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We think Ubuntu Jammy is a future of Free and Open Source Software computing. With the default technology it implements --including GNOME, Pipewire and Snap-- and the OEMs availability quickly growing around, Ubuntu is one among few which sets the standard for FOSS computings and the others will surely follow. We recommend Jammy for any new user especially those with mid-high specifications and they can start the journey with Live USB first. The drawbacks are real, and there are few of them, but this release can be considered the greatest LTS ever. Kudos to Canonical and all Ubuntu developers! Congratulations to the community!
To interface different sensors or devices with Arduino boards there are libraries used in the Arduino code that helps the microcontroller to recognize the devices attached with it. Moreover, libraries enhance the functionality of the Arduino boards in such a way that some extra functions can be performed through the microcontroller. Sometimes installing a library for any specific device might not work, or you need to install an updated version of that particular library. So, if you’re looking for a way to uninstall the library from the Arduino then read this guide as I have explained the process of uninstalling an Arduino library.
For people who suffer from hearing loss or other auditory issues, maintaining situational awareness can be vital for keeping safe and autonomous. This problem is what inspired the team of Lucia Camacho Tiemblo, Spiros Kotsikos, and Maria Alifieri to create a small device that can alert users to certain household sounds on their phone. The team decided to incorporate embedded machine learning in order to recognize ambient sounds, so they opted for an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense. After recording many samples of various events, such as a conversation, knocking on the door, the TV, a doorbell, and silence, they fed them into a tinyML model with the help of Edge Impulse’s Studio. The resulting model was able to successfully differentiate between events around 90% of the time.
Instructables users Monserrath Velasco and Santiago Guerra have created an LED matrix that not only features classic Pac-Man characters, but also shows the current ambient temperature by coding it as the Ghost’s color which ranges from blue (cold) to red (hot). The matrix itself was fashioned out of several WS2812B LED strips, which contain a total of 71 individually-addressable LEDs. After soldering them together using some wire and gluing them to a cardboard backing, the team connected the strip to an Arduino Uno along with a BME280 environmental sensing module. The final component was a single momentary pushbutton switch that gives users the option to change between the Ghost and Pac-Man figures.
wxWidgets 3.2 provides a Qt frontend in addition to the GTK3 one, so packages have been renamed from wxgtk- to wxwidgets-. The GTK2 frontend is no longer provided. If you have wxgtk2 installed, the upgrade will fail with
CP/M did not support subdirectories, so it did not have a directory separator.
Google on Thursday officially released Chrome OS Flex, which aims to bring the web giant's mega-browser operating system to a wider range of systems. Flex was unveiled in February as a version of Chrome OS that could run on any modern-ish Intel or AMD (sorry, not Arm) processor. Since that debut, the number of devices certified to run Chrome OS Flex has almost doubled, from some 250 to more than 400, according to Google. Among certified models are several MacBook Air devices, Microsoft Surface, ASUS, Acer, and Lenovo machines along with a laundry list of Dell machines. Google plans to continually certify older devices for Flex. To get the Chrome OS experience – which, as the name suggests, involves doing pretty much everything on your desktop through the Chrome browser – you would need to buy a Chromebook with it installed, or go through a bit of a convoluted process to put the OS on a system. Chrome OS Flex is supposed to make that easy, and work on a range of non-Chromebooks.
It has been a while studying and working with the Chromecast Protocol. This protocol is proprietary, and officially only the Chrome browser, Android, and iOS platforms support casting to a Chromecast-enabled device. Now, Chromium is open source, and so is Android, but we would not want anything to do with Android for obvious reasons, not to mention this feature may be tucked away in Google Play Services. So we settle with Chromium which is written in C++. Thankfully almost all of the hard work was done by many other open source projects, notably Node CastV2. Not only this project provides a simple implementation for the Chromecast protocol but also a written explanation of the underlying stuff and how things actually work. All I need to figure out is how to implement that is C.
Not a big surprise but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge has managed to shift over a million in the first week after release. Developer Tribute Games confirmed the milestone yesterday on the official Twitter.
Atari continue to get their classics revamped and remade for modern audiences, with the latest being Yars: Recharged that's a reimagining of the 1982 Atari 2600 classic and best-seller Yars' Revenge in partnership with Adamvision Studios and SneakyBox the same teams behind Gravitar: Recharged and Breakout: Recharged.
Bottles is a thoroughly great application for managing Windows applications and games on Linux. It's fast moving and a new release is out with their new default runner called Soda, which is based on Valve's fork of Wine and Proton patches.
More extra fixes have come trickling down from Valve with the Steam Deck Beta updated and a new release of Proton Experimental too so here's what's new.
Armello, a grim fairy-tale board game from League of Geeks no longer advertises that it supports Linux and macOS due to their new party system that landed with the cross-play update.
Focus Entertainment: Legends and Visions from Humble Bundle has some good looking games ready for picking, so here's a run over how they will work on Linux desktop and Steam Deck. Using both the Deck Verified rating and ProtonDB, here's a list of what's available:
You may have heard a lot about coding and how important it is for children to start learning about coding as early as possible. Computers have become part of our lives, and we’re not just talking about the laptop or desktop computer you might have in your home or on your desk at work. Your phone, your microwave, and your car are all controlled by computers, and those computers need instructions to tell them what to do. Coding, or computer programming, involves writing those instructions.
As the Lead Hardware Nerd at Hackster.io, Alex Glow has an insider’s view of the technology that’s coming down the rails at us in the near future. Happily, she also makes it her business to share that knowledge, supporting a community of almost two million hardware tinkerers, inventors, and improvers. She’s also the brains behind a good few projects herself: she’s sent music into space, was an early adopter of the companion robot, makes projects with LEDs and PCBs, and… well, whatever she feels like really.
Last month, Kontron unveiled their 3.5” Single Board Computer powered by a variety of Intel processors. The 3.5”- SBC-EKL can accommodate processors from the Atom X6000E series, the Celeron J6000/N6000 series and the Pentium J6000/N6000 series. The 3.5”- SBC-EKL is capable of supporting the following Intel processors...
Last month, Kontron unveiled their 3.5” Single Board Computer powered by a variety of Intel processors. The 3.5”- SBC-EKL can accommodate processors from the Atom X6000E series, the Celeron J6000/N6000 series and the Pentium J6000/N6000 series.
The 3.5”- SBC-EKL is capable of supporting the following Intel processors...
Tor Browser 11.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This new release builds upon features introduced in Tor Browser 10.5 to transform the user experience of connecting to Tor from heavily censored regions.
We began reshaping the experience of connecting to Tor with the release of Tor Browser 10.5 last year, including the retirement of the Tor Launcher and the integration of the connection flow into the browser window. However, circumventing censorship of the Tor Network itself remained a manual and confusing process – requiring users to dive into Tor Network settings and figure out for themselves how to apply a bridge to unblock Tor. What's more, censorship of Tor isn't uniform – and while a certain pluggable transport or bridge configuration may work in one country, that doesn't mean it'll work elsewhere.
I'm announcing the release of the 5.18.12 kernel. This, and the 5.15.55, 5.10.131, and 5.4.206 releases are only for those users of the drivers/mtd/nand/raw/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c driver, to prevent known data loss issues with that codebase. If you don't use this driver, no need to upgrade. The updated 5.18.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.18.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-s... thanks, greg k-h
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The mayor of Poland's capital, Warsaw, said Friday he has COVID-19. Again.
Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski said on Twitter the virus seems to be “even more treacherous and contagious” then before and its symptoms are far from banal. Last year he was hospitalized due to a coronavirus infection.
He appealed to the Poles not to ignore the threat of potential reinfection. Trzaskowski, an opposition figure, also criticized Poland's right-wing government for having taken no preventive steps of late to counter new variants.
The Health Ministry estimates the level of immunity in this nation of 38 million is above 90% due to inoculations, more than 54 million jabs, and to the resilience of those who have recovered from the disease. Nationwide measures are to be introduced when the number of those hospitalized for COVID-19 reaches 5,000.
But experts are saying the new variant is highly contagious and steps against its spreading should be taken now. The number of new registered infections was almost 2,000 on Friday and two people have died, while a week ago it was just over 1,000 new cases and no deaths.
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Spa Favorite Farm-Grown Clean Beauty Brand Launches Rapid-Acting Acne-Fighting Products that Clear, Purify and Smooth Complexion Quickly
MCKINNEY, Texas, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking for a weekend reboot? FarmHouse Fresh®, the award-winning, female founded, owned and led skincare company is calling on acne sufferers of any age to try their newly launched clinically-proven, 5-day rapid clearing acne-fighting collection, Comeback Clear™. It brings confidence back to complexions in one long weekend – backed by consumer perception studies showing 85% agree after 5 days, complexion looks renewed. At day 30, 100% agree they feel more confident in their skin's appearance with skin looking & feeling renewed.
"I personally battled with adult acne around my chin into my mid-40's, and what we created is a kit that basically clears you up in a weekend," says Shannon McLinden, CEO and Co-Founder of FarmHouse Fresh®. "I didn't want a long substantial regimen because it just doesn't fit into my life. But if I can basically love the way I look by changing a few things over a weekend, I'm in!"
The Comeback Clear™ kit features three steps – a salicylic acid eucalyptus gel cleanser, Crisp Start™, drying-out salicylic & probiotic day serum, Day Breakthru, and ground-sweeping benzoyl peroxide & peptide nighttime lotion, Midnight Clearing™. The purifying products are sold separately as well. All calm, smooth and transform acne prone skin with added parsley extract grown locally on their Texas farm using sustainable hydroponic methods.
"I used the Comeback Clear™ kit for 5 days, then switched to use the full size Crisp Start™ cleanser daily on my chin, and I've been clear ever since. Never looked back," said McLinden.
#ComebackClear Challenge:
Between July 15th and July 21st, shoppers can win their very own Comeback Clear™ acne banishing kit, by taking part in the #ComebackClear challenge and sharing either "best day ever" photos or authentic "acne bummer" photos – every blemish, spot, scar or mark – for the chance to win a Comeback Clear™ acne kit. Once the challenge closes on July 21, five lucky winners will be selected to receive the kit and experience the incredible feeling that only comes with rapid, clear, real-time results. Visit FarmHouseFreshGoods.com for details. Or follow this direct link.
The NEW 3-Step Comeback Clear™ Collection includes:
Crisp Start™ | Clarifying Wash ($34.00):
This salicylic acid clarifying foaming wash works to remove dead skin buildup. Bisabolol, an active ingredient in chamomile, is a superstar skin soother. Your skin will be nourished with antioxidants from FarmHouse Fresh®-grown parsley extract.
Day Breakthru | Day Serum ($48.00):
This clearing-out and drying-out day serum has 2% salicylic acid to help remove dead skin. Probiotics help to calm and soothe irritated skin, while FarmHouse Fresh's homegrown parsley extract nourishes the skin.
Midnight Clearing™ | Night Lotion ($38.00):
This ground-sweeping nighttime clearing lotion uses 2.5% benzoyl peroxide to help fight stubborn acne while you sleep, killing bad bacteria. Niacinamide reduces the look of redness and skin irritation, while parsley grown on the FarmHouse Fresh® farm nourishes the skin with antioxidants.
Comeback Clear™ Rapid Relief Acne Banishing Kit ($58.00):
Try all three acne fighting products in this 5-day kickstart set. Skin will transform to a smoother, calmer and clearer state after just 5 days of use.
Consumer Study Results (ages 24-36):
After 5 days of use, 85% of participants agree:
- Active blemishes are visibly improved
- Size of active acne lesions is reduced
- My complexion looks renewed
After 30 days of use, 100% of participants agree:
- Size of active acne lesions is reduced
- Their complexion looks & feels renewed
- I feel more confident in my skin's appearance
FarmHouse Fresh® is an award-winning leader in clean beauty located in McKinney, Texas. Grown in Texas, the company's Farm to Table treatments are served through spas, hotels and resorts around the world from Dallas to Dubai. The company focuses on high nutrition skincare by using sustainable methods, including hydroponic, aquaponic and organic farming, with no pesticide use and minimal water. FarmHouse Fresh® follows a zero-waste process by recycling leftover crops as food for their farmers' chickens.
Philanthropy is at the core of the company's sustainability promise, with the ranch headquarters doubling as a nonprofit farm animal sanctuary. Every purchase you make helps animals in need – customers can track the batch code on their jar to learn the stories of the animals directly benefiting from their skincare purchase. At the FarmHouse Fresh® Ranch Headquarters, employees are directly involved with the care of rescue animals.
FarmHouse Fresh® products can be experienced in luxury spa treatments and purchased at thousands of top destination spas, resorts, and finer retailers across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, including Four Seasons, Ritz-Carltons, Beaches Resorts, Disney, Marriotts, Hyatts, The Broadmoor, Waldorf Astorias, Omni Hotels, Burke Williams Spas, The Woodhouse Day Spas and more. For more information about this or any other FarmHouse Fresh® retail or professional spa product, please contact FarmHouse Fresh® at 888-773-9626 or visit the website at www.farmhousefreshgoods.com.
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AEROSOLES TO INTRODUCE MEN'S SLIPPER'S, MEN'S AND LADIES FLIP FLOPS, MEN'S SOCKS AND ROLLER SKATES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND YOUTH
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AEROSOLES, the leading global footwear brand established in 1987 and recently acquired by American Exchange Group, known for its innovative technology and superior comfort, today announced it has signed a new licensing agreement for the distribution of men's slippers, men's and ladies flip flops, hanging footwear, men's socks and roller skates for men, women and youth. Aerosoles has partnered with Orly Corporation, the leading designer and marketer of fashion-forward footwear and accessories for women, men and children for over 40 years.
This new collection of men's slippers, socks, men's, and ladies flip flops and roller skates offers a fresh and contemporary feel with comfort at their core to complement the brand's assortment of classic women's styles. The first collections are scheduled to be launched in summer 2023 and will be available at Nordstrom, Macy's and other major department and specialty stores to follow. Retail price points for men's and ladies flip flops, socks and slippers range from $20- $50 and roller skates range from $80 - $150.
"This is an exciting time for Aerosoles and we are thrilled to be working with one of the best-in-class companies to further provide a comprehensive product offering to our consumers. As a global lifestyle brand, we are committed to showcasing a cohesive retail presentation, with a wide variety of products for men, women and youth. This is the first licensing partner we have signed since the acquisition and we look forward to partnering with Orly to utilize their expertise, capabilities and expand our consumer base," said Alen Mamrout, President and CEO of American Exchange Group.
"Our newly established partnership with Orly aligns perfectly with our strategy to leverage our brand pillars of comfort and technology into additional licensed categories. Our proprietary technology is what has positioned Aerosoles as a leader in the comfort space for decades and will continue to evolve and expand to our licensed categories. This will remain as the trademark that makes our products so unique," said Steve Velasquez, Chief Strategy Officer of American Exchange Group.
"My goal is to create and build new licensing partnerships and continue to propel the Aerosoles brand forward by developing and expanding into exciting, new product categories. I am looking forward to partnering with the team at Orly to offer comfortable and stylish hanging footwear options to our male consumers, flip-flops to women, and drive our brand DNA into the niche market of roller skates!" said Cynthia Nixon, Vice President, Licensing & Brand Development at American Exchange Group.
"Orly is thrilled to include Aerosoles into our diverse portfolio of brands. Our company has a longstanding history of private branding for comfort driven products, so we are very excited to have the opportunity to partner with an internationally recognized brand like Aerosoles, known for their comfort, style and innovation. Our main mission is to consistently deliver trend right and comfortable designs to our customers. To further build our business, we will leverage our brand equity, dominant position in fashion-forward footwear, and industry-leading design team expand upon Aerosoles' style and offerings," said Albert Antebi, Founder/CEO of Orly.
Flynn Collective served as Aerosoles' agent and TSG Brands served as Orly's agent.
Aerosoles is a leading global footwear company delivering high quality products with both fashion and performance to customers in over 40 countries around the world.
American Exchange Group is an industry leader in accessories design and manufacturing. By facilitating distribution to major retailers globally for our proprietary brands, custom private label brands and exclusive licensed brands, including footwear, tech wearables, watches, jewelry, handbags and fashion accessories, American Exchange Group raises the bar by disrupting status quo pricing while staying at the forefront of trends.
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As Digital Innovation Partner for the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Infosys is redefining a digital future with a new tournament digital experience and a metaverse museum for tennis fans around the world
NEWPORT, R.I., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infosys (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced it will unveil new immersive, digital experiences designed to enhance the tournament for fans at the Infosys Hall of Fame Open in Newport, R.I. from July 10-17, 2022 and a roadmap of exciting innovations in the metaverse with the International Tennis Hall of Fame (ITHF).
As the sports industry rapidly evolves in response to the emergence of new technologies across Web 3.0, metaverse, cloud, and AI, Infosys is teaming with the ITHF to deliver the following for fans, players, and visitors to the ITHF museum:
a. Digital revamp of the tournament website with an all-new Match Center:
Starting in 2022, the Infosys Hall of Fame Open will feature an all-new match center for fans from around the world to tune in and get powerful data insights across the matches from the tournament. This will feature:
1. Matchbeats and AI Quiz: Matchbeats is an interactive live match visualization that provides fans with interesting point-by-point insights as the action unfolds. The AI powered insights section inside it will provide a narrative around the match situation akin to a commentator in the booth. At the end of each set, fans can engage in an AI quiz based on the stats from the set.
2. Automated Live Commentary: The Infosys Tennis Platform will bring to fans automated text-based live commentary from each of the matches further adding a rich dimension to follow the action.
3. Stats, live results, and scores: The tournament website has also been updated with a new live score and results section which has been automated. Each match will also feature a unique Stats feature that will not only provide match stats but based on AI logic, sort them by significance, and tell a deeper story of the match.
b. Immersive ITHF Metaverse Museum: Infosys and ITHF have also embarked on a journey to preserve the heritage of the sport and celebrate its champions and rich history by developing an immersive virtual metaverse museum that will be accessible for fans around the world.
This year select guests at the ITHF will get a chance to see a sneak peek of the experience on Oculus VR headsets.
The complete project is due to be launched in 2023 with a web and VR version that fans will be able to experience.
"As the Official Digital Innovation Partner and title sponsor for ITHF's annual ATP tournament – the Infosys Hall of Fame Open – we're thrilled to enable the sport of tennis to navigate new frontiers and embrace digital innovation. At the Infosys Hall of Fame Open, we will showcase futuristic innovations leveraging the Infosys Tennis Platform, delivering unforgettable experiences for fans, and uplifting the tennis community as a whole," said Ravi Kumar S., President, Infosys.
"We're proud to partner with Infosys to continue to digitally transform the ITHF experience both on and off the tennis courts. This partnership presents exhilarating new opportunities as we will be able to engage fans in the excitement of the Infosys Hall of Fame Open and also provide greater access to the sport's inspiring history to fans across the globe via digital, immersive experiences," said Todd Martin, CEO, ITHF.
For more information, visit infosyshalloffameopen.com. To learn more about Infosys' collaboration with ITHF, visit infosys.com/ITHF.
About the International Tennis Hall of Fame
The International Tennis Hall of Fame (ITHF) is a non-profit organization that preserves and promotes the history of tennis and celebrates its champions, thereby serving as a vital partner in the growth of tennis globally. The ITHF is located in Newport, Rhode Island in the United States, with Hall of Famers hailing from 27 nations around the world. The Hall of Fame honors these legends and chronicles the sport's history in a comprehensive interactive museum in Newport and programming to celebrate the sport around the world. For information on the International Tennis Hall of Fame and its programs, visit tennisfame.com.
About Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. Over 300,000 of our people work to amplify human potential and create the next opportunity for people, businesses, and communities. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer clients, in more than 50 countries, as they navigate their digital transformation powered by the cloud. We enable them with an AI-powered core, empower the business with agile digital at scale and drive continuous improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. We are deeply committed to being a well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization where diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.
Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE:INFY) ( NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.
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Oxford Police and the University of Mississippi Police departments say they are using all available resources to locate Jimmie Jay Lee, according to a joint statement.
The father of missing 20-year-old University of Mississippi student Jimmie "Jay" Lee is pleading for the public's help in bringing the college student home after the discovery of the student's car.
Oxford Police and the University of Mississippi Police departments say they are using all available resources to locate Jimmie Jay Lee, according to a joint statement.
Oxford Police Department
The father of missing 20-year-old University of Mississippi student Jimmie "Jay" Lee is pleading for the public's help in bringing the college student home after the discovery of the student's car.
The father of missing 20-year-old University of Mississippi student Jimmie "Jay" Lee is pleading for the public's help in bringing the college student home after the discovery of his car.
"If anyone knows anything or sees anything, say something. Contact law enforcement. Just tell them what you know. This is my plea that you help find my child," Lee's father Jimmie Lee, Sr. said in a video plea posted online by police in Oxford, Mississippi.
In social media posts reviewed by CNN and images released by authorities, although Lee dresses in women's clothing and makeup in some pictures and videos, Lee writes that he identifies as a gay male.
Reached by CNN, Lee's father says that while he is not ready to give interviews, he hopes the intensified media coverage will help find his son. Lee's father said the best way the media can help the investigation is to "show his face."
Police are asking anyone with tips to reach out to them. Lee was reportedly last seen July 8 around 5:58 a.m. wearing a silver robe or housecoat, gold cap and gray slippers leaving Campus Walk Apartments.
On Monday, police recovered Lee's car, a 2014 black Ford Fusion with a gold racing stripe down the middle of the hood, from a local towing company.
The car with the license plate "JAYLEE1" was towed Friday afternoon from Molly Barr Trails apartment complex. It was taken to the Mississippi State Crime Laboratory for processing while teams from multiple law enforcement agencies searched areas of interest in Oxford, the police department said.
Police believe Lee was visiting someone who lives in Molly Barr Trails before disappearing.
Oxford Police and the University of Mississippi Police departments say they are using all available resources to locate Lee, according to a joint statement.
This has included executing around a dozen search warrants "on both physical and digital entities," the statement said. Numerous interviews have also been conducted, it said.
Crimestoppers has pledged a $1,000 reward for anybody with information that could lead to finding Lee, according to Oxford Police.
Any tips or information about Lee's whereabouts should be sent to the Oxford Police Department 662-232-2400, University of Mississippi Police Department at 662-915-7234 and Crime Stoppers at 662-234-8477.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 15, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Central Victoria County in south central Texas...
* Until 1015 AM CDT.
* At 851 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible
in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Victoria, Guadalupe, Victoria Colony Creek Country Club, Victoria
College, Brentwood Subdivision, Victoria Regional Airport,
Downtown Victoria, Victoria Riverside Park, Victoria Mall,
Victoria Detar Hospital North, Telferner, Ball Airport Area and
Wood Hi.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for ALLO, NEXI, EVTL, SONM, and DBRG.
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- ALLO: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=ALLO&prnumber=071520222
- NEXI: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=NEXI&prnumber=071520222
- EVTL: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=EVTL&prnumber=071520222
- SONM: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=SONM&prnumber=071520222
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Democrats 'out of touch' with Americans' 'everyday concerns' warn pair of Washington Post columns
'Democrats in power often seem unable to get anything done,' CNN's Fareed Zakaria wrote in the Times
A pair of Washington Post opinion columns published on Thursday chided the Democratic Party for being too far left and "out of sync" with Americans on cultural issues. They also implied that it could cost the party in the upcoming midterm elections.
The first column, composed by CNN anchor and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria, stated, "There is plenty of evidence that the Democratic Party has moved left, that it is out of sync with Americans on many of these cultural issues, and that it needs to correct course."
"It needs to do so clearly, forcefully and repeatedly," he added, especially in the face of a Republican Party that is "clever at weaponizing the words of a few left-wing Democrats and branding them as the face of the party."
Zakaria mentioned how GOP leaders, including former President Trump and more notably Governor Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., have found much political success targeting the "radical vigilante woke mob," as the governor’s fundraising emails put it.
"But this also reflects the looming electoral strategy among Republicans, who believe they have found a deep vulnerability among Democrats. A recent, comprehensive New York Times poll seemed to confirm this view," Zakaria wrote.
He cited Times' senior writer David Leonhardt’s analysis of the poll, which stated, "Many Democrats — both politicians and voters, especially on the party’s left flank … seem more focused on divisive cultural issues than on most Americans’ everyday concerns, like inflation."
Zakaria also claimed "Democrats in power often seem unable to get anything done," and that they "squabble more" than Republicans. This puts them in a more uncomfortable electoral position. The pundit’s solution is for Democrats to "become the party that gets stuff done, builds things and makes government work for people."
"That’s a lot more important to most Americans than using the right pronouns," he concluded.
The other opinion piece, from columnist Megan McArdle, used the exchange between Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and UC Berkeley professor Khiara Bridges at a recent Senate hearing to illustrate how out of touch radical left talking points are with most Americans.
During the exchange, Bridges chided Hawley for asking her whether her phrase, "people with the capacity for pregnancy" was referring to women specifically. Bridges then stated with some snark, "So, I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic and it opens up trans people to violence."
McCardle commented, "the progressives have it wrong. Moreover, the fact that they can’t see just how badly this exchange went for their side shows what a big mistake it was to let academia and media institutions turn into left-wing monocultures."
SEN. HAWLEY 'REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOME TRANSGENDER MEN CAN GET PREGNANT': WASHINGTON POST
The author acknowledged that people on the left found her answers "exquisitely and exactly correct," and explained, "She allowed no hint that late-term fetuses might have moral value, because that might suggest their interests could be weighed against those of the, well, pregnancy-capable. Nor did she concede an inch to the idea that biology can trump gender identity."
Though she argued, "outside those circles, Bridges’ answers don’t really sound so convincing. In most of America, ‘Does a late-term fetus have value?’ is a softball. And when Hawley leaped in to ask whether women are the ones who give birth — a question few Americans today would struggle with — she resorted to extended question-begging."
"That might be fine for a Berkeley classroom. But it just won’t do for a political debate in which the majority of voters disagree with you," McCardle added.
The author then brought up the topic of trans woman NCAA champion Lia Thomas competing in women’s sports, saying that despite the media adulation of her, "the overwhelming majority of people I actually spoke to thought it was unfair for her to compete in women’s events."
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McCardle clarified that most of these people "were liberals who would never dream of voting Republican."
At the end of her piece, she wrote, "And I wonder, now what further surprises are in store if progressives can’t figure out how to talk to the majority of the country that disagrees with them on a whole lot of things." Perhaps a poor turnout in November’s elections. | https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-out-touch-americans-everyday-concerns-warn-pair-washington-post-columns | 2022-07-15T15:05:16Z | https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-out-touch-americans-everyday-concerns-warn-pair-washington-post-columns | true |
Firm honored for second consecutive year by Top Workplaces
CAMAS, Wash., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fisher Investments, one of the world's largest independent, fee-only investment advisers, was named to the 2022 Top Workplaces in Financial Services list for the second consecutive year. The prestigious Top Workplaces program—based on anonymous employee survey feedback—honors organizations that have strong relationships with their employees and foster a culture of success.
"We're thrilled to be recognized by Top Workplaces again," said Fisher Investments' CEO Damian Ornani. "This award is a testament to our workplace culture where every employee can thrive and build a rewarding lifelong career on our mission to help more clients globally."
The Top Workplaces program starts by capturing feedback from firms' employees. The workplace survey measures 15 culture drivers organized into four themes. Scoring well indicates a healthy culture and increased employee engagement. Companies with the highest overall scores qualified as Top Workplaces in Financial Services.
Top Workplaces, managed by employer research firm Energage LLC, is the nation's leading employer-recognition program. The Top Workplaces Financial Services award highlights companies that meet or exceed the Top Workplaces benchmark and are dedicated to culture excellence. Earlier in 2022, Fisher Investments was also named to the Top Workplaces USA list for the second year in a row.
