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Playful dolphin joins evening swimmers in Newquay
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Swimmers at a beach have been joined by a "playful" dolphin.
RNLI Fistral lifeguard Arron Evans said he noticed a dolphin who was putting on "quite a show for 20 minutes" off Newquay on Tuesday evening.
Initially heading to the area to check on the swimmers, he said the "friendly" mammal was "playing around".
Mr Evans said he could count on one hand how many times he had seen a dolphin so close in his ten year career.
'quite the display'
He said: "We saw some big splashes and it looked like it was being quite playful, so I went over to check they [the swimmers] were both OK - it was playing around, circling them, jumping out the water and putting on quite the display.
"It was amazing, such a sight to see... it's pretty rare, I've worked for the RNLI for over 10 years and surfed for over 20 years and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen dolphins come through, and to see one on its own be that playful, it was a real one-off kind of moment."
Mr Evans said although it was a "pretty rare" moment, swimmers should not approach wild mammals in the ocean.
"The advice is to stay clear as they are wild animals and you want to let them be left alone and not harassed, give them as much room as they need," he added.
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(Our Auto Expert) — A lot of people are struggling with where to go on their vacation this summer, air travel is very expensive, and road trips are very expensive. I bet you didn’t know, that likely, within a hundred and fifty miles of your home there’s probably some great place to have an off-roading adventure, that is my suggestion for some summertime fun.
The Bronco Everglades, which Bronco just came out with, is an unusually great vehicle for an off-roading adventure. There are thousands of Overland Trails available in the United States, spanning hundreds of thousands of miles that can be driven by the simplest inexpensive family all-wheel-drive vehicles.
All the way up to some complicated well-equipped, off-roading rigs like the Bronco Everglades. The Bronco Everglades is specially made for off-roading and Overlanding, it has a snorkel, a special Warn winch up front, a special bumper rubber floor mats and vinyl seats to be washed off after that adventure.
I recently was in the upper peninsula of Michigan testing the Bronco Everglades. And was in a convoy of Everglade editions when I got to see what this off-road car can do, the trail, of course, had a lot of deep water and when I say deep water, it’s maybe a couple of feet in the deepest areas, maybe two and a half feet. Big rock groups that were eager to have the everglades crawl up and over them. And this Bronco handled all of it like a professional. Almost as if this car was made to do this,
For 2023 Ford has given us the ultimate off-road vehicle. Capable of giving us a unique off-road experience along with forever memories for you and your family for years to come. | https://www.localsyr.com/reviews/br-reviews/automotive-br/ford-bronco-everglades-edition-a-family-weekend-adventure-wherever-you-live/ | 2022-07-14T20:04:49Z | https://www.localsyr.com/reviews/br-reviews/automotive-br/ford-bronco-everglades-edition-a-family-weekend-adventure-wherever-you-live/ | false |
MAKHUDU SEFARA | ‘Directionless and unguided’ has never been more true
Resilience is one thing, but having to endure no clean water through sheer incompetence or lack of interest is unacceptable
14 July 2022 - 20:32
Believe it or not, I arrived in Seshego, Polokwane, early on Saturday and left just before sunset on Sunday and there was no running water the whole time. And when I ask what the hell is going on, they just shrug it off as normal...
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Bodies of migrants who died in Texas trailer come to Mexico
Published: Jul. 14, 2022 at 2:54 PM CDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
SAN MARCOS ATEXQUILAPAN, Mexico (AP) - People in the Mexican mountain town of San Marcos Atexquilapan spent days preparing and collecting donations to cover the funeral costs of three teenage cousins who were among the 53 migrants who died inside a semitrailer in Texas.
The bodies have now arrived and on Thursday, townsfolk are mourning brothers Jaír and Yovani Valencia Olivares, as well as their cousin Misael Olivares.
Similar scenes of solemn preparation played out across Mexico as the bodies of 16 of those lost in the tragedy were brought back on military flights and then sent out to their hometowns.
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Panola County grand jury indicts Rosenberg man in connection with auto fatality
Published: Jul. 14, 2022 at 2:14 PM CDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
PANOLA COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - A Panola County grand jury has indicted a Rosenberg man in connection with the death of a motorist in 2021.
The indictment charges Fabian Chapa-Chapa, of Rosenberg, with criminally negligent homicide when they failed to yield the right of way by not stopping at a stop sign on Highway 79, causing the death of Lukebra Juan Voneric Allison on September 9, 2021.
Chapa-Chapa was booked into the Panola County Jail on Wednesday with a bond amount of $5,000.
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Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP) in connection with the proposed acquisition of RFP by The Paper Excellence Group, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Domtar Corporation ("Domtar"). The transaction will be carried out by way of a merger of RFP with a newly created subsidiary of Domtar, providing for conversion of each share of RFP common stock into the right to receive $20.50 per share, together with a Contingent Value Right ("CVR") entitling the holder to a share of future softwood lumber duty deposit refunds. If you own RFP shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/rfp
Zendesk, Inc. (NYSE: ZEN)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Zendesk, Inc. (NYSE: ZEN), in connection with the proposed acquisition of ZEN by investment firms Permira and Hellman & Friedman LLC. Pursuant to the merger agreement, ZEN shareholders will receive $77.50 in cash for each share of ZEN common stock owned. If you own ZEN shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/zen
Radius Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: RDUS)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Radius Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: RDUS), in connection with the proposed acquisition of RDUS by Gurnet Point Capital and Patient Square Capital via tender offer. Pursuant to the merger agreement, RDUS shareholders will receive $ 10.00 per share plus a Contingent Value Right (CVR) of $1.00 per share payable upon TYMLOS® net sales reaching $300 million during any consecutive 12-month period prior to December 31, 2025. If you own RDUS shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/rdus
Epizyme, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPZM)
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I wish someone could explain to me how a very small group of people with their own agendas could keep an entity that OWNS a structure from doing what it wants with that structure, especially if it’s going to help the community immensely. Insane.
Instead of Sen. Lindsay Graham saying he was not trying to interfere in Georgia’s elections through his attorneys as they try to quash his subpoena, maybe he should man up and testify under oath.
With all politicians considered liars, I guess Herschel will fit right in.
Mr. Cohilas, would you consider being a write-in candidate for the Dougherty County Commission chairmanship? Unfortunately for Dougherty County, the worst candidate won. If Heard is chairman, then the people of our county will suffer.
If a political candidate offers state refunds, credits and salary raises if elected, and voters have a reasonable basis to believe that to be true, how does that candidate avoid Georgia Election Code 21-2-570 felony implications of offering bribes for voting?
The U.S. economy did create 372,000 net, new payroll jobs during June 2022. Dig deeper in the report, and it suggested the economy actually shed jobs last month and the number of people not actively looking for work actually increased. How now brown cow? Confusing to say the least.
I have not seen any passages in the Bible that promotes “men” of God to run and hold political office. I also don’t see any passages that say that they cannot. Perhaps you can share what version you are referencing.
The staff at the Albany YMCA is fantastic. The Y is a hidden Albany jewel.
Historical Preservation Commission’s agenda for July 12: New business was not addressed. It dealt with Chair Bryant Harden’s last meeting and the upcoming term expirations for HPC commissioners.
The golf professionals who moved to the LIV Tour did so for the money and time. Golf is their business. They support families, caddies and their future from this business. They also now have more time to spend with wives and children than ever before. Its the PGA leadership with personal problems. The Patriot
If you’re watching CNN for news, then your IQ is that of a broomstick.
If you have complaints with the horrible USPS service, visit Sandford Bishop’s local office. It’s part of his job.
The squawker who thinks Heard “will deliver us as he promised” seems to ascribe to a human being what is only true of God. What do we need to be delivered from? It’s not wicked to speak the truth. Heard is simply an under-shepherd at best. And a very flawed one at that.
If you can eat today, thank a farmer. If it’s on your table, thank a trucker. If you eat in peace, thank a veteran. If you can’t afford to eat, thank Joe Biden and the idiots like Yours Truly that voted for him.
Read with interest the guy from the Historical Society wants to add an extra 40 million of someone else’s money to fix an old school. If it’s so historic, where are you with your own money? Now someone wants to do a great thing for the community, and you show up. Showboating nobody. | https://www.albanyherald.com/features/squawkbox/article_bcf2f7fe-0371-11ed-ac10-dfe5c1216d0b.html | 2022-07-14T20:09:12Z | https://www.albanyherald.com/features/squawkbox/article_bcf2f7fe-0371-11ed-ac10-dfe5c1216d0b.html | true |
- Psychedelic Fundamentals is the initial offering in the new MAPS Digital Learning program introducing learners to the most important aspects of psychedelic history, research, uses, and harm reduction
- The series of short, easy-to-follow modules is the perfect starting point for people trying to learn about psychedelics for the first time, but is also useful for psychedelic veterans looking to refine their knowledge
- "This is the drug training we should have all received as teenagers."
SAN JOSE, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's leading authority on psychedelics, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), announced the launch of Psychedelic Fundamentals, an online psychedelic education program which provides people with accurate, evidence-based information about psychedelics. The educational curriculum, developed in collaboration with Interwoven and delivered over five modules, covers a range of topics including psychedelic history, science, clinical research, therapeutic uses, and harm reduction.
"Psychedelic Fundamentals is a program for everyone - even for people who may never take a psychedelic themselves. Within the next few years, millions of people may be eligible for a prescription of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Having access to a science-based educational curriculum, backed by MAPS' nearly four decades as the world leader in psychedelics, will give people shared language and knowledge to better care for loved ones who may be looking into these treatments."
Shirelle Noble, Director of Digital, MAPS
Psychedelic Fundamentals serves as a perfect launching point for those completely new to psychedelics and seeking the basic knowledge of how psychedelics work, their effects, and their history. This course is valuable to people who are curious about the use of psychedelics for therapeutic purposes for themselves or a loved one, and for people looking for up to date information about cutting-edge psychedelic research. Experienced psychedelic users will find this guide a useful resource with the latest on psychedelic policy, as well as harm reduction strategies to increase the likelihood of an "ideal" experience.
Since 1986, MAPS has endeavored to counteract the broad public misinformation disseminated over the decades of the War on Drugs. The gain in public interest in psychedelics has left many with a desire to learn more about the transformative potential of these substances, but there are limited resources for people looking for an authoritative curriculum.
"This is the drug training we should have all received as teenagers. It was not just about the different substances, but the benefits they can have, as well as how to integrate those experiences, and also some useful tips for how to be there for those in need while they are having them. So much valuable information in one place, with the awareness to tell users to be cautious and aware of what they are doing."
Proficient Psychedelic Fundamentals learner
The Psychedelic Fundamentals coursework is divided into modules including: Psychedelics & Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, The Current State of Psychedelics, Psychedelic Brain Science 101, Comparing Psychedelic Substances, and Psychedelic Trip Planning & Harm Reduction. Each module contains a series of short, easy-to-follow lessons complimented by MAPS' new online community platform, where fellow learners and psychedelic advocates can connect.
The Psychedelic Fundamentals digital learning course is available for purchase on the MAPS website.
ABOUT MAPS
Founded in 1986, MAPS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization developing medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana. MAPS is sponsoring the most advanced psychedelic therapy research in the world funded primarily by philanthropic donors and grantors who have given more than $130 million for research and education.
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Idaho Republicans poised to reject 2020 election results
Boise, Idaho – The Idaho Republican Party will consider 31 resolutions at its three-day convention starting Thursday, including one already adopted by Texas Republicans that President Joe Biden isn’t the legitimate leader of the country.
The Idaho resolution in the deeply conservative state that Donald Trump won with 64% of the vote in 2020 is nearly identical to the Texas resolution that was passed last month, stating: “We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election; and we hold that acting president Joseph Robinette Biden was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”
Both the Idaho and Texas resolutions contend that secretaries of state circumvented their state legislatures, even though both states have Republican secretaries of state.
Jim Jones, a former chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court as well as a former Republican state attorney general, called the resolution rejecting the 2020 presidential election results “asinine,” noting multiple courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, rejected attempts to overturn the election.
“(The Idaho Republican Party) has gotten so caught up in conspiracy theories, meaningless culture war issues, that they have quit being able to function as a meaningful political party,” he said. “We have got to get away from this authoritarian streak that has infected the Idaho Republican Party, as well as a good part of the nation, because it’s absolutely tearing our country apart.”
Idaho’s resolution goes further than the Texas resolution in that it falsely states that audits found the vote count for the 2020 election to be fraudulent in Wisconsin and Arizona.
In Wisconsin, election fraud claims have been dismissed by courts or rejected by the state’s bipartisan election commission.
In Arizona, where Republicans submitted a slate of fake electors, Trump supporters hired inexperienced consultants to run “a forensic audit” that was discredited. FBI agents looking into events surrounding Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss recently subpoenaed the Republican Arizona Senate president, who orchestrated a discredited review of the election.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump ally, even accused Idaho of allowing election fraud. But the Idaho secretary of state said a partial recount of ballots validated the accuracy of the 2020 results.
Jaclyn Kettler, a Boise State University political scientist, said revisiting the 2020 election by different state or local Republican party officials “seems to be an issue that is commanding a lot of attention still in the Republican party. It may continue to cast doubt on our elections and increase fears of voters that their votes are not being counted.”
Among the other proposed Idaho Republican Party resolutions this week is one calling for not recognizing “imaginary identities,” a resolution aimed at transgender people.
Multiple resolutions involve voting, several focusing on people not deemed sufficiently Republican voting in Republican primaries.
One resolution, titled “A Resolution to Protect Rural Representation,” calls for changing Idaho’s system for statewide elections into a national-style electoral college, a process that sometimes leads to candidates winning without receiving the most votes.
Trump, for example, in 2016 defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton by winning more electoral college votes despite losing the popular vote by about 3 million votes. The proposed system for Idaho would tally electoral votes from counties. Such a change in Idaho would require changing the state’s constitution.
Another proposed resolution calls for privatizing Idaho Public Television, a long-time target of far-right Republicans.
The Idaho Republican Party will also elect officers during the gathering. First-term incumbent Chair Tom Luna, who served two terms as the state’s schools chief, is being challenged by Republican Rep. Dorothy Moon. Moon ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary in May for secretary of state, contending the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent and Biden wasn’t president.
Mainstream Idaho Republicans, who would be considered far-right in many states, have dominated the state for three decades. But they have become targets of far-right members of their own party and labeled as RINOs – Republican in name only.
The May primary was a mixed bag for the two groups, and the power struggle will likely continue at the convention.
In the primary, first-term incumbent Gov. Brad Little crushed Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, and most other statewide races went to more mainstream Idaho Republicans. But Raul Labrador, a favorite of the Tea Party during his eight years in the U.S. House, defeated five-term Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, well known for a strategy of simply calling balls and strikes that oftentimes irked his Republican colleagues when he gave them legal advice they didn’t want to hear.
Several far-right lawmakers in the House lost their seats, but the Senate turned decidedly more conservative with mainstream losses that included the co-chairman of the legislature’s powerful budget-setting committee. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/14/idaho-republicans-poised-reject-2020-election-results/10061087002/ | 2022-07-14T20:12:11Z | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/14/idaho-republicans-poised-reject-2020-election-results/10061087002/ | true |
Jonathan Capehart, of MSNBC, served as the event's emcee, and Southern Company received the Frank C. Carr Award
ATLANTA, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- INROADS – INROADS is a leading developer of leadership and career opportunities for underrepresented and talented youth in America. As a result of this work, there are more than 30,000 alumni who are some of the most notable and impactful leaders across industries.
INROADS' Annual Benefit Gala celebrated leaders and partners across industries who use their platforms to make a difference. The 2022 award recipients include the Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Congressman James E. Clyburn, U.S. House of Representatives; Frank C. Carr Award Recipient: Southern Company, accepted by Tom Fanning, Chairman, President & CEO, Southern Company; Excellence in Leadership Award Recipient: Scott Mills, CEO of BET; Alumni of the Year Award Recipient: Martin Cabrera, Founder and CEO, Cabrera Capital Partners, LLC & Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC; and Entrepreneur of the Year Award Recipient: Dia Simms, CEO of Lobos 1707 Tequila & Mezcal, Co-Founder, Pronghorn, and INROADS Alumna.
"It is an honor to see the results of INROADS' efforts manifested in the work of our graduates, sponsors, and community partners. It's what our organization is all about, and we believe that our impact on the corporate world will only grow over the next fifty years and beyond," said Forest Harper, President and Chief Executive Officer of INROADS.
This year's honorees, some of whom are INROADS alumni, are helping to build Latin economies and influence the growth of the Black-owned spirits business. Some of the corporate partners that were recognized included Southern Company and BET. Both of their CEOs have used their platforms to lean in on matters of diversity and inclusion.
"As leaders, we must advocate for change and serve as an example for others. We owe it to future generations to begin the transformation that will open the door to equity, leadership, and opportunity for all," said Tom Fanning, Chief Executive Officer of Southern Company.
INROADS' Benefit Gala has been held annually to give prominence to the organization's impact on the corporate world since its establishment in 1970. By helping companies identify underrepresented talent, the organization has clearly established itself as a pioneer in the field of career advancement for young, diverse professionals.
"This event is an INROADS tradition that carries on the vision of our founder, Father Carr. It allows us to honor his memory while also bringing together members of the community and corporate partners to recognize the work they are doing, as well," said James Tolliver, Chief Development Officer, and Chief of Staff.
The Benefit Gala was held on Thursday, May 5, 2022, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and also hosted a live audience. All proceeds from the event directly support INROADS scholars through its internship programs.
You can visit https://inroads.org/benefitgala/ for a recap of the event.
Founded in 1970, INROADS delivers innovative programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate and elevate the development of underrepresented talent throughout their careers. Through this development, students become equipped for corporate and community leadership that affects community renewal, social change and elevates economic status and quality of life. INROADS has more than 30,000 alumni, over 900 interns and serves 4,000+ students and 200 corporate clients. Learn more at INROADS.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn: @INROADSInc.
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Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVO), in connection with the proposed acquisition of VIVO by SD Biosensor, Inc. ("SDB") and SJL Partners LLC ("SJL"). Under the merger agreement, VIVO shareholders will receive $34.00 in cash for each share of VIVO stock owned, leaving SDB owning approximately 60% and SJL owning approximately 40% of Meridian. If you own VIVO shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/vivo
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX)
Weiss Law, a national shareholders' rights law firm, is investigating possible false and misleading statements, accounting and reporting practices and breaches of fiduciary duty and violations of the federal securities laws by the Board of Directors and certain Company officers of Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) concerning NFLX growth and customer retention, leading to a significant stock price drop after NFLX revealed in April that it had lost more than 200,000 subscribers. If you own NFLX shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/nflx
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), in connection with the proposed acquisition of VMW by Broadcom Inc. ("Broadcom"). Under the terms of the merger agreement, VMW shareholders will receive $142.50 in cash or 0.2520 shares of Broadcom common stock for each VMW share owned, representing implied per-share merger consideration of approximately $121.40 based upon Broadcom's July 13, 2022 closing price of $481.73. If you own VMW shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/vmw
CareMax, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMAX)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of CareMax, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMAX), in connection with the proposed transaction with Steward Health Care System ("Steward"). Upon completion of the transaction, CMAX will pay $25 million in cash and issue 23.5 million shares of CMAX's Class A common stock to the equity holders of Steward. If you own CMAX shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us at one of the numbers listed above or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/cmax
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Heineken Rivalry Week kept bringing the fireworks midweek as various clubs awoke and new attacking partnerships were formed to make up Week 20’s Team of the Week presented by Audi.
The Colombian firepower in the league was on full display after new star Columbus Crew attacker Cucho Hernandez and Chicago Fire FC teenage striker Jhon Duran each scored a brace on Wednesday night. Duran guided the Windy City side to a much-needed 2-0 win over Toronto FC, while Cucho’s heroics were spoiled by a last-minute D.C. United goal to end the match 2-2.
Gonzalo Pineda’s choice to start Ronaldo Cisneros ahead of Atlanta United legend Josef Martinez paid off as the on-loan striker secured a 2-1 victory over Real Salt Lake with a brace of his own. Pineda’s sharp decisions after a tough time over the weekend earned him top coaching honors.
Austin FC kept pace with LAFC at the top of the standings with a convincing 3-1 win over Houston Dynamo FC. Diego Fagundez earned a spot among the week’s best after starting the comeback with a masterful free kick goal. Meanwhile, Ryan Gauld got a Team of the Week nod for a solid performance that included a goal in Vancouver Whitecaps FC’s 2-2 away result against FC Cincinnati. The midfielders are joined by Randall Leal, who was instrumental in Nashville SC’s 1-0 win over Seattle Sounders FC, and Jamiro Monteiro, a protagonist in the San Jose Earthquakes’ epic Cali Clasico 3-2 win over the LA Galaxy.
Lastly, the backline is composed of three top performers who helped their respective clubs secure key points in Week 20: Kai Wagner (Philadelphia Union), Maxime Chanot (New York City FC) and Nicolas Isimat-Mirin (Sporting Kansas City). The always reliable Pedro Gallese rounds up this week’s squad after making six saves to earn Orlando City SC a point on the road against the Colorado Rapids.
Team of the Week (3-4-3, left to right): Pedro Gallese (ORL) – Kai Wagner (PHI), Maxime Chanot (NYC), Nicolas Isimat-Mirin (SKC) – Randall Leal (NSH), Jamiro Monteiro (SJ), Ryan Gauld (VAN), Diego Fagundez (ATX) – Ronaldo Cisneros (ATL), Cucho Hernandez (CLB), Jhon Duran (CHI)
Coach: Gonzalo Pineda (ATL)
Bench: JT Marcinkowski (SJ), Ruben Gabrielsen (ATX), Cristian Dajome (VAN), Johnny Russell (SKC), Hany Mukhtar (NSH), Brenner (CIN), Dejan Joveljic (LA)
Audi Goals Drive Progress
MLS Academies have been identified as one of the most important resources for building on-field talent in North America. Through the Audi Goals Drive Progress initiative, Audi has committed $1 million per season in an effort to advance academies league-wide, and to drive progress for the sport. For every goal scored in the regular season, Audi will contribute $500 into the Audi Goals Drive Progress fund to directly support each MLS Club Youth Academy. | https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/team-of-the-week-presented-by-audi-atlanta-chicago-show-signs-of-life-in-week-20 | 2022-07-14T20:16:08Z | https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/team-of-the-week-presented-by-audi-atlanta-chicago-show-signs-of-life-in-week-20 | false |
DUBLIN, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Mass Spectrometer Market (2022-2027) by Technology, Application, End User, Geography, Competitive Analysis and the Impact of Covid-19 with Ansoff Analysis" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The Global Mass Spectrometer Market is estimated to be USD 4.44 Bn in 2022 and is projected to reach USD 6.29 Bn by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 7.2%.
Market dynamics are forces that impact the prices and behaviors of the Global Mass Spectrometer Market stakeholders. These forces create pricing signals which result from the changes in the supply and demand curves for a given product or service. Forces of Market Dynamics may be related to macro-economic and micro-economic factors. There are dynamic market forces other than price, demand, and supply. Human emotions can also drive decisions, influence the market, and create price signals.
As the market dynamics impact the supply and demand curves, decision-makers aim to determine the best way to use various financial tools to stem various strategies for speeding the growth and reducing the risks.
Company Profiles
The report provides a detailed analysis of the competitors in the market. It covers the financial performance analysis for the publicly listed companies in the market. The report also offers detailed information on the companies' recent development and competitive scenario. Some of the companies covered in this report are Advion, Agilent Technologies, Ametek Process Instruments, Analytik Jena, Bruker Corp, etc.
Countries Studied
- America (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, United States, Rest of Americas)
- Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Rest of Europe)
- Middle-East and Africa (Egypt, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Rest of MEA)
- Asia-Pacific (Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Taiwan, Rest of Asia-Pacific)
Competitive Quadrant
The report includes Competitive Quadrant, a proprietary tool to analyze and evaluate the position of companies based on their Industry Position score and Market Performance score. The tool uses various factors for categorizing the players into four categories. Some of these factors considered for analysis are financial performance over the last 3 years, growth strategies, innovation score, new product launches, investments, growth in market share, etc.
Ansoff Analysis
The report presents a detailed Ansoff matrix analysis for the Global Mass Spectrometer Market. Ansoff Matrix, also known as Product/Market Expansion Grid, is a strategic tool used to design strategies for the growth of the company. The matrix can be used to evaluate approaches in four strategies viz. Market Development, Market Penetration, Product Development and Diversification. The matrix is also used for risk analysis to understand the risk involved with each approach.
The analyst analyses the Global Mass Spectrometer Market using the Ansoff Matrix to provide the best approaches a company can take to improve its market position.
Based on the SWOT analysis conducted on the industry and industry players, The analyst has devised suitable strategies for market growth.
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- The report offers a comprehensive evaluation of the Global Mass Spectrometer Market. The report includes in-depth qualitative analysis, verifiable data from authentic sources, and projections about market size. The projections are calculated using proven research methodologies.
- The report has been compiled through extensive primary and secondary research. The primary research is done through interviews, surveys, and observation of renowned personnel in the industry.
