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Paul J. Laskow, 73, of Philadelphia, a champion rower in high school, college, and beyond; former chair of the Schuylkill Navy River Restoration Committee; attorney; and retired chief legal officer and corporate secretary of AAA Club Partners, died Friday, June 24, of cardiac shock at Penn Presbyterian Hospital.
Mr. Laskow suffered a heart attack early Tuesday, June 21, while rowing with a friend on the Schuylkill River. Others at the scene saw the emergency and helped the friend move Mr. Laskow to the bank.
A bit too small to compete with the older boys in other sports, Mr. Laskow took to rowing when he was 13 and spent much of the next six decades on the water. He was a 1965 national high school champion with the La Salle College High School varsity eight and a 1970 Dad Vail Regatta varsity eight champion while on a rowing scholarship at St. Joseph’s College, now St. Joseph’s University.
He joined the University Barge Club at No. 7 Boathouse Row in the 1970s, rowed every morning for weeks at a time, and collected more medals from age-categorized Masters events. On Saturday, June 18, less than a week before his death, Mr. Laskow won the Masters four with coxswain race and was second in the Masters eights at the Schuylkill Navy Regatta.
“That guy could not sit still,” said his wife, Margaret Meigs. “His super power was direct action. If something had to be done, he did it.”
As longtime chair of the Schuylkill Navy River Restoration Committee, Mr. Laskow was instrumental in having the Schuylkill River finally scheduled for dredging after 23 years of silt accumulation. Beginning in 2013, the project required prodigious fund-raising efforts and delicate negotiations among city, state, federal, and private entities.
In recognition of its success, the committee won the 2019 Clayton Chapman Award from the U. S. Rowing Association for having “consistently served behind the scenes in unrecognized but important roles,” and the dredging is scheduled to begin this month.
“It’s beautiful,” Mr. Laskow told The Inquirer in 2018, referring to the Schuylkill River. “You see the geese floating along, and it all looks fine if you’re here picnicking. You wouldn’t know there’s a problem [about dredging] at all.”
» READ MORE: Dredge the Schuylkill, or risk the lights on Boathouse Row going dark | Paul Laskow
Off the water, Mr. Laskow joined American Automobile Association Mid-Atlantic in 1996 as general counsel of its insurance subsidiaries. Over the next 25 years, he rose to senior vice president and general counsel of AAA Mid-Atlantic and then secretary and general counsel of AAA Club Partners. He retired in 2021.
Born March 5, 1949, in Philadelphia, Mr. Laskow grew up in Warwick Township, near Doylestown, and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from St. Joseph’s in 1970. He joined the Air Force after college and served stateside after declaring as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.
He graduated from Dickinson School of Law, now part of Pennsylvania State University, in 1973, and began his career as a public defender in Doylestown. He earned a master’s degree in urban and regional planning at the London School of Economics in 1976, and went on to work for the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia, Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Insurance Department, and several insurance companies.
“Paul was a truly standup human being,” a friend said in a tribute. “Friends have many stories of his integrity and sense of justice.”
He married Phiania Smith, and they later divorced. He met Meigs in Philadelphia in 1980, and they were married in 1983. They had daughter Sarah, son Nick, and daughter Nellie, and lived in Washington Square West, Fairmount, Chestnut Hill, and Queen Village.
Mr. Laskow was an active member of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia on Arch Street. He wrote editorials in The Inquirer about dredging, rowing, and product liability laws, and was featured in a 2000 article about community gardens and in 2016 about his redecorated condo in Queen Village.
He served on boards at Germantown Friends School, the Stapeley senior living community in Germantown, the Fair Hill Burial Ground in North Philadelphia, the Arch Street Friends Meeting House Preservation Trust, and the Right Angle Club.
At home, he braided the hair of his daughters so it would look just right for school, whipped up intricate birthday dinners, and designed “the most epic sandcastles.” He “instilled in me such a positive attitude about family,” said his daughter, Sarah Sheridan.
He was a good listener, rarely giving advice but usually moving the conversation toward a conclusion, said his daughter, Nellie. “He listened in a way that made you think,” she said.
His son, Nick, said: “Our dad very expressly and emphatically loved his family, his friends, and mankind.”
In addition to his wife, children, and former wife, Mr. Laskow is survived by five grandchildren, two brothers, and other relatives. A sister died earlier.
A memorial service was held Wednesday, July 13.
Donations in his name may be made to Philadelphia City Rowing, 450 Plymouth Rd., Suite 305, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. 19462, and St. James School, 3217 West Clearfield St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19132. | https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/paul-laskow-obituary-schuylkill-river-rowing-lasalle-st-josephs-20220719.html | 2022-07-19T20:23:40Z | https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/paul-laskow-obituary-schuylkill-river-rowing-lasalle-st-josephs-20220719.html | false |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) (the "Company"), a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries and a leading provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients through FNF's wholly-owned subsidiary, F&G, will release second quarter 2022 earnings after the close of regular market trading on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. A conference call to discuss the results will follow at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Those wishing to participate via the webcast should access the call through FNF's Investor Relations website at www.fnf.com. Those wishing to participate via the telephone may dial-in at 1-877-407-0784 (USA) or 1-201-689-8560 (International). The conference call replay will be available via webcast through FNF's Investor Relations website at www.fnf.com. The telephone replay will be available from 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 3, 2022, through August 10, 2022, by dialing 1-844-512-2921 (USA) or 1-412-317-6671 (International). The access code will be 13730096.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) is a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries. FNF is the nation's largest title insurance company through its title insurance underwriters - Fidelity National Title, Chicago Title, Commonwealth Land Title, Alamo Title and National Title of New York - that collectively issue more title insurance policies than any other title company in the United States. More information about FNF can be found at www.fnf.com.
F&G is part of the FNF family of companies. F&G is committed to helping Americans turn their aspirations into reality. F&G is a leading provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients and is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, please visit www.fglife.com.
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Hyderabad: PJTSAU signs 3 MoUs to promote State farmers' interests
The Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with three national and international institutions here on Tuesday.
Hyderabad: The Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with three national and international institutions here on Tuesday. The MoUs were executed by the Registrar PJTSAU, Dr S Sudheer Kumar and Prof Rajeev Varshney, International Chair, Murdoch University, Australia, Mithun Chand, director, Kaverieeds, Secunderabad, and P Laxminarayana, Managing Director, Ag. Bio Systems, Hyderabad,
in the presence of Vice-Chancellor Dr V Praveen Rao. Officers of PJTSAU, representatives of the three institutions were present. The first MoU between "Murdoch" and "PJTSAU" seeks collaboration to promote advancement of international understanding, dissemination of learning and strengthening of cultural ties.
The parties desired to have a generic MOU to create a foundation from which such collaboration may be developed. They are planning to initiate dual degree programmes. The M o U between PJTSAU and Kaveri Seeds desires to establish collaborative programmes to advance scientific knowledge, capacity building, and student exchange and to design and conduct collaborative research projects subject to approvals from the regulatory agencies to enable introduction of high-performing crops in Indian markets.
Through the MoU, Ag. Bio Systems and PJTSAU intend to support each other in facilities sharing, carrying out collaborative research in biological pest and disease management, PG and PhD research guidance and advisory and student exchange.
Ag Bio systems are pioneers in designing several novel products of biological origin in controlling dreadful crop pests. The major focus is to replace chemicals in pest and disease management, control fungal and bacterial diseases in high value and export crops. Speaking at the event, Dr Praveen Rao said through these partnerships students and faculty will benefit immensely for initiate collaborative research programmes for the larger interest of the State farmers. | https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/hyderabad-pjtsau-signs-3-mous-to-promote-state-farmers-interests-754250 | 2022-07-19T20:24:07Z | https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/hyderabad-pjtsau-signs-3-mous-to-promote-state-farmers-interests-754250 | false |
PITTSBURGH, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- F.N.B. Corporation (NYSE: FNB) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $18.13 per share (equivalent to $0.45325 per depositary share or 1/40th interest per share) on F.N.B. Corporation's Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series E (NYSE: FNB PRE). The dividend is payable on August 15, 2022, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on July 29, 2022.
About F.N.B. Corporation
F.N.B. Corporation (NYSE: FNB), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a diversified financial services company operating in seven states and the District of Columbia. FNB's market coverage spans several major metropolitan areas including: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham and the Piedmont Triad (Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point) in North Carolina; and Charleston, South Carolina. The Company has total assets of $42 billion and more than 340 banking offices throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, D.C. and Virginia.
FNB provides a full range of commercial banking, consumer banking and wealth management solutions through its subsidiary network which is led by its largest affiliate, First National Bank of Pennsylvania, founded in 1864. Commercial banking solutions include corporate banking, small business banking, investment real estate financing, government banking, business credit, capital markets and lease financing. The consumer banking segment provides a full line of consumer banking products and services, including deposit products, mortgage lending, consumer lending and a complete suite of mobile and online banking services. FNB's wealth management services include asset management, private banking and insurance.
The common stock of F.N.B. Corporation trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "FNB" and is included in Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 Index with the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) Regional Banks Sub-Industry Index. Customers, shareholders and investors can learn more about this regional financial institution by visiting the F.N.B. Corporation website at www.fnbcorporation.com.
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Personal finance course to be required in the future for high school graduation in S. Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) – Students in South Carolina will be required in the future to learn skills like managing credit cards and filing taxes to get their diplomas.
“I think it’s so important to try to teach some of these fundamental skills to these kids as soon as they can, so they just get off on the right foot,” personal finance teacher Bill Joy told WIS.
Joy teaches the course to sophomore students and covers units on budgeting, checking, savings and more.
“We actually teach kids how to prepare taxes, and actually some of those kids have gone on to prepare taxes for their parents. So, these are the type of sort of life skills that I think are really valuable,” Joy said.
A law written into the current state budget directs the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) to develop the regulations for a required high school course in personal finance by the end of September, which will then be approved by the State Board of Education.
“We all understand our students need this. They need the foundation and the background knowledge and the schema and the financial literacy, rather than finding it out when it’s too late,” David Mathis, the deputy superintendent for SCDE’s Division of College and Career Readiness, said.
Those regulations include how the half-credit requirement will fit in with the 24 credits needed to graduate and which graduating class will be the first that will have to pass the course to earn their diplomas.
Mathis said they want to be able to offer different options for students to complete this requirement, which could include taking the course virtually, as an elective, or as part of their career and technology education requirement.
The new personal finance requirement will not be in place for the upcoming school year, as Mathis said it could take around a year just to develop the course standards.
“Once that is done, we have to build the coursework around that. We have to secure materials and resources that districts can choose from,” Mathis said.
The Department of Education will also have to work in time for professional development and to train teachers on the new course.
Personal finance is a required course to graduate high school in more than a dozen states, including most in the southeast.
Among neighboring states, North Carolina already has a personal finance requirement in place, while Georgia just passed a law this year adding it.
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A nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods, according to a study.
A report released Tuesday by the Cook County treasurer’s office proposes scrapping or modifying Illinois’ Scavenger Sale law in favor of tax-cutting and other programs that may allow homeowners of color to accumulate generational wealth.
Other recommendations include making lists of available property open to the public, pushing for legislation lowering the interest rate applied by Cook County to delinquent property tax payments and allowing property owners to make partial payments to satisfy tax liens.
“The biggest problems are the liens on the property,” said Hal Dardick, the study’s author. “By the time (properties) get to the sale, many are delinquent, decaying. You have to pay the taxes when you don’t even own the home.”
Treasurer Maria Pappas expects the study to be filed in the coming weeks with the county board and shared with the state Assembly and Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
The study lays blame for the deterioration of many neighborhoods of color and the exodus of Blacks from Chicago on federal and banking policies called redlining, the practice of banks discriminating against racial minorities or certain neighborhoods.
Last October, the Justice Department announced a cross-government effort to investigate and prosecute redlining.
The Scavenger Sale law was meant to be “a solution to redlining, but it didn’t work because it didn’t solve redlining and the underlying lack of generational wealth” among Black families, Pappas said.
After home foreclosures spiked during the Great Depression, the federal government revamped mortgage lending laws in an effort to prevent future economic crises.
The now-defunct federal Home Owners’ Loan Corp. drew up “security maps” between 1935 and 1940 that graded the prospects — from best to worst — of mortgage lending in 239 cities across the United States. Areas deemed high lending risks were drawn in red and most often were majority Black neighborhoods.
“Vast numbers of vacant lots, abandoned homes and boarded-up businesses in minority neighborhoods lie in areas where the U.S. government had discouraged mortgages,” the Cook County study says.
Under the Illinois’ Scavenger Sale, which was started in 1943 by the Illinois General Assembly, properties with three or more years of unpaid taxes over a 20-year span land on the auction list.
Of the 27,358 houses and vacant lots offered at the county’s 2022 Scavenger Sale, 14,085 fell within the boundaries of a security map of the Chicago area. Most of those 14,085 properties were redlined, the study’s data shows.
More than 72% of the 27,358 properties were in predominantly Black wards and suburbs. Only 7,636 received bids.
The Scavenger Sale has proved inadequate in restoring distressed properties in communities that have long suffered from housing discrimination, from redlining to scant mortgage lending and below-value mortgage appraisals in minority communities, according to Pappas, who called it frustrating for residents.
“You end up giving up because there is no easy route to success,” she said. “You’re exasperated, and for African Americans who are already discouraged by what’s happened in their neighborhood it’s doubly defeating. It becomes generationally defeating. There is nothing to pass on to the grandkids.”
The study also looks at similar patterns in Detroit, Philadelphia and other cities.
In Philadelphia, about 82% of 6,167 publicly available properties within the boundaries of that city’s federal lending map and held by the Philadelphia Housing Development Corp. were redlined.
Of the more than 75,500 distressed properties held as of April by the Detroit Land Bank Authority, nearly 71,500 were in federal Home Owners’ Loan Corp. mapped areas. The Cook County study found that 23,967 — about 33.5% — of those properties were redlined.
“The impact (of redlining) is what you can still see today,” said Anika Goss, president and chief executive of Detroit Future City, a nonprofit tasked with implementing a 50-year framework for the city.
“It’s not just housing and commercial redevelopment, but also infrastructure redevelopment,” Goss said. “These are places that have been blighted for many, many years — where the infrastructure is extraordinarily poor. You can see vulnerable lighting, poor streetscapes, poor sidewalks — all the things that make up a neighborhood of value.”
Detroit has demolished more than 20,000 houses and other structures since 2014 and, along with its Land Bank Authority, has been aggressive in making homes and land available to people wanting to move into the city or already living there.
About 21,000 side lots have been sold to residents, putting the land back on Detroit’s tax rolls, according to John Roach, spokesman for Mayor Mike Duggan.
Nearly 16,000 structures have been auctioned or sold through programs. There’s also a buyback program that allows people living in a house going through foreclosure to receive the deed for $1,000 and remain in the home.
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Williams reported from Detroit. He is a member of AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/report-illinois-property-law-fails-to-end-redlining-impact/ | 2022-07-19T20:28:55Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/report-illinois-property-law-fails-to-end-redlining-impact/ | true |
BOULDER CITY, Nev. — A blast shook the Hoover Dam on Tuesday after a transformer on the Arizona side caught fire. Authorities confirmed that the transformer fire was quickly extinguished, and no injuries were reported.
Officials with Boulder City in Nevada have confirmed that first responders were on their way for an emergency call at the Hoover Dam, but the fire was extinguished before the department arrived on scene.
Users on social media captured footage of the explosion and fire.
The Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees the Hoover Dam, said that a transformer at the dam caught fire and was extinguished by the on-site fire brigade.
No injuries were reported, and there is no risk to the power grid, the Bureau of Reclamation said.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety said that traffic to US 93 is unaffected by the fire. There are no road closures related to the events at the dam.
The Bureau of Reclamation is currently investigating the cause of the fire. Stay with 12News as we continue to update you with more information.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at increasing the flow of information to families of Americans detained abroad and at imposing sanctions on the criminals, terrorists or government officials who hold them captive.
It is unclear if the new order will result in bringing home more Americans jailed in foreign countries, but senior Biden administration officials who previewed the action to reporters said they regard it as an important way to raise the cost of hostage-taking and to punish captors.
The executive order is being announced as the administration faces criticism from some families over a perceived lack of creativity and aggressiveness in getting their loved ones home. It also comes as the ongoing detention in Russia of WNBA star Brittney Griner has brought increased attention to the population of Americans who are jailed abroad and designated by the U.S. as wrongfully detained.
The action relies on a section of the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act — named after a retired FBI agent who vanished in Iran 15 years ago and is now presumed dead — that authorizes the president to impose sanctions, including visa revocations, on people believed to be involved in the wrongful detention of Americans.
In this case, officials said, that could apply to government officials or to criminals or terrorists unaffiliated with a government. Since sanctions may not always help facilitate a jailed American's release — Russia's invasion of Ukraine, for instance, has proceeded despite a wave of economic sanctions from Western allies — such punishment is expected to be used judiciously, according to one official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration.
Another element of the order will direct federal agencies to do better at sharing information and intelligence with families of detainees about the latest status of their case and efforts to get their loved one home.
In addition, the State Department is adding a new risk indicator to its country-specific travel advisories to warn travelers about nations where there's believed to be an elevated risk of detention.
The department already uses foreign travel risk indicators for categories including crime, health and kidnapping. Officials said the new risk indicator, marked as “D” for detention, will be applied at least initially to the following countries: Burma, China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela.
Relatives of jailed Americans are gathering in Washington, D.C., this week for the unveiling of a mural to honor the detainees. Administration officials would not say whether Biden would meet with the families.
Jonathan Franks, a spokesman for the Bring Our Families Home Campaign, a group that advocates for the interests of hostages and detainees, said in a statement that the “families continue to await a reply to their requests for meetings with President Biden.”
Franks said that rather than engaging with the families in a meaningful way, “the White House is taking executive action to direct itself to follow existing law.” | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-order-sanctions/507-c0c9a35c-1408-4c83-b2d9-a53357956abb | 2022-07-19T20:31:06Z | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-order-sanctions/507-c0c9a35c-1408-4c83-b2d9-a53357956abb | false |
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WASHINGTON — More than half a billion dollars will be up for grabs in Tuesday night's Mega Millions jackpot.
Just hours before Tuesday's drawing, the lottery announced that due to strong ticket sales the top prize had grown to an estimated $555 million. If won at that level, it would be the fifth-largest prize in the game's 20-year history. The lump sum cash option is $316.9 million.
No one won last Friday's jackpot, which was an estimated $480 million.
The Mega Millions jackpot has steadily grown since someone last won in mid-April.
While the prize money is certainly life changing, it's far from breaking lottery records. Last year, a Mega Millions jackpot cracked the $1 billion mark for just the second time. A four-member suburban Detroit lottery club won that $1.05 billion jackpot and chose the lump sump, receiving $557 million after taxes.
The Mega Millions drawing is on Tuesday, July 19 at 11 p.m. ET.
What are the top 10 biggest Mega Millions jackpots?
1. $1.537 billion - 10/23/2018
2. $1.050 billion - 1/22/2021
3. $656 million - 3/30/2012
4. $648 million - 12/17/2013
5. $555 million - - (est.) 7/19/2022
6. $543 million - 7/24/2018
7. $536 million - 7/8/2016
8. $533 million - 3/30/2018
9. $522 million -6/7/2019
10. $516 million - 5/21//2021
Mega Millions is played on Tuesdays and Fridays in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Earlier this month, someone in Vermont won a $366 million Powerball jackpot after purchasing a ticket at a Jolley Short Stop convenience store, according to the Vermont Lottery. It was the first time in Powerball history that a jackpot-winning ticket had been sold in the state. The Vermont winner, who has yet to come forward to claim their prize, can either take the full sum in increments or opt for the lump sum of $208.4 million. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/mega-millions-jackpot-jumps-to-555-million-july-19/507-fc86a264-91b3-4c88-885a-afbf94c3ad91 | 2022-07-19T20:32:33Z | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/mega-millions-jackpot-jumps-to-555-million-july-19/507-fc86a264-91b3-4c88-885a-afbf94c3ad91 | false |
Which school hygiene products are best?
From kindergarten kids running around the playground to high schoolers sitting in the cafeteria, schools are full of places for germs to reside.
Most germs are harmless, but nobody likes to catch a cold or flu. Keeping your kids safe from germs means ensuring they won’t miss any school time or risk feeling unwell simply due to lack of hygiene.
There are lots of things you can do to send your kid off to school fully equipped to deal with germs.
Where do kids come into contact with germs at school?
The more an item is touched by other people in the school, the more likely it is that germs such as bacteria will be present on its surface.
Common surfaces that are contaminated with germs in schools include:
- Door handles
- Desks
- Cafeteria tables
- Locker handles
- Borrowed items (pens, calculators, etc.)
Kids may also swap or touch each other’s devices during the school day, especially their cell phones. In fact, one study published by the National Institutes of Health found the average student’s mobile phone surface contained over 17,000 types of germs, some of which were pathogenic, meaning they have the potential to cause illness.
Hygiene practices to teach your kid for school
The most important hygiene information to teach your child is how to wash their hands. This includes how to wash their hands effectively and how frequently they should wash them.
Kids should wash their hands every time they use the restroom and before mealtimes to avoid germs as much as possible. They can also learn to avoid using other student’s items, such as books or tablets. If they absolutely need to do so, they can wash or sanitize their hands afterward. You can learn more about hand sanitizers in the full buying guide by BestReviews.
What’re the best kids’ school hygiene products to buy?
Top hand sanitizers for school
Crayola Hand Sanitizer for Kids
What you need to know: This cool, compact and fun-looking antibacterial gel keeps young kid’s hands safe and clean all day long.
What you’ll love: The antibacterial gel kills up to 99.99% of common germs and isn’t tough on skin.
What you should consider: The design and style of this product means that it may not be suitable for older kids.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Kikiflower Hand Sanitizer Bracelet
What you need to know: This fashionable wrist hand sanitizer dispenser means that kids will never forget to keep their hands clean.
What you’ll love: Stylish and practical, this wristwatch can be refilled and used at any time throughout the day.
What you should consider: The design means it may be more suitable for older kids who have fully developed fine motor skills.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
SOAPEN Kids’ Roll-On Hand Soap
What you need to know: The soap pen offers kids the chance to escape the boredom of washing their hands for 20-30 seconds by allowing them to draw on the soap before they wash it off.
What you’ll love: The soap pen is non-toxic, non-staining, portable and extremely fun for kids between preschool and big school.
What you should consider: While users suggest that the pens are great and fun, some have pointed out the soap needs a good rinse after use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top disinfectant wipes for kids at school
Lysol Disinfectant Handi-Pack Wipes
What you need to know: These conveniently packaged wipes can be put in the school bag and taken to school for conscientious kids to clean down their desks when they arrive.
What you’ll love: These wipes not only kill COVID-19, but they can be used to clean surfaces before touching with the piece of mind that 99.9% of known viruses and bacteria are gone.
What you should consider: This product may not be suitable for young kids.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Care Touch Alcohol-Free Hand Sanitizing Wipes
What you need to know: Dirty hands are gone forever with these gentle, moisturizing and alcohol-free wipes that don’t irritate sensitive skin.
What you’ll love: The alcohol-free wipes are transportable and come with vitamin E to replenish and revitalize skin.
What you should consider: Some users have reported that the wipes can dry out rather quickly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Boogie Wipes Gentle Saline Nose Wipes
What you need to know: Boogie wipes use gentle saline on the skin and aloe, chamomile and vitamin E to give young kids a soft and gentle wipe.
What you’ll love: Boogie wipes were invented by moms and can be used by younger kids who want to keep their hands clean.
What you should consider: It’s unclear how well these wipes work against bacteria and viruses.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
Top resources and tools for helping kids manage germs
Pure Sense Buddy Antimicrobial Kid’s iPad Case
What you need to know: The material of this iPad case is designed to repel bacteria and germs.
What you’ll love: It comes with a handle so your kid can carry their iPad easily, which converts into a stand for watching or typing.
What you should consider: The screen protector provided with the case is a little flimsy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
eZthings Professional UV-C Light
What you need to know: This green cleaning chemical-free UV light can effectively clean surfaces by simply sweeping over them.
What you’ll love: This handy little UV light can fit into school bags and can be used across multiple surfaces.
What you should consider: While this product has many incredible benefits, it may not be as effective as wipes or hand sanitizers for fighting viruses or bacteria.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Travelon Flat-out Hanging Toiletry Bag
What you need to know: This travel bag is the perfect size for your kid’s locker so they can keep any hygiene items they need in one place.
What you’ll love: The bag can easily hang from a hook inside the locker and is big enough to fit other hygiene items, such as toothbrushes and mouthwash if needed.
What you should consider: If your kid’s school does not provide lockers, they may not have a place to store this during the day.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Bed Bath & Beyond
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The leaders of Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) Tuesday urged the central bank to extend the time of Usance Paid At Sight (UPAS) Letter of Credit (LC) or deferred LC payment to 360 days from the existing 180 days as the dollar crisis deepens.