About Fisher Investments
Fisher Investments is an independent, fee-only investment adviser. As of 6/30/2022, Fisher Investments and its subsidiaries manage over $165 billion in assets globally—over $131 billion for private investors, $31 billion for institutional investors and $2 billion for US small to mid-sized business retirement plans. Fisher Investments maintains four principal business groups: US Private Client, Institutional, Private Client International and 401(k) Solutions, which serve a global client base of diverse investors. Not all strategies are offered/sold in all jurisdictions. Founder and Executive Chairman Ken Fisher wrote the Forbes "Portfolio Strategy" column from 1984 through 2016, making him the longest continuously running columnist in the magazine's history. In recent years, Ken's columns have run consistently in major media outlets across almost every Western European country as well as material Asian countries, spanning more countries and more volume than any other columnist of any type in history. Ken has also authored 11 books, including four New York Times bestsellers on finance and investing. For more information on Fisher Investments, please visit www.fisherinvestments.com.
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MONROE, Mich., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Monroe Community Credit Union (MCCU) is excited to share the success of their latest charitable endeavor: Member Match, a community donation program dictated by their new members. The credit union features three local non-profit organizations each business quarter and matches their new members' initial $5 deposit (the amount required to open an account at the credit union) with a $5 donation to the non-profit organization of their choice. In the first half of the year, MCCU members supported Gabby's Grief Center, Monroe County Opportunity Program (MCOP), The Oaks Village, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Monroe County, Habitat for Humanity, and Paula's House. From July – September, new members will get to choose from the Humane Society, the Monroe Family YMCA, and Soroptimist.
"As a locally owned and operated business, we're always looking for new ways to support our community." said MCCU Vice President of Marketing and Community Relations, Kate Hall. "The positive impact these local non-profit organizations have on our community is immeasurable and we wanted to create an easy way for our members to be directly involved in supporting their vital work. In addition, Member Match has been a great way for us to help generate awareness and provide education to our new members about organizations we've worked with for decades."
Kaye Lani Rafko-Wilson, Executive Director of Gabby's Grief Center, said, "This gift from Monroe Community Credit Union and their members is greatly appreciated. We are extremely grateful for this wonderful partnership and the generosity of so many! The donation we received from MCCU was applied toward our grief support programs and services, including individual/family grief support sessions, our first annual mass butterfly release (which had approximately 60 people in attendance) where butterflies were released in memory of loved ones, our children/teen grief camp called Camp Fearless, and for our upcoming 'Day at the Movies' family gathering that will take place at the end of July!"
Pastor Heather Boone, Board President for The Oaks Village said, "We give out between 50-75 boxes a week to those in need in the community. The funds donated from the Member Match program helped us purchase more food supplies like can goods, jelly, meat, and bread."
In six months, MCCU's Member Match program has generated $6,155 to support local non-profit organizations. MCCU will continue this charitable giving initiative through the end of 2022. For more information about this program or the local non-profit groups listed above, visit www.monroecommunitycu.org/membermatch.
MCCU is a locally owned and operated, not-for-profit financial institution headquartered in Monroe, MI with $330 million in assets, six banking locations and 30,000 members. MCCU's field of membership includes those who live, work, worship, or attend school in the state of Michigan and in the Ohio counties of Fulton, Lucas, or Wood. MCCU was voted Best Credit Union and Best Mortgage Lender in Monroe for 2021.
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PITTSBURGH, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We thought there could be a more sanitary means of lifting and lowering a toilet seat and lid," said one of two inventors, from N. Chesterfield, Va., "so we invented the MOTION-ACTIVATED TOILET SEAT. Our design would automatically open and close the toilet seat/lid and it would ensure that the lid and seat is closed until it is ready for use."
The patent-pending invention provides a hands-free design for a toilet seat and lid. In doing so, it eliminates the need to touch the seat/lid. As a result, it enhances sanitation and convenience and it helps to reduce the spread of germs. The invention features a practical design that is easy to install and use with no electrical use so it is ideal for households, commercial restrooms and individuals with physical disabilities. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Richmond sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-RKH-259, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Texas-based team with $120 million AUM joins from Edward Jones and chooses partnered independence with Sanctuary
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanctuary Wealth, home to the next generation of elite advisors, welcomes Mesa Pointe Wealth to the network from Edward Jones. Led by Founder and CEO Robert Lehrer, the firm is based in Midland, a city considered the capital of Texas oil and gas production, and has approximately $120 million in client assets under management.
"With Robert Lehrer and Mesa Pointe Wealth joining Sanctuary Wealth, we have partner teams in all the major pockets of wealth across Texas," said Jim Dickson, CEO and Founder of Sanctuary Wealth. "Robert is an outstanding advisor who had already built a great business, but we felt he could do so much more for his clients if he chose partnered independence and had the freedom to select the solutions and technology most appropriate for his practice and his clients' needs."
"My desire to go independent stemmed from my need for a bigger toolbox that would allow me to accelerate growth by providing more solutions for my clients. Sanctuary Wealth gives me that and much more than I expected," said Robert Lehrer, Founder & CEO, Mesa Pointe Wealth. "Sanctuary Wealth's values and culture mirror my own and with partnered independence, they not only give you the keys to everything on their platform, but you're not mandated to use any of it. Sanctuary Wealth allows me to be completely independent, but with the support and access to the resources of a much larger partner. And although I'm not yet at that point in my career, the flexibility that Sanctuary Wealth offers in terms of succession planning is also really important to me."
An accomplished advisor with more than 15 years' experience, Robert Lehrer joined Edward Jones in 2006, following a successful stint in the financial side of the agriculture business. He holds both BS and MS degrees from Texas A&M University.
"By partnering with Sanctuary Wealth, Robert Lehrer and Mesa Pointe Wealth will have access to a much wider range of tools and resources than they would on their own, including access to up-to-date technology, insurance solutions, capital markets, and alternative investments," said Phillip Porpora, Managing Director, Sanctuary Wealth. "We're excited to expand the Sanctuary Wealth footprint into this new market and look forward to facilitating growth for Mesa Pointe Wealth and helping Robert's clients realize their dreams."
To learn more about Mesa Pointe Wealth, please visit: www.mesapointe.com.
About Sanctuary Wealth
Sanctuary Wealth (sanctuarywealth.com/) is the advanced platform for the next generation of elite advisors, who have the entrepreneurial spirit to build and own their own practices and desire the freedom to deliver the tailored service their clients deserve. Sanctuary Wealth's ecosystem of partnered independence provides a complete technology and operations platform, as well as support from a community of like-minded advisors and the resources of invaluable affiliated businesses. Currently, the Sanctuary Wealth network includes partner firms in 26 states across the country with approximately $25 billion in assets under advisement. Sanctuary Wealth includes the fully owned subsidiaries; Sanctuary Advisors LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser, Sanctuary Securities, Inc. a FINRA member broker-dealer as well as Sanctuary Alternative Holdings, Sanctuary Asset Management, Sanctuary Insurance Solutions, Sanctuary Global, and Sanctuary Global Family Office.
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Growth fueled by plentiful reinsurance capacity accessed through fronting insurers
HARTFORD, Conn., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Premiums sourced by Managing General Agents (MGAs), a key distribution channel for U.S. property-casualty insurers, grew significantly in 2021, according to a new Conning study. Growth was well in excess of the robust growth achieved in the P&C market as a whole. Conning estimates that the total MGA market, including business written for the account of Lloyd's syndicates and non-U.S. insurance companies, exceeded $70 billion in direct premiums written in 2021.
Growth drivers included the strong rebound in the U.S. economy following pandemic-induced lockdowns and a continued broad-based rise in premium rates. Rate rises were particularly strong for some of the more challenging lines of business, notably cyber, that are typically insured in the excess & surplus lines (E&S) market, where MGAs are very active.
Fronting insurers have played a growing role in channeling capital from global reinsurance markets to support MGAs. "Fronting companies today play a critical role in securing capacity for MGAs, and we expect this to continue to grow," said William Pitt, a director of insurance research at Conning. "Most of these fronting companies retain a portion of the risks themselves to ensure their interests are aligned with those of their reinsurers. We have also seen a number of the larger MGAs become risk-bearing entities themselves through the establishment of reinsurance captives."
The Lloyd's market has historically been the biggest single source of capacity for MGAs in the U.S., and that remained the case in 2021. Conning's latest study quantifies the role played by Lloyd's syndicates in the market for the first time.
"The economic rebound that spurred a robust recovery for the economy post Covid-19, boosted the business of MGAs and program administrators, including those that had been hit the hardest by the pandemic," said Lauryn Kothavale, an Assistant Vice President in Insurance Research at Conning. "MGAs were historically looked upon by insurers as means to access additional premium in soft markets. But their risk pricing capabilities have expanded and their role in sourcing attractive niche business for insurers in today's hard market is every bit as important."
The Conning study, "Managing General Agents: Firing on All Cylinders," presents MGA marketplace dynamics, trends, players, and outlook. It includes analysis of the growing fronting market and findings from Conning's 2021 proprietary survey of MGA executives. Survey respondents shared insights into premium growth trends and the overall market, as well as insights into relationships with insurers.
"Managing General Agents: Firing on All Cylinders" is available for purchase from Conning by calling (888) 707-1177 or by visiting https://go.conning.com/Conning-Insurance-Research.html.
Conning (www.conning.com) is a leading investment management firm with a long history of serving the insurance industry. Conning supports institutional investors, including insurers and pension plans, with investment solutions, risk modeling software, and industry research. Founded in 1912, Conning has investment centers in Asia, Europe and North America.
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for BABA, STZ, DLTR, PEP, and QCOM.
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Baby born on 7/11 in the parking lot of 7-Eleven
SHINNSTON, W.Va. (WDTV/Gray News) – A baby boy was born in a 7-Eleven parking lot in West Virginia on 7/11.
Waylon Bush was born just before 3:30 a.m. Monday. He weighs 6 pounds, 8 ounces and is 19 inches long, according to WDTV.
Allie Sayers and her fiancée were heading to the hospital but had to make an emergency stop on the way.
“I was like, ‘No, this baby is coming. There’s no way he’s waiting.’ And my fiancée delivered our baby in the front seat of the car with our other two kids in the backseat at 3:30 in the morning,” Sayers said.
Because Waylon shares a birthday with the convenience store, Sayers and her fiancée were gifted with seven years of free coffee.
A 7-Eleven spokesperson said this will help them stay awake on their latest nights or earliest mornings.
7-Eleven will also be giving Waylon and his family a care package filled with 7-Eleven and Slurpee-branded items including onesies, diapers and other newborn essentials.
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COVINGTON, Ky., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Commonwealth Hotels announced today that Michael O'Malley has been appointed the general manager of the Courtyard by Marriott Columbus Dublin. Mr. O'Malley brings over 23 years of hospitality experience to his new role as general manager having previously served as the area director of operations and general manager with Sonesta International.
"We are excited to welcome Michael to the team," said Jennifer Porter, chief operations officer of Commonwealth Hotels. "We look forward to his strong leadership of the property's executive team."
Prior to joining the Courtyard by Marriott Columbus Dublin, O'Malley served in various hospitality leadership roles. Prior to Sonesta, Michael was the general manager for the Residence Inn Lexington North in Lexington, Kentucky for nearly seven years. Prior to joining the Island Hospitality Group, O'Malley served as the hotel manager for both the Residence Inn, Springhill Suites, and Extended Stay Hotel brands overseeing the daily operations and the opening of several properties. O'Malley is a graduate of Columbus State Community College and serves as an executive board member for the Dublin Convention and Visitors Bureau.
About Commonwealth Hotels, LLC
Commonwealth Hotels, LLC was founded in 1986 and is a proven partner in providing hotel management services with superior financial results. The company has extensive experience managing premium branded full service and select service hotels. Commonwealth Hotels currently manages 61 properties with nearly 7,600 rooms. Additional information may be found at www.commonwealthhotels.com.
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South Padre Island, Texas, holds a special place in Fiana Garza Tulip's heart.
It's where she has a chance to relax and remember her mother, who died of COVID-19 complications two years ago.
Garza Tulip has been an outspoken supporter of the COVID-19 vaccine. She spoke about getting vaccinated while she was pregnant.
“I’m excited to smile when he comes, I’m excited to feel real joy that he’s here and he’s breathing," Tulip said last year when she was eight-months pregnant.
She gave birth to her now seven-month-old son, Albie. He's the younger brother to her daughter, Lua, who is almost three years old.
Both of her children are now able to get the COVID vaccine. In June, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the vaccine for children as young as six months old.
Getting her kids vaccinated was important to Garza Tulip. In addition to losing her mother to the virus, she also lost her uncle.
For as much of a supporter of the vaccine as she has been, she too admits that she has felt the fatigue from a fog of misinformation and pandemic politics.
“Do I trust the government at this point because mask, no mask?" she said. "You’re just constantly being fed stories and, like, falsehoods and truths and where it stands."
As a parent, she said the decision about vaccinating her kids feels different.
Only around 30% percent of children between the ages of 5 and 11 have received the vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
“If you had an opportunity, a bad opportunity to see someone really sick in this age group with COVID or pass away, we’ve had a few die in our hospital from COVID and now that it’s becoming now somewhat preventable, that's a tragedy," says Dr. Reggie Washington, the chief medical officer at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver.
He says parents can trust the vaccine.
“It’s safe and it works. The side effects are very minimal and the protection is safe enough to keep those children, of those age groups, out of the hospital in most cases," Washington said.
Garza Tulip and her husband say, after speaking with their pediatrician and reading reputable medical research, both of their children will get the vaccine when they return home to New Jersey. First, they held a memorial for Garza Tulip's mother at South Padre Island, a place she loved.
"This decision is so close to their two-year anniversary that there is really something meaningful about it to give them this vaccine in my mom's honor," Garza Tulip said. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national-politics/the-race/woman-getting-young-children-vaccinated-against-covid-19-in-honor-of-mother-who-died-from-the-virus | 2022-07-15T15:16:00Z | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national-politics/the-race/woman-getting-young-children-vaccinated-against-covid-19-in-honor-of-mother-who-died-from-the-virus | false |
In just its first week of beaming back images, the Webb Space Telescope has shown its versatility. On Tuesday, NASA unveiled a picture of a galaxy 13.1 billion light-years away.
Now, it shows a planet in our solar system with incredible detail.
The telescope beamed back an image of Jupiter that showed its Great Red Spot and moon Europa in detail. The image revealed Europa’s shadow on Jupiter near the Great Red Spot.
“Combined with the deep field images released the other day, these images of Jupiter demonstrate the full grasp of what Webb can observe, from the faintest, most distant observable galaxies to planets in our own cosmic backyard that you can see with the naked eye from your actual backyard,” said Bryan Holler, a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
NASA has targeted Europa for upcoming missions as it likely contains a liquid ocean beneath its icy surface.
“I couldn’t believe that we saw everything so clearly, and how bright they were,” said Stefanie Milam, Webb’s deputy project scientist for planetary science based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It’s really exciting to think of the capability and opportunity that we have for observing these kinds of objects in our solar system.” | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/webb-telescope-shows-moon-casting-shadow-on-jupiter | 2022-07-15T15:16:36Z | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/webb-telescope-shows-moon-casting-shadow-on-jupiter | false |
#NATIONALDAYOFMASKING
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- French luxury skincarebrand Clarins has joined forces with beauty expert Kathleen Jennings to officially declare July 16th, National Day of Masking. Commencing each year on July 16th, the holiday will serve as a source of inspiration that celebrates and encourages the act of normalizing self-care by wearing your skincare mask of choice—mark the holiday by sharing your favorite skincare mask and tagging #NationalDayofMasking.
As a former attorney and a mother of three, Texas-based beauty guru Kathleen Jennings has asserted her expertise and know-how within the vast world of beauty and all-things skincare. Having cultivated a loyal online presence and social following, the skincare enthusiast and face mask aficionado has amassed an engaged beauty community. Daily she provides in-depth product reviews, tutorials, and promotions by offering an honest, unfiltered approach to beauty and skincare. Jennings has a unique daily dialogue with her engaged social community, reposting followers who tag HER while wearing beauty products they purchase based on her reviews. To drive home the mission of normalizing self-care and wearing your favorite skincare mask during everyday activities, Jennings, in partnership with Clarins, is proud to announce National Day of Masking.
Jennings' "Holy Grail" beauty product is the Clarins V-Facial Intensive Wrap (better known as the Clarins Depuffing Mask to her online community), praising it's incredible facial depuffing effect. "Whenever I find a product like the Clarins Depuffing Mask, and it actually delivers on its claims, it's like hallelujah! I want to make it a point to share it with the rest of the beauty and skincare world," says Jennings. This award-winning mask is instantly recognizable on social media due to the cream-mousse mask's beard-like appearance which targets key depuffing zones below the eyes and above the neck to combat skin issues brought on by stress, heat, and hormonal changes. This innovative plant-based formula includes Beautyberry & Ginger extracts as well as Horse Chestnut Escin, relieves puffiness and visibly refine facial features, and Lady's Mantle and Alchemilla extracts promote a radiant, even skin tone.
The social media facial de-puffing movement—spearheaded by Jennings—has transformed the Clarins V-Facial Intensive Wrap into a top seller for the brand, and is its #1 seller at Sephora. To celebrate and fulfill Jennings's 2021 birthday wish, Clarins is marking her birthday as #NationalDayofMasking. To engage both the brand and Jennings's social communities, Clarins will be hosting product giveaways on social media and encouraging all to post wearing a skincare mask on July 16th, tagging #NationalDayofMasking. This July 16th, Clarins will offer a 20% discount on all Clarins skincare masks clarinsusa.com and Sephora.com will offer 20% off V-Facial Intensive.
Kathleen Jennings (@kathleenjenningsbeauty) is a former attorney, mother of three, and self-proclaimed skincare fanatic. Kathleen founded the BeautyNow app for booking beauty appointments, assets of which were acquired by Groupon, Inc. in 2016. Today her site KathleenJenningsBeauty.com and social media handles @kathleenjenningsbeauty (Instagram, TikTok) chronicle her devotion to skincare masking (particularly #carpoolmasking) and honest reviews about beauty products and services.
Founded in a professional Parisian beauty institute by Jacques Courtin-Clarins in 1954, Clarins has become the #1 prestige skincare brand in Europe. More than 65 years later, the brand remains family-owned and is distributed in more than 140 countries—offering skincare innovations for face and body, men's, and makeup. With unique expertise in phytochemistry, Clarins Laboratories are considered pioneers in the fields of plant science and technology. The brand values are rooted in an ongoing dialogue with women, abiding respect for nature and people, and commitments to sustainable sourcing, including Le Domaine Clarins—our organic farm and open-air laboratory in the French Alps. Clarins is accelerating its sustainable actions to become a Certified B Corporation by 2023. Currently carbon neutral, the company will further reduce its carbon footprint by 30% and become 100% plastic neutral by using 100% recyclable packaging by 2025. Partners include Pur Projet (more than 525,000 trees planted to date), Plastic Odyssey (a three-year expedition across three continents with 30 stopovers to fight against plastic pollution), and FEED (more than 38 million school meals provided to children in need by the end of 2022).
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Not loss of smell or fever, these 5 Covid symptoms are on a rise now. Check Omicron reinfection signs
2 min read . Updated: 15 Jul 2022, 07:02 PM IST- Runny nose, Headache, Sneezing, Sore throat and Persistent cough are now the most common symptoms for COVID | https://www.livemint.com/news/india/not-loss-of-smell-or-fever-these-5-covid-symptoms-are-on-a-rise-now-check-omicron-reinfection-signs-11657882658987.html | 2022-07-15T15:20:37Z | https://www.livemint.com/news/india/not-loss-of-smell-or-fever-these-5-covid-symptoms-are-on-a-rise-now-check-omicron-reinfection-signs-11657882658987.html | true |
Paper describes service operations for providing direct-to-patient medication abortion via telehealth across a range of medical settings.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers examined remotely delivered medication abortion services developed in response to the disruption of health services caused by COVID-19. The paper, recently published in the Annals of Family Medicine, is titled, "Remote Delivery in Reproductive Health Care: Operation of Direct-to-Patient Telehealth Medication Abortion Services in Diverse Settings." It is available for free download.
By sharing how different health care organizations leveraged telemedicine, the authors argue that primary care providers will be better positioned for broader remote delivery of reproductive health services. Written prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, it provides an overview of how different providers approach abortion care, and potential options in accessing abortion and other reproductive services in the future.
The researchers surveyed clinicians and administrators operating telehealth abortion services in four practice settings: family planning clinics, online medical services, independent primary care practices, and those within multispecialty health systems. Across all settings, they found similar operational procedures for remote medication abortion services, with each site following five basic steps for care provision: patient engagement, care consultations, payment, medication dispensing, and follow-up communication.
Online services and independent primary care clinics offered e-visit consultations, communicating via an online questionnaire, and messaging and/or email with health professionals. Primary care clinics within multispecialty health systems offered only synchronous options for screening, scheduling, and patient-provider consultations. Asynchronous care models were more efficient, requiring two to three minutes compared to 10-30 minutes for a synchronous video visit.
Surveyed clinics used multiple means of medication delivery, determined by the availability of onsite pharmacies and medication-dispensing protocols. Family planning clinics and health systems mailed medications from onsite pharmacies, while independent primary care providers and online services contracted with mail-order pharmacies. Independent practices were the only group that offered drop-off services for patients.
The authors assert their findings demonstrate the feasibility of offering abortion services in a variety of medical settings and highlight the potential variations that can be made to adapt reproductive health services to patient needs and existing clinical operations.
Remote Delivery in Reproductive Health Care: Operation of Direct-to-Patient Telehealth Medication Abortion Services in Diverse Settings
Anna E. Fiastro et al.
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– New Amazon Tool Unveils Prime Day Pricing, Paid Share of Voice Changes Across Thousands of Categories, Hundreds of Thousands of Brands –
BOSTON, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Momentum Commerce, a modern digital retail consultancy, today announced the release of the 2022 Amazon Prime Day Brand Scoreboard. This resource provides a unique accounting of how hundreds of thousands of different brands across more than 1,500 categories approached Amazon Prime Day 2022 – whether they cut prices, increased their advertising investment, or largely sat tight.
Visitors to the Amazon Prime Day Brand Scoreboard can select any Amazon category or subcategory they wish to examine. Then users can sort the corresponding list of brands by average product price or paid share of voice (SOV) before Prime Day, during Prime Day, or as a percentage change between the two periods.
To power the Prime Day Brand Scorecard, Momentum Commerce tapped its vast repository of Amazon data and advanced data science products, capturing more than two-week's worth of pricing and paid SOV data for every brand and product that appeared on page one across the top one million search terms on Amazon. The tool provides those figures, along with comparing those two-week averages to what was observed during Prime Day 2022.
Some unique takeaways from the dataset:
- Nautica, essence cosmetics, Beats, and Zinus were some of the most active brands during Prime Day. These brands discounted their products by more than 10%, while dramatically raising their advertising's presence on popular Amazon search terms by more than 100%
- Conversely, UPPAbaby, Chanel, and Audio-Technica were among a group of brands that largely stood pat during Prime Day. These brands conducted little to no discounting across their catalog, with their products appearing less often within sponsored ads on popular Amazon search terms
"Brands on Amazon understand the massive opportunity Prime Day presents in terms of driving sales, but the methods brands employ to take advantage vary considerably," said John T. Shea, CEO & Founder of Momentum Commerce. "The Prime Day Brand Scoreboard gives every brand – large or small – the ability to quickly gain competitive intelligence on their category from Prime Day. These insights will help those same brands refine their strategy as we approach back-to-school, future Prime Days, and the holiday season."
The 2022 Prime Day Brand Scoreboard is free to access and can be found at https://app.momentumcommerce.com/apps/prime-day-scoreboard.
Momentum Commerce is a modern consultancy offering brands flexible technology and professional services to grow sales on digital retail platforms such as Amazon, Walmart.com and Target.com. Comprised of half technologists and half consultants, Momentum Commerce's team provides unrivaled data assets with a scientific approach to retail media management, insights services, and bespoke projects brands need to meet their growth goals. With a mission to be the most respected firm in the space, Momentum Commerce brand clients include emerging and enterprise brands such as Crocs, Chaps, Lush Decor, Level Home, XMONDO and many more. For more information, please visit https://momentumcommerce.com.
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LITTLE FERRY, N.J., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CCA Industries, Inc. (OTC: CAWW), announced today its results for the three and six months ended May 31,2022. The results can be found on the chart below.
Net income was $229,075 for the three months ended May 31, 2022 as compared to net income of $282,034 for the three months ended May 31, 2021. Net income was $253,651 for the six months ended May 31, 2022 as compared to net income of $355,554 for the six months ended May 31, 2021. However, the net income for the six months ended May 31, 2021 included a $316,400 gain on extinguishment of debt as a result of the forgiveness of the loan granted under the Paycheck Protection Program by the United States Small Business Administration. This was a non-cash transaction as the funds were received in fiscal 2020. As shown in the chart below, the EBITDA for the first six months of fiscal 2022 was $391,711 as compared to $197,956 for the first six months of fiscal 2021 after adjusting for the Paycheck Protection Loan forgiven.
Christopher Dominello, Chief Executive Officer commented, "Our online sales have continued to grow substantially, while at the same time we worked to reduce costs that increased the profitability of those sales. The Company continues to focus on digital advertising through social media in order to promote our products. A consumer made a video, completely unsolicited, showing Plus White on TikTok which became viral with over 2.7 million views. While these are challenging economic times, our Plus White whitening kit continues to outperform its competitors in the marketplace. We are also working to reposition our other brands to drive retail store sales. The Company has had its challenges over the past few years, and while we do not expect to recover overnight, there is progress which indicates further growth and increased profitability in fiscal 2023."
Further information, including the Unaudited Financial Statement for the quarter and six months ended May 31, 2022, the Audited Financial Statements for the year ended November 30, 2021 and the Quarterly Disclosure Statement filed with the OTC, may be found on the Company's investor web site: www.ccainvestor.com
CCA Industries, Inc. manufactures and markets health and beauty aids, each under its individual brand name. The products include, principally, "Plus White" toothpastes and teeth whiteners, "Bikini Zone" medicated topical and shave gels, "Nutra Nail" nail care treatments, "Porcelana" skin care products, "Scar Zone" scar treatment products, "Sudden Change" anti-aging skin care products, brands, "Hair Off" depilatory products, "Solar Sense" sun care products and "Neutein" brain health supplements which the Company licensed in January 2022.
Statements contained in the news release that are not historical facts are forward looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which would cause actual results to differ materially, from estimated results. No assurance can be given that the results in any forward-looking statement will be achieved and actual results could be affected by one or more factors, which could cause them to differ materially. For these statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.
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Salem reports 83 new COVID-19 cases
Salem July 15, 2022 20:40 ISTSalem reported 83 new COVID-19 cases and Namakkal district reported 21 new cases on Friday.
As per the bulletin, there are 429 active cases in Salem district and 160 active cases in Namakkal district.
Erode district reported 41 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, taking the overall tally to 1,33,328. While 36 persons were discharged, 252 persons continue to be under treatment.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Tops supermarket, where a gunman killed 10 people and left three others wounded, reopened on Friday.
Members of the Buffalo, New York community came together to say a prayer before the doors opened early Friday morning.
The first 225 customers were given $100 gift cards.
While many were happy to see the store open, some people outside said it was too soon. They said they wanted a community-wide conversation about other options while they heal.
The victims of the shooting were honored Thursday night at a re-dedication ceremony
“Hate will not win — not today — not tomorrow — not ever,” declared Letitia James, New York State Attorney General.
A 19-year-old man was indicted on 27 counts Thursday in connection to the deadly May 14 shooting.
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 in prison or death.
The attorney general will decide at a later death whether to pursue the death penalty.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An amusement park in northwestern Denmark said Friday it would scrap a roller coaster for good after a 14-year-old girl died, reportedly when the rear part of the ride came off the rails.
A 13-year-old boy also suffered hand injuries on Thursday on the Cobraen roller coaster at the Tivoli Friheden amusement park in Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city.