- The report includes an in-depth market analysis using Porter's 5 forces model and the Ansoff Matrix. In addition, the impact of Covid-19 on the market is also featured in the report.
- The report also includes the regulatory scenario in the industry, which will help you make a well-informed decision. The report discusses major regulatory bodies and major rules and regulations imposed on this sector across various geographies.
- The report also contains the competitive analysis using Positioning Quadrants, the analyst's Proprietary competitive positioning tool.
Key Topics Covered:
1 Report Description
2 Research Methodology
3 Executive Summary
4 Market Dynamics
4.1 Drivers
4.1.1 Technological Advancements in Mass Spectrometers Government Regulations on Drug Safety
4.1.2 Growing Focus on the Quality of Food Products
4.1.3 Increase in Crude and Shale Gas Production
4.2 Restraints
4.2.1 Premium Product Pricing
4.3 Opportunities
4.3.1 Growing Opportunities in Emerging Markets
4.3.2 Increasing Spending in Pharmaceutical R&D
4.4 Challenges
4.4.1 Dearth of Skilled Professionals
5 Market Analysis
5.1 Regulatory Scenario
5.2 Porter's Five Forces Analysis
5.3 Impact of COVID-19
5.4 Ansoff Matrix Analysis
6 Global Mass Spectrometer Market, By Technology
6.1 Introduction
6.1.1 Hybrid Mass Spectrometry
6.1.2 Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry
6.1.3 Quadrupole Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
6.1.4 Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry
6.2 Single Mass Spectrometry
6.2.1 Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry
6.2.2 Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
6.2.3 Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry
6.2.4 Other Mass Spectrometry Technologies
7 Global Mass Spectrometer Market, By Application
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Life Science Research
7.3 Drug Discovery
7.4 Environmental Testing
7.5 Food Testing
7.6 Applied Industries
7.7 Clinical Diagnostics
7.8 Other Applications
8 Global Mass Spectrometer Market, By End User
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Pharmaceutical Industry
8.3 Biotechnology Industry
8.4 Research & Academic Institutes
8.5 Environmental Testing Industry
8.6 Food & Beverage Testing Industry
8.7 Petrochemical Industry
8.8 Other End Users
9 Americas' Global Mass Spectrometer Market
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Argentina
9.3 Brazil
9.4 Canada
9.5 Chile
9.6 Colombia
9.7 Mexico
9.8 Peru
9.9 United States
9.10 Rest of Americas
10 Europe's Global Mass Spectrometer Market
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Austria
10.3 Belgium
10.4 Denmark
10.5 Finland
10.6 France
10.7 Germany
10.8 Italy
10.9 Netherlands
10.10 Norway
10.11 Poland
10.12 Russia
10.13 Spain
10.14 Sweden
10.15 Switzerland
10.16 United Kingdom
10.17 Rest of Europe
11 Middle East and Africa's Global Mass Spectrometer Market
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Egypt
11.3 Israel
11.4 Qatar
11.5 Saudi Arabia
11.6 South Africa
11.7 United Arab Emirates
11.8 Rest of MEA
12 APAC's Global Mass Spectrometer Market
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Australia
12.3 Bangladesh
12.4 China
12.5 India
12.6 Indonesia
12.7 Japan
12.8 Malaysia
12.9 Philippines
12.10 Singapore
12.11 South Korea
12.12 Sri Lanka
12.13 Thailand
12.14 Taiwan
12.15 Rest of Asia-Pacific
13 Competitive Landscape
13.1 Competitive Quadrant
13.2 Market Share Analysis
13.3 Strategic Initiatives
13.3.1 M&A and Investments
13.3.2 Partnerships and Collaborations
13.3.3 Product Developments and Improvements
14 Company Profiles
14.1 Advion
14.2 Agilent Technologies
14.3 Ametek Process Instruments
14.4 Analytik Jena
14.5 Bruker Corp
14.6 Dani Instruments
14.7 Extrel Cms
14.8 Flir Systems
14.9 Hiden Analytical
14.10 Jeol
14.11 Kore Technology
14.12 Leco
14.13 Masstech
14.14 Mks Instruments
14.15 Perkinelmer
14.16 Rigaku
14.17 Sciex
14.18 Shimadzu Corp
14.19 Waters Corp
15 Appendix
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PLEASANTON, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 10x Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXG), a life sciences leader focused on mastering biology to advance human health, today announced that its preliminary revenue is expected to be approximately $114.5 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. This represents an approximate 1% decrease from $115.8 million for the prior year period, and flat revenue sequentially.
Preliminary geographic revenue for the second quarter is expected to be as follows:
- Americas revenue of approximately $70.9 million, an 8% increase over the prior year period and a 19% increase sequentially
- EMEA revenue of approximately $25.6 million, an 11% decrease over the prior year period and a 25% increase sequentially
- APAC revenue of approximately $18.1 million, a 15% decrease over the prior year period and a 47% decrease sequentially
"Our second quarter results fell short of our expectations," said Serge Saxonov, Co-founder and CEO of 10x Genomics. "We continue to have strong confidence in our longer-term opportunity, technology leadership and the underlying strength of our markets. We are more excited than ever to deliver on the full potential of single cell and spatial biology."
In a separate press release issued this afternoon, the company announced the hiring of Jim Wilbur, Ph.D. as Chief Commercial Officer, effective July 27.
The preliminary revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2022 included in this release is preliminary and prior to the completion of the company's financial statement close process and related internal control over financial reporting, and is therefore subject to adjustment. Management will provide additional information in conjunction with the release of its full second quarter 2022 financial results scheduled on August 8, 2022.
10x Genomics will discuss its full year 2022 guidance when it reports its full financial results for second quarter 2022 in connection with its earnings call on Monday, August 8.
Company management will host a conference call Monday, August 8 beginning at 1:30 PM Pacific Time / 4:30 PM Eastern Time to discuss results and its financial guidance. Live audio of the webcast will be available at http://investors.10xgenomics.com. The webcast will be archived and available for replay at least 45 days after the event.
10x Genomics is a life science technology company building products to interrogate, understand and master biology to advance human health. Our integrated solutions include instruments, consumables and software for analyzing biological systems at a resolution and scale that matches the complexity of biology. 10x Genomics products have been adopted by researchers around the world including in all of the top 100 global research institutions as ranked by Nature in 2020 based on publications and all of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies by 2020 research and development spend and have been cited in over 3,800 research papers on discoveries ranging from oncology to immunology and neuroscience. Our patent portfolio comprises more than 1,500 issued patents and patent applications.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 as contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are subject to the "safe harbor" created by those sections. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, may be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "might," "will," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "could," "intend," "target," "project" "contemplate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" or "continue" or variations of them or similar terminology, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding 10x Genomics, Inc.'s expectations regarding our second quarter preliminary revenue, our business operations, financial performance and results of operations, the opportunities for single cell and spatial methods and our belief with regard to our near and long term opportunities. These statements are based on management's current expectations, forecasts, beliefs, assumptions and information currently available to management, and actual outcomes and results could differ materially from these statements due to a number of factors. The material risks and uncertainties that could affect 10x Genomics, Inc.'s financial and operating results and cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release include those discussed under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and elsewhere in the documents 10x Genomics, Inc. files with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time.
Although 10x Genomics, Inc. believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot provide any assurance that these expectations will prove to be correct nor can it guarantee that the future results, levels of activity, performance and events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur. These forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or investments 10x Genomics may make. Further, as the COVID-19 pandemic is continuously evolving, such forward-looking statements may not accurately or fully reflect the potential impact that the COVID-19 pandemic may have on the business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of 10x Genomics, Inc. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to 10x Genomics, Inc. as of the date hereof, and 10x Genomics, Inc. disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements provided to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by law. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing 10x Genomics, Inc.'s views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.
10x Genomics uses filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, its website (www.10xgenomics.com), press releases, public conference calls, public webcasts and its social media accounts as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
Investors: investors@10xgenomics.com
Media: media@10xgenomics.com
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FRISCO, Texas, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allios, a national supply chain solutions provider for the telecommunications industry, has been named a company for Best Career Growth by Comparably, a workplace culture and corporate brand reputation platform.
Comparably administers surveys over a 12-month period to current employees at thousands of companies across the country. The award reflects top marks for Allios in several workplace experience categories, including compensation, leadership, work-life balance, career growth and benefits, among others.
Headquartered in Frisco, Texas, Allios is a national company that provides digitized supply chain solutions to its customers' most complex project demands. Allios enables its clients to see and manage each aspect of their projects in real-time, streamlining project variables and driving down costs.
"We are honored to be named a company for Best Career Growth," said Gaby Saliby, Chief Executive Officer of Allios. "Maintaining a culture that cultivates and rewards talented and motivated employees who seek to build their careers is central to our corporate philosophy," Saliby continued. "We have several employees, including those in leadership positions, who started with us as entry-level trainees and worked their way into upper management. Career mobility is very important to us, and we seek to provide our employees ample opportunities to advance," Saliby added.
Allios offers training programs to entry- and mid-level employees who have recently graduated or who are new to the supply chain industry, in addition to multiple culture- and team-building activities throughout the year.
"Allios' spot on our list of companies that offer the Best Career Growth nationwide is proof of the company's dedication to providing its employees an excellent opportunity to build and shape their careers," said Comparably Chief Executive Officer Jason Nazar.
The Allios team always has spots for highly motivated individuals looking to build their career in supply chain. Visit the Allios careers page for open positions in your area.
Allios is a U.S.-based supply chain company headquartered in Frisco, Texas that specializes in digital supply chain solutions and advanced logistics for the telecom industry. Allios harnesses the power of data to proactively meet customers' constantly developing demands and provide complete transparency into their projects. For more information about Allios, visit allios.io.
Comparably is a leading workplace culture and corporate brand reputation platform with over 15 million anonymous employee ratings on 70,000 companies. With the most comprehensive data on large and SMB organizations in nearly 20 different workplace categories—based on gender, ethnicity, age, experience, industry, location, education—it is one of the most used SaaS platforms for employer branding and a trusted third-party site for workplace culture and compensation. For more information about Comparably's awards, visit www.comparably.com/news.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a comprehensive search process, 10x Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXG), today announced the hiring of Jim Wilbur, Ph.D., as Chief Commercial Officer, effective July 27. In this role, Wilbur will be responsible for driving commercial strategy and execution and leading the company's sales, support and marketing functions.
A life sciences entrepreneur and seasoned global commercial executive, Wilbur brings nearly 30 years of experience building businesses, developing high-performance teams and scaling commercial organizations to drive growth and customer success.
"Jim's deep experience driving commercial excellence and execution at scale make him the ideal person to lead our global commercial team in this next phase of growth," said Serge Saxonov, Co-founder and CEO of 10x Genomics. "What stood out from all the other great candidates is Jim's detailed understanding and passion of the sales craft, his ability to operate strategically from first principles and his technical depth as a top-notch scientist. It's an incredibly rare combination. He is a great fit with the 10x mission and culture, is rigorous about process and data and has tremendous energy to get things done. We're thrilled to welcome him to the team."
Wilbur joins 10x Genomics from Meso Scale Discovery (MSD), the world's leading provider of highly sensitive multiplex immunoassays. Widely recognized for its innovative and robust technology, MSD develops, manufactures and markets instruments and assays for research use in life sciences and biodefense.
As part of the original team that started the operations of MSD, Wilbur initially led the development of the company's core technology and products. When MSD launched its first products in 2001, Wilbur assumed leadership for the company's commercial function, building the global team responsible for marketing, selling and servicing the company's portfolio of instruments and consumables. Since that time, Wilbur has scaled MSD's global commercial organization to deliver sustained high growth and cultivate deep partnerships with customers.
"It's an exciting time to join the 10x team, be part of the company's mission and have the opportunity to make a difference in a transformational way," said Wilbur. "10x has a great foundation to build on, and I have strong confidence in the company's long-term opportunity and ability to fulfill the tremendous promise of single cell and spatial biology. I look forward to helping the team drive a strong culture of commercial excellence, deliver meaningful value for customers and accelerate growth and impact."
Wilbur earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry and intellectual history from the University of California, San Diego, and holds his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University. Prior to MSD, he completed an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University.
About 10x Genomics
10x Genomics is a life science technology company building products to interrogate, understand and master biology to advance human health. Our integrated solutions include instruments, consumables and software for analyzing biological systems at a resolution and scale that matches the complexity of biology. 10x Genomics products have been adopted by researchers around the world including in all of the top 100 global research institutions as ranked by Nature in 2020 based on publications and all of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies by 2020 research and development spend and have been cited in over 3,800 research papers on discoveries ranging from oncology to immunology and neuroscience. Our patent portfolio comprises more than 1,500 issued patents and patent applications.
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Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh:
Two journalists working for local newspapers were allegedly shot at by unidentified assailants in Kaliyari market area here, police said on Thursday.
"The journalists -- Shyam Sunder Pandey and Laddu Pandey -- working for different newspapers were sitting at a hotel in the market when they were shot at by the motorcycle-borne assailants," SHO Pranav Srivastava said.
Police has formed a team to identify and arrest the assailants.
The injured media persons have been referred to Varanasi for better treatment, they added.
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'A fairy story': Dame Joanna Lumley reveals she never thought she'd be honoured at Buckingham Palace after being stripped of her prefect badge at school when she was caught smoking
- Dame Joanna Lumley was honoured for services to drama and charity today
- The actress, 76, is best known for playing Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous
- She insisted she no plans to retire from acting yet and will carry on
Dame Joanna Lumley said her life felt 'like a fairy story' after receiving her Damehood at Buckingham Palace today.
The veteran actress, 76, joked she never thought she'd make it to the Palace after she was demoted from being a prefect at school for smoking.
Dame Joanna, best known for playing Patsy in sitcom Absolutely Fabulous with her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, was given the award for her services to drama, entertainment and charitable causes.
To collect her award she donned a statement hot pink wrap-blazer dress. She accessorised with a hat with matching pink detailing.
Dame Joanna Lumley, 76, beamed as she held up her award for services to drama, entertainment and charitable causes outside Buckingham Palace
The veteran actress, best known for playing Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous, stunned in a hot pink blazer dress
Describing the honour as 'absolutely huge' she described how her experience at the palace today differed from when she collected her OBE in 1995.
She said: 'It was in the throne room, which is much smaller and much more intimate.
'And instead of an actual military band, playing very softly up there was this beautiful bass and string quartet and it was so charming and so moving.'
Joanna was awarded her damehood by Princess Anne, for whom she was full of praise.
The veteran actress said: [Anne is] just such a wonderful sort of figurehead for women in this country, I think [she is] courageous and active and modest and brilliant.'
Dame Joanna said she and Anne were both supporters of Farms For City Children.
She said Anne was 'so lovely' and told her that the honour was 'richly deserved'.
The 76-year-old joked that after getting in trouble at school as a teenager she never would have envisioned herself picking up an award at Buckingham Palace.
'I mean these are things that, as a child being ticked off and having my prefect badge taken away for smoking, something that you would never dream of is that you would be honoured in Buckingham Palace to become a Dame,' she said.
Professor Kathleen Stock, who used to teach philosophy at the University of Sussex but left her role following a row over her views on gender identity, was made an OBE during the ceremony
Asked about her career the actress said she was 'still going strong' and had no plans to retire any time soon.
She joked she would carry on working until they 'hack the legs away from underneath me'.
The Dame, who has a new travel series starting next month, said she'll know when it is time to stop because 'the phone will stop ringing'.
After the ceremony the Royal Family paid tribute to Dame Joanna.
Posting a photo of the new dame holding her award on Instagram, the official account for the royals wrote: 'Congratulations Dame Joanna Lumley!
'At today's investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, the Princess Royal awarded Dame Joanna with her honour for services to drama, entertainment and charitable causes.'
Other people awarded at the ceremony included professor Kathleen Stock, who was made an OBE for services to higher education.
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ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — Investigators are turning to the public for help identifying several auto burglary suspects.
According to the Elizabethton Police Department, around four to five individuals have been walking through neighborhoods checking for unlocked vehicles and taking personal property.
The police department said the individuals are wearing hoodies and traveling in a dark four-door sedan, possibly a Toyota Camry or Geo Prism.
Anyone who may know who the individuals are is asked to call Investigator James Stevens at 423-297-9002. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/elizabethton-pd-looking-to-identify-auto-burglary-suspects/ | 2022-07-14T20:36:20Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/elizabethton-pd-looking-to-identify-auto-burglary-suspects/ | false |
ARLINGTON, Texas — The Big 12’s new commissioner already has his eyes on the prize.
During his introductory press conference Wednesday at Big 12 Football Media Days, incoming commissioner Brett Yormark underscored the importance of the league’s upcoming negotiations for new media rights.
In the modern age of college athletics, those media rights are the lifeblood for conferences and their member schools. They help leagues cover expenses, and they bolster annual payouts to institutions.
“One thing is crystal clear: There is no higher priority than to best position the Big 12 for its upcoming multimedia rights negotiations,” Yormark said. “Everything we do must create momentum for these negotiations, as well as building the value of the Big 12 brand and business.”
RELATED: The latest from Big 12 Media Day 1
Just last month, the Big 12 sent record payouts to its members, equally distributing a $426 million pot to WVU and its nine counterparts. Those payouts marked a 20 percent year-over-year increase following the school year most impacted by the pandemic, and appear to have maintained the Big 12’s position as the third-most lucrative conference behind the Big Ten and SEC.
But the SEC is preparing to absorb Oklahoma and Texas in 2025, previously the Big 12’s flagship programs. The Big Ten is also planning to add USC and UCLA in 2024, further altering the landscape of college athletics. Some have speculated that annual payouts will soon soar in these conferences due to this realignment.
The SEC’s new media deal with ESPN goes into effect in 2024. CBS Sports reported in May that the Big Ten could begin a new rights deal as early as 2023. Meanwhile, the Big 12’s grant-of-rights expires in 2025. At that point, the Big 12 will be a 12-team league, having added BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston and subtracting Texas and Oklahoma.
When it comes to these impending negotiations, Yormark said he’s “bullish on the conference.”
“[A]s I said earlier, everything we do from this point forward will lead towards that negotiation period, how we build our brand, how we build our business, conference realignment,” Yormark said. “All that will probably play a role in whatever dialogue we have.”
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The commissioner added that the Big 12 could look a lot different between now and the time when these negotiations take place. He said the conference is “considering all options,” and that league officials have “received a lot of phone calls” amid a new wave of expansion. It’s possible that an additional round of expansion in the Big 12 could improve its position in upcoming negotiations.
But knowing that there’s a big pot at the center of the poker table, Yormark isn’t going to tip his hand before he goes all in.
“There aren’t any specifics that I can speak to now as far as how we’re going to position ourselves differently because there’s a long time between now and when we’ll commence negotiation,” he said, “but I’m looking forward to that moment.” | https://www.wowktv.com/goldandbluenation/yormark-on-securing-the-collegiate-crown-jewel-media-rights/ | 2022-07-14T20:36:52Z | https://www.wowktv.com/goldandbluenation/yormark-on-securing-the-collegiate-crown-jewel-media-rights/ | true |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Mills County in central Texas...
South central Comanche County in central Texas...
* Until 300 PM CDT.
* At 157 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southwest
of Gustine, or 11 miles southeast of Comanche, moving southwest at
25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Goldthwaite and Mullin.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection get inside a sturdy structure and stay away from
windows.
...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM TO 9 PM MDT FRIDAY...
The Texas Department of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an
Ozone Action Day for the El Paso Area, from 8 AM to 9 PM MDT Friday.
Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing
high levels of ozone pollution in the El Paso area. You can help
prevent ozone Pollution by sharing a ride, walking, riding a
bicycle, taking your lunch to work, avoiding drive through lanes,
conserving energy and keeping your vehicle properly tuned.
For more information on ozone:
OZONE: THE FACTS
www.tceq.texas.gov/airquality/monops/ozonefacts.html
EPA AIR NOW:
www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&cityid=236
TAKE CARE OF TEXAS:
www.takecareoftexas.org/air/airquality
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northeastern
Colorado, northeastern Wharton, Austin, southeastern Washington,
northwestern Fort Bend, southwestern Montgomery, Waller and
northwestern Harris Counties through 230 PM CDT...
At 200 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles west of Bellville to near Pattison to
near Spring. Movement was southwest at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Western Rosenberg, Katy, Richmond, Tomball, Jersey Village, Sealy,
Hempstead, Prairie View, Brookshire, Bellville, Columbus, Eagle Lake,
Bunker Hill Village, Pinehurst, Spring Branch North, Mission Bend,
Eldridge / West Oaks, Spring Branch West, Addicks Park Ten and Pecan
Grove.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2967 9660 2940 9604 2979 9551 3012 9545
3021 9608 3003 9649
TIME...MOT...LOC 1900Z 024DEG 21KT 2995 9637 2982 9594 3002 9540
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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Beyoncé is entering her TikTok era.
On July 14, the "Formation" singer shared her first video on the social media platform, dedicating the post to all of the fans who created videos to her new single, "Break My Soul." The TikTok features a compilation of Black and LGBTQ content creators who danced, sang or made skits to the new track.
In one part of the clip, a fan vogued in their hotel room, while another part of the video showed someone dancing in the streets while holding a rainbow-colored fan. The video also featured an appearance from Cardi B, who screamed Beyonce's lyrics, "In case you forgot how we act outside."
"Seeing y'all release the wiggle made me so happy!" the Lemonade singer captioned the post. "Thank you so much for all the love for BREAK MY SOUL! - Love B."
And for Beyoncé, including the skills of her Beyhive means everything, seeing as how important her fanbase is to her. As she shared on Instagram last month, she hopes her fans "find joy in this music" and are inspired "to release the wiggle. And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are."
Fans quickly swarmed to the comment section of Beyoncé's post, including one social media user who wrote, "Can't believe I'm witnessing Beyoncé's TikTok era."
Another person commented, "imagine waking up and realize your featured on the official Beyoncé page!" while a third TikToker wrote, "MY WIG IS ORBITING SATURN! BEYONCÉ YOU HAVE DONE IT AGAIN! SENT ME INTO CARDIAC ARREST ON THIS FLIGHT. LOVE YOU QUEEN."
On June 15, Beyoncé broke the internet when she announced that she was releasing her seventh studio album Renaissance on July 29. Just a few days later, the singer released the single "Break My Soul," which samples Robin S' 1993 song, "Show Me Love," and features an interpolation of Big Freedia's 2014 single, "Explode."
"Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world. It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving," Beyoncé wrote on Instagram June 30. "My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom. It was a beautiful journey of exploration." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1338032/beyonce-celebrates-her-fans-in-her-first-ever-tiktok?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-07-14T20:37:10Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1338032/beyonce-celebrates-her-fans-in-her-first-ever-tiktok?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | false |
Rossen Reports: How to avoid lost luggage while traveling
Rossen Reports: How to avoid lost luggage while traveling
high. Let's get right to the rundown. First, lost luggage rates are surging. But we've got the tips from insiders on how to beat the odds for your next trip and how to get reunited with your bags. If it happens to you, then make money off your old gadgets. More and more retailers now offering trade in programs and we've got the big ones that'll make you some major cash. And finally it's already time to start thinking about back to school prep July. We've got the discounts. One store is offering that you won't want to pass up even if you're not ready to start shopping yet. First travel numbers are back up and that includes lost luggage too. According to *** report from the Department of Transportation, more than 684,000 bags were mishandled in just the first quarter of this year. Just the first quarter. How can you make sure your bag isn't one of them? Here are some tips. First tuck in the loose straps, it gets tangled in the machinery, screws everything up or it gets tangled with another suitcase and make sure you're taking off barcode stickers and tags from previous trips. I do this all the time. Everyone in my family makes fun of me. It doesn't matter. It matters. Take off the barcodes. Mother trips. Travel insiders also say the best way to get your luggage back is with better labels. Most bags are black or blue or gray. You know the deal. So make sure your name and phone number is labeled on the outside of it. Whatever airline you're flying. you're also gonna want to download that app. Okay because you can actually track your bags when it gets on board and also when it gets off the plane or track it yourself with an apple air tag, just toss it into your luggage, track it yourself, We have more tips including on how to get reimbursed if they do lose your bag on Rawson reports dot com. Next up if your summer cleaning dug up old electronics or they're just laying around the house, don't throw them out. Major retailers offer you money to trade them in. First up Gamestop, you can trade in anything from video games to consoles to headphones. All you have to do is go to this website right here Gamestop dot com slash trade, check this out. You can get up to 220 bucks for *** Nintendo switch oleds it's *** lot of money. Then bring your item to the store, you get cash or credit for it and if you're *** Gamestop rewards member boom, an extra 10% in value to walmart has an exchange program as well called gadget to gift cards and this is the website right here it is walmart dot c exchange dot com. You click the item you have, you get an estimate for example this 2017 apple Macbook, You can get up to $525 for this. All you have to do is print the shipping label, send in the item, then you get your gift card sent right to your inbox and last one best buy. Just come here to the website. Trade in dot best buy dot com, click on the item, answer the questions like what condition it's in, then you get the offers. Finally, It might seem *** little too early to talk about this, but some stores are getting ready for back to school shopping target just announced. Two big savings events that are bigger and will last longer than prior years. First this year the retailer is bumping up its discount for college students from 15 to 20%. So from now until September three, You can save big on *** one time purchase of dorm room stuff for school supplies and teachers. You can cash in on all the other savings events. You can save 15% on school supplies from July 17 through September 10, that's six weeks longer than last year. For both discounts, you have to be *** loyalty program member through the target circle app, but it's free, so sign up, get the discounts, it's all for today. Back to you. We saved some money today
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Rossen Reports: How to avoid lost luggage while traveling
With surging travel, mishandled luggage rates are increasing, too. Even though we have better technology to track lost bags, that doesn’t mean they don’t go missing.According to a report from the Department of Transportation, about 684,000 bags were mishandled in the first quarter of the year. How can you make sure your bag isn't one of them? We’ve got some of the best tips from travel insiders:Don’t get it caught: Make sure to tuck in loose straps and handles that can get tangled and stuck in machinery or with another suitcase.Tags: Rip off barcode stickers and other paper baggage tags from previous trips. You don’t want the wrong destination to get scanned.Labels: Most bags are black, blue, grey, etc. A unique bag tag and/or colorful ribbon will help differentiate your bag from others. Plus, you want to have your name and phone number clearly labeled on the outside in case it does go missing. Some insiders will even tell you to put a business card inside your luggage with your home address on it as well.Track it with apps: Download your airline’s app. It will update you when your bag is on board and when it gets to baggage claim as well.Track it yourself: Those Apple Airtags can help you in a pinch. Toss one into your luggage so you can track your bags yourself on your phone.Get reimbursed: Each airline has its own rules and policies for this. Make sure you do the research if your luggage does get lost. Some differ on how they give reimbursement or for how long the bag needs to be lost for. But the Department of Transportation does have rules airlines must follow as well. For example, the most an airline can owe a passenger is $3,800 per bag.Don’t forget to restock: When luggage gets lost, most airlines will reimburse you to restock the essentials. If you have to buy toiletries, clothes, shoes, etc. while they try to find your bag, make sure you’re saving receipts and filling out a claim form from the airline. Just make sure you figure out how to get reimbursed through the airline’s website.Interested in knowing your flight rights? Click here to read them from the Department of Transportation.
