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CHANHASSEN, Minn., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. ("Life Time," "we," "our," "us," or the "Company") (NYSE: LTH) today announced that Donna Coallier has been appointed to serve on its Board of Directors effective July 1, 2022. Additionally, Ms. Coallier will serve on the Company's Audit Committee beginning August 15, 2022. To this position, Ms. Coallier brings significant experience in finance, accounting and strategy having served as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC"), a multinational professional services and accounting firm, from 1998 to 2017. While with PwC, Ms. Coallier was as an accounting consultant and lead assurance partner for clients. She also oversaw several business units, functions and special project teams, most recently leading the Retail and Consumer Products sector for the Global Capital Allocation Services and Valuation practices. Since 2019, Ms. Coallier has served as Trustee and Board of Health President for the Township of South Orange Village, New Jersey, and lead Trustee for the Township's Community Care & Justice program, which engages community members in designing and traveling their own wellness journeys, since its inception in 2020. Prior to PwC, Ms. Coallier held roles at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Coopers & Lybrand, and Grant Thornton. Commenting on Ms. Coallier's appointment, Life Time Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bahram Akradi, said, "Donna's finance and accounting expertise, paired with her extensive experience in advising companies, makes her a highly-qualified addition to our Board and Audit Committee. I'm very excited to have her join our Board and lend her expertise as we continue to deliver the best healthy way of life destinations, programs and experiences to our members." With the addition of Ms. Coallier, Life Time's Board will have 12 members. Life Time (NYSE: LTH) empowers people to live healthy, happy lives through its portfolio of nearly 160 athletic country clubs across the United States and Canada. The Company's healthy way of life communities address all aspects of healthy living, healthy aging and healthy entertainment for those 90 days to 90+ years with integrity and respect for everyone. With a team of more than 30,000, Life Time is committed to providing the best programs and experiences through its athletic country clubs, iconic athletic events and via a complementary and comprehensive digital platform. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Life Time Group Holdings, Inc.
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2022-06-29T21:22:48Z
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A problem shared by mother-of-four and GP Clare Bailey: Does sharing a bed with your children wreck your marriage? - An anonymous person expresses concern about their daughter sleeping in a separate bed from her husband - They explain that it happened after the birth of the couple's baby when their daughter co-slept with the baby to help with feeding - Clare Bailey advises the worried parent that it is their daughter's decision Q My daughter recently confessed that she and her husband haven’t shared a bed for three years — and I’m worried about how it will affect their marriage. My daughter sleeps in the main bedroom with their daughters, aged five and three, while her husband is relegated to the spare room. It started after their youngest was born and my daughter co-slept with the baby to help with feeding. She says it stuck as it’s the easiest way to ensure a good night’s sleep. What happened to putting a child to bed and them staying there? And couldn’t it drive a wedge between a married couple? A Co-sleeping, in which parents share a bed with their child for part of the night, is very common. Research suggests half of American parents share their bed with their child at least some of the time. An anonymous person expresses concern about their daughter sleeping in a separate bed from her husband. They explain that it happened after the birth of the couple's baby when their daughter co-slept with the baby to help with feeding Parents co-sleep for many reasons, including the obvious one; that the child may have snuck in and you’re too tired to move them. And why wouldn’t you like to snuggle up with your little ones? However, for young babies, although very rare, co-sleeping is associated with a higher risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), particularly in the first six months and for up to a year. The recommendations now include placing babies on their backs to sleep, in the same room and close to the parents’ bed, but on a separate surface, such as a crib or basket. It says babies who are brought into the bed for feeding or comfort should be returned to their own crib to sleep. Parents are also advised to keep bedding out of the sleep area. If your child is in your bed, it is safer to place them next to you, not between you and your partner. A more common problem is the impact on the parents’ sleep. A study done a few years ago found that co-sleeping babies woke more often and their mothers had more fragmented sleep. Other research shows that mothers who share their bed with a toddler lost on average 51 minutes of sleep, and had higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression. Clare Bailey advises the worried parent that it is their daughter's decision to what works best for her and husband in terms of feeding their child You are understandably concerned about the impact this may have on your daughter. However, you should recognise that, ultimately, this is her decision. Perhaps she and her husband will be better off sleeping separately but not rowing over who gets up to care for an unsettled child in the night. But if she and her partner wish to reclaim the marital bed, here are a few suggestions. Children vary in terms of how much close contact they need, and learning to sleep independently takes time. First, bring a small mattress into your bedroom for the child. If they get up, calmly lead them back to bed. Be consistent! Once established, plan for a bed in their own room. Your daughter’s family will have to find what works for them. It’s a delicate balance to maintain physical closeness with her children while getting enough sleep, as well as being able to enjoy some degree of intimacy with her husband. - Samphire is my new favourite ingredient. Also known as ‘sea fennel’, it’s a form of seaweed found on the UK coastline. It looks like baby asparagus, with a crisp and salty taste. It’s also a great source of iodine and Omega-3, and contains antioxidants, which reduce inflammation. But the best part is that it gives flavour and crunch to fish dishes. Try adding a handful to spaghetti in the last 2-3 minutes of cooking for a prawn or smoked salmon dish. Or enjoy it steamed or boiled for two minutes alongside fish or in a salad. You can get it from fishmongers or big supermarkets. It’s now in season, so give it a try. Solved... the great floss debate I have had a long-running debate with my husband, Michael, over whether it’s better to floss before or after brushing my teeth. Flossing after brushing seems easiest to me — the toothbrush should do most of the work. Michael flosses then brushes. In a study of 25 dentists, randomly allocated to flossing before or after brushing their teeth, it turned out that flossing then brushing removed more plaque than vice versa. Michael was right — floss first!
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2022-06-29T21:24:46Z
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1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest By JAY REEVES and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Documents are kept inside boxes by decade, he said, but there was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29, 1955, might have been. “They narrowed it down between the ‘50s and ’60s and got lucky,” said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine. The search was started by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and included two members of Till’s family: Cousin Deborah Watts, head of the Foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts. They want authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham, who at the time of the slaying was married to one of two white men tried and acquitted just weeks after Till was abducted from a relative’s home, killed and dumped into a river. “Serve it and charge her,” Teri Watts told the AP in an interview. Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money, Mississippi. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till whistled at the woman, which flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era. Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized at the time, but the Leflore County sheriff told reporters he did not want to “bother” the woman since she had two young children to care for. Now in her 80s and most recently living in North Carolina, Donham has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution. But Teri Watts said the Till family believes the warrant accusing Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence. “This is what the state of Mississippi needs to go ahead,” she said. District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, whose office would prosecute a case, declined comment on the warrant but cited a December report about the Till case from the Justice Department, which said no prosecution was possible. Contacted by the AP on Wednesday, Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks said: “This is the first time I’ve known about a warrant.” Banks, who was 7 years old when Till was killed, said “nothing was said about a warrant” when a former district attorney investigated the case five or six years ago. “I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the DA and get their opinion on it,” Banks said. If the warrant can still be served, Banks said, he would have to talk to law enforcement officers in the state where Donham resides. Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly would not pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the University of Mississippi. But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant “absolutely” could be an important stepping stone toward establishing probable cause to initiate a new prosecution, he said. “If you went in front of a judge you could say, ‘Once upon a time a judge determined there was probable cause, and much more information is available today,’” Rychlak said. Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he entered the store where Donham, then 21, was working on Aug. 24, 1955. A Till relative who was there at the time, Wheeler Parker, told AP that Till whistled at the woman. Donham testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made a lewd comment. Two nights later, Donham’s then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, showed up armed at the rural Leflore County home of Till’s great-uncle, Mose Wright, looking for the youth. Till’s brutalized body, weighted down by a fan, was pulled from a river days later in another county. His mother’s decision to open the casket so mourners in Chicago could see what had happened helped galvanize the building civil rights movement of the time. Bryant and Milam were acquitted of murder but later admitted the killing in a magazine interview. While both men were named in the same warrant that accused Donham of kidnapping, authorities did not pursue the case following their acquittal. Wright testified during the murder trial that a person with a voice “lighter” than a man’s identified Till from inside a pickup truck and the abductors took him away from the family home. Other evidence in FBI files indicates that earlier that same night, Donham told her husband that at least two other Black men were not the right person. ___ Reeves reported from Newnan, Georgia.
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2022-06-29T21:25:13Z
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Nearly 8 in 10 (79%) of software testers say up to 40% of software goes to market without sufficient testing in new report LONDON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- According to new research by no-code software test automation platform company, Leapwork, 85% of U.S. CEOs think it's acceptable to release software that hasn't been properly tested, so long as it's patch tested later. And 79% of testers say that up to 40% of software goes to market without sufficient testing. As a result, 52% of testers claim their teams spend five to 10 days per year patching software. Overall, there is a huge disconnect between CEOs and testers regarding the adequacy of software testing. Despite the majority of testers expressing concern that insufficiently tested software is going to market, the overwhelming majority of CEOs (94%) say they're confident their software is tested regularly. CEOs are aware of the risks of insufficient testing, with 95% of CEOs saying they are concerned about losing their jobs in the wake of a software failure. About three-quarters (76%) of testers have the same fear. In addition, both CEOs and testers see risks to their companies due to insufficiently tested software. More than three-quarters of CEOs (77%) say software failures have harmed their company's reputation in the last five years. Leapwork, in collaboration with market-research firm Censuswide, released 'The Leapwork Risk Radar,' a new global research study that surveyed just under 500 U.S. and U.K. CEOs and software testers at companies larger than 500 employees across multiple industries. The survey outlines attitudes towards, and perceptions of, software testing within large organizations. Christian Brink Frederiksen, co-founder and CEO at Leapwork, said: "Our research shows the widespread issues that exist in software testing today. While CEOs and testers understand the consequences of releasing software that hasn't been tested properly, an alarming number still think it's acceptable to issue it and prefer to rely on patch testing afterwards to fix any problems. This often comes down to not thinking there is a viable option and choosing speed over stability – a devil's dilemma. But what's more concerning is the disconnect between CEOs and their developer teams, indicating that testing issues are falling under the radar and not being escalated until it's too late." Why software isn't tested properly When asked why their software wasn't tested properly before being released, CEOs and testers cited faster development cycles, a lack of skilled developers and a lack of professional development, as well as the reliance on manual testing as primary reasons why. Detailed data points include: - Manual testing: Just under four in 10 CEOs (39%) cite 'reliance on manual testing' as the main reason. - Underinvestment in automation and insufficient time: 40% of testers whose company uses or develops in-house software that goes to market without being insufficiently tested; say 'underinvestment in test automation' is one reason, with only 43% claiming they are using some element of automation (i.e., an automation tool or a combination of manual and automation). Just over a third (34%) of testers cite 'lack of time.' 29% say 'unable to test all software due to increased frequency of development.' - Lack of skilled developers: Just over a third of CEOs (34%) and about four in 10 testers (42%) whose company uses or develops in-house software that goes to market without being insufficiently tested cite 'lack of available skilled developers.' This gap indicates that the digital skills gap is still a big issue in the U.S. with companies struggling to find the right skillsets to manage test automation. - There isn't enough professional development: More than a third of CEOs (34%) say 'underinvestment in testing personnel including continuous professional development' is the reason why software isn't tested properly, implying that teams aren't focusing enough of their efforts on upskilling testers. Frederiksen added: "As more companies transition from manual testing to automation to meet the testing requirements of increasingly complex software, they're struggling to find testers with the right digital skills to manage the process. Combine that with the pressure of meeting digital transformation goals and companies are cutting corners and taking unnecessary risks. "We've seen the implications of huge software failures in the news, so on the current trajectory, more and more companies will struggle with failures and outages which could cost them a significant amount in financial and reputational damage. Businesses need to urgently consider a different approach and embrace no code test automation systems that don't require coding skills and free up their skilled teams to focus on the most high-value tasks." -ENDS- NOTES TO EDITOR: Research Methodology The research was conducted by Censuswide and surveyed 240 U.K. and U.S. CEOs and 240 U.K. and U.S. Heads of QA, Manual Testers, Release Managers/Delivery Managers and Site Reliability Engineers/Executive; company size 500+, aged 18+ across banking and financial services, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail and eCommerce, telecoms and logistics and transportation. About Leapwork Leapwork empowers the world's largest enterprises to adopt digital transformation securely and successfully with its unique, no-code automation platform. Unlike traditional automation approaches, Leapwork breaks down the barriers between humans and computers with an entirely visual no-code system that everyone can understand. Leapwork is used by global enterprises across all industries, from banks and insurance companies to life science, government and aerospace. Clients include Mercedes Benz, PayPal, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and BNP Paribas. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has local offices across Europe, US and Asia. To learn more about Leapwork, visit: https://www.leapwork.com/ Media Contact Jeff Miller, Metis Communications, 617-236-0500, leapwork@metiscomm.com SOURCE Leapwork
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2022-06-29T21:25:15Z
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EXPLAINER: Years later, Flint water court fight drags on By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Michigan authorities have long promised to hold key officials criminally responsible for lead in Flint’s water back in 2014 and 2015. There’s little to show more than eight years later. The state Supreme Court unanimously dismissed indictments Tuesday against former Gov. Rick Snyder and eight others. The attorney general’s office has promised to press on, though hurdles remain even if fresh charges are pursued. Seven people pleaded no contest to misdemeanors earlier in the investigation, and their records have been scrubbed. Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud took over the investigation in 2019. Hammoud says she’s “committed to seeing this process through.” Snyder, who left office in 2019, admits mistakes were made in Flint but he denies any criminal wrongdoing.
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2022-06-29T21:25:50Z
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Webcast and conference call at 7 a.m. PT (10 a.m. ET) SEATTLE, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) will release second quarter 2022 results on Friday, July 29, before the market opens. The company will hold a live webcast and conference call at 7 a.m. Pacific (10 a.m. Eastern) the same day to discuss results. To access the news release, live webcast and presentation online, visit the Investor Relations section on www.weyerhaeuser.com on July 29. To join the conference call from within North America, dial 877-407-0792 (access code: 13724915) at least 15 minutes prior to the call. Those calling from outside North America should dial 201-689-8263 (access code: 13724915). Replays will be available for two weeks at 844-512-2921 (access code: 13724915) from within North America, and at 412-317-6671 (access code: 13724915) from outside North America. Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world's largest private owners of timberlands, began operations in 1900. We own or control approximately 11 million acres of timberlands in the U.S. and manage additional timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada. We manage these timberlands on a sustainable basis in compliance with internationally recognized forestry standards. We are also one of the largest manufacturers of wood products in North America. Our company is a real estate investment trust. In 2021, we generated $10.2 billion in net sales and employed approximately 9,200 people who serve customers worldwide. Our common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol WY. Learn more at www.weyerhaeuser.com. For more information contact: Analysts - Andy Taylor, 206-539-3907 Media – Nancy Thompson, 919-861-0342 View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Weyerhaeuser Company
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2022-06-29T21:26:12Z
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BOSTON (AP) _ Duck Creek Technologies, Inc. (DCT) on Wednesday reported a loss of $5.8 million in its fiscal third quarter. On a per-share basis, the Boston-based company said it had a loss of 4 cents. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs and stock option expense, came to 1 cent per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was breakeven on a per-share basis. The company posted revenue of $72.4 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $72 million. For the current quarter ending in August, Duck Creek expects its per-share earnings to range from 1 cent to 2 cents. The company said it expects revenue in the range of $72.8 million to $74.8 million for the fiscal fourth quarter. Duck Creek expects full-year earnings in the range of 9 cents to 10 cents per share, with revenue ranging from $295 million to $297 million. _____ This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on DCT at https://www.zacks.com/ap/DCT
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2022-06-29T21:28:16Z
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WASHINGTON , June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the public are invited to explore the many ways space science helps families, communities, and our nation better understand our home planet and become more climate resilient through hands-on and virtual activities during NASA Day at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Saturday, July 2, on the National Mall in Washington. "NASA explores our own planet Earth, using the unique vantage point of space to observe how our planet's oceans, atmosphere, land, and ice work together as an Earth system," said Karen St. Germain, Earth Science Division director at NASA Headquarters. "These observations grow our understanding of our planet's changing climate. That understanding means the agency can deliver more actionable science to inform decision makers from global leaders to city mayors seeking to mitigate, adapt to and respond to those climate changes." Throughout the day, agency representatives will participate in various speaking events and activities. In addition, NASA will host a free, public exhibit featuring information about science, live demonstrations, and other family friendly activities. The following is a list of activities taking place throughout the day (all times Eastern): 2 p.m. – Sustainable Seafood Lawrence Friedl, associate director of NASA's Earth Applied Sciences Program, joins chefs and other speakers at the Foodways Kitchen to discuss how NASA Earth science data is used by anglers, farmers, and decision-makers to support sustainable practices. 3 p.m. – What is Sustainable Food Production? NASA satellites play an increasingly important role in monitoring crops and their environmental conditions. St. Germain will moderate a panel discussion with leading subject matter experts, including John Piotti, president of American Farmland Trust; Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barns Center; Seth Goldman, co-founder of PLNT Burger; and Mark Allison, a nationally renowned chef. The panel will stream live. 3 p.m. – Oysters and NASA What does NASA have to do with the ocean? Find out at the Foodways Kitchen as we discuss the intersection of oysters, the Chesapeake Bay, and NASA. The following events will be ongoing: - The Pocket Cinema will showcase NASA videos that dive into the science behind the global temperature record, explore the world's remote poles, and describe how agency data is used to support food security. The video playlist is available online. - Join team members at the People Powered Science station with family-focused, hands-on demonstrations of Earth science observations and emerging technology, linking NASA's global research directly to our backyards and neighborhoods. A full schedule of events and more information about the festival are available here. NASA's vantage point from space gives the agency a unique view of our home planet. For more than 50 years, agency satellites have provided open-source and publicly available data on Earth's land, water, temperature, weather, and climate. For more information about NASA's Earth science programs, visit: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE NASA
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2022-06-29T21:28:54Z
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Publication highlights ability of Cas-CLOVER to perform multiplexed gene editing to produce allogeneic products with a high percentage of Tscm cells that may result in better tolerability and deeper clinical responses Cas-CLOVER has demonstrated lower off-target and translocation activity than other published technologies including CRISPR, TALENs and Base Editors SAN DIEGO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company utilizing proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies to create cell and gene therapeutics with the capacity to cure, today announced a peer-reviewed publication highlighting the potential of its proprietary Cas-CLOVER Site-specific Gene Editing System as a high-efficiency platform for the production of allogeneic CAR-T cells. The paper, titled "Cas-CLOVER is a novel high-fidelity nuclease for safe and robust generation of TSCM-enriched allogeneic CAR-T cells," was published online today in Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids. The paper will appear in print in the September 2022 issue of the journal. "We are excited to publish data from this very comprehensive study of our gene editing system in T cells," said Eric Ostertag, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Chairman of Poseida Therapeutics. "This publication validates the precision of our proprietary Cas-CLOVER system, which is utilized in the manufacture of our fully allogeneic product candidates currently in clinical trials, including P-BCMA-ALLO1 for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma and P-MUC1C-ALLO1 for multiple solid tumor indications." Cas-CLOVER is a novel, high-fidelity gene editing system that can be used for high-efficiency gene editing in T cells to create allogeneic CAR-T products. In these published studies, Cas-CLOVER was used for multiplexed gene editing in resting T cells, which resulted in allogeneic product candidates with a high percentage (45%-70%) of desirable T stem cell memory (Tscm) cells. Using next-generation sequencing, off-target activity was measured at a rate between 0.012% and 0.089%, which is significantly lower than many other gene editing platforms. In addition, off-target translocations, which are undesirable chromosomal abnormalities, approached the lower limit of detection at a frequency of less than 0.01%. "Cas-CLOVER is a highly versatile and precise system that can be used to make site-specific deletions, insertions and knock-ins and works in multiple cell types," said Blair Madison, Ph.D., Vice President, Genetic Engineering at Poseida Therapeutics, first author of the publication. "We continue to innovate, including the enhancement of Cas-CLOVER, to create potentially transformative treatments for patients in oncology and rare diseases." About Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. Poseida Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to utilizing our proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies to create next generation cell and gene therapeutics with the capacity to cure. We have discovered and are developing a broad portfolio of product candidates in a variety of indications based on our core proprietary platforms, including our non-viral piggyBac® DNA Delivery System, Cas-CLOVER Site-specific Gene Editing System and nanoparticle- and AAV-based gene delivery technologies. Our core platform technologies have utility, either alone or in combination, across many cell and gene therapeutic modalities and enable us to engineer our portfolio of product candidates that are designed to overcome the primary limitations of current generation cell and gene therapeutics. To learn more, visit www.poseida.com and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn. Forward-Looking Statements Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include statements regarding, among other things, the potential benefits of Poseida's technology platforms and product candidates, the safety and efficiency of Poseida's Cas-CLOVER Site-specific Gene Editing System, Poseida's plans and strategy with respect to developing its technologies and product candidates, and anticipated timelines and milestones with respect to Poseida's development programs and manufacturing activities. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon Poseida's current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks and uncertainties associated with development and regulatory approval of novel product candidates in the biopharmaceutical industry and the other risks described in Poseida's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Poseida undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made, except as required by law. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Poseida Therapeutics, Inc.
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SOAP LAKE, Wash. (AP) — The Grant County Sheriff’s Office has lifted all evacuations east of Soap Lake, Washington, that had been in effect Tuesday because of a wildfire. Sheriff’s officials said the 50 homes threatened by the fire which started around 11 a.m. were no longer at risk as of Tuesday night. Officials also said two firefighters suffered minor injuries when a water tender truck rolled off the road Tuesday. Officials said early indication is that the vehicle drove onto the soft shoulder and rolled three-quarters of a roll down a steep embankment. Crews responded to four fires in the country on Tuesday. Fire officials are urging people to be extremely careful with any fireworks in the county this weekend, KREM-TV reported. Fireworks are legal in most of the county. Fireworks are illegal in Seattle, unincorporated King County and most other Puget Sound cities. Fireworks-related fires across the state in 2020 caused $1.3 million in property damage, The Seattle Times reported. Fireworks also cause injuries and distress for some people with post-traumatic stress disorder and animals.
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CLEARWATER, Fla — Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater crew members held a change of command ceremony on Wednesday. Capt. Scott Phy relieved Capt. Joseph McGilley as the commanding officer, the Coasrt Guard said in a news release. McGilley is transferring to Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington D.C. as the Coast Guard's chief of aeronautical engineering, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. He served four staff assignments and six operational positions. A military unit's change of command is a tradition that represents a formal transfer of total responsibility, authority and accountability from one person to another. "It has been an honor and privilege to live with and serve the community of the Tampa Bay area and beyond,” McGilley stated in a news release. “I know Capt. Phy will do well as he has an amazing crew to work with him during his tenure.” Capt. Phy was last on a joint assignment with the U.S. Air Force's Special Operations Command where he served as the senior Department of Homeland Security and Coast Guard liaison to the Special Operations Command. Before that, Phy called Clearwater home. He was previously assigned at Air Station Clearwater as the operations officer in 2014 and went on to become the executive officer from 2016 to 2018. Phy's wife, Lisa, and two children attended Wednesday's change of command ceremony, the news release mentioned. Air Station Clearwater is the Coast Guard's largest and busiest air station, handling missions from across the Southeast, Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America.
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Updated June 29, 2022 at 4:49 PM ET The disgraced R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison. He was sentenced in New York by federal Judge Ann Donnelly, who spoke at length before issuing the sentence. At one point, she quoted a victim impact statement from a woman known in court as Stephanie, who told Kelly, "No price was too high for someone else to pay for your happiness." "This case is not about sex," the judge said. "It is about violence, cruelty and control." Donnelly acknowledged points made by defense, including that Kelly endured a very difficult childhood, with sexual abuse at the hands of his sister and a landlord. However, she added, "You are a person who had great advantages — worldwide fame and celebrity, untold money." Kelly declined to address the court himself. His lawyer cited pending cases: a second federal trial in Illinois, slated to begin Aug. 15, and separate criminal charges in Minnesota. The charges include child pornography and obstruction of justice. Kelly's conviction Last year, Kelly was found guilty of charges including sexual exploitation of a child, racketeering, bribery and sex trafficking. The jury found the government proved Kelly was at the head of a criminal conspiracy to recruit and coerce girls, boys and women into sex. During the weekslong trial, multiple victims established a pattern where they would see Kelly at a show or out in public, and an associate of Kelly would hand them a phone number to call. From there they would be ensnared in a system of sexual and psychological abuse. Kelly forced his victims to perform sexual acts for his gratification (which he often filmed). He set up strict rules dictating where his victims were allowed to go and who they were allowed to speak to. And he forced to them to write letters or video tape themselves claiming they were doing everything of their own free will. Accusers spoke about how he hurt them Before the judge announced Kelly's sentence, seven women made their own statements to and about him and about the abuse they suffered. At no point did Kelly look at his accusers. A woman identified in court as Angela said, "We will be able to live again." She said, "I am a representation of every woman, boy, child, man that you have ever afflicted with your deplorable, inexplicable acts, and with that I leave you with yourself, Robert Sylvester Kelly." Another woman, known in court as Jane Doe 2, described enduring depression and stress related to Kelly's abuse. She paused in her comments to demand his attention when Kelly whispered to his attorney. "I'm sorry," she said. "I don't want to interrupt his conversation." A man identified as Charles, the father of another woman, said in a resigned tone, "So many people love you and they hate us." He noted that Kelly hadn't expressed remorse. Charles urged Kelly to confess and to ask for God's forgiveness. Kelly's defense lawyer promises an appeal "Obviously he's devastated," Kelly's lawyer Jennifer Bonjean said outside the courthouse. "Thirty years in prison is like a life sentence for him, but at the same time we knew the government was asking for 25 years. We were prepared for what the judge might impose and we are now prepared to fight this appeal." Victims were heard After the sentencing hearing, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said the case meant the "voices of mostly Black and brown women and children ... were heard and believed, and for [them,] justice was finally achieved." The sentencing comes after decades of allegations against the multi-platinum singer. In 2008, he stood trial in his hometown of Chicago for child pornography. He was acquitted of all charges. From there, Kelly continued to live his life of superstardom, performing across the world and selling out venues. In 2019, the TV docuseries Surviving R. Kelly renewed interest in the sexual abuse allegations against Kelly and gave a sustained push to the activists who had been pushing for Kelly to be pulled off airwaves and stages. Jovante Cunningham, an accuser who had appeared in Surviving R. Kelly, said after the sentencing, "There wasn't a day in my life, up until this moment, that I actually believed that the judicial system would come through for Black and brown girls. Thirty years did he do this, and 30 years is what he got." Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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A gay teacher at a Catholic high school in Indianapolis sued the Archdiocese after he was fired. The Indiana Supreme Court must now decide whether his case against the Archdiocese will move forward. The court held a hearing on the issue Tuesday. Joshua Payne-Elliott had been a teacher at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis since 2006. In 2017, he married his partner. And two years later, Payne-Elliott was fired after a directive from the Archdiocese. Payne-Elliott has already settled with the high school. His lawsuit against the Archdiocese claims the Catholic organization interfered with his contract. The Archdiocese has tried several times to end the case. Attorney Luke Goodrich represented the Archdiocese before the state Supreme Court. He said Payne-Elliott’s firing is about internal church governance. “Church autonomy carves out a fundamental realm in which civil courts and civil governments are not meant to intrude,” Goodrich said. Join the conversation and sign up for the Indiana Two-Way. Text "Indiana" to 73224. Your comments and questions in response to our weekly text help us find the answers you need on statewide issues. A trial court sided with the Archdiocese, dismissing the case in one of its earliest stages. But the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that the trial court had halted proceedings too soon. Attorney Matthew Gutwein, representing the teacher, said the church shouldn’t be allowed to halt the lawsuit so early just by claiming religious autonomy. “The general rule, which we have lived under for 200 years, is that religious organizations must comply with civil and criminal law – even when their conduct is religiously motivated,” Gutwein said. There’s no timetable for when the Supreme Court will make a decision. Contact reporter Brandon at bsmith@ipbs.org or follow him on Twitter at @brandonjsmith5.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A southern district of Ohio judge has sentenced a Columbus man for threatening a reproductive health services facility. Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Brime, 25, was indicted September 2021 for making two separate telephone threats April 2021 to a Columbus reproductive health care clinic. Brime pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a patient he thought was seeking an abortion, and later saying over the phone that his “organization” would bring a bomb to the facility, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio’s office said it previously charged Brime with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, related to his threatening people receiving or providing reproductive health services. He was also charged with making threatening statements through interstate communications and with making a bomb threat. Brime pleaded guilty in February and was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to one year and one day in prison. “Reproductive health providers and people seeking access to these services must be able to do so free from violence and threats of violence,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke in a release. “This sentencing should send a strong message that the Justice Department will continue to aggressively enforce the FACE Act and hold those accountable who violate the law. We stand ready to ensure that healthcare providers and people seeking reproductive health services are safe, secure and free from violence and threats of violence.” The charges against Brime originally had him facing maximum sentencing of up to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $250,000.