“There is no doubt that that the ride will be shut down and torn apart,” Tivoli Friheden amusement park manager Henrik Ragborg Olsen told local newspaper Aarhus Stiftstidende.
The cause of the derailment was under investigation.
Ragborg Olsen told Aarhus Stiftstidende on Thursday that “the rear two seats” of Cobraen were hanging “under the wagon train.” The roller coaster is 25 meters (82 feet) high and the wagons have a top speed of 70 kph (44 mph), according to the Tivoli Friheden Website.
Police said they got a call at 12:50 p.m. that a car was stuck in a ride in Tivoli Friheden and several people were stuck.
In 2008, four people were slightly injured when the same roller coaster broke down, only days after it had been inaugurated.
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CLEVELAND, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Demand for surface disinfectant wipes is expected to remain elevated through 2026 due to trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a new Freedonia Group analysis:
- While demand for surface disinfectant wipes fell in 2021 from the pandemic-induced spikes of 2020, it remained well above pre-COVID-19 levels; consumers and nonresidential end users continued to purchase these products to protect themselves from potential viral exposure.
- Major wipes suppliers have invested significantly in expanding their domestic production capacities for surface disinfectant wipes, in some cases enlisting contract manufacturers to help supplement their own lines.
It is expected that demand for surface disinfectant wipes will remain elevated as cleaning regimens in industrial and institutional settings that address healthcare associated infections (HAIs), foodborne illnesses, and other potential viruses continue to be rigorous. While consumer demand for these wipes will decline as households reorient their approach to reducing viral transmission, an expanded base of users will help demand remain above pre-pandemic levels.
US Demand for Wipes to Grow 2.3% Annually Through 2026
Demand for wipes is expected to advance 2.3% per year off a relatively high base to $4.3 billion in 2026. While this growth rate is relatively slow compared to historical norms, it stems from elevated market levels, as pandemic-related sales spikes for various wipes (notably disinfectant wipes in 2020), supply chain challenges, and higher raw material costs led prices for wipes to jump in 2020 and 2021, inflating market value in those years.
In unit terms, wipe demand growth will accelerate, supported by:
- consistent increases in the industrial and institutional market, with major submarkets like healthcare and foodservice returning to pre-pandemic levels of operation
- product development that improves the functionality and environmental profile of available personal care wipes, thereby increasing adoption among consumers
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PITTSBURGH, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a safer way to sit in or move about a ladder-style tree stand," said an inventor, from Shelbyville, Ind., "so I invented the J R SAFETY RAIL. My design could increase safety and security for hunters."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective safety accessory for ladder-style tree stands. In doing so, it offers added support. As a result, it could help to reduce falls and related injuries and it provides added peace of mind. The invention features a practical design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for hunters/sportsmen. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-SGM-108, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Warsaw mayor has COVID-19, again. Calls for preventive plan
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The mayor of Poland's capital, Warsaw, said Friday he has COVID-19. Again.
Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski said on Twitter the virus seems to be "even more treacherous and contagious" then before and its symptoms are far from banal. Last year he was hospitalized due to a coronavirus infection.
He appealed to the Poles not to ignore the threat of potential reinfection. Trzaskowski, an opposition figure, also criticized Poland's right-wing government for having taken no preventive steps of late to counter new variants.
The Health Ministry estimates the level of immunity in this nation of 38 million is above 90% due to inoculations, more than 54 million jabs, and to the resilience of those who have recovered from the disease. Nationwide measures are to be introduced when the number of those hospitalized for COVID-19 reaches 5,000.
But experts are saying the new variant is highly contagious and steps against its spreading should be taken now. The number of new registered infections was almost 2,000 on Friday and two people have died, while a week ago it was just over 1,000 new cases and no deaths.
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VALLETTA, Malta, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kindred Group plc ("Kindred") hereby announces that it, on 14 July 2022, has received a notification of major holdings from The Capital Group Companies, Inc., a company with its registered office in Los Angeles, USA. The Notification relates to a reduced number of shares and voting rights in Kindred (the "Notification") by Capital Research and Management Company, a subsidiary within The Capital Group Companies, Inc. which holds the relevant position in Kindred Group.
According to the Notification, Capital Research and Management Company holds 14.86% of the shares and voting rights in Kindred as of 13 July 2022. Please note that the notification submitted on 14 July 2022, includes the holdings of SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc., a mutual fund managed by Capital Research and Management Company.
The relevant chain of controlled undertakings can be found in the Notification, a copy of which can be found on Kindred's website: https://www.kindredgroup.com/investors/the-share/major-holdings.
This information is information that Kindred Group plc is obliged to make public pursuant to the Listing Rules published by the Malta Financial Services Authority under the Financial Markets Act (Chapter 345 of the Laws of Malta).
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Raiders set to open 1st training camp under McDaniels
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS (10-8)
CAMP SITE: Henderson, Nevada
LAST YEAR: The Raiders survived a tumultuous season that featured the resignation of coach Jon Gruden and the release of receiver Henry Ruggs III to make the playoffs for the first time since 2016. That wasn't enough for interim coach Rich Bisaccia or GM MIke Mayock to keep their jobs as owner Mark Davis turned the franchise over to coach Josh McDaniels and GM Dave Ziegler. DE Maxx Crosby emerged as a star last season to help improve a struggling defense and QB Derek Carr led the offense to deliver some late-game wins. The Raiders won four OT games to get to the postseason before falling short at the end of the wild-card game at eventual AFC champion Cincinnati.
IMPORTANT ADDITIONS: McDaniels, Ziegler, WR Davante Adams, edge Chandler Jones, CB Rock Ya-Sin, DT Bilal Nichols, CB Anthony Averett, LB Jayon Brown, LB Kyler Fackrell, RB Brandon Bolden, DT Andrew Billings, WR Demarcus Robinson, WR Mack Hollins, S Duron Harmon, FB Jakob Johnson, DT Kyle Peko, DT Vernon Butler, LB Micah Kiser, CB Darius Phillips.
IMPORTANT LOSSES: DE Yannick Ngakoue, CB Casey Hayward, DT Quinton Jefferson, CB Brandon Facyson, DL Darius Philon, DL Solomon Thomas, WR Zay Jones, DE Carl Nassib, LB Cory Littleton, LB Nick Kwiatkoski, LB K.J. Wright, RB Jalen Richard, FB Alec Ingold, QB Marcus Mariota.
CAMP NEEDS: The biggest task for McDaniels in camp will be figuring out the offensive line where there are questions at every spot besides LT Kolton Miller. Andre James was adequate in his first season at center in 2021, but third-round pick Dylan Parham could get a look there or at guard. Last year's top pick Alex Leatherwood struggled in four games as a rookie at RT and was only a little better after moving to guard and needs to find a spot for this season. Denzelle Good is back from injury and could earn a starting spot with Brandon Parker, John Simpson and Jermaine Eluemunor also in the mix.
FILE - Las Vegas Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels speaks during a news conference at the NFL football team's practice facility Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Henderson, Nev. The Raiders hope that a new staff and upgraded roster will let them build off last season's playoff berth. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
KEY CAMP COMPETITIONS: There should be a competition to determine the starters at cornerback this summer for the Raiders. Ya-Sin was acquired in a trade from Indianapolis and should have the inside track at one outside spot. Fourth-year CB Trayvon Mullen missed most of last season with injuries and had surgery again in the offseason, putting his status in question. Averett could push for that spot, along with 2020 fourth-round pick Amik Robertson, who struggled to gain the trust of the previous staff. Second-year player Nate Hobbs will start in the slot.
EXPECTATIONS: After adding Adams and Jones to a team that made the playoffs in 2021, the expectations are high in Las Vegas in McDaniels' first season. But the problem for the Raiders is their division is brutal and they overachieved last season by winning 10 games despite getting outscored by 65 points. But if the additions of Adams and McDaniels can make the offense elite and the defense does a better job creating turnovers, the Raiders could be in the mix.
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FILE - Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams speaks at a news conference Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Sandra Douglass Morgan, left, poses beside Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby during a news conference announcing Morgan as the new president of the Raiders NFL football team Thursday, July 7, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Woodforest National Bank® (Woodforest) headquartered in Montgomery County, Texas, with 760+ branches nationwide recently opened its newest branch in Decatur, TX located in Wise County, part of Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington.
The new Woodforest branch located inside Walmart® at 800 S Hwy 287, Decatur, TX 76234, will be the 209th branch for Woodforest in its home state, and its first location in Decatur. The new in-store branch offers full-service banking with lobby and ATM services for shoppers and area consumers.
"Woodforest National Bank continues to be committed to our home state of Texas. We have proudly served Texas families, provided jobs for our neighbors, and helped our thriving communities remain Texas strong for over 40 years. We look forward to providing exceptional service for our new customers in Decatur," said Julie Mayrant, President and Chief Retail Officer, Woodforest National Bank.
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Despite inflation, consumer spending remained strong in June, rising 1% for the month after spending on food and goods dropped in May, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
When spending at gas stations is excluded, overall spending jumped .7% nationwide last month.
In May, car and parts sales dropped 3.5% There was also a .9% drop in furniture spending and a 1.3% decrease in electronic spending. Those sectors recovered in June. Car and parts sales increased .8%, furniture spending was up 1.4% and electronic spending jumped .4%.
In the last year, overall consumer spending has been up 8.1%, driven by high gas prices. When excluding spending at gas stations, overall spending has increased by 5.3%.
After seeing an initial drop at the onset of the pandemic, consumer spending dramatically increased, especially in early 2021. Consumer spending cooled last summer but rose again in late 2021 and early 2022.
One possible impact on future consumer spending is how inflation is outpacing wage growth. According to federal data, hourly wages are up just 5.1% in the last year, compared to a 9.1% increase in inflation over the previous year. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/consumer-spending-goes-up-in-june | 2022-07-15T15:34:07Z | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/consumer-spending-goes-up-in-june | true |
Fans’ return and new broadcast deals driving high levels of summer spending
Transfer spending in the Premier League this summer is three times higher than at the same stage last year, according to a leading industry analyst.
Early high-profile deals in the current window have seen Manchester City sign Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland and Leeds midfielder Kalvin Phillips, with Raheem Sterling moving on to Chelsea, while Liverpool have brought in forward Darwin Nunez.
Zal Udwadia, assistant director in Deloitte’s Sports Business Group, expects more to follow as new broadcast deals and the lessening financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic boost teams’ financial confidence.
“Current spending levels in the 2022 summer window are about three times ahead of what we were last summer,” Udwadia told the PA news agency.
“If you look back at the last six summers, you’ve had in excess of £1billion spent every summer, so going into this summer you’d really expect spending levels to return to pre-pandemic levels given some of the market dynamics we are seeing.
“Looking back at the last two years, clubs have lost about £1.5billion in revenue as a result of the pandemic and similar levels of pre-tax losses.
“What you’ve really seen this summer is you’ve got the return of fans in full force and new broadcast deals coming into play, you’ve really got clubs with high amounts of confidence and certainty going into this window.
“You’ve got a new broadcast cycle that’s starting, where the international portion of the rights have exceeded domestic rights for the first time, and that really again highlights the global appeal of the Premier League.
“It’s probably too early to say whether it’ll be a record level, but it definitely looks on track to exceed last summer’s spending, which was £1.1bn on the back of two years of the Covid pandemic.”
Tottenham have also conducted their transfer business notably earlier than in past summers, including the £60million arrival of forward Richarlison from Everton, but the spending has not been limited to the teams chasing glory at the top of the table.
Promoted Nottingham Forest have made seven signings, including reported fees of around £17million spent on Union Berlin striker Taiwo Awoniyi and Liverpool full-back Neco Williams, while Brentford have broken their transfer record twice to sign Aaron Hickey from Bologna and Keane Lewis-Potter from Hull.
Udwadia said: “You’ve had 14 Premier League clubs, five weeks in, that have all spent in excess of £20million.
“The ‘big six’ clubs have contributed about 45 per cent of the spending levels so far, spending to solidify or break into those four Champions League spots, you’ve got another group spending to try and break into European football and reap the rewards that brings.
“And you’ve got a whole tier of clubs who are spending just to stay in the Premier League, because the cost of relegation is so high.
“That’s a stark contrast to what you’re seeing across the rest of Europe. If you look at Germany and Spain, for example, close to half of the spending at the moment is really driven by the big two clubs (Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund in Germany).
“Premier League spending is across the board and really, high spending in the summer has almost become part of the culture of English football.”
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Bill to ban `vile and cruel´ shark fin trade has Government´s `full support´
A Bill to ban the import and export of shark fins has the “full support” of the Government.
Opening the second reading debate of her Shark Fins Bill, Labour’s Christina Rees told the Commons “sharks desperately need our help and protection”.
She argued a ban on import and export of detached shark fins is “crucial to the long-term conservation of sharks”.
The introduction of her Private Member’s Bill follows a campaign to ban the trade of fins in the UK, which included a parliamentary e-petition which received more then 100,000 signatures.
The MP for Neath said the creatures play a “vital role” in marine ecosystems, and while there are “many threats” facing sharks, “the greatest” is overfishing.
Environment minister Steve Double told MPs the Bill has the full support of the Government, and that ministers will do all they can to “assist its swift passage through both Houses”.
The introduction of a Private Member´s Bill follows a campaign to ban the trade of fins in the UK (Cefas/PA)
He stressed the Government is only able to “take this step through this Bill” because “we have left the European Union”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised in 2019 to use Brexit to champion animal welfare – including a ban on shark fin exports and imports.
Last August, the Government announced a “world-leading ban”, tied in with ending trade in foie gras and controls on fur coats, but the proposal was subsequently dropped after a backlash from ministers who reportedly argued it would be “unconservative”.
The Bill received an unopposed second reading, meaning it will undergo further scrutiny at a later date, but stands a good chance of becoming law.
Ms Rees said: “Shark finning has rightly been banned in the UK since 2003. Although it is also illegal in many other parts of the world, shark finning still happens.
“What we must do now is ensure that shark fins are not being imported from places where finning practices still occur.”
She said her Bill would “make it illegal to import and export detached shark fins” which she said would “help end practices that are forcing sharks closer to the brink of extinction”.
Her proposals contain an exemption provision with a “strict application process” only if the fins “will be used for conservation purposes”.
Speaking in support of the Bill, Conservative MP for Hartlepool Jill Mortimer said: “Banning detached shark fins from being brought into the UK will help protect wild populations of shark species. And that is why I am supporting this Bill today.
“Shark finning is also a uniquely cruel practice, whereby a shark’s fin is sliced off while the shark is still alive and the rest of its body discarded.
“The UK does not support this cruel trade, and it is rightly banned in our waters. But by supporting this Bill, the Government will send out a clear message to those countries that do.”
Shadow environment minister Ruth Jones told the Commons she wants to see the Bill signed into law “as soon as possible”, but noted: “We are here today, but in so many ways we shouldn’t be.
“A ban was announced by ministers almost a year ago, but we are relying on a Private Member’s Bill to deliver a policy set out in the Conservative Party manifesto.
“And it appears that the caretaker Government has adopted a policy of Government by Private Member’s Bill.”
Ms Jones added: “We have now left the European Union. And whilst that does now limit our ability to directly influence a continent-wide ban, a UK ban on imports and exports of shark fins would set an example for our European partners to follow.”
Mr Double said: “Let us be clear, shark finning is a vile and cruel act. Shark fins are recklessly removed from living sharks at sea, and their finless bodies are wastefully returned to the water.
“Without their fins, sharks are unable to swim through the water which means they cannot pass oxygen through their gills, so they are left to slowly drown.
“Shark finning is a practice that has been banned in the UK for almost 20 years. And we also had a ‘fins naturally attached’ policy, which means that sharks must be landed with all of their fins on their bodies.
“But we can now go even further and ban the trade in detached fins in shark fin products.
“This underlines our determination that shark finning must stop wherever it takes place. This Bill has the full support of the Government, and we will do all we can to assist its swift passage through both House and onto the statute books.” | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11017971/Bill-ban-vile-cruel-shark-fin-trade-Government-s-support.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-15T15:36:17Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11017971/Bill-ban-vile-cruel-shark-fin-trade-Government-s-support.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
WASHINGTON — The American people's confidence in the presidency has plummeted 15 points on President Joe Biden's watch – falling to 23%, according to a new Gallup poll, its lowest point on record. One of the many reasons for this collapse is the worst inflation in four decades. And Biden learned this week that inflation is probably not going to ease anytime soon – because Americans have barely touched the trillions in excess savings they have built up, thanks in large part to his catastrophic American Rescue Plan.
One of the main reasons inflation is skyrocketing is because Biden's first act as president was to pass nearly $1.9 trillion in social spending disguised as pandemic relief – sending millions of Americans stimulus checks, providing the largest child tax credit payments ever, and extending ludicrously generous unemployment supplements that paid many Americans more to stay home than to work.
The additional spending was completely unnecessary. Congress had just passed a $900 billion economic stimulus package in December 2020, on top of all the earlier covid-19 relief measures Congress had approved. And thanks to the arrival of vaccines, when Biden took office, the pandemic was already fading, and the economy was recovering as people were getting back out and leading more normal lives.
But Biden wanted to show he was doing something – so he passed the American Rescue Plan, pouring an additional $1.9 trillion into the economy so he could claim credit for the post-covid recovery. He did it despite warnings from even liberal economists, such as former treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers, who cautioned the president that his plan would "set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation."
This was, according to Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, "arguably the biggest fiscal policy mistake in several decades." With all that free money from Washington, personal savings rates soared. According to Moody's Analytics, by the end of 2021, U.S. households had built up $2.7 trillion in excess savings above what they would have had there been no pandemic.
Flush with government money, millions of Americans decided they could afford to stay on the sidelines and not to return to work – producing a historic labor shortage. Demand for goods and services soared as people emerged from pandemic lockdowns and started spending again, but supply could not keep up – in large part because businesses could not find workers. The result is inflation the likes of which we have not seen since the 1970s.
Today, the labor shortage persists, virtually unabated. There are nearly 11.3 million unfilled jobs in the United States today, a number almost unchanged from the record 11.85 million in March. Surveys show 60% of small businesses can't find workers to fill open jobs. And the labor shortage is not likely to dissipate until those excess savings run out.
Many hoped that when stimulus checks stopped arriving at the end of 2021, Americans would burn though their savings and start returning to work. But that is not happening. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. families have tapped just $114 billion of the $2.7 trillion in excess pandemic savings so far. That means they have $2.586 trillion left – more than the amount in Biden's American Rescue Plan. That fiscal cushion is keeping many workers out of the workforce.
What can be done? The first rule of holes is: When you are in one, stop digging. So, when you are in a hole of spiraling inflation, the obvious first step is: stop spending. Instead, Biden tried to follow his American Rescue Plan with a multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better social spending plan. Democrats are furious with Sens. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., for killing Build Back Better, but the fact is, they may have saved Biden from even further disaster by doing so. As former Obama administration Treasury official Steven Rattner has pointed out, if they had allowed Biden's plan to go through it "would make these [inflation] numbers look small."
Has Biden learned from his mistakes? Apparently not. Just months before a wave election that is expected to sweep Democrats out of power on Capitol Hill, The Post reports Democratic leaders are in "frenzied deliberations" with Manchin, trying to get him to sign off on one last Democrats-only spending bill before Republicans take over the House. Unfortunately, it appears that a deal may be close.
Inflation is a lot like a forest fire – once started, it's really hard to put out. But instead of trying to tamp down the flames, Biden keeps trying to pour gasoline on the inferno, with more spending and more free money from Washington. It seems the only thing that will stop the fiscal pyromaniacs in the Democratic Party is losing control of Congress.
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Sunderland sign West Ham defender Aji Alese
Sunderland have announced the signing of defender Aji Alese from West Ham for an undisclosed fee.
Alese joins Sunderland after coming through the Hammers’ youth academy. He made his first-team in September 2020 in a 5-1 League Cup win over Hull and played three times as their under-21 side competed in last season’s Papa John’s Trophy.
The England Under-20 international enjoyed a loan spell at Accrington in the 2019-20 season, making 15 appearances in all competitions, and spent time with Cambridge in their League Two promotion season in 2020-21.
Alese, who has signed a three-year deal with an option for a fourth, told Sunderland’s official website: “It’s amazing to be here and I’m happy the deal is done.
I live five minutes away from West Ham’s training ground and I’ve been there since the age of eight, so it could have been easier to stay but life isn’t easy and I’m ready for the challenge.”
Manager Alex Neil added: “Aji is left-footed and he’s really quick. I like having balance in my team and he was really pushing to get into West Ham’s first team, so we felt it was a really good fit for us.
“More and more, I think young lads are realising that they need to get on the pitch and show what they can do. It is important that Aji comes here, shows his quality and gets into the team – that will be up to him, but he has already shown an appetite to play and the qualities that he brings are ones that I think we needed to add to the squad.”
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Which Gilmore Girls gifts are best?
If you’re shopping for a fan of Gilmore Girls who just can’t get enough of the show, you might consider buying them Gilmore Girls-themed gifts. Whatever the occasion, you have plenty of options to choose from.
Set in the idyllic small town of Stars Hollow, the show centers around Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter, Rory Gilmore. Need Gilmore Girls gift ideas? Anything that features the two main characters, the town of Stars Hollow and their favorite haunt, Luke’s Diner, will go down as a treat.
Best Gilmore Girls gifts
WindowShopGal Stars Hollow “Autumn Festival” Travel Poster
In the show, the town of Stars Hollow is always hosting festivals and events, such as the Autumn Festival. This poster is designed in the style of a travel poster, but for this fictitious town from the Gilmore Girls universe. It’s beautifully drawn, and printed on quality paper. You can choose from four sizes — from 8 by 10 inches to 24 by 36 inches.
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Popfunk Classic Gilmore Girls Luke’s Diner Adult T-Shirt
This officially-licensed t-shirt features the Luke’s Diner logo. Fans of the show will be well-acquainted with this Stars Hollow institution and happy to receive a t-shirt celebrating it. Sizes range from small to 3x-large and it’s available in eight colors, including three tie dye options. Made from 100% cotton, these shirts are soft, comfortable and breathable.
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MontgomeryAndPennyCo Chilton Sweatshirt
Chilton was the private school that Rory attended for the first three seasons of Gilmore Girls. If you’re buying for someone who likes to show off their knowledge of the show — or who’s simply a big Rory fan — this Chilton sweatshirt is an excellent gift. It’s available in a range of color choices, and in sizes from small to 3x-large.
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BilblioMagicka Stars Hollow Autumn Festival Soy Candle
Jar candles make excellent small gifts, and this candle is a perfect choice for Gilmore Girls fans. It’s based around the imagined scents of the Stars Hollow Autumn Festival, with notes of apple, cinnamon and caramel. Not only is it related to Gilmore Girls, it’s a quality candle in its own right. It’s hand poured and made from 100% soy wax and it features an incredible scent.
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Gilmore Girls Luke’s Diner Loungewear Sleep Pants
There’s no better gift than one that promotes comfort. That’s what the Gilmore Girls pajama pants do, as their cotton/polyester blend makes for a comfortable, yet long-lasting product.
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WindowShopGal In Omnia Paratus Poster
This poster is based on an iconic moment from the season five episode, “You Jump, I Jump, Jack” in which Rory takes part in a stunt put on by the fictional Yale secret society, The Life and Death Brigade, while researching them for a college newspaper article. It features three figures holding umbrella’s mid-descent, along with the society’s motto, In Omnia Paratus. It’s a great subtle nod to the show, because only people who have watched it will know that it’s a piece of Gilmore Girls art.
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SuzysQTees Doose’s Market Natural Cotton Shopping Bag
In another nod to Gilmore Girls this cotton tote bag features the logo of another Stars Hollow institution, Doose’s Market. It’s available in either natural or black colors and the bag itself is sturdy and well-made. It’s the ideal gift for a Gilmore Girls fan who always brings a tote bag wherever they go.
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Gilmore Girls Stars Hollow Logo Sweatshirt
Featuring the phrase “Stars Hollow Founded in 1779,” this sweater pays homage to the fictional small town in which Gilmore Girls is set. This piece of officially-licensed Gilmore Girls merchandise is well-made and fits nicely. You can choose between two colors — navy and heather gray — and five sizes from small to 2x-large.
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WildMoonStores Gilmore Girls Autumn Festival Mug
Coffee plays a big part in the Gilmore Girls world, with both Rory and Lorelai seemingly drinking gallons of it. It seems fitting, then, to buy a mug for the Gilmore Girls fan in your life, so they can enjoy their coffee just as Rory and Lorelai did. This enameled stainless steel mug features a design representing the Stars Hollow Autumn festival, so it’s another nice piece of merchandise that isn’t obvious to everyone, but surely to the fans of the show.
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Fluffy Crate Hep Alien Concert Shirt
Are you buying for a Gilmore Girls fan who’s always wearing t-shirts of obscure bands most people have never heard of? Well, you can’t get much more obscure than a band that doesn’t even exist in the real world. This fictional band shirt references Rory’s best friend Lane’s band Hep Alien and their 2003 tour. It’s the perfect gift for a fan of Gilmore Girls who also loves music.
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Stars Hollow: An Adult Coloring and Activity Book by Caitlin Monachino
Adult coloring books help many people relax and provide a low-pressure way to be creative, but it’s easy to get bored of the same old designs. This adult coloring book features pages to color inspired by Gilmore Girls and also includes some fun activities, such as crosswords and bingo boards.
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TheFictionPhantom Mugs of Stars Hollow
This gorgeous poster features 12 mugs, each of which has a design inspired by some of Stars Hollow’s most memorable events. Events featured include the knitathon, the 24-hour dance marathon and the festival of living art and the snowman festival. What’s more, the use of mugs references the importance of coffee in Gilmore Girls.
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Which screen-free activities for gamer kids are best?
Video games are more popular than ever, and many kids start playing them from a very young age. Every gamer can remember the first time they picked up a controller, and while video games can be amazing, it’s also critical to spend time away from screens. As parents, the responsibility for monitoring your child’s screen time will fall on your shoulders. It can be a massive challenge, but this is also an excellent opportunity to bond with your child and understand them. It’s a chance to explore interests and activities together and close the generation gap.
Healthy communication is key
If you want your child to get away from screens, it is crucial to understand why they love spending so much time in virtual worlds. Perhaps they like the constant challenge and ability to earn rewards. Maybe they enjoy how they can play the hero and the sense of purpose it offers. When you comprehend what they get from video games, you will better understand how to engage with them about screen time or what other activities they might enjoy.
- Don’t yell at them or criticize them for loving video games.
- Don’t force them to try an activity just because you love it.
- Don’t be inconsistent with how you deal with screen time
- Encourage them with positive reinforcement rather than negative reinforcement
When talking to your kid about different activities, you can also try to entice them with phrasing that might remind them of a video game. For example, a hike could be “an adventure,” or writing could be “a chance to plan and prepare for a quest.”
Best screen-free activities for gamer kids who like adventure
Best activity for gamer kids who want some freedom
RoyalBaby Kids Bike Boys Girls Freestyle Bicycle
Give your kid the freedom to explore. This bike is perfect for kids of any age, and it comes with many different color options, sizes and even an option for training wheels. It’s very easy to assemble, durable and comes with a water bottle holder. The one con is that this bike is a little bit heavy at 21 lbs. to 25lbs.
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Best activity for gamer kids who like to explore
TrailBuddy Collapsible Hiking Poles
Hiking can be a literal adventure. These trekking poles are very easy to use and come with some amazing features for the price. Choose from seven different colors. Lever locks make it simpler and quicker to adjust the size of the trekking pole. Poles run from 25.5 inches to 54 inches, and each pole weighs just 275 grams.
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Best activity for gamer kids who have a lot of energy
Bunch O Balloons – 350 Rapid-Fill Water Balloons
These water balloons are perfect for a summer day and getting the kids outside. Each purchase comes with a total of 350 water balloons. They are self-sealing, so there is no need to stress over tying knots, and you can fill up to 100 balloons with water in just 60 seconds. Used water balloons can be collected and shipped back to TerraCycle to be recycled.
