight on the foot. With Acuña sidelined Sunday, Adam Duvall shifted to right field with Marcell Ozuna in left and William Contreras as the DH.
The Phillies are dealing with a high profile injury of their own. Bryce Harper suffered a broken thumb Saturday when he was hit by a pitch from Blake Snell. Harper will undergo surgery and is hopeful that he will be able to return at some point this season. The loss of Harper will be a huge blow to the Phillies’ offense as he was again putting up MVP level numbers hitting .318/.385/.599 with 15 home runs and a 166 wRC+.
Charlie Morton will get the start for Atlanta in the opener. Morton struggled early on this season, but seems to be turning the corner in June. Morton has gone seven innings in each of his past two starts and has allowed two runs combined. He struck out 11 in his last start against the Giants giving him 40 through four starts in June. By comparison, Morton had 46 strikeouts total over his first 10 starts.
The Braves will have their work cut out for them against Zack Wheeler who has put together another strong season. Wheeler is coming off of his shortest outing since April where he allowed seven hits and four runs (two earned) in just 4 1/3 innings against the Rangers. He faced the Braves back in Atlanta in late May and struck out 10 while allowing two runs in 6 2/3 innings.
Tuesday’s game is scheduled to get underway at 7:05 p.m. ET and can be seen on Bally Sports South.
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Game Date/Time: Tuesday, June 28, 7:05 p.m. ET
Location: Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA
TV: Bally Sports South
Streaming: MLB.tv
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CARFAX Honored by The Washington Post and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
CENTREVILLE, Va., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Team CARFAX has earned "Top Workplace" honors from both The Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, based entirely on employee feedback.
This is the ninth win in a row from The Washington Post for the Centreville, Va., headquarters. CARFAX is one of only 13 companies in the Washington, D.C., area to receive this prestigious recognition every year since the award began in 2014. This year also marks the first win for the CARFAX office in Columbia, Mo., from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"The continued recognition as a Top Workplace is a testament to our employees," said Bill Eager, CEO at CARFAX. "I am grateful to come to work every day with great people who embody the CARFAX spirit and the pride we take in delivering on our mission of helping millions of people. Being a top workplace is an honor and true team effort – when we work together, we win together!"
CARFAX is known for its unique culture that emphasizes teamwork, transparency, and making work fun. It's a one-of-a-kind blend of a high achieving, high-energy workforce with a laid-back setting that values a strong work-life balance. As part of that balance, CARFAX is again offering four-day summer work weeks in 2022.
CARFAX was founded in Columbia, Mo. in 1984. The company has more than 1,100 employees throughout the U.S. and in Canada, with offices in Centreville, Va., Columbia, Mo., and London, Ont., and more than 220 new team members joined Team CARFAX in 2021. CARFAX is a leader in consumer-information technology with a database of more than 28 billion vehicle records. Millions of consumers every year trust CARFAX to help them shop, buy, service, and sell used cars.
Selection for The Washington Post and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Top Workplaces lists is based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous survey administered by Energage, LLC, which measures aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution, and connection.
Find your career at CARFAX by visiting www.carfax.com/careers.
CARFAX, part of S&P Global Mobility, helps millions of people every day confidently shop, buy, service and sell used cars with innovative solutions powered by CARFAX vehicle history information. The expert in vehicle history since 1984, CARFAX provides exclusive services like CARFAX Used Car Listings, CARFAX Car Care, CARFAX History-Based Value and the flagship CARFAX® Vehicle History Report™ to consumers and the automotive industry. CARFAX owns the world's largest vehicle history database and is nationally recognized as a top workplace by The Washington Post and Glassdoor.com. Shop, Buy, Service, Sell – Show me the CARFAX™.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
The stiff sentence was the punctuation mark on a trial that explored the sordid rituals of a predator power couple who courted the rich and famous as they lured vulnerable girls as young as 14, and then exploited them.
Prosecutors said Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, and couldn’t have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion and onetime girlfriend. In December, a jury convicted Maxwell of sex trafficking, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts and two conspiracy charges.
U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan, who also imposed a $750,000 fine, said “a very significant sentence is necessary” and that she wanted to send an “unmistakable message” that these kinds of crimes would be punished. Prosecutors had asked the judge to give her 30 to 55 years in prison, while Maxwell’s defense sought a lenient sentence of just five years.
Maxwell, wearing a blue prison uniform and a white mask to conform with coronavirus rules, sat quietly before the sentencing, looking ahead as Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe recounted how Maxwell subjected girls to “horrifying nightmares” by taking them to Epstein.
“They were partners in crime together and they molested these kids together,” she said, calling Maxwell “a person who was indifferent to the suffering of other human beings.”
When she had a chance to speak, Maxwell said she empathized with the survivors and that it was her “greatest regret of my life that I ever met Jeffrey Epstein.” Maxwell called him “a manipulative, cunning and controlling man who lived a profoundly compartmentalized life,” echoing her defense attorneys’ assertions, in court filings calling for a lenient sentence, that Epstein was the true mastermind.
Maxwell, who denies abusing anyone, said she hoped that her conviction and her “unusual incarceration” bring some “measure of peace and finality.”
Several survivors described their sexual abuse, including Annie Farmer, whose voice cracked several times as she said “we will continue to live with the harm she caused us.”
Farmer said her sister and herself tried to go public with their stories about Epstein and Maxwell two decades ago, only to be shut down by the powerful couple through threats and influence with authorities.
Inside the crowded courtroom, three of Maxwell’s siblings sat in a row behind her. Most of the others in attendance were members of the media.
Epstein and Maxwell’s associations with some of the world’s most famous people were not a prominent part of the trial, but mentions of friends like Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Britain’s Prince Andrew showed how the pair exploited their connections to impress their prey.
Over the past 17 years, scores of women have accused Epstein of abusing them. Many described Maxwell as acting as a madam who recruited them to give massages to Epstein.
The trial, though, revolved around allegations from only a handful of those women.
Four testified that they were abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein’s mansions in Florida, New York, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands.
Three were identified in court only by their first names or pseudonyms to protect their privacy: Jane, a television actress; Kate, an ex-model from the U.K.; and Carolyn, now a mom recovering from drug addiction. The fourth was Farmer, the sole accuser to identify herself in court by her real name, after speaking out publicly.
They described how Maxwell charmed them with conversation and gifts and promises that Epstein could use his wealth and connections to help fulfill their dreams.
Then, they testified, she led them to give massages to Epstein that turned sexual and played it off as normal.
Carolyn testified that she was one of several underprivileged teens who lived near Epstein’s Florida home in the early 2000s and took up an offer to massage him in exchange for $100 bills in what prosecutors described as “a pyramid of abuse.”
Maxwell made all the arrangements, Carolyn told the jury, even though she knew the girl was only 14 at the time.
The allegations against Epstein first surfaced publicly in 2005. He pleaded guilty to sex charges in Florida and served 13 months in jail, much of it in a work-release program as part of a deal criticized as lenient. Afterward, he was required to register as a sex offender.
In the years that followed, many women sued Epstein over alleged abuse. One, Virginia Giuffre, claimed that Epstein and Maxwell had also pressured her into sexual trysts with other powerful men, including Prince Andrew. All of those men denied the allegations and Giuffre ultimately settled a lawsuit against Andrew out of court.