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To the southeast of San Antonio, a dirt road runs along train tracks through a dusty patch of mesquite. The area is isolated: the only businesses around are salvage yards, and the buzz of industrial equipment and the din of trains are often the only noises. These are likely the last sounds that 51 migrants heard earlier this week, before they succumbed to brutal deaths caused by extreme heat. Early Monday evening, authorities found a semitruck full of migrants parked on the dirt road. Of the group, which included children and families, 46 had already died. When first responders transported the few survivors to the hospital, the survivors’ bodies felt hot to the touch, the way metal feels when left out in the sun. At least five of those rescued later died in the hospital, the heatstroke too severe, the dehydration too dire for doctors to revive them. A few details have emerged about the dead, their identities, and what happened to them. On Twitter, Mexico’s foreign secretary offered an anguished acknowledgment that 22 Mexicans had died, as well as seven Guatemalans and two Hondurans (the rest of the victims have yet to be identified). While we can infer why the migrants were in the truck (the place where they were found has been used before by smugglers as a drop-off site), we don’t yet know the full story. We do know, however, that the migrants had families, and that they leave behind loved ones who now must find a way to live with the knowledge that their family member cooked to death in a foreign country. An Indigenous father in Guatemala shared that two of his daughters were among those who died in the trailer. Their names were Griselda and Carla. Perhaps the most sordid detail of this whole tragedy is how routine death has become in the Texas borderlands. While mass casualty events like the one in San Antonio are rare, across the length of the border dozens of migrants are dying every month with much less news coverage. Take, for instance, the area that Border Patrol calls the El Paso sector: In the canals and deserts around that city, Border Patrol has found at least 37 bodies since last October. At least ten migrants have drowned in the past three weeks in that sector alone. Advocates in the area say that they’ve never seen so much death in such a short period of time. Although the number of crossings typically drops during the summer, as temperatures top out at over 110 in some parts of the border, in the past two years it has stayed remarkably high throughout the hottest months. In May 2020, Border Patrol encountered 23,237 migrants; this May, the number was 239,146—more than in any single month in the past three years. The reasons for the record number of crossings are complicated: Mexico, where most migrants are currently coming from, is in the midst of a historic wave of cartel violence, as gangs battle for turf and send tens of thousands fleeing; at the same time, a serious labor shortage in the U.S. means opportunities are available in the North. There’s every indication, in other words, that we’re living through a historic crisis in migrant death. Migrants are dying in the desert, they’re falling off border walls, they’re drowning in the Rio Grande, they’re getting crushed in car accidents. Even before they reach the border, more are dying in Mexico on their way northward. Last December, 54 Central Americans trying to make it to the United States died in a truck crash in southern Mexico. In the wake of mass death such as the most recent tragedy, it is difficult to know what is to be done—even on the most practical level. Authorities have struggled to find morgues for the huge number of bodies. Then there are the broader policy questions: what caused this, and how do we stop it from happening again? Governor Greg Abbott was predictably quick to assign blame. “These deaths are on Biden. They are a result of his deadly open border policies,” the governor tweeted Monday evening. The president, in a statement Tuesday, blamed the deaths on the growth of smuggling networks on both sides of the border. “This incident underscores the need to go after the multibillion-dollar criminal smuggling industry preying on migrants and leading to far too many innocent deaths,” Biden said. Both Abbott’s and Biden’s arguments are simple and self-serving. The governor’s statement made no sense at all. If the border were truly “open” and easy to cross, why would migrants risk being smuggling across it, packed into the back of a truck in triple-digit heat? Likewise, Biden, in his rush to place the blame on smugglers, ignored the role his immigration policies might have played in the tragedy. Fundamentally, both politicians ignored basic reality: the border is more closed today than it’s been in almost all of modern American history. Biden kept in place draconian Trump-era policies, most notably Title 42, which empowers the mass expulsion, without trial, of migrants crossing the border, even if they try to seek asylum. Long under pressure from immigrant advocates and fellow Democrats, the president announced in late March that he would rescind the Trump order, effective May 23. A federal judge has blocked the move. Under the policy, Biden has “expelled” more than 1.1 million migrants. To put that in perspective, it took Trump more than three years to deport that many. Because a legal pathway to asylum is no longer guaranteed, migrants in northern Mexico—many of whom have already been expelled at least once under Title 42—have been incentivized to try and cross undetected. Smuggling networks, already well established by criminal organizations trafficking both drugs and humans, have been quick to meet the demand. Migrants can pay upwards of $2,000 for the men whom Mexicans call coyotes or polleros (and who are often U.S. citizens) to take them across the border. While smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is as old as the border itself, what’s changed in 2022 is that U.S. Customs and Border Protection is larger and more powerful than it’s ever been. Today, CBP is one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the world, dwarfing all other federal agencies, including the FBI. Along with more personnel, Border Patrol now deploys drones, heat vision sensors, high-tech camera and radar arrays, and even robotic patrol “dogs.” The border wall is also longer and taller than it’s ever been. With increased enforcement, migrants don’t stop coming. Some are crossing in more and more remote areas, like the Baboquivari Mountains in Arizona, or the cliffs and deserts around Big Bend; Border Patrol has found dozens of human remains in these hostile environments. Other migrants are paying dangerous smugglers to get them across, often through legal ports of entry. As the horror in San Antonio demonstrates, these smugglers have little regard for their clients’ well-being. When migrants die, their deaths quickly become statistics—evidence for or against one’s preferred immigration strategies, props for preformed talking points. For those committed to somehow “sealing” the southern border, tragedies like this are an opportunity to argue that if only it were harder to cross the border, migrants wouldn’t undertake the dangerous journey. This line of argument is based on deterrence, the notion that we can end illegal migration not just by arresting border crossers but by making the prospect of crossing so unappealing that folks don’t leave their homes in Mexico or Central America or Haiti or Venezuela. Back in a place like Guatemala or Mexico, would-be migrants understand quite clearly that folks are drowning in the Rio Grande, dying in deserts and detention centers, or roasting to death in the back of trucks. And yet migrants have continued to come. If the endgame of deterrence is making the border hard to cross, it’s difficult to imagine what sort of gauntlet is more terrifying, more likely to “deter,” than the images the world saw this week in San Antonio. This of course won’t dissuade our leaders, both Democratic and Republican, from pursuing a deterrence-based border strategy, and this won’t be the last mass death we see on our border. There’s little reason to think U.S. policy will change in any way that will prevent those deaths. In 2021, Biden attempted to undo one element of Trump’s deterrence policy—the Migrant Protection Protocols, better known as “Remain in Mexico.” The MPP is similar to Title 42, in that asylum-seekers are immediately returned to Mexico; but under the MPP, asylum-seekers get the chance to come back to the country and eventually argue their asylum cases in court. In the first year of his presidency, Biden tried to get rid of the MPP, while keeping Title 42 in place—thus assuring that his administration could expel as many border crossers as it wanted. Nonetheless, Texas sued the administration, arguing that it must keep the Remain in Mexico plan in place. A Texas federal court issued an injunction, and Biden has since been forced to place asylum-seekers back in the program while the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will issue its decision on that case on Thursday morning. Regardless of the status of the Remain in Mexico plan, however, as long as Title 42 is in place the most desperate will still continue to try to cross undetected—often more than once. Some might indeed be deterred, but not the most desperate. And their dead bodies will continue to be found in rivers, deserts, mountains, and trucks.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey from AARP Pennsylvania shows candidates for Governor and U.S. Senate should pay close attention to the concerns of Black Pennsylvanians age 50 and over, with issues such as inflation and rising prices, gun control/gun rights, and voting rights are of greatest concern to voters. The survey shows 50-plus Black voters are headed into the 2022 general election supporting Democratic candidates for Governor and Senate, and are worried about key pocketbook issues. Among Black voters 50+, Attorney General Josh Shapiro leads State Senator Doug Mastriano, 78% to 17%. In the race for the U.S. Senate, John Fetterman leads Mehmet Oz, 76% to 16%. "Black voters consistently show up to the polls, so it's important that candidates pay attention to their concerns, as election season heats up," said Bill Johnston-Walsh, AARP Pennsylvania State Director. "But, their vote is not guaranteed for one party or another. With the price of necessities like groceries, gas and prescription drugs skyrocketing, Black voters in Pennsylvania are worried about these issues and want to see elected officials provide solutions." Among all voters, Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) narrowly leads State Senator Doug Mastriano (R), 49% to 46%. John Fetterman (D), the lieutenant governor, leads Mehmet Oz (R), 50% to 44% in the open race for U.S. Senate. Both Democratic candidates hold their narrow leads thanks in part to support from the older Black voters. The survey also found that the top of mind issues for 50+ Black voters in the state include: - gun control/gun rights (23%), voting rights (12%), and inflation and rising costs (11%); of rising costs, 88% say that gas, food, and housing are most concerning; - 90% say Social Security is either "Extremely important" or "Very Important" to them when deciding their vote this November; - 92% are more likely to vote for a senate candidate who supports allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices; and - 91% are more likely to vote for a gubernatorial candidate who supports protecting low-income older Pennsylvanians from property tax increases. AARP commissioned Fabrizio Ward and Impact Research to conduct this survey. The firms interviewed 1,382 likely Pennsylvania voters, which includes a statewide representative sample of 500 likely voters, with an oversample of up to 550 likely voters age 50 and older, and an oversample of up to 332 African-American/Black likely voters age 50 and older. The survey was conducted between June 12-19 via landline, cellphone, and SMS-to-web. The margin of error for the 500 statewide sample is ±4.4%; for the 855 total sample of voters 50+ it is ±3.3%. View the full survey results. For more information on how, when and where to vote in Pennsylvania, visit aarp.org/PAvotes. AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org, www.aarp.org/espanol or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspanol @AARPadvocates and @AliadosAdelante on social media. CONTACT: TJ Thiessen, (202) 374-8033, tthiessen@aarp.org View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE AARP Pennsylvania
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TSX | NYSE | LSE: WPM VANCOUVER, BC, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Wheaton Precious Metals™ Corp. ("Wheaton" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has been named to the Corporate Knights' 2022 list of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada. "At Wheaton, sustainability is ingrained in every aspect of our business, including the high expectations and standards we set for ourselves and our partners," said Randy Smallwood, Wheaton's President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are honoured that our ESG efforts have been recognized in this year's list of the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada." Corporate Knights, a Canadian media and research company has been producing global corporate and fund rankings for 20 years. Selected from a pool of 332 Canadian companies, including all those with revenues over $1 billion – each evaluated on a set of 24 environmental, social and governance indicators, relative to their industry peers and using publicly available information – the Best 50 Corporate Citizens sets the standard for sustainability leadership in Canada. Within the overall Asset Management peer group, Wheaton ranked third among 207 global companies and within the GICS Industry of Metals and Mining, Wheaton finished ninth among 304 global companies. Wheaton recently published its third annual Sustainability Report highlighting the Company's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance and continued leadership. The report is available for download here. View original content: SOURCE Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.
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HOUSTON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.® (NYSE: PB) Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Announcement, scheduled before the market opens on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, you are invited to listen to its conference call at 11:30 AM, Eastern Time (10:30 AM, Central Time) on that day. Participants will include members of Prosperity's executive management team. If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived on the website at https://www.prosperitybankusa.com/Investor-Relations. To access the replay, visit https://www.prosperitybankusa.com/Presentation-Webcasts-and-Calls and follow the instructions. Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.® As of March 31, 2022, Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.® is a $38.271 billion Houston, Texas-based regional financial holding company providing personal banking services and investments to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses throughout Texas and Oklahoma. Founded in 1983, Prosperity believes in a community banking philosophy, taking care of customers, businesses, and communities in the areas it serves by providing financial solutions to simplify everyday financial needs. In addition to offering traditional deposit and loan products, Prosperity offers digital banking solutions, credit and debit cards, mortgage services, treasury management solutions, and wealth management services, including trust and retail brokerage. Prosperity currently operates 272 full-service banking locations: 65 in the Houston area, including The Woodlands; 30 in the South Texas area including Corpus Christi and Victoria; 62 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area; 22 in the East Texas area; 29 in the Central Texas area including Austin and San Antonio; 34 in the West Texas area including Lubbock, Midland-Odessa and Abilene; 16 in the Bryan/College Station area, 6 in the Central Oklahoma area; 8 in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. "Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains, and the remarks by Prosperity's management on the conference call may contain, forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 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Did you lose money on investments in Teladoc Health? If so, please visit Teladoc Health, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of Teladoc Health, Inc. ("Teladoc" or the "Company") (NYSE: TDOC) between October 28, 2021 and April 27, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Teladoc provides virtual healthcare services in the U.S. and internationally through Business-to-Business ("B2B") and Direct-to-Consumer ("D2C") distribution channels. The Company offers its customers various virtual products and services addressing, among other medical issues, mental health through its BetterHelp D2C product, and chronic conditions. Teladoc touts itself as "the first and only company to provide a comprehensive and integrated whole person virtual healthcare solution that both provides and enables care for a full spectrum of clinical conditions[.]" Despite recent market concerns over new entrants to the telehealth field, such Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon") and Walmart Inc. ("Walmart"), the Company has continued to assure investors of the Company's dominant market position in the industry. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period. Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants failed to disclose that: (i) increased competition, among other factors, was negatively impacting Teladoc's BetterHelp and chronic care businesses; (ii) the growth of those businesses was less sustainable than Defendants had led investors to believe; (iii) as a result, Teladoc's revenue and adjusted EBITDA projections for FY 2022 were unrealistic; and (iv) as a result of all the foregoing, Teladoc would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash goodwill impairment charge. On April 27, 2022, Teladoc announced its first quarter ("Q1") 2022 financial results, including revenue of $565.4 million, which missed consensus estimates by $3.23 million, and "[n]et loss per share of $41.58, primarily driven by [a] non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $6.6 billion or $41.11 per share[.]" Additionally, the Company revised its FY 2022 revenue guidance to $2.4 - $2.5 billion and adjusted EBITDA guidance to $240 - $265 million "to reflect dynamics we are currently experiencing in the [D2C] mental health and chronic condition markets." On a conference call with investors and analysts that day to discuss Teladoc's Q1 2022 results, Defendants largely attributed the Company's poor performance, revised FY 2022 guidance, and $6.6 billion non-cash goodwill impairment charge to increased competition in its BetterHelp and chronic care businesses. On this news, the Company's stock price fell over 40% to close at $33.51 per share on April 28, 2022. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 5, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member. If you purchased TDOC securities, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Teladoc Health, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com. Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING. © 2022 Bernstein Liebhard LLP. The law firm responsible for this advertisement is Bernstein Liebhard LLP, 10 East 40th Street, New York, New York 10016, (212) 779-1414. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome with respect to any future matter. Contact Information: Peter Allocco Bernstein Liebhard LLP https://www.bernlieb.com (212) 951-2030 pallocco@bernlieb.com View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Bernstein Liebhard LLP
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As a Black woman playing fingerstyle guitar, Yasmin Williams has been hailed as a "hero for a new generation." She says she often felt like an anomaly- until she discovered a YouTube video of Elizabeth Cotten. "I knew about Sister Rosetta Tharpe and other kind of more rock and roll or electric players and singers and I loved them too, but just seeing an acoustic guitarist was amazing." But when Williams tried to learn more about Cotten she discovered that most accounts of her life skipped over the hardships she overcame, focusing only on her late-career success. Cotten was born in Chapel Hill, N.C. around 1893. Her father worked in the mines. Her mother cleaned houses. When Cotten's brother was off at work, Sis Nevills, as she was called then, snuck into his room and took his guitar off the wall. Since she was left-handed, she turned it so the bass strings were at the bottom, therefore "backwards." She used her thumb to play the melody and her fingers for the low notes. When Cotten's brother discovered her playing, he tried to offer advice, "'You got it upside down, turn it around or change the strings." She tried but liked the sound better the other way, so she kept with it, practicing for hours on end. After the third grade, Cotten left school to work. Making 75 cents a month cleaning houses and cooking, she saved up to buy her guitar. Cotten picked up new songs after hearing them only once or twice, and wrote her songs, including "Freight Train." Cotten was married in her mid-teens and had a daughter. A pastor discouraged her from playing "wordly" songs. But by the mid-1940s she had left the church and her marriage and she was living with family in Washington, D.C. when she applied for a job at a local department store, where she was hired to sell dolls. When a girl wandered away, Cotten saved the day by reuniting her with her mother. She didn't know it, but that woman was composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, wife of ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger, and mother to budding folk musicians Mike and Peggy, and stepson Pete- who was well on his way to stardom as a member of the Weavers. The Seegers hired Cotten, whom they called "Libba," to cook and clean and look after the kids. They were surprised to discover that she was a musician, too, says Peggy Seeger. "When I was about 15 I walked into the kitchen and I saw her playing the guitar that was hanging on the wall. And she was playing 'Freight Train.' Then she started trotting out songs. She knew a lot of songs. We would have been happy to do the cooking and cleaning if she would just play!" In 1956, 21-year-old Peggy took Cotten's "Freight Train" to England. "Skiffle was kind of at its height," Seeger recalls. "I arrived in March of 1956, and I was the flavor of the month because I was female, I was American, I was young, I played guitar and banjo, and I was footloose and fancy-free. So, I just sang wherever anyone asked me to sing and I even sang in places they didn't ask me to sing." "Freight Train," which Seeger also recorded, sounded traditional, even timeless. She says it was picked up very quickly by other artists. "I taught it to Nancy Whiskey and Charles McDevitt, and when I went to China in 1957, they were playing it around the coffee houses." The "folk process," a term coined by Charles Seeger, holds that performers can add something new to old songs (altered lyrics, different arrangements) that transforms them into distinct compositions. A common practice among musicians of the era, the Chas McDevitt group released their version of "Freight Train" in 1957, which they copyrighted under the names "Fred James and Paul Williams," pseudonyms for McDevitt and his manager, Bill Varley. Legal theorist Kevin J. Greene says copyright law often disadvantaged the Black artists whose music was the foundation of the folk revival. "A lot of times these artists, not being well educated, not being well resourced, not knowing how to navigate the copyright system, didn't realize that if they performed their work publicly anybody could fix those lyrics and claim copyright." The song shot up to No. 5 on the UK charts, then Rusty Draper took it to the Top 10 in the U.S. where promotional materials described the song as "a new hit tailor-made for him." When she learned of the infringement Cotten assigned rights to a music publisher who initiated legal action. According to her family, an out-of-court settlement gave Cotten only a third of the songwriting credit to be shared with McDevitt and Varley. Though the royalty terms were never made public, at the time it was customary for music publishers to take a 50% cut, likely leaving Cotten with only a fraction of the song's true worth. Meanwhile, other artists continued releasing "Freight Train," including Peter, Paul and Mary, who rerouted the song to New York City in 1963. With a lyrical shout-out to Bleecker Street, they credited the song to Paul Stookey, Mary Travers, Elena Mezzetti and producer Milton Okun. Mike Seeger started coming by Cotten's house to tape her performing "Freight Train" and other songs. He produced her debut album Negro Folksongs and Other Tunes (later renamed Folksongs with Instrumentals and Guitar) for release on the Folkways label in 1958. However, efforts to reclaim "Freight Train" were confounded by the appearance of the Chas McDevitt Group on The Ed Sullivan Show. The song became such a hit, that McDevitt even opened a coffee bar in Soho called Freight Train. Cotten and Mike Seeger maintained a close lifelong friendship, and she continued to record and tour with him over the years, and appear at high-profile events such as the Newport Folk Festival. When she wasn't cleaning houses or performing, Cotten shared a modest room with her great-grandchildren, says Brenda Evans. "Every night she would play to us and one of those evenings she liked the little tune she was playing and granny said to us, 'Well, kids, can you all think of some words to go to this song?' So all of us just started piping in, and that's how 'Shake Sugaree' came about." 12-year-old Evans also sang on the recording, which was copyrighted and released in 1966. Fred Neil nevertheless claimed a co-credit for his retitled arrangement, and in 1969 Pat Boone's renamed version identifies Neil as the only songwriter. Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Joan Baez were among the artists who performed Cotten's songs live, but they didn't always announce them as covers. Culture critic Daphne A. Brooks says generations of Black women musicians were denied the spotlight, and the world was denied their art. Cotten didn't leave domestic work until she was nearly 80 years old, at about the same time she received the 1972 Burl Ives Award for her contributions to folk music. It wasn't until 1984 that Cotten was recognized as a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts. The following year, she won her first and only Grammy, for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording. Since her 1987 death, Cotten has been recognized by North Carolina and New York, where she lived in her final years. This year the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is inducting Cotten as an "early influence." Like other Black women guitarists, such as Etta Baker, Algia Mae Hinton, and Memphis Minnie, her influence has reverberated through the generations, permeating every genre of music. "It's in the soil of our sonic landscape," says Brooks. "The brilliance of Elizabeth Cotten's music is the music of a Black girl's lifeworld, a Black girl prodigy that wrote songs, who composed music and innovated her own unique style of playing," adds Brooks, noting that "it's a specific manifestation of her own North Carolina Jim Crow era Black girl desires, hopes, dreams, and struggles." Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs, who published a children's book, Libba, in 2018 credits the Seegers for exposing Cotten's music to the world, but says "it was her determination that gave the world her voice." Looking back, Peggy Seeger agrees, "She was her music. When she started to play, she wasn't 'the help.'" Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Your holiday weekend weather will be nothing we’re not used to…scattered afternoon and early evening t-storms that will mostly decrease after sunset. Occasional showers may put a temporary damper on your outdoor plans, but don’t go canceling anything. Saturday through Monday, rain chances will range anywhere from 40-60% with the highest probability of stormy weather on Saturday. There are no tropical systems or other big weather features that will cause the weekend to be a washout. But a few disturbances in the weather pattern may enhance the afternoon and early evening activity a bit more. Make sure you head indoors when the weather takes over, and you should be able to get back to the outside fun after not too long.
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2022-06-29T21:51:08Z
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The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused major disruptions to many aspects of life, especially in healthcare. Restrictions and safety measures introduced in response to the pandemic had a substantial impact on childbirth, with many mothers giving birth without the presence of family or friends and then being isolated from their babies. Background According to salutogenic theory, adverse experiences can result in an individual thriving. However, the opposite has been mainly reported for postpartum individuals during the current pandemic. Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is the term used to describe a person’s positive outlook on highly stressful events. In the pre-pandemic era, PTG was reported in a large proportion of women following childbirth. A new study In a recent study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was examined in a cohort of women during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The authors investigated if PTG is related to acute stress in childbirth, whether PTG is related to improved mother-infant bonding and decreased posttraumatic stress symptoms, and whether this process is increased when giving birth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology The authors conducted a survey to assess the effect of COVID-19 on maternal wellbeing throughout the pandemic. Among the participants who met inclusion and exclusion criteria and supplied data on acute stress in reaction to recent childbirth, 2,205 people gave birth after the beginning of the pandemic, while 544 participants did so before the pandemic. Participants in the entire sample were, on average, 31.98 years old and 2.23 months postpartum. The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-Expanded (PTGI-X) was utilized to measure the psychological growth of the participants. This measure uses a scale from 0 to 5, to assess the positive changes in relationships with others, new possibilities, inner strength, and appreciation of life that happened because of a specific stressful experience. The authors utilized a variety of measures to assess the participant’s response to the adverse events of childbirth and early motherhood, such as the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory-Expanded (PTGI-X), Peritraumatic Distress Inventory (PDI), posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms about childbirth (CB-PTSD), and the Maternal Attachment Inventory (MAI). Study findings A slight degree of growth was reported in 34.1% of the participants and more substantial growth was reported in 36.35% of participants, all because of childbirth. The participants reported supporting appreciation for life (63.8%), personal strength (54.1%), relating to others (48.1%), new possibilities (36.5%), and spiritual and existential change (24.2%). The multigroup mediation model identified substantial changes in the mechanisms linking postpartum acute stress response to CB-PTSD, mother-infant bonding, and nursing via an elevation in PTG in women who gave birth before and during the pandemic. Specifically, childbirth-related acute stress was associated with higher PTG only if giving delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic but not prior. The degree of CB-PTSD symptoms was then related to PTG, but only if it was delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic. PTG was also linked, in both instances, to stronger mother-infant bonds. Thus, the model showed that the indirect pathways from childbirth-related acute stress to CB-PTSD and mother-infant bonding via PTG were statistically significant only during the pandemic. Implications The PTG phenomenon broadens the paradigm of postpartum psychological adjustment in mothers and brings a fresh viewpoint to the research of the outcome of childbirth. The findings of this study demonstrate that, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a sizable proportion of postpartum women experienced psychological growth as a result of giving birth, most notably in the form of a stronger appreciation for life and personal strength. These results demonstrate a relationship between favorable postpartum outcomes and maternal perceptions of good psychological changes brought on by childbirth. For women who have a traumatic experience in childbirth, the development of maternal growth may have significant advantages. After a traumatic birth, interventions focusing on the psychological development of the mother are advised.
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Cecilia Otero an Oklahoma resident, is asking herself a lot of questions these days. "Plan B, do I need to go and buy like, you know, a few to have on hand just in case? There's also the Plan C pill, and I'm just like, living in Oklahoma. I'm just like, well, how do I access that? And I don't know, like, my options feel very dwindled," Otero said. At just shy of 32, she's made the call that she doesn’t want to have children. But in her home state of Oklahoma, she knows that should she get pregnant — she'd have some tough decisions to make. "I feel like I don't have that right to choose anymore," Otero said. And — she really doesn’t. Just about two months ago, Republican Governor Kevin Stitt signed a total abortion ban into law, enforced by civil lawsuits similar to the 2021 law upheld in Texas. It was just the latest in a string of anti-abortion bills in the state, but it’s the one that took care to a screeching halt. Tamya Cox-Toure is the Executive Director at ACLU Oklahoma. "Because of the fear of being sued with a $10,000 balance sheet, providers took the necessary steps in Oklahoma and stopped care on Friday when it went into effect," Cox-Toure said. Abortion care facilities have been sitting vacant for more than a month — and even abortion care funds have been put on pause while lawyers figure out the legalities of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe. "We have no idea what assist means. So people who may donate to our abortion fund, could they be in violation of these laws? People who help someone go to a state where abortion is legal, are they now in violation?" Cox-Toure said. Oklahoma’s Attorney General John O’Connor on Friday that he believes the law is clear. "I would say if you put up a billboard or if you advertise that that you're going to provide abortions in Oklahoma or in another state, that you're soliciting an abortion. So law enforcement is now activated with respect to any efforts to aid, abet, or solicit abortions," O’Connor said. There are currently a handful of challenges in front of the state supreme court — dating back to 2017. But for now, their eyes are on Kansas — the only nearby state that permits abortion. But voters will weigh in there on a ballot initiative in August that could end that safe haven. "We would be very much the, you know, abortion access desert because of where we are," Cox-Toure said. Should it be successful — there may be an effort for a ballot initiative here, too. After all — a recent poll showed more than half of Oklahomans did not want to see a total ban. Newsy is the nation’s only free 24/7 national news network. You can find Newsy using your TV’s digital antenna or stream for free. See all the ways you can watch Newsy here.