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Best screen-free activities for kids who love to think and learn
Best activity for boosting visual-spatial learning
USAOPOLY Super Mario Odyssey Snapshots 1000 Piece Premium Puzzle
Take their favorite video games off-screen. USAOPOLY has many different puzzles with different themes. This is the 1,000-piece Mario Odyssey puzzle. Relive the adventure and construct a puzzle featuring Mario and Cappy’s greatest moments. A visual reference is included inside the box to help.
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Best activity for kids who like strategy games
Hasbro Gaming Star Wars Chess Game
Chess allows gamer children to use strategy in a competitive yet intelligent setting. This chess set features Star Wars characters. Choose the light or dark side and move around heroes like Luke Skywalker or Yoda or villains like Darth Vader and Boba Fett. Each piece is well-sculpted and detailed, and this is an official Hasbro product. The one downside is that the pieces are plastic.
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The fall of the prominent Murdaugh family: A timeline of deaths, alleged embezzlement and an insurance scam
By Amir Vera and Eric Levenson, CNN
For 87 years, the Murdaugh family name came to represent a legal dynasty in coastal South Carolina, where three successive generations controlled the local prosecutor’s office.
But now, the family has been closely connected to a bloody tragedy, allegations of embezzlement and a bizarre murder-for-hire plot to score millions in life insurance.
The latest blow to the family’s name came this week as Alex Murdaugh was indicted on a charge of murder for the 2021 killings of his wife and son.
So what were the twists and turns that led to this point? Here’s a timeline of everything we know about the Murdaugh family saga:
1920-2006:
Over three generations, a member of the Murdaugh family has served as the 14th Circuit Solicitor, which leads prosecutions for Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper counties in the southern part of South Carolina.
Randolph Murdaugh Sr. was elected to the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office in 1920 and served in the position until his death in 1940.
His son, Randolph Murdaugh Jr., then took over the position and served until his retirement in 1986.
Murdaugh Jr.’s son, Randolph Murdaugh III, was then elected to the role in 1987 and served through the end of 2005. Alex Murdaugh is his son.
In 2006, then-Gov. Mark Sanford appoints attorney Duffie Stone to serve as the 14th Circuit Solicitor, making him the first non-Murdaugh in the position. He has been elected to the position four times since, most recently in 2020, according to the solicitor’s website.
2018
Gloria Satterfield, a housekeeper for the Murdaugh family, dies in what is described as a “trip and fall accident” at the Murdaugh home, according to attorney Eric Bland, who is representing her estate.
Satterfield spent more than two decades as a housekeeper for the Murdaugh family. She also served as a nanny, according to Bland’s website.
After Satterfield’s death, a $500,000 wrongful death claim was filed against Alex Murdaugh on behalf of her estate, Bland said.
2019:
A boat crashes at a bridge near Parris Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, on February 24, killing 19-year-old Mallory Beach, according to the South Carolina Attorney General in documents obtained by CNN.
Six people were on board the boat at the time of the crash, including Alex Murdaugh’s 19-year-old son, Paul. Murdaugh owns the boat.
Stone, the solicitor, recuses himself from the case because of personal connections.
Paul Murdaugh is indicted in April on charges of boating under the influence (BUI) causing great bodily harm and causing death in connection to the crash, court records show. He pleads not guilty.
Summer 2021
June 7: Alex Murdaugh, 53, calls 911 and reports he found his wife Margaret (known as Maggie), 52, and son Paul, then 22, shot dead outside of their home in Islandton, a small community about an hour north of Hilton Head Island, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
June 10: Randolph Murdaugh III dies peacefully at his home at age 81, according to his obituary.
June 15: The state law enforcement division releases basic information about the June 7 killings, saying Alex Murdaugh called 911 at 10:07 p.m. and investigators collected evidence that night and the next morning.
June 17: Alex Murdaugh’s brothers, John Marvin Murdaugh and Randolph “Randy” Murdaugh IV, speak to “Good Morning America” about the killings. They say Alex called them “distraught” with the news that his wife and son had been shot. They say they do not believe their brother is involved.
June 22: The state law enforcement division reopens an investigation into the unsolved death of 19-year-old Stephen Smith, whose body was found on the road in 2015 in Hampton County. The agency says the probe is being reopened based on information gathered while investigating the deaths of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.
June 25: Alex Murdaugh and his other son, Buster, announce a $100,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible for the killings of Maggie and Paul.
July 22: The state law enforcement division releases redacted audio of Alex Murdaugh’s 911 call the night of the killings. In the audio, a distraught Murdaugh advises dispatchers his wife and son had been shot, are on the ground and are not breathing.
August 11: Stone, the solicitor, writes a letter to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson saying he intends to recuse himself from the Murdaugh death investigations, CNN affiliate WCSC-TV reports.
September 2021
September 3: Alex Murdaugh resigns from the law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick (PMPED), according to the firm.
September 4: Murdaugh calls 911 and reports he was shot early Saturday afternoon on a road in Hampton County, according to a statement from state law enforcement spokesperson Tommy Crosby. He was taken to a hospital in Savannah, Georgia, where he was treated for a “superficial gunshot wound to the head,” the statement said.
September 6: Murdaugh releases a statement through his attorney, Dick Harpootlian, to WCSC saying he is resigning from the law firm and entering rehab. Murdaugh’s other attorney, Jim Griffin, later specifies that his client has an opioid addiction.
September 7: The law firm says Murdaugh resigned “after the discovery by PMPED that Alex misappropriated funds in violation of PMPED standards and policies.”
“This is disappointing news for all of us. Rest assured that our firm will deal with this in a straightforward manner. There’s no place in our firm for such behavior,” the law firm says in a statement. PMPED says it plans to retain a forensic accounting firm “to conduct a thorough investigation” and has contacted law enforcement and the South Carolina Bar.
September 8: The South Carolina Supreme Court issues an order suspending Alex Murdaugh’s license to practice law in the state.
According to the court, his license “is suspended until further order of this Court.” The 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office also confirmed to CNN that Murdaugh was stripped of his privilege of prosecuting cases as a volunteer.
September 10: A family spokesperson issues a statement about Alex Murdaugh’s shooting that indicates the injury was more serious than a superficial wound.
“After the shooting, Alex had an entry and exit wound, his skull was fractured and it was not a self-inflicted bullet wound,” according to the statement.
The spokesperson also added more details about what led up to the incident.
“Alex pulled over after seeing a low tire indicator light. A male driver in a blue pickup asked him if he had car troubles, as soon as Alex replied, he was shot,” the statement said.
September 13: The state law enforcement division releases a statement announcing it has opened an investigation into Alex Murdaugh “based upon allegations that he misappropriated funds in connection to his position as a former lawyer with the Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth, & Detrick (PMPED) law firm in Hampton, South Carolina.”
September 14: Court documents reveal Alex Murdaugh arranged for a former client to kill him so that his surviving son could collect a life insurance payout of about $10 million.
Curtis Edward Smith, 61, who allegedly shot Murdaugh, was charged with assisted suicide, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, pointing and presenting a firearm, insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, according to the state law enforcement division.
September 15: The state law enforcement division announces it is opening a criminal investigation into the February 2018 death of Gloria Satterfield, a housekeeper for the Murdaugh family, and the handling of her estate.
September 16: Alex Murdaugh is arrested in connection to an insurance fraud scheme that court documents say involved Murdaugh arranging for his own killing so his surviving son could collect the life insurance payout. He was charged with insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and filing a false police report, according to a law enforcement statement.
September 22: A survivor of the 2019 boat crash involving Alex Murdaugh’s son Paul files a lawsuit against the former attorney, claiming Murdaugh attempted to orchestrate a campaign to falsely blame Connor Cook for the boating crash that left one person dead.
Cook — who filed the lawsuit — also alleges that Alex Murdaugh should have been aware that his underage son, Paul, had alcohol issues and should not have been allowed to use his boat. The lawsuit claims that Alex Murdaugh was negligent in his actions and that he intentionally inflicted emotional distress on Cook.
September 26: The law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick, where Alex Murdaugh was once a partner, issues a statement claiming he “lied and stole from us.”
“We were shocked and dismayed to learn that Alex violated our principles and code of ethics. He lied and he stole from us,” PMPED said in a statement on their website. They said no member of the firm was aware of “Alex’s scheme” or his drug addiction, acknowledged by his attorney in an interview previously with NBC’s “Today.”
The firm also said it still has “lots of questions about Alex and what has recently come to light” and vowed to continue assisting law enforcement.
September 28: The children of Gloria Satterfield, the housekeeper of the Murdaugh family who died in 2018, file a motion for Alex Murdaugh’s arrest and detention until the money he allegedly embezzled from her estate is returned.
After Satterfield died, a $500,000 wrongful death claim was filed against Murdaugh on behalf of her estate, Bland told CNN. The estate has not received any of the money owed as the result of a 2018 civil settlement, according to attorney Eric Bland, who is representing her estate.
October 2021
October 6: The law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick announces it is suing Alex Murdaugh to recover funds it alleges he stole from clients for his own personal use, according to a statement from the firm.
The firm’s complaint read, in part: “PMPED has determined that Alex Murdaugh was able to covertly steal these funds by disguising disbursements from settlements as payments to an annuity company, trust account or structured settlement for clients or as structured attorney’s fees that he had earned when in fact they were deposited into the fictitious account at Bank of America.”
The complaint also claims Murdaugh “used firm assets in an unauthorized manner and without the consent or knowledge of his other shareholders to further his scheme to defraud.”
October 14: After being released from a drug rehabilitation center, Alex Murdaugh is arrested in Orlando, Florida, on suspicion of misappropriating settlement funds in connection with the 2018 death of his family’s longtime housekeeper, authorities said.
He was charged with two felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said.
October 15: Alex Murdaugh waives an extradition hearing in Florida, according to the Orange County Corrections Office, and returns to South Carolina a day later to face charges related to the misappropriation of settlement funds.
The waiver of extradition, provided by Orange County Corrections, said Murdaugh agreed to “waive the issuance and service (warrant) and all other procedures incidental to extradition proceedings,” and agreed to remain in custody without bail.
October 16: A pair of affidavits are released that allege Alex Murdaugh coordinated with the family of Gloria Satterfield, his former housekeeper, to sue himself for insurance money that he then pocketed for himself.
October 19: A South Carolina judge denies Alex Murdaugh’s bond and orders him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
“There is no way this court can set a bond at this time,” Judge Clifton Newman said. “I am therefore denying bond at this time and will require Mr. Murdaugh to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to be submitted to the court for further consideration at a later date.”
October 22: State police in South Carolina release an audio recording of the 911 calls made after Alex Murdaugh was shot on a roadway in September in what authorities allege was a failed insurance fraud scheme.
The recordings include two calls made by Murdaugh himself and a third made by passersby, who told the 911 dispatcher they did not stop because the scene “looks like a setup.”
October 26: Attorneys for the estate of Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh’s housekeeper, say they’ve reached a settlement with his former law firm Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick.
“The Satterfields and the law firm have reconciled their differences,” attorney Eric Bland, who represents the Satterfield estate, told CNN at the time.
November 2021
November 10: South Carolina Judge Clifton Newman once again denies Alex Murdaugh’s bond on charges stemming from alleged misappropriation of settlement funds in connection with the death of his family’s longtime housekeeper.
“After considering the arguments of counsel, the (psychiatric) evaluation submitted, pending charges and other investigations, and the apparent character and mental condition of the defendant, the Court finds that the Defendant is a danger both to himself and the community,” Newman’s order reads.
November 12: Alex Murdaugh cites privilege against self-incrimination in declining to respond to allegations by his former law firm that he converted firm and client money to his own personal use, according to court filings.
November 19: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s Office announces a state grand jury has issued five indictments with a total of 27 charges against Alex Murdaugh.
The indictments include four counts of breach of trust with fraudulent intent; seven counts of obtaining signature or property by false pretenses; seven counts of money laundering; eight counts of computer crimes; and one count of forgery.
“Altogether, Murdaugh is charged with respect to alleged schemes to defraud victims and thereafter launder $4,853,488.09,” said the Attorney General’s office in a news release.
December 2021
December 10: Seven indictments with 21 criminal charges are filed against Alex Murdaugh, according to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
The additional indictments bring the total number of charges faced by Murdaugh to 48 after a state grand jury investigation. All the charges stem from an alleged wide-ranging scheme that sought to defraud victims of more than $6 million.
December 13: The bond for Alex Murdaugh is set at $7 million in a virtual bond hearing with Judge Alison Lee.
December 14: Alex Murdaugh agrees to a $4.3 million settlement with the family of Gloria Satterfield, his former housekeeper, according to family attorney Eric Bland.
2022
January 21: Alex Murdaugh is charged with 23 more crimes in four new indictments returned by a grand jury, the state attorney general said.
The fresh indictments allege Murdaugh stole more than $2.2 million meant for four clients. The new charges include 19 counts of breach of trust with fraudulent intent and four counts of computer crimes.
Murdaugh now faces a total of 71 charges stemming from accusations he defrauded victims of nearly $8.5 million in various schemes.
June 3: South Carolina law enforcement officials announce they sought and received permission from the family of Gloria Satterfield, Murdaugh’s housekeeper, to exhume her remains.
The exhumation stems from a Hampton County coroner’s request that led to the state law enforcement division opening a criminal investigation into Satterfield’s death.
“The decedent’s death was not reported to the Coroner at the time, nor was an autopsy performed. On the death certificate the manner of death was ruled ‘Natural,’ which is inconsistent with injuries sustained in a trip and fall accident,” the coroner’s request to the law enforcement division said.
June 28: Alex Murdaugh and former acquaintance Curtis Edward Smith are indicted on two counts of criminal conspiracy by a South Carolina state grand jury, according to an announcement from South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
Smith allegedly shot Murdaugh in an attempted insurance scam in June 2021, according to SLED.
The indictment provides details of Murdaugh giving Smith “hundreds of checks with the common understanding that SMITH would convert the checks into cash.” The indictment states that over a number of years, the proceeds went to Murdaugh’s “benefit with the intent of carrying on and concealing myriad unlawful activities.”
The charges against the two men involved “approximately 437 checks totaling approximately $2.4 million that went from Murdaugh to Smith from October 7, 2013 through February 28, 2021,” said a news release from Wilson’s office.
Smith was also indicted on four counts of money laundering over $100,000, forgery and “three other drug offenses, including allegedly trafficking over ten grams of methamphetamine,” the release said.
July 12: The South Carolina Supreme Court disbars Alex Murdaugh, according to an order released by the court.
July 14: Alex Murdaugh is indicted on two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in connection with the 2021 killing of his wife and son by a Colleton County grand jury, according to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel.
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Canada’s national football teams call for investigation into Canada Soccer governance
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN
Canada’s women’s and men’s national soccer teams have called on Sport Canada, a branch of the country’s federal government, to investigate the sport’s national governing body following serious allegations about the way decisions are made within the organization.
In a statement shared by Olympic gold medalist Christine Sinclair on Twitter on Wednesday, players said they were “deeply troubled” by recent reporting about the “internal workings of Canada Soccer” by reporter Rick Westhead of Canada’s The Sports Network (TSN).
The report, which cited four unnamed sources, revealed that Canada Soccer was unable to adequately compensate players due to a contract it signed with a private company called Canada Soccer Business (CSB), which keeps a large share of the revenue generated by the national teams.
No deal was reached, and the two sides also remain at odds over bonus money to the men’s team from the forthcoming men’s World Cup in Qatar, TSN reported on Tuesday.
But Canada Soccer told CNN that the ongoing negotiations with its national teams “have no bearing on the CSB agreement voted on and passed by our Board.”
“The CSB agreement has no clause pertaining to player competition prize money whatsoever. The two matters are separate,” Paulo Senra, spokesman for Canada Soccer, told CNN in an email.
Canada Soccer did not comment to CNN on allegations criticizing their governance practices.
Neither the Canadian Premier League, which launched Canadian Soccer Business in 2018, nor Sport Canada have responded to CNN’s request for comment. On Wednesday, Canada’s men’s and women’s teams issued a joint statement asking Sport Canada to investigate Canada Soccer’s governance practices, and the circumstances surrounding the agreement made with CSB.
Sport Canada provides funding for the country’s national sports organizations, including Canada Soccer.
The statement added that the investigation must look into the motivations of those involved in the agreement with CSB and examine why the agreement remained in place when Board members allegedly expressed concern.
Both national teams asked to be “properly consulted” when it came to key decisions taken by the governing body which impacted them.
Senra told CNN that a board meeting had taken place on March 27, 2018, and members discussed and approved the CSB agreement, having reviewed the agreement prior to the meeting.
Canada Soccer addressed its partnership with CSB in a statement released on Tuesday, saying it was “proud of this landmark partnership” which, it said, would “help to develop and grow the game of soccer across the country.”
The federation also said that after previously engaging its men’s and women’s national teams independently on contract negotiations, it had prioritized “fairness and pay equity” in its ongoing negotiations with players.
Negotiations with the men’s national team were ongoing, the federation said, and an updated offer had been made on June 23. “The same offer is in front of our Women’s National Team,” the statement read.
But the players said the statement “tries unsuccessfully to put a positive spin on what the article reveals,” and “fails to confirm that Canada Soccer will immediately open its books and records and address its lack of transparency on a go-forward basis.”
It added: “Since Canada Soccer does not acknowledge any problems with its governance or leadership, it also does not commit to addressing any of the problems identified in the article.”
Canada’s men are set to participate at this year’s World Cup, which takes place in Qatar from November to December, having qualified for football’s biggest tournament for the first time in 36 years.
FIFA, world football’s governing body, has allocated $440 million in prize money. Teams eliminated at the group stages will be awarded $9 million each, while every country competing will receive $1.5m before the start of the tournament to cover preparation costs. The further teams progress, the more prize money they will receive, with the winners netting $42 million.
In June, the men’s national team went on strike ahead of a friendly with Panama due to the dispute over player compensation.
In an open letter posted by TSN’s Westhead on Twitter, the men’s team said they wanted 40 percent of World Cup prize money, a friends and family travel package for the tournament and an “equitable structure with our women’s national team that shares the same player match fees, percentage of prize money earned at our respective FIFA World Cups and the development of a women’s domestic league.”
In its statement on Wednesday, Canada Soccer said such demands were “untenable” and not “financially viable” because of the federation’s commitment to paying the women’s national team the same percentage as the men for each major tournament. The statement added that Canada Soccer was committed to finding a resolution.
In an email to CNN on Thursday, Canada Soccer’s spokesman Senra said that the federation’s newly appointed General Secretary had offered to meet the women’s team and its representatives in Mexico, following the conclusion of the Concacaf W Championships, which serves as a qualifying tournament for the 2023 Women’s World Cup and 2024 Paris Olympics.
“We continue to be committed to open and transparent conversations with both our Teams with the aim of finding a resolution based on the values of fairness and equal pay,” he added.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) — An amusement park complex in Orlando, Florida, is facing heavy criticism on social media after announcing a new target blasting game that can be played on one of its rides.
ICON Park announced Thursday it would be adding a game called Bullseye Blast to the Wheel ride, the park’s 400-foot-tall Ferris wheel. The game is described as a competition for riders to use laser blasters to hit targets placed around Orlando that can be seen from the ride.
“As their air-conditioned capsule ascends above Orlando, players scan the rooftops of ICON Park to find 50 strategically pre-selected targets with varying degrees of difficulty,” park officials said in a news release. “To get the highest score possible, players need to hit as many of these as possible with their laser blaster during the 18-minute ride.”
According to the release posted on ICON Park’s website, each player will be given a blaster that has a scope and an infrared beam to “assist them when aiming at the targets.”
The Bullseye Blast game costs $5.95 to play, in addition to the price of a ticket to ride the wheel. In its announcement, ICON Park said the ride is “the only observation wheel in the world to provide this amazing, new infrared technology, and effectively gamify and reinvigorate the experience to an entirely new audience of gamers.”
The Bullseye Blast announcement was not posted to ICON Park’s official social media pages but was picked up by Laughing Place, a blog dedicated to theme park news. When the article was posted to Twitter, users were quick to take issue with the park’s new game, with some calling the new game “insensitive” and referring to it as a “mass shooting simulator.”
“Everything about this is terrible. The concept, the execution, and the timing,” one person wrote. “Who approved this?!”
“This is definitely NOT it,” one user said. Another tweeted, “This seems INCREDIBLY tone deaf.”
Some users, however, argued that the backlash seemed “a bit over the top.”
“I struggle to see how a laser shooter game is insensitive. Should we ban laser tag, airsoft, and paint ball because those resemble guns too?” one user wrote.
Some users asked “how much more bad press” the park needs, referring to a teenage boy’s death at the complex earlier this year.
Tyre Sampson, a 14-year-old boy from Missouri, fell to his death from ICON Park’s 430-foot “Orlando Free-Fall” ride in March. An autopsy later found he fell more than 70 feet, which caused internal injuries and injuries to his head, neck and torso.
The free-fall ride has been closed since the death, and Sampson’s family has called for it to be permanently shut down. Sampson’s parents have also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the ride owner, manufacturer and landlord, alleging product liability and negligence. The owners of ICON Park and its affiliated companies filed a motion earlier this month to dismiss the lawsuit. | https://cw33.com/news/florida-amusement-parks-new-target-shooting-game-draws-criticism/ | 2022-07-15T15:49:55Z | https://cw33.com/news/florida-amusement-parks-new-target-shooting-game-draws-criticism/ | false |
By VESELIN TOSHKOV
Associated Press
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president launched talks on Friday with all political parties represented in parliament to see if there was still a chance to form a government and avoid another early election.
President Rumen Radev is trying to prevent Bulgaria from sliding into new political turmoil after the two main parties stumbled over mustering enough support to form a government coalition.
Radev said that the political crisis is intensifying and that a functioning parliament is needed to cope with it.
“We need not just a deal for a new government, but an effective governance with a strategic horizon that will undertake and implement the necessary reforms,” Radev said.
The move comes a day after the center right GERB party refused to form a government and returned the mandate raising the prospects for a fourth general election in less than two years.
Last week, the reformist We Continue the Change party failed in its efforts to try to end the European Union and NATO member’s latest political crisis amid soaring tensions with Russia.
The two leading contenders are running neck and neck, according to the latest opinion polls, which will likely result in another hung parliament and no clear way out of the crisis.
The ouster of the pro-West prime minister, Kiril Petkov, who took office last December pledging zero tolerance for corruption, helped pave the way toward a new election. It was widely expected to bring a stronger presence of nationalist and pro-Russia groups in parliament.
Opinion polls suggest that a group of anti-EU nationalists would double their seats in parliament, where they could be joined by a new party of a former defense minister, who was fired by Petkov over using Kremlin’s rhetoric addressing the war in Ukraine.
The government’s collapse could delay Bulgaria’s plans to join the eurozone in 2024, as well as the timely receipt of billions of euros in EU recovery funds.
According to the constitution, the president has to offer a third and final mandate to a parliamentary party of his choice within a week. If the third attempt also fails, the president will have to dissolve parliament, appoint a caretaker Cabinet and schedule an early general election.
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There would have not have happened Washington in a land ounce like in a state it is just, but a time it may been too different now\nThe United States Of Arabs By Michael Tyson\nWe have more wealth but what has we got is better off if people did, but, why so poor so fast the answer a problem is but no where, to blessed, but still I say our lives is more worse for our government and how our government had treated South Padre Island, Texas, holds a special place in Fiana Garza Tulip's heart.
It's where she has a chance to relax and remember her mother, who died of COVID-19 complications two years ago.
Garza Tulip has been an outspoken supporter of the COVID-19 vaccine. She spoke about getting vaccinated while she was pregnant.
“I’m excited to smile when he comes, I’m excited to feel real joy that he’s here and he’s breathing," Tulip said last year when she was eight-months pregnant.
She gave birth to her now seven-month-old son, Albie. He's the younger brother to her daughter, Lua, who is almost three years old.
Both of her children are now able to get the COVID vaccine. In June, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the vaccine for children as young as six months old.
Getting her kids vaccinated was important to Garza Tulip. In addition to losing her mother to the virus, she also lost her uncle.
For as much of a supporter of the vaccine as she has been, she too admits that she has felt the fatigue from a fog of misinformation and pandemic politics.
“Do I trust the government at this point because mask, no mask?" she said. "You’re just constantly being fed stories and, like, falsehoods and truths and where it stands."
As a parent, she said the decision about vaccinating her kids feels different.
Only around 30% percent of children between the ages of 5 and 11 have received the vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
“If you had an opportunity, a bad opportunity to see someone really sick in this age group with COVID or pass away, we’ve had a few die in our hospital from COVID and now that it’s becoming now somewhat preventable, that's a tragedy," says Dr. Reggie Washington, the chief medical officer at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver.
He says parents can trust the vaccine.
“It’s safe and it works. The side effects are very minimal and the protection is safe enough to keep those children, of those age groups, out of the hospital in most cases," Washington said.
Garza Tulip and her husband say, after speaking with their pediatrician and reading reputable medical research, both of their children will get the vaccine when they return home to New Jersey. First, they held a memorial for Garza Tulip's mother at South Padre Island, a place she loved.
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When a federal judge in Florida struck down the federal transportation mask mandate in April, airlines and airports dropped their mask-wearing policies faster than you can say “omicron variant.” But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention never dropped its recommendation that travelers wear masks during air travel.
“At this time, for people aged 2 years or older—including passengers and workers—CDC recommends properly wearing a well-fitting mask or respirator over the nose and mouth in indoor areas of public transportation (such as airplanes, trains, buses, ferries) and transportation hubs (such as airports, stations, and seaports),” says the agency website.
It is “especially important” to wear a mask in crowded transportation hubs and in enclosed spaces, such as airport jetways, and “when the Covid-19 Community Level in the area you are located in is high,” according to the CDC.
That designation of high Covid transmission is currently present in more than a third of the counties across the country.
At this time, 1,143 counties — 35% of the country — are now experiencing high levels of transmission. In another 40% of counties, the Covid-19 Community Level is medium, leaving just 25% of counties with low levels of spread.
Health experts warn that the U.S. is entering another wave of Covid infections. Just this month, the highly transmissible BA.5 omicron subvariant became the dominant coronavirus strain in the country. Meanwhile, a recent study spelled out the dangers of repeated infections, finding that two or more Covid-19 reinfections double the risk for death, blood clots, and lung damage.
All of Florida and much of California, Alabama, South Carolina are currently experiencing high or medium levels of Covid transmission. As of now, the Northeast, including New England, is experiencing the lowest levels of spread in the country, followed by the upper Midwest.
Within two weeks of the demise of the federal mask mandate, Covid-19 infections jumped 50% among Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees, from 359 workers with active infections reported on April 18, the day the mandate ended, to 542 employees testing positive for Covid on May 2.
How many infections is the agency seeing these days? “We are no longer publicly providing this data,” a TSA spokesperson said via email. “[Transportation Security Officer] infection rates mirror the rates around the country.”
Whether health authorities in areas of high transmission choose to re-implement indoor mask mandates often depends on the politics of who is in charge. On Thursday, Los Angeles County reached a high level of COVID-19 infections, which could mean an impending return to a mask mandate, reports the Los Angeles Times. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/07/15/cdc-still-recommends-masks/ | 2022-07-15T15:55:07Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/07/15/cdc-still-recommends-masks/ | true |
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Quarantining after exposure to COVID-19 is no longer recommended for unvaccinated, asymptomatic children in child care, K-12 schools and camp settings, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced this week.
The guidance announced Thursday evening by the Republican governor's office also said masking is no longer routinely recommended in those settings, except in limited circumstances. The latest guidance says people who test positive still should isolate at home, regardless of vaccination status, and those who have symptoms should begin isolation and undergo testing.