Federal prosecutors in New York revived the case against Epstein after stories by the Miami Herald in 2018 brought new attention to his crimes. He was arrested in 2019, but killed himself a month later.
Eleven months after his death, Maxwell was arrested at a New Hampshire estate. A U.S., British and French citizen, she has remained in a federal jail in New York City since then as her lawyers repeatedly criticize her treatment, saying she was even unjustly placed under suicide watch days before sentencing. Prosecutors say the claims about the jail are exaggerated and that Maxwell has been treated better than other prisoners.
Her lawyers also fought to have her conviction tossed on the grounds of juror misconduct. Days after the verdict, one juror gave media interviews in which he disclosed he had been sexually abused as a child — something he hadn’t told the court during jury selection. Maxwell’s lawyers said she deserved a new trial. A judge disagreed.
At least eight women submitted letters to the judge, describing the sexual abuse they said they endured for having met Maxwell and Epstein. Six of Maxwell’s seven living siblings wrote to plead for leniency. Maxwell’s fellow inmate also submitted a letter describing how Maxwell has helped to educate other inmates over the last two years.
Anne Holve and Philip Maxwell, her eldest siblings, wrote that her relationship with Epstein began soon after the 1991 death of their father, the British newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell.
They said Robert Maxwell had subjected his daughter to “frequent rapid mood swings, huge rages and rejections.”
“This led her to becoming very vulnerable to abusive and powerful men who would be able to take advantage of her innate good nature,” they wrote.
Prosecutors called Maxwell’s shifting of blame to Epstein “absurd and offensive.”
Before her fate was announced, Maxwell looked down and scribbled on a notepad as Sarah Ransome — an accuser whose allegations weren’t included in this trial — spoke of the lasting harm to her life, gazing directly at Maxwell several times .
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A B.C. professor is second-guessing her lack of mountain knowledge and willingness to take risks.
But watching herself finish as a runner-up on Jeopardy last week was “surreal but fun.”
Whitney Wood, a Vancouver Island University history prof, showcased her wealth of knowledge on an episode that aired Thursday, June 23.
Wood was the first contestant to get a question right when she knew that dingoes are animals at the Perth Zoo that have bushy tails and can’t bark.
The Final Jeopardy clue – “This classic album by a southern rocker gets its title from a civil war quote by a union general” – stumped all three contestants, who couldn’t think of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Damn the Torpedoes. So returning champion Jeff Weinstock, a marketing lecturer from Miami, won $17,999 to remain champ, Wood finished with $2,600 and Andrew Lewis, a lawyer from Oakland, finished with $1,000.
Wood said in an e-mail interview that she’s been a fan of Jeopardy for as long as she can remember, and even unsuccessfully auditioned for the teen tournament in 2004.
In the fall of 2019 she began the long process to try again, writing an online test, advancing to an in-person audition the following spring, and completing the rest of the process via Zoom. This past spring, she got the call to appear and then filmed her episode in late April on the Alex Trebek Stage at Sony Pictures Studios at Culver City, Calif.
“The first half – the Jeopardy round – was very exciting, and I came out strong, but it all comes down to Double Jeopardy (and of course Final Jeopardy) where the categories weren’t for me and I had a tougher time,” she said. “Overall, though, I’m really happy with how things turned out.”
Wood, who is Canada Research Chair in the historical dimensions of women’s health and an expert on history of gender and health, joked that in hindsight, she should have tried to learn more about mountains. She said the timing of the buzzer was difficult and something she couldn’t have really practised beforehand, and also commented that she could have made different decisions with her playing strategy.
“I think that a good contestant knows when to take risks and when to play it safe,” Wood said. “I suppose as a risk-averse person, I could’ve taken more risks and actively sought out the Daily Doubles.”
Earlier this year, Mattea Roach, from Toronto, won 23 straight games, the most ever by a Canadian on Jeopardy, with winnings of over $560,000.
RELATED: Canadian ‘Jeopardy!’ champ moves up Top 10 list with 19th win
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Instagram is blocking posts that mention abortion from public view, in some cases requiring users to confirm their age before letting them view posts offering information about the procedure.
Over the last day, several abortion advocacy Instagram pages have found their posts or stories were hidden with a warning that described the posts as "sensitive content." A half-dozen other posts were identified that mentioned the word "abortion" and were subsequently covered up by Instagram. All of the posts were informational in nature, and none of the posts featured photos of abortions.
In one example, Instagram covered a post on one page with more than 25,000 followers that shared text reading: “Abortion in America How You Can Help.” The post went on to encourage followers to donate money to abortion organizations and to protest the Supreme Court’s decision to strip constitutional protections for abortion in the U.S., the Associated Press reported.
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Padres win on Austin Nola's RBI single off brother Aaron
SAN DIEGO — (AP) — Austin Nola lofted an opposite-field RBI single to right off his younger brother Aaron, turned toward the San Diego Padres' dugout and raised his right fist.
That was the extent of the emotion in the brotherly showdown.
Aaron Nola went right back to work and retired the next two batters, and Austin Nola's Padres went on to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 1-0.
“Glad we got the win, but then your brother gets the loss," said Austin Nola, the Padres' catcher. "He pitched an unbelievable game. It’s fun to watch him. There’s no doubt about it. He’s done it twice to us. Threw seven innings; threw eight innings last year. What a performance by him.
“It was weird. I got the hit and I was like, ‘Ah, I feel great,’ and then I look at him and he’s locked back in, going after the next hitter. Credit to him. Nothing ever fazes him," he added.
It's the first time a player had an RBI against his brother in a 1-0 victory since RBIs became an official stat in 1920, according to STATS.
“The storyline's there, right?” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. “Baseball can be a great game in instances like that. It can break your heart other times. That's just great theater. The only RBI of the game against his brother, that's pretty cool stuff."
San Diego rookie left-hander MacKenzie Gore and three relievers combined on a five-hitter. Closer Taylor Rogers loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth before getting Kyle Schwarber to fly out to center field.
Austin Nola had been 0 for 4 against his brother in two seasons until delivering an opposite-field single to right with one out in the sixth to bring in Eric Hosmer, who was aboard on a one-out double.
Aaron Nola, 29, kept the Padres off balance through the first five innings, including retiring his 32-year-old brother on a grounder in the second and a punchout in the fourth.
’’I was behind 0-2 the whole game against him," Austin said. “The past two years I’ve been 0-2 to him. It’s nothing new. That's what he does. You see the competitive side of him. It’s what makes him elite.”
The Nolas first faced each other as professionals on Aug. 21. They grew up in Baton Rouge and both played at LSU.
Other than getting one-upped by his brother, Aaron Nola (4-5) pitched well. He allowed one run and seven hits in seven innings while striking out 10 and walking two.
“Facing him is exhausting because from the catching standpoint, you have your pitcher and getting your pitcher through it, and then you have to switch over to the fact that now I'm facing my brother in a major league game and he's not letting up," Austin Nola said. “So you have to like mentally jump from one to another of, ‘All right, I’ve got to help MacKenzie work through this,' and then, boom, he's coming right after you.”
Gore struck out four and walked four. He struggled with his control in the third inning and loaded the bases on two walks and a single before getting Bryce Harper to fly out to left to end the inning.