With surging travel, mishandled luggage rates are increasing, too. Even though we have better technology to track lost bags, that doesn’t mean they don’t go missing.
According to a report from the Department of Transportation, about 684,000 bags were mishandled in the first quarter of the year. How can you make sure your bag isn't one of them? We’ve got some of the best tips from travel insiders:
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- Don’t get it caught: Make sure to tuck in loose straps and handles that can get tangled and stuck in machinery or with another suitcase.
- Tags: Rip off barcode stickers and other paper baggage tags from previous trips. You don’t want the wrong destination to get scanned.
- Labels: Most bags are black, blue, grey, etc. A unique bag tag and/or colorful ribbon will help differentiate your bag from others. Plus, you want to have your name and phone number clearly labeled on the outside in case it does go missing. Some insiders will even tell you to put a business card inside your luggage with your home address on it as well.
- Track it with apps: Download your airline’s app. It will update you when your bag is on board and when it gets to baggage claim as well.
- Track it yourself: Those Apple Airtags can help you in a pinch. Toss one into your luggage so you can track your bags yourself on your phone.
- Get reimbursed: Each airline has its own rules and policies for this. Make sure you do the research if your luggage does get lost. Some differ on how they give reimbursement or for how long the bag needs to be lost for. But the Department of Transportation does have rules airlines must follow as well. For example, the most an airline can owe a passenger is $3,800 per bag.
- Don’t forget to restock: When luggage gets lost, most airlines will reimburse you to restock the essentials. If you have to buy toiletries, clothes, shoes, etc. while they try to find your bag, make sure you’re saving receipts and filling out a claim form from the airline. Just make sure you figure out how to get reimbursed through the airline’s website.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a comprehensive search process, 10x Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXG), today announced the hiring of Jim Wilbur, Ph.D., as Chief Commercial Officer, effective July 27. In this role, Wilbur will be responsible for driving commercial strategy and execution and leading the company's sales, support and marketing functions.
A life sciences entrepreneur and seasoned global commercial executive, Wilbur brings nearly 30 years of experience building businesses, developing high-performance teams and scaling commercial organizations to drive growth and customer success.
"Jim's deep experience driving commercial excellence and execution at scale make him the ideal person to lead our global commercial team in this next phase of growth," said Serge Saxonov, Co-founder and CEO of 10x Genomics. "What stood out from all the other great candidates is Jim's detailed understanding and passion of the sales craft, his ability to operate strategically from first principles and his technical depth as a top-notch scientist. It's an incredibly rare combination. He is a great fit with the 10x mission and culture, is rigorous about process and data and has tremendous energy to get things done. We're thrilled to welcome him to the team."
Wilbur joins 10x Genomics from Meso Scale Discovery (MSD), the world's leading provider of highly sensitive multiplex immunoassays. Widely recognized for its innovative and robust technology, MSD develops, manufactures and markets instruments and assays for research use in life sciences and biodefense.
As part of the original team that started the operations of MSD, Wilbur initially led the development of the company's core technology and products. When MSD launched its first products in 2001, Wilbur assumed leadership for the company's commercial function, building the global team responsible for marketing, selling and servicing the company's portfolio of instruments and consumables. Since that time, Wilbur has scaled MSD's global commercial organization to deliver sustained high growth and cultivate deep partnerships with customers.
"It's an exciting time to join the 10x team, be part of the company's mission and have the opportunity to make a difference in a transformational way," said Wilbur. "10x has a great foundation to build on, and I have strong confidence in the company's long-term opportunity and ability to fulfill the tremendous promise of single cell and spatial biology. I look forward to helping the team drive a strong culture of commercial excellence, deliver meaningful value for customers and accelerate growth and impact."
Wilbur earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry and intellectual history from the University of California, San Diego, and holds his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University. Prior to MSD, he completed an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University.
About 10x Genomics
10x Genomics is a life science technology company building products to interrogate, understand and master biology to advance human health. Our integrated solutions include instruments, consumables and software for analyzing biological systems at a resolution and scale that matches the complexity of biology. 10x Genomics products have been adopted by researchers around the world including in all of the top 100 global research institutions as ranked by Nature in 2020 based on publications and all of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies by 2020 research and development spend and have been cited in over 3,800 research papers on discoveries ranging from oncology to immunology and neuroscience. Our patent portfolio comprises more than 1,500 issued patents and patent applications.
Contacts
Investors: investors@10xgenomics.com
Media: media@10xgenomics.com
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CHICAGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Supply chain shortages have been frustrating to caregivers in search of infant formulas to feed their children. With some relief in sight as retailers slowly restock their shelves with domestic and imported formulas, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics encourages consumers to select the formulas that best meet the nutritional needs of their infants and children.
"Registered dietitian nutritionists can provide guidance to families as the selection of infant formulas might differ from what was available prior to the shortage," said registered dietitian nutritionist Amy Reed, a national spokesperson for the Academy based in Cincinnati, Ohio. "This shortage is not only impacting infants; there are many children, teens and adults who require special feedings and rely on therapeutic formulas to meet all of their nutritional needs."
The U.S. government has been working closely with formula manufacturers to increase production domestically and increase access from abroad. Federal agencies have been working together to import infant formulas that are not currently being produced for the U.S. market as a temporary measure to help alleviate the formula shortage. Only infant formulas that meet specific criteria and safety standards are being brought into the U.S. during the shortage, according to the White House. As of July 10, the federal government has transported more than 44 million 8-ounce bottle equivalents of infant formula to the U.S.
While imported infant formulas may provide necessary relief, caregivers should be aware of differences between these and domestic formula brands.
Reed recommends the following:
- If your infant or child refuses to drink a new formula after several tries, contact your physician or RDN for additional guidance.
- Follow the manufacturer's label when preparing infant formula and do not add more water to "stretch" the amount of formula per serving.
- Do not purchase infant formula or breast milk from unknown sources or online because they are not safe and may contain harmful ingredients.
- Purchasing pasteurized donor human breastmilk from milk banks is an appropriate alternative for some infants, when available.
- Be aware of and follow expiration dates. Once expired, you can't guarantee the formula's quality or safety.
- Homemade infant formulas are not recommended and can lead to both short- and long-term health issues for infants and children.
- If possible, breastfeeding is a great option to meet your child's nutrition needs. Consult an RDN for more information on the benefits of breastfeeding.
- Monitor the amount of formula you have available. If you are having difficulty obtaining the appropriate formula for your child, contact your physician, RDN or another health care provider before supply is depleted; they can help you find a suitable formula for your child.
For more information, visit the Academy's Infant Formula Safety Resources webpage or the Health and Human Services website at hhs.gov/formula. To find an RDN in your area, visit the Academy's Find a Nutrition Expert.
Representing more than 112,000 credentialed nutrition and dietetics practitioners, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. The Academy is committed to improving health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy. Visit the Academy at www.eatright.org.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuberger Berman Next Generation Connectivity Fund Inc. (NYSE: NBXG) (the "Fund") has announced a conference call with Fund Portfolio Manager Hari Ramanan and members of his team, to be held on Monday, July 25, 2022 at 4:00 PM (Eastern). During the call, members of the Portfolio Management team will review the Fund's investment process and provide an update and perspective on the rapidly evolving next generation connectivity investment opportunity.
Questions may be submitted in advance to the following email address: nbxg@nb.com. The deadline for email submission of questions is Friday, July 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM (Eastern). Details for the call, including the Zoom link and the dial-in information, will also be posted to the Neuberger Berman website, www.nb.com, in advance of the call.
A replay of the call will be available on nb.com.
Call Details:
Zoom Link:
https://nb.zoom.us/j/95257194412?pwd=QjVTcnJidGxBSitUeGs0RHgybnR1UT09
Participant Dial-In: (646) 558 8656
Meeting ID: 952 5719 4412
Passcode: 07252022
About The Fund
The Fund, which is advised by Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC, has an investment objective to provide capital appreciation and income. The Fund is a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. No assurance can be given that the Fund's investment objectives will be achieved. Shares of closed-end funds frequently trade at a discount of their net asset value. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that the shares may be worth more or less than their original cost.
About Neuberger Berman
Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 25 countries, Neuberger Berman's diverse team has over 2,500 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). In 2020, the PRI named Neuberger Berman a Leader, a designation awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The PRI also awarded Neuberger Berman an A+ in every eligible category for our approach to ESG integration across asset classes. The firm manages $447 billion in client assets as of March 31, 2022. For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.
Statements made in this release that look forward in time involve risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the adverse effect from a decline in the securities markets or a decline in the Fund's performance, a general downturn in the economy, competition from other closed end investment companies, changes in government policy or regulation, inability of the Fund's investment adviser to attract or retain key employees, inability of the Fund to implement its investment strategy, inability of the Fund to manage rapid expansion and unforeseen costs and other effects related to legal proceedings or investigations of governmental and self-regulatory organizations.
NBXG Contact: Tony Maltese, 212.476.9229, AMaltese@NB.com
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Tom Parker's widow Kelsey has penned a heartbreaking tribute to her late The Wanted star husband on their wedding anniversary.
Late singer Tom and Kelsey tied the knot four years ago in July 2018. Two years into the couple's marriage Tom was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, known as a glioblastoma.
He bravely battled his cancer but tragically passed away at age 33 in March this year. Kelsey has been incredibly open about the loss of her husband, recently announcing she had organised a special charity event to celebrate his 34th birthday.
Now, Kelsey has paid tribute to her late beloved husband Tom on their fourth wedding anniversary by sharing a montage of clips of their special wedding day on her Instagram page.
The videos see Kelsey and Tom singing and dancing together throughout their big day, including a moment where Tom takes over the mic to perform for his guests.
As she shared the footage, Kelsey admitted that while some would want to relive their wedding day, she would do anything just to have a hug from her late husband.
She wrote in the caption: "Never did I ever think this is how I’d be celebrating our 4 year wedding anniversary Tom.
"Most people wish to have their wedding day again, I’d settle for a hug.
"Miss you immensely and it’s not getting easier but as I promised I would, I’m here, staying positive, toasting you and us and staying grateful for the time we had.
She added: "Our wedding day truly was the best day of my life and I’m holding on to every memory of it."
Addressing her beloved late husband Kelsey ended her caption with: "Love you Tom. Thank you for choosing me to be Mrs Parker. Positive Parkers Forever" followed by a red heart emoji.
Meanwhile, on her Instagram stories, she shared posts from her husband Tom's Instagram page, including a video of the pair dancing together which Tom had shared on their birthday last year.
Another post Kelsey had re-shared from Tom's account was the tribute he had written to her on their third wedding anniversary.
As Tom shared a photo of him stranding his wife last year, he wrote in the caption: "3 years married to you! When I tell you I love you my girl, I’m not just saying it.
"I say it to remind you that you are the best thing that has ever happened to me.
"Thank you for not only the last 3 years of marriage but just for being the wonderful human being you are @being_kelsey".
Celebrity friends and fans commented on Kelsey's post with supportive messages to her. Louisa Lytton wrote: "Love you both beyond what a wife".
While Georgia Kousoulou simply shared a string of red heart emojis.
Meanwhile a fan said: "What beautiful memories You are amazing ...sending love to you and your babies Xxx".
Another added: "Thinking of you," while a third wrote: "Wonderful memories and your kiddies will love seeing this in years to come".
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PITTSBURGH, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) plans to issue its second quarter financial and operating results after market close on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, and will host a conference call with securities analysts on Thursday, July 28, 2022, beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Topics of the teleconference will include financial and operating results, and other matters, with respect to the second quarter of 2022. A brief Q&A session for securities analysts will immediately follow the discussion.
To access the live audio webcast of the conference call, visit EQT's investor relations website at ir.eqt.com. A replay will also be available via EQT's investor relations website for seven days following the live call.
Investor Contact:
Cameron Horwitz
Managing Director, Investor Relations & Strategy
412.395.2555
Cameron.Horwitz@eqt.com
EQT Corporation is a leading independent natural gas production company with operations focused in the cores of the Marcellus and Utica Shales in the Appalachian Basin. We are dedicated to responsibly developing our world-class asset base and being the operator of choice for our stakeholders. By leveraging a culture that prioritizes operational efficiency, technology and sustainability, we seek to continuously improve the way we produce environmentally responsible, reliable and low-cost energy. We have a longstanding commitment to the safety of our employees, contractors, and communities, and to the reduction of our overall environmental footprint. Our values are evident in the way we operate and in how we interact each day – trust, teamwork, heart, and evolution are at the center of all we do. To learn more, visit eqt.com.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — A federal grand jury has indicted the Buffalo mass shooting suspect on federal hate crime and firearm charges.
The U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday a federal grand jury returned a 27-count indictment against the 19-year-old. He is charged with violations of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Shepard-Byrd Act) and 13 firearms offenses in connection to the mass shooting on May 14 at Tops supermarket.
The indictment alleges the suspect arrived at Tops and opened fire with a Bushmaster XM rifle. Ten people were killed and three others were injured.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said the indictment alleges the suspect willfully caused "the death of the victims because of their actual and perceived race and color."
The charges carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment or the death penalty, according to officials.
"The Attorney General will decide whether to seek the death penalty at a later time. Should the Attorney General determine that the circumstances of the offense are such that a sentence of death is justified, the law requires that notice be filed with the court at a reasonable time before trial," a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office says.
The suspect is currently in state custody pending state criminal charges.
Thursday marks two months since the shooting. The store will then reopen to the public Friday.
This story was originally published by Anthony Reyes on wkbw.com. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-indicted-on-federal-hate-crime-firearm-charges | 2022-07-14T20:47:08Z | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-indicted-on-federal-hate-crime-firearm-charges | true |
Significantly Expands Maintenance and Technician Service Offerings for Radiation-Producing and Nuclear Power Customers
BATON ROUGE, La., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Power Holdings, LLC ("Allied" or the "Company"), a full-service provider of power plant services, today announced that it has acquired Radiation Safety & Control Services, Inc. ("RSCS"), a leading provider of project management, technical and laboratory services to the nuclear power industry. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Allied provides a diversified range of services – from routine maintenance to outage services and management, capital construction and specialized support – for power plants across the asset life cycle throughout the U.S. In November 2020, the Company was acquired by Bernhard Capital Partners, a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm investing in middle market businesses providing essential services to owners of critical infrastructure.
For more than three decades, RSCS has established itself as one of the most innovative and efficient providers of radiological and environmental services and nuclear site staffing services to industries and government agencies across the country. With proprietary radiation monitoring products and laboratory services, RSCS will enable Allied to expand its relationships with existing and new customers, while simultaneously allowing the Company to capitalize on the growing market for nuclear plant decommissioning and radiation monitoring services.
"We are thrilled to welcome such an established and well-respected team in the industry to the Allied family," said Ron McCall, Chief Executive Officer of Allied Power. "RSCS's proprietary products and best-in-class monitoring and technician services will enable us to capitalize on new contract opportunities, enhance the on-site and supportive offerings we provide to our nuclear facility clients and maximize significant tailwinds in the decommissioning space. We look forward to working closely with the RSCS team and embarking on a new phase of growth together."
"We share a deep commitment with the Allied team to provide efficient, quality radiological services to an expanding customer base, which makes this transaction a natural fit for our business," said Jay Tarzia, Principal and Executive Director of RSCS. "The added scale and offerings will provide our employees and customers with significant long-term opportunities, and we are excited to partner with the Allied and Bernhard teams."
"As the commercial nuclear energy market continues to play a pivotal, yet evolving, role – both domestically and internationally – in today's clean energy landscape and transition, it will increasingly require specialized expertise and support," said Mark Spender, a Partner of Bernhard Capital. "This transaction further solidifies Allied as the provider of choice for safe, mission-critical and cost-effective power services for the leading power generators across the country."
About Allied Power Holdings
Allied Power is a diversified, full-service provider of power plant services spanning the entire asset life cycle. The Allied Power team and leadership has vast experience in the utility industry and expertise in power generation. Utilizing this expertise, Allied Power is able to provide customers with proven, practical, and innovative approaches that maximize the efficiency and cost effectiveness of utilities without sacrificing safety or quality. Allied Power provides a full range of professional, technical and craft services including routine maintenance, outage, and capital construction services. To learn more at Allied Power, visit https://www.alliedpwr.com.
About Radiation Safety & Control Services
RSCS provides project management, technical, and laboratory services to the nuclear power industry, the Government, and other companies that use radioactive material. RSCS actively manages and supports nuclear and radiological operations and decommissioning projects through its specialty services and staff augmentation. RSCS's project services, ISO/IEC accredited laboratory, and its manufacturing division provide state-of-the art solutions to our clients to improve quality and efficiency. RSCS has a dedicated team of approximately 230 employees nationally. A group of its employees on a jobsite in CA recently announced their intent to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. For more information about RSCS please visit http://www.radsafety.com.
About Bernhard Capital Partners
Bernhard Capital Partners is a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm established in 2013. Bernhard Capital Partners has deployed capital in three funds across several strategies, has approximately $2.5 billion of gross assets under management and is ranked as one of Private Equity International's 300 largest private equity firms worldwide. Bernhard Capital Partners seeks to create sustainable value by leveraging its experience in acquiring, operating and growing services and infrastructure businesses. For more information, visit www.bernhardcapital.com.
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Allied Power
Christy Fairchild
Vice President – Human Resources & Corporate Development
cfairchild@alliedpwr.com
225-412-6435
Bernard Capital Partners
Ed Trissel / Erik Carlson
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
212-355-4449
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Woman wins $146K in lottery, hands out gift cards to strangers
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Gray News) – A woman in Kentucky decided to pay it forward after winning an instant play jackpot.
Crystal Dunn made a $20 wager playing the Bank Buster Jackpot Instant Play game online and ultimately won $146,351, according to the Kentucky Lottery.
Dunn was in awe and didn’t believe it at first. It wasn’t until she received an email from lottery officials confirming the win that she knew it was real.
“It’s a pretty exciting feeling. I never thought I would win something like this, but this goes to show it can happen,” she said.
After claiming her prize of $103,909.73, after taxes, she went to a grocery store in the area and bought $2,000 in gift cards to give to random strangers in the store.
“A few were taken back, thinking I was wanting something in return,” Dunn said.
Dunn told lottery officials she believes in paying it forward and wanted to pass along her good fortune.
“I’ve worked hard for everything I’ve had. This is a pretty amazing gift,” she said.
According to the Kentucky Lottery, Dunn plans to use the rest of her winnings on things she was already working toward, like buying a car and paying off bills.
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Two arrested in dispute involving pellet gun in south Fargo
FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Two people were arrested after an incident early Thursday morning in Fargo.
A dozen or more police officers responded to an apartment in the 900 block of 42nd Street south on a report of shots fired.
Police say a dispute involving a number of people started inside an apartment and then ended up outside where they continued to argue.
One of them shot a pellet rifle into the air four times and then another man then grabbed the pellet rifle and shot a number of pellets in the direction of two people
There were no injuries.
Arrested on charges of terrorizing and reckless endangerment are 25-year-old Dheraj Mon, and 23-year-old Man Ghalay. | https://www.kvrr.com/2022/07/14/two-arrested-in-dispute-involving-pellet-gun-in-south-fargo/ | 2022-07-14T20:52:39Z | https://www.kvrr.com/2022/07/14/two-arrested-in-dispute-involving-pellet-gun-in-south-fargo/ | false |
NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced that it will report its second quarter fiscal year 2022 financial results before the U.S. financial markets open on Thursday, August 4, 2022.
In conjunction with this announcement, Datadog will host a conference call on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Company's financial results and financial guidance. To access this call, dial 1-866-374-5140 (domestic) or 1-404-400-0571 (international). The conference passcode is 70803954. A live webcast of this conference call will be available on the "Investor Relations" page of the Company's website (investors.datadoghq.com), and a replay will be archived on the website.
About Datadog
Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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Yuka Broderick
Datadog Investor Relations
IR@datadoghq.com
Dan Haggerty
Datadog Public Relations
Press@datadoghq.com
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Cat caught after weeks on the run at Boston airport
BOSTON (AP) - A family's beloved pet cat that's been dodging airport personnel, airline employees, and animal experts since escaping from a pet carrier at Boston's Logan International Airport about three weeks ago was finally caught Wednesday.
"Whether out of fatigue or hunger we'll never know, but this morning she finally let herself be caught," an airport spokesperson said of the cat named Rowdy in a statement.
Rowdy was given a health check and will be returned to her family.
"I'm kind of in disbelief," said her owner, Patty Sahli. "I thought, 'What are the odds we're actually going to get her back?' But I got a call this morning and I am just so shocked."
Rowdy's time on the lam began June 24, as Sahli and her husband, Rich, returned to the U.S. from 15 years in Germany with the Army. When their Lufthansa flight landed, the 4-year-old black cat with green eyes escaped her cage, in pursuit of some birds.
Soon Rowdy herself was on the receiving end of a chase, as her getaway set off a massive search involving airport and Lufthansa personnel, construction workers, and animal welfare advocates, as well as the use of wildlife cameras and safe-release traps.
Despite numerous sightings, Rowdy always eluded her pursuers — but now, a little calm has been restored.
"It was such a community effort," said Sahli, who is originally from New Hampshire and is moving to Florida. "We're just so grateful to everyone who helped look for her." | https://www.fox4news.com/news/cat-caught-after-weeks-on-the-run-at-boston-airport | 2022-07-14T20:54:54Z | https://www.fox4news.com/news/cat-caught-after-weeks-on-the-run-at-boston-airport | false |
When trying to avoid an unwanted thought, people often reactively reject and replace the thought after it occurs. But proactively avoiding an association in the first place can be much more efficient, and help prevent the repetitive looping of unwanted thoughts, according to a new study publishing July 14th in PLOS Computational Biology by Isaac Fradkin and Eran Eldar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Trying to stop thinking unwanted repetitive thoughts is a familiar experience to most people. Often, a cue can repeatedly evoke unwanted thoughts or memories. In addition to the need to expel unwanted associations from their mind, people have to make sure these unwanted associations do not keep coming again and again in an endless loop, and do not become stronger and stronger over time.
In the new study, researchers studied how 80 English-speaking adults came up with new associations to common words. All participants viewed words on a screen and had to type an associated word. People in one group were told ahead of time they would not receive monetary bonuses if they repeated associations, so they set out to suppress the thoughts of previous words they had input.
Based on reaction times and how effective participants were at generating new associations, the researchers used computational approaches to model how people were avoiding repeated associations. Most people, they found, use reactive control – rejecting unwanted associations after they have already come to mind. “This type of reactive control can be particularly problematic,” the authors say, “because, as our findings suggest, thoughts are self-reinforcing: thinking a thought increases its memory strength and the probability that it will recur. In other words, every time we have to reactively reject an unwanted association, it has the potential to become even stronger. Critically, however, we also found that people can partially preempt this process if they want to ensure that this thought comes to mind as little as possible.”