Youngkin said the guidance, which is a departure from federal recommendations, is aimed at easing the strain on work and family life many parents of young children have experienced as care and school settings have closed for quarantine periods in response to small numbers of cases.
“As Virginians continue to return to the office and social settings, the pandemic is disrupting workplaces and family life when entire child care facilities, camps and classrooms shutter in response to as few as two cases. Today marks a shift in my administration’s recommendations to optional quarantine for exposure to COVID-19 in child care and school settings as the severity of the disease decreases," he said in a statement.
The Virginia Department of Health had previously relaxed its guidance on isolation and quarantine in mid-June. The guidance at that time said people exposed to COVID-19 would not be recommended to quarantine if they had tested positive for and recovered from the virus within the past six months, were up-to-date on vaccines, or both. That guidance also varied slightly from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations.
The CDC encourages unvaccinated people who are exposed to quarantine for at least five days. It says no quarantine is needed if a person is up-to-date on vaccines or has recovered within the past 90 days.
The CDC also recommends universal indoor masking in communities where it says COVID-19 spread is high.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say they will seek to dismiss convictions of 3 men in the 1995 arson killing of NYC subway token booth clerk.
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(THE CONVERSATION) Political conflict over the Supreme Court’s direction is raging in the aftermath of two sweeping rulings in the court’s most recent term, one which expanded individual gun rights and the other which removed constitutional protection for abortion. Those rulings were the product of a conservative majority made more muscular and bold in the last few years by the addition of three justices appointed by former President Donald Trump.
The rulings were hailed by conservatives and criticized by progressives and liberals. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas issued a statement saying: “The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case, reversing Roe v. Wade, is nothing short of a massive victory for life.” President Joe Biden spoke of the “outrageous behavior of the Supreme Court,” while on his left, Rakim H.D. Brooks, the head of Alliance for Justice, a coalition of more than 130 progressive groups, said, “This disturbing milestone speaks to how hyper-partisan and lawless the Trump Court has become.”
The conflict over the court and its politics may be making headlines now. But history shows that political contests over the ideological slant of the court are nothing new.
In the 1860s, President Abraham Lincoln worked with fellow Republicans to shape the Court to carry out his party’s anti-slavery and pro-Union agenda. It was an age in which the court was unabashedly a “partisan creature,” in historian Rachel Shelden’s words.
Justice John Catron had advised Democrat James K. Polk’s 1844 presidential campaign, and Justice John McLean was a serial presidential contender in a black robe. And in the 1860s, Republican leaders would change the number of justices and the political balance of the Court to ensure their party’s dominance of its direction.
Overhauling the court
When Lincoln became president in 1861, seven Southern states had already seceded from the Union, yet half of the Supreme Court justices were Southerners, including Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland. One other Southern member had died in 1860, without replacement. All were Democratic appointees.
The court was “the last stronghold of Southern power,” according to one Northern editor. Five sitting justices were among the court’s 7-2 majority in the racist 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling, in which Taney wrote that Black people were “so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.”
Some Republicans declared it “the duty of the Republican Party to reorganize the Federal Court and reverse that decision, which … disgraces the judicial department of the Federal Government.”
After Lincoln called in April 1861 for 75,000 volunteers to put down the Southern rebellion, four more states seceded. So did Justice John Archibald Campbell of Georgia, who resigned on April 30.
Chief Justice Taney helped the Confederacy when he tried to restrain the president’s power. In May 1861, he issued a writ of habeas corpus in Ex Parte Merryman declaring that the president couldn’t arbitrarily detain citizens suspected of aiding the Confederacy. Lincoln ignored the ruling.
Remaking the court
To counter the court’s southern bloc, Republican leaders used judicial appointments to protect the president’s power to fight the Civil War. The Lincoln administration was also looking ahead to Reconstruction and a governing Republican majority.
Nine months into his term, Lincoln declared that “the country generally has outgrown our present judicial system,” which since 1837 had comprised nine federal court jurisdictions, or “circuits.” Supreme Court justices rode the circuit, presiding over those federal courts.
Republicans passed the Judiciary Act of 1862, overhauling the federal court system by collapsing federal circuits in the South from five to three while expanding circuits in the North from four to six. The old ninth circuit, for example, included just Arkansas and Mississippi. The new ninth included Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota instead. Arkansas became part of the sixth, and Mississippi, the fifth.
In 1862, after Campbell’s resignation and McLean’s death, Lincoln filled three open Supreme Court seats with loyal Republicans Noah H. Swayne of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa and David Davis of Illinois. The high court now included three Republicans and three Southerners.
The 1863 Prize cases tested whether Republicans had managed to secure a friendly court. At issue was whether the Union could seize American ships sailing into blockaded Confederate ports. In a 5-4 ruling, the high court – including all three Lincoln appointees – said yes.
Congressional Republicans spied a way to expand the court while solving what amounted to a geopolitical judicial problem. In 1863, Congress created a new 10th circuit by adding Oregon, which had become a state in 1859, to California’s circuit. The Tenth Circuit Act also added a 10th Supreme Court justice. Lincoln elevated pro-Union Democrat Stephen Field to that seat.
And after Chief Justice Taney died in 1864, Lincoln selected his political rival, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, an architect of national monetary policy, to replace him. With Chase, Lincoln succeeded in creating a pro-administration high court.
Unpacking the court
After Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, his successor, President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, soon began undoing Lincoln’s achievements. He was a Unionist Democrat given the vice presidency as an olive branch to the South. He rewarded that gesture in part by pardoning rank and file Confederates. Johnson also opposed civil rights for newly freed African Americans.
He also threatened to appoint like-minded judges. But the Republican-dominated Congress blocked Johnson from elevating unreconstructed Rebels to the high court. The Judicial Circuits Act of 1866 shrank the number of federal circuits to seven and held that no Supreme Court vacancies would be filled until just seven justices remained.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph’s Democratic editor sighed that at least Republicans “cannot pack the Supreme Court at this moment.”
Courting paper money
Republicans refused to consider nominating Johnson in 1868, picking Gen. Ulysses S. Grant instead. He won, and after President Grant’s inauguration, Congress passed the Circuit Judges Act of 1869, raising back to nine the number of Supreme Court justices.
Shortly after, Republicans faced a financial problem of their own making.
Beginning in 1862, Congress had passed three Legal Tender Acts – initially to help finance the war, authorizing debt payments using paper money not backed by gold or silver. Then-Treasury Secretary and current Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase had crafted the legislation.
But in an 1870 case, Hepburn v. Griswold, Chase reversed himself in a 4-3 decision, ruling the Legal Tender Acts unconstitutional. That threatened national monetary policy and Republicans’ cozy relationship with industries reliant on government sponsorship.
President Grant, preparing for Chase’s ruling, was already working on a political solution. On the day of the Hepburn decision, he appointed two pro-paper-money Supreme Court nominees, William Strong of Pennsylvania and Joseph P. Bradley of New York. Comparing the Republican administration to “a brokerage office,” a Democratic newspaper howled that “the attempt to pack the supreme court to secure a desired judicial decision … [has] brought shame and humiliation to an entire people.”
It also brought a Republican majority to the high court for the first time.
Chief Justice Chase opposed revisiting the paper money issue. But the Supreme Court about-faced, ruling 5-4 in the 1871 cases Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis that the government could indeed print paper money to pay debts. Chase died in 1873, and his successor Morrison Waite championed the Republican pro-business agenda.
Careful what you wish for
The Republican transformation of the federal judiciary in the 1860s and 1870s served the party well in the Civil War and constructed a legal framework for a modernizing industrial economy.
But in the end, Lincoln and Grant’s high court appointments ended up being disastrous for civil rights. Justices Bradley, Miller, Strong and Waite tended to constrain civil rights protections like the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection of laws. Subsequent rulings gutted Black civil rights.
In remaking the court in Republicans’ image, the party got what it wanted – but not what was needed to fulfill the promise of “a new birth of freedom.”
This article is an update to a story that originally was published on Oct. 12, 2020.
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PHOTOS: Webb telescope captures exciting new images of Jupiter
(CNN) - New images of Jupiter are now available, thanks to some new technology from NASA.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team unveiled the mission’s first science-quality images featuring Jupiter’s rings, moons and more Tuesday.
On Thursday, the team released even more photos of the planet, highlighting the $10 billion telescope’s ability to study targets much closer to home.
The photos, captured during Webb’s commissioning period, feature a handful of amazingly detailed shots of the deep and distant universe.
Webb launched on December 25, 2021. It was designed to peer deep into the universe’s past, studying the first stars and galaxies to ever form.
Astronomers now plan to use it to investigate a variety of cosmic objects and phenomena.
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- The $25M Series A will help Phaidra accelerate its mission of increasing Fortune 100 profitability while reducing emissions with artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning.
- Company announced the appointment of industry veteran Robert Locke as its new president and chief strategy officer.
SEATTLE, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phaidra, a pioneer of using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve efficiency, stability, and sustainability in the industrial sector, has closed $25M in Series A funding, the company announced today. The funding will allow Phaidra to accelerate deployment of its technology in mission-critical industries, from data centers and refineries to pharmaceutical plants and steel mills.
To head its growth and business development efforts, Phaidra also announced the addition of industry veteran Robert Locke as president and chief strategy officer. Robert previously was senior vice president of corporate development for automation giant Johnson Controls, where he worked closely with many of JCI's largest customers, led the creation of new businesses and JCI's corporate venture capital team, and sourced strategic acquisitions.
"At DeepMind, my co-founders and I saw first-hand how deep reinforcement learning was creating breakthroughs in multiple real-world applications. We started Phaidra to bring the benefits of this technology beyond the tech companies to the industrial sector," said Jim Gao, CEO of Phaidra. "Robert's company-building expertise and the Series A raise will go a long way towards achieving our mission of radical resource efficiency."
Phaidra's AI platform enables the industrial sector to radically improve resource efficiency via self-learning control systems. From data centers to pharmaceutical manufacturing to district cooling, Fortune 100 companies are using Phaidra to control complex industrial systems like large chiller plants to reduce their energy consumption by 15-30 percent while improving thermal stability by up to 70 percent. Despite these facilities being already highly-optimized, Phaidra's technology has unlocked further double-digit performance improvements as its AI identifies opportunities that humans cannot see.
While traditional industrial controls systems today are static (meaning they utilize hard-coded control logic that results in repetitive behavior and break easily), Phaidra's technology is dynamic and gets smarter over time. The AI optimizes plant performance in real-time by continuously learning and adapting to changing plant conditions. This increases profitability, efficiency, and process stability for Phaidra's industrial customers — while reducing emissions.
Phaidra's founders have years of experience working on transforming the industrial sector. Gao, along with CTO Vedavyas Panneershelvam, previously led Google DeepMind's energy and climate efforts, reducing Google's data center cooling energy usage by 40 percent with an AI-based control system. COO Katherine Hoffman is a veteran of the defense and controls industries, where she specialized in new technology commercialization and controls system design.
The core of Phaidra's technology is deep reinforcement learning, a technique pioneered by DeepMind to drive several recent scientific breakthroughs, from AlphaGo (an AI-based world-class player of the game "Go") to protein folding. Panneershelvam is a renowned expert on reinforcement learning and was a core member of the AlphaGo team. "The exceptionally talented team at Phaidra is leading the industry by using cutting-edge AI to speed up our energy transition," said Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind.
The new funding round is led by Starshot Capital, a venture firm which supports high-impact high-growth companies, particularly those addressing climate change.
"Technologies that enable companies to be more profitable and efficient while simultaneously reducing their emissions are critical to addressing the climate crisis," said Jeremy Brewer, managing partner of Starshot Capital. "We are delighted to support Phaidra as they transform the industrial sector."
Starshot is joined by problem-solving organization Helena, a new major investor. Other investors include Ahren Innovation Capital, and Mustafa Suleyman. Existing investors Flying Fish, Section 32, and Character all participated in the round.
"The industrial sector consumes the majority of the world's finite resources. Phaidra's technology represents an opportunity to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time," said Sam Feinburg, Founding Partner at Helena.
Phaidra's mission is to make the industrial sector radically more resource-efficient via self-learning control systems. Every aspect of modern life depends on complex industrial processes (e.g. factories, power plants, data centers) that convert large quantities of raw materials into finished goods. Phaidra's product is a closed-loop AI control system that automatically learns from sensor data and gets better over time at managing these complex industrial facilities. This next generation of truly intelligent control systems will enable large-scale reductions in resource intensity without sacrificing yield or product quality. Phaidra's founding team comes from DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned AI research hub, and the defense and HVAC industry — representing a unique intersection of AI and industrials that defines the company. To find out more, visit https://phaidra.ai.
Starshot Capital supports ambitious entrepreneurs building high-impact high-growth companies. We believe society's greatest challenges, such as climate change, represent outsized opportunities for impact and economic returns. Our mission is to accelerate the work of founders building transformational businesses at the earliest stages by connecting them to key partners, customers, and employees. For more about Starshot Capital, visit https://starshotcapital.com.
Helena is a global problem-solving organization. Through Helena Projects, Helena seeks to implement solutions to critical societal problems. Since its founding in 2015, Helena Projects have included: America In One Room, Factory in the Sky, Shield, The Covid Project, and Energy Vault. To learn more about Helena, visit https://helena.org.
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Texas hospitals delaying care over abortion law, letter says
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Some hospitals in Texas have reportedly refused to treat patients with major pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state’s abortion ban, the Texas Medical Association said in a letter this week.
The association did not name the hospitals but said it’s received complaints that hospitals, administrators and their attorneys may be prohibiting doctors from providing medically appropriate care in some situations, The Dallas Morning News reported.
Texas law bans most abortions after about six weeks of a pregnancy. A total ban — that includes exemptions if a woman’s life or health is danger — will take effect in the coming weeks following last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
The letter, sent Wednesday to the Texas Medical Board, cited several examples in which medical care was delayed.
In one case, a central Texas hospital reportedly told a physician not to treat an ectopic pregnancy until it ruptured, the letter said. An ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when a fertilized egg attached outside of the uterus, is not viable.
“Delayed or prevented care in this scenario creates a substantial risk for the patient’s future reproductive ability and poses serious risk to the patient’s immediate physical wellbeing,” the letter said.
The Texas Medical Board confirmed it received the letter but a spokesperson said the board cannot confirm or deny any specific complaints.
The Biden administration issued guidance this week that said hospitals must provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk.
Texas sued Thursday over that guidance, arguing that the federal government isn’t authorized to require emergency healthcare providers to perform abortions.
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WASHINGTON, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The NASA International Space Apps Challenge – the world's largest annual hackathon – returns this year with the theme "Make Space," which emphasizes NASA's commitment to inclusivity. This year's challenge will focus on Earth and space science, technology, and exploration. Participant registration for in-person and virtual events is now open through Oct. 2.
Space Apps provides a platform where everyone across the globe with a passion for creativity and innovation can use their unique perspectives to tackle challenges created by NASA experts. The challenges range in skill level, expertise, subject matter, and objective, and span a spectrum of disciplines and interests that range from artificial intelligence and software development to art and storytelling.
"Each year, Space Apps allows thousands to engage with NASA and its partners' open data during the hackathon," said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for the agency's Science Mission Directorate. "It has been rewarding to see the innovative projects created by Space Apps Challenge participants and observe their potential to generate meaningful contributions toward solving some of the most difficult challenges studied by NASA on Earth and in space."
Space Apps provides a positive and safe environment that fosters collaboration and a growth mindset. Whether participants are exploring a challenge, learning to be creative, defining team roles, learning a technical skill, or learning to cope with hiccups that arise during challenge weekend, the innovative and flexible structure of this event allows participants to walk away enriched, motivated, and excited about learning.
"Talent is everywhere, but scarcity of opportunity leaves so much talent unused and potential untapped," said Karen St. Germain, director of NASA's Earth Science Division. "There are so many positive stories resulting from this challenge that underscore the value of 'making space' for everyone."
Since its inception in 2012, Space Apps has created and steadily grown a global community held together by the common interest of solving problems and creating impact. The success stories directly resulting from these challenges range from the creation of new products and business ventures, innovative upgrades to existing products, and has helped connect people socially and professionally, giving them access to expertise and insight they otherwise would not have. By connecting teams to challenges and experts from space agencies across the world, participants have access to new opportunities and knowledge that can impact them for a lifetime.
This year NASA is excited to announce the addition of the Indian Space Research Organization and Mexican Space Agency to the roster of space agency partners supporting Space Apps. Valued partners returning from last year include Australian Space Agency, Brazilian Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency, ESA (European Space Agency), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, National Space Activities Commission of Argentina, National Space Science Agency of Bahrain, Paraguayan Space Agency, and the South African National Space Agency. Space agency partnership encourages more extensive global collaboration and provides a broader platform for participants to contribute to the fields of Earth and space science and technology through Space Apps.
Space Apps is managed by NASA's Earth Science Division in the agency's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. It is organized in collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, Mindgrub, SecondMuse, and the NASA Open Innovation Applied Sciences Program. Learn more about Space Apps and how to get involved on their website.
For more information about Space Apps and to register for an in-person or online event on Oct. 1-2, 2022, visit:
https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/
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Are Industrial Products Stocks Lagging Hudson Technologies (HDSN) This Year?
Investors interested in Industrial Products stocks should always be looking to find the best-performing companies in the group. Has Hudson Technologies (HDSN) been one of those stocks this year? A quick glance at the company's year-to-date performance in comparison to the rest of the Industrial Products sector should help us answer this question.
Hudson Technologies is one of 230 individual stocks in the Industrial Products sector. Collectively, these companies sit at #12 in the Zacks Sector Rank. The Zacks Sector Rank gauges the strength of our 16 individual sector groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups.
The Zacks Rank is a successful stock-picking model that emphasizes earnings estimates and estimate revisions. The system highlights a number of different stocks that could be poised to outperform the broader market over the next one to three months. Hudson Technologies is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy).
Over the past 90 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for HDSN's full-year earnings has moved 76.9% higher. This is a sign of improving analyst sentiment and a positive earnings outlook trend.
Based on the most recent data, HDSN has returned 70.3% so far this year. At the same time, Industrial Products stocks have lost an average of 26.1%. This means that Hudson Technologies is performing better than its sector in terms of year-to-date returns.
One other Industrial Products stock that has outperformed the sector so far this year is MRC Global (MRC). The stock is up 45.2% year-to-date.
For MRC Global, the consensus EPS estimate for the current year has increased 6% over the past three months. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
Looking more specifically, Hudson Technologies belongs to the Industrial Services industry, a group that includes 24 individual stocks and currently sits at #141 in the Zacks Industry Rank. This group has lost an average of 34.4% so far this year, so HDSN is performing better in this area.
MRC Global, however, belongs to the Steel - Pipe and Tube industry. Currently, this 4-stock industry is ranked #16. The industry has moved +5.9% so far this year.
Going forward, investors interested in Industrial Products stocks should continue to pay close attention to Hudson Technologies and MRC Global as they could maintain their solid performance.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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WASHINGTON, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Statement from Bob McNally, Founder and President of Rapidan Energy Group:
"I am delighted to announce that Clay Seigle has joined Rapidan Energy Group as Director of our Global Oil Service."
Clay brings 23 years' experience in the energy industry. He most recently held senior management roles at energy intelligence firms Vortexa and Genscape. Previously, he was Energy Segment Lead at Maxar and served in several roles at IHS, including Director of its Global Oil Service. Prior to IHS, Clay was Senior Oil Market Analyst at Enron and an Analyst at the US Department of Energy.
Clay has lectured on energy security and geopolitical risk at events hosted by The Atlantic Council, The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), The Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, S&P Platts, Thomson Reuters, and Argus. His published works include "Mispricing the Russia Risk Factor" (Petroleum Economist, February 2022) and "Risky Business: Proposed Energy Trading Reforms and The Law of Unintended Consequences."
Clay has been a guest on CNBC's "Fast Money" and "Worldwide Exchange," and on CNN's "Newsroom," and has been interviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Houston Chronicle, Bloomberg, and Reuters.
Rapidan Energy Group provides differentiated and actionable insights on energy markets, policy, and geopolitics. We help leading corporations and financial market participants identify opportunities and manage risks in the global energy industry and markets. For more information, please visit www.rapidanenergy.com.
For more information on our Global Oil Service, please contact us at insight@rapidanenergy.com.
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Pony Cars Power Onto Stamps Published: Jul. 15, 2022 at 10:00 AM CDT | Updated: 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON , July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Pony Cars Power Onto Stamps(PRNewswire)
What:
The U.S. Postal Service will commemorate the heyday of the pony car era with five new stamps featuring some of the most famous examples of these youth-oriented vehicles.
The first-day-of-issue event for the Pony Cars Forever stamp will be held at the Great American Stamp Show in partnership with the American Philatelic Society . The ceremony is free and open to the public. News of the stamp is being shared with the hashtag #PonyCarsStamps .
Who:
Scott Bombaugh, chief technology officer and executive vice president, U.S. Postal Service.
When:
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, at 11 a.m. PT
Where:
Great American Stamp Show
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
1400 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
RSVP:
Dedication ceremony attendees are encouraged to RSVP at: usps.com/ponycars.
Background:
In the 1960s, a new breed of vehicle began appearing on our nation's roads. Over the past six decades, fast and fun pony cars have become a uniquely American obsession. Since their emergence, these performance coupes and convertibles have brought a youthful spirit to the automotive world.
In the mid-to-late 20th century, American automakers began catering to a segment of their customer base that was rapidly growing — younger drivers. These drivers craved sporty, affordable cars that looked and felt different from what was in their parents' garages. Several manufacturers initially produced models that fit that description, but the pony car trend did not begin in earnest until 1964.
By the time of the 1970s energy crisis, sales of the once ubiquitous pony cars had begun to decline. But by the end of the decade, the cars had a resurgence. Pony cars were cultural icons; throughout the 1970s, they appeared in many television shows and movies.
Since then, the popularity of pony cars has ebbed and flowed. But over the past two decades, automakers have reintroduced many of the beloved models first launched in the genre's heyday. Today, adventurous young — and young-at-heart — drivers enjoy the thrill of driving pony cars.
Customers may purchase stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps , by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic or at Post Office locations nationwide.
The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
Please Note: For U.S. Postal Service media resources, including broadcast-quality video and audio and photo stills, visit the USPS Newsroom . Follow us on Twitter , Instagram , Pinterest and LinkedIn . Subscribe to the USPS YouTube channel , like us on Facebook and enjoy our Postal Posts blog . For more information about the Postal Service, visit usps.com and facts.usps.com .
Contact: James McKean 202-268-2380jim.mckean@usps.gov usps.com/news
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Nick Cannon sparks engagement rumors
Posted/updated on: July 15, 2022 at 9:13 amIs Nick Cannon preparing to tie the knot again? It seems that way based on his most recent social media post.
On Thursday night, the Wild 'n Out host took to Instagram to share a photo of himself with a unidentified woman whose arms were lovingly draped around his neck.
"I said I would never do it again but…Finally doing what the world wants me to do," Cannon captioned the post, adding the ring emoji. The post also included a close-up of what looked like a stunning diamond ring in a box.
While the post hinted that the Drumline star popped the question, users in the comments were skeptical.
"This must be a musical video," one wrote, while another questioned, "What movie is this for?"
"I thought you wanted Mariah back lol," a third commented, seemingly making reference to an interview published just two days ago where Cannon told The Hot Tee Talk Show that if the opportunity presented itself, he'd for sure take another stab at a relationship with ex-wife Mariah Carey.
"It was literally like a fairytale with Mariah. I'd rather it just be that way -- I appreciate that fantasy because if I tried to go back and it wasn't the same ..." he said before emphasizing, "But if it could be the way that it was, I'm there!"
Cannon and Carey married in the Bahamas in 2008, welcomed twins in 2011 and were together for eight years. They divorced in 2016.
In addition to his twins with Carey, Cannon shares Golden and Powerful with Brittany Bell; another set of twins, Zion and Zillion, with Abby De La Rosa; son Zen -- who died at five months -- with Alyssa Scott; and he's expecting a baby boy with Bre Tiesi this year.
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Officials searching for grandmother after 2-year-old found locked in abandoned car for 2 days
HEALY, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) – Authorities in Alaska rescued a 2-year-old child who was abandoned in a locked vehicle for at least two days, according to state troopers.
At about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Alaska State Troopers got a call for an abandoned car on a trail with a toddler locked inside.
Troopers located the car and rescued the child, who was taken to the Office of Children’s Services. Officials said the child appeared to be in good health.
Based on evidence at the scene, troopers said they believe the child and the car were abandoned on Tuesday, two days before.
Troopers are now searching for the child’s grandmother, 69-year-old Mary Dawn Wilson, in the area around where the car was located. Wilson is the last person known to be with the child.
Anyone with information is asked to call Alaska State Troopers at 907-451-5100.
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Uber’s safety issues loom as more passengers sue company
Published: Jul. 15, 2022 at 10:50 AM CDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
(CNN) - Another five passengers have sued Uber over alleged sexual assault incidents at the hands of drivers on its platforms.
It’s a reminder of the safety issues ride-hailing platforms are struggling with – especially for female riders.
Uber and its competitor Lyft have recently faced a flood of lawsuits.
The alleged incidents in this latest suit happened between August 2021 and February 2022 in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California.
The allegations include rape, attempted rape and forced oral sex.
Uber said in a statement it does not comment on pending litigation but takes “every single report seriously” and has built new safety features.
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Inspired by a sustainable, supersonic future, this high-tech capsule is fit to fly, even at 60,000 feet
DENVER, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boom Supersonic, the aerospace company building the world's fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability, has announced a collaboration with Ministry of Supply, the MIT-founded apparel company that uses science to create comfortable, innovative and sustainable workleisure clothing. The exclusive capsule collection is inspired by a supersonic future where travel time is halved, sustainability is the standard, and comfort is always in style.
"Flying supersonic is not just a means of transportation—speed resonates with those who value productivity, treasure moments of joy, and believe in the power of science," said Gihan Amarasiriwardena, President and Co-Founder of Ministry of Supply. "We're thrilled to be able to bring this capsule to the world and inspire trips to those far-off destinations unlocked through supersonic flight."
"At Boom, our mission is to make the world dramatically more accessible," said Bob Stohrer, Chief Marketing Officer for Boom Supersonic. "Our collection with Ministry of Supply is styled to a future where we can explore the world with much greater efficiency and ease."
The Boom x Ministry of Supply Supersonic Capsule is an exclusive six-piece branded 'system' designed for those on the move. Each piece is designed to offer the ideal blend of engineering, performance, and comfort, and includes:
- The world's fastest blazer. Like the world's fastest and most sustainable supersonic airline, Overture, the Kinetic Blazer is engineered for efficient travel, with warp-knit, wrinkle resistant stretch fabric. Kinetic has broken two Guinness World Records for the fastest half-marathon in a suit, and is crafted by a team that specializes in carbon fiber used for aircraft fuselages.
- Coffee-powered socks. Atlas Crew Socks pair body-mapped cushioning with odor-absorbing, coffee-infused yarn, to maximize freshness from takeoff to touch-down.
- 3D Print-Knit eye mask. Moisture-wicking fabric helps to mitigate dry eyes, designed and knit in 3D to create a form-fitting, light-blocking seal around the eyes for more peaceful overnight trips.
- Travel blanket. Made from 100% recycled material, this blanket is perfectly sized for travel, and moisture-wicking for next-level humidity control, creating a more comfortable microclimate in flight.
- Weekend tote. An all-purpose tote large enough to carry the essentials, designed with tough, nylon-webbed shoulder straps for enhanced durability.
- Travel cup. A vacuum-insulated stainless steel mug keeps your favorite travel beverage at just the right temperature throughout your journey.