Nabil Crismatt (4-0) pitched two perfect innings for the win. Luis Garcia struck out the heart of the order in the eighth. Rogers loaded the bases with two outs by allowing consecutive one-out singles and then walking pinch-hitter Yairo Munoz with two outs before retiring Schwarber for his 22nd save.
The Padres had retired 12 straight batters until Alec Bohm singled with one out in the ninth.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Padres: 3B Manny Machado missed his fifth straight game with a sprained ankle. He did agility drills in the outfield for a second straight day and manager Bob Melvin said the slugger was probably going to hit in the indoor batting cage.
Phillies RHP Zach Eflin (2-5, 4.43 ERA) and Padres LHP Blake Snell (0-4, 5.46) are scheduled to start Saturday.
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Twenty-five years ago Mike Tyson was struggling to come to terms with the fact his self-styled reputation as ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’ was in grave jeopardy.
Tyson’s career revival, following his shocking first career defeat to underdog James ‘Buster’ Douglas and his subsequent imprisonment for rape, was wrecked by Evander Holyfield in their first meeting in November 1996.
As he approached the rematch eight months later, the 30-year-old Tyson knew his fearsome aura would be banished for good if he failed to beat Holyfield at the second attempt.
The extraordinary pressures he faced both in and out of the ring would manifest in one of the most shocking events in sporting history, and one which served to re-establish Tyson’s notoriety for all the wrong reasons.
Tyson’s second coming had been a relatively facile affair, with inconsequential wins over Peter McNeely and Buster Mathis Jr. leading up to a third-round stoppage of Frank Bruno to reclaim the WBC title.
Such was the aura surrounding Tyson that it was enough to make him the overwhelming favourite for his first fight with Holyfield, who had previously retired with a heart condition and for whom the build-up to the bout was punctuated by serious concerns for his health.
Holyfield responded by delivering a masterful performance to quell Tyson’s rage and force referee Mitch Halpern’s intervention with Tyson out on his feet in the 11th round. It made a rematch both inevitable and lucrative.
From the outset of their second bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, it was apparent that Holyfield was well-placed to repeat the feat and potentially deal Tyson’s championship career a terminal blow.
Tyson appeared to grow increasingly frustrated by Holyfield’s use of his head, about which he had complained in the wake of their first meeting, and which quickly opened a cut over his right eye.
Exasperated, Tyson came out for the third round without his gumshield, and was ordered to return to his corner by referee Mills Lane. After a furious exchange, Holyfield reeled back and complained that Tyson had bitten a chunk out of his right ear.
The fight was briefly delayed while Lane considered his next move. Eventually he allowed it to continue, but waved it off when Tyson proceeded to bite Holyfield’s left ear. Tyson raged at the stoppage, and security personnel had to protect Holyfield in his corner.
Later, Tyson did not try to hide his assault. “Holyfield kept butting me,” he told media. “What am I supposed to do? I’ve got children to raise. He’s not a warrior. He’s got a little nick on his ear. He didn’t want to fight me.
In the post-fight chaos, Tyson was hit by a water bottle on his way back to the dressing room, and he and his entourage attempted to scale barriers to confront the culprit. Shots were fired in the MGM Grand lobby on what descended into one of boxing’s blackest nights.
Tyson’s boxing licence was revoked by the Nevada State Athletic Commission and he was fined £3million. Allowed to return just over a year later, he reeled off a succession of low-key wins until he was swatted by Lennox Lewis in Memphis in June 2002.
Holyfield, who had subsequently lost his titles to Lewis, fought on and won a series of low-key versions of the title. His had his last fight at the age of 48, when he was stopped by Brian Nielsen in Denmark.
Tyson and Holyfield made up and eventually became close friends. They appeared together on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009, when Holyfield said he forgive Tyson, and Tyson responded by calling Holyfield a “gentleman”.
In retirement, the ‘Baddest Man on the Planet’ had finally started to repair his reputation. But a quarter of a century on, his ferocious career is still defined by the so-called ‘Bite Fight’ that dragged heavyweight boxing into the gutter.
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REPORT: LSU lands Vandy shortstop Carter Young through transfer portal
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - LSU head coach Jay Johnson has been on a tear this offseason and has added their fifth player via the NCAA Transfer Portal in Vanderbilt shortstop Carter Young. Young announced the decision via Instagram on Monday, June 27 and simply stated “new opportunities.”
Young is the second shortstop that LSU has added through the portal, the first being Baylor shortstop Jack Pineda. Shortstop was one of the weaknesses for the Tigers last season as Jordan Thompson led the team in errors with 18.
Last season, Young started 53 games with a .207 batting average with 39 hits, six doubles, three triples, and seven home runs. He also added 26 RBI and had a .949 fielding percentage while committing 11 errors.
Through three seasons with the Commodores Young has played in 135 games with a .244 career batting average with 119 hits, 24 doubles, eight triples, and 23 home runs. He has a career fielding percentage of .958 with 20 total errors, with 11 being his highest in his career at Vanderbilt.
In the 2021 season Young had his best season at Vanderbilt playing in 61 games with a .966 fielding percentage and seven errors. At the plate, he hit a career-high 16 home runs, with 15 doubles and five triples to go along with 52 RBI.
The Tigers have added Creighton and two-time Big East Pitcher of the Year Dylan Tebrake, the freshman home run record holder in North Carolina State first baseman Tommy White and Vanderbilt right-hander Christian Little.
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The PGA Tour and DP World Tour on Tuesday announced a new 13-year partnership that will see the American side increase its investment and guarantee a boost to prize purses on the European circuit.
The enhanced alliance between the tours is a direct response to the threat of the upstart LIV Golf Series.
The PGA Tour will increase its stake in the European tour from 15 percent to 40 percent. The DP World Tour guarantees increased purses over the next five years, over and above those announced last November.
Also, the top 10 players in the world tour will earn PGA Tour cards for the following season, if they're not exempt already.
"It was clear from the outset that our strategic partnership with the European Tour Group was a powerful agreement for both sides, and we are thrilled with today's announcement of this expanded partnership," PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said in the release.
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Samsung Sets New Record as Large Crude Oil Carrier Berths in Lagos
Peter Uzoho
Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria (SHIN) Limited has yet again reaffirmed its commitment to continue its operation in Nigeria by setting another record in offshore technology through business diversifications, particularly in crude oil carrier to Floating Storage Unit (FSU) conversion, repair, and upgrade of ultra-large and offshore vessels.
Since 2021, SHIN has been providing a suitable and alternative location that provides various maritime services such as cargo, container logistics, ship repair & conversion, FPSO upgrades and so on. Just last week, a 330 metre long Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), an international vessel used for exports of crude oil has berthed at the SHI-MCI yard in Lagos for the first time.
Top officials of SHIN at the fabrication and integration yard told the journalists that the Samsung Heavy Industries Nigeria berthed the VLCC at its quay wall at the yard to carry out the vessel repair and upgrade works.
VLCC, also called ‘Super Tanker’ for its mammoth weight-carrying capacity, can transport massive quantities of crude oil across the oceans to the international market. The berthing and repair work that is being carried out on VLCC at SHI-MCI yard is significant in the sense that it marks the first time such work is carried out in Lagos Port.
With this development, prospective clients in other parts of Africa and Europe that carry out services such as ship repairs, maintenance and upgrades in Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Dubai, and Singapore will henceforth find Nigeria as a more attractive location and cost-effective country for such works.