The time limit of payment for industrial raw materials under the deferred LC is 180 days, but it became difficult to pay for the current dollar crisis, BTMA said in a statement on Tuesday.
Mohammad Ali Khokon, President of BTMA, requested the central bank to extend the time of payment to 360 days from 180 days, according to the statement.
Khokon also requested the newly-appointed central bank Governor, Abdur Rouf Talukder, to fix the time to two years for making payment for capital machinery under UPAS, LC.
In response to the BTMA, the central bank Governor said a circular will be published soon by the Bangladesh Bank on increasing the time limit for raw material import from 180 days to 360 days, the BTMA statement also said.
In the meeting, Ahmed Jamal, Deputy Governor of Bangladesh Bank, Harunur Rashid, Additional Director, Md Fazlul Hoque, Vice-President of BTMA, Md Saleudh Zaman Khan, Syed Enayat Kabir and Razeeb Haider, Estahak Ahmed Saikat, Md Fayazur Rahman Bhuiyan, Rashidul Hasan Rinto, directors, and Monsoor Ahmed, additional director, were also present. | https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=375410 | 2022-07-19T20:35:48Z | https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=375410 | false |
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — This is turning out to be a strong group of rookies on the PGA Tour, including three players with one thing in common down the home stretch: None has won yet.
The lone winner among PGA Tour rookies is Chad Ramey in the Dominican Republic. His only other top-10 finish was in Puerto Rico, both opposite-field tournaments.
Cameron Young is the front-runner with three events left before the tour’s postseason based on two numbers. His runner-up finish in the British Open — his second close call in a major — moved him up to No. 19 in the world. He also is No. 13 in the FedEx Cup.
It’s not just missing a playoff by one shot in the PGA Championship or finishing one back in his links debut at St. Andrews. Young also was runner-up in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera and the Wells Fargo Championship. He has six finishes in the top three.
Right behind is Sahith Theegala, who was a fraction away from two wins this year — a tough finish in the Phoenix Open, a double bogey on the final hole at the Travelers Championship. He was No. 437 in the world when he finished the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. Now he’s at No. 62, and he’s No. 38 in the FedEx Cup.
Davis Riley is playing the 3M Open this week and can join the fray. He lost in a playoff at the Valspar Championship, had two other close calls at Colonial and Mexico and has been so steady this year that he is No. 23 in the FedEx Cup.
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MAJOR CUTS
Fortunes can change quickly in golf, and Louis Oosthuizen can attest to that. A year ago, he had the 54-hole lead in the British Open and was tied going into the final round at the U.S. Open. He was runner-up at the U.S. Open and PGA Championship.
This year, he never played a weekend at a major.
Oosthuizen was the only player who played all four majors without making the cut. That includes a withdrawal after the first round of the Masters with a bad back and a 76.
Rory McIlroy was on the other side. He was the only player to finish in the top 10 at all four majors, not much of a consolation without a trophy to show for it. McIlroy was among 10 players who made the cut in all four majors.
The others were Will Zalatoris, Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick, Hideki Matsuyama, Jon Rahm, Joaquin Niemann, Tony Finau, Patrick Reed and Tyrrell Hatton.
Rahm now has the longest active streak of making cuts in the majors at 13. Harris English had 15 in a row before missing the cut at St. Andrews.
CHAMBERS BAY
Bruce Charlton was one of the lead designers on the construction of Chambers Bay, with the intention it would become a regular in the rotation of USGA championships.
Chambers Bay, where Jordan Spieth won the 2015 U.S. Open, hosts its fourth USGA championship in early August with the U.S. Women’s Amateur.
“I’m really anxious to see how the USGA sets it up for the women players to take some attack angles because there’s a lot of that out there,” said Charlton, the president and chief design officer of Robert Trent Jones II Golf Architects. “It’ll be fun to watch that.”
But its future beyond this championship remains as cloudy as the Seattle area in the fall.
Chambers Bay believed it was going to be part of a progression that potentially would lead it back to another U.S. Open. The public course held the USGA Four-Ball Amateur last year and was widely praised. It was the first event on renovated greens that were the ire of players — and an eyesore for spectators — during the 2015 Open.
Next up is the Women’s Amateur, which was thought to be followed by a Women’s Open. But when the USGA announced future Women’s Open sites earlier this year and went out through 2031 — and in some years beyond — Chambers Bay was nowhere to be found.
Charlton said while there was disappointment, he remains hopeful one of the major USGA championships will return to the course.
“I really do believe it’s a matter of time. Obviously, you would like to see that kind of major championship come back and test the course again. I think it will,” Charlton said. “Indications are that it’s still very strong in the consideration for those kinds of championships. … We know it’s on the radar screen.”
PAYNE STEWART AWARD
Billy Andrade has been selected to receive the Payne Stewart Award this year, which has become one of the highest honors for PGA Tour players.
The award honors Stewart, who died in a plane crash in October of 1999, the year he won the U.S. Open. It is given to players to demonstrate character, sportsmanship and a commitment to charity.
“It’s very special. Payne was unbelievable to me and I got to know him very well. I’m speechless really, to think that now I’m part of this elite group of past recipients who have all done it the right way,” Andrade said.
After winning his first PGA Tour title in 1991, Andrade joined with fellow Rhode Islander Brad Faxon to create the Billy Andrade/Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc. for southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It has generated more than $30 million through its various efforts, which include the CVS Health Charity Classic.
Each May at East Lake Golf Club, which hosts the Tour Championship, Andrade and fellow Atlanta resident Stewart Cink host the East Lake Invitational, a charity pro-am that benefits neighborhood revitalization efforts.
Andrade will be honored Aug. 23, the Tuesday night before the Tour Championship.
DOUBLE THE PLEASURE
Marc Hammer of Germany moved up 734 spots in the world ranking to No. 380 by winning twice in the same week.
Hammer won the Weihenstephan Open on the German-based Pro Golf Tour, where Martin Kaymer long ago got his start. That ended last Tuesday. And then he played the Euram Bank Open in Austria on Europe’s Challenger Tour. That ended Sunday.
The good news for Hammer? Now that he’s won on the Challenge Tour, he is exempt.
“This win shows me that I am doing the right things and I am on the right track,” Hammer said. “I’m so happy because now I can play Challenge Tour every week instead of Pro Golf Tour.”
DIVOTS
Rory McIlroy had 10 two-putt birdies for the week at St. Andrews, a record for the Old Course in the British Open. … The PGA Tour Champions has its final major of the year at the Senior British Open with a chance to have five different winners. That hasn’t happened since 2011 … With her team title in Michigan, Jennifer Kupcho has three LPGA Tour titles this year to lead the tour. She has pulled to within 292 points of Minjee Lee in the Race to CME Globe. … Only three players from the top 10 in the FedEx Cup have played 20 or more tournaments this season — Scottie Scheffler, Sam Burns and Will Zalatoris.
STAT OF THE WEEK
For the first time since the Masters began, the four professional majors were won by different players all in their 20s — Masters champion Scottie Scheffler (25), PGA champion Justin Thomas (29), U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick (27) and British Open champion Cameron Smith (28).
FINAL WORD
“When you win golf tournaments, you have friends that you didn’t even know were friends.” — British Open champion Cameron Smith.
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AP Sports Writer Tim Booth in Seattle contributed to this report.
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By SEUNG MIN KIM, CHRIS MEGERIAN and MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Massachusetts on Wednesday to promote his efforts to combat climate change but will stop short of issuing an emergency declaration that would unlock federal resources to deal with the issue, according to a person familiar with the president’s plans.
Biden has been under pressure to issue an emergency declaration after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., pulled out of negotiations over climate legislation. Biden has been trying signal to Democratic voters that he’s aggressively tackling global warming at a time when some of his supporters have despaired about the lack of progress.
During his visit to Somerset, Mass., Biden could announce other steps on climate change but the White House has not released details. He has pledged to push forward on his own in the absence of congressional action.
The person familiar with Biden’s intention to hold off on making an emergency declaration spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plans publicly. It was not clear whether an emergency declaration remained under consideration for later action.
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Actress Emilia Clarke is opening up after she suffered two aneurysms.
The "Game of Thrones" star spoke about the experience during an interview with BBC's "Sunday Morning."
She recalled suffering life-threatening aneurysms in 2011 and 2013 that left her in excruciating pain.
The actress said that although she's missing "quite a bit" of her brain now, she can live a completely normal life.
Clarke added that she's incredibly grateful for her recovery.
She said the show lifted her and gave her purpose during that time. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/entertainment/got-star-emilia-clarke-opens-up-after-suffering-two-aneurysms | 2022-07-19T20:37:14Z | https://www.abcactionnews.com/entertainment/got-star-emilia-clarke-opens-up-after-suffering-two-aneurysms | false |
Personal finance course to be required in the future for high school graduation in S. Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) – Students in South Carolina will be required in the future to learn skills like managing credit cards and filing taxes to get their diplomas.
“I think it’s so important to try to teach some of these fundamental skills to these kids as soon as they can, so they just get off on the right foot,” personal finance teacher Bill Joy told WIS.
Joy teaches the course to sophomore students and covers units on budgeting, checking, savings and more.
“We actually teach kids how to prepare taxes, and actually some of those kids have gone on to prepare taxes for their parents. So, these are the type of sort of life skills that I think are really valuable,” Joy said.
A law written into the current state budget directs the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) to develop the regulations for a required high school course in personal finance by the end of September, which will then be approved by the State Board of Education.
“We all understand our students need this. They need the foundation and the background knowledge and the schema and the financial literacy, rather than finding it out when it’s too late,” David Mathis, the deputy superintendent for SCDE’s Division of College and Career Readiness, said.
Those regulations include how the half-credit requirement will fit in with the 24 credits needed to graduate and which graduating class will be the first that will have to pass the course to earn their diplomas.
Mathis said they want to be able to offer different options for students to complete this requirement, which could include taking the course virtually, as an elective, or as part of their career and technology education requirement.
The new personal finance requirement will not be in place for the upcoming school year, as Mathis said it could take around a year just to develop the course standards.
“Once that is done, we have to build the coursework around that. We have to secure materials and resources that districts can choose from,” Mathis said.
The Department of Education will also have to work in time for professional development and to train teachers on the new course.
Personal finance is a required course to graduate high school in more than a dozen states, including most in the southeast.
Among neighboring states, North Carolina already has a personal finance requirement in place, while Georgia just passed a law this year adding it.
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BALTIMORE — A University of Maryland, Baltimore County Police officer was accused of setting four fires on campus while on duty since December.
Walter T. Christopher, 36, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of arson.
Christoper has been indicted on 12 counts, including second-degree arson, second-degree malicious burning and malicious destruction of property.
He is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center without bond.
UMBC said Christopher has been with the UMBC police department for two years. He has been suspended and moved to non-officer status pending an outcome of the judicial system, the school said.
"When several arson incidents were reported on campus beginning in December 2021, UMBC Police immediately worked with the State Fire Marshal to investigate," UMBC said in a statement. "Today, based on the results of this joint investigation, the Office of the State Fire Marshal arrested Walter Christopher, who has been a member of the UMBC Police force for two years, on charges related to the reported arsons. Mr. Christopher has been suspended and moved to non-officer status pending an outcome in the judicial system." | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/umbc-police-officer-arrested-for-setting-four-fires-on-campus-while-on-duty | 2022-07-19T20:37:25Z | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/umbc-police-officer-arrested-for-setting-four-fires-on-campus-while-on-duty | true |
Chipotle is closing a Maine store that had been leading efforts to unionize the chain.
Employees at the Augusta, Maine, Chipotle filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board in June asking to hold a union election at the store. It was the first of the Mexican food chain's stores to file such a petition, according to NLRB filings.
The NLRB had scheduled a hearing Tuesday on Chipotle’s objections to the union election. But early Tuesday, Chipotle announced it was permanently closing the store.
Labor organizers say they will fight the closure. They say Chipotle is retaliating for their unionization efforts and trying to send a message to other stores that might try to unionize.
“We’re calling this union busting 101,” said Jeffrey Young, an attorney for Chipotle United, the group that was trying to unionize the Augusta store.
But Chipotle said the closure was due to staffing issues and not related to union activity.
“Chipotle respects our employees’ rights to organize,” said Laurie Schalow, Chipotle’s chief corporate affairs officer, in a statement.
The closure comes amid a broader unionization push across the country. Chipotle United has said it was inspired by labor organizers at Starbucks, who have unionized more than 180 U.S. stores since late last year. Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York also voted to unionize in the spring
Newport Beach, California-based Chipotle said the Augusta store had been closed to the public since June 17 because of staffing issues. The company said it was facing “excessive” absences and lack of availability from existing staff and was having a hard time finding managers for the store.
Chipotle said the store’s workers will receive severance pay and assistance finding new jobs. Young said there were about 20 workers at the store.
Young said inadequate staffing at the store is one of the chief complaints of union organizers. Chipotle United plans to ask the NLRB to file an injunction that would prevent Chipotle from closing the Augusta store and allow the union election to go forward.
Starbucks has also been criticized by labor organizers for closing stores that have unionized, including a store it shuttered last month in Ithaca, New York.
Unlike Starbucks' unionization effort, which is backed by the larger Workers United union, Chipotle United is an independent organization.
But big unions are also backing organizing efforts at Chipotle. The Teamsters filed a unionization petition with the NLRB this month on behalf of workers at a Chipotle store in Lansing, Michigan. There is also a group called Chipotle Workers Union that is backed by the Service Employees International Union.
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Texas is barred from enforcing new restrictions on voter assistance
Parts of a 2021 Texas voting law that cracked down on assistance for voters with limited English skills and voters with disabilities can no longer be enforced.
A federal judge in Texas issued a ruling last month striking down provisions in Texas' new law, known as Senate Bill 1, that set limits on how people can help voters cast their ballots. State officials had until last week to appeal the ruling, but they declined. The office of the Texas attorney general has not responded to requests for comment.
Lisa Snead, a litigation attorney at Disability Rights Texas, said the court decision is a big win for voters with disabilities in the state.
"The provision of SB 1 limiting assistance ... really limited what voters with disabilities could receive," she said. "And it had a grave impact on voters who tried to vote in ... elections in March and May."
The wide-ranging Texas law was among measures passed in Republican-led states across the country after the 2020 election that added new restrictions to voting.
Among its provisions, SB 1 restricted assistance to only reading the ballot for a voter, marking the ballot for a voter, directing the voter to read the ballot and directing the voter to mark the ballot.
Groups including the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund went to federal court and argued that the voter assistance parts of SB 1 directly violate a 2018 injunction that ruled that similar limitations in Texas' election code at the time violated the federal Voting Rights Act. The court agreed and also directed the state to change its training for voting assistants.
In addition, the court barred Texas from including those restrictions in the language of an oath an assistor must swear to when helping voters. SB 1 requires people aiding voters to fill out paperwork disclosing their relationship with the voter and whether they are compensated. It also requires they recite an oath under the penalty of perjury stating they did not "pressure or coerce" the voter into choosing them for assistance.
Debbie Chen with Organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Houston, which was the plaintiff in the 2018 case, said in a statement earlier this month that SB 1 made assistors afraid to answer voters' questions in the state's primary elections.
"Asian American voters with limited English often need to ask questions to understand the ballot and the voting process," Chen said. "This is especially true for people who provide them with assistance and must translate the English ballot and the whole process on the spot."
Snead said that although the court has ensured that voters with disabilities have some of the help they need, there are still other restrictions created by SB 1 that limit access for voters with disabilities. She said that includes a ban on drive-thru voting and restrictions on mail-in ballots.
"We have moved a little back towards folks with disabilities having some of that same access that they had before SB 1," she said. "There is still much to be done. There are still limitations in place, but it's not quite as bad as it was before." | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/19/1112310993/texas-is-barred-from-enforcing-new-restrictions-on-voter-assistance | 2022-07-19T20:39:57Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/19/1112310993/texas-is-barred-from-enforcing-new-restrictions-on-voter-assistance | true |
(Our Auto Expert) — I was one of the first automotive journalists to drive the new Ford Bronco Raptor, in Johnson Valley, where King of the Hammers takes place. One of the most grueling off-road desert events in North America. This vehicle is built specifically for some of those events for high-speed desert racing. The first desert racing-inspired SUV in America. It is powerful, it is fast. We have to get there on the road, So let’s take it for a run.
Before we get to race the Bronco Raptor across the desert, we have to drive through the mountains near Palm Springs. Here is the deal, you can buy off-roading vehicles all day but drive them down the highway and they are all loud, bumpy, and uncomfortable. Interesting enough. This Bronco raptor is none of those. It’s not making a lot of noise, It’s not bumpy at all. Forty-five miles an hour and it’s extremely comfortable to drive.
In fact, this is a better drive on the highway than the regular Bronco. And when they told me that in the presentation, I thought they might have been fibbing. No, not so. The Bronco Raptor leaves, and the factory upgraded for performance on the inside. Now, the interior has some unique features, it has carbon-fiber Accents and bolstered seats, especially for off-roading. Ford gave us some red accents, as well as the big red Bronco name across the passenger side. So that, you know, this is a bronco Raptor.
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US disrupts North Korean hackers that targeted hospitals
NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI and Justice Department recently disrupted the activities of a hacking group that was sponsored by the North Korean government and that targeted U.S. hospitals with ransomware, ultimately recovering half a million dollars in ransom payments and cryptocurrency, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday.
Monaco revealed new details of the attacks during a speech in which she encouraged organizations hit by ransomware to report the crime to law enforcement, both so that officials can investigate and so that they can help victim companies try to get ransom payments back.
In this case, Monaco said, a Kansas hospital that paid a ransom last year after being attacked by ransomware also contacted the FBI, which traced the payment and identified China-based money launderers who assisted the North Korean hackers in cashing out the illicit proceeds. The FBI was able to recover half a million dollars, including the entire ransom payment from the hospital.
“If you report that attack, if you report the ransom demand and payment, if you work with the FBI, we can take action,” Monaco said at the International Conference on Cyber Security, hosted by Fordham University. “We can follow the money and get it back; we can help prevent the next attack, the next victim; and we can hold cybercriminals accountable.”
U.S. officials in 2021 scrambled to confront a wave of high-profile ransomware attacks — in which hackers encrypt or lock up a victim’s data and demand exorbitant sums to return it — including against a crucial fuel pipeline on the East Coast. Though the pace of such large-scale, front-page attacks seems to have slowed, smaller targets — such as hospitals — continue to be affected.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said at the same conference that a particular challenge is that ransomware, once largely the province of garden-variety cyber criminals looking to extort cash, is now being increasingly deployed by hostile governments who are eager for destruction.
“The other thing we’re seeing more and more of is ransomware actors doing more than just locking up the system,” Wray said. “They’re exfiltrating the information, they’re threatening to release your proprietary information.”
This particular variant of ransomware, known as “Maui,” specifically targeted hospitals and public health organizations around the country.
Justice Department officials say the attack on the Kansas hospital, which they did not identify, took place in May 2021 when hackers encrypted the medical center’s files and servers. The hospital paid about $100,000 in Bitcoin to get its data back.
The department said that in addition to recovering the payment from the Kansas hospital, it also got back a payment from a health care provider in Colorado that was affected by the same Maui ransomware variant.
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live: Sydney news: NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet embarks on overseas mission to attract global investment
Here's what you need to know this morning.
Clean energy to be Premier's focus
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is preparing to leave for his first overseas trade trip as the state leader in an attempt to attract global investment.
Mr Perrottet will travel to Japan, India and Korea, with the Minister for Western Sydney Stuart Ayres joining him for the Indian leg of the trip.
His trip is being overshadowed by a parliamentary inquiry investigating how former deputy premier John Barilaro was appointed as the trade commissioner to the Americas.
Mr Barilaro has since withdrawn from the role.
It is Mr Perrottet's first trip abroad for a NSW premier since the borders closed due to COVID-19 and the first for Mr Perrottet since taking office.
He is due to visit the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Hiroshima, Seoul in South Korea and Mumbai and Bengaluru in India.
In India he will be joined by Mr Ayres, who is Minister for Enterprise, Investment and Trade, Minister for Tourism and Sport, and Minister for Western Sydney.
It was expected that trade officials would visit India annually in a new bid to grow business ties.
Women's FIFA countdown
The one year countdown to the FIFA women's World Cup is being celebrated in Sydney this morning.
The world's biggest women's sporting event will be co-hosted for the first time by Australia and New Zealand, and has been expanded to 32 teams.
A "unity pitch" to encourage more women and girls to take up the sport will be unveiled at Sydney's Barangaroo Reserve today.
School employee allegedly faked vaccine
An employee at a school in Sydney's west will face court for providing a fraudulent COVID-19 certificate.
It comes after detectives investigating an organised crime network in the city's south-west searched the woman's home, seizing cash, documents and electronic items.
The 55-year-old has been charged with dealing with the proceeds of crime, obtaining financial advantage by deception and participating in a criminal group activity.
Coercive control draft bill open for consultation
The NSW government is consulting the public over a draft bill to outlaw coercive control ahead of its introduction to parliament.
Last year, a parliamentary committee found coercive control should be criminalised following at least 29 preventable murders of women and children in 2020 alone.
A report, tabled to parliament following the inquiry, found existing state laws did not adequately cover coercive and controlling behaviour.
NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman said it had taken more than a year to get to this point because of the complexity of the issue.
"It's critical that we have consultation to ensure that the reforms only capture very serious incidents of abuse," he said.
"They [should] avoid overreach and that they don't unintentionally endanger the very people in our community that we're seeking to help."
Mr Speakman said the state government was well-advanced to introduce a final bill to parliament in spring.
People can comment on the draft bill on the Have Your Say website.
Patients frustrated with delays
Patients waiting for elective surgery are frustrated at more suspensions and delays due to COVID-19.
Since the pandemic began, already lengthy waits for elective surgery, have blown out further.
The Australian Medical Association wants a national response, with the same resourcing and planning as is provided in the wake of a natural disaster.
Eddy Schaap has been waiting more than a year for surgery for carpel tunnel syndrome, which causes severe pain in his arm.
"When I do work, the pain is there, the discomfort, the tingling is there, pretty much from the shoulder down," Mr Schaap said.
The most recent national data is from the first year of the pandemic and shows wait times increased for almost every surgical procedure. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-20/nsw-premier-dominic-perrottet-overseas-trip-investement/101252098 | 2022-07-19T20:40:57Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-20/nsw-premier-dominic-perrottet-overseas-trip-investement/101252098 | true |
1. What makes you a good candidate to represent Klickitat County?
This election is good for everyone, for the reason that all three of the four candidates of the candidates have the same amount of elected experience which is none, with Mr. Morris being the exception.
I will say I do not have the name recognition in the election, I do not have the money, what I do have is the grit. I am the man on the ground, and I do not want to be elected for myself but rather to be elected for the people of the county. I will not sit and tell people what I will do and will not make empty promises, but I will promise this: I will work harder than anyone else for the county.
I want transparency and unity for the county, also for anyone to be able to contact me and know that I may not be able to do what is asked but to know I will exhaust every avenue while trying to get what they asked done.
I will always be available, and I will work for you to better the county for everyone.
2. The county is facing a structural deficit, prompting a reduction in expenses in the 2022 budget. What solutions do you support to address this issue and why?
I would never support a budget deficit because I would hate to see needed services lost to budget cuts; however, I do know that sometimes they are needed. To combat these cuts, I can see increasing the fines to those that willing breaking the law, and those spending time in our county jail. Also encourage businesses into the area.
I have a mindset to cut the cost of power in our area. We sell the power produced by the dam, the windmills and would be produced by the solar farm to other states and is bought back. Why can’t we have that power to our county? I would like to see county ordinances taxing those projects on county land to get that power to our residents before going to other states, to get power bills as low as possible, with that extra money goods can be bought increasing revenue to the county.
3. Do you support the growth of the renewable energy industry in Klickitat County? Why or why not?
I do support renewable energy; however, there are ways to do so without the solar panel project that is proposed. This project is bad for the environment as a whole while being an eyesore in the county and does not provide power to the residents of the county. In Washington State residents are able to buy solar panels tax free up to a certain amount but otherwise have no incentive to purchase them, I would like to work with the state to find alternatives to make individual solar projects available if people so choose.
Being environmentally conscience will help our county going into the future, renewable energy is a key to being able to accomplish this, large “farms” that sell off produced energy to other states may not be the way to go but working together I am sure we can get it done, and I am always open to your suggestions.
4. What are the greatest challenges Klickitat County faces going forward?
Going forward Klickitat County is facing an identity crisis. Are we a rural county or a rapidly growing area, and are we ready for that? With the rapid influx of people moving to our county, housing has become an issue as well as new vs. established residents. I would like to maintain the feel of a rural county for our residents and keep the area a place to hunt, fish, and explore and to not worry about coming across someone’s land. Communication, need to get cell towers and reliable internet to everyone. We need to be inviting to businesses while still maintaining our rural feel. Taking care of the aging population, I feel there should be a cap on property taxes for the elderly as well as an increase in care for those who must live outside their homes. | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/news/government/rick-esaacson/article_20c24a50-0791-11ed-92e4-1f2368467dd3.html | 2022-07-19T20:42:56Z | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/news/government/rick-esaacson/article_20c24a50-0791-11ed-92e4-1f2368467dd3.html | true |
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 22-year-old man wearing a jail’s GPS-monitoring device was arrested Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of a passenger in a car on I-70 on the east side of Indianapolis, Indiana State Police say.