The limited-edition supersonic travel capsule collection is available now at Ministry of Supply, while quantities remain. To explore the collaboration, please visit: https://www.ministryofsupply.com/all/boom-x-ministry-of-supply-supersonic-capsule
Boom Supersonic is redefining commercial air travel by bringing sustainable, supersonic flight to the skies. Boom's historic commercial airliner, Overture, is designed and committed to industry-leading standards of speed, safety, and sustainability. Overture will be net-zero carbon, capable of flying on 100% sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) at twice the speed of today's fastest passenger jets. Overture's order book, including purchases and options, stands at 70 aircraft, and Boom is working with the United States Air Force for government applications of Overture. Named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2021, the XB-1 demonstrator aircraft rolled out in 2020, and its carbon neutral flight test program is underway. The company is backed by world-class investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Prime Movers Lab, Emerson Collective and Amex Ventures. For more information, visit https://boomsupersonic.com.
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Ministry of Supply is an MIT-founded clothing company that leverages advanced manufacturing techniques, innovative materials, and human-centered design to make clothing scientifically better and more adaptable for the modern hybrid lifestyle. For more information, visit www.ministryofsupply.com.
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Photos and video available at https://boomsupersonic.com/press.
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Clouds are increasing ahead of rain chances that arrive today! We are in great need of more rainfall across central Indiana as a large portion of the state is still under drought conditions. A complex of rain and storms has been traveling across Illinois Friday morning. This system will bring widely scattered to central Indiana by the late afternoon and evening. However, a few isolated showers will be possible earlier in the afternoon.
Temperatures Friday afternoon will be back in the mid 80s and the humidity will be on the rise. Overall, plan for a stickier afternoon with more cloud cover around.
It’s going to turn quite hot again for the first half of the weekend. A few showers will be possible early Saturday morning, but afternoon sunshine and southerly winds will drive temperatures to the upper 80s and lower 90s across the area. However, an approaching cold front Sunday will bring more cloud cover and more rainfall to close the weekend. Not everyone gets wet, but those that do get under thunderstorm activity will have the potential to see some heavy showers. Rainfall amounts 0.50″ to 1.50″ will be possible. | https://cbs4indy.com/weather/rain-chances-heading-into-the-weekend/ | 2022-07-15T16:13:22Z | https://cbs4indy.com/weather/rain-chances-heading-into-the-weekend/ | false |
PITTSBURGH, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a safer way to sit in or move about a ladder-style tree stand," said an inventor, from Shelbyville, Ind., "so I invented the J R SAFETY RAIL. My design could increase safety and security for hunters."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective safety accessory for ladder-style tree stands. In doing so, it offers added support. As a result, it could help to reduce falls and related injuries and it provides added peace of mind. The invention features a practical design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for hunters/sportsmen. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-SGM-108, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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MEXICO CITY, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stori, a rapidly growing fintech company offering credit card products to Mexico's underserved population, today announced its latest round of financing of $150 million, which values the company at $1.2 billion. As a result of this latest round of financing, Stori now joins a select group of Mexico-based companies to achieve "unicorn" status.
Stori's latest Series C-2 financing comes just nine months after raising one of Latin America's largest Series C rounds and includes a $50 million equity investment from BAI Capital, GIC, and GGV Capital, along with participation from other existing and new investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Vision Plus Capital, Goodwater Capital, Tresalia Capital and Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP. Additionally, Davidson Kempner arranged a $100 million debt facility for the Company.
"Stori's ability to raise this round during a time of economic uncertainty demonstrates the confidence of investors in Stori and its mission," commented Annabelle Long, Founding Partner, BAI Capital. "Stori stands out from its competitors with its strong team, disciplined execution, and unparalleled capacity to serve the underbanked populations."
Founded in 2018, Stori offers credit card products to underserved populations. With more than 1.4 million customers in Mexico, Stori offers every customer the chance to obtain a credit card and build their credit history with no complicated paperwork, no credit history, and no annual fee. The entire user experience - from applying for the card to paying bills - is carried out through the Stori mobile app.
"The Stori team is a rare combination of industry background, hustle and change-the-world attitude. The market demand for inclusive financial products tuned for local markets is clear, and the results are not surprising. We continue to be excited about partnering with the Stori team as they grow across Latin America" commented Hans Tung, Managing Partner, GGV Capital.
Proceeds from this latest round of financing will be used to invest in the growth of the team and extend product offerings beyond the credit card. The company also plans on expanding its geographic reach across Latin America targeting 100 million underserved consumers.
"This new round of investment is a significant milestone and takes us one step closer towards our vision of changing the lives of millions who are currently underserved by traditional financial institutions," said Bin Chen, Stori CEO and Co-Founder. "By addressing key pain points of our customers with a simple and mobile-first experience, we hope to play a major role in democratizing credit access, making our customers' lives easier, and supporting economic growth across Latin America."
Stori joins the ranks of the very few Mexican startups who reached unicorn status, bringing it one step closer to its ambitious goal of serving 100 million underserved customers in Latin America. Marlene Garayzar, Chief Governance Officer and Co-Founder, becomes the first Mexican woman to have founded a unicorn technology startup in the country.
"We are proud to bring financial inclusion to more than 1.4 million customers in Mexico. This important milestone could not have been possible without our incredible teams in Mexico, the US, and Asia, and to all our customers who embraced our brand and product," said Garayzar. "We firmly believe that everyone deserves the opportunities credit and other financial tools can unlock."
From, Stori...
A billion thanks!
Stori is building the top consumer fintech in Latin America. With a mission to expand access to credit cards for underserved populations, Stori leverages a mobile-first model and global best practices in product design and underwriting to serve its customers' needs. With Stori, customers have access to not just a universally accepted digital payment card, but also fair credit. For more information, visit here.
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(WFRV) – Many veterans will tell you that camaraderie in the military is like no other, and for this week’s Hometown Hero, Nancy Felda, it’s that friendship that has made the military a constant throughout her entire life.
“He served in World War II, and as aboard ship. He was a joker of the times.”
Just like her father, Nancy Felda has quite the outgoing personality.
But she wasn’t always that way- until she joined the Navy in1959.
“I graduated, and I think a week-and-a-half later, I was in the navy. it was scary. in fact, I left Neenah via train, and how many people go by train to reach their destination?”
After boot camp, that destination was the naval training center at Bainbridge in Maryland.
“I went to work for the chaplains’ office, and I became what’s known as a yoman at that time, a yoman is like a secretary-type job, and I was there for the duration.
Just three years in the Navy was enough to change Felda’s outlook on life.
“Before I used to be kind of on the quiet side, now I’m not so quiet. I’m a little more outspoken now but, that’s the way it is. Your buddies are pretty good to you, especially in the service.”
She cherished those buddies so much that two decades after finishing her time with the Navy, Felda went into the Naval Reserves for eight years.
“I must’ve missed it. The people, you had a lot of friends. You learn a lot from being in the service, you really do. And no matter what branch of the service you are, they’re all your friends, and they’ll back you at any time you need to be backed.”
Felda has been a member of Appleton’s American legion post for 38 years, even serving as commander… she’s a part of vets and friends in Appleton too.
And for Felda, freedom, and friendship, have always been the two constants in her life.
“It’s a great group, it really is. And we all have our own personalities and you meet a lot of good friends. And if i had to go to war, I would’ve went. and I still would volunteer… although I’m too old.:” | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/hometown-heroes/hometown-hero-nancy-felda-talks-friendships-time-in-the-navy/ | 2022-07-15T16:19:24Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/hometown-heroes/hometown-hero-nancy-felda-talks-friendships-time-in-the-navy/ | true |
PORTALES, N.M. (KAMR/KCIT) — A Portales man was found guilty by a jury Thursday in a 2018 case involving the sexual assault of a woman, according to a news release from the Ninth Judicial District Attorney.
The Ninth Judicial District Attorney, Brian Scott Stover, announced on Thursday that Erasmo Vega, 54 was found guilty of Criminal Sexual Penetration (3rd Degree Felony).
On Dec.15, 2018, a victim reported to police that Vega had sexually assaulted her. During a search of the home, police found an eye-glass lens that the victim had broken off of Vega’s glasses, a pair in which he had been wearing during the assault. Police gathered DNA evidence from the victim and determined it to be Vega’s.
According to the release, Vega was sentenced to the maximum punishment of three years in prison, a lifetime sentence of parole, and a lifetime designation on the Sex Offender Registration.
The Honorable Donna Mowrer presided over the jury trial and the case was prosecuted by Quentin Ray, Deputy District Attorney, and Vega was Pro-Se with stand by counsel, Lance Sumrall said the DA. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/portales-man-found-guilty-in-2018-rape-case/ | 2022-07-15T16:21:21Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/portales-man-found-guilty-in-2018-rape-case/ | false |
– New Amazon Tool Unveils Prime Day Pricing, Paid Share of Voice Changes Across Thousands of Categories, Hundreds of Thousands of Brands –
BOSTON, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Momentum Commerce, a modern digital retail consultancy, today announced the release of the 2022 Amazon Prime Day Brand Scoreboard. This resource provides a unique accounting of how hundreds of thousands of different brands across more than 1,500 categories approached Amazon Prime Day 2022 – whether they cut prices, increased their advertising investment, or largely sat tight.
Visitors to the Amazon Prime Day Brand Scoreboard can select any Amazon category or subcategory they wish to examine. Then users can sort the corresponding list of brands by average product price or paid share of voice (SOV) before Prime Day, during Prime Day, or as a percentage change between the two periods.
To power the Prime Day Brand Scorecard, Momentum Commerce tapped its vast repository of Amazon data and advanced data science products, capturing more than two-week's worth of pricing and paid SOV data for every brand and product that appeared on page one across the top one million search terms on Amazon. The tool provides those figures, along with comparing those two-week averages to what was observed during Prime Day 2022.
Some unique takeaways from the dataset:
- Nautica, essence cosmetics, Beats, and Zinus were some of the most active brands during Prime Day. These brands discounted their products by more than 10%, while dramatically raising their advertising's presence on popular Amazon search terms by more than 100%
- Conversely, UPPAbaby, Chanel, and Audio-Technica were among a group of brands that largely stood pat during Prime Day. These brands conducted little to no discounting across their catalog, with their products appearing less often within sponsored ads on popular Amazon search terms
"Brands on Amazon understand the massive opportunity Prime Day presents in terms of driving sales, but the methods brands employ to take advantage vary considerably," said John T. Shea, CEO & Founder of Momentum Commerce. "The Prime Day Brand Scoreboard gives every brand – large or small – the ability to quickly gain competitive intelligence on their category from Prime Day. These insights will help those same brands refine their strategy as we approach back-to-school, future Prime Days, and the holiday season."
The 2022 Prime Day Brand Scoreboard is free to access and can be found at https://app.momentumcommerce.com/apps/prime-day-scoreboard.
Momentum Commerce is a modern consultancy offering brands flexible technology and professional services to grow sales on digital retail platforms such as Amazon, Walmart.com and Target.com. Comprised of half technologists and half consultants, Momentum Commerce's team provides unrivaled data assets with a scientific approach to retail media management, insights services, and bespoke projects brands need to meet their growth goals. With a mission to be the most respected firm in the space, Momentum Commerce brand clients include emerging and enterprise brands such as Crocs, Chaps, Lush Decor, Level Home, XMONDO and many more. For more information, please visit https://momentumcommerce.com.
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UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (PIX11) — A security guard at a Chase Bank on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was stabbed in the neck Friday morning, leaving the victim in what police described as critical condition.
The victim was on duty at the Chase branch on East 86th Street near Second Avenue when the attack occurred around 9:05 a.m., authorities said.
The guard, 59, was stabbed in his neck during a dispute with another man, though it was not immediately clear what precipitated that assault, police said.
The assailant fled on foot and was last seen heading westbound on East 86th Street, authorities said.
First responders rushed the victim to an area hospital in what police described as critical condition.
Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/security-guard-stabbed-in-neck-at-manhattan-bank/ | 2022-07-15T16:24:03Z | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/security-guard-stabbed-in-neck-at-manhattan-bank/ | false |
LiveOne Plans to Dividend a Portion of PodcastOne's Common Equity to LiveOne's More Than 15,000 Stockholders as of a Future Record Date
PodcastOne Expects Record Quarterly Revenue in Excess of $9 Million in the Quarter Ended June 30, 2022
LiveOne Invested Alongside New Institutional Investors as Demonstration of Its Confidence in PodcastOne and Its Management's Ability to Acquire Podcast Platforms and Attract Significant Podcast Talent
PodcastOne Ranked #8 On Podtrac's List of Top U.S. Podcast Publishers in May 2022 with U.S. Unique Monthly Audience Exceeding 6.9 Million
LiveOne Reiterates Its Previously Announced Plan to Also Spinout its Pay-Per-View Business Before Year End
LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LiveOne (Nasdaq: LVO), an award-winning, creator-first, music, entertainment and technology platform focused on delivering premium experiences and content worldwide through memberships and live and virtual events, announced today its intention to spin-out its wholly owned subsidiary, PodcastOne, as a separate public company to be listed on a national exchange and its plan to dividend a portion of PodcastOne's common equity to LiveOne's more than 15,000 stockholders as of a future record date, anticipated to be completed by year-end, in each case subject to obtaining applicable approvals and consents and complying with applicable rules and regulations and public market trading and listing requirements. In connection with the anticipated spin-out, PodcastOne closed a private placement financing of convertible notes and warrants totaling approximately $8.1 million prior to offering expenses, including $3 million invested by LiveOne, whereby the terms of the financing value PodcastOne at a pre-money valuation of $60 million.
PodcastOne is the leading advertiser-supported on-demand digital podcast company, offering a 360-degree solution for both content creators and advertisers, including content development, brand integration and distribution. Acquired by LiveOne in 2020, PodcastOne has had more than 2.1 billion downloads a year since its acquisition, across the more than 350 weekly episodes it distributes. It boasts a roster of top podcast programs, including top influencer talent like Adam Carolla, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Jordan Harbinger, The LADYGANG, Kail Lowry, T-Pain, Jay Cutler and Michael Irvin.
According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau ("IAB") and PwC's 2021 U.S. Podcast Advertising Revenue Study, in 2021, U.S. podcast advertising revenues rose to $1.4 billion, surpassing the $1 billion mark for the first time, a revenue increase of 72% year over year. IAB also forecasts that the market will exceed $2 billion in 2022 and will be over $4 billion by 2024.
Commenting on the announcement, LiveOne's CEO, Robert Ellin, stated, "The goal of both our management team and board of directors is to maximize stockholder value. PodcastOne has been a tremendous addition to LiveOne since our acquisition in 2020, and we feel strongly that the market value of our stock dramatically undervalues the sum of our parts, which includes our PodcastOne subsidiary. Upon the successful completion of the spin out, we believe PodcastOne will be the only major pure play podcast company trading on a national exchange."
PodcastOne's President, Kit Gray, commented, "The podcasting business has exploded over the past five years and PodcastOne is one of the largest independent podcast companies in the world. The company is one of only two independent podcasting publishers in the top 10 of Podtrac's list of Top Publishers. We believe that by trading as a separate public company, PodcastOne will have the opportunity to access the public capital markets as well as be better positioned to both acquire podcast platforms and attract significant podcast talent."
As part of the private placement, LiveOne invested $3 million. For additional information on the financing, please review LiveOne's Current Report on Form 8-K to filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. There can be no assurance that LiveOne's efforts will result in the planned spin-out of PodcastOne or its pay-per-view business as a separate public company, the planned distribution of a portion of PodcastOne's common equity to LiveOne's stockholders or with respect to the timing of such plans.
Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC acted as the sole placement agent for the private placement to institutional and accredited investors.
The securities sold in the private placement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state or other jurisdiction's securities laws, and may not be resold absent registration under, or exemption from registration under, the Securities Act. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
PodcastOne's select anticipated financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 ("Q1 Fiscal 2023") discussed in this press release are based on management's preliminary unaudited analysis of financial results for such quarter. As of the date of this press release, LiveOne has not completed its financial statement reporting process for Q1 Fiscal 2023, and LiveOne's independent registered accounting firm has not audited the preliminary financial data discussed in this press release. During the course of LiveOne's quarter-end closing procedures and review process, LiveOne may identify items that would require it to make adjustments, which may be material, to the information presented above. As a result, the estimates above constitute forward-looking information and are subject to risks and uncertainties, including possible adjustments to preliminary financial results.
PodcastOne is a leading advertiser-supported podcast company, offering a 360-degree solution for both content creators and advertisers, including content development, brand integration and distribution. Acquired by LiveOne (NASDAQ: LVO) in 2020, the two entities have subsequently teamed to create a new video podcast (Vodcast) network under the LiveOne umbrella. Amassing more than 2.1 billion downloads per year with 350 episodes distributed per week across a stable of hundreds of top podcast programs, including influencer talent like Adam Carolla, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Steve Austin, Armando "Pitbull'' Perez, Jordan Harbinger, Heather Dubrow, The LadyGang, Dr. Drew, Jay Cutler, Brett Favre, Robert Horry and top-rated true crime shows including Bad Bad Thing, True Crime All the Time Unsolved, The Prosecutors, Court Junkie, A&E's Cold Case Files, American Nightmare and more. Its shows are distributed across its own platform as well as LiveOne's owned-and-operated channels on mobile, mobile web, desktop and SmartTV's. PodcastOne is the parent company of LaunchpadOne, an innovative self-serve platform developed to launch, host, distribute and monetize independent user-generated podcasts. PodcastOne ranked #8 on Podtrac's list of Top U.S. Podcast Publishers in May 2022. PodcastOne is the brainchild of Radio Hall of Famer, Norm Pattiz, also the founder of Network Radio-giant, Westwood One.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, LiveOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVO) (the "Company") is an award-winning, creator-first, music, entertainment and technology platform focused on delivering premium experiences and content worldwide through memberships and live and virtual events. As of May 31, 2022, the Company has accrued a paid and free membership base of over 2.3 million**, streamed over 2,900 artists, has a library of 30 million songs, 600 curated radio stations, nearly 270 podcasts/vodcasts, hundreds of pay-per-views, personalized merchandise, released music-related NFTs, and created a valuable connection between fans, brands, and bands. The Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries include Slacker Radio, React Presents, Gramophone Media, Palm Beach Records, Custom Personalization Solutions, LiveXLive, PPVOne and PodcastOne, which generates more than 2.48 billion downloads per year and 300+ episodes distributed per week across its stable of top-rated podcasts. LiveOne is available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and through OTT, STIRR, and XUMO. For more information, visit www.liveone.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter at @liveone.
All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release are "forward-looking statements," which may often, but not always, be identified by the use of such words as "may," "might," "will," "will likely result," "would," "should," "estimate," "plan," "project," "forecast," "intend," "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "seek," "continue," "target" or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including: the Company's reliance on one key customer for a substantial percentage of its revenue; the Company's ability to consummate any proposed financing, acquisition, spin-out, distribution or transaction, including the proposed spin-out of PodcastOne or its pay-per-view business, the timing of the closing of such proposed event, including the risks that a condition to closing would not be satisfied within the expected timeframe or at all, or that the closing of any proposed financing, acquisition, spin-out, distribution or transaction will not occur or whether any such event will enhance shareholder value; PodcastOne's ability to list on a national exchange; the Company's ability to continue as a going concern; the Company's ability to attract, maintain and increase the number of its users and paid members; the Company identifying, acquiring, securing and developing content; the Company's intent to repurchase shares of its common stock from time to time under its announced stock repurchase program and the timing, price, and quantity of repurchases, if any, under the program; the Company's ability to maintain compliance with certain financial and other covenants; the Company successfully implementing its growth strategy, including relating to its technology platforms and applications; management's relationships with industry stakeholders; the effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic; changes in economic conditions; competition; risks and uncertainties applicable to the businesses of the Company's subsidiaries; and other risks, uncertainties and factors including, but not limited to, those described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on June 29, 2022, and in the Company's other filings and submissions with the SEC. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof, and the Company disclaims any obligations to update these statements, except as may be required by law. The Company intends that all forward-looking statements be subject to the safe-harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
** Included in the total number of paid members for the reported periods are certain members which are the subject of a contractual dispute. LiveOne is currently not recognizing revenue related to these members.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Morning" game were:
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NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are disavowing the convictions of three men who spent decades in prison for one of the most horrifying crimes of New York’s violent 1990s — the killing of a clerk who was set on fire in a subway toll booth.
Vincent Ellerbe, James Irons and Thomas Malik confessed to and were convicted of murdering token seller Harry Kaufman in 1995. The case resounded from New York to Washington to Hollywood, after parallels were drawn between the deadly arson and a scene in the movie “Money Train.”
But Brooklyn prosecutors now plan to join defense lawyers in asking a judge Friday to dismiss all three men’s convictions.
“The findings of an exhaustive, years-long reinvestigation of this case leave us unable to stand by the convictions,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a release. He cited “serious problems with the evidence on which these convictions are based” and acknowledged “the harm done to these men by this failure of our system.”
The confessions conflicted with evidence at the scene and with each other, and witness identifications were problematic, prosecutors say. Some of the men have long said they were coerced into confessing in the case, which had a lead detective who later was repeatedly accused of forcing confessions and framing suspects.
Ellerbe, 44, was paroled in 2020, but Malik and Irons, both 45, have remained in prison. Messages seeking comment were sent to their attorneys.
Kaufman was working an overnight shift at a Brooklyn subway station on Nov. 26, 1995, when attackers first tried to rob him, then squirted gasoline into the booth and ignited it with matches while he pleaded, “Don’t light it!,” authorities said at the time. The booth exploded, and the 50-year-old Kaufman ran from it in flames. The married father died of his injuries two weeks later.
The attack bore some resemblance to a scene in “Money Train,” an action movie that had been released four days earlier. Then-Senate Majority Leader and Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole took to the Senate floor to call for a boycott of the movie.
Authorities gave mixed signals over the years about whether they believed the film had inspired the killing.
Police scoured for suspects and eventually came to question Irons, getting a confession that he was acting as a lookout. He implicated Malik and Ellerbe as the men who had torched the tollbooth.
From their arrests on, Ellerbe and Malik maintained that they had been coerced into false confessions, with Malik saying that Detective Louis Scarcella had screamed at him and slammed his head into a locker. Scarcella testified that he cursed, pounded a table and was trying to scare the then 18-year-old Malik but didn’t beat him.
Gonzalez's office said its review found that Scarcella and his partner fed important details about the crime scene to Irons — details that prosecutors later used at trial to argue that his confession was so specific that it had to be true. But it included clearly dubious claims — for instance, that he had been able to see his supposed accomplices jump into a getaway car, though it was parked a block away and around a corner, prosecutors said.
At the time, Scarcella was a star Brooklyn homicide detective in a city reeling from crime. But after questions accumulated about his tactics, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office began in 2013 to review scores of cases that he had worked.
Scarcella, who retired in 2000, has denied any wrongdoing. While more than a dozen convictions in his cases have been overturned, prosecutors have stood by scores of others. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/DA-seeks-to-drop-3-convictions-in-95-subway-17307440.php | 2022-07-15T16:27:44Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/DA-seeks-to-drop-3-convictions-in-95-subway-17307440.php | false |
(NEXSTAR) – For 15 years, a federal program has existed with the intention of providing public workers like teachers, law enforcement, and those working for non-profit organizations with student loan forgiveness. Yet the overall approval rating for applicants has been low.
Lawmakers are now hoping to change the program’s effectiveness with a new bill.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, or PSLF, was created in 2007 to help certain employees by forgiving their student loans after 120 payments over 10 years. The number of applicants actually having their loans forgiven has been low: Just 1 in 5 of the 1.3 million borrowers pursuing debt discharge through PSLF are on track to see relief by 2026, according to a September report by the Student Borrower Protection Center.
In 2021, the U.S. Department of Education announced a change that temporarily waives specific PSLF requirements to grant borrowers credit toward loan cancellation regardless of their federal loan type or if they had been enrolled in a specific payment plan, as long as they consolidated their debt into a Direct Loan before the end of the waiver.
Prior to the waiver, borrowers needed to have a specific federal loan — a Direct Loan — to qualify for PSLF. Borrowers could consolidate their debt into Direct Loans for PSLF, but any payments made on the loans before consolidation didn’t count toward the required tally.
This waiver is currently set to expire after October 31, 2022, meaning eligible borrowers have less than four months to apply. Richard Cordray, the head of Federal Student Aid, said at a conference earlier this year that while he is pushing for the PSLF waiver to be extended, President Biden may lack the executive authority to approve such a move.
Instead, some lawmakers hope to make the temporary changes brought on by the waiver permanent while enacting additional reforms to the program “to permanently address the concerns of PSLF applicants.”
In a recently introduced bill, dubbed the ‘Simplifying and Strengthening PSLF Act,’ Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) proposes cutting the amount of time it takes to get relief in half by reducing the number of payments needed to qualify for PSLF relief from 120 over 10 years to 60 over five years for borrowers working with an eligible employer.
If enacted, the bill would include any previous payments made on the borrower’s loans — regardless of the type of loan, their payment plan, or if payments were made in full or on time — toward the necessary payments for PSLF relief. These guidelines are largely already in place under the temporary waiver set to expire in fall.
Courtney’s bill would also expand PSLF access for active-duty military and Peace Corp volunteers who had their loans placed in deferment while they were serving. Currently, certain loan deferments are not eligible for PSLF relief.
Additionally, under Courtney’s bill, parents with PLUS loans — otherwise known as Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students — or couples who joint-consolidated their loans into a Federal Family Education Loan, or FFEL, would be allowed to re-consolidated their loans into a Direct Loan, which would then be eligible for PSLF.
As of Thursday, the bill has been referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration proposed sweeping changes to the federal student loan system, including a permanent change to PSLF that would allow more payments to qualify for the program, including partial, lump-sum and late payments. It also would allow particular kinds of deferments and forbearances to count toward PSLF, and it would create a formal reconsideration process for applicants who were denied access to the program.
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The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Week of 7/18/2022 :
TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS
1. Paul McCartney; $6,648,075; $250.10.
2. Def Leppard / Mötley Crüe; $4,943,028; $133.83.
3. Ed Sheeran; $3,511,709; $85.85.
4. Kenny Chesney; $3,200,754; $103.46.
5. Grupo Firme; $3,162,734; $106.99.
6. Eagles; $2,766,749; $231.75.
7. Elton John; $2,652,102; $138.76.
8. Justin Bieber; $2,437,021; $108.03.
9. Eric Church; $1,931,447; $109.86.
10. Morgan Wallen; $1,661,349; $153.95.
11. John Mayer; $1,612,402; $129.47.
12. Iron Maiden; $1,595,285; $70.18.
13. KISS; $1,518,670; $79.06.
14. Lady Gaga; $1,437,278; $280.01.
15. Journey; $1,160,092; $102.17.
16. Hans Zimmer; $965,077; $98.40.
17. Ricardo Arjona; $945,544; $123.80.
18. Machine Gun Kelly; $864,909; $86.77.
19. Maxwell; $817,289; $108.18.
20. Little Mix; $768,851; $73.07.
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Business Combination Expected to Close July 19, 2022
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp. (Nasdaq: BRPM, BRPMW, BRPMU) ("BRPM" or the "Company"), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of B. Riley Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: RILY) ("B. Riley Financial"), today announced that its stockholders have approved the Company's proposed business combination (the "Business Combination") with FaZe Clan Inc. ("FaZe Clan"), the lifestyle and media platform rooted in gaming and youth culture.
The business combination is expected to close on July 19, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of all closing conditions. Upon the closing of the business combination, the Company will be renamed FaZe Holdings Inc. and its shares of common stock and warrants are expected to begin trading on July 20, 2022 on Nasdaq under the new ticker symbols "FAZE" and "FAZEW", respectively.