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OUACHITA PARISH, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On Tuesday, June 28, 2022, around 6 PM, Louisiana State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash on Louisiana Highway 557 north of Louisiana Highway 4. According to authorities, the crash claimed the life of 34-year-old Joseph A. Ford IV. The investigation revealed that Ford’s 2008 GMC Envoy was traveling south on Louisiana Highway 557 when his vehicle exited the roadway, striking a tree. Ford, who was unrestrained, suffered serious injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. A toxicology sample was collected and submitted for analysis. The crash remains under investigation.
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The death of dozens of people in the back of a semi-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, is a reminder of the dangers people face crossing the border illegally. Yet, large numbers of people are trying. Copyright 2022 NPR The death of dozens of people in the back of a semi-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, is a reminder of the dangers people face crossing the border illegally. Yet, large numbers of people are trying. Copyright 2022 NPR
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FAYETTEVILLE -- Police say the intersection of Poplar Street and Gregg Avenue was closed Wednesday afternoon after a collision between a train and a car. No injuries were reported. Fayetteville police said the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad police will assist them in investigating the incident.
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The long-sought wreckage of the USS Samuel B. Roberts, a World War II U.S. Navy destroyer escort that sank in the Western Pacific Ocean nearly 78 years ago, has been found off the Philippines, explorers have announced. The vessel, now broken in two, lies at a depth of around four miles, the deepest shipwreck yet discovered. That's deeper than Mount Kilimanjaro is tall, or 18 times the height of the Empire State Building. The wreckage was identified and surveyed by American explorer Victor Vescovo, founder and sub pilot of Dallas-based Caladan Oceanic Expeditions, alongside Britain-based EYOS Expeditions. "It was an extraordinary honor to locate this incredibly famous ship, and by doing so have the chance to retell her story of heroism and duty to those who may not know of the ship and her crew's sacrifice," Vescovo said in a statement. "Resting at 6,895 meters, it is now the deepest shipwreck ever located and surveyed," Vescovo later tweeted. He said he was joined on the expedition by a sonar specialist, Jeremie Morizet. "It appears her bow hit the seafloor with some force, causing some buckling. Her stern also separated about 5 meters on impact, but the whole wreck was together," he added. "This small ship took on the finest of the Japanese Navy, fighting them to the end." Photos shared online by Vescovo show the ship's bow and fallen mast engulfed in blue water and indicate where the vessel was likely hit by a battleship round during the Battle off Samar, the final engagement of the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944. The Sammy B took part in the large naval battle in October 1944, which involved an improbable victory in the waters surrounding the Philippines. Several small U.S. destroyers and destroyer escorts, outnumbered, engaged the Imperial Japanese Navy, including its huge Yamato battleship, forcing it into retreat. But after expending virtually all her ammunition, the Sammy B was hit by a Japanese battleship and sunk, along with other U.S. vessels, including the USS Johnston. The USS Johnston, which previously held the record for the deepest shipwreck found at 6,469 meters below sea level, was surveyed by Vescovo and his team in March 2021. Vescovo, a former U.S. Navy reserve intelligence officer, has also made three dives to the Titanic. The Sammy B, taken into battle by Lt. Cmdr. Robert W. Copeland, possessed fewer guns and torpedoes than her counterparts, according to Caladan. Eighty-nine of its 224 crew were killed. "This site is a hallowed war grave," said retired Rear Adm. Sam Cox, head of the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington. All data related to the dive, including sonar maps, video and photographs, will be donated to the U.S. Navy, the team said. The Caladan Oceanic and EYOS group conducted six dives over eight days searching for shipwrecks from June 17 until Friday. They initially located debris that was positively identified as belonging to the Sammy B before uncovering the entire wreck. "Using a combination of detective work and innovative technology, everyone has pulled together to reveal the final resting place of this tenacious ship," expedition leader Kelvin Murray of EYOS said in a statement. "It's been a challenging, thrilling and poignant expedition," he said. "We are all proud of what has been achieved and humbled by what we witnessed." The group is now on its way to Guam to begin further expeditions in the Western Pacific.
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which heating pad is best? Back in the day, people could only relieve their muscle pain with a hot water bottle and Epsom salt baths. But heating pads have come a long way, and advancements in technology provided plenty of new features for this wellness tool. Hot water bottles became less popular after the first electric heating pads came along, which gave users sustained relief from aches and pains without the mess. Today, there are all kinds of heating pads you can choose from. If you want a high-quality heating pad, check out the iReliev Far Infrared Heating Pad. It heats 112 natural jade and tourmaline wellness stones to reduce aching, soothe muscles and relieve pain. What to know before you buy a heating pad Types of heating pads There are several types of heating pads, all of which have their pros and cons. A hot water bottle is a rubber bladder with a threaded cap. If you want some substantial head for a smaller area, you can save money with these heating pads. However, they don’t hold heat as long as other methods. You can also take a look at microwave heating pads, which are fabric bags filled with grains or microbeads. Consider this type if you want a pad for relaxation, muscle tensions, and occasional pain relief from cramps. Chemical heating pads are small gel packs that heat up when you trigger a chemical reaction by shaking them or exposing them to the air. These are a great option if you need portable heat in a short amount of time. Electric heating pads are perfect for those with chronic soreness in muscles and joints. These allow users to adjust the temperature and get the relief they want and include other features like timers, automatic shut-off and more. What to look for in a quality heating pad Temperature control Hot water bottles, microwavable heating pads and chemical heating pads all have their drawbacks. You cannot adjust the temperature, and they inevitably cool down. An electric heating pad allows you to choose exactly how much heat you want for a sustained period. Budget electric heating pads might have only a few settings, while better electric heating pads have multiple options. Automatic shut-off The warm, toasty feeling you get from a heating pad can make you drowsy, which may cause you to fall asleep. Heating pads with automatic timers shut off after an hour or two. This is useful if you drift off to sleep or accidentally leave the heating pad unattended. It also saves you money. Cord length Some heating pads have very short power cords. Look for heating pads with long cords to avoid the hassle of wrangling an extension cord every time you want to use it. Size Each manufacturer has a different idea of what labels like XL and XXL mean. The best way to make sure your heating pad is the right size for your needs is to check the dimensions and not the label. Remember bigger is better, especially if you plan on using your pad on multiple areas. How much you can expect to spend on a heating pad Small electric heating pads and some microwavable pads cost $10-$20. If you want something with a few more size options, features and controls, you can expect to spend $25-$40. High-tech full-body heating pads cost as much as $2,500. Heating pad FAQ What setting should I use? A. Therapists recommend you start at the lowest setting on your heating pad and gradually increase the heat as needed. The lower the setting, the longer the time you can use your heating pad. How long can I use my heating pad in a single session? A. Most manufacturers recommend using the highest temperature setting for no more than 15 or 20 minutes. What’s the best heating pad to buy? Top heating pad iReliev Far Infrared Heating Pad What you need to know: Far infrared wavelengths permeate deeper into the upper and lower back, hamstrings, shoulders and arms. What you’ll love: Far infrared rays help increase blood circulation and improve energy. This flexible unit has a 10-foot power cord and measures 24 inches by 16 inches. It heats all-natural jade and tourmaline wellness stones that release negative ions to reduce aching, inflamed muscles and relieve pain. The timer lasts for up to five hours. What you should consider: The 10-inch cord is very short and you will likely need to use this product with an extension cord. Where to buy: Sold by iRelieve and Amazon Top heating pad for the money iReliev Weighted Moist/Dry Heating Pad What you need to know: Consider this gently weighted heating pad which calms and soothes. What you’ll love: This three-pound heating pad is clinically proven to reduce muscle tension by increasing blood flow to targeted regions of your body. It has an ultra-soft microfiber heating pad that is machine washable. It heats in seconds and has a two-hour auto shut-off timer. What you should consider: There are only three heat settings. Where to buy: Sold by iRelieve and Amazon Worth checking out Pure Enrichment PureRelief XXL Electric Heating Pad What you need to know: At 24 inches by 20 inches, this ultra-wide heating pad is large enough to wrap around your limbs or drape over your shoulders like a cape. What you’ll love: This machine-washable microfiber heating pad is 60% larger than standard heating pads and has an extra-long nine-foot cord. The digital LCD controller has six heat settings to accommodate your personal comfort level and comes with a moist heat therapy option. What you should consider: Some users don’t feel this heating pad gets hot enough. Where to buy: Sold by Amazon Want to shop the best products at the best prices? Check out Daily Deals from BestReviews Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals. David Allan Van writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money. Copyright 2022 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved.
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HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday voted 30-20 to approve a bill that would have school districts notify parents about school library books and instructional materials with sexually explicit content. The bill now goes to the House for consideration. Many Republicans spoke in favor of the bill as a mechanism to keep graphic sexual images and descriptions out of the hands of children in schools. Democrats characterized it as propaganda, an attempt to ban books and — in the words of Sen. Steven Santarsiero of Bucks County — an “attempt to find a problem that doesn’t exist.” Republicans gave stark descriptions of the images and text sequences found in school materials as including oral sex and other acts that would be considered pornography in other settings. “Wat’s next, Hustler or Penthouse?” Republican Sen. Camera Bartolotta of Washington County said. The bill calls for school districts to create policies “that provide parental notification of instructional materials and books containing sexually explicit content and include information, guidance, procedures and standards.” Specifically, it calls for schools to identify the sexually explicit instructional materials or books available to students and to ensure parents are notified “prior to student exposure.” This story will be updated. Morning Call Capitol correspondent Ford Turner can be reached at fturner@mcall.com.
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Explosive testimony at an unexpected hearing from the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday brought into sharper focus the actions former President Trump took on the day of the violent Capitol attack. Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified that Trump had wanted the Ellipse to be fully packed with supporters for his speech on Jan. 6, which was hampered by some of them watching from a distance in order to avoid going through metal detectors and surrendering their weapons. "I don't effing care that they have weapons — they're not here to hurt me," Trump said, according to Hutchinson. "Take the effing [magnetometers] away and let my people in." The bombshell testimony indicates Trump knew the crowd was armed when he instructed his supporters to march to the Capitol to "fight like hell" against certifying the 2020 election results. Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, told NPR's Rachel Martin that Hutchinson's testimony about Trump requesting the magnetometers be removed builds a "prosecutable case against Donald Trump." "He knew right before he took that stage that that crowd was armed. He knew they were headed to the Capitol and he was so confident that they were not going to do anything to him, they were there for him, that he was willing to risk his own security by telling people that he wanted those mags taken down," Honig said. "To me, that could lend itself to a conspiracy charge, to an obstruction charge, even to a seditious conspiracy charge, which requires a showing that force was part of the plan." Hutchinson also quoted her former boss saying that Trump "doesn't want to do anything" about calls for violence against then-Vice President Mike Pence. "He thinks Mike deserves it," she recalled Meadows saying. David French, an editor with the conservative publication The Dispatch, praised Hutchinson for "the most extraordinary congressional testimony I've ever seen," and said her appearance before the committee shifted his skepticism about it producing evidence that Trump was criminally responsible for the Capitol attack. "Hutchinson's sworn testimony closes a gap in the criminal case against Trump, and Trump is closer to a credible prosecution than ever before," he wrote. The right-leaning Washington Examiner said Hutchinson's testimony "ought to ring the death knell for former President Donald Trump's political career" and that "Trump is unfit to be anywhere near power ever again." The hearings, which have been extended due to new evidence, are likely to include additional testimony from Hutchinson. Former Attorney General William Barr told The New York Times that the hearing "definitely gave investigators a lot to chew on." Trump pushes back on Hutchinson's testimony Trump appeared to distance himself from Hutchinson after her testimony before the committee, writing he "hardly know[s]" her, "other than I hear very negative things about her (a total phony and 'leaker')." Trump added in posts on Truth Social, a social media platform he controls, that he "didn't want or request that we make room for people with guns to watch my speech" and called her testimony "fake" and "sick." What happened in Trump's limousine on Jan. 6? In her testimony, Hutchinson said Trump fully intended to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and became "irate" when he was told it wouldn't happen. Hutchinson said Trump was under the impression that he would be taken to the Capitol after his remarks at the Ellipse that day. She testified that Tony Ornato, then-White House deputy chief of staff for operations, relayed to her later that day that Trump became enraged when Secret Service refused to take him to the Capitol and instead insisted that they return to the White House. "I'm the effing president," she said Ornato quoted the president as saying. Hutchinson added that Ornato told her that Trump had attempted to grab the wheel of the vehicle and then to grab the agent himself. "When Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned toward his clavicles," she said. Under questioning, Hutchinson testified that the agent, Bobby Engel, the head of Trump's Secret Service detail, was present when Ornato told her the story and did not dispute the account. Several news outlets reported that Ornato denied telling Hutchinson about the incident and that he and Engel were prepared to testify that it didn't happen. The Secret Service in a statement said that the agency has cooperated with the committee and would respond to Tuesday's allegations on the record. Below is our statement on today's January 6th Select Committee hearing. pic.twitter.com/VrhPRzYuSt — Anthony Guglielmi (@SecretSvcSpox) June 28, 2022 Honig told NPR the reports that question the anecdote about what took place in Trump's vehicle are potentially damaging. "This is what we call a credibility contest, and people would have to decide who they believe," Honig said. "I think it's really important to note that another White House staffer Alyssa Farah...has said publicly that she testified to the committee about something that Tony Ornato said to her that was damning to the president and Ornato, she said, falsely denied that as well," Honig said. "If I have to decide between Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah...and Tony Ornato, I'm coming out on Hutchinson and Farah's side." "She came across to me, using my former prosecutor lens, as very credible," Honig added. "She was careful, she's corroborated, she's backed up by other evidence. And she has nothing to gain by doing this." Hutchinson's lawyers in a statement Wednesday said "Ms. Hutchinson stands by all of the testimony she provided yesterday, under oath, to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol." Speaking to NPR's A Martinez on Wednesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who sits on the Jan. 6 committee, said Hutchinson had "no reason to make that story up" and that he considers her a credible witness. He added that if there are others with evidence, he invites them to come forward under oath. "We are all yours," he said. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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The UCLA 462 M195 B3 9V BASSBus Mini Scredriver - Nicky D - Sha\nhttps://www . ucea b-mwz .com/ .2k? s://www com/.615d028.77abebec9fbebeef7a47f-f3-3.html\nDick Smith - the legend behind Canary ... S V is for vaccine. Elmo got a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, according to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind “Sesame Street." In a public service announcement posted to YouTube, the beloved 3-and-a-half-year-old “Sesame Street” star talked with his dad about what it was like to get the shot. “There was a little pinch, but it was OK,” Elmo said in the video. Elmo’s dad said he had a lot of questions for the pediatrician, who assured him that vaccinations are safe and effective for children. “Was it safe? Was it the right decision?′ I talked to our pediatrician so I could make the right choice,” Louie said in the PSA. “I learned that Elmo getting vaccinated is the best way to keep himself, our friends, neighbors and everyone else healthy and enjoying the things they love.” COVID-19 vaccinations for the youngest Americans started last week. That means U.S. kids under 5 — roughly 18 million youngsters — are eligible for the shots. U.S. regulators authorized shots from Moderna and Pfizer. The Moderna vaccine is two doses and the Pfizer shot is three. Last November, Big Bird got vaccinated — sparking criticism from some conservative politicians. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican, called it “government propaganda.” The CDC advises vaccination even for those who already had COVID-19 to protect against reinfection, and says it is OK to get other vaccines at the same time.
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The corporate owner of Ben & Jerry's has made a deal to keep selling ice cream in Israel and its West Bank settlements, working around an attempt by the ice cream maker to protest Israeli occupation. Copyright 2022 NPR The corporate owner of Ben & Jerry's has made a deal to keep selling ice cream in Israel and its West Bank settlements, working around an attempt by the ice cream maker to protest Israeli occupation. Copyright 2022 NPR
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) (NYSE:CP) announced today three collective bargaining agreements have been ratified by employees of CP's Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) South; Central Maine & Quebec (CMQ) U.S. and Central Maine & Quebec Canada subsidiaries. The agreements, reached on CP properties in Maine, the U.S. Midwest (Iowa, Missouri and Illinois) and parts of Quebec, provide higher hourly wages for all employees. They affect a total of approximately 430 employees represented by United Steel Workers Local 1976 on the CMQ Canada, SMART Transportation Division representing all employees on the CMQ U.S. and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen representing all train and engine employees on the DM&E South. "CP welcomes the ratification of these three recently negotiated agreements that bring wage increases to hundreds of our dedicated employees," said Mark Redd, CP Executive Vice-President Operations. "We continue to work productively with all of our union partners to achieve long-term agreements that meet the needs of CP's growing business and our industry-leading railroaders." Major CP crew bases that fall under the agreements include Ottumwa, Davenport, Marquette and Mason City, Iowa; Kansas City, Mo.; Savanna, Ill.; Brownville Junction, Maine; and Farnham, Que. CP is hiring for various positions at all of these locations in 2022, with immediate openings. Learn more about current CP job opportunities and joining the CP team at cpr.ca/careers. About Canadian Pacific Canadian Pacific is a transcontinental railway in Canada and the United States with direct links to major ports on the west and east coasts. CP provides North American customers a competitive rail service with access to key markets in every corner of the globe. CP is growing with its customers, offering a suite of freight transportation services, logistics solutions and supply chain expertise. Visit cpr.ca to see the rail advantages of CP. CP-IR View original content: SOURCE Canadian Pacific
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver says she’s received several threats recently. Toulouse Oliver told the Associated Press that the FBI is aware of the threats made to her offices by email and phone. That includes three in the last few weeks. Toulouse Oliver previously went into hiding in response to online threats after the 2020 election.
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A look at what’s happening around the majors today: ___ SCHERZER’S START Mets ace Max Scherzer will make a minor league rehab start for Double-A Binghamton. The outing against the Hartford Yard Goats was pushed back a day from Tuesday, but New York manager Buck Showalter says there’s been no setback in Scherzer’s recovery from a strained oblique. Scherzer will be pitching on seven days of rest after his first rehab start with the Rumble Ponies on June 21. “There’s no reason to rush it,” Showalter said. “We’re not going to make that mistake.” A three-time Cy Young Award winner, the 37-year-old Scherzer is 5-1 with a 2.54 ERA in eight starts during his first season with the Mets. He’s been out since May 18. The NL East leaders, meanwhile, face Astros ace Justin Verlander (9-3, 2.22). He’ll pitch against the Mets for the first time since 2016 and at Citi Field for the first time since 2010. He’ll oppose Taijuan Walker (6-2, 3.03). SHO GO Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani is coming off a dominant start as he pitches against the White Sox in Anaheim. Ohtani struck out a career-high 13 against Kansas City in his last outing, allowing two hits over eight scoreless innings. He has permitted just one run in 20 innings during his last three starts. Ohtani is 6-4 with a 2.90 ERA in 12 starts, striking out 90 in 68 1/3 innings. He turns 28 next Tuesday. HARPER SURGERY Phillies slugger Bryce Harper is set for surgery on his broken left thumb and the club hopes the 2021 NL MVP can play again this season. Manager Rob Thomson didn’t offer a timetable for Harper’s return on Tuesday, a day before the procedure. Harper’s thumb was broken by a fastball from San Diego’s Blake Snell on Saturday night. The 29-year-old Harper is hitting .318 with 15 home runs, 48 RBIs and a .985 OPS, and has helped the Phillies recently surge back into playoff contention. JANSEN OUT Braves closer Kenley Jansen has been put on the 15-day injured list because of an irregular heartbeat. It’s the latest heart-related issue in the veteran right-hander’s career. The move was made retroactive to Monday when Jansen felt discomfort, manager Brian Snitker said. In November 2018, Jansen underwent a cardiac ablation, a procedure to restore normal heart rhythm. He was first diagnosed with irregular heartbeat issues in 2011 and had an ablation the next year. The 34-year-old Jansen signed a one-year, $16 million deal with the Braves in the offseason. He has gone 4-0 with a 3.58 ERA while converting 20 of 24 save opportunities. ___ More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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Longhorns score huge commitment from WR Johntay Cook Johntay Cook has given the Longhorn fan base another reason to celebrate. After picking up a commitment from Arch Manning last week, Cook announced that he too had given the Longhorns a verbal commitment. He made the declaration on Twitter moments ago. Cook’s pledge continues an impressive recruiting run for Texas of late that has seen commitments roll in at a dizzying pace. The Desoto standout had previously released a top five of Texas, Texas A&M, Michigan, Florida and Jackson State but had been trending towards the Longhorns in recent weeks. Once quarterback Arch Manning committed to Texas, Cook’s addition to the UT class felt like a foregone conclusion and he made it official today. “Actually it’s perfect timing,” Cook said of Manning’s commitment. “I think it’s a good get for the Longhorns. It’s definitely going to help recruiting. Arch is the best quarterback in the country.” A Rivals100 member and the top-ranked receiver in the state of Texas, Cook helped lead Desoto to a championship in the Texas State 7on7 Tournament on Saturday and then made his way to Austin for an official visit that ran until Monday. He’s been a regular visitor to the Forty Acres over the course of his recruitment and was looking forward to getting a couple days around his future teammates. “Honestly, I just want to go in and have a good time, kick it with the players, kick it with the coaches,” Cook said prior to his visit. “I pretty much know everything about (Texas) already. Maybe they can take me to a steakhouse or something.” Cook had taken previous official visits to Ole Miss, Michigan and Oregon. Those schools and others were always playing chase to Texas, thanks in large part to Cook’s relationship to head coach Steve Sarkisian. “Really, it’s coach Sark. The tradition of the school, of course, but coach Sark is a dude,” Cook said. “He loves me, he loves my game and he can coach his butt off. And he can call them plays.” A four-star prospect, Cook ranks No. 52 on the Rivals100. He’s the nation’s No. 7-ranked wide receiver prospect. As a junior last year, he caught 38 passes for 806 yards (21.2 ypc) and 18 touchdowns.
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Inicio Banner @gl BRAIT – Bacterias y su contribución a la forma\nÁlora City Council is participates in BRAZIBR research (DPI – Diptamicina Plastinas Ibérica y la Biotecnosutura del Med) –\nAs every summer it usually arrives in Spain – July or first part of – the newest scientific project led from Andalusian Centre del Recombiaje de Almagran The purpose that your website visitor might have of calling in, whether you are the owner operator who also knows your small busibes but is too far from it; Or if anyone just needs in order to get out to acquire yourself or you know your client or simply your company at another premisi es is what exactly decisions your decicion, therefore what might the best type from a digital radio system can possibly meet what people require? As most mobile operators these types day provide good signal inside Italy's agricultural heartland is suffering its worst drought in 70 years. Authorities are struggling to deal with the situation and save as much of the country's harvest as possible. Copyright 2022 NPR Italy's agricultural heartland is suffering its worst drought in 70 years. Authorities are struggling to deal with the situation and save as much of the country's harvest as possible. Copyright 2022 NPR
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Three years ago, Native Americans in Oklahoma rejoiced when the Supreme Court ruled that the eastern half of Oklahoma is on tribal land, and that the state could not bring criminal prosecutions for crimes on Indian land without the consent of the Indian tribes. But on Wednesday, the court narrowed that decision, prompting an angry dissent from Justice Neil Gorsuch, the author of the 2019 decision, and an ardent proponent of Indian rights. On the surface, this might look like a cut-and-dried case. In the aftermath of the court's 2019 decision, the state was no longer empowered to prosecute those accused of committing crimes on Indian territory. Only the tribal courts, or the federal government, could do that, and the tribal courts were generally not authorized to prosecute non-Indians. According to the federal government, effect of that decision was a 400% increase in federal prosecutions from 2020 to 2021, with many people either not held accountable or receiving lighter sentences in plea deals. In light of that, Oklahoma's governor and attorney general asked the Supreme Court to reverse its earlier decision. The high court refused, but on Wednesday it issued a more limited decision, declaring that the state may prosecute crimes committed against Native American victims by non-Indians in Indian country. Bottom line: power to prosecute will most likely now shift back to the state, and away from the federal government. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the decision for the court's five conservatives, minus Gorsuch. The ruling came in the case of Manuel Castro-Huerta, a non-Indian first prosecuted by the state and sentenced to 35 years in prison for the criminal abuse of his five year old Cherokee stepdaughter, who weighed only 19 pounds and was covered in feces and lice when she was taken to the hospital. His conviction was set aside after the Supreme Court's 2019 decision, and he was then sentenced to seven years in a plea deal with federal prosecutors. But on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the state had concurrent power to prosecute him. Gov. Kevin Stitt called the decision "a pivotal victory" that would allow the state to prosecute non-Indians and to protect Native American victims. But Chuck Hoskin, Jr., the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, said that unlike previous governors, Stitt has been unwilling to work cooperatively with the tribes. "Gov. Stitt is an outlier in my experience with Oklahoma governors," he said. "In the last 20 years, we've had very good relationship with governors. It's only been under Gov. Stitt that we've ran into someone who just fundamentally does not see a role for tribes in the modern world." Justice Kavanaugh's majority decision was based in large part on practicalities. Indian country is part of the state, not separate from the state, he said, and therefore, unless Congress says otherwise, a state has jurisdiction over all of its territory, including Indian territory. Justice Gorsuch, who usually is part of the court's most conservative bloc, instead voted with the court's three liberals. In a scathing dissent, he recounted the famous decision, written by chief Justice John Marshall in 1832, which barred the state of Georgia from throwing some 100,000 Cherokee Indians off their land. The decision was for naught, though, because both Georgia and President Andrew Jackson flouted it, leading to the Indian Trail of Tears en route to newly designated Indian reservations west of the Mississippi River. As Gorsuch recounted the history, that 1832 decision, though defied at the time, came to be recognized as one of the Supreme Court's "finer hours," and for 200 years stood for the proposition that Native American tribes retain their sovereignty unless and until Congress ordains otherwise. "Where this court stood firm then," Gorsuch said, "today it wilts." Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Abortions by pill make up more than half of abortions now. But the Supreme Court's ruling means about half of states will eventually ban or seriously restrict abortion, including by medication. Copyright 2022 NPR Abortions by pill make up more than half of abortions now. But the Supreme Court's ruling means about half of states will eventually ban or seriously restrict abortion, including by medication. Copyright 2022 NPR
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All products and services featured are independently selected by Forbes Vetted contributors and editors. When you make a purchase through links on this page, we may earn a commission. Today, this year’s Nordstrom Anniversary Sale preview was finally released, meaning you can browse every single deal included in the event ahead of its official kickoff for select cardholders on July 6 (it will open to the general public on July 15). Sadly, you won’t be able to shop any of the deals until the sale opens to your shopping tier—which depends on whether or not you have a Nordstrom card—but you can use the “add to Wish List” button to ensure that all your must-haves are ready for you when it’s your turn to shop. In the preview, you’ll spot major markdowns on bestselling brands like Olaplex, Barefoot Dreams and Free People. The savings event features over 6,000 deals in the fashion, beauty and home categories, so you could easily spend hours browsing. If you’d rather cut to the chase and check out the standout deals, though, we’ve rounded up 13 of our top picks below. This set includes three of Olaplex’s most popular products: A jumbo-size No. 3 Hair Perfector, a full-size No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo and a full-size No. 5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner. Together, this trifecta works to strengthen, smooth and revive hair to reduce breakage and frizz. Oh, and did we mention it’ll be 21% off during the sale? The Perfect Pair Of Jeans Madewell The Perfect Vintage Straight Leg Jeans As the name suggests, these have all the makings of a perfect pair of jeans. The straight-leg makes these both timeless and trendy, so you’ll get tons of wear out of them. During the Nordstrom sale, they’ll be 41% off. A Cult-Favorite Throw Blanket Barefoot Dreams In The Wild Throw Blanket According to many celebrities, influencers and average Joes alike, this is one of the best throw blankets that money can buy. Not only is it incredibly soft, but it’s also warm and seriously cute. Available in 13 colors, it’s sure to be a great addition to your home—especially while it’s on sale for $60 off. These Fan-Favorite Faux Leather Leggings Spanx Faux Leather Leggings Fall will be here before you know it, so you may as well invest these popular faux leather leggings while they’re 34% off. They’re comfortable, flattering and will go with half your closet—which is why they typically sell out within the first few days of the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. A Summer Wardrobe Staple Rodd & Gunn Regular Fit Ellerslie Linen Shirt Linen shirts are trending this summer, and this one will be 41% off during the event. Even better? It comes in six colorways. A Set Of Silk Pillowcases That Are Worth The Hype Slip Pure Silk White King Pillowcase Set Silk pillowcases help reduce frizz and damage to your hair and can also prevent signs of aging, so it’s no wonder that Slip’s designs are typically Nordstrom Anniversary Sale bestsellers. This year, you can nab this set of two king pillowcases for 30% off. This Jumpsuit That You’ll Wear Everywhere Free People Movement Free Throw Jumpsuit Whether you’re heading to a 6 a.m. workout class, going for a walk with friends or running errands, you’re going to want to wear this Free People jumpsuit. We love that it can be worn for a full day and looks equally as cute when styled with a linen button down and Birkenstocks for errands or with sneakers and a sweatshirt. Once the sale starts, you can pick it up for $53. A Celeb-Approved Lip Kit Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Lip Kit Behind your favorite celeb beauty looks from Hailey Bieber, Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow (among others) is one iconic staple: Charlotte Tilbury’s Pillow Talk Lipstick. This kit includes everything you need to create your fullest pout, from a lip liner and lipstick to a hyaluronic acid-infused tinted lip balm, and it’ll be marked down by 34%. The Rolls-Royce of Strollers Nuna Mixx Next Refined Collection Stroller & Sling Bag Set Parents-to-be and those who are already in the thick of it, take note: Nuna is known for creating the best of the best when it comes to baby products and as hefty as the brand’s price tags usually are, this writer can assure you it’s worth it. Because its lightweight, good quality and thoughtfully constructed, snagging this smooth-riding stroller while its on sale for $220 off is a total no-brainer. Your New Favorite Sunglasses Prada 51mm Round Sunglasses Complete with a rounded cat-eye silhouette and classic tortoiseshell frames, these Prada sunnies are a forever piece. Add them to your collection while they’re $106 off as part of the sale. A Fresh Pair Of White Sneakers Adidas Swift Run Sneaker These Adidas sneakers are just what your summer athleisure collection desires. They’ll be marked down to $70 during the Anniversary Sale. The Weekender You’ll Use On Repeat Béis Weekend Travel Bag If you have travel plans this summer—think weekend getaways and quick overnights—then this weekender will come in very handy. Not only is it aesthetically pleasing (it is Béis, after all), but it includes a number of interior and exterior pockets to keep you organized and even has a separate compartment for shoes. The brand’s luggage rarely goes on sale but during the event, you’ll be able to pick this up for 31% off. A Luxury Skincare Routine At A Fraction Of The Cost La Mer Luminous Renewal Set If you’re curious to try La Mer’s coveted skincare but don’t want to spend hundreds, this set of minis is a great option—priced at only $95 during the sale. It includes some of the iconic beauty brand’s most beloved products and a makeup bag that you can use long after the travel-size skincare runs out.