“Although people could not avoid unwanted thoughts, they could ensure that thinking an unwanted thought does not increase the probability of it coming to mind again,” Fradkin adds. “Whereas the current study focused on neutral associations, future studies should determine whether our findings generalize to negative and personally relevant unwanted thoughts.”
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Citation: Fradkin I, Eldar E (2022) If you don’t let it in, you don’t have to get it out: Thought preemption as a method to control unwanted thoughts. PLoS Comput Biol 18(7): e1010285. https://doi.org/10.1371/
Author Countries: Israel
Funding: This work has been made possible by NIH (National institute of health) grants R01MH124092 and R01MH125564, ISF (Israel science foundation) grant 1094/20 and US-Israel BSF (binational science foundation) grant 2019801 to EE. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. | https://www.newswise.com/articles/research-probes-how-people-control-unwanted-thoughts | 2022-07-14T20:56:35Z | https://www.newswise.com/articles/research-probes-how-people-control-unwanted-thoughts | false |
LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ronnie C. Wright, social media influencer and founder of THE BOAT Sports Podcasting Network through Amblacks Media finalized a brand promotional deal with WOW Lip Balm, in Beverly Hills.
"The Boat is an innovative sports podcast network and, it's an honor to team with WOW Lip Balm to promote our content and their brand in the market place, Wright said.
"We are thrilled to win with 'WOW' – wealth of wellness."
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Wildfire threat becomes tool to fight home builders
Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice.
That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan to build more than 1,100 homes in a fire-prone area he said would be difficult to evacuate safely. Brown sits on the local planning commission, and he said the additional people would clog the road out.
“It’s a very rough area,” Brown said. “We have fires all the time now.”
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Opponents like Brown, a member of the Sierra Club and California Native Plant Society, scored a win last year. A California court sided with a coalition of environmental groups and blocked a developer’s plan called Otay Village 14 that included single-family homes and commercial space. The groups argued the county didn’t adequately consider fire escape routes, and the judge agreed.
That's not the only time California's escalating cycle of fire has been used as a basis to refuse development.
Environmental groups are seeing increased success in California courts arguing that wildfire risk wasn't fully considered in proposals to build homes in fire-prone areas that sit at the edge of forests and brush, called the wildland-urban interface. Experts say such litigation could become more common.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has backed a handful of the lawsuits, putting developers on notice.
“You can’t keep doing things the way we’ve been doing when the world is changing around us,” Bonta said in an interview, adding that he supports more housing. His office has, for example, questioned the increased fire risk of a 16,000-acre (6,475-hectare) project that includes a luxury resort and 385 residential lots in Lake County, roughly 130 miles (209 kilometers) north of San Francisco in an area that has already seen significant fire.
| RELATED | 2022 Northern California wildfire resources: Where to find county evacuation info, maps, alerts and more
Bonta said his office is working on a policy that will help developers and local officials avoid future opposition from his office. It will provide guidance on evacuation routes, planning for population growth and minimizing fire risk, he said.
Developers say they already consider wildfire risks in their plans, comply with strict fire codes and adhere to state environmental policies, all while trying to ease another one of the state’s most pressing problems: the need for more housing.
Builders also say communities sometimes unfairly wield wildfire risk as a tool to stop development. The AG's office has weighed in on this side, too. Last year, the city of Encinitas denied permits to an apartment complex citing the possibility of choked outgoing traffic if there were a fire.
Encinitas — a city with a median home price of $1.67 million — was thwarting the state's affordable housing goals, Bonta's office wrote. Months later, the commission approved the developer’s plan with some changes.
FIRE AND LAWSUITS
California is withering under a megadrought that is increasing the risk of fire, with 12 of the 20 largest wildfires in its history taking place in the past five years. UC Berkeley researchers estimate 1.4 million homes in California are located in high or very high-risk areas. Activists say the public is increasingly aware of fires.
The result is more lawsuits.
Opponents of the developments are employing the often-hated California Environmental Quality Act against local governments in these lawsuits. That law ensures there’s enough information about projects like Otay Village 14 for officials to make informed decisions and address problems. In 2018, the state strengthened requirements for disclosing wildfire risk, leaving developers more vulnerable to this kind of litigation.
| WILDFIRE MAP | Here’s a look at some of the fires burning in California
Peter Broderick, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said environmental groups are challenging “the worst of the worst," large projects in undeveloped, high fire-prone areas that cater to wealthy buyers.
“We’re talking about sprawl,” Broderick said.
Pro-housing advocates have said the state’s policies encourage sprawl.
MAJOR HOUSING NEED
But by fighting big developments, environmental groups are holding up thousands of homes, said Mark Dillon, an attorney who represented the Otay Village 14 builders. New developments take fire risk seriously, employing techniques for fire-resistance and complying with building codes, he said. Otay Village 14 would build its own fire station.
California shouldn’t just focus on building in city centers, Dillon countered.
“We shouldn’t be outlawing the single family home,” he said.
Jennifer Hernandez heads the West Coast Land Use and Environmental Group at Holland & Knight LLP. She said developers are adjusting to changes in the environmental review law but that the attorney general’s office should issue a public policy.
“The ad hoc nature of unexpected interventions by the AG's office does a policy disservice to California housing needs,” she said.
Hernandez represents an industry group that sued Calabasas, an affluent community of over 20,000 northwest of Los Angeles, arguing that it improperly cited wildfire risk to deny a 180-unit development.
“It’s on the main street of an existing community,” she said. “And why is this a problem?"
Calabasas City Manager Kindon Meik said the project would violate open space rules and was in a high-risk area that had recently burned, adding the city has plans to meet its new housing needs.
California's housing shortage has made homes unaffordable for many moderate and low-income residents. Researchers, housing policy experts, and others say development at the edge of the forest has been driven in part by these punishing home costs in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and their suburbs.
In recent years, the state passed measures aimed at ensuring cities build enough new homes, but a recent statewide housing plan said 2.5 million new homes are still needed over the next eight years.
Greg Pierce, a professor of urban environmental policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, said there's very little land left in California that is undeveloped, cheap and at low risk of fire.
Meanwhile, activists have more projects in their crosshairs.
NeySa Ely of Escondido has a list of items like medicine and dog supplies to grab the next time she has to flee a fire. She had to evacuate in 2003 and 2007. The first time, she remembers driving away and seeing flames in the rearview mirror.
“At that point, I just started sobbing,” Ely said.
Her house survived that blaze, but the memory stuck. So when she heard about plans for Harvest Hills, a roughly 550-home development proposed about a mile from her house, she worked to block it, concerned that more residents and buildings in the area would clog the roads out and increase the chance of fire.
The project hasn’t been approved yet, but if it is, Ely said, “I think it will be heavily litigated.”
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This week on Eco Africa, we look at how heat waves are threatening food supplies in Tunisia and how Paris is making schoolyards fit for global warming, and we meet the bug snacking on invasive plants in South Africa. | https://www.dw.com/en/eco-africa-the-environment-magazine/av-62441275 | 2022-07-14T20:59:14Z | https://www.dw.com/en/eco-africa-the-environment-magazine/av-62441275 | true |
ATLANTA, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ty J. Young Wealth Management, one of Atlanta's largest financial advisory practices, has announced it has acquired Annuity Pros, LLC. The acquisition of the Gulf Breeze, FL based financial services firm marks Ty J. Young's 22nd acquisition in the past four years as part of its rapid nationwide expansion.
"It's our honor to have the opportunity to serve the clients of Annuity Pros, LLC," says CEO Ty Young. "The clients and management of Annuity Pros, LLC have the mindset, priorities, and goals that match those of Ty J. Young Wealth Management. It's a good fit."
Founded by financial industry veteran Warren R. Thompson in 2008, Annuity Pros, LLC specializes in providing retirement planning and fixed annuities to its clients across Florida with a focus on simplified retirement strategies that deliver a reasonable rate of return with safety of principal.
Ty J. Young Wealth Management is one of America's largest independent wealth management firms. Founded by Ty J. Young in 1998, the firm manages more than $1 billion in assets for more than 7,000 clients nationwide. They are recognized as a thought leader in investment management, retirement planning and insurance with Ty Young frequently being featured on CNBC, Forbes, Fox Business and more. Learn more about Ty J. Young Wealth Management at: https://www.tyjyoung.com/
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MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- A man and woman were arrested earlier this week following a lengthy investigation that started when two children made an outcry of abuse. Myra Monje, 30, has been charged with injuring a child. Vicente Monje, 30, has been charged with endangering a child by negligence.
According to an affidavit, the investigation began in March after a woman called 911 to report her children had accused their dad’s girlfriend, identified as Myra, of abuse. The children met with forensic interviewers on more than one occasion and stated Myra hit them with brushes on several occasions, grabbed them by the head, and even bit them.
The children stated Myra would make fun of their bodies, take pictures of their “private parts”, and tie their hands with rubber bands while they were being spanked. The abuse reportedly happened in March and then again in April.
The young children said they did not feel safe when visiting their father Vicente because he knew about the abuse and never reported it, despite having photographic evidence of their bruises on his phone.
Myra and Vicente were arrested in July following a months long investigation. Vicente was later released on a $25,000 bond; Myra was released on an unknown bond. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/couple-arrested-after-children-make-outcry-of-abuse/ | 2022-07-14T21:01:24Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/couple-arrested-after-children-make-outcry-of-abuse/ | false |
Pacers agree to max offer sheet with Suns star, restricted free agent Deandre Ayton
The Pacers really want Suns star and restricted free agent Deandre Ayton.
After officially trading Malcolm Brogdon to Boston, Indiana agreed to a four-year, $133 million max offer sheet with Ayton that Ayton will sign Thursday, league sources told IndyStar. ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski broke the news.
However, the clock on Ayton's offer sheet doesn't start until midnight, so Phoenix and Indiana could still work out a sign-and-trade before then for Ayton. If they don't, the Suns have two days to match the largest offer sheet in league history or let Ayton go for nothing. If Phoenix matches the offer sheet, they can trade Ayton as soon as Jan. 15 but he'd have veto power on the trade for a full year and could not be traded to the Pacers.
Once Ayton signs an offer sheet, the 23-year-old center can no longer be included in a trade for Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant.
Ayton was drafted No. 1 overall by the Suns in 2018, but it's been widely expected that they will part ways since Phoenix has refused to offer Ayton a max contract. This is its final chance.
Ayton averaged 17.2 points and 10.2 rebounds last season alongside future Hall-of-Famer Chris Paul and All-NBA First-Teamer Devin Booker. The 6-11 big man has averaged 16.3 points and 10.5 rebounds in his four-year career.
Ayton would join a promising young core in Indiana, headlined by Tyrese Haliburton. The 22-year-old point guard averaged 17.5 points and 9.6 assists in 26 games for the Pacers after being traded from the Kings last season in exchange for two-time All-Star Domantas Sabonis. Haliburton could help Ayton blossom into a superstar.
Ayton would be paired with another former Arizona star, Bennedict Mathurin. The Pacers drafted Mathurin sixth overall last month, marking their highest draft pick since 1988 and first single-digit pick since 1989. Mathurin was the 2022 Pac-12 Player of the Year and the first Arizona player to win the award since Ayton in 2018.
Indiana also has second-year players and 2021 first-round picks Chris Duarte and Isaiah Jackson. Duarte, 25, was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team last season, while Jackson, 20, has arguably the most upside of any player on the roster because of his age, athleticism and versatility.
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Indiana has already retained Ayton's former Suns teammate Jalen Smith in free agency. The 22-year-old was traded from the Suns to the Pacers last season and signed a three-year deal with Indiana on July 6. Smith was drafted 10th overall by Phoenix in 2020 but averaged just 4.1 points and 3.1 rebounds in 56 games compared to 13.4 points and 7.6 rebounds in 22 games for Indiana.
Carlisle dubbed Smith the team's new starting power forward, and Ayton would certainly be its new starting center, leaving Myles Turner as the odd man out. The 26-year-old is entering a contract year and has yet to sign an extension, so Indiana may consider trading him to avoid the crowded frontcourt it experienced when Turner and Sabonis shared the court for three-plus seasons.
Follow IndyStar Pacers beat writer James Boyd on Twitter: @RomeovilleKid. Reach him via email: jboyd1@gannett.com. | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nba/pacers/2022/07/14/pacers-extend-max-offer-sheet-to-suns-star-deandre-ayton/10014910002/ | 2022-07-14T21:01:59Z | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nba/pacers/2022/07/14/pacers-extend-max-offer-sheet-to-suns-star-deandre-ayton/10014910002/ | false |
WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
335 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Mason
and San Saba Counties through 415 PM CDT...
At 334 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Harkeyville, or 7 miles southeast of Sloan, moving southwest at 25
mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size 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...
San Saba, Algerita, Cherokee, Art, Pontotoc, Bend, Chappel, Sloan,
Harkeyville and Us-190 Near The Mcculloch-San Saba County Line.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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- Represents First Ever Epigenomic Controller, a New Class of Programmable mRNA Therapeutics, to Receive IND Clearance
- Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial Expected to Launch in 2H'22 and Will Evaluate the Safety and Preliminary Antitumor Activity of OTX-2002
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omega Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMGA) ("Omega"), today announced that it has received clearance of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase 1/2, first-in-human, clinical study of OTX-2002 for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). OTX-2002, an Omega Epigenomic Controller (OEC), is designed to downregulate c-Myc (MYC) expression pre-transcriptionally through epigenetic modulation while potentially overcoming MYC autoregulation.
"We are thrilled to obtain clearance to advance OTX-2002 into the clinic and are excited about the prospects of what this new class of medicines may mean for patients in need," said Mahesh Karande, President and Chief Executive Officer of Omega Therapeutics. "This is an important milestone for our company, representing our first program to receive FDA clearance to enter the clinic and the first ever clinical trial to evaluate an epigenomic controller. This new class of programmable mRNA therapeutics leverages our groundbreaking science and has broad potential applicability in many therapeutic areas."
OTX-2002 is a first-in-class Omega Epigenomic Controller™ in development for the treatment of HCC. OTX-2002 is an mRNA therapeutic delivered via lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and is designed to downregulate MYC expression pre-transcriptionally through epigenetic modulation while potentially overcoming MYC autoregulation. The MYC oncogene is associated with aggressive disease in up to ~70% of patients with HCC. An IND application for OTX-2002 has been cleared by the FDA.
Omega Therapeutics, founded by Flagship Pioneering, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the first systematic approach to use mRNA therapeutics as a new class of programmable epigenetic medicines. The company's OMEGA Epigenomic Programming™ platform harnesses the power of epigenetics, the mechanism that controls gene expression and every aspect of an organism's life from cell genesis, growth, and differentiation to cell death. Using a suite of technologies, paired with Omega's process of systematic, rational, and integrative drug design, the OMEGA platform enables control of fundamental epigenetic processes to correct the root cause of disease by returning aberrant gene expression to a normal range without altering native nucleic acid sequences. Omega's modular and programmable mRNA medicines, Omega Epigenomic Controllers™, target specific epigenomic loci within insulated genomic domains, EpiZips™, from amongst thousands of unique, mapped, and validated genome-wide DNA-sequences, with high specificity to durably tune single or multiple genes to treat and cure diseases through Precision Genomic Control™. Omega is currently advancing a broad pipeline of development candidates spanning a range of disease areas, including oncology, regenerative medicine, multigenic diseases including immunology, and select monogenic diseases, including alopecia.
For more information, visit omegatherapeutics.com, or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including without limitation statements regarding our product candidate pipeline, including efficacy, trial design, regulatory submissions, approvals and timing thereof, the launch of a clinical trial of OTX-2002 and timing thereof, and the filing of future IND applications and timing thereof. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: the novel technology on which our product candidates are based makes it difficult to predict the time and cost of preclinical and clinical development and subsequently obtaining regulatory approval, if at all; the substantial development and regulatory risks associated with epigenomic controller machines due to the novel and unprecedented nature of this new category of medicines; our limited operating history; the incurrence of significant losses and the fact that we expect to continue to incur significant additional losses for the foreseeable future; our need for substantial additional financing; our investments in research and development efforts that further enhance the OMEGA platform, and their impact on our results; uncertainty regarding preclinical development, especially for a new class of medicines such as epigenomic controllers; the fact that our product candidates may be associated with serious adverse events, undesirable side effects or have other properties that could halt their regulatory development, prevent their regulatory approval, limit their commercial potential, or result in significant negative consequences; the impact of increased demand for the manufacture of mRNA and LNP based vaccines to treat COVID-19 on our development plans; difficulties manufacturing the novel technology on which our OEC candidates are based; our ability to adapt to rapid and significant technological change; our reliance on third parties for the manufacture of materials; our ability to successfully acquire and establish our own manufacturing facilities and infrastructure; our reliance on a limited number of suppliers for lipid excipients used in our product candidates; our ability to advance our product candidates to clinical development; and our ability to obtain, maintain, enforce and adequately protect our intellectual property rights. These and other important factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, and our other filings with the SEC could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change.
Contacts
Investor contact:
Kevin Murphy
Argot Partners
212.600.1902
ArgotOmega@argotpartners.com
Media contact:
Jason Braco
LifeSci Communications
646.751.4361
jbraco@lifescicomms.com
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Widow and father of man shot 13 times by San Diego deputy to call for justice
SAN DIEGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The wife and father of Mizael Corrales, the 31-year-old Latin man shot and killed by a deputy with the San Diego Sheriff's Department, will hold a news conference with their attorneys tomorrow, July 15, at 11:00 AM (PDT) in front of the John F. Duffy Administrative Center (9621 Ridgehaven Ct. San Diego, CA) to call for justice in Corrales' needless death.The family is represented by renowned Civil Rights attorneys Bakari Sellers (Strom Law Firm), John Burris and DeWitt Lacy (Burris, Nisenbaum, Curry & Lacy LLP) and Jorge Montes (Montes & Associates).
Corrales was unarmed and attempting to flee an Otay Mesa strip mall on February 19, 2022 when Deputy Anthony Garcia opened fire with 13 shots killing the father of three. None of the other officers present fired at Corrales.
WHO
Heidi Corrales (widow)
Pastor Jose Corrales (father)
Attorney Bakari Sellers
Attorney John Burris
Attorney DeWitt Lacy
WHEN
11:00 AM on Friday, July 15, 2022
WHERE
John F. Duffy Administrative Center
(East Plaza)
9621 Ridgehaven Ct. San Diego, CA
Tuesday's news conference will begin promptly at 11:00 AM. Media are asked to arrive no later than 10:45 AM.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of VAALCO Energy, Inc. ("VAALCO" or the "Company") (NYSE: EGY), in connection with the Company's proposed acquisition of TransGlobe Energy Corporation ("TransGlobe") (NASDAQ: TGA). Under the merger agreement, the Company will acquire each TransGlobe share for 0.6727 of a VAALCO common share, leaving VAALCO shareholders owning approximately 54.5% and TransGlobe shareholders owning approximately 45.5% of the combined company upon closing of the transaction. The stock-for stock transaction is valued at approximately $307 million.
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Weiss Law is investigating whether (i) VAALCO's board of directors acted in the best interests of Company shareholders in agreeing to the proposed transaction, (ii) the per-share merger consideration and percentage of ownership is fair to VAALCO's shareholders, and (iii) all information regarding the sales process and valuation of the transaction will be fully and fairly disclosed.
Weiss Law has litigated hundreds of stockholder class and derivative actions for violations of corporate and fiduciary duties. We have recovered over a billion dollars for defrauded clients and obtained important corporate governance relief in many of these cases. If you have information or would like legal advice concerning possible corporate wrongdoing (including insider trading, waste of corporate assets, accounting fraud, or materially misleading information), consumer fraud (including false advertising, defective products, or other deceptive business practices), or anti-trust violations, please email us at stockinfo@weisslawllp.com
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The great omission in the draft disability policy
July 15, 2022 00:08 ISTUnless there is political inclusion of the disabled, the goal of inclusiveness and empowerment will remain elusive
The Department of Empowerment of Person with Disabilities (DoEPwD) recently released the draft of the national policy for persons with disabilities (“Policy”) — public comments have been invited till July 15, 2022 (at: panda.dk@nic.in). The necessity for a new policy which replaces the 2006 policy was felt because of multiple factors such as India’s signing of the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities; enactment of a new disability legislation (Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016) which increased the number of disabilities from seven conditions to 21 and being a party to the Incheon Strategy for Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities, 2013-2022 (“Incheon commitment”). The last was prepared under the aegis of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) which identifies 10 goals for Asia-Pacific countries to ensure the inclusion and the empowerment of persons with disabilities and conformity with the Sustainable Development Goals 2030.
These commitments have changed the discourse around disability by shifting the focus from the individual to society, i.e., from a medical model of disability to a social or human rights model of disability.
The principle of the draft policy is to showcase the Government’s commitment to the inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities by providing a mechanism that ensures their full participation in society.
In furtherance of this commitment, the policy document highlights a detailed commitment to education, health, skill development and employment, sports and culture, social security, accessibility and other institutional mechanisms. However, a glaring omission is the absence of any commitment to the political uplift of persons with disabilities.
About political participation
Article 29 of the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities mandates that state parties should “ensure that persons with disabilities can effectively and fully participate in political and public life on an equal basis with others, directly or through freely chosen representatives....” The Incheon goals also promote participation in political processes and in decision making. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 embodies these principles within its fold. The anti-discrimination commitment under this Act recognises the political domain wherein disabled people should be allowed to realise their human rights and fundamental freedoms. The documents fail to take cognisance of such mandates.
Political empowerment and the inclusion of the disabled are an issue that has not found traction in India’s democratic discussion. India does not have any policy commitment that is aimed at enhancing the political participation of disabled people.
The exclusion of disabled people from the political space happens at all levels of the political process in the country, and in different ways. For instance, the inaccessibility of the voting process, barriers to participation in party politics or a lack of representation at the local, State or national levels have all aggravated the marginalisation of the disabled.
Ground realities, no data
Section 11 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act prescribes that “The Election Commission of India and the State Election Commissions shall ensure that all polling stations are accessible to persons with disabilities and all materials related to the electoral process are easily understandable by and accessible to them”. Although this mandate has been in existence for a few years, the disabled people still report accessibility issues before and on election day. There is often a lack of accessible polling booths in many locations. There is still no widespread adaptation of braille electronic voting machines and even wheelchair services at all polling centres. The Election Commission of India has developed its own procedures for handling PwDs during the electoral process.
Political parties in India still do not find the disabled as the large electorate to specifically address their needs.
The lack of live aggregate data on the exact number of the disabled people in every constituency only furthers their marginalisation. The lack of accessible space for party meetings, inaccessible transport for campaigning or an attitudinal barrier among voters and party leaders can be termed as contributing factors. Thus, we seldom see disability being highlighted in the manifestos of parties.
Inadequate representation
Representation plays an imperative role in furthering the interests of the marginalised community. Our Constitution makers recognised this when they provided for reservation for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes in the legislature. Disabled people are not represented enough at all three levels of governance. The response to a right to information filing by this writer to the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry showed that the Government does not maintain data on the disability aspect of members. The first visually disabled Member of Parliament in independent India, Sadhan Gupta, hardly finds mention in our political or disability discourse. We have often failed to acknowledge disabled political personalities who have overcome the myriad barriers in India’s political space.
However, few States have begun the initiative at local levels to increase participation. For instance, Chhattisgarh started the initiative of nominating at least one disabled person in each panchayat. If a disabled person is not elected then they are nominated as a panchayat member as per changes in the law concerned. This is a step that has increased the participation of the disabled in the political space at local level.
‘Make the right real’
The goal of the policy document — of inclusiveness and empowerment — cannot be achieved without political inclusion. The policy can follow a four-pronged approach: building the capacity of disabled people’s organisations and ‘empowering their members through training in the electoral system, government structure, and basic organisational and advocacy skills’; the creation, amendment or removal of legal and regulatory frameworks by lawmakers and election bodies to encourage the political participation of the disabled; inclusion of civil societies to ‘conduct domestic election observation or voter education campaigns’; and a framework for political parties to ‘conduct a meaningful outreach to persons with disabilities when creating election campaign strategies and developing policy positions’.
The document lays emphasis on the point that central and State governments must work together with other stakeholders to “make the right real”. This right can be made real only when it includes political rights/political participation within it. This will only conform to the universal principle on disability, i.e., “Nothing about us. Without us.”
Shashank Pandey is a Javed Abidi Fellow at the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP). He was a Legislative Assistant to Members of Parliament (LAMP) Fellow | https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-great-omission-in-the-draft-disability-policy/article65640519.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-14T21:09:37Z | https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-great-omission-in-the-draft-disability-policy/article65640519.ece/amp/ | false |
LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- State approvals for permits to fix or deepen existing oil wells skyrocketed in the second quarter by 124% over the same time last year, Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance said today. Some of the permit approvals by the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) are for idle wells and wells that barely produce, and both types can leak deadly methane and other harmful pollutants. The permits are posted on a map at www.newsomwellwatch.com
"These are permit approvals to rework old wells that the oil industry wants to squeeze dry," said consumer advocate Liza Tucker. "The state makes it far cheaper for oil companies to continue beating a dead horse than cement those wells shut, including wells that will never come back online or only produce 10 or 15 barrels of crude a day. State policy is misguided. Newsom should mandate that any wells near or in neighborhoods and any that are idle for more than a few years or barely producing oil should be shuttered to stop and prevent leaks."