According to the Managing Director of SHIN, Mr. Jongseok Kim, Nigeria holds strong geographical advantage that will enable the country to become the hub for various maritime services such as ship repair & conversion, and upgrades.
Indeed, owing to its strategic location by the coastline, Nigeria is the pivot of West Africa’s shipping activities with over 3,000 merchant vessels every year in the range of 19,000 to 200,000 GT flocking in and out of the country for various marine activities. Furthermore, following the shift in energy transition as well as the Ukraine-Russia crisis, there is a growing demand for the alteration and modification works on large vessels and FPSO units globally.
While Nigeria has its location advantage, such works could not be carried out in Nigeria as there is no adequate ship repair or shipbuilding facility in Nigeria which could accommodate ships in the range of 19k to 200K GT.
Through Samsung’s business diversification at its yard however, such works can now be carried out in Nigeria.
Strategically located in Tarkwa Bay Free Trade Zone, the SHI-MCI yard in Lagos is the only fabrication and integration facility in Africa built on a land mass spanning 121,000m2. The yard represents over 300 million dollars investment by SHIN for the local fabrication and integration of Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units and other offshore vessels in Nigeria. The yard has the capacity to accommodate and carry out the fabrication, maintenance, refurbishment, and modification works on ultra-large, and high value-added vessels due to the yard’s state-of-the-art facilities and its robust integration and assembling purpose-build quay wall, stretching over 502 meters long with 12.5 berthing water depth and over 3,000 tons load bearing capacity.
The yard also provides optimum proximity to the main shipping channels from and to Nigeria thanks to its strategic location that enables fast and convenient entry point. This makes the facility the choice destination for international vessels.
‘The SHI-MCI yard was built in Lagos by Samsung to make Nigeria the hub of FPSO fabrication and integration in Africa. But the beauty of our yard is that it is highly scalable, which means that it is not only optimized for world-class, ultra-large and high value-added projects, but also is designed to service and maintain vessels of any size.’ Kim explained.
Indeed, SHIN broke the record in Nigerian Content development in the oil and gas industry when it used the yard to fabricate and integrate the Egina FPSO locally, the first time such works were carried out in Africa. Being the first project launched after the enactment of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act of 2010, Egina FPSO advanced the Nigerian Content to record levels.
With the successful completion of the repair works on the VLCC, SHIN has set a new record in its efforts to make Nigeria the hub of offshore technology in Africa, particularly the integration and fabrication of FPSO vessels, ship repairs and FPSO conversion.
SHIN’s efforts in this direction have led to the development of local capacity and capability, creation of employment opportunities and boosting the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country.
According to the top officials at SHIN, the hosting and servicing the VLCC was the fourth major project handled by the SHI-MCI yard, after the sail-way of the Egina FPSO to the deep offshore oilfield in August 2018.
The berthing of an international vessel christened ‘PACIFIC RUBY’ was the second project after Egina. The dimension of the vessel is 249.869 metres length, 43.8 metres breadth, 21.2 metres depth, and 13.6 metres designed draught. The project before VLCC included carrying out repair works on Floating Storage Unit (FSU) vessel for the local client.
SHIN has since diversified into container Terminal and logistics operations for international and local clients such as COSCO. The empty containers terminal business is also an alternative revenue earner during ‘low season’ of offshore project while creating more job opportunities for Nigerians.
The container Terminal includes the berthing of barges at the SHI-MCI FZE Quay wall for the offloading of empty containers; storage of empty containers at SHI-MCI FZE Laydown area; and the berthing of feeder vessel at the quay to backload the empty containers unto the vessels for shipping.
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Sony Pictures has announced that a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife will premiere on December 20, 2023.
- READ MORE: ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ review: spook-nuking sequel brings franchise back from the dead
Announced its upcoming schedule, the studio confirmed that a new Ghostbusters movie will hit theatres next year after the success of the 2021 reboot.
Afterlife was directed by Jason Reitman, the son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the 1984 original. As well as a new cast – including Paul Rudd and Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard – last year’s film saw the return of original cast members Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts in their classic roles.
Reitman and writer Gil Kenan also confirmed that the sequel will return to the series’ home of New York City for the sequel.
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“One thing I wanted to do [with Afterlife] is set the table for Ghostbusters as a franchise to have all kinds of movies,” Reitman told io9 last year. “There’s so many places for Ghostbusters to go. The question is, what’s the starting place? And that’s what Afterlife is about. It’s about these generations making amends with each other in a way that brings one story to close and starts another one.”
In a four-star review of Afterlife, NME wrote: “It would be a shame to give anything away about the film’s emotionally satisfying climax, so let’s just say this: if you really want to tug at fans’ heartstrings, who ya gonna call?
“The result is a sequel that feels like an authentic Ghostbusters movie without quite slipping into retread mode. Against the odds, this franchise might be back from the dead.” | https://www.nme.com/news/film/ghostbusters-afterlife-sequel-confirmed-for-release-next-year-3258103 | 2022-06-28T20:34:09Z | https://www.nme.com/news/film/ghostbusters-afterlife-sequel-confirmed-for-release-next-year-3258103 | false | 3 |
(New York Jewish Week) — It’s an annual tradition at the New York Jewish Week to honor 36 Jewish New Yorkers for their unique contributions to our city and our community, people who work across a diverse array of fields, including the arts, religion, culture, business, politics and philanthropy.
We’re extremely proud to announce this years’s list, which, as in years past, presents a cross-section of the most innovative thinkers, doers and changemakers in New York’s Jewish community. Unlike the previous installments, however, this year’s list has a new name and scope: Formerly called “36 Under 36,” our 2022 list, “36 to Watch,” has done away with the seemingly arbitrary age limit. This year, our cohort of outstanding Jewish New Yorkers include a 23-year-old star athlete as well as a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor who is still creating his defiant, life-affirming paintings.
Follow this link to read all about these remarkable people, who include a bestselling novelist, two comedians, three rabbis, several advocates for the LGBTQ+ community and many more. Together, these individuals — some you may know, others you ought to know — paint a portrait of New York City, and its Jewish community, reinventing itself after a period of loss and upheaval.
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Grandfield & Dodd LLC lifted its stake in shares of Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA – Get Rating) by 1.0% in the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 10,917 shares of the credit services provider’s stock after purchasing an additional 107 shares during the period. Grandfield & Dodd LLC’s holdings in Mastercard were worth $3,900,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Several other hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in MA. State Street Corp grew its stake in Mastercard by 4.4% during the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 35,528,530 shares of the credit services provider’s stock valued at $12,766,111,000 after acquiring an additional 1,511,927 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its stake in Mastercard by 2.9% during the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 15,148,167 shares of the credit services provider’s stock valued at $5,429,311,000 after acquiring an additional 421,767 shares in the last quarter. Capital International Investors grew its stake in Mastercard by 8.5% during the 4th quarter. Capital International Investors now owns 14,789,616 shares of the credit services provider’s stock valued at $5,314,216,000 after acquiring an additional 1,160,809 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in Mastercard during the 4th quarter valued at about $3,107,220,000. Finally, Brown Advisory Inc. grew its stake in Mastercard by 27.2% during the 4th quarter. Brown Advisory Inc. now owns 5,587,241 shares of the credit services provider’s stock valued at $2,007,608,000 after acquiring an additional 1,195,525 shares in the last quarter. 74.94% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
In other news, major shareholder Foundation Mastercard sold 106,330 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, May 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $333.03, for a total value of $35,411,079.90. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 103,629,316 shares in the company, valued at approximately $34,511,671,107.48. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, insider Raj Seshadri sold 7,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Friday, April 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $367.68, for a total transaction of $2,573,760.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 10,439 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,838,211.52. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 325,982 shares of company stock worth $107,912,260 over the last ninety days. Insiders own 0.33% of the company’s stock.