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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate In early June of 2017, I was a young photojournalist fresh out of college. I was wrapping up an internship at a newspaper in the middle of Kansas – The Hutchinson News – and I didn’t know what was next for me. The plan was to spend some time at my parents’ house, try to find freelance work, and look for the next opportunity. My mom came down to Kansas to help me pack up my belongings and accompany me on the long drive back to Michigan. During our first day of driving, I got a call from Dave Shane, then the editor of Midland Daily News. I had applied for a job, but had assumed that I wouldn’t get an offer. I had seen so many amazing photographers work for the Daily News over the years, and I didn’t feel capable of filling those shoes. About 10 minutes into the call, I turned towards my mom and gave her a thumbs up - I got the job! I told Dave that I could start on Monday, which was just a few days away. There was no way I was turning this down. That serendipitous phone call laid the foundation for the next five years of my life, and I’m so grateful that it did. After just one week on the job, the Tittabawassee River crested at 32.15 feet on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - at the time, the river's second-highest mark in history. More than 2,000 homes were damaged and 100 roads were washed away. I did my best to photograph the disaster, but I had never covered an event of this scale in my short career. I assumed it would be the last time. Over the years, I formed relationships in the community and started to feel like a Midlander myself. I watched more than my fair share of movies at NCG Cinema, and joined an adult soccer league at Midland Civic Arena. I returned to photograph certain events each year - the Midland County Fair was always a favorite. I was lucky enough to take trips up into the sky in hot air balloons several times during the Midland Balloon Fest. When the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational debuted in July of 2019, I spent days wandering the golf course, photographing dozens of the world’s best female golfers while working on my sunburn. Needless to say, I’ve made memories in Midland that I will cherish for the rest of my life. None of us will ever forget how our lives changed in March of 2020, when life as we knew it ground to a halt as a global pandemic reached our community. The events and gatherings I relied upon to do my job were slowly canceled, one by one. As a newsroom, we continued our work as best we could. We each began working from home and connecting through video conferencing each morning, and I worked on a series of portraits through the windows of Midlanders’ homes. As if the pandemic wasn't enough for us to bear, the lives of thousands more people were upended again just two months later. I’ll never forget the moment when I received an emergency alert on my phone, warning that failure of the Edenville Dam was imminent. I didn’t know precisely what that meant, but in the days and months that followed, I would certainly found out. I began working to photograph yet another catastrophic flood - this time on a much more massive scale, and during a deadly pandemic. I spent the next week driving frantically around Midland and Gladwin counties from dawn until dusk, constantly finding myself stuck due to roads that were flooded or washed away completely. I knew how important it was that this moment in our lives be documented to the fullest extent possible. One day, I borrowed a kayak from a family member of one of my co-workers, and we paddled out onto Abigail Lane, where I photographed residents wading through their neighborhood and trying to salvage belongings. With every individual I met over the next year, the astounding size of the catastrophe came more into focus. Eventually, I found myself photographing moments of celebration and recovery. Incredibly, our region would make it through this disaster - though the recovery continues to this day. Simultaneously, the pandemic slowly loosened its grip on our lives. I found myself returning to the same events and gathering places I’d missed so much. Without a doubt, I will always associate my time at the Midland Daily News with feelings of community, strength, ingenuity, care and resilience. As I return to my hometown of Flint and pursue freelance photojournalism work full-time, I know I’ll miss this newsroom and this community immensely. I’ll certainly be back to visit. Thank you for the memories we’ve built together. Thank you for the moments that you let me into your lives. And thank you for allowing me to document your stories for future generations. It's been an honor.
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MAINE, USA — Joe Ricchio, the host of the Food Coma Podcast, joins us from time to time on 207 to talk food. On the menu today: diners. Ricchio picked some of his favorites, including places where you can get a first-rate burger, tuna melt, and much more. Watch our conversation to see what he recommends.
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NEW YORK — The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it has sued Walmart for allegedly allowing its money transfer services to be used by scam artists who stole “hundreds of millions of dollars" from customers. In its lawsuit, the agency alleged that for years, Walmart failed to properly secure the money transfer services offered at its stores. The agency said Walmart didn't properly train its employees, failed to alert customers, and used procedures that allowed fraudsters to cash out at its stores. The FTC is asking the court to order Walmart to return money to consumers and to impose civil penalties on the company. “While scammers used its money transfer services to make off with cash, Walmart looked the other way and pocketed millions in fees,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement announcing the action. Walmart called the lawsuit “factually flawed and legally baseless.” It said that the chair of the FTC refused Walmart the due process of hearing directly from the company, and said the Justice Department had refused to take the case to court. Walmart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, said that the agency is seeking to blame the company for fraud that the agency already attributed to another company, at a time that company was under the federal government’s direct supervision. “Walmart will defend the company’s robust anti-fraud efforts that have helped protect countless consumers, all while Walmart has driven down prices and saved consumers an estimated $6 billion in money transfer fees," it said in a statement released in response to the FTC's complaint. In addition to its retail business, Walmart offers financial services to consumers in its stores, including money transfers, credit cards, reloadable debit cards and bill payments. DOWNLOAD THE 5NEWS APP DOWNLOAD FOR IPHONE HERE | DOWNLOAD FOR ANDROID HERE HOW TO ADD THE 5NEWS APP TO YOUR STREAMING DEVICE ROKU: add the channel from the ROKU store or by searching for KFSM in the Channel Store. For Fire TV, search for "KFSM" to find the free app to add to your account. Another option for Fire TV is to have the app delivered directly to your Fire TV through Amazon. To report a typo or grammatical error, please email KFSMDigitalTeam@tegna.com.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Southeastern Conference released the men’s basketball conference opponents for the 2022-23 season on Wednesday. The Razorbacks will play five teams both home and away including Alabama, Kentucky, LSU, Missouri and Texas A&M. Arkansas will additionally host Florida, Georgia, Ole Miss and Mississippi State while traveling to Auburn, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Times, dates and television information will be announced at a later date. NOTES: · This season will be just the second time since the Razorbacks joined the SEC (1991-92) that the Arkansas and Kentucky will meet twice during the same regular season. The only other time came in 2013-14 when Arkansas swept Kentucky with a pair of overtime victories. First, Arkansas beat #13 Kentucky in Fayetteville (Jan. 14, 2014). Then, the Razorbacks handed the 17th-ranked Wildcats a 71-67 setback in Rupp Arena (Feb. 27, 2014). · Arkansas and Missouri will be playing a home-and-home series in each of the now 11 years since the Tigers joined the SEC (2012-13). · Arkansas and LSU have met for a home-and-home series in all but two seasons since the Razorbacks joined the SEC (1991-92). The Razorbacks and Tigers only met once in 2013 (at Baton Rouge) and just once in 2015 (in Fayetteville). · Arkansas and Texas A&M will be scheduled to play a home-and-home series for the ninth time in the now 11 years since the Aggies joined the conference. The teams played twice in the Aggies’ inaugural season in the SEC (2012-13) and only met once in 2014 and 2015. The teams have been scheduled to play twice each regular season every year since the 2015-16 season. Note: the teams only played once in 2020-21 due to COVID. · Arkansas and Tennessee will only play once in 2022-23, marking the fifth time over nine years the schools will have a single-game series. Four of those five have one thing in common … being played in Thompson-Boling Arena (2023, 2021, 2019 and 2017). Since 2013-14, Arkansas will be playing in Knoxville for the ninth time as compared to five meetings being played in Fayetteville and two at the SEC Tournament. · On the other end of a scheduling quirk, Arkansas will play at Vanderbilt for just the fourth time since 2014-15. Over the last 12 meetings with the Commodores, seven have been at Bud Walton Arena, three have been at Vandy’s Memorial Gym and two have been in Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for the SEC Tournament.
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A Glenburn man died after the motorcycle he was driving collided with a car on Route 15 near the Village Variety Store in Glenburn on Tuesday night. Andrew Adams, 61, of Glenburn was traveling north on Route 15 around 9 p.m. when a car traveling south on the road turned into the Village Variety Store in front of the motorcycle, according to the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office. Adams was brought to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where he later was pronounced dead. The driver of the car, Jonathan Hendre, 40, of Hudson, was not injured. His passengers, Sarah Saltzman, 40, and her 6-year-old daughter, were not injured, either.
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If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence and would like to talk with an advocate, call 866-834-4357, TRS 800-787-3224. This free, confidential service is available 24/7 and is accessible from anywhere in Maine. The Portland man wanted in the hit-and-run death of his partner in Acadia National Park has a history of abuse, according to two former partners. The two women who dated Raymond Lester, 35, told the Portland Press Herald of alleged emotional and physical abuse they endured during their relationships with him. Lester allegedly struck 35-year-old Nicole Mokeme of South Portland with his 2016 black BMW X3 SUV with the license plate 5614WM sometime between the night of June 18 and the early morning of June 19 at the Schoodic Education and Research Center campus in Winter Harbor, according to the Maine State Police. Lester has been charged with murder in Mokeme’s death and police continue a nationwide search for him. He had been in a three-year relationship with Mokeme, an activist who was organizing a retreat for Black Mainers in Winter Harbor when she died. It’s the first homicide in Acadia National Park in 35 years. Mokeme’s death prompted the two women to come forward about the abuse they said they experienced from Lester. Ashley Crissinger, 33, told the Press Herald she dated Lester for four years. During that time, he allegedly abused her and their children. She broke off their relationship in 2011 after he allegedly hit her in the face with a hammer and choked her until she passed out. Ashley Foote, a 30-year-old who dated Lester for just six months around 2011, told the Press Herald he had a “very dark side” and called him a “classic abuser,” detailing a pattern of drug use, physical abuse and controlling behavior. Lester has four convictions for domestic violence assault and a fifth for violating a protection from abuse order from 2008 to 2011.
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Free flu shots in extended in NSW Parents in NSW are being urged to get a free influenza vaccination for their children during the school holidays as the state's hospitals continue to be inundated by people sick from the virus. Health Minister Brad Hazzard has extended the winter season free jab program for all state residents by two weeks to July 17, or until the end of the two school week holiday period. "It only takes a few minutes to get a flu jab but that time could mean the difference between you or one of your loved ones ending up in ICU so please, book in today," Mr Hazzard said. Just one-in-four children under five years have had a flu shot, and the number is even lower for kids aged five to 15. "It's really worrying that just over 18 per cent of children and teenagers have had a flu jab and for kids aged six months to five years, the figure is 25 per cent," Mr Hazzard said on Thursday. "These numbers are particularly concerning given in the last month, four times as many kids have been admitted to Sydney's two children's hospitals with flu than with COVID." Fewer than 40 per cent of 50-to 65-year-olds and only 64 per cent of those aged over 65 have had a flu jab. Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant says flu vaccinations prevent unnecessary hospitalisations. "More than 1000 people presented to our EDs (emergency departments) with flu-like illness last week and almost 165 were so unwell they were admitted, including very young children," he said. Authorities are concerned about low flu jab rates in Sydney's west and southwest as well as parts of far northern NSW and the central west.
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V is for vaccine. Elmo got a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, according to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind “Sesame Street." In a public service announcement posted to YouTube, the beloved 3-and-a-half-year-old “Sesame Street” star talked with his dad about what it was like to get the shot. “There was a little pinch, but it was OK,” Elmo said in the video. Elmo’s dad said he had a lot of questions for the pediatrician, who assured him that vaccinations are safe and effective for children. “Was it safe? Was it the right decision?′ I talked to our pediatrician so I could make the right choice,” Louie said in the PSA. “I learned that Elmo getting vaccinated is the best way to keep himself, our friends, neighbors and everyone else healthy and enjoying the things they love.” COVID-19 vaccinations for the youngest Americans started last week. That means U.S. kids under 5 — roughly 18 million youngsters — are eligible for the shots. People are also reading… U.S. regulators authorized shots from Moderna and Pfizer. The Moderna vaccine is two doses and the Pfizer shot is three. Last November, Big Bird got vaccinated — sparking criticism from some conservative politicians. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican, called it “government propaganda.” The CDC advises vaccination even for those who already had COVID-19 to protect against reinfection, and says it is OK to get other vaccines at the same time. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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By TOM HAYS and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fallen R&B superstar R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his fame to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse. Through tears and anger, several of Kelly’s accusers told a court, and him, that he had preyed on them and misled his fans. “You made me do things that broke my spirit. I literally wished I would die because of how low you made me feel,” said one unnamed survivor, directly addressing a Kelly who kept his hands folded and his eyes downcast. “Do you remember that?” she added. Kelly, 55, didn’t speak at his sentencing, where he also was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer and songwriter was convicted last year of racketeering and sex trafficking at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had previously wondered if their stories were being ignored because they were Black women. “Although sex was certainly a weapon that you used, this is not a case about sex. It’s a case about violence, cruelty and control,” U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly told him. The sentence caps a slow-motion fall for Kelly, who was adored by legions of fans and sold millions of albums even after allegations about his abuse of young girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s. Widespread outrage over Kelly’s sexual misconduct didn’t come until the #MeToo reckoning, reaching a crescendo after the release of the docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.” Kelly’s lawyers had argued he should get no more than 10 years in prison because he had a traumatic childhood “involving severe, prolonged childhood sexual abuse, poverty, and violence.” As an adult with “literacy deficiencies,” the star was “repeatedly defrauded and financially abused, often by the people he paid to protect him,” his lawyers said. The hitmaker is known for work including the 1996 hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Trapped in the Closet,” a multi-part tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue. Allegations that Kelly abused young girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s. He was sued in 1997 by a woman who alleged sexual battery and sexual harassment while she was a minor, and he later faced criminal child pornography charges related to a different girl in Chicago. A jury there acquitted him in 2008, and he settled the lawsuit. All the while, Kelly continued to sell millions of albums. The Brooklyn federal court jury convicted him after hearing that he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation that prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise. Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, used his “fame, money and popularity” to systematically “prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing earlier this month. Several accusers testified that Kelly subjected them to perverse and sadistic whims when they were underage. The accusers alleged they were ordered to sign nondisclosure forms and were subjected to threats and punishments such as violent spankings if they broke what one referred to as “Rob’s rules.” Some said they believed the videotapes he shot of them having sex would be used against them if they exposed what was happening. According to testimony, Kelly gave several accusers herpes without disclosing he had an STD, coerced a teenage boy to join him for sex with a naked girl who emerged from underneath a boxing ring in his garage, and shot a shaming video that showed one victim smearing feces on her face as punishment for breaking his rules. Kelly has denied any wrongdoing. He didn’t testify at his trial, but his then-lawyers portrayed his accusers as girlfriends and groupies who weren’t forced to do anything against their will and stayed with him because they enjoyed the perks of his lifestyle. Evidence also was presented about a fraudulent marriage scheme hatched to protect Kelly after he feared he had impregnated R&B phenom Aaliyah in 1994 when she was just 15. Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time. Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22. An earlier defense memo suggested prosecutors’ arguments for a higher sentence overreached by falsely claiming Kelly participated in the paying of a bribe to a government official in order to facilitate the illegal marriage. The Associated Press does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted or abused, unless they come forward publicly. The women who spoke at Kelly’s sentencing were identified only by first names or pseudonyms. Kelly has been jailed without bail since in 2019. He’s still facing child pornography and obstruction of justice charges in Chicago, where a trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 15. ___ Associated Press journalists Jennifer Peltz and Ted Shaffrey contributed. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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By FRANCESCA EBEL and YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces battled Wednesday to surround the Ukrainian military’s last stronghold in a long-contested eastern province, as shock reverberated from a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 in the center of the country two days earlier. Moscow’s battle to wrest the entire Donbas region from Ukraine saw Russian forces pushing toward two villages south of Lysychansk while Ukrainian troops fought to prevent their encirclement. Britain’s defense ministry said Russian forces were making “incremental advances” in their offensive to capture Lysychansk, the last city in the Luhansk province under Ukrainian control following the retreat of Ukraine’s forces from the neighboring city of Sievierodonetsk. Russian troops and their separatist allies control 95% of Luhansk and about half of Donetsk, the two provinces that make up the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas. The latest assessment by the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said the Ukrainians were likely in a fighting withdrawal to seek more defensible positions while draining the Russian forces of manpower and resources. Avril Haines, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said Russia “may think time is on its side” due to the escalating costs borne by the West and fatigue as the war grows longer. The most likely scenario predicted by American intelligence, Haines said, is a “grinding struggle” in which Russia consolidates its hold over southern Ukraine by the fall. The U.S. correctly predicted Russia would invade Ukraine in February, but was wrong in assessing that it would quickly seize Kyiv. Speaking at an event in Washington on Wednesday, Haines said Russian President Vladimir Putin “has effectively the same political goals that he had previously, which is to say that he wants to take most of Ukraine” and push it away from NATO. “We perceive a disconnect between Putin’s near-term military objectives in this area and his military’s capacity, a kind of mismatch between his ambitions and what the military is able to accomplish,” Haines said. Meanwhile, crews continued to search through the rubble of the shopping mall in Kremenchuk where Ukrainian authorities say 20 people remain missing. Ukrainian State Emergency Services press officer Svitlana Rybalko told The Associated Press that along with the 18 people killed, investigators found fragments of eight more bodies. It was not immediately clear whether that meant there were more victims. A number of survivors suffered severed limbs. “The police cannot say for sure how many (victims) there are. So we are finding not the bodies but the fragments of bodies,” Rybalko said. “Now we are clearing at the very epicenter of the blast. Here, we practically cannot find bodies as such.” Several families stood by what was left of the Amstor shopping center Wednesday morning in hope of finding missing loved ones. “This is pure genocide,” local resident Tatiana Chernyshova said while going to lay flowers at the site. “Such things cannot happen in the 21st century.” “We need to engage everyone to help stop the war, help us fight these scum — these Russian aggressors,” Chernyshova said. Psychologists working at the site with families said they were trying to help people come to terms with their loss. “We are trying to help them release their emotions now, as later it becomes harder and much more painful,” said one psychologist, who did not give his name as he was not authorized to speak to the press. After the attack on the mall, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of becoming a “terrorist” state. On Wednesday, he reproached NATO for not embracing or equipping his embattled country more fully. “The open-door policy of NATO shouldn’t resemble old turnstiles on Kyiv’s subway, which stay open but close when you approach them until you pay,” Zelenskyy told NATO leaders meeting in Madrid, speaking by video link. “Hasn’t Ukraine paid enough? Hasn’t our contribution to defending Europe and the entire civilization been sufficient?” He asked for more modern artillery systems and other weapons and warned the NATO leaders they either had to provide Ukraine with the help it needed to defeat Russia or “face a delayed war between Russia and yourself.” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday dismissed what she claimed was the Ukrainian government’s “blatant provocation” in trying to blame the mall missile strike on Russia’s military. Britain’s defense ministry said there was a “realistic possibility” that the mall strike “was intended to hit a nearby infrastructure target.” “Russian planners highly likely remain willing to accept a high level of collateral damage when they perceive military necessity in striking a target,” the ministry said. “It is almost certain that Russia will continue to conduct strikes in an effort to interdict the resupplying of Ukrainian front-line forces.” Russia’s military also is experiencing a shortage of more modern precision strike weapons, which is compounding civilian casualties, the British ministry said. In southern Ukraine, a Russian missile strike on a multi-story apartment building Wednesday in the city of Mykolaiv killed at least four people and injured five, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said. Mykolaiv is a major port and seizing it — as well as Odesa farther west — would be key to Russia’s objective of cutting off Ukraine from its Black Sea coast. Russia’s defense ministry said in a statement that the missile strike on Mykolaiv targeted a base for training “foreign mercenaries,” as well as ammunition depots. In other developments Wednesday: — A senior Russian lawmaker warned that Lithuania’s refusal to allow some goods targeted by European Union sanctions through to Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad could trigger a military confrontation. The statement by Vladimir Dzhabarov, a deputy head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of Russia’s parliament, followed the Kremlin’s warning that it will retaliate against restrictions of transit to Kaliningrad. The region borders EU and NATO members Poland and Lithuania. — Russia’s foreign ministry summoned Norway’s charge d’affaires to protest Oslo’s blocking of a shipment of supplies to a Russian coal-mining town in the Svalbard islands. Although the Svalbards are Norwegian territory, a 1920 treaty allows all signatory countries the right to exploit its natural resources. Russia operates a coal mine in Barentsburg, a settlement of about 450 people, which relies on shipments from the mainland of food, machinery and other supplies. Norway imposed sanctions on shipments from Russia in April. — Ukrainian military intelligence says that in the largest prisoner swap since the start of the war 144 Ukrainian troops were released from Russian captivity. Of those released, 95 were involved in defending the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s devastated southern city of Mariupol before Russian forces captured it weeks ago. Denis Pushilin, the separatist leader in Donetsk, said an equal number of soldiers was released by both sides. — European Union leaders approved a 600-million euro ($631 million) package to address food security issues brought on by the Ukrainian war in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. — Britain is imposing sanctions on Russia’s second-richest man and on a cousin of Putin’s. Vladimir Potanin, owner of the Interross conglomerate, has continued to amass wealth while backing Putin, acquiring Rosbank and shares in Tinkoff Bankonith in the period following the invasion of Ukraine, a U.K. government statement said Wednesday. The statement said Putin’s cousin, Anna Tsivileva, and her husband, Sergey Tsivilev, have “significantly benefited” from their relationship with Putin. Tsivileva is president of the JSC Kolmar Group coal mining company, and Tsivilev is governor of the coal-rich Kemerovo region. ___ Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Frank Griffiths and Sylvia Hui in London, Maria Grazia Murru in Kyiv, Samuel Petrequin in Brussels and Nomaan Merchant in Washington contributed. ___ Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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Did you lose money on investments in Arqit Quantum? If so, please visit Arqit Quantum Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who (i) purchased or acquired the securities of Arqit Quantum Inc. ("Arqit" or the "Company") (ARQQ, ARQQW), f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. ("Centricus") (CENH, CENHU, CENHW) between September 7, 2021 and April 18, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"); and/or (ii) held Centricus securities as of the record date for the special meeting of shareholders held on August 31, 2021 to consider approval of the merger between Arqit and Centricus (the "Merger"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Arqit is a cybersecurity company that has pioneered a unique quantum encryption technology. Arqit claimed its quantum encryption technology would be secure against current and future forms of cyberattacks, including from a quantum computer. On May 28, 2021, Arqit filed with the SEC a Form F-4 Merger Proposal Registration (the "Proxy Statement") for the Merger. Then, on July 30, 2021, Arqit filed with the SEC a prospectus (the "Prospectus") for the Merger, which forms part of the Proxy Statement. According to the Complaint, the Proxy Statement contained a Risk Factors section which failed to discuss the risks to Arqit surrounding the adoption of new communications technologies necessary for Arqit's encryption technology; namely, that Arqit needed certain new protocols and standards for telecommunications, cloud computing, and internet services that currently were not supported. Plaintiff also alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made misleading statements about Arqit's business because: (1) Arqit's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards of for telecommunications; (2) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of Arqit's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (3) the British government was not an Arqit customer but, rather, providing grants to Arqit; and (4) Arqit had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger. On April 18, 2022, The Wall Street Journal (the "WSJ") published an article entitled, "British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff and Others Say." The WSJ article stated, in part: "When the company secured its Nasdaq listing last autumn, its revenue consisted of a handful of government grants and small research contracts, and its signature product was an early-stage prototype unable to encrypt anything in practical use, according to [former employees and other people familiar with the company]." Further, "[t]he encryption technology the company hinges on—a system to protect against next-generation quantum computers—might never apply beyond niche uses, numerous people inside and outside the company warned, unless there were a major overhaul of internet protocols." On this news, the price of Arqit stock price declined over 17% to close at $12.49 per share on April 18, 2022. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 5, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member. If you purchased or held the securities of Arqit Quantum Inc. (f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp.) as discussed above, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Arqit Quantum Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com. Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING. © 2022 Bernstein Liebhard LLP. The law firm responsible for this advertisement is Bernstein Liebhard LLP, 10 East 40th Street, New York, New York 10016, (212) 779-1414. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome with respect to any future matter. Contact Information: Peter Allocco Bernstein Liebhard LLP https://www.bernlieb.com (212) 951-2030 pallocco@bernlieb.com View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Bernstein Liebhard LLP
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 32-year-old Las Vegas man faces up to 28 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to conspiracy and assault charges in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors say Nathaniel DeGrave and two others arrested in connection with the uprising traveled together and attempted to prevent a joint session of Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's victory. DeGrave pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington on Monday to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting or impeding officers. Prosecutors say DeGrave, Ronald Sandlin, 34 of Shelby County, Tennessee, and Josiah Colt, 35 of Meridian, Idaho, chatted on social media in December 2020 about shipping guns as part of a plan to interfere with the transition of presidential power. They said DeGrave pushed against officers guarding the Capitol, forced open a door to let a mob inside and gained access to the Senate Gallery where he shouted "take laptops, paperwork, take everything." DeGrave was arrested Jan. 28, 2021. Colt pleaded guilty to obstruction last July and awaits sentencing. Sandlin has pleaded not guilty to all charges. More than 300 of the 830 people charged with federal crimes related to the riot have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors punishable by no more than one year in prison.