Eli Hickerson, 30, of Carthage, was a passenger in a red Ford Focus that was eastbound on I-70 from Post Road just after 5:15 p.m. Monday. After being shot, Hickerson was driven to a medical facility about 5 miles east at the Mount Comfort Road exit in Hancock County. He died shortly after arrival at the medical facility.
Police believe the driver of a white box truck fired at the car in a road rage incident. State police did not say whether the driver of the Ford Focus was injured.
Investigators who worked on leads through the night arrested Dion Kimbrough, of Indianapolis, on preliminary charges of murder, and possession of a handgun by a serious violent felon. The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office will determine the formal charges. News 8 has reached out to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office for Kimbrough’s jail-booking photo.
Upon his arrest, state police found Kimbrough was wearing a GPS monitoring device on his ankle. Before he was booked into the Marion County Jail, state police say they discovered an arrest warrant had been issued in an unrelated case.
Online court records show an arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for Kimbrough in relation to a case in which he pleaded guilty in September 2019 to armed robbery. He was sentenced in Marion Superior Court 30 to a year in prison and two years on home detention through the Marion County Community Corrections agency. The arrest warrant issued Tuesday did not clarify what type of violation had happened in the case, according to online court records. As part of the plea agreement, a charge of armed robbery and a charge of battery were dropped.
Lt. Josh Watson, the Indianapolis district commander for Indiana State Police called the work from its detectives and others “an extraordinary effort.” He said in a statement, “They diligently investigated the crime scene, gathered intelligence information and followed each lead meticulously, resulting in the arrest of the person we believe is responsible for this senseless act.”
Indiana State Police Indianapolis District Commander, Lieutenant Josh Watson, said. “This arrest is a result of an extraordinary effort by our detectives, troopers and other assisting police agencies who have worked tirelessly through the night.
A news release from state police Sgt. John Perrine said the case was the 37th interstate shooting that the Indianapolis District have investigated in 2022. That compares to a total of 65 interstate shootings investigated by state police in the Indianapolis area in 2021. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/22-year-old-man-arrested-after-fatal-shooting-in-i-70-road-rage-incident/ | 2022-07-19T20:43:28Z | https://www.wishtv.com/news/crime-watch-8/22-year-old-man-arrested-after-fatal-shooting-in-i-70-road-rage-incident/ | false |
The following statement is attributed to FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D.
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In February 2022, I rejoined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as Commissioner of Food and Drugs, having served in the role five years earlier. Since my return, the agency has taken many significant actions that benefit the public health. Yet at the same time, the agency has confronted a series of challenges that have tested our regulatory frameworks and stressed the agency's operations, prompting me to take a closer look at how we do business.
As a result, for two of the agency's key programs, I have commissioned external agency experts to conduct a comprehensive evaluation for:
The agency's Human Foods Program, including the Office of Food Response and Policy (OFPR), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), as well as relevant parts of the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA)
While America's food supply is safe, and our Foods program experts have significantly contributed to the availability of more nutritious food options for consumers, the program has been stressed by the increasing diversity and complexity of the nation's food systems and supply chain. Fundamental questions about the structure, function, funding and leadership need to be addressed. The agency's inspectional activities related to the program also need to be evaluated, particularly in light of stresses related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Center for Tobacco Products (CTP)
Just over 13 years ago, Congress tasked the FDA with regulating tobacco products. In the ensuing years, we have made important progress and reached regulatory decisions on a broad array of millions of products. But even greater challenges lie ahead as we determine how the agency will navigate complex policy issues and determine enforcement activities for an increasing number of novel products that could potentially have significant consequences for public health. CTP will continue its important work during the evaluation, including review pending applications and take enforcement actions as needed.
I have discussed this evaluation with the relevant leadership of these centers and offices, all of whom welcome the opportunity to work towards organizational excellence. Each of these areas are full of hardworking and talented individuals who have dedicated their careers to working across a variety of scientific, policy, legal and administrative activities. FDA employees deserve the best support possible so they can fulfill their strong commitment to public health – and the American public that we serve.
The Reagan-Udall Foundation, an independent partner organization for the agency, will be working with an external group of experts on the evaluation. The Foundation will report its findings, including an initial assessment of the processes and procedures, resourcing, and organizational structure for the Foods program and CTP, to the agency within 60 business days of initiation. It may take some time to implement any recommended changes, but I am committed to addressing them and communicating them to the public in a timely manner. It is my belief that this effort will continue strengthening the FDA and better position the agency to deal with the many immediate public health issues we are facing, while preparing for the many scientific challenges and fascinating opportunities of the future.
Media Contact: FDA Office of Media Affairs, 301-796-4540
Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
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PITTSBURGH, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- F.N.B. Corporation (NYSE: FNB) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $18.13 per share (equivalent to $0.45325 per depositary share or 1/40th interest per share) on F.N.B. Corporation's Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series E (NYSE: FNB PRE). The dividend is payable on August 15, 2022, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on July 29, 2022.
About F.N.B. Corporation
F.N.B. Corporation (NYSE: FNB), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a diversified financial services company operating in seven states and the District of Columbia. FNB's market coverage spans several major metropolitan areas including: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Cleveland, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham and the Piedmont Triad (Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point) in North Carolina; and Charleston, South Carolina. The Company has total assets of $42 billion and more than 340 banking offices throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, D.C. and Virginia.
FNB provides a full range of commercial banking, consumer banking and wealth management solutions through its subsidiary network which is led by its largest affiliate, First National Bank of Pennsylvania, founded in 1864. Commercial banking solutions include corporate banking, small business banking, investment real estate financing, government banking, business credit, capital markets and lease financing. The consumer banking segment provides a full line of consumer banking products and services, including deposit products, mortgage lending, consumer lending and a complete suite of mobile and online banking services. FNB's wealth management services include asset management, private banking and insurance.
The common stock of F.N.B. Corporation trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "FNB" and is included in Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 Index with the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) Regional Banks Sub-Industry Index. Customers, shareholders and investors can learn more about this regional financial institution by visiting the F.N.B. Corporation website at www.fnbcorporation.com.
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WORCESTER, Mass., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG) today announced Elizabeth A. Ward has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective immediately, and has been appointed to serve on the board's audit committee.
Ward, 57, has served as Chief Financial Officer of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company ("MassMutual"), a mutual life insurance company, since June 2016. She previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Actuary of MassMutual from June 2015 to November 2019, and as Chief Enterprise Risk Officer from November 2007 to May 2016. Prior to joining MassMutual affiliate Babson Capital Management in 2001, Ward worked in investment portfolio management and actuarial roles at American Skandia Life Assurance Company, Charter Oak Capital Management and Aeltus Investment Management, a subsidiary of Aetna Life & Casualty Company.
"Betsy is an accomplished senior executive with broad experience working in the financial services sector," said Cynthia L. Egan, Chair of the Board of Directors at The Hanover. "She brings a vast knowledge of the opportunities and challenges impacting our industry today. We are pleased to welcome Betsy to our board."
Ward received a bachelor's degree in economics and Spanish from the University of Rochester and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. She holds a Professional Risk Manager designation from the Professional Risk Managers' International Association, and is a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. She currently serves on the Federal Advisory Council on Insurance to the Federal Insurance Office of the U.S. Treasury and has led several other industry groups in insurance and risk management. Active in her community and with not-for-profits, Ward is a Trustee on the Board of Trustees at the University of Rochester in New York and a Trustee on the board of the Community Music School of Springfield in Springfield, Mass.
The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is the holding company for several property and casualty insurance companies, which together constitute one of the largest insurance businesses in the United States. The company provides exceptional insurance solutions through a select group of independent agents and brokers. Together with its agent partners, The Hanover offers standard and specialized insurance protection for small and mid-sized businesses, as well as for homes, automobiles, and other personal items. For more information, please visit hanover.com.
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‘Emmanuel, don’t do it’: iPhone-hating emu makes a name for himself in viral videos
(CNN) – An iPhone-hating emu is cracking up the internet and coining a catchphrase.
Emmanuel is an emu who’s made a name for himself.
Whenever Taylor Blake tries to make a video at Knuckle Bump Farms in Florida, where they raise miniature cattle, she’s always getting bumped by the bird.
Blake said the emu is a natural on camera. He’s now gone viral, and he probably thinks his name is “Emmanuel, don’t do it.”
However, after he’s “done it,” the question is:
“Why do you gotta be such a menace, dude?” Blake asks the bird.
Blake said Emmanuel has always had a hatred of two things: phones and buttons.
She said she has even had to resort to the tactic all moms try the dreaded three names: Emmanuel Todd Lopez.
“And he stops in his tracks and kind of looks,” Blake said.
She said she has somehow not lost an iPhone over this yet.
It could be worse. A woman named Amanda at Useless Farm has been pecked repeatedly, suffering minor injuries from their emu, Karen.
“That is some scary stuff she puts up with so all the love and all the props to her,” Blake said.
Speaking of love, Emmanuel is actually crazy about Blake. It’s just the phone he can’t stand.
And with all of the viral Tiktok videos, at least he gets his fill of hearing his name.
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TRENTON — Ji’Ayir Brown is a busy guy these day.
He was back home in Trenton last week for a meet and greet prior to a baseball game, he’s in Indianapolis now for Big Ten football media days, he’ll be back in the capital city this weekend for a youth camp and then he’ll head to preseason practice for his senior season at Penn State.
When you are the ‘Takeaway King’ for one of the top program’s in the country, you are in demand.
“I’m taking it day by day,” Brown said, flashing his megawatt smile. “I don’t really reach too far forward or think too deep in the past. I’m living in the day, living by the moment.”
It’s been quite the rise for the former Trenton High star after a breakout season last fall at Penn State in which he became the first player in that program’s storied history to have six interceptions in a season since 2006.
He’s already being talked about as a potential second or third round pick in the NFL Draft and that’s before he even plays a down this season.
“With all the social media going on, it’s kind of hard not to see it,” Brown said. “I definitely don’t worry about it. My focus for the summer is getting me better physically and mentally, then it’s getting my team better, then it’s winning games. It all comes in a pattern, you can never look too far because you’ll miss something right in front of you.”
That’s also the advice Brown is going to give to youngsters in the city at Saturday’s Education Outweighs Them All Youth Football Clinic from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Trenton High.
“I don’t think we get to see too many guys like me throughout the neighborhood,” Brown said. “Some may even think it’s not possible, but it’s possible. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication, a lot of focus, a lot of patience. But for all the younger guys out there, keep stacking days, keep being patient and keep living in the present.”
Brown will be joined at the camp by Ohio State defensive lineman Taron Vincent and former Florida Atlantic defensive lineman Ray Ellis.
At one time, a young Brown was an EOTA camper himself.
“It’s fantastic,” said longtime Trenton High athletic trainer David Sanderson. “Every year, he comes back. I have the EOTA program and he was in the program all these years just coming up, coming up, coming up and here he is on the big stage.
“That’s how I proposed it for him to come in and give back and for these student-athletes tell them what he needed to go through because he went to Lackawanna and then Penn State. It goes back to let these kids know, ‘hey, man, you can make it out of here and make it to the next level and get your education.'”
Known around town as ‘Poppy’, Sanderson has seen all the greats who have come through Trenton and thinks Brown is right up there among them. He recalls telling Troy Vincent, the Trenton native who was a 14-year NFL vet with five Pro Bowls, about Brown before his junior season.
“I said, ‘watch out for him,’ Poppy exclaimed!
Poppy, of course, was right on.
“I never thought too far ahead,” Brown said. “I took care of what was in front of me and as I took care of what was in front of me this is what ended up being in front of me. Me being this guy I am today.”
What he has in front of him is one final season at Penn State.
A 5-foot-11, 208- pound safety who models his game after former Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor, Brown burst on to the scene with 73 tackles, two fumble recoveries and five pass breakups to go with his six interceptions.
Not only is he expecting big things on the field, he’s a team leader now both on and off it.
“I’m all up for the challenge,” said Brown, who is majoring in Telecommunications and wants to be a sports analyst after his football days are over. “I enjoy having conversations with guys and being the player guys can come talk to if they have something that is football related or not. I just enjoy being there for my guys and know they’ll be there for me.”
Penn State opens its season on Sept. 1 at Purdue and when that game kicks off there will be plenty of kids back home watching No. 16 in the blue and white.
“Coming back to that camp shows the kids that I am real. Some may think I’m not real or something like that,” Brown said. “I am here, a Trenton native, coming back to the city, being that older guy for the younger guys to look up to.” | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/19/trenton-native-and-penn-state-football-star-jiayir-brown-determined-to-show-capital-city-kids-anything-is-possible/ | 2022-07-19T20:49:59Z | https://www.trentonian.com/2022/07/19/trenton-native-and-penn-state-football-star-jiayir-brown-determined-to-show-capital-city-kids-anything-is-possible/ | true |
Correction: This story has been updated to accurately reflect fast food chain’s past offerings.
(WXIN) — Colonel Sanders is adding nuggets to his arsenal.
Right now, KFC is selling chicken nuggets only in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area as a trial run.
The nugs are breaded with KFC’s Original Recipe of 11 herbs and spices and made with 100% white meat, according to a release.
“While nuggets often come in small packages, that doesn’t mean they should have small flavor. We wanted to introduce Nuggets with the flavor and ingredients that live up to our legacy as the original fried chicken experts,” said Nick Chavez, CMO of KFC.
Hungry fans will be able to buy them in either 8-, 12-, or 36-piece packages, and the chicken chain encourages customers to dip the nuggets in any of KFC’s current sauces, including Honey BBQ, KFC Sauce, or Classic Ranch.
The nuggets will be sold for a limited time in the Charlotte area.
According to Yahoo Finance, if the test run goes well, the nuggets will replace popcorn chicken on KFC menus nationwide.
A KFC official told Yahoo it hopes to entice younger customers with the new nugget option. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/kfc-selling-nuggets-for-1st-time-in-company-history/ | 2022-07-19T20:50:35Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/kfc-selling-nuggets-for-1st-time-in-company-history/ | false |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Academy of Country Music Awards is heading south to Texas next year as they return to exclusively live-streaming on Amazon Prime Video in 2023.
The country music awards show will be held on May 11 at the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, an indoor football stadium at team headquarters for the Dallas Cowboys.
The ACM Awards made the streaming switch earlier this year after long being aired on CBS. The March 2022 awards show was held in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium.
The Ford Center seats about 12,000 people and serves as a practice facility for the Cowboys. The ACM Awards were last held in Texas for their 50th anniversary in 2015.
Another change coming next year is new executive producer Raj Kapoor, who takes over from longtime ACM producer R. A. Clark. The ACM Awards are produced by MRC Live & Alternative. | https://www.kxxv.com/news/academy-of-country-music-awards-head-to-texas-on-prime-video | 2022-07-19T20:50:55Z | https://www.kxxv.com/news/academy-of-country-music-awards-head-to-texas-on-prime-video | true |
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Washington County Schools (WCS) has officially named the principal of the new Jonesborough Elementary School.
A release from the school district says Matt Combs has been selected “after careful deliberations.”
“Mr. Combs was chosen for his specific skill set and inherent strengths. Those skills and strengths match the particular needs of the school,” WCS Superintendent Jerry Boyd stated. “As with all decisions I make, this hire was made with a strict focus on student achievement and what is best for the students at Jonesborough Elementary School.”
Combs has served as the principal at the current Jonesborough Elementary for six years. During that time, the school was recognized as a Reward School by the state of Tennessee.
Before assuming his role as Jonesborough Elementary’s principal, Combs held other positions within Washington County. He was an assistant principal at Sulphur Springs Elementary for five years and taught 1st and 4th grads at Boones Creek Elementary. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/washington-county-schools-announce-principal-for-new-jonesborough-elementary/ | 2022-07-19T20:50:58Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/washington-county-schools-announce-principal-for-new-jonesborough-elementary/ | false |
Wall Street rallied on Tuesday to its best day in three weeks as more reports poured in on how much profit companies made during the spring.
The S&P 500 rose 2.8% after a powerful tide carried 99% of the stocks in the index upward. The Dow added 2.4% and the Nasdaq rose 3.1%. Small-company stocks rose even more, pushing the Russell 2000 index up 3.5%.
More types of companies are reporting how much they earned during the spring, broadening out from the banks that dominated the earliest part of the reporting season. Hasbro and Halliburton rose after reporting stronger profits than analysts expected.
As the Associated Press reported, Twitter rose 2.7% after a court in Delaware agreed to quickly schedule a lawsuit that could force billionaire Elon Musk to make good on his agreement to buy the company. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/stocks-sweep-higher-on-wall-street-as-profit-reports-roll-in | 2022-07-19T20:53:36Z | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/stocks-sweep-higher-on-wall-street-as-profit-reports-roll-in | true |
The following statement is attributed to FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D.
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In February 2022, I rejoined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as Commissioner of Food and Drugs, having served in the role five years earlier. Since my return, the agency has taken many significant actions that benefit the public health. Yet at the same time, the agency has confronted a series of challenges that have tested our regulatory frameworks and stressed the agency's operations, prompting me to take a closer look at how we do business.
As a result, for two of the agency's key programs, I have commissioned external agency experts to conduct a comprehensive evaluation for:
The agency's Human Foods Program, including the Office of Food Response and Policy (OFPR), Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), as well as relevant parts of the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA)
While America's food supply is safe, and our Foods program experts have significantly contributed to the availability of more nutritious food options for consumers, the program has been stressed by the increasing diversity and complexity of the nation's food systems and supply chain. Fundamental questions about the structure, function, funding and leadership need to be addressed. The agency's inspectional activities related to the program also need to be evaluated, particularly in light of stresses related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Center for Tobacco Products (CTP)
Just over 13 years ago, Congress tasked the FDA with regulating tobacco products. In the ensuing years, we have made important progress and reached regulatory decisions on a broad array of millions of products. But even greater challenges lie ahead as we determine how the agency will navigate complex policy issues and determine enforcement activities for an increasing number of novel products that could potentially have significant consequences for public health. CTP will continue its important work during the evaluation, including review pending applications and take enforcement actions as needed.
I have discussed this evaluation with the relevant leadership of these centers and offices, all of whom welcome the opportunity to work towards organizational excellence. Each of these areas are full of hardworking and talented individuals who have dedicated their careers to working across a variety of scientific, policy, legal and administrative activities. FDA employees deserve the best support possible so they can fulfill their strong commitment to public health – and the American public that we serve.
The Reagan-Udall Foundation, an independent partner organization for the agency, will be working with an external group of experts on the evaluation. The Foundation will report its findings, including an initial assessment of the processes and procedures, resourcing, and organizational structure for the Foods program and CTP, to the agency within 60 business days of initiation. It may take some time to implement any recommended changes, but I am committed to addressing them and communicating them to the public in a timely manner. It is my belief that this effort will continue strengthening the FDA and better position the agency to deal with the many immediate public health issues we are facing, while preparing for the many scientific challenges and fascinating opportunities of the future.
Media Contact: FDA Office of Media Affairs, 301-796-4540
Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation in an update said the backup on Interstate 95 south of Ashland was six miles long as of 2:56 p.m.
"Continue to use alternate routes and expect delays until further notice," the statement said.
Northbound lanes of Interstate 95 are closed about a mile south of Ashland because of a crash.
The Virginia Department of Transportation in a statement at 1:35 p.m. said there was a three-mile backup.
Lanes are closed at mile marker 91 and traffic is being diverted to Exit 89.
Motorists are being told to find other routes and expect delays.
PHOTOS: 6 easy RVA take-out options for picnics and the pool all summer long
Garnett’s Cafe has a date night and picnic basket. Choose any two menu items, plus a bottle of wine or pitcher of beer for $33. When ordered to-go, it’s already packaged and in a picnic basket with blanket.
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Garnett’s Cafe has a date night and picnic basket. Choose any two menu items, plus a bottle of wine or pitcher of beer for $33. When ordered to-go, it’s already packaged and in a picnic basket with blanket.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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Charcuterie board from RVA Cheese Girl.
RVA Cheese Girl
If you’re looking for a swanky setup, Picnic RVA can pull together a picnic to remember at a variety of Richmond-area locales, such as Maymont, the James River or even your own backyard. Pricing starts at $180 for a two-person picnic.
Picnic RVA
Picnic RVA can set up a whole experience with for anywhere from two to ten people with a table, seating, décor, food, desserts and non-alcoholic beverages. Choose from their list of outdoor destinations, or they can even turn your yard into an outdoor dining oasis. Pricing starts at $180 for a two-person picnic.
Picnic RVA
Arwad is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has chicken kebab over field greens, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, olives, feta, pickled chili peppers, fried crispy pita and lemon-tahini dressing. The bowls are named after cities.
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Sydon with falafel is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has fettoush salad consisting of tomato, cucumber, lettuce, onion, parsley, mint, bell pepper, radish, olive oil, pomegranate molasses and crispy pita. The bowls are named after cities.
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Tyre is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has chicken shawarma, Natalie’s rice, baba ghannouj, hummus, coriander carrots, tabbouleh and sumac blistered tomatoes. The bowls are named after cities.
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Byblos is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has seared shrimp, Natalie’s rice, harissa, tabbouleh, coriander carrots, sumac blistered tomatoes, charred lemon and tahini dressing. The bowls are named after cities.
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Beirut is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has beef ribeye shawarma, Natalie’s rice, harissa, coriander carrots, sumac blistered tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes and tahini dressing. The bowls are named after cities.
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Souvlaki bowls at Stella’s Grocery.
Stella’s Grocery
Salmon Nicoise at Stella’s Grocery.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The InfraCap REIT Preferred ETF (NYSE Arca: PFFR) (the "Fund") has declared a monthly distribution of $0.12 per share ($1.44 per share on an annualized basis). The distribution will be paid July 28, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business July 21, 2022.
PFFR Cash Distribution:
- Ex-Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2022
- Record Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022
- Payable Date: Thursday, July 28, 2022
Infrastructure Capital Advisors expects to declare future dividends on a monthly basis. Distributions are planned, but not guaranteed, for every month. The next distribution is scheduled to occur in August 2022.
For more information about PFFR's distribution policy, its 2022 distribution calendar, or tax information, please visit the Fund's website at www.virtusetfs.com.
About Virtus ETF Advisers
Virtus ETF Advisers is a New York-based, multi-manager ETF sponsor and affiliate of Virtus Investment Partners. With actively managed and index-based investment capabilities across multiple asset classes, Virtus offers a range of complementary exchange-traded-funds subadvised by select investment managers.
About Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC
Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC (ICA) is an SEC-registered investment advisor that manages exchange traded funds and a series of hedge funds. The firm was formed in 2012 and is based in New York City. ICA seeks total-return opportunities in key infrastructure sectors, including energy, real estate, transportation, industrials and utilities. It often identifies opportunities in entities that are not taxed at the entity level, such as master limited partnerships ("MLPs") and real estate investment trusts ("REITs"). It also looks for opportunities in credit and related securities, such as preferred stocks. Current income is a primary objective in most, but not all, of the company's investing activities. The focus is generally on asset-intensive companies that generate and distribute substantial streams of free cash flow. For more information, please visit www.infracapfunds.com.
DISCLOSURE
Fund Risks
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF): The value of an ETF may be more volatile than the underlying portfolio of securities it is designed to track. The costs of owning the ETF may exceed the cost of investing directly in the underlying securities. Preferred Stocks: Preferred stocks may decline in price, fail to pay dividends, or be illiquid. Real Estate Investments: The Fund may be negatively affected by factors specific to the real estate market, including interest rates, leverage, property, and management. Industry/Sector Concentration: A Fund that focuses its investments in a particular industry or sector will be more sensitive to conditions that affect that industry or sector than a non-concentrated Fund. Passive Strategy/Index Risk: A passive investment strategy seeking to track the performance of the underlying index may result in the Fund holding securities regardless of market conditions or their current or projected performance. This could cause the Fund's returns to be lower than if the Fund employed an active strategy. Correlation to Index: The performance of the Fund and its index may vary somewhat due to factors such as Fund flows, transaction costs, and timing differences associated with additions to and deletions from its index. Market Volatility: Securities in the Fund may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual companies and general economic conditions. Price changes may be short or long term. Prospectus: For additional information on risks, please see the Fund's prospectus.
You should consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing. Contact VP Distributors LLC at 1-888-383-4184 or visit www.virtusetfs.com to obtain a prospectus which contains this and other information about the Fund. The prospectus should be read carefully before investing.
Virtus ETF Advisers, LLC serves as the investment advisor and Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC serves as the subadviser to the Fund.