In the last few months, Bakersfield residents have discovered more than 40 idle wells leaking methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) belonging to five different oil companies in suburban subdivisions of Bakersfield. Residents experienced fatigue, headaches and stomachaches. VOCs can negatively affect breathing, the nervous system and cause cancer.
"This can be attributed to CalGEM's policy of conducting many of their inspections remotely from regulators' desks, rather than conducting in-person inspections at the well sites in the field," said Kyle Ferrar, a coordinator for FracTracker Alliance. "Oil and gas companies can use these reworks to continue to kick the bucket down the road instead of paying the necessary costs to plug these idle wells. That's because there is very little oversight from CalGEM and no repercussions for leaking wells, as we have seen in Bakersfield."
CalGEM just announced late yesterday that it will review the practice of conducting inspections remotely. But the Newsom Administration has not undertaken a broader review of idle well policies that allow unproductive leaking wells to stay open for decades by charging oil producers fees far lower than they would otherwise have to pay to shutter them.
Second quarter permit approvals pushed the overall number of oil drilling permits approved since Newsom came to office in January 2019 to 11,669. During the second quarter, permit approvals to drill both new oil and gas production wells and wells using harsh and dangerous methods of extraction known as "enhanced oil recovery" (EOR), fell by half over the second quarter last year though permits to specifically drill new EOR wells rose by 10%.
Of all 2022 permit approvals to rework wells, 31% were issued for idle wells, according to FracTracker Alliance. Available data makes it hard to determine how long the wells have been idle. Legislation passed several years ago requires to provide an annual list of idle wells, their age, and their status. CalGEM published the last report in 2019 and has not published another since.
According to oil industry information gathered by the California Council on Science and Technology, there are at least 70,000 idle wells in the state, and many are 20-40 years old. Some have been idle for 80 years. That's 40,000 more idle wells than officially reported by CalGEM, according to FracTracker Alliance.
"It is critically important that the public has access to the list of ide wells as many could be leaking in urban and suburban settings and residents don't even know that they are there," said Tucker. "There are tens of thousands of these wells and they can be like ticking timebombs for nearby communities."
Hazardous spill reports filed by CalGEM showed some of the Bakersfield wells were releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas, at concentrations of above 50,000 parts per million. These are public health hazards as, at these outdoor concentrations, just the click of a lighter can cause an explosion and the same indoor levels can be deadly to residents, according to PSE Healthy Energy, a research institute.
Community residents have pressured CalGEM to cap the wells to protect public safety. Uduak-Joe Ntuk, the state oil and gas supervisor, said in an online update that a few of the wells had "pinhole-sized leaks" that were "minor." A whistleblower speaking to a print media outlet said that Ntuk was "lying;" that no one had evaluated the safety of the leaking wells and the holes in their casings still pose a danger.
"Rather than approving rework permits to keep these aging and corroding wells operational, CalGEM needs to require oil and gas operators to properly plug and abandon these wells and remediate the well sites," said FracTracker's Ferrar. "Additionally, CalGEM should not be permitting new oil and gas wells, particularly near homes and communities. Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance urge Governor Newsom to require operators to plug and abandon these existing wells and to institute a 3,200-foot public health setback to keep future extraction and leaking oil and gas wells and their infrastructure away from people, homes, and communities."
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We could wax poetically about the nearly two-acre compound at 6 Deacons Way on Nantucket’s North Shore, just west of Brant Point. Or, you could do what we’ve been doing ever since we found out about this jaw-dropping property — gaze longingly at the emerald green lawns and sparkling pool area, or picture sipping a late-evening beverage on the second-floor dining deck overlooking the ocean.
Gathering spaces galore, both indoors and outside, make the property your quintessential summer retreat for family and friends. Benefiting from a flipped layout, with main sleeping quarters on the first floor and a living area on the top floor, the home welcomes you to a living room with built-ins and a wet bar before opening to a lavish patio area. Three bedrooms, each with an en-suite bath and custom closets complete this level — the epic primary suite with its ocean-view sun deck and spa-like bath is on the top floor, and there is a bonus studio above the oversized garage.
From the second floor, views of Nantucket Sound add serenity to the living room, its patio doors opening to an expansive deck. A recently renovated kitchen flows into a formal dining space across from picture windows with a view you’ll sigh over.
We mentioned the resort-like pool and spa, served by a posh pool house — is it good enough to give nearby Washing Pond or Dionis Beach some serious competition? It just might be.
To learn more about the compound, offered at $10,950,000, contact Gina O’Callaghan with Fisher Real Estate, 508-633-4757. | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/14/hot-property-youll-flip-over-nantucket-houses-layout/ | 2022-07-14T21:13:58Z | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/14/hot-property-youll-flip-over-nantucket-houses-layout/ | true |
Widow and father of man shot 13 times by San Diego deputy to call for justice
SAN DIEGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The wife and father of Mizael Corrales, the 31-year-old Latin man shot and killed by a deputy with the San Diego Sheriff's Department, will hold a news conference with their attorneys tomorrow, July 15, at 11:00 AM (PDT) in front of the John F. Duffy Administrative Center (9621 Ridgehaven Ct. San Diego, CA) to call for justice in Corrales' needless death.The family is represented by renowned Civil Rights attorneys Bakari Sellers (Strom Law Firm), John Burris and DeWitt Lacy (Burris, Nisenbaum, Curry & Lacy LLP) and Jorge Montes (Montes & Associates).
Corrales was unarmed and attempting to flee an Otay Mesa strip mall on February 19, 2022 when Deputy Anthony Garcia opened fire with 13 shots killing the father of three. None of the other officers present fired at Corrales.
WHO
Heidi Corrales (widow)
Pastor Jose Corrales (father)
Attorney Bakari Sellers
Attorney John Burris
Attorney DeWitt Lacy
WHEN
11:00 AM on Friday, July 15, 2022
WHERE
John F. Duffy Administrative Center
(East Plaza)
9621 Ridgehaven Ct. San Diego, CA
Tuesday's news conference will begin promptly at 11:00 AM. Media are asked to arrive no later than 10:45 AM.
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
256 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Hamilton, northern Lampasas and eastern Mills Counties through 330 PM
CDT...
At 256 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles east of Goldthwaite, or 21 miles southwest of Hamilton, moving
south at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size 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...
Goldthwaite and Evant.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3139 9870 3166 9846 3156 9819 3148 9815
3146 9818 3124 9803 3124 9857 3127 9858
3125 9860 3127 9862 3129 9860 3133 9859
3132 9860 3131 9863 3132 9862 3132 9864
3135 9864 3137 9865 3134 9870 3135 9871
TIME...MOT...LOC 1956Z 015DEG 24KT 3149 9838
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
316 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of north central Coke
and southwestern Nolan Counties through 400 PM CDT...
At 316 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Maryneal, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Maryneal and The Intersection Of Ranch Road 608 And Highway 147.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3235 10064 3234 10039 3207 10040 3207 10065
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 001DEG 15KT 3226 10053
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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CHENGDU, China, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Senmiao Technology Limited ("Senmiao" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: AIHS), a financing and servicing company focused on the online ride-hailing industry in China, as well as an operator of its own online ride-hailing platform, today announced financial results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022.
Please note that the following financial results reflect the deconsolidation of the financial figures of Senmiao's former variable interest entities ("VIEs") Sichuan Senmiao Ronglian Technology Co., Ltd. ("Sichuan Senmiao"), Sichuan Jinkailong Automobile Leasing Co., Ltd. ("Jinkailong") and Chengdu Youlu Technology Ltd. ("Youlu"), as of March 31, 2022. Jinkailong's and Youlu's business results have now been classified as discontinued operations but were previously classified under Automobile Transaction and Related Services.
Fiscal 2022 Financial and Operating Highlights
- Total revenues of $4.9 million from continuing operations, a 124.5% increase from $2.2 million in the prior fiscal year
- From October 23, 2020, the date Senmiao launched its online ride-hailing platform, to March 31, 2022, approximately 20 million rides were completed through the platform (including orders completed on the platform operated by Senmiao and orders completed on partner platforms, such as Meituan) with fares paid by riders totaling $63.3 million.
- Net loss from continuing operations of $5.6 million, compared to $7.5 million in the prior fiscal year
Management Commentary
Xi Wen, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Senmiao, stated, "Despite ongoing challenges presented by the pandemic environment in China, we are pleased with the significant growth we have achieved in our automobile transaction and related service and online ride-hailing platform services businesses, which drove our impressive top line results for fiscal year 2022. With our equity investee company, we leased a total of over 2,300 vehicles in fiscal 2022, compared to 1,200 in fiscal 2021, which resulted in a 666% year-over-year increase in rental income. We believe our continuous efforts in shifting our business focus to these new lines of business have begun to exhibit remarkable results, and we are optimistic about their future growth potential, which will continue to fuel top line growth for Senmiao as we continue to explore new regional markets. As of March 31, 2022, our platform has helped facilitate approximately 17 million rides since launch, with an additional 3 million rides completed on our partners' platforms. Our ride-hailing services are now available in 20+ cities throughout China."
Mr. Wen continued, "During fiscal year 2022, Senmiao strengthened our partnership base, establishing and expanding upon relationships with companies that possess a significant national presence and the resources to help us enter new local regions. This has enabled us to significantly grow our main businesses. We believe we are in a strong position to continue growing our online ride-hailing platform, which we anticipate will have a positive impact on our auto rental business as our replicable model of offering a flexible automobile rental option has been well received by our online ride-hailing drivers. With that in mind, Senmiao plans to provide a series of product solutions to increase the number of our automobiles for operating leases. We will remain focused on becoming a leading financing and servicing company and a significant player in the online ride-hailing market in China."
Financial Review
Revenues
Total revenues from continuing operations were $4.9 million for the year ended March 31, 2022, a 124.5% increase from $2.2 million in the prior fiscal year. This increase was largely due to increased contributions from operating lease revenues from automobile rentals and online ride-hailing platform services.
During the year ended March 31, 2022, Senmiao continued to shift its business focus to automobile rental options for ride-hailing drivers while developing its online ride-hailing platform services business. As a result, the automobile rental business generated operating lease revenues of $1.7 million for the year ended March 31, 2022, compared to $0.2 million in the prior fiscal year, due to a significant increase in the number of automobiles leased. The online ride-hailing platform services business generated revenues of $2.7 million, a 195.1% increase from $0.9 million in the prior fiscal year.
Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues from continuing operations increased to $6.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2022, from $2.0 million in the prior fiscal year, primarily due to increased expenses related to costs of automobiles under operating leases and direct expense and technical service fees related to Senmiao's online ride-hailing platform.
Gross Loss (Profit)
Gross loss from continuing operations was $1.6 million for the year ended March 31, 2022, compared to gross profit from continuing operations of $0.2 million in the prior fiscal year, due to the significant increase in cost of revenues as a result of the rapid expansion of the Company's automobile leasing and online ride-hailing platform services businesses. Senmiao leased and sub-leased approximately 400 automobiles to online ride-haling drivers through its former VIE Jinkailong during the year ended March 31, 2022. Rental income of approximately $1.3 million from Jinkailong was eliminated in the consolidated financial statements while sub-leasing income from these automobiles of approximately $1.8 million was recorded in loss of discontinued operations.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses for continuing operations increased to $9.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2022, compared to $5.9 million in the prior fiscal year. The increase was primarily due to increased salary and employee benefit expenses as a result of hiring additional staff, increased office rental expense and charges, and increase in advertising and promotion expenses related to the online ride-hailing platform.
Net Loss
Net loss from continuing operations for the year ended March 31, 2022, was $5.6 million, compared to $7.5 million in the prior fiscal year. The year-over-year improvement was primarily due to an $8.7 million increase in the fair value change of derivative liabilities related to warrants issued in the Company's previous offerings, offset by the increase in the loss from operations of $5.6 million.
Loss per Share
Loss per share for continuing operations was approximately $1.66 based on a weighted average number of basic and diluted common stock of 5.7 million, compared to approximately $1.65 based on a weighted average number of basic and diluted common stock of 3.9 million.
On April 5, 2022, Senmiao announced a 1-for-10 reverse stock split with trading to begin on a split-adjusted basis at the market open on April 6, 2022. Weighted average number of basic and diluted common stock numbers noted herein were given retroactive effect to account for the 1-for-10 reverse stock split.
Results from Discontinued Operations
For the year ended March 31, 2022, results from discontinued operations (primarily from Senmiao's former VIE Jinkailong as noted above) and the gain from their deconsolidation are as follows:
Financial Position
As of March 31, 2022, Senmiao had cash and cash equivalents of $1.2 million, compared to $4.3 million as of March 31, 2021, for its continuing operations. Total stockholders' equity was $8.1 million as of March 31, 2022, compared to $5.9 million as of March 31, 2021.
Further information regarding Senmiao's results of operations for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, can be found in Senmiao's Annual Report on Form 10-K, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today.
About Senmiao Technology Limited
Headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Senmiao provides automobile transaction and related services including sales of automobiles, facilitation and services for automobile purchases and financing, management, operating leases, guarantees and other automobile transaction services, as well as operates its own ride-hailing platform aimed principally at the growing online ride-hailing market in Senmiao's areas of operation in China. For more information about Senmiao, please visit: http://www.senmiaotech.com. Senmiao routinely provides important updates on its website.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements (including those relating to the operation of Senmiao's ride-hailing platform) are subject to significant risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those detailed from time to time in the Senmiao's filings with the SEC, and represent Senmiao's views only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as representing Senmiao's views as of any subsequent date. Senmiao undertakes no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statements to reflect changes in events or circumstances.
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Phone: +86 28 6155 4399
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Online spending in the U.S. rose 8.5% to $11.9 billion during Amazon’s two-day Prime Day promotion, according to Adobe, helping boost traffic on competing sites like Walmart.com and Target.com that held similar sales.
Amazon sold more than 300 million items over two days, more than any previous Prime Day, the company said Thursday. Best-selling items included diapers, beauty products and Apple Watches, according to Amazon.
Inflation-weary shoppers largely stocked up on household items. The Adobe estimate measures total online spending across multiple retailers, based on data from transactions involving more than 100 million products.
The spending uptick was at the higher end of expectations, according to Adobe analyst Vivek Pandya.
“Consumers have been dealing with a lot of pricing pressures at the pump, with groceries and in travel,” he said. “They’re still willing to spend if they see discounts.”
The average Amazon order during the event was $55.26, up 16.8% from Prime Day in 2021 which was held in June, according to Numerator, which based its calculation on 58,934 orders from 21,306 households. Two-thirds of shoppers didn’t seek better prices on other websites and did all their shopping on Amazon, according to the retail consulting firm.
Rising costs prevented many brands and merchants from offering steep discounts. Shoppers still showed up eager to spend anyway, seeing any discount as a hedge against inflation that rose 9.1% in June, more than expected. Spending on Amazon was expected to reach $7.76 billion in the U.S. and $12.5 billion globally over the two-day event, each up about 17% from a year earlier, according to research firm eMarketer, which said inflation would make shoppers hungry for deals.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DoorDash, Inc. (NYSE: DASH) announced today that Ellie Mertz, Vice President of Finance of Airbnb, Inc., has been elected to the company's board of directors. Throughout her career, Mertz has helped scale iconic consumer brands Airbnb and Netflix through significant business and industry transitions. She brings a strong track record of leading strategic finance and corporate planning at hyper-growth technology companies with global impact.
Tony Xu, Co-Founder and CEO of DoorDash, Inc., said, "Ellie is an experienced builder and skilled operator with a passion for empowering entrepreneurs and communities across the globe. She has been instrumental in scaling some of the world's leading businesses through their most formative periods of fast growth and change. I know that DoorDash will benefit from Ellie's expertise and vision, and am thrilled to welcome her to our board."
"DoorDash is in the midst of an exciting phase of growth, partnering with new types of merchants with expanded offerings across more geographies," said Mertz. "I look forward to working with Tony and the DoorDash team as the company continues to scale, help local businesses thrive, and advance its mission of growing and empowering local economies."
DoorDash (NYSE: DASH) is a technology company that connects consumers with their favorite businesses in 27 countries across the globe. Founded in 2013, DoorDash enables local businesses to address consumers' expectations of ease and immediacy and thrive in today's convenience economy. By building the logistics infrastructure for local commerce, DoorDash is bringing communities closer, one doorstep at a time.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
327 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Caldwell,
southeastern Hays, northeastern Guadalupe, southwestern Bastrop and
north central Gonzales Counties through 415 PM CDT...
At 326 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southeast of Mustang Ridge, or 9 miles northeast of Lockhart,
moving southwest at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 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...
San Marcos, Kyle, Lockhart, Luling, Martindale, Uhland, Mustang
Ridge, Kingsbury, Niederwald, Staples, Fentress, Cedar Creek,
Wyldwood, Palmeto State Park, Brownsboro, Joliet, Rockne, Watterson,
Maxwell and Reedville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 2954 9762 2981 9802 2984 9803 3004 9774
3002 9771 3019 9752 3003 9729
TIME...MOT...LOC 2026Z 039DEG 31KT 2997 9758
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central
Wharton, southwestern Brazoria and north central Matagorda Counties
through 400 PM CDT...
At 329 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Sweeny, moving west at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
unsecured objects.
Bay City, Sweeny, Van Vleck and southwestern Wild Peach Village.
LAT...LON 2921 9568 2911 9567 2902 9562 2886 9591
2903 9600 2917 9603
TIME...MOT...LOC 2029Z 070DEG 21KT 2910 9575
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN CALLAHAN AND SOUTHEASTERN SHACKELFORD COUNTIES...
At 330 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Atwell, moving
south at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
northeastern Callahan and southeastern Shackelford Counties,
including the following locations... I-20 Near The Callahan-Eastland
County Line.
This includes Interstate 20 between Mile Markers 312 and 323.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Lavaca
County through 415 PM CDT...
At 330 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hallettsville, moving southwest at 25 mph.
Yoakum, Hallettsville, Shiner, Ezzell, Sublime, Worthing, Koerth,
Mont, Sweet Home, Vsetin, Mount Olive, Vienna, Wied, Hope and
Breslau.
LAT...LON 2912 9698 2938 9723 2961 9685 2960 9684
2958 9684 2958 9681 2945 9668
TIME...MOT...LOC 2030Z 038DEG 20KT 2945 9687
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BEAVERCREEK, Ohio (WDTN) – The body of a Beavercreek man was found in Lake Michigan after he attempted to rescue a drowning child.
According to our partners at WOOD-TV, 33-year-old Anthony Diehl was attempting to save a 7-year-old boy who was drowning at South Haven’s North Beach. Diehl then disappeared in the water. Authorities presumed he drowned.
Wood reports that witnesses said the conditions at the lake had “deteriorated rapidly before the incident.”
South Haven Police began searching for the man around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Dive teams were brought in, but they were unable to find the body that evening.
The search began again Thursday morning around 7 a.m., South Haven Police said. After hours of searching, Diehl’s body was found at 1 p.m., approximately 50 miles west of the South Pier. He was later identified by the South Haven police.
The body of the 7-year-old boy washed up on the shore, The Van Buren County Sheriff said. According to WOOD, the boy was from Texas.
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A Kevin Durant trade to the Phoenix Suns just became much more difficult, if not impossible.
Suns restricted free agent center Deandre Ayton is expected to sign the largest offer sheet in NBA history — a four-year, $133 million deal with the Indiana Pacers — that the Suns will have 48 hours to decide whether or not to match.
Ayton, who has been on the outs in Phoenix ever since they opted against extending his contract last summer, has been an integral piece to any hypothetical Durant deal between the Nets and the Suns.
And as soon as he puts pen to paper with an offer sheet, Ayton is officially off the board.
That’s because the collective bargaining agreement prevents teams from trading a player who has signed an offer sheet with another team. The Suns, if they decide to match the offer sheet Ayton signed, are prohibited from trading their standout center to a team he does not consent to. The Suns would also be prohibited from trading Ayton to the Pacers until the 2023-24 NBA season.
More importantly, if the Suns match Ayton’s offer sheet, he becomes ineligible for a sign-and-trade, which means Phoenix would be unable to trade their big man until Jan. 15.
If the Nets are going to honor Durant’s trade request, they would be best suited doing so ahead of late September training camp.
Which brings us back to the dwindling options at the negotiating table. Without Ayton’s involvement in a trade — either acquired by the Nets or re-routed elsewhere for draft compensation — it is hard to conceive a deal with the Suns that Brooklyn would deem worthy of parting ways with one of the best players in NBA history. Assuming Devin Booker and Chris Paul are off the table, Phoenix’s best remaining assets aside from their first-round draft picks are Defensive Player of the Year candidate Mikal Bridges, 3-and-D wing Jae Crowder, third-year forward Cameron Johnson and reserve point guard Cameron Payne. That haul is unacceptable. Even the haul that included Ayton was questionable.
That leaves the Toronto Raptors (reigning Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes), New Orleans Pelicans (Brandon Ingram) and Miami Heat (Bam Adebayo) the best remaining potential Durant trade destinations, with Donovan Mitchell’s evolving availability in Utah as a wild card in all discussions.
The Nets, of course, cannot acquire Adebayo or Mitchell in any trade without also dealing Ben Simmons because the CBA prevents teams from trading for more than one player who has signed a rookie max extension. Simmons signed one with the 76ers before the Nets acquired him in the James Harden deal.
The best option, however, is still on the table: running things back with Durant, Simmons, Kyrie Irving and a roster that general manager Sean Marks has rounded out by acquiring T.J. Warren, Royce O’Neale and Edmond Sumner this offseason. Marks still has the taxpayer mid-level exception worth a maximum $20 million over three years that he can use to sign one or more free agents. The Nets still need a starting or backup center with Nic Claxton being the only big with legitimate NBA experience on the roster.
Ayton’s decision, and his timing, made all the sense in the world. Durant’s trade request froze basketball business for about a week, but in the end, Ayton had to secure his bag, especially if it wasn’t coming from Phoenix.
Durant has already secured his to the tune of $198 million over four years, giving the Nets slight leverage as they maneuver the most important offseason in franchise history. The longer they wait, however, the more they risk losing that leverage, because the last thing the franchise wants is a dark cloud following the team into training camp and staining the regular season.
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Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. During his first two years on the program, listenership to All Things Considered grew at an unprecedented rate, with more people tuning in during a typical quarter-hour than any other program on the radio.
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Penny Mordaunt's career to date has come under little scutiny. So Tory MPs should read ANDREW PIERCE's troubling dossier before putting a cross next to her name again
As the helicopter hovered over the prestigious literary festival in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye, there was fevered speculation on the ground that the arriving passenger was Hollywood A-lister Benedict Cumberbatch.
The Sherlock Holmes actor was topping the bill at the festival where fellow thespian Damian Lewis was also due to speak.
But when the passengers emerged from the helicopter there was an audible sense of disappointment. ‘Who are they?’ went up the cry.
They turned out to be two unknown authors who had jointly written a new book, Greater: Britain After The Storm. One was a multi-millionaire public relations guru by the name of Chris Lewis; the other was Penny Mordaunt, then a junior trade minister.
Weeks later, despite being catapulted into the limelight in the Tory leadership race, Mordaunt is virtually unknown. A poll this week found that just one in nine people could pick her out from a crowd, with many who were shown a picture of her thinking she was the singer Adele.
But the manner of her arrival – by helicopter, with the bags reportedly sent ahead in a chauffeur-driven car – tells us a great deal about her vaunting ambition. As does the book she co-authored, a sort of vision for post-Brexit Britain with a foreword by none other than billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.
A poll this week found that just one in nine people could pick her out from a crowd, with many who were shown a picture of her thinking she was the singer Adele
The truth is that there are already troubling questions concerning what she’s saying in her campaign and what she actually said in the past
At a hustings with Tory MPs on Wednesday evening, Mordaunt was criticised over her record on trans issues
The book also gives us a telling insight into what she might plan for this country should she become Prime Minister.
For if this is her blueprint, much of it would appear distinctly unConservative to the Party faithful. It is telling that Tony Blair described the work as a ‘really important book’.
In it, she and Lewis – a Remainer who is now masterminding her campaign – tear into the ‘antiquated’ workings of Parliament, suggest there should be an elected House of Lords and that the MBE and OBE should be ditched.
They launch a surprisingly vicious attack on old British films and TV series – particularly those written by Dad’s Army creators David Croft and Jimmy Perry who are criticised for their ‘nostalgic focus’. The sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum – set in Burma during the war – is described as ‘a full-house bingo card of...casual racism, homophobia, white privilege, colonialism, transphobia, bullying, misogyny and sexual harassment’.
In fact, much of the book is a paean to wokery. As Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union tweeted yesterday, it is a ‘great pitch for the leadership... of the Labour Party.’
So much for Mordaunt’s future plans. But what of her record which until this leadership contest has received so little scrutiny? The truth is that there are already troubling questions concerning what she’s saying in her campaign and what she actually said in the past.