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Suspended: Doctor accused of sexual misconduct, overprescribing medications, officials say DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - An Alabama doctor is under investigation after a patient died of an overdose late last year. The Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners reports it has suspended Dr. Sammy Becdach’s medical license for prescribing controlled substances for reasons other than medical and sexual misconduct. Officials said a female patient of Becdach’s died of an overdose on Dec. 18, 2020. Pelham police told the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners that the woman overdosed on the medicine prescribed to her by Becdach. The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program reports it told the board of medical examiners that Becdach issued at least nine prescriptions to the victim over 17 months. Police showed the board three videos from the woman’s phone showing the two engaging in sexual activity, as reported by WAFF. According to court documents, the victim’s mother told the board Becdach was buying her daughter all kinds of things, including a car. Court documents stated the victim’s mother said that her daughter met Becdach when she was 18 and working as a hostess. She said he paid to furnish her apartment, pay bills and gave her a credit card with no limit. A friend of the victim and her mother told investigators they believed the woman was drugged and raped on two or three occasions, as shared in court documents. The victim allegedly told her mother that she was afraid to leave because Becdach claimed he could make people disappear and had done so before. In April 2021, officials said Becdach sent a written response to Pelham police stating he engaged in sex with the victim on more than one occasion and wrote her at least seven prescriptions. A friend of the woman claims Becdach got the victim addicted to opioids, something she didn’t take before meeting him. Court documents show six charges for Becdach: - Two counts of unprofessional conduct. - Practicing medicine in such a manner as to endanger the health of a patient. - Distribution by prescription of controlled substances for reasons other than legitimate medical purpose. - Failure to maintain medical record for patient. - Failure to comply with any rule of the Board of Medical Examiners The board reports it is continuing its investigation and the Clearview Cancer Institute shared that Becdach was no longer with the Institute. Copyright 2022 WAFF via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Did you lose money on investments in Amazon.com? If so, please visit Amazon.com, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AMZN) between February 1, 2019 and April 28, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Amazon is a multinational technology company that engages primarily in the businesses of e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. On the Company's Amazon.com e-commerce platform, Amazon sells both third-party merchandise and Amazon's own private-label products. As the owner and operator of the Amazon.com e-commerce platform, Amazon has access to certain non-public data of the third-party sellers that use the Amazon.com platform. Plaintiff alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made misleading statements about Amazon's business because: (i) Amazon engaged in anticompetitive conduct in its private-label business practices, including giving Amazon products preference over those of its competitors and using third-party sellers' non-public data to compete with them; (ii) the foregoing exposed Amazon to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and/or enforcement actions; and (iii) Amazon's revenues derived from its private-label business were in part the product of impermissible conduct and, thus, unsustainable. On or around June 3, 2019, the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary (the "House Judiciary Committee") initiated a bipartisan investigation into the state of competition online. The investigation, led by the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law (the "Subcommittee"), examined the business practices and market dominance of Facebook, Google, Apple, and, of particular relevance, Amazon (the "Subcommittee Investigation"). In the course of the Subcommittee Investigation, the Subcommittee held several oversight hearings in which various officers of the above referenced companies, including their respective Chief Executive Officers, offered witness testimony on topics such as the effect of market power on the press, innovation, privacy, and the market dominance of the firms under investigation. After each of the hearings, members of the Subcommittee submitted questions for the record to the witnesses. On March 9, 2022, media outlets reported that the House Judiciary Committee had requested that the U.S. Department of Justice open a criminal investigation into Amazon and certain of its executives for allegedly lying to Congress about its business practices during the course of the Subcommittee Investigation. On April 6, 2022, The Wall Street Journal published an article entitled, "SEC Is Investigating How Amazon Disclosed Business Practices." The article reported, inter alia, that the SEC's probe has been underway for more than a year and focuses on Amazon's disclosures regarding its use of third-party seller data for its own private-label business. On this news, the price of Amazon stock price declined 3.2% to close at $3,175.12 per share on April 6, 2022. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 5, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member. If you purchased AMZN common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Amazon.com, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com. Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING. © 2022 Bernstein Liebhard LLP. 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Did you lose money on investments in Arqit Quantum? If so, please visit Arqit Quantum Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who (i) purchased or acquired the securities of Arqit Quantum Inc. ("Arqit" or the "Company") (ARQQ, ARQQW), f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. ("Centricus") (CENH, CENHU, CENHW) between September 7, 2021 and April 18, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"); and/or (ii) held Centricus securities as of the record date for the special meeting of shareholders held on August 31, 2021 to consider approval of the merger between Arqit and Centricus (the "Merger"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Arqit is a cybersecurity company that has pioneered a unique quantum encryption technology. Arqit claimed its quantum encryption technology would be secure against current and future forms of cyberattacks, including from a quantum computer. On May 28, 2021, Arqit filed with the SEC a Form F-4 Merger Proposal Registration (the "Proxy Statement") for the Merger. Then, on July 30, 2021, Arqit filed with the SEC a prospectus (the "Prospectus") for the Merger, which forms part of the Proxy Statement. According to the Complaint, the Proxy Statement contained a Risk Factors section which failed to discuss the risks to Arqit surrounding the adoption of new communications technologies necessary for Arqit's encryption technology; namely, that Arqit needed certain new protocols and standards for telecommunications, cloud computing, and internet services that currently were not supported. Plaintiff also alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made misleading statements about Arqit's business because: (1) Arqit's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards of for telecommunications; (2) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of Arqit's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (3) the British government was not an Arqit customer but, rather, providing grants to Arqit; and (4) Arqit had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger. On April 18, 2022, The Wall Street Journal (the "WSJ") published an article entitled, "British Encryption Startup Arqit Overstates Its Prospects, Former Staff and Others Say." The WSJ article stated, in part: "When the company secured its Nasdaq listing last autumn, its revenue consisted of a handful of government grants and small research contracts, and its signature product was an early-stage prototype unable to encrypt anything in practical use, according to [former employees and other people familiar with the company]." Further, "[t]he encryption technology the company hinges on—a system to protect against next-generation quantum computers—might never apply beyond niche uses, numerous people inside and outside the company warned, unless there were a major overhaul of internet protocols." On this news, the price of Arqit stock price declined over 17% to close at $12.49 per share on April 18, 2022. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 5, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member. If you purchased or held the securities of Arqit Quantum Inc. (f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp.) as discussed above, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Arqit Quantum Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com. Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING. © 2022 Bernstein Liebhard LLP. The law firm responsible for this advertisement is Bernstein Liebhard LLP, 10 East 40th Street, New York, New York 10016, (212) 779-1414. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome with respect to any future matter. Contact Information: Peter Allocco Bernstein Liebhard LLP https://www.bernlieb.com (212) 951-2030 pallocco@bernlieb.com View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Bernstein Liebhard LLP
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UK's strategic muddle: Surrendering our defence firms to foreign predators as war rages in Europe is an act of self-harm, says ALEX BRUMMER Making head or tail of the Government’s manufacturing strategy is quite hard. In a flurry of decision-making, it has come out fighting in defence of jobs, capacity and the public interest in the steel industry. But at the same time it is giving the provisional green light to deals involving national security in the middle of a war against a ruthless enemy in Europe. Previously neutral states, including Sweden and Finland, are knocking on the door of Nato, and defence budgets are being ratcheted up. Going cheap: The government has given the green light to private equity ghouls Advent to take over Ultra Electronics and it is set to allow Meggitt to fall into the hands of Parker Hannifin So what is the UK doing? It has backed private equity ghoul Advent’s takeover of the masters of submarine detection, Ultra Electronics. And it is ready to allow aerospace engineer Meggitt to fall into the hands of US competitor Parker Hannifin. For good measure, the UK’s world-leading satellite specialist Inmarsat is warming up to be swallowed by US rival Viasat. Even if the national security risks of these deals are put to one side, the commercial downside for Britain is manifold. Intellectual property will fall into overseas hands, the supply chain for the UK’s advanced defence industries weakened, the corporate tax base enfeebled and headquarters services undermined. The London Stock Exchange’s status will be diminished. So what is the thought process guiding the Government? In the case of steel, it is ready to intervene whatever the economic and political costs. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng made no secret of his determination to support production in the UK – standing by to rescue companies within the Liberty Steel group should they fall into insolvency. And he has indicated that the Government will provide direct energy subsidies to steelmakers should the surging cost threaten their existence. International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan is gung-ho about keeping out cheap overseas imports which might undermine jobs in Yorkshire, Humberside and South Wales. So much so, that the UK is willing to join the long list of World Trade Organisation sinners who run rings around global commerce rules. It was the retention of punitive tariffs which finally led ethics adviser Lord Geidt to resign from Downing Street, saying he had been put in an ‘odious’ position. The contrast between the willingness to run roughshod over trade rules to preserve the steel industry and the pusillanimous approach to takeovers of firms vital to the UK’s security could not be starker. Kwarteng is making the would-be buyers of Ultra, Meggitt and Inmarsat climb through many hoops. Rather than imposing detailed conditionality, simply blocking the deals would make more sense. He may be determined to show Britain is open to business and foreign investment. But we know how well that worked out when Arm Holdings was sold to SoftBank. The UK is engaged in an act of self-harm. Boycott foiled Who would have thought posh ice cream could become a hot geopolitical issue? The attempt by the Vermont-based board of Ben & Jerry’s to ban sales of its product in Israel because of availability on the West Bank has been thwarted. Unilever has sold the brand in Israel to Avi Zinger, owner of American Quality Products, its locally-based licensee. The product will remain the same but marketed under its Hebrew and Arabic names in Israel and the West Bank. Now that Unilever is no longer the owner of Ben & Jerry’s in the Holy Land, the Vermont board is deprived of a say. Unilever makes clear it has no truck with anti-Semitism or the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. It will continue to work in Israel where it employs 2,000 people. As it refocuses on healthier living, could this be a signal about the future place of its booming ice cream brands? Only asking. Lucky winners Some 24 hours after Camelot sought to convince the world that it was robbed of the National Lottery by the Gambling Commission, the courts have come down firmly in favour of challenger Allwyn. That paves the way for the Czech operator to begin the technological challenge of modernising or reconfiguring 44,000 terminals across the land as well as digital infrastructure. Good causes should not be made to wait. - Guides for my finances - The best savings rates - Best cash Isas - A better bank account - A cheaper mortgage - The best DIY investing platform - The best credit cards - A cheaper energy deal - Better broadband and TV deals - Cheaper car insurance - Stock market data - Power Portfolio investment tracker - This is Money's newsletter - This is Money's podcast - Investing Show videos - Help from This is Money - Financial calculators
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 29, 2022 _____ SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 358 PM CDT Wed Jun 29 2022 ...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central Goliad County through 430 PM CDT... At 358 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Weesatche, or 11 miles northwest of Goliad, moving southwest at 10 mph. HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and half inch hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Weesatche. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle. LAT...LON 2889 9739 2871 9743 2882 9756 2892 9743 TIME...MOT...LOC 2058Z 056DEG 8KT 2882 9746 MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH _____ Copyright 2022 AccuWeather
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LAVAL, QC, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc. ("Neptune" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NEPT) (TSX: NEPT), a diversified and fully integrated health and wellness company focused on plant-based, sustainable and purpose-driven lifestyle brands, today announced a delay of the filing of its annual financial statements (the "2022 Financial Statements") and related management's discussion and analysis beyond the prescribed deadline of June 29, 2022. The delay in the completion of the Company's financial statements relates principally to the complexity of the conversion of the Company's financial statements from IFRS to U.S. GAAP. Neptune expects to file its fourth quarter and full-year 2022 financial results in the coming days, with filing timing to be provided once confirmed by auditors. Following the release of its financial results, the Company will host a conference call to discuss financials and provide a business update. Details of the time and date for the rescheduled earnings call will be announced in due course. Management and the audit committee, will continue to work towards the completion of the annual financial statements, and cooperate with its auditors to provide all necessary information to complete the audit as soon as possible. In addition to the foregoing, pursuant to National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations ("NI 51-102"), namely Part 4 of NI 51-102, as an "SEC Issuer", given that Neptune will be filing the 2022 Financial Statements which will, for the first time, be prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP as a result of the Company having lost its foreign private issuer status, the Company is required to re-file its previously filed interim financial reports that have been filed since its last filing of annual financial statements for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, which include: (i) the three-month periods ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, (ii) the three and six-month periods ended September 30, 2021 and 2020; and (iii) the three and nine-month periods ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 (collectively, the "Restated Filings"), with such Restated Filings to be prepared and refiled in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Restated Filings are required to be refiled at the same time as the filing of the 2022 Annual Financial Statements. Despite substantial efforts, the Company is also currently not in a position to file the Restated Filings by the prescribed filing date of June 29, 2022 as a result of the longer than anticipated time required to restate the Restated Filings under U.S. GAAP. As a result of the foregoing, being the delay in filing of the 2022 Financial Statements and the refiling of the Restated Filings, the Company has applied to the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities for a temporary management cease trade order ("MCTO"), but such order has not yet been obtained as of the date hereof and there are no assurances such order will be obtained in a timely manner, or at all. The Company intends to satisfy the provisions of the alternative information guidelines in accordance with National Policy 12-203 – Management Cease Trade Orders by issuing bi-weekly status reports in the form of news releases. The applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities may issue a general cease trade order against the Company for failure to file the 2022 Financial Statements and/or the Restated Filings within the prescribed time period or sooner if the Company fails to file its status reports during the prescribed time limits. If the MCTO is not obtained, a general cease trade order may also be issued. The 2022 Annual Statements and the Restated Filings are expected to be filed as soon as practicable within the coming days, but no later than on or before July 13, 2022. With respect to the Restated Filings, other than the conversion into U.S. GAAP, the Company does not expect any other changes to be made to the previously filed interim financial reports, which were previously prepared in accordance with IFRS and are all currently available under the Company's SEDAR and EDGAR profiles at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov, respectively. About Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc. Headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Neptune is a diversified health and wellness company with a mission to redefine health and wellness. Neptune is focused on building a portfolio of high quality, affordable consumer products in response to long-term secular trends and market demand for natural, plant-based, sustainable and purpose-driven lifestyle brands. The Company utilizes a highly flexible, cost-efficient manufacturing and supply chain infrastructure that can be scaled to quickly adapt to consumer demand and bring new products to market through its mass retail partners and e-commerce channels. For additional information, please visit: https://neptunewellness.com/. Disclaimer – Safe Harbor Forward–Looking Statements Forward-looking statements contained in this press release involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance and achievements of Neptune Wellness Solutions to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the said forward-looking statements. Neither NASDAQ nor the Toronto Stock Exchange accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Neptune Wellness Solutions Inc.
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As Wednesday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day: NATO formally invited Sweden and Finland to join the alliance, in the most historic ripple effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, Turkey had lifted its objections to the two countries' membership. NATO also declared Russia the "most significant and direct threat" to its members. The U.S. said it would boost its military presence in Europe, including a permanent army headquarters in Poland. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed NATO leaders, reiterating the country's need for more weapons and aid. Russian forces made "incremental advances" to encircle Lysychansk, the last Ukrainian-controlled town in the eastern Luhansk region, according to Britain's defense ministry. The agency also called it "a realistic possibility" that Russia's deadly missile strike on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk on Monday was intended to hit nearby infrastructure. Ukrainian authorities said 144 of the country's soldiers have returned in a prisoner swap with Russia. Of those released, 95 are fighters who defended the Azovstal steel plant in the besieged port city of Mariupol, which Russian troops captured in May. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report concluding that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has "created disastrous consequences for the civilian population and had a devastating impact on the enjoyment of human rights, notably their rights to life, security, health, food, water, education and housing." The U.N. has documented more than 10,000 civilian casualties since the war began in February. In-depth War in Ukraine is driving demand for Africa's natural gas. That's controversial. How different is the war coverage in the U.S. versus Ukraine? NPR's 1A talks with the executive director for The Aspen Institute Kyiv. Special report Russia's war in Ukraine is changing the world: See its ripple effects in all corners of the globe. Earlier developments You can read more daily recaps here. For context and more in-depth stories, you can find more of NPR's coverage here. Also, listen and subscribe to NPR's State of Ukraine podcast for updates throughout the day. Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. Loading...
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Visakhapatnam: residents of ward no. 35 protest against irregular and contaminated water supply VISAKHAPATNAM June 30, 2022 03:15 IST‘We have been facing health problems and not in a position to buy packaged water’ Locals from Periki Veedhi, Velampeta, Medhara Veedhi and a few other colonies in Ward no. 35 in One Town are up in arms against the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) for irregular supply and bad quality of drinking water to their areas, here. Alleging irregular supply of water for the past two weeks, a large number of women have staged a protest blocking the roads in their areas. Responding promptly, officials released water to the areas. However, locals allege that the water which is being released now seems to be contaminated. “We have been living in this colony since decades, but have never protested on any issue. But since the last 14 days, we were not supplied drinking water properly. How could we live without drinking water?. There are children going to schools and colleges and men and women going to offices. So, we have decided to stage a protest and block the roads,” said B. Vijaya, a resident of Periki Veedhi. Around 70 to 100 families reside in the three colonies. The locals said that earlier, the corporation used to supply water from 7.10 a.m. to 7.55 a.m. But gradually, they have decreased the timing, for which the locals started to adjust. “However, we have witnessed no water supply in the last two weeks,” they alleged, adding that there are no wells and borewells in their locality as alternative resource to meet their needs. With most of the families dependant on small and odd jobs and daily wages, they are not in a position to buy packaged water. Now, the residents also allege that the water which is being released seems to be muddy and not fit for drinking. “From 30 minutes the timing was reduced to 10 to 15 minutes and the water is also muddy and sometimes, small insects surface,” alleged Venkata Durga. Another local N. Devi said, “Only those who have water filters are able to consume the water. Rest of us, have to leave the water in utensils till the mud settles down, so that we can boil it and then make it suitable for drinking,” Homemaker Malleswari alleged that due to such water, members of their family are falling ill and developing health issues like fever and cold. CPI(M) leader M. Subbarao alleged that the water being released has bad odour and brownish in colour, which makes it unfit for drinking. Despite complaining about it, the issue was not resolved, he said ‘Pumping failure’ GVMC Zonal Commissioner, Suryabagh, K. Chakravarthy, said that the water supply was disrupted in the area due to pumping failure. However it was resolved and the water is being supplied from Tuesday, he added. “The water which is being released is of good quality. We have also assured the locals that we will release water for sufficient time,” he said.
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Law enforcement agencies across North Dakota will be cracking down on seat belt violations over the next two months. The "Click it or Ticket" enforcement campaign with extra patrols is planned Friday through Aug. 18, according to the state Transportation Department. It's dubbed summer HEAT -- Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic. "It doesn't matter how far or where you are going. Wearing your seat belt should always be a part of your travel plans," Mandan Police Chief Jason Ziegler said. The campaign is part of the state's Vision Zero strategy to eliminate motor vehicle crash fatalities and serious injuries on North Dakota roads. For more information, go to https://visionzero.nd.gov/.
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Suspended: Doctor accused of sexual misconduct, overprescribing medications, officials say DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - An Alabama doctor is under investigation after a patient died of an overdose late last year. The Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners reports it has suspended Dr. Sammy Becdach’s medical license for prescribing controlled substances for reasons other than medical and sexual misconduct. Officials said a female patient of Becdach’s died of an overdose on Dec. 18, 2020. Pelham police told the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners that the woman overdosed on the medicine prescribed to her by Becdach. The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program reports it told the board of medical examiners that Becdach issued at least nine prescriptions to the victim over 17 months. Police showed the board three videos from the woman’s phone showing the two engaging in sexual activity, as reported by WAFF. According to court documents, the victim’s mother told the board Becdach was buying her daughter all kinds of things, including a car. Court documents stated the victim’s mother said that her daughter met Becdach when she was 18 and working as a hostess. She said he paid to furnish her apartment, pay bills and gave her a credit card with no limit. A friend of the victim and her mother told investigators they believed the woman was drugged and raped on two or three occasions, as shared in court documents. The victim allegedly told her mother that she was afraid to leave because Becdach claimed he could make people disappear and had done so before. In April 2021, officials said Becdach sent a written response to Pelham police stating he engaged in sex with the victim on more than one occasion and wrote her at least seven prescriptions. A friend of the woman claims Becdach got the victim addicted to opioids, something she didn’t take before meeting him. Court documents show six charges for Becdach: - Two counts of unprofessional conduct. - Practicing medicine in such a manner as to endanger the health of a patient. - Distribution by prescription of controlled substances for reasons other than legitimate medical purpose. - Failure to maintain medical record for patient. - Failure to comply with any rule of the Board of Medical Examiners The board reports it is continuing its investigation and the Clearview Cancer Institute shared that Becdach was no longer with the Institute. Copyright 2022 WAFF via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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BETHESDA, Md., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it facilitated the sale of East Bank at Richwood Village, a 200-unit luxury apartment complex located in Richwood, Texas. The property represented a rare opportunity to invest in a high-quality asset within the greater Lake Jackson submarket, a fast-growing area with limited multifamily stock. Ryan Epstein and Jennifer Ray led the Walker & Dunlop team in facilitating the disposition from the seller, Pensam Capital, LLC to the buyer's representative, BR Premier Properties. The team assisted the client throughout the entire transaction, ensuring a favorable sale price. "Demographic and employment trends within the Lake Jackson area have been extremely positive over the past several months," said Managing Director, Ryan Epstein. "Occupancy and rent growth in the immediate area have both been increasing significantly, making East Bank an excellent investment opportunity." With premium garden-style multifamily residences, East Bank at Richwood Village caters to the Alvin, Angleton, and Lake Jackson submarkets. The community's amenities include a cybercafé, fitness center, clubhouse, outdoor firepit, and dog park. In addition, Dow Chemical, the largest employer in the Lake Jackson area with nearly 4,000 employees, is located less than five miles west of East Bank at Richwood Village. The broader Brazoria County area also offers employment in many different industries, with oil, gas, and chemical companies at the top of the list of employers. Walker & Dunlop is a leader in multifamily property sales, having completed $19.3 billion in property sales volume in 2021 alone, up 214% from 2020. Visit our website for information about multifamily properties available for sale via Walker & Dunlop's property sales platform. About Walker & Dunlop Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest providers of capital to the commercial real estate industry, enabling real estate owners and operators to bring their visions of communities — where Americans live, work, shop and play — to life. The power of our people, premier brand, and industry-leading technology makes us more insightful and valuable to our clients, providing an unmatched experience every step of the way. With more than 1,400 employees across every major U.S. market, Walker & Dunlop has consistently been named one of Fortune's Great Places to Work® and is committed to making the commercial real estate industry more inclusive and diverse while creating meaningful social, environmental, and economic change in our communities. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Walker & Dunlop, Inc.
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Abortions by pill make up more than half of abortions now. But the Supreme Court's ruling means about half of states will eventually ban or seriously restrict abortion, including by medication. Copyright 2022 NPR Abortions by pill make up more than half of abortions now. But the Supreme Court's ruling means about half of states will eventually ban or seriously restrict abortion, including by medication. Copyright 2022 NPR
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The new head of the government’s road safety agency says it will intensify efforts to understand the risks posed by automated vehicle technology so it can decide what regulations may be necessary to protect drivers, passengers and pedestrians. In an interview Wednesday, Steven Cliff, who was confirmed last month as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said the agency is assessing crash data recently reported by automakers and tech companies. Any new regulations NHTSA may impose would fill what critics say is an urgent need to address the growing use of driver-assistance systems on U.S. roads. The systems have been linked to crashes involving deaths and serious injuries, though they also have enormous potential to prevent crashes. There are no federal regulations that directly cover either self-driving vehicles or those with partially automated driver-assist systems such as Tesla’s Autopilot. Before developing any new federal standards, Cliff said, NHTSA wants to better understand how the new technology should perform. Cliff spoke Wednesday to The Associated Press in his first on-the-record interview since being confirmed by the Senate. He said that when he first joined the agency in February 2021, he was surprised to discover that NHTSA had no data on automated vehicle crashes. As a result, Cliff said, he challenged the agency to require such reporting. Last month, NHTSA released data from July 2021 to May, concluding that automated vehicles were involved in nearly 400 crashes. Cliff cautioned that while he believes federal standards are needed to regulate driver assisted technology, he wants to avoid rushing to embrace new rules that might potentially end up compromising safety. “Any time we put a regulation on the books, we have to define not only what standard that technology needs to be held to, but we need to have an objective way to measure the performance of the system to ensure that it actually complies with the regulation,” he said from his office at the Department of Transportation’s headquarters in Washington. The agency, Cliff said, is also working on performance standards for automatic emergency braking, which it plans to require on all new passenger vehicles and heavy trucks. The braking systems, which can detect and stop for pedestrians, other vehicles and obstacles, show great potential to help stem rising traffic deaths in the U.S., he said. NHTSA, he said, will set metrics for how the braking systems detect objects to ensure that the systems respond appropriately. “That’s part of any of the standards that we put in place,” he said. Cliff declined to discuss any details of regulations that might be forthcoming. “It’s important for us to take the data that comes from those incidents, better understand it in an engineering context,” he said. “I think it’s important to move quickly but not so fast that we’re getting it wrong.” Of the nearly 400 crashes that were reported by manufacturers, Teslas were involved in more than all other automakers combined. But Cliff noted that Tesla has driver-assist technology operating on nearly all of its roughly 830,000 vehicles on U.S. roads, which makes neat comparisons to other automakers difficult. The company also provides nearly instantaneous wireless reporting of crashes, so it receives data faster than other automakers. Since Cliff’s arrival, the agency has stepped up enforcement efforts aimed at Tesla, including a push for a dozen recalls since the start of 2021. The agency is investigating why Teslas working on Autopilot seem to crash into emergency vehicles parked along freeways. And it has received more than 750 consumer complaints involving Teslas braking unexpectedly for no apparent reason. At the same time, Cliff added, Tesla has been cooperative with NHTSA since his arrival at the agency. “I think we work well with them,” he said, “and when we have identified that there are risks, they’ve taken action, and that’s appropriate.” Cliff, 52, whose background is in chemistry and air pollution regulation with little auto safety experience, takes over the agency at a critical time. NHTSA has estimated that nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year, the highest such figure in 16 years. Safety advocates say NHTSA has become more aggressive in regulating automakers since Cliff’s arrival from the California Air Resources Board, the state’s pollution regulator. Cliff, who first joined the California board in 2008 as an air pollution specialist, rose to become its deputy executive officer. Years earlier, he received a bachelor’s degree and doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego. He concedes that he has had to become a quick study on auto safety. But he said that assessing the science and the data is similar to the work he did in California. In December, Cliff told the Senate Commerce Committee that he would work to adopt regulations such as those urging seat belt use, and would implement mandates under the new federal infrastructure law to reduce drunken driving. He said he believes that automatic emergency braking in new vehicles should help reduce fatalities and that the agency will take a “safe systems approach” to stem the deaths. Those approaches could include roadway design and reductions in speed limits. In addition, he said, NHTSA is trying to understand why Black Americans die in crashes at a greater rate than other groups. “In some cases,” Cliff said, “a lot of that has to do with infrastructure, but also the vehicles themselves. So improving the new vehicle fleet is part of the solution, but it’s also important that we educate drivers.”