The formal results of the vote will be included in a Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed by BRPM with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
FaZe Clan is a digital-native lifestyle and media platform rooted in gaming and youth culture, reimagining traditional entertainment for the next generation. Founded in 2010 by a group of kids on the internet, FaZe Clan was created for and by Gen Z and Millennials, and today operates across multiple verticals with transformative content, tier-one brand partnerships, a collective of notable talent, and fashion and consumer products. Reaching over 500 million followers across social platforms globally, FaZe Clan delivers a wide variety of entertainment spanning video blogs, lifestyle and branded content, gaming highlights and live streams of highly competitive gaming tournaments. FaZe Clan's roster of more than 85 influential personalities consists of engaging content creators, esports professionals, world-class gamers and a mix of talent who go beyond the world of gaming, including NFL star Kyler "FaZe K1" Murray, Lebron "FaZe Bronny" James Jr., Lil Yachty aka "FaZe Boat" and Snoop Dogg aka "FaZe Snoop." Its gaming division includes 11 competitive esports teams who have won over 30 world championships. For more information, visit www.fazeclan.com, investor.fazeclan.com and follow FaZe Clan on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch.
BRPM is a special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. BRPM began trading on the NASDAQ on February 19, 2021 following its initial public offering. Its shares of Class A common stock, units and warrants trade under the ticker symbols BRPM, BRPMU and BRPMW, respectively. BRPM is sponsored by an affiliate of B. Riley Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: RILY).
The information in this communication includes "forward-looking statements" pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of present or historical fact included in this communication, regarding the proposed Business Combination, the ability of the parties to consummate the proposed Business Combination, the benefits and timing of the proposed Business Combination, as well as the combined company's strategy, future operations and financial performance, estimated financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projections of market opportunity and market share, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "budget," "could," "forecast," "future," "might," "outlook," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "seem," "seek," "strive," "would," "should," "may," "believe," "intend," "expects," "will," "projected," "continue," "increase," and/or similar expressions that concern BRPM's or FaZe Clan's strategy, plans or intentions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Such statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are based on the management of BRPM's and FaZe Clan's belief or interpretation of information currently available.
These forward-looking statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified herein, and on the current expectations of BRPM's and FaZe Clan's management and are not predictions of actual performance. Because forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions, whether or not identified in this communication, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Many factors could cause actual results and condition (financial or otherwise) to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: (1) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of negotiations and any subsequent definitive agreements with respect to the proposed Business Combination; (2) the outcome of any legal proceedings or other disputes that may be instituted against BRPM, FaZe Clan, the combined company or others; (3) the inability to complete the proposed Business Combination due to the failure to obtain certain governmental and regulatory approvals or to satisfy other conditions to closing; (4) changes to the proposed structure of the proposed Business Combination that may be required or appropriate as a result of applicable laws or regulations, including the risk that any regulatory approvals are not obtained, are delayed or are subject to unanticipated conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the proposed Business Combination; (5) the ability to meet stock exchange listing standards following the consummation of the proposed Business Combination; (6) the risk that the proposed Business Combination disrupts current plans and operations of BRPM or FaZe Clan as a result of the announcement and consummation of the proposed Business Combination; (7) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the proposed Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the combined company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management, key employees and talents; (8) costs related to the proposed Business Combination; (9) changes in applicable laws or regulations, including changes in domestic and foreign business, market, financial, political, and legal conditions; (10) the possibility that BRPM, FaZe Clan or the combined company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (11) the impact of COVID 19 on BRPM's or FaZe Clan's business and/or the ability of the parties to complete the proposed Business Combination; (12) the inability to complete the PIPE investments in connection with the proposed Business Combination; and (13) other risks and uncertainties set forth in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus relating to the proposed Business Combination. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of BRPM and FaZe Clan. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. While FaZe Clan and BRPM may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, FaZe Clan and BRPM specifically disclaim any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing FaZe Clan's and BRPM's assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this communication. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements.
Contacts:
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Investors:
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Media:
Chelsey Northern: chelsey.northern@fazeclan.com
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Crash on I-26 east near Chapin stalls traffic
Published: Jul. 15, 2022 at 11:49 AM EDT|Updated: 36 minutes ago
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A crash on I-26 east near Exit 97 slowed traffic Friday.
The crash happened around 11:30 a.m., according to SCDOT. Traffic was backed up for two miles between exit 97 and exit 101A at 12 p.m.
Injuries were reported by SC Highway Patrol. There has been no word yet on the extent of the injuries.
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LONDON (AP) — The British government said Friday that everyone 50 or over will be offered a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine in the fall, lowering the age threshold from the previously announced 65.
The Department of Health said it had accepted advice from the U.K.’s independent vaccines adviser about the autumn booster program.
Fourth doses will also be given to health care workers, nursing home staff and residents, and all those aged 5 and up with health conditions that make them more vulnerable to severe illness from COVID-19.
Most of the same groups will also get a free flu shot.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the booster campaign would “keep our defenses strong over autumn and winter.”
“Vaccines were our way out of this pandemic, and now they will make sure COVID can never haunt us in the same way again,” he said.
Like many European countries, Britain is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases, driven by the ultra-contagious BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the omicron strain. The Office for National Statistics estimates that 1 in 19 people in England had the virus in the week ending July 6.
The U.K. has one of Europe’s highest official death tolls in the pandemic, with almost 178,000 confirmed deaths of people who tested positive.
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Poll Finds Decreased Support for President Biden Compared to 2020 Election
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EWTN News and RealClear Opinion Research have partnered to conduct a deep-dive poll on Catholic voters' attitudes and trends ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
In the poll, Catholics weigh in about their views regarding President Biden, abortion, and gender ideology in the classroom. Respondents expressed deep concerns over attacks on churches and Catholic artwork and monuments and supported increasing the border security of the United States.
The new poll was conducted before the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a landmark case which overturned Roe v. Wade. Though it found a slim majority of likely Catholic voters opposed overturning Roe v. Wade, an overwhelming majority of likely Catholic voters supported at least limiting abortion to the first trimester. Likely Catholic voters also opposed forcing healthcare workers to perform procedures to which they were morally opposed, including abortion and sex-change operations.
A clear majority of likely Catholic voters believe supporting transgender ideology conflicts with the Catholic faith. Similar majorities opposed allowing biological boys to compete on biological girls' sports teams and allowing K-12 school administrators to hide a student's gender identity or a new name from that student's parents.
President Biden
- 45% of likely Catholic voters have a favorable view of President Biden while 53% have an unfavorable view.
o 43% of Mass-attending (weekly+) Catholics have a favorable view of President Biden and 55% have an unfavorable view.
- 47% of likely Catholic voters approve of President Biden's job performance while 53% disapprove.
o 45% of Mass-attending (weekly+) Catholics approve of Biden's job performance while 55% disapprove.
Abortion
- 82% of likely Catholic voters support restrictions on abortion
o 24% support legalizing first-trimester abortions.
o 8% support legalizing second-trimester abortions.
o 32% support abortion in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
o 9% support abortion only to save the life of the mother.
o 9% support a total ban on abortion.
- 58% of likely Catholic voters oppose forcing healthcare workers to perform procedures to which they are morally opposed.
Education
- 90% of likely Catholic voters believe parents should have more information about their child's school curriculum.
- 65% of likely Catholic voters believe parents should play a role in helping to determine what is taught in schools.
- 68% of likely Catholic voters oppose K-12 school administrators hiding a student's gender identity or a new name from that student's parents.
- 67% of likely Catholic voters oppose allowing biological boys to compete against biological girls on school sports teams.
- 67% of likely Catholic voters oppose allowing biological boys to use girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers if they identify as female.
- 33% of likely Catholic voters have considered education alternatives for their children due to their school's emphasis on gender identity.
Policy
- 74% of likely Catholic voters were more likely to vote for a candidate who supports increasing border security.
- 53% of likely Catholic voters were less likely to vote for a candidate who supports taxpayer funded abortions in the United States.
- 60% of likely Catholic voters were less likely to vote for a candidate who supports legal abortion at any stage of pregnancy.
- 82% of likely Catholic voters were more likely to vote for a candidate who supports religious freedom of people of faith.
- 84% of likely Catholic voters are concerned about attacks on Catholic churches across the country.
- 81% of likely Catholic voters are concerned about attack on pro-life clinics across the country.
- 71% of likely Catholic voters are concerned about protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.
Catholic Faith:
- 50% of likely Catholic voters believe the Eucharist is the transformed body and blood of Christ rather than a symbol.
o 73% of Mass-attending (weekly+) Catholics believe the same.
- 65% of likely Catholic voters believe Purgatory is real.
- 56% of likely Catholic voters believe that supporting transgender ideology conflicts with the Catholic faith.
- 63% of likely Catholic voters believe that gender is created by God, while 25% of likely Catholic voters believe individuals can determine their own gender.
"This new EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research poll finds that Catholics – like the majority of Americans – are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, have largely negative views about most of the institutions of government save for the Supreme Court, and are deeply concerned about attacks and vandalism against churches and pro-life clinics," Matthew Bunson, Executive Editor of EWTN News stated.
"As we head toward the mid-term election, President Biden faces an uphill struggle to win back the Catholic support he received in the 2020 election cycle, said Bunson. Right now, the atmosphere seems to favor the Republicans, but we have four months ahead and Catholics will once again play a crucial role in deciding who will end up in control of Congress."
Andrew Walworth, Chief Content officer at Real Clear Politics, added "Catholic voters have soured on President Biden, and 57 percent do not have much, or any confidence that the Biden administration can reduce inflation in the next year. That could be bad news for Democrats in the midterms."
"At the same time Catholic voters in our poll are split nearly evenly in their preference for Congress (44% Republican, 43% Democrat), with 13 percent saying they haven't made up their minds. If "all politics is local," as Tip O'Neill used to say, that could soften the blow for Democrats in November."
From June 13 to June 23, 2022, RealClear Opinion Research conducted a poll of Catholics who are registered and say they are likely to vote in the midterm elections in the United States. Respondents were contacted online, and the survey was offered in both English and Spanish. The sample size of likely voters was N=1,757 with a credibility interval of +/-2.58% at a 95% confidence level.
Link to poll results: http://ewtnnews.com/poll
EWTN News is a service of EWTN Global Catholic Network. In its 41st year, EWTN is the largest religious media network in the world. EWTN's 11 global TV channels are broadcast in multiple languages 24 hours a day, seven days a week to over 400 million television households in more than 150 countries and territories. EWTN platforms also include radio services transmitted through SIRIUS/XM, iHeart Radio, and over 500 domestic and international AM & FM radio affiliates; a worldwide shortwave radio service; one of the largest Catholic websites in the U.S.; electronic and print news services, including Catholic News Agency, "The National Catholic Register" newspaper, and several global news wire services; as well as EWTN Publishing, its book publishing division.
RealClear Opinion Research is a service from RealClearPolitics that conducts original research on social trends shaping America and the world. For more information, visit http://www.realclearmediagroup.com/realclearopinionresearch
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for GOEV, XELA, IS, MARA, and YSG.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Kristi Noem won’t participate in a debate sponsored by South Dakota Public Broadcasting because of what her campaign spokesman called its “extreme leftward swing."
In a break from precedent, the Republican governor has agreed to just one debate with her challenger, Democratic state Rep. Jamie Smith.
Noem, who has also positioned herself for a 2024 White House bid, is following a nationwide trend of candidates — often Republicans — who are abandoning the time-honored tradition of debating their rivals before Election Day. For Noem, the snub was another opportunity to slam a media ecosystem that conservatives find elitist and cast herself in the mold of former President Donald Trump.
“In the past, Governor Noem has made clear that she will not participate in debates hosted by hyper-partisan organizations or outlets. SDPB has repeatedly promoted the radical effort to re-write American history and cancel our Founding Fathers," Ian Fury, a spokesman for Noem's campaign, said in a statement Friday.
He added that South Dakota Public Broadcasting's "extreme leftward swing precludes the possibility of a fair debate.”
The statement pointed to South Dakota Public Broadcasting's interview last year with award-winning scholar and author Ibrahim X. Kendi in which he criticized Noem’s efforts to bar public schools and universities from using certain approaches to teaching about race. Noem previously singled out Kendi's work in an executive order.
Part of South Dakota Public Broadcasting's mission is to provide “access to democracy” through its broadcasts and coverage of Statehouse debates and action. It is a state agency that operates under the Bureau of Information and Telecommunication, with $9 million in public funds and additional money raised through a nonprofit.
The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Noem’s campaign said South Dakota Public Broadcasting had inquired why she would not participate in its debate, as she did during the 2018 election cycle.
Noem's gubernatorial challenger, Smith, said, “This is just another example of her trying to push the narrative in a hyper-partisan manner. Here again, she’s choosing not to debate on a platform that the South Dakota people have come to trust, and that’s a detriment to the people of South Dakota.” | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Noem-declines-debate-claims-public-broadcaster-17307491.php | 2022-07-15T16:38:14Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Noem-declines-debate-claims-public-broadcaster-17307491.php | false |
Uber’s safety issues loom as more passengers sue company
Published: Jul. 15, 2022 at 11:50 AM EDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
(CNN) - Another five passengers have sued Uber over alleged sexual assault incidents at the hands of drivers on its platforms.
It’s a reminder of the safety issues ride-hailing platforms are struggling with – especially for female riders.
Uber and its competitor Lyft have recently faced a flood of lawsuits.
The alleged incidents in this latest suit happened between August 2021 and February 2022 in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California.
The allegations include rape, attempted rape and forced oral sex.
Uber said in a statement it does not comment on pending litigation but takes “every single report seriously” and has built new safety features.
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WASHINGTON — About 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against common diseases like diptheria, largely because the coronavirus pandemic disrupted regular health services or triggered misinformation about vaccines, according to the U.N.
In a new report published Friday, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said their figures show 25 million children last year failed to get vaccinated against diptheria, tetanus and pertussis, a marker for childhood immunization coverage, continuing a downward trend that began in 2019.
“This is a red alert for child health," said Catherine Russell, UNICEF's Executive Director.
“We are witnessing the largest sustained drop in childhood immunization in a generation,” she said, adding that the consequences would be measured in lives lost.
Data showed the vast majority of the children who failed to get immunized were living in developing countries, namely Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and the Philippines. While vaccine coverage fell in every world region, the worst effects were seen in East Asia and the Pacific.
Experts said this “historic backsliding” in vaccination coverage was especially disturbing since it was occurring as rates of severe malnutrition were rising. Malnourished children typically have weaker immune systems and infections like measles can often prove fatal to them.
“The convergence of a hunger crisis with a growing immunization gap threatens to create the conditions for a child survival crisis,” the U.N. said.
Scientists said low vaccine coverage rates had already resulted in preventable outbreaks of diseases like measles and polio. In March 2020, WHO and partners asked countries to suspend their polio eradication efforts amid the accelerating COVID-19 pandemic. There have since been dozens of polio epidemics in more than 30 countries.
“This is particularly tragic as tremendous progress was made in the two decades before the COVID pandemic to improve childhood vaccination rates globally,” said Helen Bedford, a professor of children's health at University College London, who was not connected to the U.N. report. She said the news was shocking but not surprising, noting that immunization services are frequently an “early casualty” of major social or economic disasters.
Dr. David Elliman, a consultant pediatrician at Britain's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, said it was critical to reverse the declining vaccination trend among children.
“The effects of what happens in one part of the world can ripple out to affect the whole globe,” he said in a statement, noting the rapid spread of COVID-19 and more recently, monkeypox. “Whether we act on the basis of ethics or ‘enlightened self interest’, we must put (children) top of our list of priorities.” | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/covid-interrupted-routine-vaccinations-for-25-million-kids-last-year/507-0d234f46-2f15-4bbb-8a4c-2ece477e762b | 2022-07-15T16:47:59Z | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/covid-interrupted-routine-vaccinations-for-25-million-kids-last-year/507-0d234f46-2f15-4bbb-8a4c-2ece477e762b | false |
Collaboration to focus on flexibility management including Demand Response for distribution utilities, optimization of Distributed Energy Resources such as solar, wind and battery storage assets for generators, distribution companies and large Commercial & Industrial consumers
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Electricity consumption is set to grow dramatically in India, especially for cooling purposes, as the population of the country grows, and more consumers deploy air conditioners and electric vehicles. Demand Response (DR) is a powerful alternative by which utilities can reduce stress on the grid during peak periods while providing customers economic and environmental benefits. DR programs aim to reduce or shift energy consumption from peak hours of the day to leaner demand periods by offering incentives to the consumers for their cooperation. Participating customers can exercise control over their consumption, and voluntarily choose to turn down non-essential loads to reduce total load at peak times thus optimizing their monthly electricity bills.
Additionally, energy generation is set to grow sharply as well; almost doubling by 2030, accompanied by a rise in the share of renewables to around 50% of the total generation mix. The intermittency of renewable generation creates new challenges for power system operators and market participants to manage price volatility and system reliability. To cater to this, a study by CEA suggests the need for battery storage to the tune of 27,000 MW and pumped storage of 20,000 MW. The sharp increase projected in renewable energy, distributed generation, energy storage and need for ancillary services creates opportunities for existing and new players in the power system. The collaboration between PTC and AutoGrid proposes to unlock such opportunities.
Commenting on the initiative, Dr. Rajib K Mishra, CMD PTC said, "Demand is seeing a sharp rise in India due overall economic growth and increasing HVAC loads driven by rising consumer incomes. As a result, the load is getting peakier. Demand Response is a powerful tool for peak load management for Discoms. Additionally, there is a strong technology need to enable higher integration of Renewable Energy into India's grid without creating grid instability. We are looking forward to deploying AutoGrid' s AI-based energy management solution to support PTC's mission of a carbon-free future."
"We are delighted to collaborate with PTC India to bring pioneering solutions to their customer base by leveraging our best-in-class energy-AI platform, said Dr. Amit Narayan, CEO, AutoGrid. "With this collaboration, we aim to demonstrate the pivotal role of DR and DERs in realizing India's ambitions to remain one of the fastest-growing economies in the world while meeting the country's need for energy security and sustainability", he added.
PTC India and AutoGrid have identified the following strategic areas to collaborate on:
- Automated Demand Response leveraging Residential Air Conditioning Systems and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system at Commercial and Industrial sites
- Integration of Energy Storage, Solar PV, Electrical Vehicles and other DERs for grid support, balancing and decarbonization
- Structured Renewable Energy or Hybrid solar/wind/battery storage contracts – for large C&I consumers and utilities
About PTC India Ltd:
PTC India Ltd., a Government of India initiative, is the pioneer in starting a power market in India. The Company has maintained its leadership position in power trading since inception.
The trading activities undertaken by PTC include long term trading of power generated from large power projects as well as short term trading arising as a result of supply and demand mismatches, which inevitably arise in various regions of the country.
The Company is credited with a number of products in the electricity trading market to meet the divergent needs of the customers. Driven by the vision to shape a vibrant power market, PTC has been providing value-focused services to its clients and build trust as a reliable partner. PTC is also the pioneer of cross border trading facilitating trade of electricity with Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
PTC is a unique example of a successful public-private partnership with major PSUs of the Ministry of Power, Government of India as promoters and a widely held ownership interest.
To learn more about PTC, please visit www.ptcindia.com
About AutoGrid:
Founded in 2010, AutoGrid's mission is to accelerate access to sustainable energy to mitigate climate change. AutoGrid's artificial intelligence-driven software makes electric vehicles, storage, roof-top solar, utility-scale wind, and other distributed energy resources (DERs) smarter.
By enabling prediction, optimization, and real-time control of millions of energy assets at an unprecedented scale, AutoGrid is making the vision of a decentralized, decarbonized, and democratized new energy world a reality. With over a decade of pioneering experience across the globe, AutoGrid offers fleet owners, energy-as-a-service companies, renewable project developers, utilities, and electricity retailers the ability to build, own, operate, and participate in intelligent and scalable virtual power plants, enabling them to disrupt the dependency on fossil-fuel based energy. AutoGrid's flagship application, AutoGrid FlexTM, manages over 6,000MW of distributed energy assets in 15 countries and is ranked a Leader in all flexibility management categories (DR, DERMS, VPP) by independent research and analysis firm Guidehouse Research.
To learn more about AutoGrid, please visit www.auto-grid.com
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LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Back with no holds-barred yet, Tom MacDonald unveils a new single and music video entitled "Names" today. Watch the music video for "Names"—HERE.
On the track, synths puncture a sparse bass-loaded beat as Tom rips bars laced with pure honesty. It culminates with what might be the truest statement of all, "You can call me what you want, because at the end of the day, they're just names." Once more, his partner and creative cohort Nova Rockafeller helmed the inflammatory video. This clip finds Tom crucified on a billboard emblazoned with insults as he does the one thing no one else will do—speaks without fear…
He commented, "'Names' is a statement piece. It's about all of the names that we call each other every day. The names you see plastered all over the internet and on social media. The names you hear on the news and see on the protest signs. The devastating names that people carelessly label each other with all the time. Stupid, racist, ugly, transphobic, loser, sexist, idiot...we've given these words so much power - so much power that a negative label can change a person's life and affect them forever - often undeservingly. This song is about remembering these words for exactly what they are...they aren't YOU...they're noises that angry humans make. They're just names."
Despite being royally screwed by the mainstream "counting" apparatus, Tom still captured #1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales Chart with The Brave—his collaborative album with Adam Calhoun. Their tally recognized 16,000 units, but it was actually 48,000 (that's a conversation reserved for a YouTube video and another YouTube video though). Not to mention, Billboard and Rolling Stone have given him ink.
By the numbers, he has officially surpassed 893 million YouTube views with just under 3 million subscribers. In 2021 alone, he moved over 200,000 physical albums, generated 100 million YouTube views, and racked up 200,000,000 million Spotify streams. "Fake Woke" captured multiple Billboard #1 spots and brought him mainstream on Fox News. Not to mention, Us Against The World exceeded physical sales of 70,000 copies.
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Just a hunk, a hunk of burnin' love ... Forty-five years since his passing, The King can still draw a crowd. Last weekend, thousands converged at the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Belleville, Michigan, to celebrate the life and work of Elvis Presley.
Founded in 1999, The Michigan Elvisfest is one of the largest Elvis tribute festivals in North America. "This event is different from most Elvis festivals in that it is not a contest," said Mary Decker, who has organized the event for more than 17 years. "These artists are all here to honor the life and spirit of Elvis through their performances."
Contrary to popular belief, Elvis impersonators have existed since the mid-1950s, when Presley was just beginning his career. To make their performances as close as possible to "the King of Rock and Roll," later generations of impersonators purchased rhinestone-covered jumpsuits from Presley's own costume designer, Nudie Cohn.
The Michigan festival was canceled two years in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making fans extra excited to see their favorite tribute artists back onstage.
Sandra Maciejewski flew from Fruitland, Florida, to see Cote Doenath, whose career she's followed for 19 years and whose face she wore on her T-shirt. Doenath, who performed as "Hawaiian Elvis" and "G.I. Elvis," is also from Florida and won the Elvis World Title in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2018.
Many Elvis tribute artists began cultivating their performances early in life. Bryson Vines, a 6-foot-tall 14-year-old from Howell, Michigan, is the youngest performer to ever take the stage at the festival. Vines began working on his act at the age of seven.
As he prepared in his trailer, he shared how he got his start.
"My mom got me hooked," he said. "When I was seven, she put on some dusty Elvis 45s, and I immediately wanted to be like him — I wanted to have his charm and charisma. Elvis was the best entertainer of all time, and I like to honor that."
With his deep baritone and in his pink blazer, Vines bore an uncanny resemblance to a teenage Elvis as he sang gospel songs and struck classic "King" poses. A crowd of mostly seniors cheered for him and sang along.
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LONDON, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crypto is one of the biggest aspects of modern finance and technology. For businesses, this revenue stream could provide major boosts to sales numbers, with crypto payments giving customers more freedom while also bringing benefits which are exclusive to cryptocurrency technology. These benefits to e-commerce ventures can be provided by various niche platforms among which are London based startup Remuno.
Remuno is a crypto payment processor. This means it provides businesses with an API or website plug-in that facilitates cryptocurrency transactions, allowing users to pay with their chosen cryptocurrency instead of paying with fiat. Remuno is incredibly simple to install, with a 1-2-3 process that means even businesses without crypto knowledge can install and benefit from the Remuno API.
This accessibility to business owners also extends to the ease with which the Remuno team can be contacted, with it being a necessary part of the installation process that can help ease concerns. Furthermore, as a crypto payment processor simplifying the process for both e-commerce businesses and customers, Remuno is building a reputation as a cool alternative to bigger industry names, making it particularly appealing for e-commerce ventures. Beyond this, there are also many other benefits that crypto payment processors like Remuno provide.
Blockchain technology is incredibly secure. This security makes data incredibly hard to alter or remove. This means that when you purchase with crypto, information on the purchase will be almost impossible to lose. Say goodbye to customer fear when you install a crypto payment processor on your e-commerce website.
When using a credit card to make a purchase, the transaction fee typically comes to 2 - 3% of the purchase price. On top of delivery charges, this can cause customer uncertainty, which may lead to the purchase being abandoned. Compare this to Bitcoin (BTC) purchases, which charge only a fraction of a coin per transaction. For larger purchases, Bitcoin (BTC) transactions provide major savings. This results in less hesitation from buyers, and more money for your business.
The benefits of installing a crypto payment processor on your business's website are unparalleled. With cryptocurrency growing every day, now is the time to get involved, and bring the world of crypto to your e-commerce venture. To take your business to the next level, be sure to check out Remuno.
To learn more, check out the Remuno website.
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Records are crashing in Europe as a bout of exceptional heat and humidity brings dangerous conditions, prompting weather alerts far and wide across Britain, France, Spain and Portugal. Temperatures have surged to as high as 117 degrees (47 Celsius) over the Iberian Peninsula, and the United Kingdom is forecast to see its hottest temperature ever recorded early next week.
Red “extreme” heat warnings have been hoisted in parts of the United Kingdom for the first time on record. The U.K. Met Office is describing the situation as a “national emergency,” warning that the heat will have “widespread impacts on people and infrastructure.”
The red warning covers much of central, northern, eastern and southeastern England both Monday and Tuesday, including London.
“For the first time, temperatures of 40°C [104 Fahrenheit] have been forecast,” the Met Office wrote.
A somewhat less dire amber heat warning surrounds the red warning, and includes much of the remainder of England and Wales, while expanding north into southern Scotland.
“Currently there is a 50% chance we could see temperatures top 40°C and 80% we will see a new maximum temperature reached,” said Met Office chief meteorologist Paul Gundersen in an online news release.
⚠️⚠️🔴 Red Extreme heat warning issued 🔴⚠️⚠️
— Met Office (@metoffice) July 15, 2022
Parts of England on Monday and Tuesday
Latest info 👉 https://t.co/QwDLMg9c70
Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/YHaYvaGh95
The heat about to swell over the U.K. has been building over Portugal, Spain and France.
After temperatures surged as high as 117 degrees Thursday, five of Portugal’s 18 districts are under red warnings Friday, with projected highs over 110 degrees in some areas. The majority of Spain and southern France are blanketed by warnings as well, with Météo-France writing that the heat will “threaten” everyone — “even [people] in good health.”
The blistering heat is combining with ongoing drought to brew what Copernicus, a climate monitoring agency, is calling a “very extreme” wildfire risk for the Iberian Peninsula, as well as Greece.
BBC News reports that dozens of wildfires are raging in Portugal, requiring more than 3,500 firefighters to combat them. The outlet wrote that more than 10,000 people have been evacuated from the Gironde region of France, while at least 281 people in Spain and Portugal have perished due to heat-related illness.
It’s worth noting that air conditioning — a common staple in the United States — is a rarity in parts of northern and western Europe, because excessive heat of this nature is unusual. In the U.K., for instance, where residents are bracing for highs in the mid-90s early next week, the average high for mid-July is in the 70s.
How hot it’ll get
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom will see its hottest weather Monday and into Tuesday. That’s when temperatures could hit a very rare number — 40 Celsius — which corresponds to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. The highest recorded temperature for the U.K. is 101.7 degrees (38.7 Celsius), which was set in Cambridge in 2019.