The Fund is distributed by VP Distributors, LLC, member FINRA and subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) (the "Company"), a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries and a leading provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients through FNF's wholly-owned subsidiary, F&G, will release second quarter 2022 earnings after the close of regular market trading on Tuesday, August 2, 2022. A conference call to discuss the results will follow at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Those wishing to participate via the webcast should access the call through FNF's Investor Relations website at www.fnf.com. Those wishing to participate via the telephone may dial-in at 1-877-407-0784 (USA) or 1-201-689-8560 (International). The conference call replay will be available via webcast through FNF's Investor Relations website at www.fnf.com. The telephone replay will be available from 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 3, 2022, through August 10, 2022, by dialing 1-844-512-2921 (USA) or 1-412-317-6671 (International). The access code will be 13730096.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) is a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries. FNF is the nation's largest title insurance company through its title insurance underwriters - Fidelity National Title, Chicago Title, Commonwealth Land Title, Alamo Title and National Title of New York - that collectively issue more title insurance policies than any other title company in the United States. More information about FNF can be found at www.fnf.com.
F&G is part of the FNF family of companies. F&G is committed to helping Americans turn their aspirations into reality. F&G is a leading provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients and is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, please visit www.fglife.com.
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AKRON, Ohio, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) today declared an unchanged quarterly dividend of 39 cents per share of outstanding common stock. The dividend will be payable September 1, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 5, 2022.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp or online at www.firstenergycorp.com.
Forward-Looking Statements: This news release includes forward-looking statements based on information currently available to management. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. These statements include declarations regarding management's intents, beliefs and current expectations. These statements typically contain, but are not limited to, the terms "anticipate," "potential," "expect," "forecast," "target," "will," "intend," "believe," "project," "estimate," "plan" and similar words. Forward-looking statements involve estimates, assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, which may include the following: the potential liabilities, increased costs and unanticipated developments resulting from government investigations and agreements, including those associated with compliance with or failure to comply with the Deferred Prosecution Agreement entered into on July 21, 2021 with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio; the risks and uncertainties associated with government investigations and audits regarding Ohio House Bill 6, as passed by Ohio's 133rd General Assembly (HB 6) and related matters, including potential adverse impacts on federal or state regulatory matters, including, but not limited to, matters relating to rates; the risks and uncertainties associated with litigation, arbitration, mediation, and similar proceedings, particularly regarding HB 6 related matters, including risks associated with obtaining court approval of the definitive settlement agreement in the derivative shareholder lawsuits; weather conditions, such as temperature variations and severe weather conditions, or other natural disasters affecting future operating results and associated regulatory actions or outcomes in response to such conditions; legislative and regulatory developments, including, but not limited to, matters related to rates, compliance and enforcement activity, cybersecurity, and climate change; the ability to accomplish or realize anticipated benefits from our FE Forward initiative and our other strategic and financial goals, including, but not limited to, overcoming current uncertainties and challenges associated with the ongoing government investigations, executing our transmission and distribution investment plans, greenhouse gas reduction goals, controlling costs, improving our credit metrics, growing earnings, and strengthening our balance sheet; the risks associated with cyber-attacks and other disruptions to our, or our vendors', information technology system, which may compromise our operations, and data security breaches of sensitive data, intellectual property and proprietary or personally identifiable information; mitigating exposure for remedial activities associated with retired and formerly owned electric generation assets; the ability to access the public securities and other capital and credit markets in accordance with our financial plans, the cost of such capital and overall condition of the capital and credit markets affecting FirstEnergy, including the increasing number of financial institutions evaluating the impact of climate change on their investment decisions; the extent and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related impacts to our business, operations and financial condition resulting from the outbreak of COVID-19 including, but not limited to, disruption of businesses in our territories, supply chain disruptions, additional costs, workforce impacts and governmental and regulatory responses to the pandemic, such as moratoriums on utility disconnections and workforce vaccination mandates; actions that may be taken by credit rating agencies that could negatively affect either our access to or terms of financing or our financial condition and liquidity; changes in assumptions regarding factors such as economic conditions within our territories, the reliability of our transmission and distribution system, or the availability of capital or other resources supporting identified transmission and distribution investment opportunities; changes in customers' demand for power, including, but not limited to, economic conditions, the impact of climate change, or energy efficiency and peak demand reduction mandates; changes in national and regional economic conditions, including recession and inflationary pressure, affecting FirstEnergy and/or its customers and those vendors with which FirstEnergy does business; the potential of non-compliance with debt covenants in our credit facilities; the ability to comply with applicable reliability standards and energy efficiency and peak demand reduction mandates; changes to environmental laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, those related to climate change; changing market conditions affecting the measurement of certain liabilities and the value of assets held in our pension trusts, or causing FirstEnergy to make contributions sooner, or in amounts that are larger, than currently anticipated; labor disruptions by our unionized workforce; changes to significant accounting policies; any changes in tax laws or regulations, or adverse tax audit results or rulings; and the risks and other factors discussed from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Dividends declared from time to time on FirstEnergy Corp.'s common stock during any period may in the aggregate vary from prior periods due to circumstances considered by FirstEnergy Corp.'s Board of Directors at the time of the actual declarations. A security rating is not a recommendation to buy or hold securities and is subject to revision or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating agency. Each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating. These forward-looking statements are also qualified by, and should be read together with, the risk factors included in FirstEnergy's filings with the SEC, including, but not limited to, the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. The foregoing review of factors also should not be construed as exhaustive. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for management to predict all such factors, nor assess the impact of any such factor on FirstEnergy's business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. FirstEnergy expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise, except as required by law, any forward-looking statements contained herein or in the information incorporated by reference as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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WILMINGTON, Del., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DuPont (NYSE: DD) will release its second quarter 2022 financial results at 6:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 and will hold its earnings conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET that same day.
The event will be webcast live and a replay, along with the earnings release and supporting materials, will be available on DuPont's Investors Relations webpage.
The dial-in phone number for the earnings conference call is (888) 440-4172 toll-free within the U.S. or +1(646) 960-0673 outside the U.S. Conference ID is 5994046.
DuPont (NYSE: DD) is a global innovation leader with technology-based materials and solutions that help transform industries and everyday life. Our employees apply diverse science and expertise to help customers advance their best ideas and deliver essential innovations in key markets including electronics, transportation, construction, water, healthcare and worker safety. More information about the company, its businesses and solutions can be found at www.dupont.com. Investors can access information included on the Investor Relations section of the website at investors.dupont.com.
DuPont™ and all products, unless otherwise noted, denoted with ™, SM or ® are trademarks, service marks or registered trademarks of affiliates of DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
4-2-8
(four, two, eight)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
4-2-8
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MEXICO CITY, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV:FIBRAPL 14), a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, today released its annual environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance report and announced its alignment with Prologis' commitment to achieve net zero emissions across its value chain by 2040.
The report outlines the company's progress toward its ESG goals.
FIBRA is one of nine funding vehicles for Prologis, Inc., the global leader in logistics real estate. Prologis last month announced a net zero commitment for the entire organization.
"We are proud to step up to the ambitious net zero goal set by our sponsor, Prologis, and to deliver this commitment we started with our solar program. This goal enables us to partner with our clients who are on their own journeys to net zero and decarbonization," said Luis Gutierrez, CEO, Prologis Mexico. "At FIBRA Prologis, leading on ESG goes beyond complying with regulations. Our ESG approach is embedded in our culture and how our teams work, which gives us a competitive advantage in the dynamic Mexican logistics market."
The report includes the following highlights:
- Issued two green bonds and a green line of credit linked to sustainability metrics between 2020-2021.
- Included in the S&P/BMV Total Mexico ESG Index for the third consecutive year. Selection criteria is based on core ESG principles against a broad benchmark that comprises entities listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV).
- Installed LED lighting across 67% of the portfolio.
- Obtained sustainability certification for 6.8 million square feet of the operating portfolio.
- Commenced training through Prologis' Community Workforce Initiative and signed a partnership with the Forge Foundation.
- Achieved an employee engagement score of 94% (represents an increase of 100 basis points compared to the previous year).
- Achieved 100% completion of ethics training for all active employees, including FCPA training for non-U.S. colleagues.
ABOUT FIBRA PROLOGIS
FIBRA Prologis is a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico. As of March 31, 2022, FIBRA Prologis was comprised of 227 logistics and manufacturing facilities in six industrial markets in Mexico totaling 43.4 million square feet (4.0 million square meters) of gross leasable area.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry and markets in which FIBRA Prologis operates, management's beliefs and assumptions made by management. Such statements involve uncertainties that could significantly impact FIBRA Prologis financial results. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, which generally are not historical in nature. All statements that address operating performance, events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future — including statements relating to rent and occupancy growth, acquisition activity, development activity, disposition activity, general conditions in the geographic areas where we operate, our debt and financial position, are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Although we believe the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained and therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that may affect outcomes and results include, but are not limited to: (i) national, international, regional and local economic climates, (ii) changes in financial markets, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, (iii) increased or unanticipated competition for our properties, (iv) risks associated with acquisitions, dispositions and development of properties, (v) maintenance of real estate investment trust ("FIBRA") status and tax structuring, (vi) availability of financing and capital, the levels of debt that we maintain and our credit ratings, (vii) risks related to our investments (viii) environmental uncertainties, including risks of natural disasters, (ix) risks related to the coronavirus pandemic, and (x) those additional factors discussed in reports filed with the "Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores" and the Mexican Stock Exchange by FIBRA Prologis under the heading "Risk Factors." FIBRA Prologis undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements appearing in this release.
Non-Solicitation - Any securities discussed herein or in the accompanying presentations, if any, have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or the securities laws of any state and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws. Any such announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities discussed herein or in the presentations, if and as applicable.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio took the first step Tuesday toward suing Indiana’s attorney general for defamation.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who gave the girl a medication-induced abortion on June 30, filed a tort claim notice over what she says are false statements that Attorney General Todd Rokita has made about her and her work.
Bernard received widespread attention after she gave an interview to the Indianapolis Star about the child, who traveled to Indiana from Ohio for the abortion. A so-called fetal heartbeat law took effect in Ohio last month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Such laws ban abortions from the time a fetus’ heartbeat can be detected, which is typically around the sixth week of pregnancy.
A 27-year-old man was charged last week in Columbus, Ohio, with raping the girl, confirming the existence of a case that was initially met with skepticism by some news outlets and Republican politicians.
Bernard’s lawyer, Kathleen DeLaney, filed the “tort claim notice” against Rokita just days after she sent a cease and desist letter. The claim starts a 90-day period for the state to settle it. If it’s not settled, Bernard could file a lawsuit. The claim didn’t say how much money Bernard is seeking, noting that “the harm is ongoing.”
“Mr. Rokita’s false and misleading statements about alleged misconduct by Dr. Bernard in her profession constitute defamation,” the claim reads. “The statements have been and continue to be published by or on behalf of Mr. Rokita and the Office of the Attorney General.”
After the news of the 10-year-old’s abortion broke, Rokita told Fox he would investigate whether Bernard violated child abuse notification or abortion reporting laws. He also said his office would look into whether anything Bernard said to the Indianapolis Star about the girl’s case violated federal medical privacy laws. Rokita offered no specific allegations of wrongdoing.
Records obtained by The Associated Press and local news outlets show that Bernard submitted her report about the girl’s abortion on July 2, which is within Indiana’s required three-day reporting period for an abortion performed on a girl younger than 16.
Rokita did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Indiana Democratic Party criticized Rokita for the impact the lawsuit would have on taxpayers.
“Hoosier taxpayers will now have to pay for Attorney General Todd Rokita’s national smear campaign against a doctor who helped a 10-year-old rape survivor attain a legal and safe abortion,” party spokesperson Drew Anderson wrote in an email.
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Secretary Mayor Pete Still Just Beating On GOP Idiots. Stop It, Pete! You're Too Strong!
Seditionist Rep. Scott Perry (R-January 6) was talking to Secretary Mayor Pete Buttigieg in a congressional hearing today, and he was mad about electric vehicles, because as we all know, electric vehicles are a woke plot to make windmills gay. That seemed to be the logic, at least, when GOP North Carolina state house Rep. Ben Moss came up with his clever bill what said all free electric vehicle charging stations must be destroyed unless they were retrofitted to also offer free gasoline. Totally normal and good bill right there, buddy.
Point is, they are all mad at EVs right now, because EVs are extremely cruel to the oil bid'ness.
And yes, we laugh at them, but we have to remember that a lot of these politicians' mothers were oil rigs and their daddies were also oil rigs and they were born when two oil rigs had gay oil sex with each other and got each other oil pregnant. Or, you know, however it works when people are completely bought-and-paid-for by the oil bid'ness.
Anyway, in today's hearing, Scott Perry really tried to do a gotcha at Secretary Mayor Pete, because apparently Scott Perry hasn't heard that Secretary Mayor Pete is a very frightening gangster whose reign of terror has only just begun, and who feeds off making these people look stupid in public.
\u201cButtigieg: I knew this might come up so I pulled some of the latest prices\u2026\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1658244697
Scott Perry explained that he had looked at the Kelley Blue Book, and it said electric vehicles (EVs) cost $55,000. Scott Perry said actually they're more than that, because "subsidy" and "taxes." Scott Perry said EVs are actually $60,000.
Secretary Mayor Pete stuffed his large shoe up Scott Perry's ass and said fuck off. But he said it nicely, and with math.
SECRETARY FUCK-YOU-UP: I want to be clear: Nobody I know, certainly not me, thinks that all or even most Americans can easily afford electric vehicles. That said, I'm struck by this $55,000 number that keeps going around. I knew this might come up, so I just pulled a few of the latest prices ...
Of course he did. Fuckin' homework-doer.
SECRETARY FYU: A Chevy Bolt, so an American-made 2022 EV, is $26,595. If you want a pickup truck, like a Chevy Silverado EV or a Ford F-150 Lightning, the starting prices of those are $39,900 and $39,974 respectively.
What Scott Perry might not realize, but every American does who's gone car-shopping any time in the last few years, is that those numbers aren't crazy at all. Cars are hella expensive now. Those truck prices are actually extremely low, and clearly reflect that they are "starting" prices. You want a fun Silverado or F-150, with bells and whistles, you're going to be in the 50s or more regardless of whether it's a gas vehicle or an electric.
Scott Perry asked more questions about subsidies, but they didn't fuckin' matter because Pete knew the answers.
Then Pete introduced Scott Perry to the concept of "used car."
SECRETARY FYU: And look, that's, you know, the new car. So the first time I got a plug-in car, for example, Chasten and I got one ...
His gay husband. See the ring? You know, in case that bothers the Republican from Pennsylvania.
FYU: It was $14,000, had about 15,000 miles on it, it was a C-Max, so it was a combo plug-in hybrid.
Secretary Mayor Pete made the Republican congressman look like an idiot and not a man of the people, because he had to remind him of "used car." Not only is Pete gay, but he and his gay husband are financially gay-sponsible.
And then Pete made one more economic point, which is that we're getting to the point where the higher costs of an EV are truly offset by the savings in gasoline. And Scott Perry said, "Look, I got my numbers from Kelley Blue Book," and Pete said, "Are those this year's numbers?" and of course they weren't, so Pete stomped around on top of Scott Perry's prostrate body then kicked him into a volcano and kissed his gay husband on the mouth with tongues and said "I win! I win! I win!" except just kidding, no he didn't, he's far too classy for such public displays, and besides, we can all see what he did, it's not like he has to explain it.
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- Net income of $24 million, consistent with prior quarter and 31% higher than second quarter 2021
- Net income of $48 million for first six months of 2022, compared to $37 million for first six months of 2021
- Earnings per diluted common share of $1.73 and $3.43 for the three and six months ended June 30
- Return on average assets of 1.32% and 1.31% for the three and six months ended June 30
- Return on average common equity and return on average tangible common equity of 11.48% and 19.21%, respectively, for second quarter 2022
- Regulatory approvals for Charter merger received
GREEN BAY, Wis., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nicolet Bankshares, Inc. (NYSE: NIC) ("Nicolet" or the "Company") announced second quarter 2022 net income of $24 million and earnings per diluted common share of $1.73, compared to $24 million and $1.70 for first quarter 2022, and $18 million and $1.77 for second quarter 2021, respectively. Annualized quarterly return on average assets was 1.32%, 1.30% and 1.62%, for second quarter 2022, first quarter 2022 and second quarter 2021, respectively.
Net income for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $48 million and earnings per diluted common share was $3.43, compared to net income of $37 million and earnings per diluted common share of $3.52 for the first half of 2021. Annualized return on average assets was 1.31% and 1.63% for the first six months of 2022 and 2021, respectively.
On March 29, 2022, the Company entered into a definitive merger agreement with Charter Bankshares, Inc. ("Charter") pursuant to which Charter will merge with and into Nicolet. Nicolet expects to issue approximately 1.26 million shares of Nicolet common stock and $38.8 million in cash for the acquisition of Charter. At March 31, 2022, Charter had total assets of $1.1 billion. As of July 12, 2022, all regulatory approvals for the Charter merger had been received. The merger is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
"Despite the potential distractions of rate hikes and inflationary pressures, our team has remained focused on serving our customers. This focus has resulted in strong fundamental performance, including good loan growth, across our core customer base," said Mike Daniels, President and CEO of Nicolet. "Our customers continue to show that they are smart and resilient as they have kept their balance sheets strong and remain on solid ground. The partnership between our bankers and customers continues to create the shared success upon which Nicolet was founded."
"Our focus on asset quality and bringing back Ag loan participations have been executed well by our team. Our credit quality remains very strong, and nonperforming assets and charge-offs have declined for the second consecutive quarter. We also repurchased approximately $100 million in previously participated Ag loans this quarter which has helped us deliver on our strategies in the Ag sector. The team has done a good job in a short time," Daniels added.
Executive Vice President Eric Witczak commented, "As with all our merger integrations, we remain as focused on the people side as we do the systems side. We believe that we found some wonderful community-focused people, led by Paul Kohler, that will bring the Nicolet story to life in Western Wisconsin and Minnesota."
The Company's financial performance and certain balance sheet line items were impacted by the timing and size of Nicolet's 2021 acquisitions, Mackinac Financial Corporation ("Mackinac") on September 3, 2021 and County Bancorp, Inc. ("County") on December 3, 2021. Certain income statement results, average balances and related ratios for 2021 include partial contributions from Mackinac and County, each from the respective acquisition date. At acquisition, Mackinac added assets of $1.5 billion, loans of $0.9 billion, and deposits of $1.4 billion, while at acquisition County added assets of $1.4 billion, loans of $1.0 billion, and deposits of $1.0 billion.
At June 30, 2022, period end assets were $7.4 billion, an increase of $50 million (1%) from March 31, 2022, including strong loan growth, partly offset by lower cash and cash equivalents. Total loans increased $295 million (6%) from March 31, 2022, with solid organic loan growth in agricultural, commercial and industrial, and residential first mortgage loans, as well as the repurchase of approximately $100 million previously participated agricultural loans. Excluding the purchased agricultural loans, organic loan growth was 4% from March 31, 2022. Total deposits of $6.3 billion at June 30, 2022, increased $55 million (1%) from March 31, 2022, primarily noninterest-bearing deposits. Total capital was $839 million at June 30, 2022, an increase of $3 million since March 31, 2022, with current quarter earnings partly offset by unfavorable changes in the fair value of available for sale securities and common stock repurchases.
Nonperforming assets were $42 million and represented 0.56% of total assets at June 30, 2022, compared to $49 million or 0.68% at March 31, 2022. The allowance for credit losses-loans was $51 million and represented 1.02% of total loans at June 30, 2022, compared to $50 million and 1.07% at March 31, 2022, reflecting strong loan growth, solid asset quality trends, and negligible net charge-offs.
Net income for second quarter 2022 was $24 million, consistent with net income of $24 million for first quarter 2022.
Net interest income was $55 million for second quarter 2022, up slightly ($1 million) from first quarter 2022, reflecting strong loan volumes and one additional day in the quarter, though still pressured on rates from competitive pricing and the lag in repricing to current market interest rates. Average interest-earning assets of $6.6 billion were down $132 million from first quarter 2022. Average loans of $4.8 billion grew $150 million over first quarter 2022, including both organic loan growth and the repurchase of previously participated agricultural loans, while other interest-earning assets were down $279 million, mostly cash, and average investments were minimally changed. Average interest-bearing liabilities of $4.4 billion decreased $258 million from first quarter 2022, primarily average interest-bearing deposits due to a reduction in retail deposits.
The net interest margin for second quarter 2022 was 3.34%, up 11bps from 3.23% for first quarter 2022. The yield on interest-earning assets increased 13bps (to 3.61%) largely due to the change in mix of interest-earning assets, which shifted to 73% loans, 24% investments, and 3% other interest-earning assets (mostly cash) for second quarter 2022 compared to 70% loans, 23% investments, and 7% other interest-earning assets for first quarter 2022. The cost of funds increased 5bps (to 0.40%) for second quarter 2022, attributable mainly to the repricing of deposits and funding in the higher interest rate environment.
Noninterest income was $14 million for second quarter 2022, down $2 million (11%) compared to first quarter 2022. Net mortgage income of $2 million was down $1 million from first quarter 2022, primarily due to lower gains on sales from declining secondary market volumes. Trust services fee income and brokerage fee income combined decreased $0.7 million (12%) from first quarter 2022, mostly from unfavorable market-related declines. Card interchange income grew $0.4 million (14%) over first quarter 2022 on higher volume and activity. Other noninterest income was down $0.6 million between the sequential quarters mostly due to an $0.8 million unfavorable change in the fair value of nonqualified deferred compensation plan assets from recent market declines, partly offset by $0.2 million higher net loan servicing revenue. Both quarters also included net asset gains primarily related to sales of other real estate owned (mostly closed bank branch locations).
Noninterest expense of $37 million decreased $1 million (3%) from first quarter 2022. Personnel expense decreased $1.5 million (7%) from first quarter 2022, largely due to the offsetting change to the nonqualified deferred compensation plan liabilities and lower health claim experience, partly offset by higher salary expense from the increase in hourly pay or base salary effective at the end of March 2022, which benefitted 67% of our employee base. Non-personnel expenses increased $0.5 million (3%), largely due to $0.5 million higher merger-related expense, $0.2 million higher marketing (timing of marketing campaigns and community support), and $0.2 million higher data processing (volume-based), partly offset by a $0.3 million decline in other noninterest expense from lower costs to carry closed bank branches given the recent sales.
Nicolet Bankshares, Inc. is the bank holding company of Nicolet National Bank, a growing, full-service, community bank providing services ranging from commercial, agricultural and consumer banking to wealth management and retirement plan services. Founded in Green Bay in 2000, Nicolet National Bank operates branches in Northeast and Central Wisconsin, Northern Michigan and the upper peninsula of Michigan. More information can be found at www.nicoletbank.com.
This communication contains non-GAAP financial measures, such as non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP earnings per diluted common share, tangible book value per common share, return on average tangible common equity, and tangible common equity to tangible assets, where management believes such measures to be helpful to management, investors and others in understanding Nicolet's results of operations or financial position. When non-GAAP financial measures are used, the comparable GAAP financial measures, as well as the reconciliation of the non-GAAP measures to the GAAP financial measures, are provided. See "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures (Unaudited)" below. The non-GAAP net income measure and related reconciliation provide information useful to investors in understanding the operating performance and trends of Nicolet and also aid investors in comparing Nicolet's financial performance to the financial performance of peer banks. Management considers non-GAAP financial ratios to be critical metrics with which to analyze and evaluate financial condition and capital strengths. While non-GAAP financial measures are frequently used by stakeholders in the evaluation of a corporation, they have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analyses of results as reported under GAAP.
Certain statements contained in this communication, which are not statements of historical fact, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities law. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about Nicolet's business plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, including without limitation Nicolet's prospects and pipelines looking strong and business focus moving forward, as well as certain plans, expectations, goals, the expected closing date of the Charter merger as well as the projections and benefits relating to the proposed merger between Nicolet and Charter, all of which are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties. Words or phrases such as "anticipate," "believe," "aim," "can," "conclude," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "foresee," "goal," "intend," "may," "might," "outlook," "possible," "plan," "predict," "project," "potential," "seek," "should," "target," "will," "will likely," "would," or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology, as well as similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements.