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Did you lose money on investments in IonQ? If so, please visit IonQ, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of IonQ, Inc. ("IonQ" or the "Company") (NYSE: IONQ) between March 30, 2021 and May 2, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. IonQ claims to "develop quantum computers designed to solve the world's most complex problems." On or about September 30, 2021, IonQ became a public entity via a business combination with dMY Technology Group, Inc. III ("DTG"), a special purpose acquisition company. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose: (1) that IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) that the Company's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) that IonQ's quantum computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; and (4) that a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper roundtripping transactions with related parties. On May 3, 2022, Scorpion Capital released a research report alleging, among other things, that IonQ is a "scam built on phony statements about nearly all key aspects of the technology and business." It further claimed that the Company' reported "[f]ictitious 'revenue' via sham transactions and related-party round-tripping." On this news, the Company's stock fell 9% to close at $7.15 per share on May 3, 2022. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 1, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member. If you purchased or acquired IONQ securities, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit IonQ, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com. Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING. © 2022 Bernstein Liebhard LLP. The law firm responsible for this advertisement is Bernstein Liebhard LLP, 10 East 40th Street, New York, New York 10016, (212) 779-1414. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome with respect to any future matter. Contact Information: Peter Allocco Bernstein Liebhard LLP https://www.bernlieb.com (212) 951-2030 pallocco@bernlieb.com View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Bernstein Liebhard LLP
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Did you lose money on investments in CareDx? If so, please visit CareDx, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of CareDx, Inc. ("CareDx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CDNA) between February 24, 2021, and May 5, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. CareDx is a diagnostics company that offers diagnostic testing services, products, and digital healthcare software for organ transplant patients and care providers. Testing services for kidney and heart transplant recipients represented at least 85% of CareDx's total revenues, and the Company's AlloSure blood test for transplant recipients was the Company's primary source of revenue. Additionally, the higher reimbursement payment rates for its Medicare-approved tests drove growth of the Company's average sale price ("ASP"), an important metric for investors. Throughout the Class Period, CareDx reported growing revenue and strong demand in the Company's testing services segment. Defendants also emphasized to investors the success of the Company's RemoTraC service – a remote, home-based, blood-drawing service that the Company launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Plaintiff alleges that during the Class Period Defendants misled investors and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Defendants had engaged in a variety of improper and illegal schemes to inflate testing services revenue and demand, including pushing a surveillance protocol through inaccurate marketing materials, offering extravagant inducements or kickbacks to physicians and other providers, and improperly bundling expensive testing services with other blood tests as part of the RemoTraC service; (2) these practices, and others, subjected CareDx to an undisclosed risk of regulatory scrutiny; and (3) these practices rendered the Company's testing services revenue reported throughout the Class Period artificially inflated. The truth began to emerge on October 28, 2021, when CareDx revealed for the first time that it was the subject of at least three government investigations related to its "accounting and public reporting practices." In response to this news, CareDx's stock price fell 27%, from a closing price of $70.34 per share on October 28, 2021, to a closing price of $51 per share on October 29, 2021. On April 15, 2022, CareDx's former Head of Community Nephrology, Dr. Michael Olymbios, filed a complaint in California Superior Court that provided extensive detail about: (1) Defendants' misconduct, including the use of RemoTraC to improperly bundle the Company's most expensive testing services, including AlloSure, with other blood tests, that led to the government investigations; (2) Defendants' knowledge of the misconduct throughout the Class Period; and (3) their attempts to conceal the misconduct. In response to this filing, CareDx's stock price fell an additional 8% the next trading day. Finally, after the markets closed on May 5, 2022, CareDx issued a press release announcing financial results for the first quarter of 2022, reporting a near 5% decline in the ASP of the Company's testing services. In response to this news, CareDx's stock price fell 18.5%, from a closing price of $31.66 per share on May 5, 2022, to a closing price of $25.87 per share on May 6, 2022. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 22, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery does not require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member. If you purchased CareDx common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit CareDx, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com. Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING. © 2022 Bernstein Liebhard LLP. The law firm responsible for this advertisement is Bernstein Liebhard LLP, 10 East 40th Street, New York, New York 10016, (212) 779-1414. Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome with respect to any future matter. Contact Information: Peter Allocco Bernstein Liebhard LLP https://www.bernlieb.com (212) 951-2030 pallocco@bernlieb.com View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Bernstein Liebhard LLP
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HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) – A volunteer at an Ohio festival stopped a would-be kidnapping, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. Ketema Faye, 20, faces a felony charge of abduction after being taken into custody Saturday afternoon. According to court records, Faye helped set up an inflatable bounce house at the festival, but stayed at the festival after the setup was finished. Faye allegedly grabbed a 6-year-old child exiting the bounce house at the festival. The sheriff’s office said Faye then tried to lead the child by the hand away from the bounce house and through the festival entrance. The festival was taking place at an ISKCON Temple outside of Columbus. ISKCON stands for International Society for Krishna Consciousness. The child’s parents were also volunteers at the festival. The father said he only looked away for a matter of seconds to help another child, then realized his own child was gone. According to Sgt. Brian Toth of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, Faye, who is unassociated with the temple, had grabbed the child’s hand and started walking towards the exit. The child said they wanted to go back to their father, but according to Toth, Faye shushed child, tightened his grip, and kept walking as the child tried to pull away. This is when a volunteer noticed something was wrong. “She asked, ‘Is this your child?’ and Mr. Faye responded, ‘Yes,’ and the child spoke up and said, ‘No, this isn’t my dad,'” Toth said. “That worker thwarted off this abduction.” Toth said this volunteer’s life-saving actions are a prime example of why speaking up and teaching your children about stranger danger can save lives. “Speak up, let the adults know, let someone know around you, yell loud, scream, make a scene there,” Toth said. Court records indicated Faye received a $25,000 cash surety bond at his arraignment on Monday. A judge scheduled his preliminary hearing for July 5. The sheriff’s office asked anyone with more information about this case to call its Detective Bureau at 614-525-3350.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska began the process of filing an appeal Wednesday, one day after he was sentenced to two years of probation for lying to FBI agents about an illegal campaign contribution from a Nigerian billionaire. Fortenberry, a Republican, made clear after he was found guilty in March that he intended to challenge his federal conviction. His new attorney, Glen E. Summers, said in a statement that the federal law used to convict Fortenberry is “far too susceptible to abuse.” Fortenberry was charged federally after two meetings with FBI agents where he denied knowing that a $30,000 campaign contribution had come to him from a foreign national, which is illegal. At Fortenberry's sentencing, U.S. District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld said the congressman “turned a blind eye and deaf ear” to warnings that the donation was improper.
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Did you lose money on investments in Pegasystems? If so, please visit Pegasystems Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of Pegasystems Inc. ("Pegasystems" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: PEGA) between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Pegasystems develops customer relationship management ("CRM") software, which has a very competitive market. Pegasystems repeatedly stated that the "market for our offerings is intensely competitive, rapidly changing, and highly fragmented" and that Pegasystems was subject to "significant competition" from other technology vendors. In addition, the Company assured investors that it had internally developed its products. Pegasystems also stated that the Company faced a risk that competitors may "appropriate our intellectual property." Plaintiff alleges that unbeknownst to investors, however, Pegasystems' products and, thus, the revenue generated from those products were, in large part, the result of theft of trade secrets from one of the Company's competitors. On May 29, 2020, Pegasystems was sued by one of its principal competitors, Appian Corporation ("Appian") in Virginia circuit court for stealing its trade secrets and violating the commonwealth's computer crime law (the "Appian Litigation"). The lawsuit alleged that Pegasystems retained an employee of a government contractor from 2012 to 2014 to secretly access and learn about Appian's software and pass the information on to Pegasystems in order to improve the Company's products and better train its sales force. Plaintiff alleges that in violation of SEC reporting requirements, for nearly two full years, Pegasystems never publicly disclosed Appian's lawsuit in its SEC filings. Pegasystems did not even disclose the existence of this lawsuit until it filed its 2021 Annual Report on February 16, 2022 – i.e., just one month before a jury trial was scheduled to begin on March 21, 2022. After the close of the markets on May 9, 2022, Pegasystems revealed that the Virginia circuit court jury awarded Appian more than $2 billion for Pegasystems' trade secret misappropriation. On this news, the price of Pegasystems common stock fell almost 21% to close at $52.25 per share on May 10, 2022. According to press reports, during the seven-week trial, the jury was presented with substantial evidence supporting Appian's claims, including videos, emails, and text messages, and evidence that Alan Trefler ("Trefler"), Pegasystems' Founder and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), personally attended a meeting with the "spy" and received Appian trade secrets supplied by the "spy." During the trial, CEO Trefler admitted that it was "inappropriate" for Pegasystems to have hired the contractor and that the Pegasystems employees who gained access to Appian trial software "shouldn't have done it." The jury found that Pegasystems engaged in "willful and malicious" misappropriation of Appian's trade secrets. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period, including by failing to disclose that: (1) Pegasystems had misappropriated trade secrets to better compete against Appian, a principal competitor; (2) Defendants' product development and associated success was, in significant part, not the result of its own research and product testing but rather the result of corporate espionage and trade secret theft; and (3) Defendants had engaged in a scheme to steal Appian trade secrets, which was not only known to, but carried out through, the personal involvement of the Company's CEO. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 18, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery does not require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member. If you purchased PEGA common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Pegasystems Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com. Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING. © 2022 Bernstein Liebhard LLP. 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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC) issued an Order requiring Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), wholly-owned subsidiary of PNM Resources, Inc. (NYSE: PNM), to issue rate credits related to the retirement of the San Juan Generating Station (San Juan). The Order calls for an immediate reduction to customer rates upon the retirement of each of the two remaining units of San Juan, resulting in an approximately $128 million pre-tax, non-recurring reduction to revenues over 2022 and 2023. The rate credits eliminate PNM's ability to recover costs necessary to support the transition to carbon free energy until they expire with the anticipated January 2024 implementation of updated customer base rates following a general rate review. For the benefit of customers, PNM has been deferring the implementation of updated customer base rates since 2020. Today's order penalizes PNM for deferral of the rate review and is directly contrary to the Energy Transition Act and inconsistent with the prior NMPRC financing order, which was previously challenged and upheld by the New Mexico Supreme Court. "We wholeheartedly and unconditionally stand in continued support of New Mexico's landmark energy policy laid out in the Energy Transition Act and its provisions for carbon-free energy, reduced customer costs and support for impacted communities. Despite external challenges, our teams have worked to go beyond adoption of the legislation and find ways to achieve the carbon-free transition earlier and more cost effectively for customers," said Pat Vincent-Collawn, PNM Resources Chairman and CEO. "It is disheartening for PNM to be arbitrarily penalized today for opting not to file its planned customer rate increases over the last two years, a change made for the benefit of customers as we navigated the energy transition amid an unforeseeable global pandemic. We will appeal today's order." Following the NMPRC vote to issue the Order during its open meeting, PNM filed an Emergency Motion for a stay of the rate credits pending its appeal. In the filing, PNM indicated that if the NMPRC has not acted upon the Emergency Motion by the time PNM files its Notice of Appeal with the New Mexico Supreme Court, PNM will file an emergency motion with the Court seeking an interim stay of the Order. Today's order, and PNM's Emergency Motion filing, will be posted when available at https://www.pnmresources.com/investors/rates-and-filings.aspx. PNM Resources (NYSE: PNM) is an energy holding company based in Albuquerque, N.M., with 2021 consolidated operating revenues of $1.8 billion. Through its regulated utilities, PNM and TNMP, PNM Resources provides electricity to approximately 800,000 homes and businesses in New Mexico and Texas. PNM serves its customers with a diverse mix of generation and purchased power resources totaling 3.2 gigawatts of capacity, with a goal to achieve 100% emissions-free energy by 2040. For more information, visit the company's website at www.PNMResources.com. Statements made in this news release for PNM Resources, Inc. ("PNMR"), Public Service Company of New Mexico ("PNM"), or Texas-New Mexico Power Company ("TNMP") (collectively, the "Company") that relate to future events or expectations, projections, estimates, intentions, goals, targets, and strategies, including the unaudited financial results and earnings guidance, are made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Readers are cautioned that all forward-looking statements are based upon current expectations and estimates and apply only as of the date of this report. PNMR, PNM, and TNMP assume no obligation to update this information. Because actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, PNMR, PNM, and TNMP caution readers not to place undue reliance on these statements. PNMR's, PNM's, and TNMP's business, financial condition, cash flow, and operating results are influenced by many factors, which are often beyond their control, that can cause actual results to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Additionally, there are risks and uncertainties in connection with the proposed acquisition of us by AVANGRID which may adversely affect our business, future opportunities, employees and common stock, including without limitation, (i) the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the pending Merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any remaining required governmental and regulatory approvals of the pending Merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, (ii) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement, (iii) the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed Merger in a timely manner or at all, and (iv) the risk that the proposed transaction could have an adverse effect on the ability of PNMR to retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with its customers and suppliers, and on its operating results and businesses generally. For a discussion of risk factors and other important factors affecting forward-looking statements, please see the Company's Form 10-K, Form 10-Q filings and the information included in the Company's Forms 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which factors are specifically incorporated by reference herein. GAAP refers to generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. Ongoing earnings is a non-GAAP financial measure that excludes the impact of net unrealized mark-to-market gains and losses on economic hedges, the net change in unrealized gains and losses on investment securities, pension expense related to previously disposed of gas distribution business, and certain non-recurring, infrequent, and other items that are not indicative of fundamental changes in the earnings capacity of the Company's operations. The Company uses ongoing earnings and ongoing earnings per diluted share to evaluate the operations of the Company and to establish goals, including those used for certain aspects of incentive compensation, for management and employees. While the Company believes these financial measures are appropriate and useful for investors, they are not measures presented in accordance with GAAP. The Company does not intend for these measures, or any piece of these measures, to represent any financial measure as defined by GAAP. Furthermore, the Company's calculations of these measures as presented may or may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. The Company uses ongoing earnings guidance to provide investors with management's expectations of ongoing financial performance over the period presented. While the Company believes ongoing earnings guidance is an appropriate measure, it is not a measure presented in accordance with GAAP. The Company does not intend for ongoing earnings guidance to represent an expectation of net earnings as defined by GAAP. Since the future differences between GAAP and ongoing earnings are frequently outside the control of the Company, management is generally not able to estimate the impact of the reconciling items between forecasted GAAP net earnings and ongoing earnings guidance, nor their probable impact on GAAP net earnings without unreasonable effort, therefore, management is generally not able to provide a corresponding GAAP equivalent for ongoing earnings guidance. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE PNM Resources, Inc.
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The implementation of these ICD-10 codes represents a culmination of two-years of collaborative efforts within the LGMD patient, clinical, and research communities. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 The Muscular Dystrophy Association, Coalition to Cure Calpain 3, CureLGMD2i, Jain Foundation, Kurt+Peter Foundation, LGMD Awareness Foundation, LGMD1D DNAJB6 Foundation, LGMD2i Research Fund, and Speak Foundation, who collectively serve the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) community, are pleased to announce, and celebrate the acceptance of ICD-10-CM codes for LGMD and several of its subtypes. These diagnostic codes will be fully implemented and ready for use starting this October. This significant advance could well shorten the diagnostic odyssey for individuals with LGMD, facilitate the targeted care the community needs, and accelerate surveillance and epidemiological research. In addition, this will allow individuals with LGMD to receive more precise care from specialists and participate in the variety of services and programs provided by our advocacy organizations. They should also help facilitate reimbursement by public and private insurers. "The ICD-10-CM is a system used by physicians and other healthcare providers to classify and code all diagnoses, symptoms and procedures recorded in conjunction with hospital care in the United States. The LGMDs are under-researched diseases with only limited efforts to truly capture their true prevalence and incidence. This adoption of ICD-10-CM codes for the most prevalent LGMDs should substantially accelerate the understanding of LGMD, thus also advancing efforts to better treat these diseases," says Paul Melmeyer, Vice President, Public Policy & Advocacy for MDA. This milestone is the culmination of over two years of collaborative efforts between LGMD advocacy organizations and leading LGMD clinicians and researchers. "The ability to accurately capture the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy diagnosis through specific ICD-10-CM codes is an important step forward for these conditions. These codes will support better prevalence studies and patient ascertainment for approaching therapeutic studies. Such efforts will ultimately lead to better care for our patients," says Nicholas Johnson, MD, MSCI, FAAN, Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Neurology at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Our organizations will continue to seek ICD-10-CM codes for the LGMD subtypes yet to receive their own subtype-specific code, and we will coordinate efforts to educate the medical community on the presence of these new ICD-10-CM codes and will collaborate with all relevant stakeholders to ensure their full usage in the clinical and research communities. Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is the #1 voluntary health organization in the United States for people living with muscular dystrophy, ALS, and related neuromuscular diseases. For over 70 years, MDA has led the way in accelerating research, advancing care, and advocating for the support of our families. MDA's mission is to empower the people we serve to live longer, more independent lives. To learn more visit mda.org and follow MDA on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and LinkedIn. View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-lgmd-community-celebrates-adoption-of-icd-10-diagnostic-codes-for-lgmd-301578360.html SOURCE Muscular Dystrophy Association
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NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP) is pleased to announce the addition of 119 new part numbers to its Standard® and Standard Import® lines. This release covers 53 product categories and includes 44 part numbers for 2021 and 2022 model-year vehicles. As part of its growing commitment to providing replacement parts for the latest hybrid and electric vehicle systems, SMP has released an EV Battery Charging Cable for the Toyota Prius and RAV4. This month's release expands on Standard's leading powertrain-neutral coverage for import and domestic vehicles with 57 new Sensors, Switches, Actuators, and Connectors. Included are 19 new Power Window Switches, as well as ABS Sensors, Exhaust Gas Temperature Sensors, Oil Pressure Gauge Switches and Oil Pressure Light Switches, Parking Brake Actuators, and Fuel Pump Cut-Off Switch Connectors. Standard's turbocharger program continues to grow with the release of new Turbocharger Kits for gas-powered Ford SUVs and trucks, including the 2016-13 F-150, 2020-15 Transit, and the 2015-13 Explorer. The release also adds two new diesel Turbocharger Kits for the Ford Transit and the International 3000 bus platform. New Turbocharger Oil Lines have been added for many popular applications, including the 2020-15 Ford Mustang and 2019-14 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Additionally, Turbocharger Hoses, Oil Drain Tubes, Coolant Lines, and Charge Air Coolers are also part of the release, providing everything technicians need for a complete turbo repair. Standard® continues to expand its Collision Repair program with the introduction of New Power Door Lock Actuators for popular import applications, such as the 2017-11 Nissan Quest. Airbag Clock Springs, Fuel Door Lock Actuators, and Hood Latch Assemblies are also included in the release. John Herc, Vice President Engine Management Marketing, SMP, stated, "Once again, we are delighted to introduce our newest batch of part numbers covering millions of vehicles in operation. From gas- and diesel-powered to electric and hybrid vehicles, we are committed to providing the highest quality replacement parts for all vehicle platforms." All new applications are listed in the catalog found at StandardBrand.com, and in electronic catalog providers. Standard® offers a full line of premium automotive products for ignition, electrical, emissions, fuel and safety-related systems including diesel, turbochargers, TPMS, VVT, ADAS and Blue Streak® heavier-duty ignition coils. The Standard® line provides unmatched coverage for all import and domestic vehicle applications. Standard® is committed to providing replacement parts for all platforms including the latest hybrid and electric vehicle systems. For additional information, contact an SMP® sales representative or visit StandardBrand.com. With over 100 years in business, Standard Motor Products, Inc. is a leading independent manufacturer and distributor of premium automotive replacement parts. SMP supplies independent professional technicians and do- it-yourselfers with high quality replacement parts for engine management, ignition, emissions, fuel and safety- related systems, as well as temperature control products for domestic and import cars and light trucks. SMP products are sold worldwide through both traditional and non-traditional distribution channels. For more information, download the SMP Parts App or visit smpcorp.com. ### View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Standard Motor Products, Inc.
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On Monday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced plans to put 300,000 troops at high readiness as part of the “biggest overhaul of our collective defense and deterrence since the Cold War.” Stoltenberg’s announcement caught the top defense officials of many NATO members off guard, leading them to question which of their forces, if any, were being included in the 300,000 figure. “Maybe it’s number magic?” said one senior European defense official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about the confusion. Several senior European security policymakers said they were taken by surprise, with no advance notice of the plan to expand NATO’s quick-response force from its current size of 40,000 in light of the Ukraine war and Russia’s ongoing military threats to NATO territory. A senior defense official from a different alliance country said its leaders had not been consulted about the figure ahead of time. The official wondered which of his nation’s troops were being counted toward the force — and whether it included personnel from a volunteer national guard who have civilian day jobs. Asked at a news conference on Wednesday about the mystery of the missing troops, Stoltenberg said the “majority” will be based inside their home countries and will build on existing personnel — code, in some ways, for simply reclassifying troops that currently exist and making them more available for fast deployment under NATO command in the event of a security crisis. “Of course it requires, as always when you do something in NATO, that allies contribute the forces they have promised to contribute,” he said, not directly addressing why some countries apparently have not yet been asked about stepping up. Stoltenberg said he hopes to have the expanded rapid force available sometime next year. A NATO official, speaking on the condition of anonymity per the alliance’s ground rules, said that country-specific numbers still needed pinning down. Even the 300,000 total is theoretical for the moment: “The concept has not been fully worked up yet,” the official said. “We will have to do more to build up the model before we can work out what national commitments can be.” Even so, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht has already said her country will offer up 15,000 troops — a full division. The confusion about a hugely expanded force is unrelated to a smaller but perhaps more significant announcement on Wednesday that the alliance will commit brigades of about 3,000 to 5,000 troops to the four member countries that border Russia and are most vulnerable. Though those numbers fell far short of Eastern Europe’s most ambitious requests in the months leading up to the summit, policymakers said they will significantly bolster NATO’s ability to defend Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Baltic leaders said they were satisfied. The units still require some finalization as NATO countries send troops and equipment to the international forces there in the coming months. A full brigade in each country is about three or four times the number of NATO troops deployed before Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. Only a portion of each brigade will be deployed at a time, but equipment will be in place so that the rest of the group can move into combat quickly. Policymakers said the change will shift NATO’s presence in the region from that of a tripwire — a somewhat symbolic presence meant to dissuade the Kremlin from invading — to a real defensive force that could credibly hold back Russian forces long enough for reinforcements to arrive. U.S. forces will be permanently based in Poland, President Biden announced, a significant change in Washington’s commitment to defending the region. The alliance’s current rapid-reaction force is intended to be deployable within 15 days. Stoltenberg aims to muster 100,000 troops within 10 days and an additional 200,000 within 30 days. “It’s very important to have the command structures in place,” Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said in an interview Wednesday. He praised the goal of the future expansion, even if many details have yet to be filled in. The 300,000 troop figure would not be the first time Stoltenberg has announced numbers that have as much to do with symbolism as with reality. Throughout the years that former president Donald Trump held office, the secretary general presented defense spending figures calculated to communicate how much commitments had increased since Trump took office in 2017, even though NATO spending had actually started rising after the Russian annexation of Crimea three years earlier. The change was aimed at stroking Trump’s ego and allowing him to take credit for the defense increases. After he left office, the NATO numbers immediately reverted to the fuller, more accurate calculation that included the final years Barack Obama was president.
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TAMPA (WANE) – Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Kevin Kiermaier appears to be inching closer to a return, according to multiple reports. The Bishop Luers grad is on track to return to the Rays’ lineup by Friday during their road series in Toronto. Kiermaier was placed on the 10-day injured list after suffering left hip inflammation last week against the New York Yankees. As part of his rehab, Kiermaier has been playing in the Florida Complex League. This season, Kiermaier has a batting average of .229 and is tied for second on the team in home runs (7).