At a hustings with Tory MPs on Wednesday evening, Mordaunt was criticised over her record on trans issues when she was equalities minister in 2018. Some of her views in this highly contentious area have been formed through her close relationship with her twin brother James.
Mordaunt is often spotted relaxing over a drink with him in the Pugin Room, a small panelled tea room in Parliament overlooking the Thames. He is a trans campaigner and a vocal critic of ‘privileged, white entitled Tories’.
Mordaunt addresses the media and supporters during a press conference to launch her bid to become the next Prime Minister on Wednesday
In the past, when she was equalities minister, Penny Mordaunt was unequivocal, declaring that ‘a trans woman is a woman’. Nor did she object publicly to Theresa May’s failed attempts as prime minister to introduce self-identification for trans people, meaning they could declare they had changed gender without the need for doctors to certify they suffered from gender dysphoria.
Yet this week, in an interview on the radio station LBC in which she was challenged over whether she would allow anyone to change their gender on their birth certificate at will, she declared: ‘I have never supported self-identification’.
Benjamin Cohen, the Chief Executive of PinkNews is unimpressed by this apparent inconsistency: ‘It’s incumbent on Penny Mordaunt to be clear what her views on gender recognition reform were previously and what they are now.
‘At the minute I am struggling to reconcile the views of the person I have known for a decade and who has collaborated with PinkNews for the last five years with the views she has expressed in recent days. As someone who first met Penny a decade ago, it’s the first time I’ve heard that she didn’t agree with self-identification.’
(It was only when Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary and her rival for the leadership, took over the equalities brief when Boris became Prime Minister, that the self-identification plan was dropped).
There are also concerns with regard to Brexit. Mordaunt was a prominent campaigner with Vote Leave.
Yet Lord Frost, the diplomat who negotiated Britain’s withdrawal from the EU in 2019, and then became Boris’s Brexit Secretary, was withering yesterday about not just her commitment to the cause but also her work ethic.
Asked whether Brexit would be safe in her hands, he said: ‘I would worry, on the basis of what I have seen, we wouldn’t necessarily get that from Penny.’
He added: ‘She wasn’t always visible. Sometimes I didn’t even know where she was,’ he said. ‘It became such a problem that after six months I had to ask the prime minister to move her on. On the basis of what I saw I would have grave reservations about [her becoming PM].’
He’s not alone.
In the last few days a number of ministers have privately questioned her work ethic. ‘She’s lazy’, one told me bluntly.
At one point, Mordaunt was made deputy chairman of the Exiting Operations Committee leading the negotiations as Britain emerged from the EU. An official who used to attend meetings told me: ‘It was woeful. Mordaunt was incapable of steering the committee to the right outcome. It became embarrassing. She would just read out pre-prepared civil service briefs. She couldn’t answer questions or raise any interesting points. She often wasn’t there, and when she was others had to take over.’
Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Tom Tugendhat, and Kemi Badenoch are the remaining five candidates for Tory leadership
When she was appointed trade minister in September, she enraged Downing Street by refusing to travel abroad. And when a trade deal was signed with the US state of Indiana, it is claimed that Mordaunt refused to go to America or do media appearances to promote the agreement because she was going to the Hay festival to promote her book.
As MP for Portsmouth North, Mordaunt prides herself on her constitutency’s naval heritage, but she was sacked as Defence Secretary in Boris’s first reshuffle. Everyone thought it was because she had backed arch Remainer Jeremy Hunt for the leadership.
But officials suggest she could not master the technical side of the work. ‘I’m sorry she was just out of her depth,’ said one who worked in the department.
Named after the navy cruiser HMS Penelope, Mordaunt, 49, was born in Torquay where her father served in the Parachute Regiment and her mother was a special needs teacher.
Yet this daughter of the Forces now stands accused of letting down veterans during her year as the first woman Minister of State for the Armed Forces in 2015.
Mordaunt backed rather than dismantled the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat) that investigated thousands of troops for supposed war crimes.
It was shut down in July 2017 without a single veteran of Iraq ever being charged. Little wonder her decision to feature military images at her campaign launch, including footage of Second World War planes, Sir Winston Churchill and soldiers serving in various conflicts, appalled those veterans whose lives were ruined by being hounded.
Major Robert Campbell, a retired officer who endured eight separate investigations over the accidental death of an Iraqi teenager, was appalled: ‘She has no excuse. As an armed forces minister she really let us down when we needed her.’
Mordaunt’s own life was struck by tragedy when she was 15 and her mother died of cancer. She acted as carer for her nine-year-old brother Edward while her father had to take extra hours in a factory to pay the bills. She worked as a magician’s assistant as a 16-year-old to help out with the family costs, and signed up as a Royal Navy reservist.
Her interest in politics began at Reading University where she read philosophy and served as student union president. Under John Major, she was the party’s head of youth, and when William Hague took over, head of broadcasting. She became an MP in 2010 and was soon climbing the ministerial ladder.
In 2014, Mordaunt made a name for herself when she appeared in Olympian Tom Daley’s Saturday-night diving show Splash! alongside B-list celebrities such as Gemma Collins from The Only Way is Essex.
TV presenter Lorraine Kelly called her ‘an attention-seeking wannabe in a skimpy swimming costume’ and said she would prefer her to ‘concentrate on trying to get us out of this economic hell-hole than shamelessly promoting [herself] on reality TV.’ The MP said her £10,000 appearance fee would go towards repairs to a lido in her constituency and military charities.
The one thing she refuses to talk about is her brief marriage to one Paul Murray, who she met at university. The union lasted barely 12 months. It’s omitted from her entries in Who’s Who and Debrett’s. One Westminster database wrongly lists the figure zero, under ‘number of marriages or civil partnerships’. On their wedding certificate his occupation is listed as ‘assistant hall manager’, hers as a press officer.
Mordaunt found love again but eventually broke up with her long-term partner Ian Lyon, a part-time opera singer, in 2017. They had eight cats, but no children.
Which makes it curious that former Leader of the Commons Andrea Leadsom, a Brexiteer, is running Mordaunt’s campaign.
For Leadsom pulled out of the 2016 leadership contest when she was down to the last two against Theresa May. Her decision to do so followed a newspaper interview in which she declared that, because she was a ‘mother’, she was more suited to being PM than May who never had any children.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — U.S. officials told lawmakers Thursday that criminals and the country’s adversaries are using drones as weapons.
Officials from the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice and the Federal Aviation Administration also talked about thwarted attacks.
“The threat posed by the malicious use of drones represents a significant and increasing risk to the homeland and the American people,” said Samantha Vinograd, a senior counselor for DHS.
“They can conduct cyber attacks against wireless devices or networks. And they can conduct espionage or trafficking narcotics and contraband,” added Brad Wiegmann of the DOJ. “In Feb. 2020 a subject was arrested and charged in connection with his efforts to use a drone to drop explosives near a Georgia mobile home park.”
The law that gives government agencies the authority to deal with these emerging threats expires in October. But officials say a simple reauthorization isn’t enough.
“There are significant gaps in our ability to protect the homeland,” Vinograd said.
DHS says more agencies, including local police agencies and the Transportation Security Administration need the power to engage against drone threats.
“This is especially concerning since TSA has reported nearly 2000 drone sightings since 2021,” Vinograd said.
Officials say in that same period that 65 aircraft took evasive actions to avoid drones, including four commercial flights.
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Updated July 14, 2022 at 5:07 PM ET
Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 73, the Trump family confirmed in a statement.
In a statement posted to Truth Social, Donald Trump called his first wife "a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life."
Ivana's son Eric Trump commemorated his mother in a post on Instagram.
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"Our mother was an incredible woman — a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty, and caring mother and friend," Eric Trump wrote. "She fled from communism and embraced this country. She taught her children about grit and toughness, compassion and determination."
Ivana Trump grew up in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, south of Prague, according to a biography on the site of talent agency CMG Worldwide. She moved to Canada in the 1970s and worked as a ski instructor before beginning a modeling career.
Marriage to Donald Trump
In 1976, she met Donald Trump while on a work trip to New York City. The couple married in 1977, according to the biography.
Her first son, Donald Trump Jr., was born the same year, followed by daughter Ivanka in 1981 and son Eric in 1984.
Ivana and Donald were frequently tabloid fodder and actively cultivated an aura of celebrity around their marriage.
Ivana Trump worked as the vice president of interior design for the Trump Organization. Her design work included Trump Tower, and she also served as the chief executive officer of some Trump hotel properties.
The couple ultimately divorced in 1992.
Trump accused Donald of raping her during their marriage, an incident described in the 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald Trump, before walking back the allegation in a statement given just prior to the book's printing.
"[O]n one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage," Trump wrote. "As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense."
Donald Trump described the claim as "obviously false."
After the divorce, she remained in the limelight, capitalizing on her fame by appearing in advertisements for national brands and launching a cosmetics company.
Ivana Trump is survived by her three adult children, Donald, Ivanka and Eric, as well as several grandchildren.
Additional reporting by Danielle Kurtzleben.
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GRAMBLING, La. (KTVE/KARD) — On Saturday, August 13, 2022, the Grambling State University Department of Athletics will hold its annual Fan Day. During the event, Grambling State’s football, volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s basketball, and women’s soccer teams will make an appearance.
The festivities will take place as listed:
- 10 AM: The football team will have a scrimmage in the Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium. Gates will open at 9 AM and fans will have the opportunity to see and meet head coach Hue Jackson and the rest of the team.
- 12:30 PM: Fans will have the opportunity to interact and get autographs signed by Grambling State coaches and student-athletes at the Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center.
Season tickets are on sale in the GSU Ticket Office. To purchase tickets, call 318-274-2629. Renewed season ticket holders may be able to pick up their printed season tickets at Fan Day.
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PITTSBURGH, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) plans to issue its second quarter financial and operating results after market close on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, and will host a conference call with securities analysts on Thursday, July 28, 2022, beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Topics of the teleconference will include financial and operating results, and other matters, with respect to the second quarter of 2022. A brief Q&A session for securities analysts will immediately follow the discussion.
To access the live audio webcast of the conference call, visit EQT's investor relations website at ir.eqt.com. A replay will also be available via EQT's investor relations website for seven days following the live call.
Investor Contact:
Cameron Horwitz
Managing Director, Investor Relations & Strategy
412.395.2555
Cameron.Horwitz@eqt.com
EQT Corporation is a leading independent natural gas production company with operations focused in the cores of the Marcellus and Utica Shales in the Appalachian Basin. We are dedicated to responsibly developing our world-class asset base and being the operator of choice for our stakeholders. By leveraging a culture that prioritizes operational efficiency, technology and sustainability, we seek to continuously improve the way we produce environmentally responsible, reliable and low-cost energy. We have a longstanding commitment to the safety of our employees, contractors, and communities, and to the reduction of our overall environmental footprint. Our values are evident in the way we operate and in how we interact each day – trust, teamwork, heart, and evolution are at the center of all we do. To learn more, visit eqt.com.
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Martin Sjogren demands team performance as Norway meet Austria in must-win clash
By PA Staff published
Norway manager Martin Sjogren knows his side “can’t leave anything in the locker room” as they prepare to face Austria with a place in the Euro 2022 quarter-finals at stake.
England have already progressed while Northern Ireland are unable to qualify for the last eight, meaning that the final qualifying spot in Group A is up for grabs between Norway and Austria.
Norway were on the receiving end of an 8-0 hammering dished out by hosts England at the Amex on Monday night, but Sjogren is determined his team can bounce back.
He told a press conference: “We need to win the game. It’s kind of clear we need a win to go through to the quarter-finals, so we can’t leave anything in the locker room. We just need to go out and do us.
“As a team performance, we 100 per cent have to work hard for each other, have to stand up as a team and if we do that I think we can have a good chance of winning the game tomorrow and go through to the quarter-final.”
Austria also lost against England but earned their first win on Monday, beating Northern Ireland 2-0.
Although Norway come into the game on the back of a demoralising defeat, Austria midfielder Sarah Zadrazil believes they will still pose a threat.
She told a press conference: “We just don’t think that it’ll happen again to Norway and they will try everything to show a different Norway team tomorrow, so in terms of our game I don’t think it makes a big difference.
“We will be prepared to play against a really strong team. The 8-0 loss was really interesting to see but I don’t think it affects us in any way.”
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PITTSBURGH, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANSS) announced today that the Company expects to release its second quarter earnings on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, after the market closes. The Company will hold a conference call conducted by Ajei Gopal, president and chief executive officer and Nicole Anasenes, chief financial officer and senior vice president of finance at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, August 4, 2022 to discuss second quarter 2022 results and future outlook.
CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION:
What: Ansys Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call
When: August 4, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time
We encourage participants to pre-register for the conference call using the enclosed link. Callers who pre-register will be given a unique PIN to gain immediate access to the call, bypassing the live operator. Participants may pre-register any time, including up to and after the call start time. You will immediately receive an online confirmation, an email with the dial in number and a calendar invitation for the event.
To pre-register, go to:
You may also register for the conference call by logging in through the investor section of our website at https://investors.ansys.com and clicking on Events & Presentations and click on the event or go to Quarterly Results under the Financials section and click on the Webcast link.
The following will be available on the corporate website https://investors.ansys.com at or prior to the time of the conference call: a link to the live audio webcast of the call as well as the earnings press release and earnings prepared remarks.
For those who do not have internet access or are unable to pre-register, simply join the call on the day of the event by dialing (855) 239-2942 (US) or (412) 542-4124 (CAN and INT'L). Ask the operator to join you into the Ansys Conference Call.
The call will be recorded with replay available within two hours after the call at https://investors.ansys.com or at (877) 344-7529 (US), (855) 669-9658 (toll-free Canada) or (412) 317-0088 (INT'L). Passcode: 3042539.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals spent Thursday patching up a roster missing 10 players who were barred from traveling to Toronto because of their COVID-19 vaccination status while trying to smooth over their damaged image among fans.
Among the nearly 40% of players on the 26-man roster who were left home were All-Star outfielder Andrew Benintendi, two-time All-Star Whit Merrifield, future cornerstones Kyle Isbel and MJ Melendez and outfielder Michael A. Taylor.
Merrifield was the most expansive among the seven players who discussed their decision Wednesday, claiming “the vaccine, what it's supposed to do, it's not doing. If it was doing what it was supposed to do and stopping the spread of COVID (then) I would have a little more willingness to take it, but it's not doing that."
Merrifield then drew the ire of Royals fans when he said, “Something happens and I happen to get on a team that has a chance to go play in Canada in the postseason, maybe that changes" — which many in Kansas City took to mean he won't get vaccinated for his current team but is open to doing it for a contender.
“That's not Whit's heart. That's not who he is,” Royals president Dayton Moore said during an interview Thursday with local talk radio. “He was caught in a situation where it just didn't come out right. ... He's very sorry for what he said.”
Later in the day, the club tweeted: “The Royals have hosted multiple free COVID-19 vaccine events for the community and encourage all to be vaccinated and safe so we can live our fullest lives, in and away from the ballpark.”
The post included a link to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, which says vaccines are proven “to reduce the risk of COVID-19, including the risk of severe illness and death among people who are fully vaccinated.” But new omicron variants are driving COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths higher in recent weeks.
It's been an embarrassing two days for a franchise trying to build goodwill for a new downtown ballpark — with major public funding — but is struggling with overwhelming fan apathy. There were just 11,016 on hand for the Royals' win over Detroit on Wednesday, dragging their season average down to 15,768 — better than just four other clubs.
“We’ve always been an organization that promotes and encourages individual choices,” said Moore, who insisted the Royals' medical staff, coaches and front office have tried to educate players about the efficacy of vaccines.
“Unfortunately, some of this affects the team," Moore said. "We’re disappointed in some of that.”
Much like Merrifield, Benintendi and Taylor are potential trade pieces for the last-place club, and their vaccination status might impact what kind of return Kansas City could expect for them ahead of the Aug. 2 trade deadline.
“For me, it was a personal decision,” Benintendi said, “and I’m going to leave it at that.”
The other Royals players barred from making the trip to Toronto were first baseman Hunter Dozier, right-handed starters Brad Keller and Brady Singer, relief pitcher Dylan Coleman and backup catcher Cam Gallagher.
There had been 25 players all season placed on MLB's restricted list for being unvaccinated before the 10 from Kansas City, and the most any team had been without was four. All but two of the 35 were born in the U.S.
The Royals players will forfeit four days of pay and major league service time in accordance with the terms of MLB’s collective bargaining agreement. That means they will collectively lose $726,128 in salary, headlined by Benintendi losing $186,813, Merrifield losing $153,846, Keller losing $106,044 and Dozier and Taylor losing $98,901 apiece.
“We’ve talked to these guys," Dozier said of his vaccinated teammates. "They’re not judging us at all.”
Nevertheless, they're left to play alongside minor leaguers in their last series before the All-Star break.
The Royals recalled infielder Nick Pratto and purchased the contracts of infielders Nate Eaton and Michael Massey, catcher Freddy Fermin and outfielder Brewer Hicklen from Triple-A Omaha on Thursday. They also recalled infielder Maikel Garcia, catcher Sebastian Rivero and left-hander Angel Zerpa from Double-A Northwest Arkansas.
Rivero has appeared in 20 games over the past two seasons, Zerpa has made two career appearances and Hicklen struck out in his first two big league at-bats in May. The rest have yet to make their major league debut.
The moves leave Kansas City with two roster spots still available for this weekend.
“What it presents is an opportunity for some young guys to step in who wouldn’t normally be here,” manager Mike Matheny said. “It will affect what we’re doing rotation-wise and that will be another question that we’ll have to answer later. I’m excited about some guys coming in and getting a chance.”
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Asurion® Repair Experts Provide Fast Fixes on Phones, Tablets, Laptops, and More
CHARLESTON, S.C., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new electronics repair shop, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, has opened in North Charleston at 7400 Rivers Ave. The store offers professional fixes for most consumer electronics, from smartphones, tablets, and computers to game consoles, smart speakers, drones, and more.
While common repairs include cracked screens, battery issues, and water damage, the company's repair experts have fixed millions of devices and can help with most any tech mishap, and many basic repairs can be completed in 45 minutes or less.
"I'm honored to help bring this first-class tech repair company to North Charleston," said William Huff, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions District Manager. "Not only do we provide high quality and efficient repairs that span a variety of tech issues, but we are truly committed to our customers by offering top-notch customer service and affordable prices."
The store's expert repair technicians fix all kinds of technology, regardless of make or model, and the store is an authorized repair provider for Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones. Customers can book a repair appointment online or stop by the store for walk-in service. The store offers free, no-obligation diagnostics on all gadgets, as well as a 1-year limited warranty on all repairs. It even offers a price match guarantee on any local competitor's regularly published price for the same repair.
The new Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions store brings the company's retail footprint to more than 800 locations across the U.S. Formerly known as uBreakiFix®, all U.S. locations will rebrand as Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions throughout 2022.
"We are excited to serve people in North Charleston with fast and affordable tech repair," said Dave Barbuto, CEO of Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions. "We all rely on our phones and laptops more than ever before, and our mission is bigger than repairing shattered screens and broken charge ports. We fix tech because people depend on it to stay connected to things that are important to them. I look forward to serving this community through our new location."
The new store is located at:
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions
7400 Rivers Ave Suite AA North Charleston, SC 29406
(843) 714-6889
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, formerly known as uBreakiFix®, is the retail brand operated and franchised by a subsidiary of tech care company Asurion®. As the world's leading tech care company, Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology to ensure its 300 million customers get the most out of their devices, appliances, and connections. Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions stores specialize in the repair of consumer technology, including smartphones, game consoles, tablets, computers, and nearly everything in between. Asurion Tech Repair and Solutions repair experts fix cracked screens, software issues, camera issues, and most other tech mishaps at more than 700 stores across the U.S. The stores provide fast, affordable fixes for nearly any device type, regardless of make or model, including authorized repairs for Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
355 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Victoria, northeastern Goliad and north central Refugio Counties
through 430 PM CDT...
At 355 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Oak Village, or 9 miles northwest of McFaddin, moving southwest at 10
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Fannin, Schroeder, Coleto Creek Park and Oak Village.
This includes the following highways...
US Highway 183 between mile markers 646 and 652.
US Highway 59 between mile markers 642 and 662.
US Highway 77 between mile markers 584 and 596, and near mile marker
606.
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 2885 9727 2873 9694 2845 9711 2855 9742
TIME...MOT...LOC 2055Z 033DEG 8KT 2864 9713
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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TORONTO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its Project Management Data Quadrant, identifying ten enterprise and midmarket providers as Gold Medalists in the category.
With the shifting economic and technological state in 2022, including the continued prominence of remote work, change management has become a priority for project managers, who are becoming increasingly strategic about resource planning.
Organizations are adopting a hybrid delivery approach that includes agile methodologies along with traditional waterfall projects. To support these changes, they need to adopt project management (PM) software that allows them to leverage historical data. PM software helps project managers and teams collaborate on various projects for better decision-making, automation of tasks, tracking utilization of resources and budgets, and project status updates with the project stakeholders.
"Project managers have evolved in their way of working, and so should project management software to support different types of delivery models," says Long Dam, Info-Tech Research Group principal research director and SoftwareReviews analyst. "The distributed workforce is now expecting project management tools to have an unparallel collaboration experience and the flexibility to support both iterative and incremental project lifecycles, whether using a traditional waterfall, an agile approach, or even a hybrid approach for their project delivery."
SoftwareReviews has identified the top enterprise and midmarket project management software providers for 2022 based on verified survey data collected from 2,622 end-user reviews. These providers have received high scores on SoftwareReviews' Data Quadrant.
Providers are ranked by a composite satisfaction score, called a Composite Score (CS), that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend.
The 2022 Enterprise Project Management Software Gold Medalists are as follows:
- Wrike, 8.9 CS, ranked high for usability and intuitiveness.
- Asana, 8.8 CS, ranked high for ease of administration.
- ClickUp, 8.7 CS, ranked high for ease of data integration.
- Trello, 8.7 CS, ranked high for collaboration.
- Smartsheet, 8.7 CS, ranked high for availability and quality of training.
The 2022 Midmarket Project Management Software Gold Medalists are as follows:
- Hive, 9.2 CS, ranked high for the quality of features.
- ProProfs Project, 9.2 CS, ranked high for ease of implementation.
- LiquidPlanner, 9.0 CS, ranked high for ease of integration.
- Birdview, 8.9 CS, ranked high for vendor support.
- Scoro, 8.9 CS, ranked for budget management.
SoftwareReviews' comprehensive software reviews provide the most accurate and detailed view of a complicated and ever-changing market. The data comes from real end users who use the software day in and day out and IT professionals who have worked with it intimately through procurement, implementation, and maintenance.
To compare and evaluate project management software providers using the most in-depth and unbiased analyst reports available, visit SoftwareReviews' dedicated category page.
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By JENNIFER PELTZ
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and two of his children — Donald Jr. and Ivanka — are due, in the coming days, to face questioning under oath in New York’s civil investigation into their business practices. But will the Trumps answer?
The ex-president’s lawyer has indicated that he will advise Trump to stay mum and invoke the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination. It’s a constitutional right that gets high-profile exposure in settings from Congress to TV crime shows, but there are nuances. Here’s what it means — and doesn’t — to “plead (or ‘take’) the Fifth.”
WHAT IS ‘THE FIFTH’?
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishes a number of rights related to legal proceedings, including that no one “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
In the most direct sense, that means criminal defendants don’t have to give damning testimony in their own cases. But it has come to apply in non-criminal contexts, too.
WHAT’S THE THINKING BEHIND IT?
“It reflects many of our fundamental values and most noble aspirations,” the Supreme Court wrote in 1964.
Among those ideals: preventing people from being tortured into confessing or being shoehorned into a “cruel trilemma of self-accusation, perjury or contempt” of court.
Many decades earlier, the court also questioned the reliability of confessions made under duress.
THE AMENDMENT SPECIFICALLY REFERS TO CRIMINAL CASES. HOW CAN IT APPLY TO A CIVIL INVESTIGATION?
Over time, the Fifth Amendment’s protections have been understood to cover witnesses — not just defendants — in criminal and civil courts and other government settings. The Supreme Court has even held that Fifth Amendment rights protected the jobs of public employees who were fired after refusing to testify in investigations unless they got immunity from prosecution.
The Fifth Amendment also underpins the famous Miranda warning about the right to remain silent and have an attorney on hand while being questioned in police custody.
SO ARE THERE ANY LIMITATIONS?
Under what has become the legal standard, the witness has to be facing a genuine risk of criminal prosecution, said Paul Cassell, a criminal law professor at the University of Utah. That means prosecution on any charge in any U.S. court.
There are sometimes disputes over whether the right is being invoked inappropriately. The questioning side can ask a judge to declare that someone needs to answer or face contempt of court and possible penalties.
But “the courts have generally thought that they should give the benefit of the doubt to someone who might be criminally prosecuted, rather than force someone to testify and then learn: ‘Whoops!’” Cassell said.
OK. CAN SOMEONE WHO TAKES THE FIFTH DECIDE TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS, BUT NOT OTHERS?