Shares of MA opened at $328.83 on Tuesday. Mastercard Incorporated has a twelve month low of $303.65 and a twelve month high of $399.92. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $343.03 and its 200-day simple moving average is $352.86. The firm has a market capitalization of $319.84 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.22, a PEG ratio of 1.56 and a beta of 1.01. The company has a current ratio of 1.34, a quick ratio of 1.34 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.95.
Mastercard (NYSE:MA – Get Rating) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, April 28th. The credit services provider reported $2.76 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.17 by $0.59. The firm had revenue of $5.17 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $4.90 billion. Mastercard had a net margin of 47.70% and a return on equity of 133.72%. The company’s revenue was up 24.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.74 EPS. On average, analysts predict that Mastercard Incorporated will post 10.52 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, August 9th. Investors of record on Friday, July 8th will be given a $0.49 dividend. This represents a $1.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.60%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 7th. Mastercard’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 20.40%.
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Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. It facilitates the processing of payment transactions, including authorization, clearing, and settlement, as well as delivers other payment-related products and services.
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What is the best dog harness?
Going on walks is your dog’s favorite thing to do with you. However, traditional collars can be uncomfortable. Many owners have made the switch to a harness in order to prevent choking and minimize pulling for dogs still in the leash training stage. Dog harnesses let you and your best friend take relaxing walks that you can both enjoy. There are various harnesses expertly designed to suit the unique needs of you and your dog.
Best no-pull harness
This type of harness is designed to prevent your dog from pulling you when on a leash. They have rings in the front that are strategically placed to discourage this behavior. Unlike some other options, no-pull leashes help teach your dog not to pull without choking it.
Top no-pull harness
2 Hounds Design Freedom No Pull Dog Harness and Leash
What you need to know: This is a comfortable, well-fitted dog harness that prevents your dog from pulling, and it comes with a matching leash.
What you’ll love: The placement of the leash and structure of the harness keep your dog from being able to pull you when walking. It is stitched to prevent rubbing or calluses for ultimate comfort for your dog and comes in multiple colors.
What you should consider: It may be harder to use on dogs with longer hair, as a couple of customers said their dog’s long hair became tangled or snagged.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top no-pull harness for the money
Kurgo Tru-Fit No Pull Dog Harness
What you need to know: This is an affordable and adjustable no-pull harness for small, medium and large dogs.
What you’ll love: This lightweight harness is for everyday use. It has five points of adjustment to fit snuggly on your dog. It has a front D-ring to hook the leash onto and includes a dog seat belt to keep your dog safe when in the car.
What you should consider: It may not be suitable for smaller dogs or those with a narrow chest, as the padded chest plate is bulky and may not be comfortable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best padded harness
Padded harnesses are designed to provide extra comfort for your dog when walking or jogging. They include padding that is resistant to causing any rubbing, calluses or loss of fur.
Top padded harness
Chai’s Choice 3M Reflective Dog Harness
What you need to know: This fully padded harness has a front clip and adjustable straps for a perfect fit.
What you’ll love: This harness is made for comfort and is easy to put on your dog. It has an ergonomic design with padded back and chest pieces. It is lightweight, durable and adjustable to fit your dog perfectly.
What you should consider: Elastic strapping helps the harness fit snuggly to your pet’s chest, but it can be overstretched by some stronger dogs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top padded harness for the money
What you need to know: With an over-the-head design, this padded harness is great for small, medium or large dogs.
What you’ll love: In addition to multiple sizes, this harness also comes in four colors to uniquely suit your dog. It includes an O-ring on the chest plate and a D-ring on the back for a traditional leash hold.
What you should consider: A few customers reported issues with adjustments holding in place, so be sure to properly measure your dog before choosing a size.
Where to buy: Sold by Chewy
Best reflective harness
This harness style is great for night hikes, inclement weather and any other situation where you want your dog to be seen well. They catch the light and reflect it, letting you and your pet take walks without fear.
Top reflective harness
Chai Outdoor Adventure Dog Harness
What you need to know: Extra-small to extra-large dogs and their owners can benefit from this adjustable, reflective harness.
What you’ll love: This harness is made with a mesh, lightweight design to give your dog maximum comfort while keeping them safe. It has two rings for leash attachment on the front or back and comes in 11 colors.
What you should consider: A couple of customers reported that the harness arrived stiff and needed to be broken in.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top reflective harness for the money
Rabbitgoo No Pull Harness Vest For Outdoor Walking
What you need to know: This reflective, padded harness has a no-pull feature and an easy control handle.
What you’ll love: Both the chest and back pieces are padded in this harness. It has a front and back leash clip for correcting pulling or a traditional leash hold. There are also four adjustable points to provide the ideal fit for your dog. It’s available in 14 colors.
What you should consider: A few customers had trouble with the straps coming unclipped.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best support harness
Unlike the other harnesses listed, these support harnesses are specially designed for injured and elderly dogs. They offer a comfortable hold for dogs with hip issues to let you assist them when using the bathroom outside.
Top support harness
Loobani Portable Dog Sling for Back Legs and Hip Support
What you need to know: This support harness for injured or elderly dogs allows their owner to easily help them get from place to place.
What you’ll love: The sling has a heavy-duty design with adjustable straps, making it suitable for people of most heights with large, medium or small dogs. It is easy to use, is machine washable and comes with a storage bag.
What you should consider: Breed may determine the comfort of this harness, as a few owners have complained it doesn’t sit where they would like on their dog.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top support harness for the money
Gingerlead Dog Support and Rehabilitation Harness
What you need to know: This is a padded support harness with padded straps for a comfortable grip for dogs recovering from injury or hip issues.
What you’ll love: There are multiple size options and unique styles to suit the needs of any dog. Available in male, female or unisex, it is padded for comfort and commonly used by veterinary offices. It is also durable and can be machine washed or dried.
What you should consider: A few customers had trouble with the harness staying in place when their dog positions itself to urinate.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Valley physicians warn of danger that comes with overturning Roe v Wade
The overturn of Roe v. Wade did not come as a surprise to many, though some Valley clinicians tell us it is a bombshell, nonetheless.
Some physicians say they are devastated for what this immediately means for women, and women’s rights is among them.
One doctor who says he is going to continue to provide care until the state tells him not to.
“We have patients coming from Texas right now. Who travel days, thousands of dollars because of the six-week heartbeat law there. We generally do about 150 procedures a month,” said Dr. Ronald Yunis.
He says he’s reached out to the Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich for clarity, asking if he should stop, but has not heard back.
We also talked to a retired physician, Dr. Susan Hughes, who says this is a major setback for women, including her 14-year-old daughter.
She talked about how dangerous having an abortion outside of a certified clinic can be.