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DALLAS (AP) — Brett Yormark, an executive with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and former CEO of the Brooklyn Nets, was named Big 12 commissioner Wednesday, another unconventional hire by a major conference amid the rapidly changing landscape of college athletics. Yormark is taking over for Bob Bowlsby, who came to the league a decade ago after stints as athletic director at Stanford, Iowa and Northern Iowa. The background for Yormark isn’t in college athletics, but could play an interesting role for a conference bracing for challenges in revenue with the impending departures of Oklahoma and Texas while adjusting to athletes cashing in on use of their celebrity. Yormark is expected to start Aug. 1, but will be likely to make his first public appearance at Big 12 football media days in the Dallas area July 13-14. “I’m here to listen, learn, find ways to add value, add resources and try to help shine a light on the importance of college athletics,” Yormark said. “I look forward to leveraging my experience and network alongside our presidents, chancellors and athletic directors to shape the future of the Big 12 brand and emphasize our collective strengths.” The hiring of Yormark is similar to the Pac-12′s choice for commissioner last year — former MGM Resorts International executive George Kliavkoff, who also had an extensive background in digital media. The biggest issue looming for Yormark is a new media rights deal without the powerful brands of the Sooners and Longhorns in the mix. The multibillion-dollar TV deal with ESPN and Fox Sports expires after the 2024-25 academic year, when Oklahoma and Texas will join the Southeastern Conference if they haven’t already moved before then. Within weeks of OU and Texas accepting invitations from the SEC, the Big 12 expanded by adding BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston. It could be a 14-team league for two years if the Sooners and Longhorns don’t leave early. Yormark joined Jay-Z’s marketing agency in 2019 as co-CEO of Roc Nation Unified, which handles licensing and branding. The 55-year-old was promoted to the company’s overall chief operating officer in January. Before Roc Nation, Yormark spent almost 15 years with the Nets, overseeing the club’s move from New Jersey and construction of the Barclays Center. Yormark left the Nets after Joseph Tsai bought controlling interesting in 2019. Yormark was with NASCAR before the Nets, overseeing the $750 million agreement with Nextel Communications for naming rights to the circuit’s top racing series. “Brett is one of the most skilled and knowledgeable executives in sports and entertainment,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “His decades of operational experience, relentless work ethic and strong industry relationships will be of enormous value to the Big 12, its schools and fans.” Yormark joins the Big 12 in a period of uncertainty, although not one as dire as when Bowlsby took over. The 70-year-old Bowlsby is retiring but planning to transition into an interim role until his contract expires in 2025. The league in 2012 was coming off a two-year period when it lost four schools to three other conferences and at times appeared on the brink of collapse. The Big 12 eventually settled as a 10-team league with the additions of TCU and West Virginia, and secured the lucrative media deal not long after hiring Bowlsby. The Big 12 enjoyed almost a decade of relative stability before the stunner from Oklahoma and Texas last summer. Now the conference has to battle the perception that the loss of the Sooners and Longhorns has dropped it a notch below the other Power Five conferences ___ More AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/college-football and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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The implementation of these ICD-10 codes represents a culmination of two-years of collaborative efforts within the LGMD patient, clinical, and research communities. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 The Muscular Dystrophy Association, Coalition to Cure Calpain 3, CureLGMD2i, Jain Foundation, Kurt+Peter Foundation, LGMD Awareness Foundation, LGMD1D DNAJB6 Foundation, LGMD2i Research Fund, and Speak Foundation, who collectively serve the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) community, are pleased to announce, and celebrate the acceptance of ICD-10-CM codes for LGMD and several of its subtypes. These diagnostic codes will be fully implemented and ready for use starting this October. This significant advance could well shorten the diagnostic odyssey for individuals with LGMD, facilitate the targeted care the community needs, and accelerate surveillance and epidemiological research. In addition, this will allow individuals with LGMD to receive more precise care from specialists and participate in the variety of services and programs provided by our advocacy organizations. They should also help facilitate reimbursement by public and private insurers. "The ICD-10-CM is a system used by physicians and other healthcare providers to classify and code all diagnoses, symptoms and procedures recorded in conjunction with hospital care in the United States. The LGMDs are under-researched diseases with only limited efforts to truly capture their true prevalence and incidence. This adoption of ICD-10-CM codes for the most prevalent LGMDs should substantially accelerate the understanding of LGMD, thus also advancing efforts to better treat these diseases," says Paul Melmeyer, Vice President, Public Policy & Advocacy for MDA. This milestone is the culmination of over two years of collaborative efforts between LGMD advocacy organizations and leading LGMD clinicians and researchers. "The ability to accurately capture the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy diagnosis through specific ICD-10-CM codes is an important step forward for these conditions. These codes will support better prevalence studies and patient ascertainment for approaching therapeutic studies. Such efforts will ultimately lead to better care for our patients," says Nicholas Johnson, MD, MSCI, FAAN, Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Neurology at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Our organizations will continue to seek ICD-10-CM codes for the LGMD subtypes yet to receive their own subtype-specific code, and we will coordinate efforts to educate the medical community on the presence of these new ICD-10-CM codes and will collaborate with all relevant stakeholders to ensure their full usage in the clinical and research communities. Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is the #1 voluntary health organization in the United States for people living with muscular dystrophy, ALS, and related neuromuscular diseases. For over 70 years, MDA has led the way in accelerating research, advancing care, and advocating for the support of our families. MDA's mission is to empower the people we serve to live longer, more independent lives. To learn more visit mda.org and follow MDA on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and LinkedIn. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Muscular Dystrophy Association
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The implementation of these ICD-10 codes represents a culmination of two-years of collaborative efforts within the LGMD patient, clinical, and research communities. NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 The Muscular Dystrophy Association, Coalition to Cure Calpain 3, CureLGMD2i, Jain Foundation, Kurt+Peter Foundation, LGMD Awareness Foundation, LGMD1D DNAJB6 Foundation, LGMD2i Research Fund, and Speak Foundation, who collectively serve the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) community, are pleased to announce, and celebrate the acceptance of ICD-10-CM codes for LGMD and several of its subtypes. These diagnostic codes will be fully implemented and ready for use starting this October. This significant advance could well shorten the diagnostic odyssey for individuals with LGMD, facilitate the targeted care the community needs, and accelerate surveillance and epidemiological research. In addition, this will allow individuals with LGMD to receive more precise care from specialists and participate in the variety of services and programs provided by our advocacy organizations. They should also help facilitate reimbursement by public and private insurers. "The ICD-10-CM is a system used by physicians and other healthcare providers to classify and code all diagnoses, symptoms and procedures recorded in conjunction with hospital care in the United States. The LGMDs are under-researched diseases with only limited efforts to truly capture their true prevalence and incidence. This adoption of ICD-10-CM codes for the most prevalent LGMDs should substantially accelerate the understanding of LGMD, thus also advancing efforts to better treat these diseases," says Paul Melmeyer, Vice President, Public Policy & Advocacy for MDA. This milestone is the culmination of over two years of collaborative efforts between LGMD advocacy organizations and leading LGMD clinicians and researchers. "The ability to accurately capture the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy diagnosis through specific ICD-10-CM codes is an important step forward for these conditions. These codes will support better prevalence studies and patient ascertainment for approaching therapeutic studies. Such efforts will ultimately lead to better care for our patients," says Nicholas Johnson, MD, MSCI, FAAN, Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Neurology at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Our organizations will continue to seek ICD-10-CM codes for the LGMD subtypes yet to receive their own subtype-specific code, and we will coordinate efforts to educate the medical community on the presence of these new ICD-10-CM codes and will collaborate with all relevant stakeholders to ensure their full usage in the clinical and research communities. Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is the #1 voluntary health organization in the United States for people living with muscular dystrophy, ALS, and related neuromuscular diseases. For over 70 years, MDA has led the way in accelerating research, advancing care, and advocating for the support of our families. MDA's mission is to empower the people we serve to live longer, more independent lives. To learn more visit mda.org and follow MDA on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and LinkedIn. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Muscular Dystrophy Association
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Phillies slugger Bryce Harper had successful surgery to repair his broken left thumb on Wednesday, interim manager Rob Thomson said, but there is no timetable for his return. Philadelphia remains hopeful the 2021 NL MVP can play again this season. “It went very well,” Thomson said. Thomson deferred all other questions about the surgery to Harper, who is expected to return to Philadelphia sometime this week to address the situation. Harper was injured on Saturday night by a fastball from San Diego Padres left-hander Blake Snell. The 29-year-old Harper is batting .318 with 15 homers and 48 RBIs. ___ More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is no longer in contempt of court, a New York judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Arthur Engoron, who declared the former president in contempt on April 25 for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general, said he has now met conditions required to lift the sanction following a protracted legal battle. Trump last month paid $110,000 in fines he racked up as a result of the contempt finding. The money, paid directly to Attorney General Letitia James’ office, will continue to be held in an escrow account while Trump appeals the original contempt finding, Engoron said Wednesday. Trump and his two oldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., are scheduled to testify under oath in James’ investigation starting July 15 after the state’s highest court rejected his last-ditch attempt to avoid a subpoena. “Although we are pleased that the court has lifted the contempt finding, we maintain that it was wholly unwarranted and improper in the first place,” Trump lawyer Alina Habba said. “We will push ahead with our appeal to secure justice for our client.” A message seeking comment was left with James’ office. The attorney general asked Engoron to find Trump in contempt of court after he failed to produce any documents to satisfy a March 31 deadline to meet the terms of her subpoena. Engoron fined Trump $10,000 per day for not complying but stopped the fine from accruing in early May, when it appeared a resolution to the dispute was near. Engoron originally agreed May 11 to lift Trump’s contempt order if he paid the fines and met certain other conditions, including the submission of affidavits describing his search efforts and his company’s document retention policies. Engoron and the attorney general’s office were unsatisfied with the level of detail in Trump’s submissions, leaving the contempt finding in effect while new affidavits were prepared. The judge also required a company hired by Trump to aid in the search, HaystackID, to finish going through 17 boxes kept in off-site storage, report its findings and turn over any relevant documents. That process was completed last month, James’ office said. Engoron stopped the fine from accruing May 6, when Trump’s lawyers submitted 66 pages of court documents detailing the efforts by him and his lawyers to locate the subpoenaed records. He previously warned that he could reinstate it, retroactive to May 7, if his conditions weren’t met. James, a Democrat, has said her three-year investigation uncovered evidence that Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for over a decade. Her subpoena sought documents pertaining to his annual financial statements, development projects, and even communications with Forbes magazine, where he sought to burnish his image as a wealthy businessperson. Trump, a Republican, has denied the allegations. He has called James’ investigation “racist” and a politically motivated “witch hunt.” James is Black. Trump’s lawyers have accused her of selective prosecution. Trump’s lawyers contend James is using her civil investigation to gain access to information that could then be used against him in a parallel criminal investigation being conducted by the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, also a Democrat. A federal judge last month dismissed a lawsuit Trump brought against James, rejecting his claim that she targeted him out of political animus and allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue. At a court hearing in that matter, a lawyer for James’ office said evidence found in the probe could support legal action against the former president, his company or both. The lawyer, Andrew Amer, said at a hearing in Trump’s lawsuit against James that “there’s clearly been a substantial amount of evidence amassed that could support the filing of an enforcement proceeding,” although a final determination on filing such an action has not been made. ___ Follow Michael Sisak on Twitter at twitter.com/mikesisak
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A contingent of South Dakota Republican lawmakers on Wednesday formally announced they were forming a group billed the “South Dakota Freedom Caucus" as they try to drive politics further to the right in a Statehouse where the GOP holds every statewide office and 90% of the Legislature. In its first official statement, the caucus called for an immediate special legislative session to address the state's abortion laws. The state already has a trigger law that banned abortion last week when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, but the GOP is pushing to bolster that prohibition. Republican Gov. Kristi Noem and legislative leaders are already planning a special session, but have not said when it will be or what specific legislation will be considered. The formalization of the Freedom Caucus threatens to drive a further wedge among GOP lawmakers in Pierre. Republican House lawmakers have fought with the governor and establishment Republicans who control the Senate in recent years over issues like COVID-19 vaccine exemptions, transgender athletes, tax cuts and commercial surrogacy with hardline conservatives pushing the Legislature to take more aggressive positions. A score of the most socially conservative House Republicans has informally rallied on those issues, referring to themselves by monikers like the conservative caucus or basement caucus. They have often taken a contrarian stand and showed a willingness to defy Noem. Republican Rep. Tony Randolph, who is the Freedom Caucus vice-chair, declined to say how many lawmakers are part of the group outside its three officers. He said they were looking to recruit members, but insisted they were not splitting from the Republican caucus. “We are not trying to create a new party,” Randolph said. “We are still Republicans — nothing has changed.” But Randolph charged that the Republican Party has been infiltrated recently by Democrats-turned-Republican who do not hold to the party's platform. He added that the new caucus would look to halt the expansion of state government while promoting gun rights and “life.” “We believe that life begins at conception and ends at natural death — period,” Randolph said. House Republican leaders Reps. Kent Peterson and Chris Johnson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Freedom Caucus. Senate Republican leader Sen. Gary Cammack said he had recently learned about the caucus and declined to comment further on it.
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A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges for providing the medication, even for sexual assault victims. St. Luke’s Health Kansas City said in a statement Wednesday that it would resume offering the medication known as the morning after pill, a day after it told The Kansas City Star that its Missouri hospitals would halt emergency contraception. It did so after the state’s attorney general issued a statement stating unequivicolly that emergency contraception is not illegal under an abortion ban that was enacted minutes after Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Missouri law bans all abortions except in cases of medical emergency. “Saint Luke’s Health System is aware of and continues to closely monitor legal developments regarding Missouri’s abortion trigger law, including recent comments from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and the Governor of Missouri regarding the use of emergency contraceptives,” St. Luke’s said Wednesday. “Following further internal review, Saint Luke’s will now resume providing emergency contraceptives, under new protocols, at all Missouri-based Saint Luke’s hospitals and clinics.” The statement said the “ambiguity of the law, and the uncertainty even among state officials about what this law prohibits, continues to cause grave concern and will require careful monitoring.” Since the Supreme Court ruling, abortion rights supporters have warned about the ambiguity of some state abortion bans and that contraception could be targeted. Lawmakers in some states with majority-conservative legislatures have suggested that. Already in Idaho, emergency contraception was prohibited at school-based health clinics last year under a law banning public funding for “abortion related services.” Adding to the worries were comments from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who in a separate concurring opinion urged colleagues to overturn other high court rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and the use of contraceptives. Emergency contraception can be taken after sex and generally works by delaying or preventing ovulation. The federally approved label also says it may prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb. It’s been attacked by some abortion foes who believe life begins when an egg is fertilized. The Missouri law doesn’t mention birth control, including emergency contraceptives, which is sold under the brand name Plan B. Republican state Rep. Nick Schroer, who sponsored the bill, said the intent was never to restrict access to any contraception. “It’s not going to limit access to Plan B, and if we wanted to then that would need to be a discussion this next legislative session,” Schroer said. It’s standard practice for health care providers to offer emergency contraception to sexual assault victims. Gretchen Borchelt, vice president of reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, D.C., said it’s a “critically important part of a comprehensive medical response to sexual assault.” In its Tuesday statement to the Star, St. Luke’s spokeswoman Laurel Gifford said the hospital system “simply cannot put our clinicians in a position that might result in criminal prosecution.” Doctors convicted under the law could serve up to 15 years in prison and lose their medical licenses. St. Luke’s has 16 hospitals, some of which are in Kansas and were not impacted. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling, demand for emergency contraceptives rose so much that some retailers, including Amazon and Rite Aid, capped how many consumers can buy. “Retailers are being cautious. They are trying to manage it,” said Neil Saunders, managing director at GlobalData Retail. “But I don’t think there are chronic shortages.” Planned Parenthood health centers are experiencing an increased demand for information and family planning services, including contraception. “They’re worried birth control will be next,’’ said Kelly Hart, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood’s Dallas-based affiliate. So far, she said, the group has been able to meet the demand. “From our perspective, birth control is more important than it has ever been and we’re doing everything we can to make that available,’’ Hart said. At Wellspring online pharmacy, U.S. sales totaled about 1,000 packages a day at the weekend peak, compared with 100 to 200 daily before the ruling, Koen Mullokandov, the company’s chief operating officer, said. The fervor has subsided to about six times higher than usual, but many purchasers are still buying four to six packages at a time, clearly “stocking up,’’ Mullokandov said. “Supply is challenging because nobody was expecting this,’’ he said, adding that so far, “we have enough inventory to support the demand.’’ ___ Associated Press reporters Lindsey Tanner, Lindsay Whitehurst, David A. Lieb and Heather Hollingsworth contributed to this report.
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Watch more on Cecily's Zoo Adventures below. Cecily Tynan meets Asian forest scorpion at the Philadelphia Zoo PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Action News meteorologist Cecily Tynan meets Asian forest scorpion at the Philadelphia Zoo. Watch more on Cecily's Zoo Adventures below. Watch more on Cecily's Zoo Adventures below. ZOO ADVENTURES
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The Sheridan girls had their lowest combined round of the week to finish in 19th place out of 28 teams at the High School National Invitational on Wednesday at the Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Samantha Spielman carded a 79, her lowest round of the 54-hole tournament, to finish in a tie for 99th place with a 33-over par 247. Rounding out the Sheridan scorecard were Gabi Wright with a 261, Katie Jorgenson with a 269, Shelbi Gardner with a 287 and Libby Gardner with a 288. Wyoming finished with a combined score of 1060 after shooting a 347 on Wednesday. Georgia won the team title with an 880. Competing individually, Kelly Walsh's Carli Kalus carded a 79 to finish with a 264 and Haily Kalus had a 91 to finish with a 272. Arizona's Jennifer Seo was the individual medalist among the 220 golfers with a 3-under par 211.
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Moment Florida cops arrest man, 21, who 'slit his wife's throat, dragged her into a bathtub and played her favorite music while she bled to death' after she burned his passport - Xichen Yang was arrested on June 21 after hiding in a red car near the complex where he allegedly murdered his wife, Nhu Quynh Pham, also 21 - Bodycam footage shows officers ordering him to get out of the vehicle while pointing their guns at him - Cops say Yang confessed to slitting his wife's throat, dragging her into the bathtub and then holding her hand as she died - He told cops that he killed his wife because she burned his passport, they said - Yang was arrested and charged with first-degree premeditated murder and tampering with physical evidence - Yang reportedly told police that that he was aware he was in a rage and could have 'stopped short' but decided not to Police in Florida have released footage of the arrest of a 21-year-old man who allegedly slit his wife's throat, dragged her into a bathtub and played her favorite music while she bled to death after she burned his passport. Officers responded to a call for a wellbeing check at Charter Pointe Apartments in Altamonte Springs, a northern suburb of Orlando, at around 9.45am on June 21, bodycam footage shows. At the scene, officers and Seminole County Fire Department deputies found Nhu Quynh Pham, also 21, deceased in a pool of blood inside an apartment she shared with her husband, Xichen Yang. Yang was not in the apartment at the time of the discovery. Cops knew about the murder only after the suspect's boss at Marco Polo Pools called them and said that Yang had confessed to killing his wife because she had burned his passport and could not attend work. He admitted to his wife's gruesome murder for a second time during his arrest, providing details of the knife he used in the stabbing, how she crawled down the hallway, and then how he dragged her into the bathtub. Yang was handcuffed and taken into custody, where he admitted to officers to having drowned his wife down in the bathwater for at least 10 minutes, as he 'played her favorite music,' and 'held her hand' as she was dying Bodycam footage from police officers' body camera on June 21 recorded the arrest of Xichen Yang , 21, who allegedly slit his wife's throat and played her favorite music while she was dying in an apartment that they were sharing in Altamonte Springs, a northern suburb of Orlando In a complaint filed in relation to the crime, Yang admits to have his wife down in the bathwater for at least 10 minutes, as he 'played her favorite music,' and 'held her hand' until she died. AN officer is seen searching his pockets during his arrest Yang has since been charged with first-degree murder and evidence tamperin and told cops that he killed his wife because she had burned his passport In a complaint filed in relation to the crime, Yang admits to have his wife down in the bathwater for at least 10 minutes, as he 'played her favorite music,' and 'held her hand' until she died. Footage from last week's arrest shows an officer diriving into the gate apartment complex, where he eventually links up with several other officers who already have their Glock firearms pointed at Yang, who appears to be inside a parked red Subaru. Yang was ordered to get out of the car and was immediately handcuffed after police officers opened the driver's car door. He was patted down, and helped with to take off what seems to be a dog tag before being taken into custody without issue. He was later charged with first degree premeditated murder and tampering with physical evidence.' Nhu Quynh Pham, also 21, was stabbed to death by Yang after he claimed he flew into a rage when she burned his passport A photo of the young victim, Nhu Quynh Pham. Her boyfriend confessed to having murdered her by telling his employer at Marco Polo Pools, in Orlando, citing it as a reason for not coming into work After Pham died, Yang started to clean the pools of blood splattered all over the walls and floor before going to his car. Police said the victim sustained a 'deep laceration to the left side of her neck' and her stomach had 'pooled with blood,' according to Law & Crime. Yang added that he flew into a rage after Pham burned his passport, and he could have 'stopped short' but decided not to. He told authorities that was 'not how he was raised' and that he is the type of person who always 'goes all the way,' the complaint stated, Law & Crime reported. Pham, the victim, was from Vietnam. A GoFundMe has been created to help raise money to assist Pham's family for funeral expenses, and to help transport her back to her country. Altamonte Springs Police Department was doing a welfare check on Monday morning when the came up on the grisly murder scene. Yang was not present at the time. Police located him and he was placed in custody without incident As of Wednesday, nearly $33, 380 has been raised, far exceeding their goal of $10,000. Michael Rathal, who was Yang's boss, was the person who called 911 and told the dispatcher that Yang claimed he had just killed his wife, according to the complaint, the news outlet reproted. 'Yang called Rathel's son, Michael Cole Rathel, and informed him he had stabbed his wife, killing her, and was attempting to clean up the evidence,' the elder Rathel allegedly told the dispatcher.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — After the city's cannabis business tax measure failed by a narrow margin, the Huntington Beach City Council plans to bring the initiative back to the table next week. At its next city council meeting Tuesday, the council plans to discuss whether to ask voters, again, to adopt a special tax on cannabis businesses, the first step to allowing pot shops and manufacturers to operate in the city in the upcoming November election. The council decided to table the discussion at its last meeting and will discuss the issue Tuesday. "It's apparent that residents support the tax and [implicitly] support commercial cannabis in Huntington Beach," said Dan Kalmack, a Huntington Beach council member, Wednesday to Spectrum News. "We've had all but no opposition in our many public meetings on the matter. We're still working on the how, not the if." Measure A failed to get the supermajority votes needed in the recent June election cycle. The measure would place a 6% tax on cannabis retailers and up to 1% on other types of cannabis operations, such as manufacturing and distribution. The city currently prohibits cannabis businesses. City officials estimated the tax money from cannabis businesses could add $300,000 to $600,000 annually to the city's coffers, earmarking the money to fund police and homeless and behavioral health services. More than 49,000 registered voters voted on the measure. More than 64% voted in favor of it. Meanwhile, 35% voted against it. The initiative needed at least 66% to pass. "The special tax measure in June required two-thirds to pass," said Kalmack. "We came up just short but well above a majority 50% needed to pass in November." Kalmack said no one anticipated a 35% voter turnout, and they brought the initiative to the June election hoping for a 50% to 60% turnout. Only two cities in Orange County allow commercial retail cannabis: Santa Ana and Costa Mesa. Kalmack hopes cannabis retail could help revitalize Huntington Beach's retail economy. "Huntington Beach is in the driver seat, and I want professional, established organizations that employ HB workers with good jobs and can revitalize our languishing strip malls and shopping centers around town but mostly down Beach Boulevard," he said.
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2022-06-29T23:12:22Z
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SCHERERVILLE — Schererville authorities have alerted residents of a theft scam that has happened multiple times near businesses in town. Police said the criminal activity had been ongoing Wednesday morning and afternoon throughout town. The Schererville Police Department released surveillance images Wednesday of two women and a man they believe are involved in the scam. Two people have been reportedly approaching people in parking lots of businesses while holding cash in their hands. When the scammers ask whether the victims have dropped cash on the ground, they ask the victims to check if they have all of their cash. As the victims get their wallets out, the scammers steal the wallet or credit cards from the wallet. Police said this has happened twice Wednesday in the Schererville Walmart parking lot. One woman involved is described as having darker skin, is possibly Hispanic and speaks English imperfectly. The other woman was only described as having blonde hair. Valpo man accused of having sex with 15-year-old co-worker, court records show New era for school choice in Indiana begins Monday Valpo-area dad finds kids naked with babysitter; family friend charged, police say Defendant shot man 5 times in head during marijuana deal, court records allege Man found shot to death in idling car, police say Woman set up underage sex party at Portage hotel; more charges expected in case injuring officers, cops say Drunken driver was topping 105 mph, Porter County police say Man with a gun shot by Gary officer, police say Chicago Stamping Plant temporarily laying off workers this summer Valpo man guilty of molesting 8-year-old; rape case pending, officials say UPDATE: Man dies after going into waves to help teen in distress, officials say Porter County police release photos of wanted man Man accused of shooting into Schererville home, forcing woman to help him hide gun Region family anchors Culver's in Lake County Just keep your returns: Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items "Please stay vigilant and always be aware of your surroundings," police said. Anyone who has had contact with the people in the photos is asked to call the Schererville Police Department at 219-322-5000. Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail Bradley Warmac Age : 31 Residence: Lansing, IL Booking Number(s): 2205415 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING - W/NO INTENT OF FELONY THEFT Highest Offense Class: Felony Timothy Watkins Age : 26 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205422 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY Highest Offense Class: Felony Ronald Woods Age : 33 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205429 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE Highest Offense Class: Felony Robert Talley Age : 34 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205441 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Felony Nathan Thomas Age : 32 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205424 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT Highest Offense Class: Felony Randall Valle Age : 29 Residence: Hammond, IN Booking Number(s): 2205418 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: INTIMIDATION Highest Offense Class: Felony Jason Mosqueda Age : 21 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205411 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Jamey Oskins Age : 35 Residence: Indianapolis, IN Booking Number(s): 2205442 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE Highest Offense Class: Felony Freddie Meeks III Age : 37 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205426 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY Highest Offense Class: Felony Kevin Haywood Age : 45 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205423 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD Highest Offense Class: Felony Dontrell Henderson Jr. Age : 24 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205444 Arrest Date: June 24, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Felony Cortez Henley Age : 18 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205437 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT Highest Offense Class: Felony James Kelly III Age : 27 Residence: Crown Point, IN Booking Number(s): 2205421 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - W/PRIOR CONVICTION Highest Offense Class: Felony Alison Cook Age : 32 Residence: Crown Point, IN Booking Number(s): 2205434 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Felony Justin Davis Age : 34 Residence: Blue Island, IL Booking Number(s): 2205432 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Maria Dorsey Age : 31 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205416 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - PROMOTING PROSTITUTION Highest Offense Class: Felony Roger Burrell Age : 52 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205425 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: ROBBERY; POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG Highest Offense Class: Felonies Kevin Ballard Age : 61 Residence: Griffith, IN Booking Number(s): 2205410 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: STRANGULATION Highest Offense Class: Felony Nicole Bottoms Age : 45 Residence: Whiting, IN Booking Number(s): 2205428 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor Thomas Mason Age : 27 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205394 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE Highest Offense Class: Felony Lauren Milby Age : 23 Residence: Crown Point, IN Booking Number(s): 2205377 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE Highest Offense Class: Felony William Montgomery Age : 40 Residence: Hammond, IN Booking Number(s): 2205400 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Paris Spencer Age : 38 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205388 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING Highest Offense Class: Felony Jamale Henderson Age : 34 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205376 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Felony Rahmere Dunn Age : 23 Residence: Whiting, IN Booking Number(s): 2205379 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER Highest Offense Class: Felony Prince Elston II Age : 19 Residence: Markham, IL Booking Number(s): 2205393 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE Highest Offense Class: Felony Josigha Coleman Age : 25 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205399 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Corey Brewer Age : 23 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205401 Arrest Date: June 23, 2022 Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS Highest Offense Class: Felonies Antrell Blissett Jr. Age : 24 Residence: Lima, OH Booking Number(s): 2205387 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor Alexis Robinson Age : 36 Residence: Calumet City, IN Booking Number(s): 2205347 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL Highest Offense Class: Felony Brian Stafford Age : 46 Residence: Lake Station, IN Booking Number(s): 2205371 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL Highest Offense Class: Felony Brian Stotts Age : 49 Residence: New Lenox, IL Booking Number(s): 2205364 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750 Highest Offense Class: Felony Kyle Turnquist Age : 28 Residence: Highland, IN Booking Number(s): 2205374 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - SCHEDULE I Highest Offense Class: Felony Joshua Vargo Age : 38 Residence: Lowell, IN Booking Number(s): 2205363 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG Highest Offense Class: Felonies Jeremiah Perez Age : 42 Residence: Grand Rapids, MI Booking Number(s): 2205355 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY Highest Offense Class: Felony Cody Qualls Age : 33 Residence: Crown Point, IN Booking Number(s): 2205360 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE Highest Offense Class: Felony Anthony Paglis Age : 40 Residence: Griffith, IN Booking Number(s): 2205373 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Felony Desmond Lewis Age : 32 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205348 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON Highest Offense Class: Felony Cecilia Marines Age : 30 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205346 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Anthony Moss Age : 52 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205344 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750; MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT Highest Offense Class: Felonies Jeffrey Jackson Age : 30 Residence: Westminster, CO Booking Number(s): 2205350 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG Highest Offense Class: Felony James Ellis Jr. Age : 58 Residence: South Bend, IN Booking Number(s): 2205354 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL Highest Offense Class: Felony Lloyd Grant III Age : 51 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205345 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Mykia Green Age : 26 Residence: Schererville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205358 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: CONFINEMENT Highest Offense Class: Felony Isaiah Cross Sr. Age : 42 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205356 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY Highest Offense Class: Felony Diandre Cassidy Age : 33 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205369 Arrest Date: June 22, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Donte Paulk Age : 40 Residence: Lake Station, IN Booking Number(s): 2205341 Arrest Date: June 21, 2022 Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE Highest Offense Class: Felonies Randall Wingis Age : 59 Residence: Cedar Lake, IN Booking Number(s): 2205340 Arrest Date: June 20, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Alexia Brown Age : 26 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205333 Arrest Date: June 20, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL Highest Offense Class: Felony Elijah Dillon-Bombin Age : 21 Residence: Crown Point, IN Booking Number(s): 2205335 Arrest Date: June 20, 2022 Offense Description: INTIMIDATION; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor Laron Major Age : 19 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205321 Arrest Date: June 20, 2022 Offense Description: ROBBERY Highest Offense Class: Felony Eric Blain Age : 27 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205334 Arrest Date: June 20, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor David Toler Age : 56 Residence: Frankfort, IN Booking Number(s): 2205298 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER Highest Offense Class: Felony Porshaue Shelley Age : 31 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205303 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000; FALSE IDENTIFICATION TO POLICE or FALSE INFO OF EMERGENCY Highest Offense Class: Felonies Ivan Santillan Popoca Age : 20 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205300 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL Highest Offense Class: Felony Adam Summers Age : 37 Residence: Dyer, IN Booking Number(s): 2205314 Arrest Date: June 20, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Felony Kenneth McCammon Age : 42 Residence: Schneider, IN Booking Number(s): 2205309 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING Highest Offense Class: Felony Terry Millender Age : 54 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205301 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY Highest Offense Class: Felony Gerald Purkey Age : 34 Residence: Hobart, IN Booking Number(s): 2205299 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE Highest Offense Class: Felonies Damontae Reed Age : 21 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205297 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Felony Deon Hayes Age : 30 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205312 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER Highest Offense Class: Felony Gilbert Herrera Age : 63 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205313 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Jason Fisher Age : 39 Residence: Aurora, IL Booking Number(s): 2205304 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Danielle Vann Age : 29 Residence: Hebron, IN Booking Number(s): 2205275 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG Highest Offense Class: Felony Carl Payne Age : 30 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205270 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Joshua Serrano Age : 28 Residence: South Holland, IN Booking Number(s): 2205279 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Lamont Murdaugh Age : 22 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205272 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: 2205272 Highest Offense Class: Felony Daron Lynch Age : 40 Residence: Wheatfield, IN Booking Number(s): 2205287 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Michael Hitchcock Age : 43 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205257 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750 Highest Offense Class: Felony Felix DeLeon Age : 46 Residence: South Bend, IN Booking Number(s): 2205274 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor JeJuan Graham Age : 36 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205276 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL Highest Offense Class: Felony Chauncey Hackett Jr. Age : 31 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205294 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE Highest Offense Class: Felony Shahid Coleman Age : 31 Residence: Hammond, iN Booking Number(s): 2205285 Arrest Date: June 19, 2022 Offense Description: WEAPON - USE - FIREARM - POINTING A FIREARM Highest Offense Class: Felony Michael Curtis Age : 41 Residence: St. John, IN Booking Number(s): 2205280 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Katie Birks Age : 27 Residence: Colbert, GA Booking Number(s): 2205258 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750 Highest Offense Class: Felony Marcus Clay Age : 34 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205264 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Kathleen Clayton Age : 66 Residence: Sheldon, IL Booking Number(s): 2205282 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Richard Wisniewski Jr. Age : 50 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205213 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY Highest Offense Class: Felony Lakissa Taylor Age : 41 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205244 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Tavarrus Wilson Age : 44 Residence: Hammond, IN Booking Number(s): 2205227 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: ROBBERY Highest Offense Class: Felony William Watts III Age : 22 Residence: Hobart, IN Booking Number(s): 2205246 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - SEXUAL BATTERY Highest Offense Class: Felony Kevin Rosolowski Jr. Age : 31 Residence: Hobart, IN Booking Number(s): 2205215 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: RAPE - INTERCOURSE; CONFINEMENT - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Felonies Eliseo Pena Jr. Age : 42 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205219 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Felony Sothan Pickett Age : 48 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205238 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG Highest Offense Class: Felony Jose Torres Oquendo Age : 51 Residence: East Chicago, IN Booking Number(s): 2205230 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG Highest Offense Class: Felony Angel Morales Age : 41 Residence: Crown Point, IN Booking Number(s): 2205217 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD Highest Offense Class: Felony Darius Nelson Age : 29 Residence: Lynwood, IL Booking Number(s): 2205224 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FROM BUILDING - $750 TO $50,000 Highest Offense Class: Felony Shefiu Ogunlana Age : 39 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205220 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON Highest Offense Class: Felony Nathan Lunford IV Age : 41 Residence: Calumet City, IL Booking Number(s): 2205226 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG Highest Offense Class: Felony Melvin Macon Jr. Age : 32 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205218 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY Highest Offense Class: Felony Deja Miller Age : 26 Residence: Whiting, IN Booking Number(s): 2205242 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: INTIMIDATION - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Felony Devan Landfair Age : 27 Residence: Calumet City, IL Booking Number(s): 2205228 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD; BURGLARY Highest Offense Class: Felonies Ronald Kelley Jr. Age : 48 Residence: Crown Point, IN Booking Number(s): 2205212 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER Highest Offense Class: Felony Timothy Lane Age : 23 Residence: Portage, IN Booking Number(s): 2205222 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - INDECENT EXPOSURE Highest Offense Class: Felony Arturo Gurrola Age : 22 Residence: Hammond, IN Booking Number(s): 2205241 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: CONFINEMENT - SIMPLE Highest Offense Class: Felony Untonise Harper Age : 49 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205247 Arrest Date: June 18, 2022 Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG Highest Offense Class: Felony Ruben Herrera Age : 38 Residence: Elgin, IL Booking Number(s): 2205245 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Demetrius Brown Age : 27 Residence: Chicago, IL Booking Number(s): 2205229 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000 Highest Offense Class: Felony David Coley Age : 55 Residence: Gary, IN Booking Number(s): 2205236 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Isaiah Escutia Age : 23 Residence: Calumet City, IL Booking Number(s): 2205232 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: BATTERY RESULTING IN BODILY INJURY Highest Offense Class: Felony Benjamen Baso Age : 44 Residence: Merrillville, IN Booking Number(s): 2205251 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: OWI Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor Kewuan Allen Age : 24 Residence: Chicago Heights, IL Booking Number(s): 2205225 Arrest Date: June 17, 2022 Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750 Highest Offense Class: Felony Sign up for our Crime & Courts newsletter Get the latest in local public safety news with this weekly email.