Yes, it’s not necessarily all-or-nothing. But even deciding to answer selectively could be risky: Responding to one question can enable the other side to argue that the witness can’t refuse to answer other, related questions. Another concern: seemingly safe questions could be meant to build evidence about an allegation that’s not on the witness’ radar yet.
HMMMM. IF YOU INVOKE THE PROTECTION, DOES THAT WORK AGAINST YOU?
Legally, it depends. In a criminal case, prosecutors can’t comment on a defendant’s refusal to testify, and a jury can’t be advised that it’s OK to take defendants’ silence as a sign of guilt. The Supreme Court has said that allowing that inference penalizes defendants for simply availing themselves of a constitutional protection.
But in civil cases, jurors generally are allowed to hold silence against a defendant or witness.
Then there’s the court of public opinion.
“Does it look bad? In the general public’s understanding, yes,” says Howard University criminal law professor Lenese Herbert. “But that’s just a result of poor civics education.”
The former federal prosecutor often reminds her students that while jurors might want to hear a defendant’s side of the story, it’s a defense attorney’s job to make sure the jury understands that the client has the right not to take the stand.
CAN WE GET BACK TO TRUMP? HE’S BEING QUESTIONED IN A CIVIL INVESTIGATION. CAN HE CLAIM THERE’S POTENTIAL FOR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION?
Indeed, his lawyers have already asserted that New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil inquiry is essentially a fact-finding mission for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s parallel criminal probe.
James has said her investigation found evidence that the company puffed up the value of real estate assets to snag loans, insurance and tax breaks for land donations. Trump has denied the allegations, and the Republican has slammed the investigation as a political “witch hunt” by Democratic officials.
Meanwhile, other fruits of James’ probe led the DA’s office to bring criminal tax fraud charges against the businessman-turned-politician’s company, called the Trump Organization, and its finance chief. The defendants have pleaded not guilty in that case, which involves claims of off-the-books compensation.
WHAT HAS TEAM TRUMP SAID ABOUT ALL THIS?
Trump lawyer Ronald Fischetti has said that unless legal immunity is granted for the ex-president’s upcoming deposition — a term for sworn pretrial questioning out of court — he’d advise invoking the Fifth Amendment “because that’s what the law provides.” Still, he maintained that publicity surrounding such a choice now could harm Trump’s defense if there’s a criminal charge down the road.
“How can I possibly pick a jury in that case?” Fischetti said in trying, unsuccessfully, to block the deposition.
Trump himself, years ago, repeatedly suggested that only people with something to hide avail themselves of the protection.
“The mob takes the Fifth,” he declared once.
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STOCKHOLM, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neonode Inc. (NASDAQ: NEON), announced today that its 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "2022 Annual Meeting"), scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed to a date to be determined by the Company's board of directors.
The Company's board of directors will also establish a new record date for the 2022 Annual Meeting, and, based on this record date, the Company will deliver a new notice of the 2022 Annual Meeting to stockholders entitled to receive notice of such meeting.
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VINNYTSIA, Ukraine — Oksana Urbanska walked through the rubble in the center of her native city Thursday, voicing fury at what she described as a deliberate strike against civilian buildings, including a medical clinic and local shops.
"You can see for yourself, this is where regular people were living," said Urbanska, who works for the State Emergency Services of Ukraine, the organization coordinating rescue operations in Vinnytsia. "There is a baby who died. She and her mom were walking to a school for little kids. There is no military value or object here."
Maksym Budko was one of the civilians in the square when the Russian cruise missiles struck. At least 23 people were killed, including three children, and dozens more were sent to the hospital, the regional emergency service department said.
"I was there using the ATM," Budko told NPR. "I heard the whistle, then I heard an explosion. Everything started falling and flying. I got up and covered my head, then I heard the second blast."
Late Thursday, rescue crews were still digging through rubble. Ukrainian officials said more than 40 people were still unaccounted for.
The attack on this small city, a hub for humanitarian efforts and home to the headquarters for Ukraine's tiny air force, has shattered the sense of safety here.
The strike involved at least three Kalibr cruise missiles launched from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea, said Serhiy Borzov, the Vinnytsia regional military administrator.
While one of the buildings hit Thursday is sometimes used by the Ukrainian military for ceremonial events, local officials said it was most often used for theater performances and religious services.
Yuri Ignat, a spokesman for Ukraine's air force, told NPR that none of the structures damaged had any military or strategic value.
"Russians don't just want to force the government of Ukraine to surrender," Ignat said, as he stood in his military fatigues next to the bombed-out buildings. "They also want to force the Ukrainian people to surrender. They want to break us down. But after what they did here, no one is going to surrender."
As the strike hit, allies were in the Hague to discuss war crimes
Thursday's attack came as representatives from more than 40 countries, along with officials from the U.N. Office of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court, had traveled to The Hague to coordinate war crimes investigations in Ukraine.
"Residential buildings were destroyed, the medical center was on fire. Cars and trams were on fire. This is an audacious act of Russian terror," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking to the gathering by video link. "People couldn't do that. They are beasts."
Zelenskyy went on to urge "mandatory and principled punishment for all Russian criminals."
The International Criminal Court's top prosecutor, Karim A. A. Khan, said, "At a time like this, the law cannot be a spectator. The law cannot recline in comfort in the Hague, or anywhere else for that matter, when it is meant to protect and uphold certain principles that are essential for humanity. Meaningful justice can only be achieved if we work together."
The group — comprised of the United States, members of the European Union, Canada, the U.K., Mexico and Australia — pledged 20 million euros to support investigative efforts by the ICC, Ukraine's prosecutor general and the United Nations. The ICC opened an investigation into war crimes in Ukraine soon after Russia invaded in February.
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned what he described as a Russian operation to forcibly deport Ukrainian citizens to Russia. At least 900,000 Ukrainian citizens have been removed from their homes, "often to isolated regions in the Far East," he said.
"President Putin and his government will not be able to engage in these systematic abuses with impunity. Accountability is imperative," Blinken said. "The United States and our partners will not be silent. Ukraine and its citizens deserve justice."
Ukraine says Thursday's strike is part of a pattern
Ukrainians say the strike in Vinnytsia is part of a pattern of attacks on civilian targets with no military significance: In March, a theater in Mariupol where civilians were sheltering from bombs; in April, a train station in Kramatorsk that was filled with travelers when a missile struck; just last month, a mall in Kremenchuk where more than 20 people were killed.
Humanitarian groups, including the U.N. and Amnesty International, have documented witness accounts and other evidence of executions and sexual assaults by Russian soldiers in Ukrainian cities like Bucha.
More broadly, the Russian invasion has devastated civilian buildings and infrastructure around the country. Russian forces have repeatedly turned to siege tactics, encircling cities like Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol, subjecting them to relentless shelling. Airstrikes regularly hit cities far from the front lines.
Russia has repeatedly denied its involvement in war crimes and says it aims its strikes only at military targets as part of what it has called a "special military operation."
Ukrainian officials say tens of thousands of civilians have died so far in the war. That number is difficult to verify due to the ongoing violence. The U.N. has recorded at least 5,000 civilian deaths but believes the actual figures to be significantly higher.
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By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals spent Thursday patching up a roster missing 10 players who were barred from traveling to Toronto because of their COVID-19 vaccination status while trying to smooth over their damaged image among fans.
Among the nearly 40% of players on the 26-man roster who were left home were All-Star outfielder Andrew Benintendi, two-time All-Star Whit Merrifield, future cornerstones Kyle Isbel and MJ Melendez and outfielder Michael A. Taylor.
Merrifield was the most expansive among the seven players who discussed their decision Wednesday, claiming “the vaccine, what it’s supposed to do, it’s not doing. If it was doing what it was supposed to do and stopping the spread of COVID (then) I would have a little more willingness to take it, but it’s not doing that.”
Merrifield then drew the ire of Royals fans when he said, “Something happens and I happen to get on a team that has a chance to go play in Canada in the postseason, maybe that changes” — which many in Kansas City took to mean he won’t get vaccinated for his current team but is open to doing it for a contender.
“That’s not Whit’s heart. That’s not who he is,” Royals president Dayton Moore said during an interview Thursday with local talk radio. “He was caught in a situation where it just didn’t come out right. … He’s very sorry for what he said.”
Later in the day, the club tweeted: “The Royals have hosted multiple free COVID-19 vaccine events for the community and encourage all to be vaccinated and safe so we can live our fullest lives, in and away from the ballpark.”
The post included a link to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, which says vaccines are proven “to reduce the risk of COVID-19, including the risk of severe illness and death among people who are fully vaccinated.” But new omicron variants are driving COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths higher in recent weeks.
It’s been an embarrassing two days for a franchise trying to build goodwill for a new downtown ballpark — with major public funding — but is struggling with overwhelming fan apathy. There were just 11,016 on hand for the Royals’ win over Detroit on Wednesday, dragging their season average down to 15,768 — better than just four other clubs.
“We’ve always been an organization that promotes and encourages individual choices,” said Moore, who insisted the Royals’ medical staff, coaches and front office have tried to educate players about the efficacy of vaccines.
“Unfortunately, some of this affects the team,” Moore said. “We’re disappointed in some of that.”
Much like Merrifield, Benintendi and Taylor are potential trade pieces for the last-place club, and their vaccination status might impact what kind of return Kansas City could expect for them ahead of the Aug. 2 trade deadline.
“For me, it was a personal decision,” Benintendi said, “and I’m going to leave it at that.”
The other Royals players barred from making the trip to Toronto were first baseman Hunter Dozier, right-handed starters Brad Keller and Brady Singer, relief pitcher Dylan Coleman and backup catcher Cam Gallagher.
There had been 25 players all season placed on MLB’s restricted list for being unvaccinated before the 10 from Kansas City, and the most any team had been without was four. All but two of the 35 were born in the U.S.
The Royals players will forfeit four days of pay and major league service time in accordance with the terms of MLB’s collective bargaining agreement. That means they will collectively lose $726,128 in salary, headlined by Benintendi losing $186,813, Merrifield losing $153,846, Keller losing $106,044 and Dozier and Taylor losing $98,901 apiece.
“We’ve talked to these guys,” Dozier said of his vaccinated teammates. “They’re not judging us at all.”
Nevertheless, they’re left to play alongside minor leaguers in their last series before the All-Star break.
The Royals recalled infielder Nick Pratto and purchased the contracts of infielders Nate Eaton and Michael Massey, catcher Freddy Fermin and outfielder Brewer Hicklen from Triple-A Omaha on Thursday. They also recalled infielder Maikel Garcia, catcher Sebastian Rivero and left-hander Angel Zerpa from Double-A Northwest Arkansas.
Rivero has appeared in 20 games over the past two seasons, Zerpa has made two career appearances and Hicklen struck out in his first two big league at-bats in May. The rest have yet to make their major league debut.
The moves leave Kansas City with two roster spots still available for this weekend.
“What it presents is an opportunity for some young guys to step in who wouldn’t normally be here,” manager Mike Matheny said. “It will affect what we’re doing rotation-wise and that will be another question that we’ll have to answer later. I’m excited about some guys coming in and getting a chance.”
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(The Hill) – Ivana Trump has died at 73, according to her ex-husband, former President Trump.
“I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City,” the ex-president said in a statement posted on Truth Social on Thursday.
“She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life,” he said.
The mother of the former commander in chief’s three eldest children — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — the Czech Republic-born Ivana married the then-New York real estate developer in 1977.
In his statement, Trump called the couple’s children his ex-wife’s “pride and joy.”
“She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her,” Trump said. “Rest in peace, Ivana!” the 76-year-old former president wrote.
While the pair’s contentious divorce played out in the 1990s in the New York tabloids, the Trumps both described their relationship as friendly in recent years.
“He is my best supporter,” Ivana Trump said in 2016, when the former “Celebrity Apprentice” host had launched his White House bid.
“I think he would be a great president,” she said at the time.
Trump penned a book about motherhood, “Raising Trump,” in 2017.
In an interview to promote the book, she advised keeping kids “busy, busy, busy.”
“Because if you keep your kids busy, they have no time to get in trouble,” she said.
In a widely reported statement from the Trump family about the matriarch’s death, Ivana was called “a survivor.”
“She fled from communism and embraced this country. She taught her children about grit and toughness, compassion and determination,” the statement said.
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The M6 will remain closed around northbound between junction 44 and junction 45 after what emergency services described as an 'intense vehicle fire'.
The M6 was closed in both directions between Carlisle and Gretna Green at around 7pm this evening (July 14) due to a lorry fire. A large amount of traffic was caught with the northbound closure, where the incident took place, while the southbound carriageway opened to one lane with traffic slowly passing the scene.
The northbound carriageway is expected to remain closed until midday tomorrow at the very earliest as significant work resurfacing the road is undertaken. People have been advised to plan extra time for their journey. The incident initially began as a collision between two lorries which then caught fire.
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A spokesperson for National Highways said: "Emergency services including Cumbria Police are in attendance. National Highways Traffic Officers are also on scene providing assistance with traffic management.
"Due to the severity of the vehicle fire and damage sustained to the road surface, the northbound carriageway is expected to remain closed until midday tomorrow (July 15) to allow for resurfacing works to take place."
A spokesperson for Cumbria Police said: "Following the collision between two HGVs on earlier this evening on the M6, the southbound carriageway is now open. The northbound carriageway is likely to remain closed until tomorrow afternoon for recovery and resurfacing.
"The northbound diversion is from junction 44 north on the A7 to Longtown, and then west on the A6071 to junction 45. HGVs - Rockcliffe via the military road is not suitable for HGVs, stick to the above diversion. There are not believed to be any serious injuries at this time.
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Christopher Swann and Kenneth Hart are Nominees for Preferred Share Trustees
PHILADELPHIA, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PREIT (NYSE: PEI), today issued the following statement:
The Company and its proxy solicitor continue to make efforts to achieve a quorum for the Preferred Share Trustee nominees prior to August 2, 2022 and again urge eligible Preferred Shareholders to vote.
All holders of record of PREIT's 7.375% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (the "Series B Preferred"), the 7.20% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (the "Series C Preferred"), and the Trust's 6.875% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Shares (the "Series D Preferred," and, together with the Series B Preferred and the Series C Preferred, the "Outstanding Preferred Shares"), as of the Record Date are entitled to notice of and to vote together as a single class on the proposal to elect two Preferred Share Trustees, Christopher Swann and Kenneth Hart, submitted to the holders of Outstanding Preferred Shares at the Annual Meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof. On the Record Date, 3,450,000 Series B Preferred, 6,900,000 Series C Preferred, and 5,000,000 Series D Preferred, were outstanding, for an aggregate total of 15,350,000 Outstanding Preferred Shares.
Pursuant to the terms of the Designating Amendments, holders of Outstanding Preferred Shares are entitled to receive, when, as and if authorized by the Board of Trustees and declared by PREIT, out of the funds of the Company legally available therefor, cash dividends payable in equal quarterly installments. The terms of the Designating Amendments further provide that, if and whenever six quarterly dividends are in arrears, the number of members of the Company's Board of Trustees will be increased by two and the holders of Outstanding Preferred Shares, voting separately as a class, will have the right to vote and elect these two additional trustees. PREIT is restricted under the terms of its credit facilities from paying dividends on its Outstanding Preferred Shares. Accordingly, for six consecutive quarters, the sixth quarter being the fourth quarter of 2021, the Board of Trustees has not declared quarterly cash dividends on PREIT's Outstanding Preferred Shares for which the Outstanding Preferred Shares are entitled and owed. Thus, in accordance with the Designating Amendments, PREIT's Board of Trustees will be increased by two, and the holders of the Outstanding Preferred Shares, voting together as a separate, single class, have the right to elect two additional trustees to the Board of Trustees at an annual meeting of shareholders or a properly called special meeting of the holders of the Outstanding Preferred Shares. This right will continue at every annual meeting of shareholders until PREIT has paid all accrued and unpaid dividends on the Outstanding Preferred Shares in full and the dividends for the then current dividend period have been paid in full or declared and set apart for payment in full, at which time the right is terminated.
Accordingly, Christopher Swann and Kenneth Hart are Preferred Share Trustee Nominees standing for election.
Eligible shareholders may cast their vote by contacting Alliance Advisors at 1-866-407-1960 between the hours of 9:00am and 10:00pm Eastern time, Monday through Friday and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am to 6:00pm, as noted in soliciting materials furnished to the SEC.
About PREIT
PREIT (NYSE:PEI) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns and manages innovative properties developed to be thoughtful, community-centric hubs. PREIT's robust portfolio of carefully curated, ever-evolving properties generates success for its tenants and meaningful impact for the communities it serves by keenly focusing on five core areas of established and emerging opportunity: multi-family & hotel, health & tech, retail, essentials & grocery and experiential. Located primarily in densely-populated regions, PREIT is a top operator of high quality, purposeful places that serve as one-stop destinations for customers to shop, dine, play and stay. Additional information is available at www.preit.com or on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn.
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Newsy "Morning Rush" hosts Rob Nelson and Alex Livingston talk to Brian Higgins, a lecturer at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about video footage from the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Higgins is a former SWAT team member, as well as the former Chief of Bergen County Police and Director of Public Safety for Bergen County, New Jersey.
Analyzing the video footage, he shares his assessment of the officers' actions.
BRIAN HIGGINS: "The initial response from officers was very good. They were there in a timely fashion, and that's the goal, to get to the shooter as quickly as possible. And they didn't hesitate on their movement down the hallway. They went right to the sound of gunfire and almost immediately engaged [with] the shooter. So, their initial response was very good.
NEWSY'S ROB NELSON: I believe what I heard yesterday was that the first officers arrived there within three minutes of the shooter being there. Just to be clear — an assault weapon can do a lot of damage in three minutes.
HIGGINS: It sure can. Every round that is fired can take a life.
NELSON: Now, about 45 minutes into the surveillance video, more officers by that point have arrived on the scene — a lot more — still though, they have not gotten into the classroom. ... At this point, officers have shields and guns pointed toward the direction of the classroom, but as we can see in the video, they're still at the opposite end of the hallway from where those kids were under attack. Is this, overall, the right progression in terms of the response?
HIGGINS: So, the weapon that's being used by the shooter is a high-powered rifle and it will go through the average officer's bullet-resistant material. So the officers are considering that round. But, typically, in situations like this — whether it's an active shooter or a barricade — the officers who would enter if a shooting began are typically closer to the room, what we refer to as "containing the subject" in the room.
NEWSY'S ALEX LIVINGSTON: So, at that point, do you believe that those officers should have been closer so they could have a better vantage point? A better idea of what was going on? Because like Rob said and we saw in the video, they were pretty far back.
HIGGINS: As we said earlier, they go in almost immediately and engage the individual immediately and they draw fire. So they know this individual is in there and as it turns out, it's where they ultimately enter and then engage [with] the individual. But it took so long that our discussion is based on that. They should have been closer to the door so they could try to get peeks in and if the shooting began, which during one of these time periods on this video, shooting begins in the room, so officers know that there are victims in the room. They hear shooting. They must assume that people are being shot.
NELSON: When officers are shot at, in this case, they retreated as opposed to the common wisdom of when there's an active shooter, you go in and neutralize as quickly as you can. You don't run in the other direction. So, I just want to make sure that at that moment, if those officers had taken fire and are rightfully scared and they knew the gravity of what was happening, how, in that reaction, once the gunman fired at them, should they have reacted? And considering what you said about the nature of the weapon, do you advocate that more police in America need better equipment to shield against the kind of bullets coming out of an automatic rifle?
HIGGINS: Yes. To address that directly, they need better equipment. Officers in our country are equipped with — the typical officers — [are] equipped with uniforms that have ballistic material that can usually withstand only a handgun. So in this particular situation, those officers — at least the initial ones who didn't have a shield — had no protection against that weapon.
LIVINGSTON: Does that pose more of a threat? If someone who does not have any protection in a situation like this, does that do more harm than good if they do run directly into it?
HIGGINS: Sure. Officers who are going to run into gunfire with a weapon like this are exposing themselves. They basically are going in with no protection.
NELSON: Now, nearly 53 minutes into the video, gunshots rang out again as law enforcement waited, still at the end of that hallway. ... There is some movement toward the classroom, but again, no one actually goes in. Is that the right response at this point in an active shooter situation?
HIGGINS: No. Standing down and waiting like this while someone is shooting a firearm in a classroom — it's the officer's responsibility to go in and save those lives.
LIVINGSTON: And a reminder: That's 53 minutes into this entire thing. So, close to an hour into the video, you can see officers walking up and down the hallway, with one even looking at his watch. What is the protocol for officers standing by in an active shooter situation? We also saw a video of an officer getting hand sanitizer ... which I assume is not easy to watch as we're hearing bullets ring out.
HIGGINS: There does seem to be a large amount of officers standing around. What we don't know is what's going on in the rest of the building. Typically after a situation like an active shooter or even a barricade, one of the goals of officers is to go find individuals who may be victims or may have been locked down during the incident and are still locked down. So there seem to be too many officers in the hallway. If the shooting began in that classroom, and then the shooter emerged out of the hallway, there are just too many officers to get out of the way.
NELSON: Eventually, EMTs arrive there at the scene. At one point, they appear to be giving hand signals to other responders. What authority does an EMT have in an active shooter situation?
HIGGINS: In the United States, all of these events, whether it be a disaster like an active shooter, a natural disaster or fire or planned event, we use the incident command system — and it's standard throughout the United States. In that system, there is an individual who is the incident commander or the on-scene commander. So the focus here should be on the management of your personnel. There does not appear, throughout any of these videos, to be any one individual in charge. There are different people at different times giving some direction, presumably. We see them pointing. We hear some muffled voices. So it appears as if this EMT just jumps in and takes some control so that he can direct people around.
LIVINGSTON: As you're watching this video, given your background, your career, what is going through your mind? At what point was there just absolute failure in this video?
HIGGINS: When officers first come in, you see this very quick engagement. They back out, then one officer takes it upon himself to go down the hallway again and then moves back. There should be a much more coordinated effort to advance into the room. So, obviously, their tactics were very poor here. They didn't coordinate. There was no command and control. And then once they knew there was a shooter in that room and there were victims, they really had no choice. They should be formulating a plan to get in that room as quickly as possible.
NELSON: Other than getting inside that school within three minutes of the gunman entering, did the police do anything else right here?
HIGGINS: So there are different points during this when it appears that as they assemble, as they get together, once they move into the classroom — at the end of the day, they did bring this to an end by taking out the shooter. But, there are more areas of concern that we need to focus on.
NELSON: And that shooter was in that school for more than an hour before being fatally shot. Thank you for walking us through the tactical part of all this. Let's just end on a more human note. I don't know if you have kids, but if you do and they were in that classroom, and you're a parent watching that video, how would you react? How would you feel?
HIGGINS: It would be horrific. We don't even need to be connected to the situation, and we all look at this and cringe. I have a seventh grader, so yes, I'm in that time frame when it just bugs the hell out of me to see it.
NELSON: Should these folks remain on the force?
HIGGINS: This needs to be an in-depth inquiry. I would begin with the top down. As I said, a big part of this is the command and control, which was completely vacant.
LIVINGSTON: And we saw in the days and weeks after that just absolute chaos, as far as pointing fingers, not knowing who should have been doing what and who should have been where. Brian Higgins, the former Chief of Bergen County, New Jersey Police. Thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it.
HIGGINS: Thank you.
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(The Hill) – Ivana Trump has died at 73, according to her ex-husband, former President Trump.
“I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City,” the ex-president said in a statement posted on Truth Social on Thursday.
“She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life,” he said.
Two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press that police are investigating whether Ivana Trump fell down the stairs and believe her death was accidental.
She was found unconscious near a staircase in the home, the people said. The people could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. The medical examiner’s office will determine an official cause of death.
The mother of the former commander in chief’s three eldest children — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — the Czech Republic-born Ivana married the then-New York real estate developer in 1977.
In his statement, Trump called the couple’s children his ex-wife’s “pride and joy.”
“She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her,” Trump said. “Rest in peace, Ivana!” the 76-year-old former president wrote.
While the pair’s contentious divorce played out in the 1990s in the New York tabloids, the Trumps both described their relationship as friendly in recent years.
“He is my best supporter,” Ivana Trump said in 2016, when the former “Celebrity Apprentice” host had launched his White House bid.
“I think he would be a great president,” she said at the time.
Trump penned a book about motherhood, “Raising Trump,” in 2017.
In an interview to promote the book, she advised keeping kids “busy, busy, busy.”
“Because if you keep your kids busy, they have no time to get in trouble,” she said.
In a Truth Social post, Eric Trump called his mother “a survivor.”
“She fled from communism and embraced this country. She taught her children about grit and toughness, compassion and determination,” her 38-year-old son said.
“She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and 10 grandchildren.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Parts of North Carolina's largest city were overcome with a foul smell like rotten eggs on Thursday after an environmental cleanup company destroyed tanks that contained a harmless gas odorant, a natural gas company says.
Piedmont Natural Gas said the cleanup company, Legacy Environmental Services, was destroying mercaptan tanks north of downtown Charlotte that were mistakenly reported as empty, The Charlotte Observer reported.