Forward-looking statements are not historical facts but instead express only management's beliefs regarding future results or events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of management's control. It is possible that actual results and outcomes may differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results or outcomes indicated in these forward-looking statements. In addition to factors disclosed in reports filed by Nicolet with the SEC, risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to risks and uncertainties for Nicolet with respect to its proposed merger with Charter, that may cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those anticipated include, but are not limited to: (1) the possibility that the proposed merger will not be completed due to the failure to satisfy one or more of the closing conditions of the merger; (2) the possibility that any of the anticipated benefits of the proposed merger will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period; (3) the risk that integration of Charter's operations with those of Nicolet will be materially delayed or will be more costly or difficult than expected; (4) the parties' inability to meet expectations regarding the timing of the proposed merger; (5) changes to tax legislation and their potential effects on the accounting for the proposed merger; (6) diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities due to the proposed merger; (7) the challenges of integrating and retaining key employees; (8) the effect of the announcement of the proposed merger on Nicolet's, Charter's or the combined company's respective customer and employee relationships and operating results; (9) the possibility that the proposed merger may be more expensive to complete than anticipated, including as a result of unexpected factors or events; (10) dilution caused by Nicolet's issuance of additional shares of Nicolet common stock in connection with the proposed merger; (11) the magnitude and duration of the COVID pandemic and its impact on the global economy and financial market conditions and Nicolet's business, results of operations and financial condition; (12) changes in consumer demand for financial services; (13) general competitive, economic, political and market conditions and fluctuations; and additional risks that are discussed in Nicolet's SEC filings. Please refer to Nicolet's 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as its other filings with the SEC, for a more detailed discussion of risks, uncertainties and factors that could cause actual results to differ from those discussed in the forward-looking statements.
All forward-looking statements included in this communication are made as of the date hereof and are based on information available to management at that time. Except as required by law, Nicolet does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date the forward-looking statements were made.
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Five Unique OG NFT Designs Immortalize Former Police Officer & Popular U.S. Political Commentator
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DeepRedSky, the premium NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace connecting collectors with world-class individuals and brands online, announces the launch of "The Officer Tatum NFT Collection." The exclusive collection showcases and preserves the many facets, messages, and learnings of the widely successful political commentator, entrepreneur, former police officer, and co-founder of BLEXIT. Brandon Tatum's inspiring and empowering experiences come to life through this dedicated collection of NFTs.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) – A man was fatally shot in the face near the set of “Law & Order” in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning, according to New York City law enforcement sources.
Authorities found the 31-year-old man with two gunshot wounds to the face inside a red car parked in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood around 5:15 a.m., according to police. Three shell casings were found inside the vehicle, sources said.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The man had worked for Broadway Stage Company and was reserving parking spots near the film set location of a new episode of a “Law & Order” series, an NYPD spokesperson told Nexstar’s WPIX.
A witness who was sleeping in his car across the street said he heard the gunshots on Tuesday morning, and awoke to see an unidentified man leaving the scene of the shooting.
Police said no arrests had been made as of Tuesday afternoon. The investigation is ongoing.
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Today the Biden administration announced $49 million in grants to help community groups sign more families and children up for health insurance – especially the more than half of the country's 4 million uninsured children who qualify for free coverage through Medicaid or CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program.
"This is our largest investment to date in this type of initiative," says Chiquita Brooks-Lasure, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "So many children, even though they're eligible, don't know it – their parents don't know that they are eligible for coverage – there still needs to be so much education done."
She points to the Biden administration's successes in boosting private insurance enrollment by investing in outreach workers who can walk people through the enrollment process – one on one – for free. "That's the same thing that we're trying to do here with the Connecting Kids to Coverage initiative – really making sure we are using trusted messengers," she says.
"This is absolutely good news that these grants are going out – it is needed now a lot because we have this looming crisis with respect to children becoming uninsured," says Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. The looming crisis is this: When the COVID-19 public health emergency eventually ends, states will begin to unwind a period of two years when no one had to prove they still qualified for free health insurance.
That process, which is likely to be chaotic in many places, could lead to 6.7 million children who now have Medicaid losing their coverage, according to an estimate from the center. Some will lose coverage because they no longer qualify. Others will lose coverage because of administrative errors or missing documentation.
It's clear to Alker that the federal health officials working on this understand that the pending crisis that could lead to millions more uninsured children "is a really big deal," she says, and Tuesday's historic grant announcement is evidence of that. "I think clearly the Biden administration has looked for the pennies under the couch to get this amount out this year."
Society is not in good shape if the country's children don't have health insurance, Alker adds. A broken arm in a playground can mean financial disaster for a family. Missed wellness visits can mean missed developmental checks, routine immunizations or control for conditions like asthma. "We have a lot of research to show that it's very, very cost effective to provide health insurance to children – in the long run, this will pay many dividends back to society," she says.
Insurance for children works a bit better than insurance for the rest of the population in the U.S. In 2020, about 94% of children were insured, thanks in large part to Medicaid and CHIP. Low-income families can get free, comprehensive coverage for their kids, and they can enroll at any time of the year.
The challenge for community outreach workers around the country is to spread the word – to find families who think they don't qualify, and walk them through the process. That means showing up at summer block parties and street fairs and trying to let as many families as possible who need coverage know that they can get help signing up.
In the coming months, the $1.5 million grant to the Greater Flint Health Coalition will mean outreach workers can attend Genesee county "back-to-school fairs, any sort of meet-the-teacher night, kindergarten roundup," says Nichole Smith-Anderson, the organization's special projects director. "We've also worked really closely with the schools where, as their kids are doing enrollment information, we have a little question that says, 'Do you need support with health care coverage?' that parents can fill out, and then we're able to get in contact with them that way."
Getting parents' contact information and following up after back-to-school events is often simpler than trying to enroll on the spot, notes Emily Roller, director of health insurance initiatives at the Virginia Health Care Foundation, which also received about $1.5 million on Tuesday.
The pending unwinding when the public health emergency ends is also looming over everything, Roller adds. "We will be working closely with our colleagues at the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services to be their boots on the ground that can inform how the policies and procedures that they're putting in place are really lived out in people's experiences," she says.
At the federal level, "we are laser focused on how we address the unwinding of the public health emergency when it happens," Brooks Lasure says. "It's just such a priority of the [Biden] administration to continue to enroll people in coverage and connect them to care – and there's no one more in need of care in our country than the nation's children."
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HOUSTON, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ConnectGen announced today that the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) has issued a Record of Decision (ROD) approving two interconnection requests associated with ConnectGen's Rail Tie Wind Project, a proposed 504 MW wind energy generation project located in Albany County, Wyoming. The ROD follows the November 2021 release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and documents the completion of the federal authorization to interconnect the project to the WAPA transmission grid, which was concluded after an extensive environmental review per the National Environmental Policy Act.
"The Record of Decision is a major milestone for the Rail Tie Wind Project. It marks the completion of WAPA's multi-year environmental and technical review, including a detailed analysis of the physical, biological, cultural, and socioeconomic effects of the project," Caton Fenz, Chief Executive Officer of ConnectGen, said. "We are pleased that WAPA recognized our considerable efforts to minimize these effects, and we thank the WAPA staff for their efforts and thoughtful review over the past two and a half years."
"Connecting more renewable energy projects to the grid is a critical step in modernizing America's energy infrastructure and meeting our nation's growing energy needs," said WAPA Administrator and CEO Tracey LeBeau. "Our technical analyses found available capacity on WAPA's system and the comprehensive analysis in the EIS provided environmental impact information, both of which informed the interconnection Record of Decision."
WAPA's ROD issuance adds to the roster of major federal, state, and local approvals obtained by the Rail Tie Wind Project. The project previously received a Wind Energy Conversion System permit from the Albany County Board of County Commissioners as well as Section 109 permit approval from the State of Wyoming Industrial Siting Council.
The Rail Tie Wind Project will represent a capital investment of more than $500 million in Albany County and the State of Wyoming, and will generate approximately $130 million in state and local tax revenues during construction and over the life of the project. Twenty percent of the project is sited on state land, and annual wind lease payments to the Office of State Lands and Investments will fund Wyoming's public schools and institutions. The project will support at least 20 permanent operations jobs as well as hundreds of jobs during construction and will generate millions of dollars of new local economic activity through the procurement of goods and services in the area.
ConnectGen is a multi-technology renewable energy platform dedicated to best-in-class greenfield development, origination, execution and operations. ConnectGen has 139 MW in operations and a portfolio of over 20,000 MW of wind, solar and energy storage projects in development across the United States. For more information, please visit www.connectgenllc.com. ConnectGen is a subsidiary of 547 Energy, Quantum Energy Partners' clean energy platform company.
547 Energy aims to maximize value for its investors by partnering with leading entrepreneurs who are driving growth in the clean energy economy. To date, 547 Energy has invested in ConnectGen LLC, BlueFloat Energy LLC, Aer Soleir LLC, NetOn LLC and certain affiliates of ENORA S.A. 547 Energy was founded and is led by industry veteran Gabriel Alonso and is backed by Quantum Energy Partners, a leading provider of capital to the global energy industry. For more information on 547 Energy, please visit www.547energy.com, email info@547energy.com, or contact Travis Salinas at tsalinas@547energy.com.
Founded in 1998, Quantum Energy Partners is a leading global provider of private equity, credit, structured capital and venture capital to the responsibly sourced energy and energy transition & decarbonization sectors (what we call the "Sustainable Energy Ecosystem"), having managed together with its affiliates more than $18 billion in capital commitments since inception. For more information on Quantum, please visit www.quantumep.com or contact Michael Dalton at +1-713-452-2110.
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Mothers Against Greg Abbott posted a video on Twitter voicing the need for change in Texas politics.
The women in the video raised concerns for the futures of their families in Texas, referencing that “nothing changes in Texas politics until it does.”
Mothers Against Greg Abbott spoke on the Texas power grid and how it failed in 2021, leaving families without water and electricity in freezing conditions.
The group of Democrats, Independents and Moderate Republicans is working together for change in the state by bringing attention to issues they are passionate about including, removing history from Texas schools, making it legal to buy a gun without a permit and openly carry it and banning Black and LGBTQ authors from Texas schools.
Mothers Against Greg Abbott also acknowledged its distaste to Texas politicians putting a $10,000 bounty on anyone that helped a woman get an abortion and how many of their loved ones died when Texas politicians fought mask mandated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
These women say they want change for Texas “before history repeats itself.”
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Hertfordshire couple jailed over £624k social care fraud
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A couple who treated themselves to luxury holidays by receiving money through a bogus care package worth £600,000 have been jailed.
Laura and Philip Borrell, both 45, spent money claimed fraudulently from Hertfordshire County Council by Laura's mother, Frances Noble.
St Albans Crown Court heard Noble, 66, who was sentenced in June, lied about her health for more than a decade.
The pair were convicted of a number of charges including fraud.
At the hearing in June, Judge Richard Foster described the case as "possibly the largest fraud of its type to come before the English courts".
The court was told that between 2005 and 2018, Noble convinced the council that a fake neurological condition was so serious that she required intensive home care at her bungalow near Stevenage.
It heard Noble claimed to be bed-bound and unable to feed herself, needing round-the-clock care.
However, it was told she was seen by neighbours walking her dog Bertie and investigators watched as she took in a Tesco home delivery, which she was able to unpack.
Her care package was passed to her daughter and son-in-law, who then went on a number of foreign holidays using the proceeds.
Over a 13-year period, Noble obtained £624,047.15.
Noble, 66, of Damask Green Road, Weston, who moved to Germany when a police investigation began in 2019, was jailed for four years and nine months in her absence in June.
She is awaiting extradition from Germany to serve her sentence.
At a previous hearing, the three admitted one count of fraud, and Noble admitted a further count of transferring criminal property to the sum of £130,649.46.
Laura and Philip Borrell admitted one joint count of acquiring criminal property amounting to £184,203.65.
The pair, of Damask Green Road, also admitted a further count of the same charge, amounting to £39,700 - and £6,218 respectively.
Earlier, Laura Borrell was jailed for three years and nine months - and Philip Borrell for four years and three months.
Judge Foster said the couple were "held out at times as carers when clearly you were not".
Sentencing them, he said: "There was evidence of an extravagant lifestyle.
"You both enjoyed holiday trips to variously Boston, San Francisco as well as to Canada in the period 2011 to 2017."
A proceeds of crime hearing to recover the money will be held at a later date.
Hertfordshire County Council said: "Mrs Noble, her daughter and her son-in-law, undertook a sophisticated and devious fraud that shamelessly sought to deceive health and social services professionals over a sustained period of time.
"The trio's offences were planned, calculated and carried out with the intention of abusing a care system designed first and foremost to meet the requirements of those in need of support."
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Huge fire breaks out in Stourport nature reserve
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A large fire broke out at a nature reserve in Worcestershire on Tuesday evening.
Emergency Services were called to Hartlebury Common in Stourport-on-Severn at about 20:10 BST and discovered 1,000 sq m (10,764 sq ft) of land ablaze.
Hartlebury Road was shut in both directions and people were asked to avoid the area.
Nearby residents were also told to shut windows and doors.
Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service received more than 50 calls to the incident.
No casualties had been reported, the fire service said.
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MEXICO CITY, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV:FIBRAPL 14), a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, today released its annual environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance report and announced its alignment with Prologis' commitment to achieve net zero emissions across its value chain by 2040.
The report outlines the company's progress toward its ESG goals.
FIBRA is one of nine funding vehicles for Prologis, Inc., the global leader in logistics real estate. Prologis last month announced a net zero commitment for the entire organization.
"We are proud to step up to the ambitious net zero goal set by our sponsor, Prologis, and to deliver this commitment we started with our solar program. This goal enables us to partner with our clients who are on their own journeys to net zero and decarbonization," said Luis Gutierrez, CEO, Prologis Mexico. "At FIBRA Prologis, leading on ESG goes beyond complying with regulations. Our ESG approach is embedded in our culture and how our teams work, which gives us a competitive advantage in the dynamic Mexican logistics market."
The report includes the following highlights:
- Issued two green bonds and a green line of credit linked to sustainability metrics between 2020-2021.
- Included in the S&P/BMV Total Mexico ESG Index for the third consecutive year. Selection criteria is based on core ESG principles against a broad benchmark that comprises entities listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV).
- Installed LED lighting across 67% of the portfolio.
- Obtained sustainability certification for 6.8 million square feet of the operating portfolio.
- Commenced training through Prologis' Community Workforce Initiative and signed a partnership with the Forge Foundation.
- Achieved an employee engagement score of 94% (represents an increase of 100 basis points compared to the previous year).
- Achieved 100% completion of ethics training for all active employees, including FCPA training for non-U.S. colleagues.
ABOUT FIBRA PROLOGIS
FIBRA Prologis is a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico. As of March 31, 2022, FIBRA Prologis was comprised of 227 logistics and manufacturing facilities in six industrial markets in Mexico totaling 43.4 million square feet (4.0 million square meters) of gross leasable area.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
The statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry and markets in which FIBRA Prologis operates, management's beliefs and assumptions made by management. Such statements involve uncertainties that could significantly impact FIBRA Prologis financial results. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, which generally are not historical in nature. All statements that address operating performance, events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future — including statements relating to rent and occupancy growth, acquisition activity, development activity, disposition activity, general conditions in the geographic areas where we operate, our debt and financial position, are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Although we believe the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained and therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that may affect outcomes and results include, but are not limited to: (i) national, international, regional and local economic climates, (ii) changes in financial markets, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, (iii) increased or unanticipated competition for our properties, (iv) risks associated with acquisitions, dispositions and development of properties, (v) maintenance of real estate investment trust ("FIBRA") status and tax structuring, (vi) availability of financing and capital, the levels of debt that we maintain and our credit ratings, (vii) risks related to our investments (viii) environmental uncertainties, including risks of natural disasters, (ix) risks related to the coronavirus pandemic, and (x) those additional factors discussed in reports filed with the "Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores" and the Mexican Stock Exchange by FIBRA Prologis under the heading "Risk Factors." FIBRA Prologis undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements appearing in this release.
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LOS ANGELES, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara should reject Mercury Insurance Company's proposed $131 million auto insurance rate hike and its job- and education-based discriminatory rating system under which working-class Californians pay up to 20% higher premiums, wrote Consumer Watchdog in a petition filed with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) yesterday.
Under Mercury's proposed overall 6.9% rate increase, over 1.6 million vehicles it insures face an average annual premium increase of $80 per insured vehicle. Because the Insurance Commissioner has failed to act on a regulation to curb job- and education-based rate discrimination, the worst of that rate increase will fall on the majority of low-income drivers Mercury doesn't give a job-based discount, said Consumer Watchdog.
These grocery clerks, hotel workers, janitors, home healthcare aides and other drivers without white-collar jobs will be charged base rates that are more than $200/yr higher than drivers in one of Mercury's preferred groups.
A 2019 investigation by the Department of Insurance found Mercury and other companies' practice of charging some drivers more based on education and occupation results in low-income drivers and communities of color paying more. Three years later, Commissioner Lara has yet to adopt a regulation to stop the practice. The last draft of a potential regulation was issued by the Department of Insurance nearly a year and a half ago and no action has been taken since.
Consumer Watchdog called on Commissioner Lara to reject Mercury's use of job and education to overcharge working-class Californians in this rate filing, and move a regulation forward to make all insurance companies rate Californians fairly regardless of their job or education level.
Mercury's request comes as soaring gas and food prices have low-wage workers struggling now more than ever to make ends meet. Most policyholders—from waiters to cashiers, construction workers to call center operators—will see their auto insurance rates increase up to about 20% more than drivers with professional occupations and advanced degrees such as engineers with a Bachelor's degree or higher education level. Mercury's request also includes rate hikes on educators, paramedics, firefighters, and police officers.
"The last thing Californians should have to worry about when we're facing sky-high prices at the gas pump and grocery store is whether they're being gouged by their insurance company," said Consumer Watchdog staff attorney Daniel L. Sternberg. "Discriminatory discounts for engineers, pilots, and other high-paid professions favored by Mercury means that low-income drivers pay more for car insurance, simply because of their job title or education status."
"Commissioner Lara needs to help working families and adopt regulations to stop occupation-based premium surcharges; surcharges that his own 2019 investigation found create 'wide socioeconomic disparities.' Instead of rubber-stamping these discriminatory discounts, the Commissioner should use his voter-enacted authority under Proposition 103 to protect middle- and low-income families from being charged higher prices based on their jobs," said Sternberg.
The Commissioner last approved Mercury's discriminatory occupation-based rating system and a 6.9% overall rate increase for Mercury policyholders in May 2019. Under Mercury's 5-tierd rating system, Mercury customers in lower wage occupations, such as grocery clerks, hotel and hospitality workers, janitors, and home healthcare workers, pay as much as 20% more than engineers, scientists, doctors, accountants, pilots and educators for all coverages combined, all other characteristics being equal.
Occupation has never been approved by regulation as a lawful rating factor under voter-enacted Proposition 103. Mercury's unfairly discriminatory occupation-based rating system means lower income and less-educated drivers continue to pay the highest premiums based solely on their job titles.
Consumer Watchdog's petition also alleges that Mercury overcharged policyholders during the COVID-19 lockdowns when accident claims were down and may owe hundreds of millions in additional refunds.
Read Consumer Watchdog's Petition for Hearing and Petition to Intervene: https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/2022-07-18%20Mercury%20Auto%202022%20PFH%20w%20Exhs%20A%20and%20B.pdf
Consumer Watchdog and 10 community and civil rights organizations challenged auto insurers' illegal and discriminatory use of job and education to set rates in February 2019. In September 2019, a Department of Insurance investigation confirmed those concerns, finding "wide socioeconomic disparities" created by insurance companies surcharging California drivers based on nothing more than their occupation or educational status. In December 2019, the Department proposed regulations to address this unfair discrimination. However, almost three years later, those rules have not yet been implemented.
Read the community and civil rights groups' petition: https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2019-02/Job%26EducationPetition.pdf
The Department's analysis of industry data shows that drivers in the highest per capita income ZIP codes are more than twice as likely to receive occupational-based discounts than drivers in the lowest per capita income ZIP codes; and only 29% of drivers in predominately minority ZIP codes receive such discounts as compared with 47% of drivers living in ZIP codes with a predominately white population. In addition, 75% of drivers in Underserved Communities as defined by Department of Insurance regulation do not receive these discounts.
Voter-approved Proposition 103 requires auto insurance premiums be based primarily on three mandatory factors – driving safety record, annual mileage, and years driving experience – and prohibits unfairly discriminatory rates. Proposition 103 prohibits this kind of unfair rate discrimination based on income or race.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Markem-Imaje, part of Dover (NYSE: DOV) and a global provider of end-to-end supply chain solutions and industrial marking and coding systems, recently announced the launch of the SmartLase® C600, the new 60-watt CO2 laser printer.
Designed with speed and reliability, the SmartLase C600 is the fastest and most powerful CO2 laser in Markem-Imaje's range. It delivers high-quality, chemical-free, permanent coding and indelible marking to protect against counterfeiting on a variety of surfaces including PET bottles, glass, labels, confectionery labels, flexible films, inked paper/carton, and coated metals.
The SmartLase C600 has been engineered to perform to the highest standards in the most demanding packaging lines - even with the increasing complexity of 1D and 2D codes. With very limited maintenance needs, the C600 reduces operational expenses (OPEX) through fewer line stoppages and no added costs for expensive consumables or external cooling. Meanwhile, chemical-free production helps businesses meet sustainability compliance goals.
"The new SmartLase C600 is our most advanced CO2 laser coder," said Adam Krolak, Product Marketing Manager at Markem-Imaje. "It is fast and rugged while also delivering when it comes to safety, simplicity and sustainability. Future-proofed and industry 4.0-ready, it can handle even the most challenging packaging lines while also cutting OPEX. The SmartLase C600 is perfectly placed to power up your production while also bringing down your costs."
Industry 4.0-optimized and with a variety of industrial interfaces such as Ethernet/IP, PROFINET, NGPCL and full-featured CoLOS® software support, the SmartLase C600 enables advanced packaging intelligence. Once integrated, the intuitive user interface delivers an increase of up to 20% in operating efficiency.
With a complete IP55-compliant controller and printhead, the SmartLase C600 meets the high standard of safety per ISO 13849-1 up to Performance Level PLe.
About Markem-Imaje:
Markem-Imaje, a wholly owned subsidiary of the US-based Dover Corporation is a trusted world manufacturer of product identification and traceability solutions, offering a full line of reliable and innovative inkjet, thermal transfer, laser, and print and apply label systems. Markem-Imaje provides global reach to over 50,000 customers with 30 subsidiaries, 6 technology centers, several equipment repair centers and manufacturing plants with the most comprehensive marking and coding portfolio available in the marketplace. Visit www.markem-imaje.com for further information.
About Dover:
Dover is a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider with annual revenue of approximately $8 billion. We deliver innovative equipment and components, consumable supplies, aftermarket parts, software and digital solutions, and support services through five operating segments: Engineered Products, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions and Climate & Sustainability Technologies. Dover combines global scale with operational agility to lead the markets we serve. Recognized for our entrepreneurial approach for over 65 years, our team of over 25,000 employees takes an ownership mindset, collaborating with customers to redefine what's possible. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange under "DOV." Additional information is available at dovercorporation.com.
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LAND O'LAKES, Fla., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, recently opened Angeline, a new community of active adult homes designed exclusively for residents 55 and better. Situated in Pasco County's 6,200 acre premiere masterplanned community of Angeline, Lennar's new community will offer an extensive array of luxurious private amenities. Prospective home shoppers are invited to tour Lennar's eight model homes and experience the unparalleled lifestyle that Angeline has to offer. For more information and to schedule a tour, click here.
"Angeline will be a destination city centered around health and wellness and we are proud to introduce this new, residential community designed specifically for Active Adults," said Steve Smith, Tampa Division President for Lennar. "From the thoughtful design details within our homes to the depth of our amenities, no detail has been overlooked when it comes to providing residents with a beautiful and comfortable lifestyle."
Home shoppers at Angeline can select from 12 signature Lennar floorplans in three distinctive collections: Villas, the Estates, and the Executives. Home designs include single-family and villas and range from 1,683-2,775 square feet, with two to three bedrooms and two to three baths. Pricing starts in the low $300,000s for the Villas, high 300,000s for the Estates and mid $400,000s for the Executives.
All homes will offer Lennar's signature Everything's Included® program that outfits every new home with popular features and upgrades at no extra cost. The homes also include connected home components including Ring® pro video doorbell and alarm security kit, Honeywell Home® smart thermostat, Legrand® media panel, Schlage Encode Smart lock®, Flo by Moen® smart water shutoff and eero® pro 6 mesh wifi system.
Within Angeline, there will be a vast assortment of amenities including the MetroLagoon ®. Lennar residents will also have access to a multi-million-dollar amenity center with resort-style recreational opportunities including a swimming pool, fitness center, tennis, pickleball and bocce ball courts.
Anchored by the new state-of-the-art H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, the 6,200-acre Angeline will be home to more than 30,000 residents with access to a community farm, 3,600 acres of green space, an extensive trail network, office and retail, onsite school and the fastest internet service in the nation. Moffit's 750-acre life sciences research park – larger than downtown Tampa – will be one of the leading facilities of its type in the world. To learn more about Lennar's new communities in Angeline, please visit the Welcome Home Center at 11342 Flora Crew Ct, Land O' Lakes, FL 34638 or click here.