“A woman had attempted her own abortion at home, and I remember furiously, you know, assisting with the OBGYN, trying to save the woman’s life. We were able to save her life, but not the uterus,” added Dr. Hughes.
Lastly, we spoke to an OBGYN in Scottsdale, Dr. Julie Kwatra, who says regardless of whether abortions are legal, they will still happen.
She says, with this decision, access to safe abortions is the main concern — especially in underserved communities.
“Health care access in general and abortion access in particular was always harder for women that were poor. For vulnerable communities. So women of color, and rural women that struggle with access to health care,” Dr. Kwatra told ABC15.
ABC15 called several abortion clinics Friday, many of their employees telling us they are fearful of being targeted and concerned about the safety of their patients following the announcement.
One clinic that offers abortion services in Phoenix let ABC15 know it had to close their abortion services before noon, after the state told them to stop the procedures immediately. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2647500754841/valley-physicians-warn-of-danger-that-comes-with-overturning-roe-v-wade | 2022-06-28T20:47:04Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2647500754841/valley-physicians-warn-of-danger-that-comes-with-overturning-roe-v-wade | false | 2 |
Two drunkards stab three people
New Delhi: Three men were stabbed allegedly by two drunk miscreants over a petty issue inside a park in northwest Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar area, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place at around 9:30 pm on Monday night inside a park situated in Dhaka village of Mukherjee Nagar area, they said.
Police said they received infromation about the incident from Parmanand hospital administration where the three men Rohit (29), Shivam (27) and Manish (34) are being treated.
According to police, three friends were sitting inside the park premises, when suddenly two youths who were allegedly in an inebriated state came towards them and started asking for Deepak. When they responded that they did not know anyone by that name, suddenly, the miscreants started stabbing them with knife one after the other.
Manish retaliated by hitting a brick on one of them following which the miscreants ran away from the spot leaving them injured, a senior police officer said.
The injured men were rushed to Parmanand hospital where they are under treatment and will be discharged soon, he said.
"The men sustained superficial injuries mostly on their hands and abdomen. They are safe and in stable condition," he said.
In his statement to police, Rohit revealed that two days ago, he had spotted the same two youths roaming inside the park in an inebriated state. Suspecting them of indulging in petty crime like theft, he had warned them against coming to the park from next time onwards, the officer said.
Rohit further suspects that it were the same two miscreants who had come to the park on Monday night with an intention to take revenge from him, the officer said.
However, the exact reason behind stabbing them will be asertained only after the arrest of the two accused, police officials said.
Injured Rohit works as a store keeper at a coaching class while his two other friends are unemployed, they said. A case of attempt to murder under section (307) has been registered. | http://www.millenniumpost.in/delhi/two-drunkards-stab-three-people-483914 | 2022-06-28T20:48:10Z | http://www.millenniumpost.in/delhi/two-drunkards-stab-three-people-483914 | false | 1 |
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ETHAN PHELAN MELZER, a/k/a “Etil Reggad,” pled guilty to attempting to murder U.S. service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and illegally transmitting national defense information. MELZER planned a jihadist attack on his U.S. Army unit in the days leading up to a deployment to Turkey and sent sensitive details about the unit—including information about its location, movements, and security—to members of the extremist organization Order of the Nine Angles (“O9A”), an occult-based, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist group. MELZER pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As he admitted in court today, Ethan Melzer attempted to orchestrate a murderous ambush on his own unit by unlawfully disclosing its location, strength, and armaments to a neo-Nazi, anarchist, white supremacist group. The defendant believed he could force the U.S. into prolonged armed conflict while causing the deaths of as many soldiers as possible. MELZER’s traitorous conduct was a betrayal of his storied unit and nothing short of an attack against the most essential American values. Thanks to the incredible work of the FBI and the U.S. Army, MELZER’s duplicity was revealed and his murderous attack thwarted.”
According to the Indictment and other documents in the public record, as well as statements made in public court proceedings:
MELZER has been a member of O9A since at least 2017. O9A espouses neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and Satanic beliefs, and promotes extreme violence to accelerate and cause the demise of Western civilization. The group has expressed admiration both for Nazis, such as Adolf Hitler, and Islamic jihadists, such as Usama Bin Laden, the now-deceased former leader of al Qaeda. Members and associates of O9A have also participated in acts of violence, including murders. O9A members are instructed to fulfill “sinister” deeds, including “insight roles,” where they attempt to infiltrate various organizations, including the military, to gain training and experience, commit acts of violence, identify like-minded individuals, and ultimately subvert those groups from within.
MELZER joined the U.S. Army in approximately 2018 as part of an O9A insight role to infiltrate its ranks and further his goals as an O9A adherent. In approximately October 2019, MELZER deployed abroad with the Army to Italy as a member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. While stationed abroad, MELZER consumed propaganda from multiple extremist groups, including O9A and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, which is also known as ISIS. For example, MELZER subscribed to encrypted online forums where he downloaded and accessed videos of jihadist attacks on U.S. troops and facilities and jihadist executions of civilians and soldiers, in addition to far-right, neo-Nazi, and other white supremacist propaganda.
In approximately early May 2020, the Army informed MELZER that he would be reassigned to a unit scheduled for a further foreign deployment, where the unit would be guarding an isolated and sensitive military installation (the “Military Base”). After he was notified of the assignment, MELZER joined his new unit and attended weeks of training, including classified and unclassified briefings, to prepare for the deployment. As part of this intensive training, MELZER learned details about the purpose, layout, and security of the Military Base. MELZER and his unit also received in-depth training about and practiced for numerous threat scenarios at the Military Base, including how to respond to various potential terrorist attack scenarios.
Upon learning the importance and sensitivity of his upcoming deployment, MELZER immediately began passing that information to members of O9A. MELZER secretly used an encrypted messaging application to propose, advocate for, and plan a deadly attack on his fellow service members. MELZER sent messages to members and associates of O9A, and, in particular, a sub-group of O9A known as the “RapeWaffen Division,” providing details about his unit’s anticipated deployment including troop movements, relevant dates, locations, armaments, topography, and security, all in connection with the proposed attack on his unit and the Military Base. MELZER and his co-conspirators used this information to plan what they referred to as a “jihadi attack” with the objective of causing a “mass casualty” event victimizing his fellow service members. For example, after describing the unit’s weaponry during the deployment – and providing information consistent with the briefings he had received – MELZER described to his co-conspirators how an attack would “essentially cripple[]” the unit’s “fire-teams.”
To further the attack plan, MELZER and his co-conspirators passed these messages to a purported member of al Qaeda. MELZER’s proposed attack evolved as he gathered and distributed additional sensitive information about the deployment. For example, MELZER also promised to leak more information once he arrived at the Military Base – including real-time photographs of the facility and the frequency and channel of U.S. Army radio communications – in order to maximize the likelihood of a successful attack on his unit or on a replacement unit deployed to the Military Base.
MELZER told members of O9A in his encrypted electronic communications “[y]ou just gotta understand that currently I am risking my literal free life to give you all this” and that he was “expecting results.” MELZER further acknowledged that he could be killed during the attack, and described his willingness to die for O9A’s goals, writing “who gives a fuck [. . .] it would be another war . . . I would’ve died successfully . . . cause [] another 10 year war in the Middle East would definitely leave a mark.” MELZER also acknowledged in his messages that he deleted some of the communications regarding the planning of the attack because the plot amounted to treason.