The Charlotte Fire Department said four storage tanks were involved.
Because natural gas has no smell, Piedmont uses mercaptan — also known as methanethiol — to give the gas “a distinctive smell of rotten eggs,” the utility said in a news release.
A temperature inversion likely spread the smell, city officials said. An inversion happens as air temperature increases with altitude and traps smells closer to the ground, according to the National Weather Service.
Piedmont spokesman Jason Wheatley said the utility did not hire the Charlotte company. He referred other questions to Legacy, which didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment on Thursday.
The Environmental Protection Agency has been notified about the leak, according to Charlotte Fire.
The odor prompted an evacuation at the county courthouse, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office. The county also closed several offices early because of what was described as a “heavy natural gas odor.” | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Mistake-leaves-parts-of-North-Carolina-city-with-17305900.php | 2022-07-14T22:05:38Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Mistake-leaves-parts-of-North-Carolina-city-with-17305900.php | true |
Patented SmartFlex technology features enhanced sculpted design adding performance and flexibility while reducing weight
PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- G-Form®, the trailblazing sports protection brand, today introduced the next generation of its Pro-S Vento soccer shin guards for adults and youth for the 2022 season. Showcasing G-Form's patented SmartFlex™ Technology, the Pro-S Vento has an enhanced sculpted design increasing performance and flexibility while reducing weight. Launching in new colors of Black, White, Neon Pink and Mint, the Pro-S Vento Shin Guards are available on www.G-form.com and in retail stores globally. Adult sizes are S – XL; youth sizes are S/M-L/XL with a suggested retail price of $39.99.
G-Form's SmartFlex Technology is proudly made in the USA with non-Newtonian material, making it soft and flexible until pressure is applied at which point it hardens and protects. It's extremely lightweight, has a body-mapped fit for optimal comfort, and the shin pad is integrated into the sleeve construction ensuring a secure fit.
"Maintaining G-Form's reputation for producing lightweight, comfortable, and no-slip shin guards, Vento's revamped design will become a must have in every top player's kit," said Dennis Benjamin, G-Form's European sales manager for the soccer category. "With more enthusiasts now returning to team sports, it is critical that protection technology keep up with growing demand, giving players the confidence to be their best."
This line accompanies G-Form's most recent soccer launches of the Pro-S Elite 2 and Pro-S Blade shin guards, giving customers a wider range of options and colors. The Neon Pink and Mint options match G-Form's new color offerings in the Pro-S Ankle for complete shin and ankle soccer protection.
Enhancements were made to G-Form's premium-quality sleeve on the Vento, enabling a fit, comfort and usability upgrade. The new sleeve utilizes an elongated front for easy on-off, a single-contoured seam for targeted calf compression, and a woven elastic top band to help stay in place. All G-Form fabric sleeves are moisture- wicking, keeping the wearer dry and comfortable.
G-Form shin guards are NOCSAE-certified in the United States, and CE-certified internationally, making them game-ready at any level. All of the brand's protective wear is waterproof and machine-washable yet doesn't diminish the padding quality.
For more information: www.g-form.com.
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Correctional officer charged after having sexual relationship with inmate, sheriff says
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. (Gray News) – A correctional officer in Georgia has been charged for having a sexual relationship with an inmate, officials said.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said that Leigh Anne Lewis, 31, was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexual assault by correctional facility employee and violation of oath by a public officer.
The sheriff’s office said that authorities received a letter from an inmate at the Douglas County Jail alleging that Lewis was sexually involved with another inmate at the jail.
Investigators were able to corroborate the inmate’s allegations, and Lewis admitted that she had kissed and performed oral sodomy on an inmate in custody, officials said.
Lewis’ first court appearance was Thursday morning, where she was placed under a $30,000 bond.
According to the sheriff’s office, Lewis had worked for them for a little more than a year, initially as a dispatcher before transferring to the jail division.
Douglas County Sheriff Tim Pounds said in a statement that while he believes he has many great officers, if one of them knowingly violates the law, they will be punished accordingly.
“I have many great officers and I’m not going to allow one bad apple to spoil the bunch,” Pounds said.
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Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Thursday, shares of J.M. Smucker Co. (Symbol: SJM) were yielding above the 3% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $3.96), with the stock changing hands as low as $131.71 on the day. Dividends are particularly important for investors to consider, because historically speaking dividends have provided a considerable share of the stock market's total return. To illustrate, suppose for example you purchased shares of the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) back on 12/31/1999 — you would have paid $146.88 per share. Fast forward to 12/31/2012 and each share was worth $142.41 on that date, a decrease of $4.67/share over all those years. But now consider that you collected a whopping $25.98 per share in dividends over the same period, for a positive total return of 23.36%. Even with dividends reinvested, that only amounts to an average annual total return of about 1.6%; so by comparison collecting a yield above 3% would appear considerably attractive if that yield is sustainable. J.M. Smucker Co. (Symbol: SJM) is an S&P 500 company, giving it special status as one of the large-cap companies making up the S&P 500 Index.
In general, dividend amounts are not always predictable and tend to follow the ups and downs of profitability at each company. In the case of J.M. Smucker Co., looking at the history chart for SJM below can help in judging whether the most recent dividend is likely to continue, and in turn whether it is a reasonable expectation to expect a 3% annual yield.
SJM has been growing its dividend for more than 20 years consecutively. For more dividend growth stocks view our Dividend Aristocrats List on Dividend Channel.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
432 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southwestern
Caldwell, northeastern Guadalupe and northwestern Gonzales Counties
through 500 PM CDT...
At 431 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Martindale to near Luling. Movement was
southwest at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 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...
San Marcos, Seguin, Lockhart, Luling, Martindale, Uhland, Kingsbury,
Staples, Fentress, Zorn, Palmeto State Park, Brownsboro, Joliet,
Stairtown, San Marcos Regional Airport, Belmont, Maxwell, Reedville,
McNeil and Redwood.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2941 9770 2976 9800 2982 9792 2986 9788
2986 9790 2988 9789 2992 9785 2994 9780
2996 9778 2973 9750
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 037DEG 16KT 2984 9783 2961 9767
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Gillespie County in south central Texas...
Southern Llano County in south central Texas...
* Until 530 PM CDT.
* At 436 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Gainesville,
or near Kingsland, moving west at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Kingsland, Gainesville, Prairie Mountain, Oxford and Enchanted Rock
State Natural Area.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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Live Webcast scheduled for 8:30 AM ET on August 3, 2022
BERWYN, Pa., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Triumph Group, Inc. (NYSE: TGI) will release first quarter fiscal year 2023 earnings on August 3, 2022 and will host a conference call that day at 8:30 a.m. ET. A slide presentation will be included with the audio portion of the webcast.
TRIUMPH, headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs and overhauls a broad portfolio of aerospace and defense systems, components and structures. The company serves the global aviation industry, including original equipment manufacturers and the full spectrum of military and commercial aircraft operators.
More information about TRIUMPH can be found on the company's website at http://www.triumphgroup.com.
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — “Smile” came the plea from a wee lad in the three-rows-deep gallery as Tiger Woods, stony-faced and with his head bowed, slowly approached the fourth tee at St. Andrews.
An hour into his first round and the one major Woods just couldn’t miss — a British Open at the home of golf — was beginning with a real grind.
A tough-to-watch start had seen him chunk his second shot into the Swilcan Burn, before he missed a short putt to run up a double-bogey. Then came a three-putt for bogey at the third hole.
By the time he had dropped two more shots at No. 7 after driving into a bunker on the adjacent hole, Woods was 6-over par and looking as forlorn as the spectator following the 15-time major winner while dressed in a tiger onesie.
He finished on that number, a 6-over 78 matching his second-highest score at golf’s oldest major and giving him a remote chance of making the weekend in what might be his final Open at St. Andrews. Only seven players in the 156-man field shot worse Thursday.
“Looks like I’m going to have to shoot 66 tomorrow to have a chance,” Woods said. “So obviously it has been done. Guys did it today. And my responsibility tomorrow is to go ahead and do it.”
Perhaps it was too much to expect Woods to contend this week, despite being one of the greatest players to pick up a golf club.
After all, he is playing on a right leg pieced together from a February 2021 car crash. It is only his third event of 2022 — all of them have been major championships — and first in nearly two months.
The 46-year-old Woods said this week he has no idea how long he’ll be able to compete physically at the highest level because of his battered body. So it meant he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to play St. Andrews, perhaps for one last time on the stage where he won two of his three British Open titles.
“This was always on the calendar, to hopefully be well enough to play it. And I am,” Woods said. “I just didn’t do a very good job of it.”
There was sentimentality behind the loud cheers he received when walking onto the practice putting green beside the first tee, where he did some light stretches for his right leg, and then the first tee itself.
Surely no other player ranked No. 996 has had such a reception.
And shouts of “Go on Tiger” followed him as he walked down the first hole, where he reached a tee shot that had settled in the middle of the fairway but in a fresh divot. Woods looked away after hitting his approach shot as dust flew up off his club face. When he turned back around, he saw his ball bounce into the stream guarding the green.
“Either just don’t hit it flat (or) don’t blade it,” Woods said. “I didn’t do either. But I still hit it in the burn.”
He took a penalty, pitched over the water and badly missed a putt of about 4 feet. It was a sign of things to come.
“I still struggled with hitting the putts hard enough,” he said. “Just because they look faster, and especially when you consider actually the fairways are faster than the greens, it’s just a different dynamic than we were accustomed to.”
Though there was no obvious sign of a limp, Woods walked gingerly along St. Andrews’ uneven terrain throughout a painfully slow round that took more than six hours to complete and was played in nothing more than a light breeze. His long, often silent waits at tees gave him time to ponder a slew of erratic shots on the front nine, which at least ended with a birdie after getting up-and-down from behind the green.
Woods displayed more emotions coming back, his competitive juices perhaps starting to flow. His frustration was evident after failing to hole a short putt for birdie at No. 12, and there was a wry smile after missing his par putt on the next.
A drive of more than 400 yards at the par-5 No. 14, which he two-putted for a third and final birdie, prompted whoops and hollers from the gallery, and there were more on the 18th when his drive rolled onto the front of the green, only for the ball to drop back into the Valley of Sin.
It summed up his round that he could only make par from there. As he removed his cap and saluted the spectators around one of the most storied greens on golf, Woods couldn’t hide his disappointment.
“I had my chances to turn it around and get it rolling the right way,” he said, “and I didn’t do it.”
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Since 2005, 10 communities in the Atlanta area have declared their own cityhood. Some residents of Buckhead, the richest and whitest part of Atlanta, have been pushing to become a separate city.
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Leading Real Estate Developer Grows Portfolio in Western U.S., Launching First Ely by Elysian Living Property and First Property in Utah, While Expanding Presence in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Multifamily real estate developer The Calida Group expands its Elysian Living brand in the Western U.S., with five new luxury living communities opening over the next three months. Today, Elysian Living opens its newest portfolio addition, Ely at American Fork, in Utah – marking the company's first property to open outside of Nevada. Elysian Living will also launch four additional properties in Las Vegas in the coming weeks including: Ely at Fort Apache on August 9; Elysian at Sunset on August 11; Elysian at Centennial on August 13; and Ely on Fremont in September.
The award-winning brand Elysian Living features resort-style communities where comfort, style, amenities and convenience coexist seamlessly with a highly-social lifestyle, complimentary reservable workspaces and weekly resident events. Ely by Elysian Living is apartment living reimagined with a fresh perspective. Providing a place with a true sense of community that inspires people, Ely creates elevated experiences and offers modern conveniences.
"We are proud to be expanding not only Elysian Living's portfolio of luxury living communities in Las Vegas, but also throughout the Western U.S.," said Douglas Eisner, Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Calida Group.
"It's an incredibly exciting time for us as we launch our first Elysian Living in Utah – a new market for us. We look forward to ushering in this thrilling new chapter for the Elysian Living brand," said Eric Cohen, Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Calida Group. "We're bringing the natural elements of the outside in, while also keeping the elevated details the Elysian Living brand is known for, which we cannot wait to unveil to the community."
Located between Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah, the 320-unit luxury community was designed by The Calida Group in partnership with Castlewood Development. Each unit features premium finishes, including designer fixtures, stainless-steel appliances, upgraded cabinetry and quartz countertops in all kitchens and bathrooms, state-of-the-art LED lighting, nine-foot ceilings, custom-designed walk-in closets, scenic patios, balconies, and more. https://www.elysianliving.com/property/ely-at-american-fork
Strategically situated between the spectacular allure of the Las Vegas Strip and the quiet solitude of Red Rock Canyon, Ely at Fort Apache provides convenient access to I-215. Residence amenities include contemporary designer fixtures,stainless-steel appliances,spacious balconies offering pool and courtyard views, over-sized tubs, and more. Community amenities include a resort-style pool, spa, and recreation decks, private poolside cabanas, outdoor kitchen with BBQ grills and kegerator, seating areas with 75" TVs and fire pits; dog area, outdoor ping pong table, resident lobby, concierge services, and a 17,000 sq ft clubhouse.
https://www.elysianliving.com/property/ely-at-fort-apache
All stunning one, two and three-bedroom residences are well-appointed with designer fixtures, stainless steel appliances, quartz countertops, 9-foot ceilings and spacious balconies. The property features a vast selection of luxury amenities, including a resort-style pool, state-of-the-art fitness centers, fire pits with intimate seating, game lounge, coffee bar, private workspaces, massage room, tanning bed and more.
https://www.elysianliving.com/property/elysian-at-sunset
This inspired collection of studio, one, two and three bedroom residences offers a variety of luxurious amenities, fashioned to satisfy the most discerning tastes. Each unit is adorned with ultramodern designer fixtures, timeless hardware, stainless steel appliances and spacious balconies with pool and courtyard views. Community highlights include a resort-style pool with spa and recreation deck, outdoor kitchen and BBQ grill, a hammock farm, an outdoor volleyball court, and a 9,000 sq ft clubhouse featuring a game lounge with arcade machines, massage room, tanning room, and more.
https://www.elysianliving.com/property/elysian-at-centennial-hills
More details on Ely on Fremont, opening in September in Las Vegas, Nevada, will be announced soon.
Elysian Living's resort-style communities are havens, where comfort, style, amenities and convenience coexist quite nicely with a highly-social lifestyle, complimentary reservable workspaces and weekly resident events. Each Elysian Living community is mindfully located near shopping, fine-dining, nightlife, entertainment, award-winning schools, beautiful parks and freeways to create optimal living environments for every lifestyle. They offer ultra-modern designer fixtures and hardware including upgraded finishes. They are energy efficient and green globe certified and offer the latest in technology packages. Elysian Living is a lifestyle which truly does take luxury living to a whole new level.
The Calida Group is a leading developer, investor, and operator of multifamily real estate properties in the western United States. Founded in 2007 by Douglas Eisner and Eric Cohen, the principals have developed or acquired more than 20,000 multifamily units, and its senior management combines over 100 years of real estate experience. Calida invests roughly $1 billion annually across three primary strategies (Development, Value-Add Acquisitions and Core-Plus Acquisitions) on behalf of a series of discretionary commingled funds serving the family office and ultra-high net worth communities, as well as forming partnerships with many of the nation's largest financial institutions. Calida begins with strategic and creative deal sourcing methods to identify investment opportunities that are often completely off market or otherwise less competitively advertised. Then, by leveraging the firm's lifestyle-oriented design capabilities and operational expertise, Calida tailors unique business plans for each asset. Finally, by meticulously implementing these business plans while managing construction risk, conservatively financing each property and employing thoughtful tax planning, Calida is able to create superior investment opportunities with lower risk than would typically be expected in deals of similar return profiles.
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A new set of stamps has been issued to mark the Commonwealth Games being held in Birmingham from later this month.
The eight stamps were designed by artist Charis Tsevis, featuring illustrations of athletes competing in sports and para sports including diving, boxing, para table Tennis, para powerlifting, gymnastics, cycling and athletics.
Royal Mail said it collaborated closely with Birmingham 2022 on all elements of the stamps and associated product range.
Royal Mail has commemorated the British Empire Games 1925, Cardiff 1958, Edinburgh 1970, Edinburgh 1986, Manchester 2002 and most recently, Glasgow 2014, with special stamps as lasting souvenirs of the event for collectors and fans.
David Gold, director of external affairs and policy at Royal Mail, said: “Royal Mail is delighted to be issuing these special stamps for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
“The Commonwealth Games is one of the biggest multi-sport competitions in the world and it’s fantastic to have the event take place in the UK. These colourful special stamps will be our lasting reminder of the occasion.”
Ian Reid, chief executive of Birmingham 2022, said: “These very special stamps will be a perfect reminder of the excitement and thrill people will have by being part of Birmingham 2022.
“The commemorative sets are a wonderful way to celebrate the Games and for the whole country to get involved in Birmingham 2022 and our festival of sport and culture”
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VERNON, Texas (AP) — A man acquitted of murder because of insanity is back in custody two weeks after he escaped from a North Texas mental hospital, police said.
Alexander Scott Ervin, 29, was located in Austin on Sunday, after he escaped on June 26 from the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, Texas, Vernon Police Chief Randy Agan said.
Austin is 350 miles south of Vernon. A caller to Austin 911 operators reported Ervin was suffering from heat stroke and needed medical treatment, Agan said. Once in custody, Ervin said he had gone to Austin in search of his mother.
“They say he was arrested peacefully without incident,” Agan told the Vernon Record.
Ervin was charged with stabbing his father to death in Austin in 2013. Ervin testified that he was a CIA-trained assassin killing an imposter. Once acquitted, Ervin was committed to the state hospital system.
Staff at the Vernon hospital contacted police the morning of June 27 after learning that Ervin was missing. A review of security video showed the patient scaling a security fence the night before, and he was tracked to the nearby Pease River where police speculate that he hopped a freight train. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-acquitted-of-murder-for-insanity-recaptured-17305994.php | 2022-07-14T22:19:38Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-acquitted-of-murder-for-insanity-recaptured-17305994.php | false |
MLB Expanded Pitching Comparison
For Games of Friday, July 15
NOTE: Only games with one or both pitchers designated are listed below
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TEAM REC-Team's Record in games started by today's pitcher.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
345 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southern Colorado,
southern Wharton, northeastern Jackson and northwestern Matagorda
Counties through 415 PM CDT...
At 344 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 9 miles north of Ganado to 8 miles southwest of
Boling-Iago. Movement was south at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Bay City, El Campo, Edna, Ganado, Pierce, Markham, Van Vleck, Louise,
Danevang and Midfield.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 2896 9667 2892 9585 2925 9601 2929 9657
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 352DEG 12KT 2918 9654 2915 9601
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Cavco Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVCO) resulting from allegations that Cavco may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Cavco securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7555 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On November 8, 2018, Cavco revealed in an SEC filing that it had "received a subpoena from the SEC's Division of Enforcement requesting certain documents relating to, among other items, trading in the stock of another public company." On this news, Cavco share price fell $49.48 per share, or over 23%, to close at $165.20 per share on November 9, 2018.
On February 4, 2019, Cavco revealed that it had received requests for additional documents. Cavco further disclosed that it spent, and expected to spend, millions of dollars on legal and insurance expenses in relation to the SEC's subpoenas and Cavco's independent investigation into the matter. On this news, Cavco's share price fell $26.92 per share, or about 16.7%, to close at $134.37 per share on February 5, 2019.
On September 2, 2021, the SEC filed a complaint against Cavco, former CEO Joseph Stegmayer, and former CFO and Chief Compliance Officer Daniel Urness. The SEC complaint alleged that Stegmayer and Urness caused Cavco to purchase shares of publicly traded companies on material non-public information. On this news, Cavco's share price fell $6.59 per share, or about 2.5%, to close at $252.48 per share on September 3, 2021.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 14, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Norman OK
423 PM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Clay
County through 500 PM CDT...
At 423 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Newport, moving northwest at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Bellevue, Newport and Vashti.
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 3350 9827 3369 9804 3361 9798 3347 9798
3346 9821
TIME...MOT...LOC 2123Z 135DEG 6KT 3349 9804
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central Fort
Bend and south central Harris Counties through 500 PM CDT...
At 423 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Willowbend, or over Bellaire, moving west at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
Missouri City, Stafford, Bellaire, West University Place, Greenway /
Upper Kirby Area, Afton Oaks / River Oaks Area, University Place,
Astrodome Area, Meadows Place, Southside Place, Westbury, Braeswood,
Westwood, Central Southwest, Willowbend, Alief, Sharpstown, Meyerland
Area, Gulfton and Fifth Street.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 2974 9543 2965 9540 2955 9554 2971 9562
TIME...MOT...LOC 2123Z 069DEG 6KT 2967 9545
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Clay
and east central Archer Counties through 500 PM CDT...
At 426 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Lake Arrowhead, moving west at 10 mph.
Scotland and Lake Arrowhead.
LAT...LON 3374 9825 3359 9827 3362 9851 3381 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 097DEG 10KT 3369 9832
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Eva Longoria looks effortlessly chic in a green midi dress as she cuddles her son Santiago after arriving in Nerano for a family lunch
Eva Longoria looked sensational as she arrived in Nerano, Italy, with her husband Jose Baston and their son Santiago for lunch on Thursday.
The American actress, 47, looked effortlessly chic while stepping off a luxury yacht with her family as they visited the village during their holiday in Capri.
She captured attention in a vibrant green midi dress featuring halter-neck straps and a cut-out back design, which she teamed with a pair of beige flip-flops.
Holiday: Eva Longoria looked sensational as she arrived in Nerano, Italy, with her husband Jose Baston and their son Santiago for lunch on Thursday
Eva flaunted her fresh-faced beauty for the outing as she went make-up free, while she styled her chocolate tresses loosely in a windswept straight fashion.
She shielded her face from the sun with a stylish straw hat and showed off her sun-kissed glow as she has been soaking up the sun in Italy.
The producer was seen kissing her four-year-old son Santiago and picking him up to hug him after they stepped off the boat in Nerano.
The family then enjoyed a meal out with a group of their pals and explored the Italian village amid the balmy temperatures.
Stylish: The American actress, 47, looked effortlessly chic as she stepped off a luxury yacht with her family as they stopped off in the village during their holiday in Capri
Looking good: She shielded her face from the sun with a stylish straw hat and showed off her sun-kissed glow as she has been soaking up the sun in Italy
Earlier in the day, Eva took to social media to share an insight into her sun-soaked getaway as she danced on a lavish yacht while they travelled to Nerano.
Eva flaunted her incredible physique as she danced in a skimpy black bikini in a fun TikTok video.
Eva went make-up free as she showed off her sun-kissed glow and piled her brunette locks on top of her head.
The Desperate Housewives star then took to Instagram as she let her hair loose walked along the boat, shielding her eyes with a pair of aviator sunglasses.
Elegant: She captured attention in a vibrant green midi dress featuring halter-neck straps and a cut-out back design, which she teamed with a pair of beige flip-flops
Cuddles: The producer was seen kissing her four-year-old son Santiago and picking him up to hug him after they stepped off the boat in Nerano
Beauty: Eva flaunted her fresh-faced beauty for the outing as she went make-up free, while she styled her chocolate tresses loosely in a windswept straight fashion
Lounging on the deck she was joined by Santiago, who looked adorable in shorts and a vest.
Eva has been joined on the holiday by a group of friends, husband Jose, 54, and their son Santiago, and she has shared sweet social media snaps of enjoying some time on the yacht this week.
During her time in Italy, Eva made an appearance at the Taormina Film Festival, which took place from June 26 to July 2.
Eva has several film projects currently in the works, most recently appearing in the comedy Unplugging opposite Matt Walsh and Lea Thompson.
Hand-in-hand: Eva walked holding hands with her son Santiago as they arrived in the Italian village with her husband Jose and their pals
She is next slated to appear in All-Star Weekend alongside Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Piven which was originally slated for release in 2018 before facing delays.
The star also has a role in upcoming coming-of-age film Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
Eva wed her third husband, Televisa executive Jose in May 2016, in a ceremony attended by her close pals Victoria and David Beckham.
The couple initially met on a December 2015 blind date arranged by a mutual friend in Mexico City, with Eva revealing her future husband had no idea who she was.
Fun times: The family then enjoyed a meal out with a group of their pals and explored the Italian village amid the balmy temperatures
Looking good: Earlier in the day, Eva took to social media to share an insight into her sun-soaked getaway as she danced on a lavish yacht while they travelled to Nerano
Beach babe: Eva went make-up free as she showed off her sun-kissed glow and gave fans an insight into her luxury getaway
In December 2017, the couple confirmed they were expecting their first child and in June 2018 they welcomed their first child who they named Santiago Enrique Bastón.
Santiago is the first child for Eva, but the fifth for José, who was previously married to Mexican actress Natalia Esperon.
When asked in a 2019 interview what the secret is to her happy marriage, Eva explained that she and her husband have respect for each other, and support each other's goals and dreams.
The Latina star said: 'When I was younger it was so much about what I needed to accomplish, and I've accomplished so much already that I can really sit back now and enjoy the success and continue to dream bigger with a partner.'
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