Lennar is now selling at three Active Adult communities across the Tampa market. In addition to Angeline, the homebuilder is selling at Mirada in San Antonio, FL and Southshore Bay in Wimauma, FL.
For a limited-time only, prospective home shoppers can take advantage of special pricing and incentives during Lennar's 10-day National New Homes Sales Event which ends this coming Sunday, July 24. Lennar Mortgage is currently offering a fixed rate of 4.99% (4.99% APR) when a customer signs a purchase agreement on a select move-in ready home in the greater Tampa Bay area between 07/14/2022 - 07/24/2022 and close by 10/31/22. Requires financing through Lennar Mortgage, LLC.*
Interested homebuyers are encouraged to move fast while these homes with incredible savings last! To discover incredible savings on new homes near you, visit www.lennar.com today.
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit lennar.com.
*Offer available on select move-in ready homes in the greater Tampa area if the purchase agreement is fully executed between 07/14/2022 and 07/24/2022 and closes and fully funds on or before 10/31/22. Offer may not be combined with any other existing promotions. Sample APR is based on interest rates and terms available as of 07/14/22 and on a purchase price of $415,490 with 20% down factoring in prepaid interest and closing costs. Rates may change or not be available or funds may be exhausted at the time of loan commitment, lock-in or closing. Buyer is subject to qualifications for specific loan terms, occupancy, down payment, credit and underwriting requirements, and/or investor program guidelines. Not an offer to enter into an interest rate or discount point agreement and any such agreement may only be made in writing signed by both the borrower and the lender. Offer requires financing through seller's affiliate Lennar Mortgage, but use of Lennar Mortgage is not required to purchase a home ( See Affiliated Business Arrangement Disclosure ). Lennar Mortgage, LLC – NMLS # 1058, Mortgage Lender/Servicer License #MLD549. Seller's Broker: Lennar Realty, Inc. Construction License(s): CGC1518166. Date 07/22
Contact: Danielle Tocco
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Lennar Corporation
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Direct Line: 949.789.1633
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Fans of "America's Got Talent" and "The Voice" are remembering Nolan Neal.
The singer, who was a contestant on both talent competition series, died July 18, the Davidson County Medical Examiner in Tennessee confirmed to E! News. He was 41 years old.
A cause of death has yet to be revealed. Police told TMZ that Neal's roommate called them after finding his body in a bedroom. E! News has reached out to Davidson County authorities but has yet to hear back.
Neal tried out for season 10 of "The Voice" in 2016. While he didn't make it past the blind auditions, he came back to compete on season 11 later that year, turning all four coaches' chairs with his rendition of Elton John's song "Tiny Dancer" and joining Adam Levine's team. Neal, who was also at one time a touring member of the rock band Hinder, was eliminated during the knockout round.
Four years later, Neal appeared on "America's Got Talent." During his audition, the musician explained he wanted to appear on the show to share his story of what he went through, including his father dying by suicide and his personal battle with substance abuse. Neal performed his original song "Lost," noting he wrote it after finishing treatment and that it was the first song he wrote sober. He received a standing ovation from the audience and went on to compete in several more rounds before being eliminated in the quarterfinals.
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After his time on the shows, Neal continued to share his journey with his fans. In December 2021, he released "Shadow of the Man I Used to Be," describing it as an "original song about my recent relapse." Neal would also support his followers on their own journeys.
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"If you're struggling with substance addiction please DM me. I may be able to help you," he wrote in a June Facebook post. "Your message will only be read by me and will be kept 100% anonymous. #Recovery."
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‘Emmanuel, don’t do it’: iPhone-hating emu makes a name for himself in viral videos
(CNN) – An iPhone-hating emu is cracking up the internet and coining a catchphrase.
Emmanuel is an emu who’s made a name for himself.
Whenever Taylor Blake tries to make a video at Knuckle Bump Farms in Florida, where they raise miniature cattle, she’s always getting bumped by the bird.
Blake said the emu is a natural on camera. He’s now gone viral, and he probably thinks his name is “Emmanuel, don’t do it.”
However, after he’s “done it,” the question is:
“Why do you gotta be such a menace, dude?” Blake asks the bird.
Blake said Emmanuel has always had a hatred of two things: phones and buttons.
She said she has even had to resort to the tactic all moms try the dreaded three names: Emmanuel Todd Lopez.
“And he stops in his tracks and kind of looks,” Blake said.
She said she has somehow not lost an iPhone over this yet.
It could be worse. A woman named Amanda at Useless Farm has been pecked repeatedly, suffering minor injuries from their emu, Karen.
“That is some scary stuff she puts up with so all the love and all the props to her,” Blake said.
Speaking of love, Emmanuel is actually crazy about Blake. It’s just the phone he can’t stand.
And with all of the viral Tiktok videos, at least he gets his fill of hearing his name.
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Arsenal agree deal with Manchester City for Ukraine’s Oleksandr Zinchenko
By PA Staff published
Arsenal have agreed a deal with Manchester City for Ukraine international Oleksandr Zinchenko.
The PA news agency understands Zinchenko will be joining the Gunners, who like City are on a pre-season tour in the United States, with the formalities of the transfer still to be completed.
A fee of some £32million is reported to have been agreed for the versatile 25-year-old, who can play in a number of positions.
#OnThisDay in 2016, we signed Zinchenko! 🤩💙#ManCitypic.twitter.com/TfkSsfc22V— Manchester City (@ManCity) July 4, 2022
Zinchenko, who joined City during 2016 from Russian side Ufa, is expected to leave City’s training base to link up with Arsenal, where he will work again with manager Mikel Arteta, who was assistant to Pep Guardiola at the Etihad Stadium.
Arsenal have moved swiftly to strengthen the squad during the summer window, with Brazil forward Gabriel Jesus having already joined from Manchester City in a reported £45million deal.
Midfielder Fabio Vieira was signed from Porto, Brazilian youth international Marquinhos joined from Sao Paulo and American goalkeeper Matt Turner also completed a switch to the Emirates Stadium.
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Child dies in jet ski accident in Myrtle Beach, officials say
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) – A child has died following a jet ski crash in Myrtle Beach over the weekend, the coroner’s office confirmed.
Horry County Fire Rescue said the crash happened around 7:15 p.m. Sunday on the Intracoastal Waterway.
The child’s father was driving the jet ski with the child as a passenger. Both were taken to the hospital, but the child died.
Officials did not provide an update on the father’s condition.
Chief Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard said they are protecting the identity of the child until the father’s condition improves and he can be notified of his child’s death before the name is released publicly.
The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is investigating the crash.
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(The Hill) – Multiple Democratic lawmakers were arrested at an abortion rights rally near the Capitol on Tuesday, less than one month after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that reversed Roe v. Wade.
Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Jackie Speier (Calif.), Bonnie Watson Coleman (N.J.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Katherine Clark (Mass.), Andy Levin (Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Alma Adams (N.C.), Veronica Escobar (Texas) and Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) were among those apprehended at the demonstration, which included a march from the Capitol to the Supreme Court.
At 1:20 p.m., the U.S. Capitol Police wrote on Twitter that it began arresting activists blocking First Street NE. Authorities said they gave their traditional three warnings before taking protesters into custody.
As of 1:35 p.m. the demonstration was clear, according to Capitol Police, which reported that 17 lawmakers were arrested in total. Authorities arrested 35 people overall for crowding, obstructing or incommoding.
The demonstration came more than three weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe, the 1973 decision that protected access to abortion. The ruling angered Democrats nationwide and prompted House Democrats to pass a pair of bills protecting access to abortion; those measures face little chance of clearing the 50-50 Senate.
Maloney in a statement on Tuesday said “There is no democracy if women do not have control over their own bodies and decisions about their own health, including reproductive care.”
“The Republican Party and the right-wing extremists behind this decision are not pro-life, but pro-controlling the bodies of women, girls, and any person who can become pregnant. Their ultimate goal is to institute a national ban on abortion. We will not let them win. We will be back,” she added.
In a statement on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Pressley said the congresswoman participated in a protest against the “cruel and callous decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and strip away abortion rights for everyone who calls America home.”
Grassroots advocates were also present at the demonstration, according to Pressley’s spokesperson.
Speier wrote on Twitter that she was “Proud” to march with her Democratic colleagues “and get arrested for women’s rights, abortion rights, the rights for people to control their own bodies and the future of our democracy!”
Escobar tweeted that she was taken into custody in front of the Supreme Court, adding that she was “proudly standing in defense of abortion access and reproductive freedom.”
She also posted a video of her and other House Democrats marching outside the Capitol chanting “we won’t go back.”
Clark, the assistant Speaker of the House, in a statement said “The extremist Republican Party is determined to take us back in time and take away our rights. I refuse to stand on the sidelines as their rampage continues.”
“They can arrest me, but we won’t allow them to arrest freedom,” she added.
Levin wrote on Twitter Tuesday “I’m willing to do whatever it takes to protect abortion rights—even if it means getting arrested.”
“I joined my Democratic Women’s Caucus colleagues in a civil disobedience action outside the Supreme Court. We won’t go back!” he added.
Tuesday’s demonstration was not the first time lawmakers have been arrested at protests following the Roe decision. Last month, Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) was taken into custody at a pro-abortion rights rally on Capitol grounds. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/dems-including-ocasio-cortez-speier-alma-adams-arrested-at-abortion-rights-rally-outside-capitol/ | 2022-07-19T21:15:01Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/dems-including-ocasio-cortez-speier-alma-adams-arrested-at-abortion-rights-rally-outside-capitol/ | true |
MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- Another Midland teen is behind bars after police said he was caught on camera burglarizing vehicles. 17-year-old Marquette Howard has been charged with burglary.
According to an affidavit, on July 18, officers with the Midland Police Department responded to the 5200 block of W Storey Avenue after someone called 911 and said he heard a car alarm going off a few doors down. The man said when he looked outside, he saw two boys walking eastbound away from the vehicle.
When officers arrived in the neighborhood, they saw a white Nissan heading westbound; a young man on foot was chasing the car, trying to get in. While officers were in the process of detaining the vehicle and its occupants, they were approached by a man who said he saw the teens in the white car trying to break into vehicles parked in the neighborhood. A few moments later, a man in a white Chevrolet truck pulled up next to the officers and said one of the kids, later identified as Howard, had been caught on camera breaking into his truck.
The video, which was given to MPD as evidence, showed Howard rummaging through the interior of the vehicle. Howard was arrested and taken to the Midland Detention Center where he remained as of Tuesday afternoon. His bond has been set at $500. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/another-teen-charged-with-breaking-into-cars/ | 2022-07-19T21:15:33Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/another-teen-charged-with-breaking-into-cars/ | true |
(Our Auto Expert) — I was one of the first automotive journalists to drive the new Ford Bronco Raptor, in Johnson Valley, where King of the Hammers takes place. One of the most grueling off-road desert events in North America. This vehicle is built specifically for some of those events for high-speed desert racing. The first desert racing-inspired SUV in America. It is powerful, it is fast. We have to get there on the road, So let’s take it for a run.
Before we get to race the Bronco Raptor across the desert, we have to drive through the mountains near Palm Springs. Here is the deal, you can buy off-roading vehicles all day but drive them down the highway and they are all loud, bumpy, and uncomfortable. Interesting enough. This Bronco raptor is none of those. It’s not making a lot of noise, It’s not bumpy at all. Forty-five miles an hour and it’s extremely comfortable to drive.
In fact, this is a better drive on the highway than the regular Bronco. And when they told me that in the presentation, I thought they might have been fibbing. No, not so. The Bronco Raptor leaves, and the factory upgraded for performance on the inside. Now, the interior has some unique features, it has carbon-fiber Accents and bolstered seats, especially for off-roading. Ford gave us some red accents, as well as the big red Bronco name across the passenger side. So that, you know, this is a bronco Raptor.
It also has goat modes for two exclusive goat modes because it is the Raptor. One of those is Sports paddle shifters and an exhaust mode on the steering wheel. So, you can be extremely loud and let people know that you’re driving a Bronco Raptor. | https://www.wric.com/news/first-desert-racing-inspired-suv-in-america/ | 2022-07-19T21:16:52Z | https://www.wric.com/news/first-desert-racing-inspired-suv-in-america/ | true |
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HOUSTON, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Powell Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: POWL), a leading supplier of custom engineered solutions for the management, control and distribution of electrical energy, today announced that it will release results for the fiscal third quarter ended June 30, 2022 on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 after the market closes. In conjunction with the release, Powell Industries has scheduled a conference call, which will be broadcast live within the Investor Relations section of the Company's website, on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. eastern time.
A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available through August 10, 2022 and may be accessed by calling 1-877-344-7529 (domestic) or 1-412-317-0088 (international) and using passcode 7590577#. A webcast archive will also be available at powellind.com shortly after the call and will be accessible for approximately 90 days. For more information, please contact Robert Winters or Ryan Coleman at Alpha IR Group at 312-445-2870 or email POWL@alpha-ir.com.
Powell Industries, Inc., headquartered in Houston, designs, manufactures and services custom-engineered equipment and systems for the distribution, control and monitoring of electrical energy. Powell markets include large industrial customers such as utilities, oil and gas producers, refineries, petrochemical plants, pulp and paper producers, mining operations and commuter railways. For more information, please visit powellind.com.
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‘Emmanuel, don’t do it’: iPhone-hating emu makes a name for himself in viral videos
(CNN) – An iPhone-hating emu is cracking up the internet and coining a catchphrase.
Emmanuel is an emu who’s made a name for himself.
Whenever Taylor Blake tries to make a video at Knuckle Bump Farms in Florida, where they raise miniature cattle, she’s always getting bumped by the bird.
Blake said the emu is a natural on camera. He’s now gone viral, and he probably thinks his name is “Emmanuel, don’t do it.”
However, after he’s “done it,” the question is:
“Why do you gotta be such a menace, dude?” Blake asks the bird.
Blake said Emmanuel has always had a hatred of two things: phones and buttons.
She said she has even had to resort to the tactic all moms try the dreaded three names: Emmanuel Todd Lopez.
“And he stops in his tracks and kind of looks,” Blake said.
She said she has somehow not lost an iPhone over this yet.
It could be worse. A woman named Amanda at Useless Farm has been pecked repeatedly, suffering minor injuries from their emu, Karen.
“That is some scary stuff she puts up with so all the love and all the props to her,” Blake said.
Speaking of love, Emmanuel is actually crazy about Blake. It’s just the phone he can’t stand.
And with all of the viral Tiktok videos, at least he gets his fill of hearing his name.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thorne HealthTech, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRN), a leader in developing innovative solutions for a personalized approach to health and wellness, will release its second quarter 2022 financial results after the market close on Tuesday. Aug. 09, 2022. The company will host a conference call on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, at 8 a.m. (U.S. Eastern Time) to discuss its second quarter 2022 financial results. A live webcast of the call can be accessed by logging onto the investors section of the Thorne HealthTech website at https://investors.thornehealthtech.com. A replay will be available on the same website after the call.
In addition, the conference call can be accessed over the phone by dialing +1 844 200 6205 for U.S. callers, or +1 929 526 1599 for international callers, approximately 10 minutes prior to the start time. An audio replay will be available for 7 days following the call. To access the replay, dial +1 866 813 9403 (U.S.) or +44 204 525 0658 (International). The access code for the live call and replay is 713206.
Thorne HealthTech is a leader in developing innovative solutions for delivering personalized approaches to health and wellness. As a science-driven wellness company that empowers individuals with the support, education, and solutions they need to achieve healthy aging – living healthier longer – Thorne utilizes testing and data to create improved product efficacy and to deliver personalized solutions to consumers, health professionals, and corporations. Predicated on the power of the individual, Thorne leverages artificial intelligence models to provide insights and personalized data, products, and services that help individuals take a proactive and actionable approach to improve and maintain their health over a lifetime. Thorne is the only supplement manufacturer that collaborates with Mayo Clinic on health and wellness research and content, and is trusted by more than four million customers, 45,000+ health-care professionals, thousands of professional athletes, and more than 100 professional sports teams and U.S. National Teams. For more information, visit Thorne.com.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
234 PM CDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 107 AND 110 DEGREES CONTINUE FOR A
FEW MORE HOURS...
The combination of above normal temperatures and higher dewpoints
have produced elevated heat indices between 107 and 110 degrees
this afternoon. There may be a few locations in the Rio Grande
Valley that approach 112 degrees for an hour or two between Now
and 6 PM. Residents with outdoor activities planned are urged to
drink plenty of water, wear light weight and light colored
clothing and take frequent breaks from the heat. Young children
and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles under any
circumstances. This is especially true during warm or hot weather
when car interiors can reach lethal temperatures in a matter of
minutes.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
331 PM CDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures 99 to 103 and heat index values up to 109.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast Texas.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM CDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM CDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 109 expected.
* WHERE...Jackson, Matagorda, Brazoria, Galveston and Chambers
Counties.
* WHEN...From noon to 8 PM CDT Wednesday.
...HEAT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT WEDNESDAY...
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 8 PM CDT
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the Excessive Heat Warning, dangerously hot
conditions with ambient temperatures up to 106 expected. For the
Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 109.
* WHERE...Houston, Trinity, Madison, Walker, Burleson, Brazos,
Washington and Grimes Counties.
* WHEN...For the Excessive Heat Warning, from noon to 8 PM CDT
Wednesday. For the Heat Advisory, until noon CDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat and humidity will significantly increase
the potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
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BETHESDA, Md., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it will release its second quarter 2022 results before the market opens on August 4, 2022.
The Company will host a webcast to discuss the quarterly results on August 4, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. Listeners can access the webcast via the link below:
https://walkerdunlop.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3KzScGmYQ1eHcJbaPOUnDg https://walkerdunlop.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pp8bFPh0RU20ivYHZi03OA
or by dialing +1 408 901 0584, Webinar ID 844 4342 0334, Password 270631. A webcast replay will be available on the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at https://investors.walkerdunlop.com/.
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest providers of capital to the commercial real estate industry, enabling real estate owners and operators to bring their visions of communities — where Americans live, work, shop and play — to life. The power of our people, premier brand, and industry-leading technology make us more insightful and valuable to our clients, providing an unmatched experience every step of the way. With over 1,400 employees across every major U.S. market, Walker & Dunlop has consistently been named one of Fortune's Great Places to Work® and is committed to making the commercial real estate industry more inclusive and diverse while creating meaningful social, environmental, and economic change in our communities.
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SA Health described the case of "invasive" when they reported the death today.
Multiple people the child came into contact with have been identified and 15 of them given clearance antibiotics.
"There have been seven cases of invasive meningococcal disease reported in South Australia this year, compared to six cases recorded at the same time last year," SA Health said.
"Of the seven cases this year, all have been typed as serogroup B."
It's the first death from the virus this year in the state. Three people died last year, out of 12 cases.
Meningococcal disease is rare but serious illness which usually causes meningitis - inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord - or septicaemia, which is blood poisoning
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Democrats, Republicans and a media lawyer called Tuesday for an independent investigation into possible violations of North Dakota's open records laws by the state attorney general’s office.
At issue is whether there was criminal wrongdoing by Liz Brocker, who handled the deletion of Republican Attorney General Wayne Stenhejem’s state email account a day after he died from cardiac arrest.
Brocker, Stenehjem’s longtime administrative assistant and spokeswoman, resigned Friday and a phone number for her could not be obtained. Current Attorney General Drew Wrigley, a Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that his office investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
“We have had a lot of eyes on this, a lot of attorneys with significant expertise have assessed the facts,” the statement said. “No one sees any tenable claim of illegality.”
The attorney general is tasked with investigating complaints about possible violations of state open records and meetings laws in state and local governments. It hasn't and shouldn't oversee investigations of itself, GOP Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner said.
“We need to get the facts on the table,” Wardner said in calling for an outside investigation. “It’s really difficult to conduct an investigation, investigating themselves."
Some see the deletion of the emails as a conspiracy or coverup, and it has been fodder for talk radio and political bloggers in North Dakota in recent days.
"There will always be doubters, but we need to make this clean and something people will accept,” Wardner said of an outside investigation.
An open records request showed that Brocker asked for Stenehjem’s account to be deleted in an email to an information technology employee on Jan. 29. She wrote that the deletion was approved by then-Deputy Attorney General Troy Seibel.
“We want to make sure no one has an opportunity to make an Open Record request for his emails, especially as he kept EVERYTHING,” Brocker’s email said.
The revelation of the deleted emails was made public last week when Wrigley responded to open records requests about a $1.8 million cost overrun on the lease for the attorney general’s office when Stenehjem was in charge. Wrigley had to explain in his response why certain information was not available.
Seibel’s email account was also deleted in May, two months after Seibel resigned following Wrigley’s stated plans to appoint his own deputy.
Seibel has said he didn’t recall a conversation about Stenehjem’s email account. He also said it could have been deleted as standard procedure.
Democratic Party Chairman Patrick Hart said the email deletions were illegal and called for a criminal investigation Tuesday, either by a county prosecutor’s office or an attorney general from another state.
“There has to be transparency and there has to be accountability,” Hart said. “The emails were not theirs to delete. They belong to the people of North Dakota.”
North Dakota law makes tampering with public records a felony if a public official “knowingly, without lawful authority, destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the verity or availability of a government record.”
Jack McDonald, a Bismarck attorney who represents media outlets on issues regarding the state’s open records and meetings laws, said the deletions were likely improper. He called for an independent investigation to determine whether those involved in the deletions had the authority to do so.
“Drew needs to turn this over to a (county) state’s attorney,” McDonald said.
Wrigley, a former U.S. attorney and lieutenant governor, is running to keep the attorney general’s job in November. Democrats have endorsed Grand Forks lawyer Timothy Lamb for attorney general, the state’s top law enforcement officer. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/GOP-Democratic-leaders-want-outside-probe-of-17315515.php | 2022-07-19T21:29:45Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/GOP-Democratic-leaders-want-outside-probe-of-17315515.php | false |
ATLANTA (AP) — Eleven Republican fake electors from Georgia are fighting subpoenas to testify before a special grand jury in an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally interfered in the 2020 election in the state.
All 11 signed a certificate declaring falsely that then-President Donald Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state's “duly elected and qualified” electors even though Joe Biden had won the state and a slate of Democratic electors was certified. They filed a motion Tuesday to quash their subpoenas, calling them “unreasonable and oppressive.”
Also Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, agreed to file any challenges to a subpoena in the investigation in either state superior court or federal court in Georgia, according to a court filing. He had previously filed a motion in federal court in South Carolina trying to stop any subpoena from being issued to him there on behalf of the prosecutor in Georgia.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis last year opened a criminal investigation “into attempts to influence the administration of the 2020 Georgia General Election.” A special grand jury with subpoena power was seated in May at her request. In court filings earlier this month, she alleged “a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”
Willis' office declined to comment Tuesday on the motion to quash the subpoenas.
While the special grand jury operates in secret, recent public court filings have made clear that Willis is interested in the actions of the fake electors.
In the Tuesday filing, lawyers for the 11 fake electors said that from mid-April through the end of June, Willis's office had told them that they were considered witnesses, not subjects or targets of the investigation. For that reason, they had agreed to voluntary interviews with the investigative team, the motion says. Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer and another of the fake electors appeared for interviews in late April.
On June 1, grand jury subpoenas were sent to all 11 of those fake electors. And on June 28, the district attorney's office told their lawyers for the first time that their clients were considered targets, rather than witnesses, the motion says.
On Dec. 14, 2020, when Georgia's official Democratic electors met to certify the state's electoral votes for Biden, the fake Republican electors also met to certify a slate of electoral votes for Trump. They did that because there was a lawsuit challenging the election results pending at the time, and if a judge found that Trump had actually won their electoral slate would become valid, the motion says.
The district attorney's office knew all that and properly labeled them witnesses, prompting them to agree to voluntary cooperation, the motion says.
“The abrupt, unsupportable, and public elevation of all eleven nominee electors' status wrongfully converted them from witnesses who were cooperating voluntarily and prepared to testify in the Grand Jury to persecuted targets of it,” the motion says. As a result, their lawyers advised them to invoke their federal and state rights protecting them against self-incrimination, and they “reluctantly” accepted that advice, the motion says.
Their lawyers assert that the change in status from witnesses to targets was based on “an improper desire to force them to publicly invoke their rights as, at best, a publicity stunt.” Therefore, they should be excused from appearing before the special grand jury, the motion says.
The motion alleges that Willis is only pursuing some of the 16 electors as targets, specifically those who are prominent figures in the state Republican Party. That is evidence of political motivation, the lawyers argue.
But Willis said in a court filing Tuesday that each of the 16 people who signed the false elector certificate has received a letter saying they are targets of the investigation and that their testimony before the special grand jury is required.
The motion asks Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who's overseeing the special grand jury to excuse the 11 electors from appearing. It also asks him to look into Willis' actions “indicating the improper politicization of this investigatory process."
It also asks him to grant a motion filed Friday by state Sen. Burt Jones seeking to remove Willis and her office from the investigation. Jones, who's the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, alleged that the investigation is politically motivated because Willis is an active supporter of his Democratic opponent. McBurney on Tuesday set a Thursday hearing on that motion.