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MELZER, 24, of Louisville, Kentucky, pled guilty to (1) attempting to murder U.S. military service members, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1114, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; (2) attempting to provide and providing material support to terrorists, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339A, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison; and (3) illegally transmitting national defense information believing that it could be used to the injury of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(d), which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. MELZER is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Woods on January 6, 2023, at 10 a.m.
The statutory penalties are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the judge.
Mr. Williams praised the outstanding efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (“FBI”) New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, which principally consists of agents from the FBI and detectives from the New York City Police Department, along with the FBI’s Legal Attaché Office in Rome, Italy, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Army Counterintelligence, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, Attorneys from the U.S. Army Africa Office of the Staff Judge Advocate and 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, and the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service. Mr. Williams also thanked the Counterterrorism Section and the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, as well as the Department’s Office of International Affairs, for their assistance.
This prosecution is being handled by the Office’s National Security and International Narcotics Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sam Adelsberg, Matthew J.C. Hellman, and Kimberly J. Ravener are in charge of the prosecution, with assistance from Trial Attorneys Alicia Cook of the Counterterrorism Section and Scott Claffee of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. | https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/soldier-pleads-guilty-to-helping-white-supremacist-group-plot-deadly-ambush-on-his-army-unit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soldier-pleads-guilty-to-helping-white-supremacist-group-plot-deadly-ambush-on-his-army-unit | 2022-06-28T20:48:18Z | https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/soldier-pleads-guilty-to-helping-white-supremacist-group-plot-deadly-ambush-on-his-army-unit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=soldier-pleads-guilty-to-helping-white-supremacist-group-plot-deadly-ambush-on-his-army-unit | false | 1 |
BOSTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: BHLB) ("Berkshire" or the "Company") announced today the pricing of its offering of $100.0 million of its 5.50% fixed-to-floating rate subordinated notes due 2032 (the "Notes"). The Notes will initially bear interest at 5.50% per annum, with interest payable semiannually in arrears, commencing on the issue date, to, but excluding, July 1, 2027. Commencing July 1, 2027, the interest rate on the Notes will reset quarterly to a floating rate per annum equal to a benchmark rate that is expected to be the Three-Month Term SOFR (which is defined in the Notes) plus 249 basis points, with interest payable quarterly in arrears. The Company may redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, on and after July 1, 2027, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest. The Notes will mature on July 1, 2032 if they are not earlier redeemed.
The Company expects to close the transaction, subject to customary conditions, on or about June 30, 2022. The Company intends to use an amount equal to the net proceeds of this offering to finance or refinance new or existing assets consistent with its Sustainable Financing Framework, as may be modified from time to time. Pending allocation to such assets, the net proceeds may be used for general corporate purposes, including supporting strategic and organic growth and the repayment of other outstanding indebtedness that has no association with carbon-intensive activities.
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, A Stifel Company, and PNC FIG Advisory, part of PNC Capital Markets LLC, are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering.
This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities of the Company. There will be no sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Any offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to purchase securities of the Company will be made only pursuant to a prospectus supplement and prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The Company has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) (File No. 333-237301) and a preliminary prospectus supplement with the SEC for the offering to which this press release relates. Before making an investment decision, you should read the prospectus and preliminary prospectus supplement and other documents that the Company has filed with the SEC for additional information about the Company and the offering.
You may obtain these documents for free by visiting the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, you may request copies of the prospectus and preliminary prospectus supplement by contacting Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, A Stifel Company, at 1-800-966-1559 or USCapitalMarkets@kbw.com or PNC Capital Markets LLC at 1-855-881-0697 or PNCFIGAdvisoryCapitalMarkets@pnc.com.
Berkshire Hills Bancorp is the parent of Berkshire Bank. Berkshire Bank's goal is to be a high-performing, leading socially responsible community bank in New England, Upstate New York and beyond. Berkshire Bank provides business and consumer banking, mortgage, wealth management, and investment services.
Headquartered in Boston, Berkshire has approximately $12.1 billion in assets and operates 105 branch offices in New England and New York, and is a member of the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Words such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "outlook," "plan," "potential," "estimate," "project," "believe," "intend," "anticipate," "expect," "target" and variations of such similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, possible or assumed estimates with respect to the financial condition of the Company, our expected or anticipated revenue, and our results of operations and our business, including earnings growth; revenue growth in retail banking, lending and other areas; loan origination volumes; current and future capital management programs; non-interest income levels; tangible capital generation; market share; expense levels; stock repurchases; and other business operations and strategies, as well as statements regarding the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and any current or future variants thereof; inflation and interest rates; economic activity; geopolitical conflicts; and market conditions.
All forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond our control, that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to differ materially from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others: there may be increases in competitive pressure among financial institutions or from non-financial institutions; the net interest margin is subject to material short-term fluctuation based upon market rates; changes in deposit flows, loan demand or real estate values may affect the business of Berkshire Bank; changes in accounting principles, policies or guidelines may cause the Company's financial condition to be perceived differently; changes in corporate and/or individual income tax laws may adversely affect the Company's business or financial condition or results of operations; general economic conditions, either nationally or locally in some or all areas in which the Company conducts business, or conditions in the securities markets or the banking industry, may be different than the Company currently anticipates; legislative, regulatory or policy changes may adversely affect the Company's business or results of operations; technological changes may be more difficult or expensive than the Company anticipates; success or consummation of new business initiatives or the integration of any acquired entities may be more difficult or expensive than the Company anticipates; and litigation or other matters before regulatory agencies, whether currently existing or commencing in the future, may delay the occurrence or non-occurrence of events longer than the Company anticipates.
Further, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (including any current or future variants of the COVID-19 virus) and the related local and national economic disruption may continue to result in a decline in demand for our products and services; increased levels of loan delinquencies, problem assets and foreclosures; an increase in our allowance for loan losses; a decline in the value of loan collateral, including real estate; a greater decline in the yield on our interest-earning assets than the decline in the cost of our interest-bearing liabilities; and increased cybersecurity risks, as employees continue to work remotely. Additionally, financial markets or Company operations may be adversely affected by the current or anticipated impact of military conflict, including the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, terrorism or other geopolitical events.
These and other factors that may affect forward-looking statements are more fully described under "Forward-Looking Statements" in Item 1 and "Risk Factors" in Item 1A of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 1, 2022, and other factors discussed in our subsequent filings with the SEC.
All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such statements are made. There is no assurance that future results, levels of activity, performance or goals will be achieved. Except as required by law, we disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release.
CONTACTS
Investor Relations Contacts:
Kevin Conn, SVP, Investor Relations & Corporate Development
Email: KAConn@berkshirebank.com
Tel: (617) 641-9206
David Gonci, Capital Markets Director
Email: dgonci@berkshirebank.com
Tel: (413) 281-1973
Media Contact:
Gary Levante, SVP, Corporate Responsibility & Communications
Email: glevante@berkshirebank.com
Tel: (413) 447-1737
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Almost a quarter of the world's population is exposed to significant flood risks, with those in poorer countries more vulnerable, research has shown.
Flooding from heavy rainfall and storm surges affect millions of people every year and cause billions of dollars of damage to homes, infrastructure and economies.