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2022-06-29T23:14:14Z
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MUNCIE, Ind. — A 95-year old former Boy Scout camp is going up for auction, offering the chance to own some Hoosier history and continue providing a space for outdoor recreation. Camp Red Wing will hit the auction block August 16. The 138 acre site was operated by the Boy Scouts of America for almost a century until its sale in 2019. The camp and woodland area changed hands again before being bought in December of 2021 by a real estate investor in Nebraska. The camp is located on the southeast side of Muncie, Indiana along the White River. It is being auctioned off by Fine & Company, a real estate auction service. “The camp has hosted tens of thousands of campers who sometimes were second or third-generation attendees,” said Fine & Company President Michael A. Fine. “Anyone lucky enough to have spent time at a camp knows it is where life skills are learned, principles are established, and character is defined to shape and impact a person’s future.” The property will be sold in two tracts, with the White River acting as a natural divider. Tract A consists of Camp Red Wing, a 63 acre camp with picnic shelters, campsites, hiking trails and several buildings to support outdoor recreation. It is located on the northern shore of the White River. The camp buildings include the Red Wing Lodge, its dining and meeting hall, Eagle Knob and a historic log cabin. According to the auction service, there is a $495,000 minimum bid for Tract A. Tract B of the site is 75 acres of agricultural and wooded land on the southern shore of the White River. It includes 35 acres of leased tillable land and a half-mile of shoreline along the river. The minimum bid for Tract B is $750,000. Bidding will be open to either individual tract or the entirety. Sealed bids can be submitted by the day of the auction. The auction itself is described as a rare opportunity for “a religious, non-profit, or educational organization to acquire the camp and continue its use for their organization.” The property is available for inspection by appointment on July 13, 20 and August 3. For more information you can check out the auction listing website.
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2022-06-29T23:14:42Z
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TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. — In honor of our four-legged heroes, the City of Temple Terrace and the Nam Knights of Westside Motorcycle Club unveiled a new K-9 memorial. The memorial, unveiled at Temple Terrace City Hall, features a bronze statue of Aramis, a Temple Terrace K-9 whose watch ended on June 17, 2021. The Nam Knights raised approximately $30,000 to build the memorial. “A law enforcement K-9 stands ready each and every time they go out, to give everything that they have, including their lives, to protect their partner, to protect all of us, and to protect the citizens we serve,” Temple Terrace Police Chief Ken Albano said during the unveiling ceremony. Temple Terrace Mayor Andy Ross, who served with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit for almost eight years, spoke at the unveiling ceremony, sharing his experiences of his time as an officer. “I could not be more proud, to be standing here, as the mayor, as a former K-9 handler,” Ross said. The monument is surrounded by bricks engraved with the names of 34 K-9s who have reached their end of watch. Gold stars will be used to designate dogs that have died in the line of duty. More bricks will be added when additional names are collected. Just this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that creates the Care for Retired Police Dogs Program. The new law will provide retired law enforcement K-9s in Florida access to more care as they live out the rest of their days out of service.
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2022-06-29T23:18:34Z
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Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse chain in the world. When customers want to get their morning coffee fix, they can choose between several hot cup sizes: tall, grande and venti. (That’s small, medium and large for those who prefer Dunkin’.) VERIFY viewer Joan recently sent our team a video from Facebook that claims that paying more for a bigger cup of coffee at Starbucks is a scam because the chain’s tall, grande, and venti cup sizes all hold the same amount of liquid. There are also several other videos online making the same claim, including this viral TikTok with over 20 million views posted in early June by rapper and singer Sueco. THE QUESTION Do all Starbucks hot cup sizes hold the same amount of liquid? THE SOURCES - Starbucks - Starbucks spokesperson - TikTok video posted by Starbucks baristas - VERIFY’s own check of Starbucks hot cup sizes THE ANSWER No, all Starbucks hot cup sizes do not hold the same amount of liquid. WHAT WE FOUND On Starbucks’ website, the coffee chain lists the volumes of its cups, which differ for each size. The smaller sizes hold less liquid and the larger sizes hold more liquid, according to the website measurements: - Short (for hot and cold): 8 fl. oz. - Tall (for hot and cold): 12 fl. oz. - Grande (for hot and cold): 16 fl. oz. - Venti Hot: 20 fl. oz. - Venti Cold: 24 fl. oz. - Trenta Cold: 31 fl. oz. A Starbucks spokesperson also debunked the social media claims. “A Tall holds 12 ounces, a Grande holds 16 ounces, and a Venti holds 20 ounces,” the spokesperson said in an email. The spokesperson also told VERIFY that the company’s “hot cup sizes have not changed.” To test the theory for ourselves, VERIFY went to a local Starbucks and ordered three drinks in the tall, grande, and venti sizes. We then measured how much liquid was in each cup. The tall came to a cup and half, which is 12 fluid ounces; the grande contained 2 cups, which is 16 fluid ounces; and the venti held about 2 and a half cups, which is 20 fluid ounces. In a side-by-side video shared on TikTok a few days after Sueco’s original video, a pair of Starbucks baristas conducted a similar test and also got the same results as VERIFY. Sueco claimed in a follow-up video that Starbucks sent him a cease-and-desist letter in reference to the claims he made in his original video. The letter features several typos and an incorrect Starbucks logo. Starbucks confirmed to VERIFY that the company did not send a cease-and-desist letter to Sueco.
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2022-06-29T23:18:34Z
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It’s been 100 years since the El Dorado Municipal Band starting playing every summer and this year they are in total celebration mode! They have free concerts for the public every Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. and look forward to having lots of community members come and check out all that they have to offer. We spoke with a couple members of the El Dorado band and they said they are excited and ready for another summer of playing music.
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2022-06-29T23:22:43Z
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NEW YORK (AP) — “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” writer-director Rian Johnson’s follow-up to his whodunit hit “Knives Out,” will premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The Canadian festival announced Wednesday that “Glass Onion” will make its world premiere at the 47th edition of TIFF, running Sept. 8-18. “Knives Out” also launched in Toronto, in 2019. While “Knives Out” was released by Lionsgate, Netflix last year bought two sequels for $450 million. The streamer will release the film in late 2022. In “Glass Onion,” Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for a new mystery. It co-stars Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick and Madelyn Cline.
https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-to-debut-at-tiff/
2022-06-29T23:25:45Z
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A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges for providing the medication, even for sexual assault victims. St. Luke’s Health Kansas City said in a statement Wednesday that it would resume offering the medication known as the morning after pill, a day after it told The Kansas City Star that its Missouri hospitals would halt emergency contraception. It did so after the state’s attorney general issued a statement stating unequivicolly that emergency contraception is not illegal under an abortion ban that was enacted minutes after Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Missouri law bans all abortions except in cases of medical emergency. “Saint Luke’s Health System is aware of and continues to closely monitor legal developments regarding Missouri’s abortion trigger law, including recent comments from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and the Governor of Missouri regarding the use of emergency contraceptives,” St. Luke’s said Wednesday. “Following further internal review, Saint Luke’s will now resume providing emergency contraceptives, under new protocols, at all Missouri-based Saint Luke’s hospitals and clinics.” The statement said the “ambiguity of the law, and the uncertainty even among state officials about what this law prohibits, continues to cause grave concern and will require careful monitoring.” Since the Supreme Court ruling, abortion rights supporters have warned about the ambiguity of some state abortion bans and that contraception could be targeted. Lawmakers in some states with majority-conservative legislatures have suggested that. Already in Idaho, emergency contraception was prohibited at school-based health clinics last year under a law banning public funding for “abortion related services.” Adding to the worries were comments from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who in a separate concurring opinion urged colleagues to overturn other high court rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and the use of contraceptives. Emergency contraception can be taken after sex and generally works by delaying or preventing ovulation. The federally approved label also says it may prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb. It’s been attacked by some abortion foes who believe life begins when an egg is fertilized. The Missouri law doesn’t mention birth control, including emergency contraceptives, which is sold under the brand name Plan B. Republican state Rep. Nick Schroer, who sponsored the bill, said the intent was never to restrict access to any contraception. “It’s not going to limit access to Plan B, and if we wanted to then that would need to be a discussion this next legislative session,” Schroer said. It’s standard practice for health care providers to offer emergency contraception to sexual assault victims. Gretchen Borchelt, vice president of reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, D.C., said it’s a “critically important part of a comprehensive medical response to sexual assault.” In its Tuesday statement to the Star, St. Luke’s spokeswoman Laurel Gifford said the hospital system “simply cannot put our clinicians in a position that might result in criminal prosecution.” Doctors convicted under the law could serve up to 15 years in prison and lose their medical licenses. St. Luke’s has 16 hospitals, some of which are in Kansas and were not impacted. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling, demand for emergency contraceptives rose so much that some retailers, including Amazon and Rite Aid, capped how many consumers can buy. “Retailers are being cautious. They are trying to manage it,” said Neil Saunders, managing director at GlobalData Retail. “But I don’t think there are chronic shortages.” Planned Parenthood health centers are experiencing an increased demand for information and family planning services, including contraception. “They’re worried birth control will be next,’’ said Kelly Hart, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood’s Dallas-based affiliate. So far, she said, the group has been able to meet the demand. “From our perspective, birth control is more important than it has ever been and we’re doing everything we can to make that available,’’ Hart said. At Wellspring online pharmacy, U.S. sales totaled about 1,000 packages a day at the weekend peak, compared with 100 to 200 daily before the ruling, Koen Mullokandov, the company’s chief operating officer, said. The fervor has subsided to about six times higher than usual, but many purchasers are still buying four to six packages at a time, clearly “stocking up,’’ Mullokandov said. “Supply is challenging because nobody was expecting this,’’ he said, adding that so far, “we have enough inventory to support the demand.’’ ___ Associated Press reporters Lindsey Tanner, Lindsay Whitehurst, David A. Lieb and Heather Hollingsworth contributed to this report.
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2022-06-29T23:26:32Z
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim who initiated the hunt want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Documents are kept inside boxes by decade, he said, but there was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29, 1955, might have been. “They narrowed it down between the ‘50s and ’60s and got lucky,” said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine. The search was started by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and included two members of Till’s family: Cousin Deborah Watts, head of the Foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts. They want authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham, who at the time of the slaying was married to one of two white men tried and acquitted just weeks after Till was abducted from a relative’s home, killed and dumped into a river. “Serve it and charge her,” Teri Watts told the AP in an interview. Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money, Mississippi. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till whistled at the woman, which flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era. Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham was publicized at the time, but the Leflore County sheriff told reporters he did not want to “bother” the woman since she had two young children to care for. Now in her 80s and most recently living in North Carolina, Donham has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution. But Teri Watts said the Till family believes the warrant accusing Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence. “This is what the state of Mississippi needs to go ahead,” she said. District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, whose office would prosecute a case, declined comment on the warrant but cited a December report about the Till case from the Justice Department, which said no prosecution was possible. Contacted by the AP on Wednesday, Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks said: “This is the first time I’ve known about a warrant.” Banks, who was 7 years old when Till was killed, said “nothing was said about a warrant” when a former district attorney investigated the case five or six years ago. “I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the DA and get their opinion on it,” Banks said. If the warrant can still be served, Banks said, he would have to talk to law enforcement officers in the state where Donham resides. Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly would not pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the University of Mississippi. But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant “absolutely” could be an important stepping stone toward establishing probable cause to initiate a new prosecution, he said. “If you went in front of a judge you could say, ‘Once upon a time a judge determined there was probable cause, and much more information is available today,’” Rychlak said. Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he entered the store where Donham, then 21, was working on Aug. 24, 1955. A Till relative who was there at the time, Wheeler Parker, told AP that Till whistled at the woman. Donham testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made a lewd comment. Two nights later, Donham’s then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, showed up armed at the rural Leflore County home of Till’s great-uncle, Mose Wright, looking for the youth. Till’s brutalized body, weighted down by a fan, was pulled from a river days later in another county. His mother’s decision to open the casket so mourners in Chicago could see what had happened helped galvanize the building civil rights movement of the time. Bryant and Milam were acquitted of murder but later admitted the killing in a magazine interview. While both men were named in the same warrant that accused Donham of kidnapping, authorities did not pursue the case following their acquittal. Wright testified during the murder trial that a person with a voice “lighter” than a man’s identified Till from inside a pickup truck and the abductors took him away from the family home. Other evidence in FBI files indicates that earlier that same night, Donham told her husband that at least two other Black men were not the right person.
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2022-06-29T23:28:01Z
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WIMBLEDON, England — How weird that the British lost two big, booming, second-round matches late Wednesday on Centre Court. How telling that the whole thing felt weird. “I could have had a good run here,” said Murray, the 2013 and 2016 champion, after he lost 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (3-7), 6-4 to the 36 aces of the 6-foot-10 ace-walloper John Isner, No. 24 in the world, a 37-year-old American statuesque in both height and mobility. "I’ve been asked this question in every press conference,” said Raducanu, after she lost 6-3, 6-3 to No. 55-ranked Caroline Garcia of France, nine months after Raducanu delivered a stunning win at the 2021 U.S. Open. She said, “There’s no pressure. Like, why is there any pressure? I’m still 19. Like, it’s a joke. I literally won a Slam.” They spoke at a Wimbledon in which the sporting entity that goes by “Great Britain” sent 10 players into the second round — six male, four female — the most since 1984, when the 10 winners included Virginia Wade, Jo Durie, Anne Hobbs and that eventual TV star Sue Barker. They spoke after a sporting nation representing a set of nations in one country has transformed itself to where its relationship with losing, once adorable and lampooned, has gone kaput. It washed away merrily in a decade-long deluge of Murray and Lewis Hamilton and the 2019 Cricket World Cup and the 2018 World Cup semifinals and the Euro 2021 final and Raducanu at the 2021 U.S. Open and 196 medals in the past three Summer Olympics and enough stuff to busy a Queen trying to give out all the new titles. There’s also Wales. Wales is in the 2022 men’s World Cup. So when Murray lost the closing match in great clamor, when he saw a late love-30 break chance get blasted to smithereens with a 134-mph ace, a 133-mph ace and a 136-mph service winner, it just rang differently all around from when, say, a generation ago, when Tim Henman used to lose gamely in late rounds as the lone hope out there. And when Raducanu lost just before Murray, well, she did win that U.S. Open as an afterthought even amid her own nationality. “One person sees one person does well, then another believes that they can do well, too,” said Harriet Dart, a player ranked No. 94 who romped through her first round. “For me,” said Liam Broady, the No. 132-ranked player who nudged through his first round in five sets, “the most exciting thing now is that we have like this plethora of talent coming through. All these young guys are driving each other on.” He spoke of Paul Jubb, 22 and ranked No. 219, who helped coax Court No. 3 into roars audible around the grounds Tuesday during his thin 3-6, 6-1, 7-5, 6-7 (2-7), 7-5 loss to the famed and infamous Australian Nick Krygios. “Normally,” Broady said, “you’d see someone going up against a Kyrgios like myself in Australia. You think a bit of a lamb to slaughter [and it was a straight-set loss five months ago]. Whereas Paul went out there and probably comes off the court feeling like he could have won it. We’ve got another seven, eight Brits that sort of age that are coming through. It’s an exciting time.” Now they seem to play with hope above fear all around the grounds, and rather than feeling the brunt of whatever national pressure is left over after soccer hogs most of it, they share that brunt. They’re perfectly capable of dragging out a 24-year-old guy with a giant smile, Alastair Gray, who has zoomed from No. 523 to No. 288 in the rankings, have him win a first-round match and say, “We’re all spurring each other on,” and, “Yeah, maybe it hasn’t been like that in the past,” and, “We’re all just going out and playing very free, which is dangerous.” Check back a generation to Wimbledon 2002, when Henman roamed the grassy earth and the outdoor video viewing area got the name “Henman Hill,” and the British had two men in the top 100 and five in the top 200, zero women in the top 100 and two in the top 200. (Henman ranked No. 5.) Now those numbers are four and seven on the men’s side, two and six on the women’s side (including both No. 11 players of the moment, Raducanu and Cameron Norrie). They’ve got Murray at No. 52 after he ventured to No. 3 before his physiological ordeal of recent years, and he’s saying, “I really want to try and improve my ranking to a level where I’m getting seeded in Slams.” Being seeded would help avoid a seeded mainstay in his 54th major tournament as is Isner, even as Isner stood 0-8 against Murray coming in. It would help avoid losing to the near-the-lines services of an Isner, who would say, “I don’t have too many weapons at my disposal to do anything different. I have one big weapon, right? I need that to be working.” Maybe it would be a later round before an on-court interviewer would ask Isner how he managed to keep his head when the fans around him were losing theirs, to which Isner replied, as follows: “I served.” The remaining crowd laughed. Nobody minds a little drollness around here. “Yeah,” Murray said, “it’s one of those matches that, had I got through, who knows what would have happened.” He said, “It definitely, definitely hurts,” and it carried the plaintive sound of a great champion trying to get back there. It’s not even really all that alarming, at least to the rational, that Raducanu has gone out in the second round in each of this year’s Grand Slams, or that there’s a hypothesis afoot that players have figured out more about her now that there’s plenty of videotape. “My coach did,” Garcia said. “I didn’t.” Then: “Big secrets. I will not tell you.” “I just didn’t have enough ball speed today,” Raducanu said. The crowd did have enough mustard, though, another case of a tenor different from yore — less desperate, surer they can implore their players to victory. They tried like mad Wednesday, but it didn’t quite work, so they cheered off Raducanu to her quick wave around 5:30 p.m., and they cheered off Murray as he waved and turned and turned and waved around 9:30 p.m. Then they made off, perhaps for drinks, still better than they used to have.
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2022-06-29T23:28:51Z
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- Consumers prioritizing affordability over sustainability for the first time since the mid- pandemic - Western markets pessimistic on future economic outlook compared to emerging markets - Growing challenges for fast fashion and customer retention as 64% of consumers ignore the latest fashion trends LONDON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers globally are preparing to hunker down for a long financial squeeze, as the increasing cost of living and geopolitical uncertainties push them to seek financial control amid low economic confidence, according to the latest EY Future Consumer Index (FCI). The 10th edition of the global research of 18,000 consumers, conducted between 18 May to 7 June 2022, finds that 79% of consumers say their finances are a concern, with 62% expecting their living costs to increase even further over the next six months. These concerns over personal finances are affecting the majority of all income levels, from low income (87%) middle class (77%) to high income (64%). With consumer confidence shrinking, the research reveals a significantly pessimistic economic outlook from the Western markets when compared to emerging/other markets. Many more consumers from the US (54%), UK (65%) Germany (84%) and France (85%) state they believe life will remain the same or worse over the next three years, compared to Brazil (21%), India (24%), Saudi Arabia (37%) and China (38%). With this continued "always-on emergency mindset" adopted from the pandemic, consumers globally are increasingly focusing on controlling their spending and re-adjusting priorities to maintain their values and lifestyles in the face of disruption. With living costs spiraling each week, the FCI research shows that consumers are demanding affordability, as more than one in three consumers (35%) say they are worried about having enough money to spend on things other than living expenses. Consumers are not simply trading down on their essentials to cut costs, but instead are trying new brands (33%) and switching to private label or "owned brands" (21%), ultimately exposing one-third of a brand's addressable market to risk. Kristina Rogers, EY Global Consumer Leader, says: "As talk of a looming recession increases in many markets globally, consumer businesses are bracing themselves for further economic pressures. Much like during the pandemic, consumers are quickly pivoting their priorities and adapting to disruption, but are now increasingly pessimistic about the economic outlook, in particular among European markets." Sustaining sustainability versus trends Despite increasing momentum and pressures to live in a more environmentally friendly way, consumers' efforts are being stunted by the rising cost of living. Sixty-seven percent of global respondents say the high price of sustainable goods and products is significantly putting them off from buying them. However, consumer sentiment toward sustainability has improved compared to May 2021: fewer associate sustainable products with low quality (67% May 2021 vs. 58% May/June 2022) or poor durability (58% vs. 50%) and more are increasingly trusting the information about sustainable products from the companies that make them (lack of trust decreased from 59% to 51%). Consumers are seeking new methods of conscious consumption with 87% of respondents trying not to waste food and 36% saying they will buy more secondhand products, up from 30% in February 2022. Driven by the current demand for affordability, consumers are substituting non-essential spending categories and looking for alternatives, making what they have more sustainable. Sixty-four percent of global respondents state they no longer feel the need to keep up with seasonal fashion trends, and more (69%) are attempting to repair their belongings rather than replace them, presenting a challenge to fast fashion retailers as they target a more conscious consumer. Sixty percent of respondents say they are more comfortable in their own skin, relying less on beauty and cosmetics to boost confidence, up 7% from October 2021. Rogers says: "Despite consumers finding ever more creative ways to adapt to rising living costs, businesses must not become complacent with their sustainability efforts. Consumer businesses need to offer new opportunities to retain customers, such as by offering lifetime repairs to reduce the number of replacements and the brand's environmental impact. Businesses must maintain momentum – consumers aren't compromising on sustainability, but finding alternative ways to live their values. When economic challenges ease, consumers will align with businesses they trust and who share the same values." Consumers deterred by online data protection The survey reveals a small, but a growing number of respondents are interested in exploring emerging digital experiences. About one in ten (12%) of consumer respondents have used digital currencies (18% among millennials and 15% among Gen Z), experienced the metaverse (9%) or purchased a virtual product (8%), largely driven by younger and more affluent consumers. However, as the digital world expands, consumers are becoming extremely cautious with sharing their data. Globally, 86% of respondents say they are worried about ID theft/fraud and 72% are concerned when sharing personal information on a website/app. Additionally, 80% are concerned about apps tracking their movements; fears that are felt strongly across all generations. Rogers says: "The consumers that learned to behave digitally during pandemic lockdowns are once again using this as a means of saving money.The adoption of newer forms of digital goods and services will present new opportunities for companies to invest in developing channels to differentiate their brand experience, innovate, capture more consumer data, test products digitally or create digital product lines, while ensuring they invest in cybersecurity across all elements of their business. The industry is once again at a crossroads. Businesses must prepare for their future consumer and embed both sustainable innovation and data protection into the foundations of their strategies. Though consumers are seeking to grapple control of their finances and weather soaring inflation, brands will need to maintain loyalty and build trust, to reap the benefits when their customers can return with more disposable income." The latest edition of the EY Future Consumer Index is available at: ey.com/FutureConsumerIndex10 Notes to editors About EY EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today. EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. Information about how EY collects and uses personal data and a description of the rights individuals have under data protection legislation are available via ey.com/privacy. EY member firms do not practice law where prohibited by local laws. For more information about our organization, please visit ey.com. This news release has been issued by EYGM Limited, a member of the global EY organization that also does not provide any services to clients. About the EY Future Consumer Index The EY Future Consumer Index tracks changing consumer sentiment and behaviors across time horizons and global markets, identifying the new consumer segments that are emerging. The Index provides regular longitudinal indicators and a unique perspective on which changes are temporary reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, those which point to more fundamental shifts and what the consumer post COVID-19 might be like. The 10th edition of the EY Future Consumer Index surveyed 18,000 consumers across the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa between 18 May to 7 June 2022. View original content: SOURCE EY
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2022-06-29T23:29:49Z
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