Willis's office has said Jones' claims are without merit and wrote in a filing Tuesday that Jones has identified no actions that show political motivation. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Georgia-fake-electors-seek-to-quash-election-17315435.php | 2022-07-19T21:29:52Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Georgia-fake-electors-seek-to-quash-election-17315435.php | false |
FARMINGTON, Conn., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) ("Horizon") (the "Company"), a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries, announced today that it plans to release financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, after the close of market trading.
The Company has scheduled a conference call to discuss the results on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET. The conference call will feature remarks by Robert D. Pomeroy, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gerald A. Michaud, President, and Daniel R. Trolio, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. To participate in the call, please dial (877) 407-9716 (domestic) or (201) 493-6779 (international). The conference ID is 13731060. Please dial into the call at least five minutes before the scheduled start time.
The conference call will also be available via a live listen-only webcast on the Company's website, www.horizontechfinance.com. Please allow extra time prior to the call to visit the site and download any necessary software that may be needed to listen to the Internet broadcast.
An online archive of the webcast will be available on the Company's website for 30 days following the call.
About Horizon Technology Finance
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) is a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries. The investment objective of HRZN is to maximize its investment portfolio's return by generating current income from the debt investments it makes and capital appreciation from the warrants it receives when making such debt investments. Horizon Technology Finance Management LLC is headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, with a regional office in Pleasanton, California, and investment professionals located in Portland, Maine, Austin, Texas, and Reston, Virginia. To learn more, please visit horizontechfinance.com.
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- South Atlantic Bancshares, Inc. ("South Atlantic" or the "Company") (OTCQX: SABK), parent of South Atlantic Bank (the "Bank"), reported consolidated net income of $2.5 million, or $0.33 per diluted common share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, an increase of $33 thousand, or $0.01 per diluted common share, compared to the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights:
- Net income for the second quarter of 2022 totaled $2.5 million, a 25.0 percent increase over the first quarter of 2022 and a 1.3 percent increase over the second quarter of 2021.
- Loan interest income, excluding fees, for the second quarter of 2022 increased $1.5 million, or 21.2 percent when compared to the same period in 2021.
- Total assets as of June 30, 2022 equaled $1.4 billion, a 13.9 percent increase year-to-date and 22.5 percent increase year-over-year.
- Net loans increased to $879.2 million at June 30, 2022, a 21.1 percent increase year-to-date and 23.7 percent increase year-over-year.
- Total deposits increased to $1.3 billion at June 30, 2022, a 17.1 percent increase year-to-date and 23.3 percent increase year-over-year.
"South Atlantic Bank has had a strong start to 2022. Financial performance during the second quarter of 2022 exceeded our expectations, and our results during the period are a testament to the investment in our team and technology. We believe these second quarter 2022 results, along with strength in our loan pipeline, have us well-positioned for the second half of 2022," said K. Wayne Wicker, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of South Atlantic.
The Company's subordinated debt issuance of $30.0 million in December 2021, which occurred prior to the market interest rate increases experienced in the first and second quarter of 2022, has provided the Company with a capital source positioning the Bank for future growth. Despite the Federal Open Market Committee of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System repeatedly raising their target benchmark interest rate in the first six months of 2022, resulting in subsequent prime rate increases of 150 basis point between March and June of 2022, the Company believes that the Bank's balance sheet is well suited to navigate the current rising rate environment, which is expected to continue in light of the uncertain inflationary outlook in the United States and our market areas.
Earnings Summary
Net interest income was $10.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $8.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, an increase of $1.6 million, or 18.5 percent, primarily due to an increase of $1.1 million in interest income on securities from increased securities holdings and an increase of $773 thousand in loan interest income, partially offset by an increase in interest expense of $228 thousand driven by interest expense on the Company's outstanding subordinated debt.
Noninterest income declined $766 thousand, or 33.9 percent, to $1.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $2.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021, primarily due to a $751 thousand decrease in secondary mortgage fees.
Noninterest expense increased $842 thousand, or 11.0 percent, to $8.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $7.6 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. This increase in noninterest expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022 is primarily due to salary and benefits expenses increasing by $510 thousand due to the hiring of seasoned commercial lenders and overhead costs to support our operations and growth initiatives.
Balance Sheet Activity
Total assets increased $171.7 million to $1.4 billion as of June 30, 2022, compared to $1.2 billion as of December 31, 2021. This increase in total assets during the six months ended June 30, 2022 was driven primarily by an increase in net loans of $153.4 million and an increase in cash and cash equivalents of $23.1 million, partially offset by a reduction in mortgage loans held for sale of $7.5 million. Net loans grew 21.1 percent in the six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to 4.5 percent for the six months ended June 30, 2021. Total deposits increased $184.9 million in the six months ended June 30, 2022, of which $62.0 million was noninterest bearing, compared to an increase of $192.7 million in the six months ended June 30, 2021.
PPP Loans
The Company participated in both phases of the Paycheck Protection Program (the "PPP") and processed an aggregate of 1,532 PPP loans, totaling $146.3 million, during both phases of the PPP. As of June 30, 2022, all PPP loans originated by the Bank have been subsequently forgiven by the Small Business Administration (the "SBA") or otherwise paid off. The Bank successfully converted 375 of those PPP loan borrowers without existing banking relationships into full-service deposit and loan relationship customers.
Net Interest Margin
Net interest margin, on a tax equivalent basis ("net interest margin"), decreased by 13 basis points to 3.43 percent for the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to 3.56 percent for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease is primarily attributable to the 10 basis point reduction in yields on total interest earning assets during the period, including a 25 basis point reduction in loan yields including fees income during the period. Cost of funds increased by 3 basis points to 0.26 percent for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to 0.23 percent for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
Credit Quality
We continue to see solid credit quality throughout our markets through June 30, 2022, with no loans classified as non-accrual and no loans past due greater than 90 days as of June 30, 2022. At June 30, 2022, there was one loan past due greater than 30 days totaling $31 thousand, or 0.003 percent of the net loan portfolio. Provision expense during the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $325 thousand compared to $375 thousand for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
As previously disclosed, the Bank worked closely with borrowers who were unable to meet their contractual obligations due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by offering loan modifications or payment deferrals to certain borrowers on a short-term basis. As of June 30, 2022, there were no loans with short-term modifications or payment deferrals due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Capital Position
Shareholders' equity totaled $89.9 million as of June 30, 2022, a decrease of $15.6 million from December 31, 2021, driven by a $20.7 million adjustment for unrealized losses in the Bank's available-for-sale securities portfolio since December 31, 2021, partially offset by $4.5 million in year-to-date earnings. The $20.7 million adjustment for unrealized losses during the period resulted from a decrease in the market value of securities in the Bank's available-for-sale securities portfolio, which is attributed to a significant increase in market interest rates during the period. Generally, the Bank classifies its debt securities held in the Bank's securities portfolio as available-for-sale. During the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Bank reclassified a portion of its securities portfolio to held to maturity in order to help mitigate the effects of the current rising interest rate environment and the Bank anticipates they will mature at par. The Bank's capital position remains above the minimum regulatory thresholds required to be considered "well-capitalized," with a total risk-based capital ratio of 11.34 percent as of June 30, 2022. The Company reported 7,592,520 total shares outstanding as of June 30, 2022. The increase of 14,715 shares outstanding during the six months ended June 30, 2022 is due to the exercise of options granted.
About South Atlantic Bancshares, Inc.
South Atlantic Bancshares, Inc. (OTCQX: SABK) is a registered bank holding company based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with approximately $1.4 billion in total assets. The Company's banking subsidiary, South Atlantic Bank, is a full-service financial institution spanning the entire coastal area of South Carolina, and is locally owned, controlled and operated. The Bank operates eleven offices in Myrtle Beach, Carolina Forest, North Myrtle Beach, Murrells Inlet, Pawleys Island, Georgetown, Mount Pleasant, Charleston, Bluffton, Hilton Head Island and Beaufort, South Carolina. The Bank specializes in providing personalized community banking services to individuals, small businesses and corporations. Services include a full range of consumer and commercial banking products, including mortgage, and treasury management, including South Atlantic Bank goMobile, the Bank's mobile banking app. The Bank also offers internet banking, no-fee ATM access, checking, certificates of deposit and money market accounts, merchant services, mortgage loans, remote deposit capture, and more. For more information, visit www.SouthAtlantic.bank.
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Information contained herein, other than information as of December 31, 2021, is unaudited. All financial data should be read in conjunction with the notes to the consolidated financial statements of the Company and the Bank as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, as contained in the Company's 2021 Annual Report located on the Company's website.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Thorne HealthTech, Inc. ("Thorne HealthTech" or "Thorne") (NASDAQ: THRN), a leader in developing innovative solutions for a personalized approach to health and wellness, today announced that it has achieved self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status for its proprietary nicotinamide riboside malate (NRM) product.
Under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, GRAS is a regulatory classification term used to identify a food ingredient that is generally recognized among qualified experts as having been adequately shown to be safe under the conditions of its intended use.
Self-affirmed GRAS status requires that an ingredient undergo extensive quality and safety testing, as well as review by an independent outside expert panel. Based on extensive analysis, Thorne's NRM has been established as having a quality, safety, and purity profile equal to or superior to other forms of nicotinamide riboside currently on the market.
Thorne's NRM is also NSF Certified for Sport®, with each batch being independently tested by NSF. The NSF Certified for Sport® program provides the highest possible level of safety and testing to ensure products do not contain contaminants, banned substances, or masking agents, and that what is on the label matches what is in the product. Thorne's NRM product suite includes NiaCel®, Collagen Fit, ResveraCel®, and Advanced Nutrients, among other products.
"The benefits of nicotinamide riboside are vast, because researchers have found that nicotinamide riboside directly stimulates the production of energy in the body through NAD+, one of the most critical molecules in our bodies," said Thorne HealthTech CEO, Paul Jacobson. "Our proprietary nicotinamide riboside malate has proven to be best-in-class, and its new GRAS status is a major endorsement reinforcing the quality and safety of our product."
About Thorne HealthTech
Thorne HealthTech is a leader in developing innovative solutions for delivering personalized approaches to health and wellness. As a science-driven health and wellness company that empowers individuals with the support, education, and solutions they need to achieve healthy aging – living healthier longer – Thorne utilizes testing and data to create improved product efficacy and to deliver personalized solutions to consumers, health professionals, and corporations. Predicated on the power of the individual, Thorne leverages artificial intelligence models to provide insights and personalized data, products, and services that help individuals take a proactive and actionable approach to improve and maintain their health and wellness over a lifetime. Thorne is the only supplement manufacturer that collaborates with Mayo Clinic on health and wellness research and content, and is trusted by more than four million customers, 45,000+ health-care professionals, thousands of professional athletes, and more than 100 professional sports teams and U.S. National Teams. For more information, visit Thorne.com.
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- Recommendation follows U.S. FDA Emergency Use Authorization for the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted as a two-dose primary series
- FDA has determined that first vaccine lot has met all release specifications and is acceptable for use under Emergency Use Authorization
- Novavax expects to ship doses to the U.S. Government-designated distribution center in the coming days
- Novavax' vaccine is the first FDA-authorized and ACIP-recommended protein-based COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.
GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously to recommend the use of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted as a two-dose primary series in individuals aged 18 and older.
The recommendation follows the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ACIP will submit its recommendation to the Director of the CDC for review and endorsement.
"We think vaccine choice is important, particularly as we expect to see ongoing surges of COVID-19 and work to increase vaccination rates," said Stanley C. Erck, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novavax. "With demonstrated efficacy and a reassuring safety profile, our vaccine is the country's first protein-based option."
The Committee based its recommendation on use in individuals aged 18 and older on data from the pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial, PREVENT-19, which enrolled 29,960 participants aged 18 years and older in the U.S. and Mexico. In the trial, the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted demonstrated 90.4% efficacy (95% confidence interval [CI], 83.8% to 94.3%; P<0.001) with a reassuring safety profile. Among participants 18 through 64 years of age, solicited adverse reactions (ARs) following administration of any dose of the vaccine, were injection site pain/tenderness (82.2%), fatigue/malaise (62.0%), muscle pain (54.1%), headache (52.9%), joint pain (25.4%), nausea/vomiting (15.6%), injection site redness (7.0%), injection site swelling (6.3%), and fever (6.0%). In participants ≥65 years of age, solicited ARs following administration of any dose of the vaccine were injection site pain/tenderness (63.4%), fatigue/malaise (39.2%), muscle pain (30.2%), headache (29.2%), joint pain (15.4%), nausea/vomiting (7.3%), injection site swelling (5.3%), injection site redness (4.8%), and fever (2.0%).
In addition to the FDA EUA, the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine has received conditional authorization for use in individuals aged 18 and older from multiple regulatory agencies worldwide, including the European Commission (EC), and Emergency Use Listing from the World Health Organization.
This project has been supported in part with federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services; Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), through the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) under contract number MCDC2011-001.
Use of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted in the U.S.
The Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted has not been approved or licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA, under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to provide a two-dose primary series to individuals 18 years of age and older to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The emergency use of this product is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of the medical product under Section 564(b)(1) of the FD&C Act unless the declaration is terminated or authorization revoked sooner.
Authorized Use
The Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted is authorized for use under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to provide a two-dose primary series for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 18 years of age and older.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Contraindications
Do not administer the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted to individuals with a known history of a severe allergic reaction (e.g., anaphylaxis) to any component of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted.
Warnings and Precautions
Management of Acute Allergic Reactions: Appropriate medical treatment to manage immediate allergic reactions must be immediately available in the event an acute anaphylactic reaction occurs following administration of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted. Monitor the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted recipients for the occurrence of immediate adverse reactions according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention guidelines.
Myocarditis and Pericarditis: Clinical trials data provide evidence for increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis following administration of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted (see Full EUA Prescribing Information).
Syncope (fainting): May occur in association with administration of injectable vaccines. Procedures should be in place to avoid injury from fainting.
Altered Immunocompetence: Immunocompromised persons, including individuals receiving immunosuppressant therapy, may have a diminished immune response to the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted.
Limitations of Vaccine Effectiveness: The Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted may not protect all vaccine recipients.
Adverse Reactions
Adverse reactions reported in clinical trials following administration of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted include injection site pain/tenderness, fatigue/malaise, muscle pain, headache, joint pain, nausea/vomiting, injection site redness, injection site swelling, fever, chills, injection site pruritus, hypersensitivity reactions, lymphadenopathy-related reactions, myocarditis, and pericarditis.
Myocarditis, pericarditis, and anaphylaxis have been reported following administration of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted outside of clinical trials.
Additional adverse reactions, some of which may be serious, may become apparent with more widespread use of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted.
Reporting Adverse Events and Vaccine Administration Errors
The vaccination provider enrolled in the federal COVID-19 Vaccination Program is responsible for mandatory reporting of the following to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS):
- vaccine administration errors whether or not associated with an adverse event,
- serious adverse events (irrespective of attribution to vaccination),
- cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS), and
- cases of COVID-19 that results in hospitalization or death.
Complete and submit reports to VAERS online: https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html. For further assistance with reporting to VAERS, call 1-800-822-7967. The reports should include the words "Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted EUA" in the description section of the report.
To the extent feasible, report adverse events to Novavax, Inc. using the following contact information or by providing a copy of the VAERS form to Novavax, Inc. Website: www.NovavaxMedInfo.com, Fax Number: 1-888-988-8809, Telephone Number: 1-844-NOVAVAX (1-844-668-2829).
Please click to see the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine (Vaccine Providers) and EUA Full Prescribing Information.
About NVX-CoV2373 (Novavax' COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted)
NVX-CoV2373 is a protein-based vaccine engineered from the genetic sequence of the first strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease. The vaccine was created using Novavax' recombinant nanoparticle technology to generate antigen derived from the coronavirus spike (S) protein and is formulated with Novavax' patented saponin-based Matrix-M™ adjuvant to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies. NVX-CoV2373 contains purified protein antigen and can neither replicate, nor can it cause COVID-19.
NVX-CoV2373 is packaged as a ready-to-use liquid formulation in a vial containing ten doses. The vaccination regimen calls for two 0.5 ml doses (5 mcg antigen and 50 mcg Matrix-M adjuvant) given intramuscularly 21 days apart. The vaccine is stored at 2°- 8° Celsius, enabling the use of existing vaccine supply and cold chain channels. Use of the vaccine should be in accordance with official recommendations.
The PREVENT-19 trial of NVX-CoV2373 is being conducted with support from the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the HHS, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health at HHS. BARDA is providing up to $1.75 billion under a Department of Defense agreement (number MCDC2011-001). The Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense is also providing funding of up to $45.7 million under a separate agreement. To date, the U.S. government has agreed to order 3.2 million doses of NVX-CoV2373 under these existing agreements should NVX-CoV2373 receive a recommendation from the CDC. Novavax and the U.S. government will determine the timing, pricing, and amounts for delivery of any additional NVX-CoV2373 doses. Novavax intends to pursue additional U.S. procurement of both NVX-CoV2373 doses and other potential formulations.
Novavax has established partnerships for the manufacture, commercialization and distribution of NVX-CoV2373 worldwide. Existing authorizations leverage Novavax' manufacturing partnership with Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer by volume. They will later be supplemented with data from additional manufacturing sites throughout Novavax' global supply chain.
About Matrix-M™ Adjuvant
Novavax' patented saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant has demonstrated a potent and well-tolerated effect by stimulating the entry of antigen-presenting cells into the injection site and enhancing antigen presentation in local lymph nodes, boosting immune response.
About Novavax
Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) is a biotechnology company that promotes improved health globally through the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases. The company's proprietary recombinant technology platform harnesses the power and speed of genetic engineering to efficiently produce highly immunogenic nanoparticles designed to address urgent global health needs. NVX-CoV2373, the company's COVID-19 vaccine, has received authorization from multiple regulatory authorities globally, including the U.S., EC and the WHO. The vaccine is currently under review by multiple regulatory agencies worldwide, including for additional indications and populations such as adolescents and as a booster. In addition to its COVID-19 vaccine, Novavax is also currently evaluating a COVID-seasonal influenza combination vaccine candidate in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial, which combines NVX-CoV2373 and NanoFlu*, its quadrivalent influenza investigational vaccine candidate, and is also evaluating an Omicron strain-based vaccine (NVX-CoV2515) as well as a bivalent Omicron-based / original strain-based vaccine. These vaccine candidates incorporate Novavax' proprietary saponin-based Matrix-M adjuvant to enhance the immune response and stimulate high levels of neutralizing antibodies.
For more information, visit www.novavax.com and connect with us on LinkedIn.
*NanoFlu identifies a recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) protein nanoparticle influenza vaccine candidate produced by Novavax. This investigational candidate was evaluated during a controlled phase 3 trial conducted during the 2019-2020 influenza season.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements herein relating to the future of Novavax, its operating plans and prospects, its partnerships, the potential for subsequent orders from the U.S. government for additional doses of NVX-CoV2373 and other potential formulations, the timing of clinical trial results, the ongoing development of NVX-CoV2373, including an Omicron strain based vaccine and bivalent Omicron-based / original strain based vaccine, a COVID-seasonal influenza investigational vaccine candidate, the scope, timing and outcome of future regulatory filings and actions, including a potential endorsement from the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Novavax' plans to file a Biologics License Application with the FDA in 2023, Novavax' plans to supplement existing authorizations with data from the additional manufacturing sites in Novavax' global supply chain, additional worldwide authorizations of NVX-CoV2373 for use in adults and adolescents, and as a booster, the potential impact and reach of Novavax and NVX-CoV2373 in addressing vaccine access, controlling the pandemic and protecting populations, the efficacy, safety and intended utilization of NVX-CoV2373, and expected administration of NVX-CoV2373 are forward-looking statements. Novavax cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, challenges satisfying, alone or together with partners, various safety, efficacy, and product characterization requirements, including those related to process qualification and assay validation, necessary to satisfy applicable regulatory authorities; unanticipated challenges or delays in conducting clinical trials; difficulty obtaining scarce raw materials and supplies; resource constraints, including human capital and manufacturing capacity, on the ability of Novavax to pursue planned regulatory pathways; challenges meeting contractual requirements under agreements with multiple commercial, governmental, and other entities; and those other risk factors identified in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of Novavax' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We caution investors not to place considerable reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this press release. You are encouraged to read our filings with the SEC, available at www.sec.gov and www.novavax.com, for a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this document, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any of the statements. Our business is subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, including those referenced above. Investors, potential investors, and others should give careful consideration to these risks and uncertainties.
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Today the Biden administration announced $49 million in grants to help community groups sign more families and children up for health insurance – especially the more than half of the country's 4 million uninsured children who qualify for free coverage through Medicaid or CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program.
"This is our largest investment to date in this type of initiative," says Chiquita Brooks-Lasure, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "So many children, even though they're eligible, don't know it – their parents don't know that they are eligible for coverage – there still needs to be so much education done."
She points to the Biden administration's successes in boosting private insurance enrollment by investing in outreach workers who can walk people through the enrollment process – one on one – for free. "That's the same thing that we're trying to do here with the Connecting Kids to Coverage initiative – really making sure we are using trusted messengers," she says.
"This is absolutely good news that these grants are going out – it is needed now a lot because we have this looming crisis with respect to children becoming uninsured," says Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. The looming crisis is this: When the COVID-19 public health emergency eventually ends, states will begin to unwind a period of two years when no one had to prove they still qualified for free health insurance.
That process, which is likely to be chaotic in many places, could lead to 6.7 million children who now have Medicaid losing their coverage, according to an estimate from the center. Some will lose coverage because they no longer qualify. Others will lose coverage because of administrative errors or missing documentation.
It's clear to Alker that the federal health officials working on this understand that the pending crisis that could lead to millions more uninsured children "is a really big deal," she says, and Tuesday's historic grant announcement is evidence of that. "I think clearly the Biden administration has looked for the pennies under the couch to get this amount out this year."
Society is not in good shape if the country's children don't have health insurance, Alker adds. A broken arm in a playground can mean financial disaster for a family. Missed wellness visits can mean missed developmental checks, routine immunizations or control for conditions like asthma. "We have a lot of research to show that it's very, very cost effective to provide health insurance to children – in the long run, this will pay many dividends back to society," she says.
Insurance for children works a bit better than insurance for the rest of the population in the U.S. In 2020, about 94% of children were insured, thanks in large part to Medicaid and CHIP. Low-income families can get free, comprehensive coverage for their kids, and they can enroll at any time of the year.
The challenge for community outreach workers around the country is to spread the word – to find families who think they don't qualify, and walk them through the process. That means showing up at summer block parties and street fairs and trying to let as many families as possible who need coverage know that they can get help signing up.
In the coming months, the $1.5 million grant to the Greater Flint Health Coalition will mean outreach workers can attend Genesee county "back-to-school fairs, any sort of meet-the-teacher night, kindergarten roundup," says Nichole Smith-Anderson, the organization's special projects director. "We've also worked really closely with the schools where, as their kids are doing enrollment information, we have a little question that says, 'Do you need support with health care coverage?' that parents can fill out, and then we're able to get in contact with them that way."
Getting parents' contact information and following up after back-to-school events is often simpler than trying to enroll on the spot, notes Emily Roller, director of health insurance initiatives at the Virginia Health Care Foundation, which also received about $1.5 million on Tuesday.
The pending unwinding when the public health emergency ends is also looming over everything, Roller adds. "We will be working closely with our colleagues at the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services to be their boots on the ground that can inform how the policies and procedures that they're putting in place are really lived out in people's experiences," she says.
At the federal level, "we are laser focused on how we address the unwinding of the public health emergency when it happens," Brooks Lasure says. "It's just such a priority of the [Biden] administration to continue to enroll people in coverage and connect them to care – and there's no one more in need of care in our country than the nation's children."
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
4-2-8
(four, two, eight)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
4-2-8
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BOULDER CITY, Nev. — A transformer exploded Tuesday at Hoover Dam, producing a cloud of thick, black smoke and flames that were quickly extinguished. No one was hurt and electricity continued to flow from one of the nation’s largest hydroelectric facilities, authorities said.
“There is no risk to the power grid,” according to Jacklynn L. Gould, the federal Bureau of Reclamation’s regional director for the Lower Colorado Region. The fire ignited around 10 a.m. and was out within a half-hour, she said.
Hoover Dam, located on the Nevada-Arizona border about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Las Vegas, is a popular tourist destination and some of the visitors captured the scene on video and quickly shared it on social media.
William Herro, 13, of San Francisco, was on a viewing bridge with his parents when he saw the explosion and then heard a “big boom.”
“A ton of black smoke just exploded in the air. It looked almost like a mushroom and then a fire followed,” said Herro, who posted cellphone video of it on TikTok. “I was really surprised and I started filming.”
The postings showed the explosion occurred at a building slightly downstream from the base of the dam. The complex is in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River.