And the risks are rising as climate change causes more extreme precipitation and sea-level rise, and as exposed populations swell.
The new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, looked at global data on flood risks from the sea, rivers and rainfall, as well as population distribution and poverty estimates from the World Bank.
It found about 1.81 billion people, or 23 per cent of the people on the planet, are directly exposed to floods of more than 15 centimetres in once-in-a-hundred-year flooding.
“This would pose significant risks to lives and livelihoods, especially of vulnerable population groups,” the study said.
Overall, about 90 per cent of those exposed to flooding live in low- or middle-income countries, the study said.
It also concluded that the number of people living in poverty and under severe flood risk is “substantially higher than previously thought”.
Researchers found that about $9.8 trillion of economic activity globally — roughly 12 per cent of the global gross domestic product in 2020 — takes place in areas exposed to severe flooding.
But they said concentrating simply on economics could cause a bias of attention towards higher-income countries and economic hubs.
“By accounting for the poverty levels of exposed populations, we show that low-income countries are disproportionately exposed to flood risks, while being more vulnerable to disastrous long-term impacts,” said the study by Jun Rentschler and other World Bank economists.
Overall, the study estimated most people exposed to flooding — 1.24 billion — are in South and East Asia, with China and India accounting for more than a third of the global total.
About 780 million people living on less than $5.50 a day are at risk from once-in-a-hundred-year floods, it found.
The research provides “the first global estimates of the interaction between exposure to flood risk, and poverty”, said Thomas McDermott of the National University of Ireland Galway in a linked commentary published in Nature Communications on Thursday.
The authors said previous studies were often limited by geography or the type of flood risk assessed and had underestimated how many people around the world are exposed.
“Climate change and risky urbanisation patterns are expected to further aggravate these risks in coming years,” they added.
World Weather Attribution, a network of scientists tracing the impacts of climate change, said that global warming has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense across most of the world.
This has likely made flooding more severe in these areas, although scientists stress that other human factors also play a part, such as decisions about where homes and infrastructure are built.
This month, record floods in southern China displaced more than half a million people.
In Bangladesh, the Red Cross said Tuesday seven million people are still in “desperate” need of shelter and aid after some of the heaviest rains in a century swelled rivers to record levels and inundated rural villages. | https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2022/06/28/quarter-of-worlds-population-at-risk-from-severe-flooding-study-says/ | 2022-06-28T20:50:40Z | https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2022/06/28/quarter-of-worlds-population-at-risk-from-severe-flooding-study-says/ | true | 2 |
New eastbound voyage sails from Fort Lauderdale on historic route that ends at Rotterdam on company's 150th birthday
SEATTLE, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As its 150th anniversary approaches April 18, 2023, Holland America Line is adding a second commemorative transatlantic crossing aboard Rotterdam to the schedule of celebratory events. Departing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on April 3, 2023, the 16-night itinerary sails to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, retracing in reverse the company's first voyage.
From Fort Lauderdale, the ship heads to New York City and makes a rare overnight call, giving guests extra time to experience the attractions that make this vibrant city come to life, including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Empire State Building, Broadway and more. Rotterdam will then spend eight leisurely days at sea crossing the Atlantic Ocean, calling at Plymouth and Dover (London), England, before arriving April 18 — Holland America Line's 150th anniversary — at Rotterdam for an overnight full of festivities.
"As we got deeper into planning the events surrounding our 150th, we knew that the best place to celebrate the date of our founding was in the city of Rotterdam where it all started," said Gus Antorcha, president of Holland America Line. "These voyages that mark our first departure and our anniversary are going to be incredibly memorable as we retrace our first sailing from the 1870s, but on a modern, luxury cruise ship. We anticipate the April cruise to be as popular as the October sailing."
To kick off a season of celebrations, Holland America Line announced the first special 150th anniversary crossing that will depart Rotterdam Oct. 15, 2022, exactly 150 years to the date of the departure of Rotterdam I's maiden voyage. The crossing will recreate that first sailing, going from Rotterdam to New York, with calls at Plymouth and Dover, then on to Fort Lauderdale. The ship will stay overnight in New York for special celebrations.
To accommodate the new April 3 departure three voyages were cancelled, and all guests and their travel advisors were notified. Bookings for the new eastbound transatlantic crossing will open to the public July 14, 2022.
For more information about Holland America Line, consult a travel advisor, call 1-877-SAIL HAL (877-724-5425) or visit hollandamerica.com.
Find Holland America Line on Twitter, Facebook and the Holland America Blog. Access all social media outlets via the home page at hollandamerica.com.
About Holland America Line [a division of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE: CCL and CUK)]
Holland America Line has been exploring the world since 1873 and was the first cruise line to offer adventures to Alaska and the Yukon nearly 75 years ago. Its fleet of premium ships visits nearly 400 ports in 114 countries around the world, offering an ideal mid-sized ship experience. A third Pinnacle-class ship, Rotterdam, joined the fleet in July 2021.
The leader in premium cruising, Holland America Line's ships feature innovative initiatives and a diverse range of enriching experiences focused on destination exploration and personalized travel. The best live music at sea fills each evening at Music Walk, and dining venues feature exclusive selections from Holland America Line's esteemed Culinary Council of world-famous chefs.
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Even to this day, archeologists keep finding very interesting things from the Antikythera Mechanism shipwreck, or in terms that may be more familiar the oldest analog computer that was discovered in 1901. The shipwreck has scattered all sorts of artifacts over the sea bed, close to the Greek coast of Antikythera.
This place has become more of an ancient underwater exploration site for archeologists that keep on digging for more. When the Antikythera Mechanism was discovered, it was missing many fragments, and therefore Researchers from all around the world came together in a mission called “Return to Antikythera” led by the Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities to find the rest of the pieces.
Since 2012 when their mission started, the researchers discovered bronze artifacts, statues, and human remains such as Hercules's head. The missing head from Hercules's famous marble statue was found on the same shipwreck, making the exploration site a lot more interesting for the research team.
The researchers mentioned in a blog post that the head was stuck under huge natural boulders that were covering a good portion of the shipwreck.
“The 2022 field research included the relocation of selected sizeable natural boulders that had partially covered the shipwreck area during an event that is under investigation, weighing up to 8.5 tons each; their removal gave access to a formerly unexplored part of the shipwreck,”
The marble head is presumed to represent the mythological Greek hero Herakles (Hercules) and most likely belongs to a headless statue that divers from 1901 found. This ship was transporting the highest quality of luxury goods known to history, so there is a possibility to find incredible artifacts, similar to the Antikythera Mechanism or even more complex from the same time period.
“The exact position and the archaeological context of each finding have been precisely documented during excavation,” added the team, with an aim “to precisely reconstruct the disposition of the wreckage and the conditions of the sinking of the ship sometime during the first half of the 1st century BC.”
Researchers on the mission are now focusing on making sure that they do not miss any artifacts by creating a map that shows the spread zone by pinpointing where each find has been exactly discovered in the past. | https://original.newsbreak.com/@andrei-tapalaga-561350/2645463019730-head-of-hercules-discovered-in-ancient-shipwreck | 2022-06-28T20:54:01Z | https://original.newsbreak.com/@andrei-tapalaga-561350/2645463019730-head-of-hercules-discovered-in-ancient-shipwreck | true | 1 |
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