The Met Office is explicitly forecasting that record to fall, with a high of 104 degrees (40 Celsius) their forecast for London. Weather.com, meanwhile, calls for London to hit 98 degrees Monday and 97 on Tuesday; the average afternoon high during July is 74 degrees. Readings over 84 are rare.
Unprecedented dangerously high temperatures by day and night next week. pic.twitter.com/E2Hosv4vJG
— Met Office (@metoffice) July 15, 2022
“Nights are also likely to be exceptionally warm, especially in urban areas,” said Gundersen. “This is likely to lead to widespread impacts on people and infrastructure. Therefore, it is important people plan for the heat and consider changing their routines. This level of heat can have adverse health effects.”
The Met Office, ordinarily reserved in their verbiage, didn’t mince words when identifying human-induced climate change as a factor in the potentially unrivaled heat.
“The chances of seeing 40°C [104 degrees] days in the U.K. could be as much as 10 times more likely in the current climate than under a natural climate unaffected by human influence,” said Nikos Christidis, a climate attribution scientist at the Met Office. “The likelihood of exceeding 40°C anywhere in the U.K. in a given year has also been rapidly increasing, and, even with current pledges on emissions reductions, such extremes could be taking place every 15 years in the climate of 2100.”
A level 4 U.K. Health Security Agency Heat Health Alert has been hoisted to raise awareness for the exceptional temperatures.
“This level of alert is used when a heat wave is so severe and/or prolonged that its effects extend outside the health and social care system,” wrote the Met Office. “At this level, illness may occur among the fit and healthy, and not just in high-risk groups.”
France
Extreme heat is hitting Europe with Seville reaching 41C while France & Germany are expected to experience similar highs. Italy is under drought orders. Portugal is on fire with hydro plants limited. These are no longer temperature anomalies. This is the new normal. pic.twitter.com/hKKMpy9vT2
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) July 12, 2022
The worst of the heat is yet to come in France, with temperatures likely to peak Monday. Some weather models even simulate high temperatures approaching 116.6 degrees (47 Celsius), though that’s likely apocryphal. In any case, it’s probable some residents of southern France near the Spanish border could see readings in the 105- to 110- degree (40 to 43 Celsius) range. That’s commensurate with the 107.6 degrees (42 Celsius) predictions put forth by Météo-France, the country’s weather service.
The agency tweeted that Monday has the potential to be one of the hottest ever recorded across France. The record would be surpassed if the national average temperature — a countrywide calculation that involves averaging the high and low temperatures for a day throughout the country — makes it above 84.9 degrees (29.4 Celsius).
Météo-France also drummed up the role that human-induced climate change is playing in amplifying the existing heat wave. They cited a historic episode in July 2019, during which Paris soared to an unprecedented 109 degrees.
“Human influence on the climate has multiplied by at least 20 the probability of this event and made this type of event warmer by 2.1°C [3.8 degrees],” tweeted Météo-France. “The same calculation for the current heat wave would give close figures.”
Weather.com is calling for Paris to hit 103 degrees Monday and 104 on Tuesday, contrasted to an average mid- to late-July high of about 75 degrees.
Spain
(2) France reached 40C today with some monthly records beaten , the most important ones are those of Belin Beliet (tied) with 38.8C and that of Alzon with 36.1C. See map and list credit of Meteociel. pic.twitter.com/sgd2JZS6eX
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) July 14, 2022
In Spain, an “extreme risk” of heat has warranted a red alert to be issued in two provinces — Vegas del Guadiana and Miño de Ourense — with forecast highs up to 111 degrees (44 Celsius). Spain has 50 provinces; the remaining are mostly under orange “important” heat alerts and lesser yellow alerts.
In Madrid, the high is forecast to hover near record levels or around 105 degrees (41 Celsius) through the weekend.
Records so far
The heat has been gripping the Iberian Peninsula thus far, with a number of records falling there.
Here’s a look at just how high temperatures have gotten since Thursday (records broken earlier in the week are available in a previous article):
In Spain:
Record hot day in Spain:
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) July 14, 2022
-Madrid Retiro Tmin 26.2C highest Min. on records
-Talavera de la Reina 44.8C Castilla La Mancha
-Candeleda 45.1C arguably highest reliable temp. for Castilla y Leon
New records:
Ourense (Galicia) 44.1C
Zamora 41.8C
Navacerrada 33.4C
More to come... pic.twitter.com/6dJCL3q4TB
- El Retiro Park in Spain failed to dip below 79.2 degrees (26.2 Celsius) on Thursday morning, the hottest overnight temperature ever observed there.
- Ourense observed its all-time hottest temperature at 113.4 degrees (44.1 Celsius) on Thursday. That surpasses Tuesday’s record temperature, when Ourense spiked to 109.9 degrees (43.3 Celsius). The previous record was 108.7 degrees (42.6 Celsius) on July 20, 1990.
- Zamora jumped to 107.2 degrees (41.8 Celsius) on Thursday, a record.
- Navacerrada got to 92.1 degrees (33.4 Celsius) on Thursday, a record.
- Seville has hit at least 105 degrees (40.6 Celsius) for eight days in a row; it was 111 degrees (43.9 Celsius) on Thursday.
In France:
- Arquettes-en-Val climbed to 101.9 degrees (38.3 Celsius) on Thursday, establishing a new monthly record for July. It beats out the 99.9 degree (37.7 Celsius) July record established Tuesday.
- Granes climbed to 100.4 degrees (38 Celsius) on Thursday, a record for July.
- Cuanes-Minervois hit 99.32 degrees (37.4 Celsius) on Thursday, setting a new July record.
- Alzon got to 97 degrees (36.1 Celsius) on Thursday, setting a new July record. It beat the previous record, set in 2006, by just 0.1 degree Celsius.
- Mouthomet hit 96.8 degrees (36 Celsius), a July record.
- Belin-Beliet tied a July monthly record at 100.8 degrees (38.8 Celsius).
Portugal:
Portugal 🇵🇹 just hit 47.0°C (116.6°F) in Pinhão.
— Scott Duncan (@ScottDuncanWX) July 15, 2022
If confirmed, this will go down as the hottest July day in recorded history for the country. pic.twitter.com/Tyq592W8cS
- Pinhão, in northern Portugal, posted the country’s highest temperature ever observed during July Thursday: 116.6 degrees (47 Celsius). That’s not far from the hottest temperature ever recorded in the country: 117.3 degrees in Amareleja on Aug. 1, 2003.
- Bragança hit its hottest temperature ever observed — 106.3 degrees (41.3 Celsius) — Thursday. The city has established records every day since Monday.
What’s causing the heat?
Instigating the heat is something called a “cutoff low,” or a low-pressure system that has become pinched off from the jet stream. It’s analogous to paddling a boat through a pond and watching a whirlpool shed off the oar and continue spinning aimlessly. In this case, the low is a self-sustaining swirl of counterclockwise-spinning winds wrapped about a lobe of high-altitude cold that’s whirring around a few hundred miles southwest of Portugal over the open northeast Atlantic.
Because it’s no longer nestled within a dip in the jet stream and subsequently shuttled west to east, there’s nothing to really scoot it along. As a result, the cutoff low will spend days sitting in place and spinning, with southerly winds on the eastern side of the system pumping African heat northward toward Western Europe and the U.K.
While the heat will gradually ease from west to east in Europe next week, it marks the latest in several European heat events that have been exacerbated by human-induced climate change. While human influence is not the cause of the hot weather, it tips the scales toward more frequent, intense and prolonged heat waves.
It has been just over three years since an unprecedented heat wave baked Europe, sending temperatures skyrocketing. Paris hit an all-time high of 109 degrees (42.8 Celsius). Last month, a heat wave set hundreds of records throughout Europe amid the continent’s second-warmest June on record. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/15/heat-wave-europe-uk-warning/ | 2022-07-15T16:58:52Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/15/heat-wave-europe-uk-warning/ | true |
ISABELLA COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - A sting operating targeting child sex predators in Isabella County ended with three arrests on Thursday.
The Isabella County Sheriff's Office said 30 undercover officers from a task force of law enforcement agencies in the county posed as underage kids and began communicating online with dozens of suspects using social media apps.
Sheriff Michael Main said three suspects agreed to meet underage children at a predetermined location with the intent of engaging in inappropriate sexual activity. All three were arrested without incident at the meeting place.
"The end result is that our younger population are a little safer today with these dangerous people in custody," Main said.
The suspects were identified as a 27-year-old man from Shepherd, 59-year-old man from Harrison and a 41-year-old man from Mount Pleasant. All three are awaiting arraignment on preliminary charges of accosting a child for immoral purposes and using a computer to commit a crime.
The Isabella County Sheriff's Office plans to submit reports about the suspects' interactions with undercover police to prosecutors, who will decide what formal charges to file.
The task force who participated in Thursday's sting operation included the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Mecosta County Sheriff's Office, Montcalm County Sheriff's Office, Newaygo County Sheriff's Office and Osceola County Sheriff's Office.
Several Michigan State Police units, the FBI and four local police agencies in Isabella County also took part in Thursday's operation.
This was the second child sex predator sting for the task force. Isabella County police arrested seven people in late May during a similar undercover operation. | https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/isabella-county-sex-predator-sting-results-in-three-arrests/article_07a26d0e-044c-11ed-818e-a7ae6c115756.html | 2022-07-15T17:00:21Z | https://www.abc12.com/news/crime/isabella-county-sex-predator-sting-results-in-three-arrests/article_07a26d0e-044c-11ed-818e-a7ae6c115756.html | true |
With new members, SCO looks to counter West
Beijing July 15, 2022 22:13 ISTIran, Belarus likely to join Eurasian security grouping soon, says Secretary General Zhang Ming
Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest additions to the China and Russia-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) grouping, officials said on Friday.
Expanding the group is among the issues that leaders of the grouping, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are likely to discuss at the SCO summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in September.
The current SCO Secretary, General Zhang Ming, a veteran Chinese diplomat, told reporters on Friday the grouping hopes for an in-person summit in Uzbekistan, which could see Mr. Modi meet with Mr. Xi for the first time since 2019.
“So far, all participating countries have confirmed the attendance of their leaders but the format of attendance is not finalised. All wish to switch to the traditional way of meeting which is more efficient,” said Mr. Zhang, who recently visited Samarkand and said the facilities for the summit would be constructed by the end of this month. “At the same time, the epidemic situation is changing and there are new variants emerging,” he said, adding a note of caution, with last year’s summit held virtually on account of COVID-19.
China, Russia and four Central Asian states — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan — were the founding members of the SCO, while India and Pakistan joined the grouping in 2017 in its first round of expansion. Last year’s summit in Dushanbe agreed for Iran to join, while Belarus has also begun the membership process.
“In the Samarkand summit, we expect the leadership to adopt a document on the obligations Iran must fulfil to gain membership. The legal procedures of Belarus’s accession are also about to start. We need to build consensus on the acceptance of Belarus,” Mr. Zhang said. “The significance of this round of expansion is that it shows the SCO’s rising international influence and that the principles of the SCO charter are being widely accepted.”
Sharp contrast
China and Russia are looking to frame the grouping as a counter to the West — particularly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and Mr. Zhang sought to draw a sharp contrast between the SCO and NATO.
“There has been discussion in the international arena that the trend of non-alignment is back,” he said. “The expansion of NATO is totally different as the SCO is a cooperative organisation based on non-alignment and not targeting a third party. NATO is based on Cold War thinking. The logic of NATO is creating new enemies to sustain its own existence.”
He said the SCO “believes one should not build its safety at the expense of other countries”, a statement China has used previously to blame NATO for the Ukraine crisis. Mr. Zhang also hit out at “small circles” — a term China has used in the past to criticise the Quad — underlining India’s somewhat unique position in the SCO, whose two most important members, China and Russia, are increasingly positioning the grouping directly at odds with the West.
India will host the SCO summit next year, and Varanasi has been selected as the SCO region’s first “Tourism and Cultural Capital”, Mr. Zhang said, a title it will hold next year coinciding with India chairing the grouping. | https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/with-new-members-sco-looks-to-counter-west/article65644609.ece/amp/ | 2022-07-15T17:05:00Z | https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/with-new-members-sco-looks-to-counter-west/article65644609.ece/amp/ | true |
Sports News of Friday, 15 July 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Players switching nationalities to play for Ghana has become one of the latest trends in the Ghanaian football space lately. It’s however interesting to know that nationality switch is not a new phenomenon in Ghana.
Even before the Black Stars qualified for their first World Cup in history in 2006, some players switched nationalities to play for Ghana.
Since Ghana qualified for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, some five new players have switched nationalities to play for the Black Stars.
The Ghana Football Association welcomed the new set of players into the Black Stars after completing their nationality switches.
Tariq Lamptey, Inaki Williams, Stephan Ambrosius, Patrick Pfeffer, and Ransford Yeboah have all completed their switch from their birth countries in Europe to represent Ghana on the international stage.
Today we take a look at some popular players who switched nationalities to play for Ghana.
Albert Adomah
Albert was born in London but spent a short period in Ghana before moving abroad again. The winger who started his professional career with Harrow Borough in 2006 had to wait till 2011 to make his debut appearance for the Black Stars.
Adomah spent his whole life playing in England and was approached by the GFA while at Bristol City to consider playing for Ghana. He made his debut as a substitute against Brazil in a friendly match. The winger was part of Ghana’s squad at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Quincy Owusu-Abeyie
The skillful winger switched nationalities from the Netherlands to represent Ghana at the international level. Quincy represented the Dutch youth team at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship alongside Ryan Babel. The GFA had wanted to feature him in the 2006 World Cup but Quincy's appearance for the Netherlands delayed his nationality switch.
After struggling to get his switch to Ghana, the former Arsenal man finally made his switch two weeks to the 2008 AFCON in Ghana. He played a key role as the Black stars placed 4th at the 2008 AFCON scoring his debut against Ivory Coast. Quincy earned a call-up for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa where Ghana reached the quarter-final stage.
Emmanuel Frimpong
Despite representing England at the u-16 to u-21 level, Frimpong was never given a shot at the senior level during his prime. In 2009, the former Arsenal man made his intentions to play for Ghana and was able to realize that in 2011 when his nationality switch was successful.
Prior to his nationality switch, he turned down an invitation to play for England’s u-21 side. He made his debut against Sudan in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match.
Kevin Prince Boateng
Considered to be more German than Ghanaian, K.P Boateng had been on the radar of the GFA for a long time but the player was bent on representing Germany. However, the former AC Milan star switched to Ghana after FIFA reviewed their requirements in 2009.
He was automatically included in the Black Stars squad for the 2010 World Cup and made his debut in a pre-World Cup friendly against Latvia.
Otto Addo
As a German-born Ghanaian, Otto Addo never played for any of Ghana’s youth teams after turning pro in 1991. Eight years after making a name for himself, the GFA discovered the midfielder and invited Otto Addo and Gerald Asamoah for the game against Eritrea. Otto Addo stuck with Ghana but Gerald Asamoah switched to Germany after he was not allowed game time in the Black Stars. Otto Addo played for Ghana at the 2000 AFCON and the 2006 World Cup in Germany
Hans Adu Sarpei
Despite being born in Tema, Sarpei had the option to play for Ghana or Germany and opted to play for Ghana. Sarpei grew up in Germany where he went through high school before becoming a professional player. His long-awaited call-up to the Ghana national team came in 2000 and played his first match in the Black Stars' 4-1 win over Zimbabwe.
He represented Ghana from 2000 to 2012 and played at four tournaments as a key figure in the first team. Sarpei played at the 2006 and 2008 AFCONs as well as the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Adam Kwarasey
The former Black Stars goalkeeper was born and nurtured in Norway to Ghanaian parents. Kwarasey featured for the Norwegian under-18s in a friendly match in 2008.
He later switched to play for Ghana after getting his Ghanaian passport in 2010. A year after, the goalkeeper made his debut for the Black Stars in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Swaziland and played his memorable game against Brazil days after.
Kwarasey helped Ghana finish 4th at the 2012 AFCON which was his first tournament. He later made one appearance for Ghana against the USA at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Key talking points as Scotland face series decider against Argentina
Scotland take on Argentina in the final match of their summer tour on Saturday.
The Test series is tied at 1-1 ahead of the deciding encounter.
Here, the PA news agency looks at some of the key talking points ahead of the game in Santiago Del Estero.
Winner takes all
Scotland were under pressure after a poor first-half performance in the opening Test led to a 26-18 defeat. They responded emphatically by running in four tries in 27 minutes during a 29-6 victory in the second Test, gaining control of the contest just before half-time.
Improvements demanded
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend wants the same togetherness, energy in attack and contact work, which he described as one of the best his team had produced. But he marked last Saturday’s performance as six out of 10 and called for greater accuracy throughout the 80 minutes, pointing out that a number of passes went astray and set-pieces did not go to plan for much of the first half.
Hot shot Hamish
Flanker Hamish Watson will captain Scotland for the first time on Saturday, seven days after winning his 50th cap. With a number of experienced players staying at home this summer, the 30-year-old was included in Townsend’s leadership group and has revelled in the added responsibility.
A test of depth
Townsend has made eight changes following the second Test, the vast majority of them optional, although backs Darcy Graham, Rory Hutchinson and Kyle Rowe are injured. Ollie Smith will win his first cap, with the 21-year-old Glasgow full-back looking to make the sort of impact that saw him score two tries in a six-minute cameo against La Rochelle. Townsend has again changed his second row, with Jonny Gray and Scott Cummings coming in and lock Edinburgh lock Glen Young looking for a debut off the bench. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11018181/Key-talking-points-Scotland-face-series-decider-against-Argentina.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-15T17:07:14Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11018181/Key-talking-points-Scotland-face-series-decider-against-Argentina.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner at her drug possession trial in Russia on Friday gave the court a U.S. doctor’s letter recommending she use medical cannabis to treat pain.
Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and standout for the Phoenix Mercury, was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February after customs officials said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted on charges of transporting drugs.
In court last week, Griner pleaded guilty and acknowledged possessing the canisters but said she had no criminal intent and said they were in her luggage because she packed hastily in her return to Russia to play for the UMMC Ekaterinburg basketball team during the WNBA’s offseason.
In Russia’s judicial system, admitting guilt doesn’t automatically end a trial. Since that plea, her court sessions have focused on in-person and written testimony to her good character and athletic prowess.
Griner wore a Nirvana T-shirt as she sat inside the defendant’s cage that is customary in Russian courtrooms. At one point, she held up a photo of fellow WNBA players wearing her name and No. 42 on their uniforms in tribute during part of Sunday’s All-Star Game in Chicago.
“The attending physician gave Brittney recommendations for the use of medical cannabis,” said her lawyer, Maria Blagovolina. “The permission was issued on behalf of the Arizona Department of Health.”
Medical marijuana is not legal in Russia.
The defense on Friday also submitted tests she underwent as part of an anti-doping check, which didn’t detect any prohibited substances in her system.
The next hearing of Griner’s case was scheduled for July 26.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have said they are doing all they could to win her release, as well as that of other Americans the U.S. considers “wrongly detained” by Russia, including former Marine Paul Whelan who is serving 16 years on an espionage conviction.
Washington may have little leverage with Moscow, though, because of strong animosity over its military operation in Ukraine.
“In the hearings yesterday and today what became very clear is the tremendous amount of respect and admiration both in the United States and here in Russia where Miss Griner has been playing basketball for seven years, not only for her professional achievements but for her character and integrity,” U.S. Embassy charge d’affaires Elizabeth Rood said outside the courthouse in the Moscow suburb of Khimki, where the airport is located.
The director and team captain of UMMC Ektaerinburg testified on her behalf on Thursday.
Russian media have speculated that Griner could be swapped for Russian arms trader Viktor Bout, nicknamed “the Merchant of Death,” who is serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. after being convicted of conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens and providing aid to a terrorist organization.
Russia has agitated for Bout’s release for years. But the wide discrepancy in the seriousness of their cases could make such a trade unpalatable to Washington. Others have suggested that Griner could be traded along with Whelan, who is serving 16 years in Russia on an espionage conviction that the U.S. has described as a setup.
The State Department’s designation of Griner as wrongfully detained moves her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, effectively the government’s chief hostage negotiator. The classification has irritated Russia.
Asked about the possibility of Griner being swapped for a Russian jailed in the U.S., Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, the senior Russian diplomat, has noted that until her trial is over “there are no formal or procedural reasons to talk about any further steps.”
Ryabkov warned that U.S. criticism, including the description of Griner as wrongfully detained and dismissive comments about the Russian judicial system, “makes it difficult to engage in detailed discussion of any possible exchanges.”
Griner’s detention has been authorized through Dec. 20, suggesting the trial could last months. Griner’s lawyers, however, said they expect it to conclude around the beginning of August. | https://www.yourbasin.com/sports/wnbas-griner-back-in-russian-court-as-trial-continues/ | 2022-07-15T17:08:22Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/sports/wnbas-griner-back-in-russian-court-as-trial-continues/ | false |
Lockerbie bomber´s family `deeply disappointed´ by Supreme Court decision
The Lockerbie bomber’s son is “deeply disappointed” that UK Supreme Court judges have refused permission to launch an appeal in the case, a lawyer has said.
Lawyers for the family of the late Abdelbaset al-Megrahi – the only man to be convicted of the bombing of Pan-Am flight flight 103 in 1988 – had been seeking to overturn a ruling by the High Court.
A total of 270 people were killed in Britain’s largest terrorist atrocity when the plane, travelling from London to New York, was brought down over Lockerbie in Scotland.
Former Libyan intelligence officer Megrahi was found guilty in 2001 of mass murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years.
In January last year, Megrahi’s son, Ali al-Megrahi, lost an appeal against his late father’s conviction.
The Supreme Court has ruled that permission to appeal against that decision should be refused, saying the “application does not raise an arguable point of law”.
Lawyer Aamer Anwar, representing the Megrahi family, insisted this was not the end of the matter as he would take the case back to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) and “continue to pursue an appeal”.
Mr Anwar said: “I spoke today to Ali, the son of the late al-Megrahi, and he said he was deeply disappointed in the decision of the UK Supreme Court.
“Ali told me he was eight years old when his father went to the Netherlands to stand trial. When his father returned to Libya to die, Ali spent most of his time next to his father and said that until his dying breath he maintained his innocence.
“The Megrahis regard their father as the 271st victim of Lockerbie.”
Megrahi was released from prison in Scotland in 2009 on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, and died in Libya in 2012.
The Libyan had originally lodged an appeal against his conviction in 2007, but this was abandoned in 2009 before he was granted compassionate release.
Mr Anwar said: “Ali said as a son he will not give up on his father’s dying wish to clear his name and that of Libya, and has instructed myself as his family’s lawyer to continue with a further application to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.”
In March 2020 the SCCRC referred Megrahi’s case to the High Court as a possible miscarriage of justice may have occurred.
However, in what was the third appeal against Megrahi’s conviction in November 2020, at the High Court in Edinburgh, a panel of five judges rejected the claim.
Mr Anwar said that after having spoken to Megrahi’s son “this is not the end of the matter” as the “reputation of the Scottish criminal justice system has suffered badly both at home and internationally because of widespread doubts about the conviction of Mr al-Megrahi”.
The lawyer said: “On December 21 1988, 270 people from 21 countries were murdered in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, the worst terrorist atrocity ever committed in the United Kingdom.
“Since then the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted of the crime, has been described as the worst miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
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- The $25M Series A will help Phaidra accelerate its mission of increasing Fortune 100 profitability while reducing emissions with artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning.
- Company announced the appointment of industry veteran Robert Locke as its new president and chief strategy officer.
SEATTLE, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phaidra, a pioneer of using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve efficiency, stability, and sustainability in the industrial sector, has closed $25M in Series A funding, the company announced today. The funding will allow Phaidra to accelerate deployment of its technology in mission-critical industries, from data centers and refineries to pharmaceutical plants and steel mills.
To head its growth and business development efforts, Phaidra also announced the addition of industry veteran Robert Locke as president and chief strategy officer. Robert previously was senior vice president of corporate development for automation giant Johnson Controls, where he worked closely with many of JCI's largest customers, led the creation of new businesses and JCI's corporate venture capital team, and sourced strategic acquisitions.
"At DeepMind, my co-founders and I saw first-hand how deep reinforcement learning was creating breakthroughs in multiple real-world applications. We started Phaidra to bring the benefits of this technology beyond the tech companies to the industrial sector," said Jim Gao, CEO of Phaidra. "Robert's company-building expertise and the Series A raise will go a long way towards achieving our mission of radical resource efficiency."
Phaidra's AI platform enables the industrial sector to radically improve resource efficiency via self-learning control systems. From data centers to pharmaceutical manufacturing to district cooling, Fortune 100 companies are using Phaidra to control complex industrial systems like large chiller plants to reduce their energy consumption by 15-30 percent while improving thermal stability by up to 70 percent. Despite these facilities being already highly-optimized, Phaidra's technology has unlocked further double-digit performance improvements as its AI identifies opportunities that humans cannot see.
While traditional industrial controls systems today are static (meaning they utilize hard-coded control logic that results in repetitive behavior and break easily), Phaidra's technology is dynamic and gets smarter over time. The AI optimizes plant performance in real-time by continuously learning and adapting to changing plant conditions. This increases profitability, efficiency, and process stability for Phaidra's industrial customers — while reducing emissions.
Phaidra's founders have years of experience working on transforming the industrial sector. Gao, along with CTO Vedavyas Panneershelvam, previously led Google DeepMind's energy and climate efforts, reducing Google's data center cooling energy usage by 40 percent with an AI-based control system. COO Katherine Hoffman is a veteran of the defense and controls industries, where she specialized in new technology commercialization and controls system design.
The core of Phaidra's technology is deep reinforcement learning, a technique pioneered by DeepMind to drive several recent scientific breakthroughs, from AlphaGo (an AI-based world-class player of the game "Go") to protein folding. Panneershelvam is a renowned expert on reinforcement learning and was a core member of the AlphaGo team. "The exceptionally talented team at Phaidra is leading the industry by using cutting-edge AI to speed up our energy transition," said Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind.
The new funding round is led by Starshot Capital, a venture firm which supports high-impact high-growth companies, particularly those addressing climate change.
"Technologies that enable companies to be more profitable and efficient while simultaneously reducing their emissions are critical to addressing the climate crisis," said Jeremy Brewer, managing partner of Starshot Capital. "We are delighted to support Phaidra as they transform the industrial sector."
Starshot is joined by problem-solving organization Helena, a new major investor. Other investors include Ahren Innovation Capital, and Mustafa Suleyman. Existing investors Flying Fish, Section 32, and Character all participated in the round.
"The industrial sector consumes the majority of the world's finite resources. Phaidra's technology represents an opportunity to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time," said Sam Feinburg, Founding Partner at Helena.
Phaidra's mission is to make the industrial sector radically more resource-efficient via self-learning control systems. Every aspect of modern life depends on complex industrial processes (e.g. factories, power plants, data centers) that convert large quantities of raw materials into finished goods. Phaidra's product is a closed-loop AI control system that automatically learns from sensor data and gets better over time at managing these complex industrial facilities. This next generation of truly intelligent control systems will enable large-scale reductions in resource intensity without sacrificing yield or product quality. Phaidra's founding team comes from DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned AI research hub, and the defense and HVAC industry — representing a unique intersection of AI and industrials that defines the company. To find out more, visit https://phaidra.ai.
Starshot Capital supports ambitious entrepreneurs building high-impact high-growth companies. We believe society's greatest challenges, such as climate change, represent outsized opportunities for impact and economic returns. Our mission is to accelerate the work of founders building transformational businesses at the earliest stages by connecting them to key partners, customers, and employees. For more about Starshot Capital, visit https://starshotcapital.com.
Helena is a global problem-solving organization. Through Helena Projects, Helena seeks to implement solutions to critical societal problems. Since its founding in 2015, Helena Projects have included: America In One Room, Factory in the Sky, Shield, The Covid Project, and Energy Vault. To learn more about Helena, visit https://helena.org.
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