The cause of the fire is under investigation and it’s not clear how extensive the damage was to the transformer.
According to the Bureau of Reclamation, the dam is the second-tallest in the U.S. at 726 feet (221 meters). Each of its 17 generators can supply electricity to 100,000 households.
As many as 20,000 vehicles a day drive across the wide top of the dam, which is a National Historic Landmark. | https://www.abqjournal.com/2517509/hoover-dam-transformer-explodes-no-one-hurt.html | 2022-07-19T21:39:05Z | https://www.abqjournal.com/2517509/hoover-dam-transformer-explodes-no-one-hurt.html | true |
Boxes containing 9,024 tetra packets of liquor seized in Kurnool dist.
KURNOOL July 20, 2022 02:11 ISTSleuths of the Special Enforcement Bureau(SEB) confiscated 94 boxes of liquor being transported from Karnataka and two cars at Panchalingala Checkpost on National Highway(NH) no-.44 in Kurnool district on Tuesday morning.
According to police, Circle Inspector Manjula was checking vehicles when he spotted the two suspiciously-moving vehicles and intercepted them.
The boxes contained 9,024 whisky tetra packs, of 90 ml each and worth over ₹3 lakh, meant to be sold only in Karnataka and were being illegally transported into Andhra Pradesh through Telangana. The boxes have been handed over to the Kurnool SEB police station, but the drivers of the cars fled the scene, the police said.
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WASHINGTON — For most of the major carbon-polluting nations, promising to fight climate change is a lot easier than actually doing it. In the United States, President Joe Biden has learned that the hard way.
Among the 10 biggest carbon emitters, only the European Union has enacted polices close to or consistent with international goals of limiting warming to just a few more tenths of a degrees, according to scientists and experts who track climate action in countries.
But Europe, which is broiling through a record-smashing heat wave and hosting climate talks this week, also faces a short-term winter energy crunch, which could cause the continent to backtrack a tad and push other nations into longer, dirtier energy deals, experts said.
“Even if Europe meets all of its climate goals and the rest of us don’t, we all lose,” said Kate Larsen, head of international energy and climate for the research firm Rhodium Group. Emissions of heat-trapping gases don’t stop at national borders, nor does the extreme weather that’s being felt throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
“It’s a grim outlook. There’s no getting away from it, I’m afraid,” said climate scientist Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics. His group joined with the New Climate Institute to create the Climate Action Tracker, which analyzes nations’ climate targets and policies compared to the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
The tracker describes as “insufficient” the policies and actions of the world’s top two carbon polluters, China and the U.S., as well as Japan, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. It calls Russia and South Korea’s polices “highly insufficient,” and Iran comes in as “critically insufficient.” Hare says No. 3 emitter India “remains an enigma.”
“We are losing ground against ambitious goals” such as keeping global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) or 1.5 Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, said veteran international climate negotiator Nigel Purvis of Climate Advisers. The world has already warmed 1.1 degrees (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times.
Seven years ago, when almost all the nations of the world were preparing for what would become the Paris climate agreement, “it was all about ambition and setting ambitious targets,” Larsen said. “Now we are transitioning into a new phase that’s really about implementation … I don’t think the international community knows how to do implementation.”
Other nations and the United Nations can pressure countries to set goals, but enacting laws and rules is a tougher sell. While Europe has been successful with “a long history of implementing and ratcheting up existing policies,” Larsen said, that’s not the case in the United States. The U.S. is on path to cut emissions by 24% to 35% below 2005 levels by 2030, far shy of the nation’s pledge to reduce emissions by 50% to 52% in that time, according to a new analysis by Rhodium Group.
Biden is running low on options, said Larsen, a report co-author. Congress — specifically key Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia — is balking on the president’s climate-fighting legislation, and the Supreme Court curbed power plant regulations.
Congressional action “was a big window of opportunity that would have allowed us to be on track to our goal,” Larsen said. A second window is available in “the suite of federal regulations that the Biden administration plans to release.”
“These are the two big deciders of whether the U.S. will meet its target, and one we have largely failed on. So in that sense, it is a big miss because these opportunities don’t come along very often,” she said.
“The U.S. can get close” to reaching its goal, but it’s not close yet, Larsen said. Whether that happens “depends on the next three to 18 months of what the administration does.”
Other nations, particularly China, look at what the U.S. is doing to fight climate change and are reluctant to ratchet up their efforts if America isn’t doing much, Purvis and Hare said.
At the urging of activists and some Democrats, the Biden administration is considering declaring a national emergency because of climate change and using special powers to cut carbon pollution from power plants and vehicles. Calling it an emergency is not enough; what matters is the actions that follow, Purvis said.
Biden could put a moratorium on federal lands and water. He could reinstate a ban on U.S. oil exports. He could move up spending on wind and solar. But all are subject to a conservative Supreme Court.
“The big question is where can Biden go with executive orders and how convincing is that going to be to other leaders?” Hare said.
Elsewhere in the world, “the Russian energy crisis has definitely been a major setback,” Hare said. It’s a short-term problem for Europe, and it’s even loosened some of their rules, but “their long-term policy framework is very robust, and this might help them double down on alternative energy,” Larsen said.
But the panic over natural gas has other countries, specifically in Africa, jumping onto the bandwagon of liquified natural gas, which still emits carbon. The pivot to LNG has added 15% to 20% to the amount that the world uses, Hare said.
While there is a risk Europe might add infrastructure for natural gas that will be hard to abandon, it looks like the Russian invasion of Ukraine strengthened Europe’s resolve to reduce Russia’s energy influence and get off fossil fuels, Purvis said.
There are other places where weaning the world off carbon looks more possible. A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency found the cost of electricity last year from onshore wind fell by 15%, offshore wind by 13% and solar panels by 13% compared to 2020.
Meanwhile, electric vehicle sales in America are rising, and the time when they could hit “escape velocity” and really make a difference is on the horizon, Larsen said.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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RED FLAG WARNING
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
325 PM CDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS
EVENING FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND BREEZY SOUTH SOUTHWEST
WINDS.
The National Weather Service in Houston/Galveston has issued a
Red Flag Warning, which is in effect from 10 AM this morning to
10 PM CDT this evening.
* AFFECTED COUNTIES... Houston...Madison...Walker...Burleson...
Brazos...Washington...Grimes.
* WIND...South southwest at 10 to 15 mph with gusts near 25 mph.
* HUMIDITY...As low as 20 to 25 percent.
* TEMPERATURES...100 to 105 degrees.
* IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions
are either occurring now...or will shortly. A combination of
strong winds...low relative humidity...and warm temperatures will
create explosive fire growth potential.
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 10 PM CDT WEDNESDAY
FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND BREEZY SOUTH SOUTHWEST
WINDS....
Red Flag Warning, which is in effect from 10 AM to 10 PM CDT
Wednesday.
* TEMPERATURES...102 to 106 degrees.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES AND BREEZY SOUTH SOUTHWEST WINDS....
* AFFECTED COUNTIES... Trinity.
* HUMIDITY...As low as 25 percent.
* TEMPERATURES...103 to 105 degrees.
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The heatwave embroiling southern and central Europe is making its way north. A report says the heat with low rainfall means nearly half the EU's land area will be affected by drought this summer.
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The heatwave embroiling southern and central Europe is making its way north. A report says the heat with low rainfall means nearly half the EU's land area will be affected by drought this summer.
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The death of a First Nations man who died by suicide after a family member called the RCMP for help in Williams Lake was a “needless tragedy,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC).
Phillip was speaking at a joint media conference where the UBCIC and Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) announced Tuesday, July 19 they are calling for a full public and independent inquiry into the role of the RCMP in the man’s death, beyond an investigation already underway by the Independent Investigations Office BC.
Rojun Alphonse, 36, a member of WLFN, died in his home on Sunday, July 10, hours after a family member made a call at approximately 3:40 a.m. Sunday to RCMP that he was in possession of a weapon and was contemplating self-harm.
Police arrived and established a perimeter around the threeplex in a residential neighbourhood where Alphonse had lived with his wife and children for many years. By mid morning Sunday, the North District Emergency Response Team (ERT) arrived with an armoured vehicle.
A police negotiator spoke over a loudspeaker asking two people in the house to come out with their hands up.
ERT officers deployed several canisters of tear gas into the home through a window they had smashed.
“We are extremely disappointed with how police interactions with Indigenous peoples often result in tragedies like these and we are demanding immediate action and police reform,” Phillip said.
Issues such as these have come forward multiple times in the past, he added.
WLFN Chief Willie Sellars said what should have resulted in a welfare check with properly trained individuals escalated into a “swarm of ERT personnel with automatic weapons, armed vehicles, body armour and tear gas.”
He said it was in the midst of the police ‘violence’ that Alphonse took his life.
“We are all in shock and mourning. When is it common practice that an ERT team is deployed to a situation where a person is threatening suicide?”
Sellars said the situation was escalated by social media presence of onlookers and “immediately branded as a gang situation and treated as such.”
As they await further details of the incident, Sellars said they are asking if the incident had involved a non-Indigenous person would the police response have been the same.
“This is not just an Indigenous issue. This is a issue for all Canadians,” he said, noting the incident has impacted the community’s confidence in the system. “We are sitting here today in union with the family and the UBCIC because everyone deserves justice.”
Struggling to speak through her tears and sobs, Alphonse’s widow June North said her husband was a dedicated family man who will be missed.
“We call for justice on how our RCMP have followed through on this call when our daughter was still home and still had gas-bombed our family home.”
North described how her daughter exited the home and was taken away in a police car and questioned without a family member present.
“We are very lucky our daughter was not harmed,” she said. “The fear of the RCMP will always be there for our daughter and us all.”
Hazel and Gregory Alphonse spoke about their son and how his death has impacted them.
“Just imagine yourself with all the cops around you and with all the rifles that they had. Just imagine my son was scared. I keep putting myself in Rojan’s home, me being there with my daughter,” Hazel said. “We know our son. He wasn’t a dangerous man. He was a loving person.”
Legal counsel for UBCIC Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, joined the conference by telephone.
She said the tragedy has “laid bare” serious concern for public safety in community and in particular when a person has a crisis.
“When families call for support, they need support. Culturally, safe support. They don’t need tear gas and escalation and police emergency response coming to cause so much distress that an individual acts in a way in response to that situation and harms themself in this tragic way,” she said. “It seems very much to us that this was preventable and should not have occurred.”
Sellars said they want the request upheld and will be looking for a response from the government in the coming days.
When contacted by Black Press Media, Williams Lake RCMP Acting Insp. Darren Dodge said they could not provide further comment as the matter is under investigation by the IIO.
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NEW YORK — A New York man working at a filming location for the TV series “Law & Order: Organized Crime” was shot and killed early Tuesday before filming was scheduled to start for the day.
The 31-year-old Queens resident was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police were investigating and hadn’t released information on suspects or a motive.
News photos from the scene showed police tape blocking off a street where traffic cones stood in spots where cars normally would be parked. No filming was going on at the time of the shooting, according to an NBC spokesperson.
The network confirmed that Pizarro was a crew member for the series, a spinoff of the long-running “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” It is in production for its third season and scheduled to air this fall.
“We were terribly saddened and shocked to hear that one of our crew members was the victim of a crime early this morning and has died as a result,” NBC and Universal Television said in a statement. “We are working with local law enforcement as they continue to investigate. Our hearts go out to his family and friends and we ask that you respect their privacy during this time.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/man-shot-dead-while-working-at-law-and-order-film-location/2022/07/19/a25ed9ae-079e-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | 2022-07-19T21:45:38Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/man-shot-dead-while-working-at-law-and-order-film-location/2022/07/19/a25ed9ae-079e-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | true |
A diner in China spotted what looked like dinosaur footprints in the stone patio of a restaurant. Paleontologists have now confirmed the discovery and say the tracks are roughly 100 million years old.
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A diner in China spotted what looked like dinosaur footprints in the stone patio of a restaurant. Paleontologists have now confirmed the discovery and say the tracks are roughly 100 million years old.
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U.S. health officials say more than 100,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine are on the way to states in the next few days. And several million more are coming in the months ahead.
They also acknowledged that vaccine supply hasn't been keeping up with the demand seen in New York, California, Florida and some other places.
Friday's announcement described the government’s latest attempts to keep up with a surprising international outbreak accounting for hundreds of newly reported U.S. cases every day.
In a call with reporters, officials said they expect cases to keep rising for at least several more weeks.
“All of our work right now is to prevent that from happening,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Click here to hear an NPR interview with Walensky about the federal response to monkeypox
Monkeypox outbreak needs to be taken more seriously, says Dr. Fauci.https://t.co/bHcTleXIMp
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How do you talk about abortion — both the medical procedure and the politics around it — with your kids? NPR's Ailsa Chang gets tips from Dr. Elise Berlan and parenting expert Reena Patel.
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How do you talk about abortion — both the medical procedure and the politics around it — with your kids? NPR's Ailsa Chang gets tips from Dr. Elise Berlan and parenting expert Reena Patel.
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Which brand of smoker is better?
Smoking food calls for more preparation, attention to detail and cooking time than traditional grilling. To give yourself the best chance of success, start with a reliable smoker that has all the features you need. Out of several prominent manufacturers, Traeger and Pit Boss make some of the best ones. The two brands offer varied models that have their strengths and weaknesses.
Trager pellet grills
Many years ago, Traeger’s founder pioneered the electric, mechanical pellet grill to make the smoking process easier.
Traditional barbecue grills use either gas or charcoal to create searing heat. Pellet smokers use an electric element to burn compressed wood pellets at controlled rates, using the hot smoke to slowly cook food. Before then, the most common way to smoke food at large scales was with charcoal. There’s nothing wrong with charcoal as a heat source, but portioning, lighting and maintaining hot coals can be a bit of a hassle. Managing smoke levels manually is even more of a pain.
To solve this issue, Traeger engineered the mechanical pellet grill, which lets you set the temperature using a dependable thermostat. It then uses a heating element to turn the pellets into rich wood smoke at a constant rate, removing much of the headache from all-day smoking endeavors.
Trager pellet smoker pros
- Consistent and easy to use: This is the biggest upside to getting a Traeger smoker. You can rest assured that few other pellet smokers are as straightforward as Traegers. With just a little experience, you can prepare impressive feasts with one of its large grills.
- High maximum capacity: If you frequently host large backyard barbecues, you won’t find many better options than a Traeger smoker.
- Optional advanced features: Trager incorporates some novel, useful technologies aside from their highly dependable thermostats. Some premium models include Wi-Fi connectivity and support for Amazon Alexa voice control, which can help you stay involved in the party instead of constantly checking the grill.
Traeger pellet smoker cons
- They’re somewhat bulky: If you don’t have a ton of space on your patio, you’ll have to carefully choose which Traeger is right for you. It does make some compact options, but not many. Plus, side-by-side pellet smokers are large.
- They cost a lot: It’s not exactly surprising that the company responsible for inventing pellet grills makes great premium options. To get your hands on one of those high-end smokers, though, you’ll have to make a decent investment.
Best Traeger smokers
It boasts over 80 square inches of cooking area and the premium quality that Traeger is known for.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
This is one of the rare models to come factory-equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity and Alexa support, making it one of the best smart smokers you’ll find.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
You don’t have to stay at home to make complex smoked dishes, thanks to this portable gas-driven smoker.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
It’s not the biggest option, but it is the most affordable one to include Wi-Fi and voice control.
Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Pit Boss smokers
Pit Boss was largely inspired as a competitor to Traeger, hitting the market with low-cost alternatives. It still offers high-quality, value-oriented pellet grills that perform nearly as well as anything from Traeger.
In addition to those, however, Pit Boss also makes some great vertical smokers. Some use a similar electric pellet system as a side-by-side pellet grill, while others use gas as a heat source. If you don’t have much room for a huge pellet grill, vertical smokers are worth a look.
Pit Boss smoker pros
- Great value for the money: Compared to Traeger grills, Pit Boss smokers deliver comparable performance at a fraction of the price.
- Rugged construction: Despite their moderate cost, Pit Boss smokers are made from high-grade metal with dependable thermostats and heating elements that should hold up in the long term.
- Impressive vertical smoker capacity: You can’t beat a vertical smoker when it comes to getting the most efficient yield for the unit’s footprint.
Pit Boss smoker cons
- Smaller variety to choose from: Pit Boss doesn’t make as many different models as Traeger. Nonetheless, you’ll still probably find one that meets your needs.
- Fewer novel technologies: You won’t find as many Pit Boss models with Wi-Fi connectivity or digital thermostats.
- Vertical smokers aren’t as convenient: A side-by-side smoker works a lot like a regular grill: You simply open the clamshell lid to check, flip and remove foods as needed. Vertical smokers pack a lot more food per cubic inch. The layout also makes it more difficult to get your thermometer into the meat and manage cooking times.
Best Pit Boss smokers
This compact but spacious model is the perfect no-nonsense option for newcomers to the art of smoking.
Sold by Amazon
With over 1,800 square inches of real estate on a footprint of only 5.5 square feet, nothing else can smoke large amounts more efficiently than this one.
Sold by Amazon
If you don’t have much room to work with and don’t trust electric heating elements, this slim, gas-powered option is right for you.
Sold by Amazon
With space for a considerable amount of food, this competes with Traeger’s biggest models in terms of capacity but costs notably less.
Sold by Amazon
Should you get a Traeger or Pit Boss smoker?
If money is no object and you want the best smoker with the most advanced technologies inside, get a Traeger. If you want to save money or smoke huge amounts of food without the bulk of a massive side-by-side smoker, Pit Boss is the way to go.
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Netflix loses almost a million subscribers as cost of living crisis takes toll on budgets
The company pins hopes for future growth on a cheaper, advertising-supported, model to compliment its ad-free offering that has come under pressure from the surge in inflation across its markets.
Tuesday 19 July 2022 22:21, UK
US streaming service Netflix has revealed that it lost almost a million subscribers during the past three months of its financial year as the global cost of living crisis takes its toll on family entertainment budgets.
The company reported that it had 970,000 fewer customers in the period, having warned in April that the number could extend to two million as a series of challenges face the business.
However, it said that it was forecasting a return to subscriber growth in the current quarter.
That effort would be aided from next year, Netflix said, through the launch of a new cheaper service that would be supported by adverts and through new multi-household contracts.
The earnings report covering the second quarter to the end of June was eagerly awaited by investors after a bloodbath for its stock when it reported a shock decline - the first for a decade - in its subscriber base between January and March.
Customer numbers fell then by 200,000 when a surge of 2.5 million new customers had been anticipated by the company.
The numbers would have been in positive territory but for the decision by Netflix to suspend services in Russia in retaliation for the war in Ukraine.
However, shares fell by up 40% when Netflix forecast that it would continue to bleed subscribers amid stiff competition and pressure on disposable household income across its markets from surging inflation.
Netflix has responded to the revenue squeeze by raising prices in core markets, including the US and UK, and by clamping down on people sharing passwords with other households.
As part of those efforts, the Squid Game and Stranger Things streamer has moved to create a multi-household subscription offering, which will begin in South and Central America.
It is also working with Microsoft on creating the cheaper plan that would contain adverts to keep costs down for consumers.
Revenue during March to June came in just below $8bn - just shy of analysts' lower expectations.
Shares, which have lost two-thirds of their value this year amid a retreat for so-called growth stocks generally in the high inflationary environment, rose by more than 5% during official Tuesday trading.
They were up by up to 8% in after-hours deals.
The company told shareholders in a letter: "Our challenge and opportunity is to accelerate our revenue and membership growth by continuing to improve our product, content, and marketing as we've done for the last 25 years, and to better monetize our big audience."
That is expected to include building on the popularity of Stranger Things, which Netflix has said it is seeking to turn into a franchise. | https://news.sky.com/story/netflix-loses-almost-a-million-subscribers-as-cost-of-living-crisis-takes-toll-on-budgets-12655197 | 2022-07-19T21:51:58Z | https://news.sky.com/story/netflix-loses-almost-a-million-subscribers-as-cost-of-living-crisis-takes-toll-on-budgets-12655197 | true |
California board OKs parole of ex-Mexican Mafia killer
By DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California parole officials have approved the release of a notorious former Mexican Mafia prison gang leader who has been cooperating with law enforcement for nearly 20 years.
Two consecutive governors previously blocked parole for Rene “Boxer” Enriquez in part based on the argument that he is safer in prison than on the streets, where he may be targeted as a snitch by his old cronies.
“They can’t deny him parole based on, ‘He might be in danger.’ That’s kind of his risk to take,” his attorney, Laura Sheppard, said Tuesday.
Authorities have taken extraordinary steps to protect him over the years, once booking him into custody under a false name on a bogus charge of possessing a swordfish without a license.
In 2015, the Los Angeles Police Department used SWAT officers and a police helicopter to secure a downtown building so Enriquez could speak to a group of police chiefs and business leaders about the gang’s growth and operations. Just last week, prison officials refused to provide his current photograph, citing security concerns.
“With his knowledge of the mafia, it’s his belief that if he stays out of their way … that he’ll be fine,” Sheppard said. “He doesn’t believe they’re going to chase him down like you see in the movies, hunt him throughout the world.”
Yet Enriquez plans to keep cooperating with federal authorities as they are again prosecuting the leadership of the prison-based gang that began in the 1950s in a juvenile jail and has since grown into an international criminal organization.
“It’s how he makes amends,” Sheppard said. “He’s probably prevented more crimes than he was ever involved in.”
He has been in prison since 1993, serving a life sentence for two second-degree murders, multiple assaults and drug trafficking conspiracy.
Enriquez joined the Mexican Mafia — nicknamed the Black Hand or “La Eme,” its Spanish language initial — in 1985 while serving an earlier prison stint for rape and armed robbery, according to parole records. He spent nearly the next two decades building a reputation within the gang through murder, drug-running and terror, both in and out of prison.
Gov. Gavin Newsom turned over the final decision on the fate of Enriquez, now age 60, to a hearing by a 12-member panel of the 21-member parole board.
He cited in part the “unique security threats.” Enriquez has revealed “the inner workings of large-scale gang associations, and informed on individual gang members. He testified for the prosecution in numerous cases,” Newsom wrote.
Officials including a retired assistant director for the California prison system told the parole panel during a hearing Monday that Enriquez is a changed man who will continue contributing to law enforcement’s battle against the gang.
“I’ve seen the worst of the worst and I know that he has definitely changed his world,” said retired San Diego Police detective and gang expert Felix Aguirre.
But relatives and friends of Cynthia Figueroa Gavaldon lined up to argue that he is still dangerous and they fear for their safety upon his release. She was a 27-year-old mother of two young children when Enriquez ordered her killed on Christmas Eve 1989.
Enriquez “has nothing to offer the community. All he ever has known and touched has died,” said her father, Raymond Figueroa, referring to Enriquez as a “monster.”
He had two gang associates, including Figueroa’s daughter, killed for violations such as stealing drugs and money. In the second case, he and an accomplice first forcibly overdosed their victim with heroin before driving him to a remote area where Enriquez fatally shot him.
He and another man also stabbed Mexican Mafia leader Salvador “Mon” Buenrostro 26 times with inmate-made weapons in 1991 in an interview room in the Los Angeles County Jail, though Buenrostro survived.
Enriquez has said he quit the gang in 2002 when he discovered its members were killing children and innocent relatives of gang members who fell into disfavor. He has said that he would have help from a witness protection program if he is released.
And over the years, Enriquez has had dozens letters of support for his parole from the FBI, local law enforcement officials, multiple state and federal prosecutors, and a deputy state attorney general.
Newsom previously blocked Enriquez’s parole twice, in 2019 and 2020, and then-Governor Jerry Brown blocked it three times, in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
“He personally molded and shaped the Mexican Mafia’s expectations of its members and expanded the gang’s reach outside the prison,” Brown wrote in 2016. He said that included pioneering the gang’s control of a vast network of drug dealers and gang members outside the prison walls.
Newsom this time said he was leaving a decision to the parole board because of its “unique procedural and appellate history” and “other unusually complex factors.” He asked parole officials to consider both Enriquez’s “particularly violent criminal history and his singular rehabilitative record.”
A Los Angeles County judge overturned Newsom’s 2020 parole reversal in August, saying the governor hadn’t shown proof that Enriquez is still dangerous. The Second District Court of Appeal had blocked Enriquez’s release while it considers Newsom’s appeal.
Sheppard said she hopes the appeals court still rules on the case, even with Enriquez paroled, to set a legal precedent that “the governor can’t just make a decision based on speculation and historical issues.”
Commissioners late Monday separately ordered new parole hearings for two inmates of some renown.
Donald Bohana, 85, is serving a life sentence for the 1994 murder of Delores “Dee Dee” Jackson. She is the ex-wife of Tito Jackson, a member of the Jackson 5 musical group.
Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll, 43, is serving a life term for a robbery-murder in 1996, when he was 17. He helped start a financial literacy program in San Quentin State Prison where he, other inmates and volunteers taught money management. He gave a TEDx talk in 2016 that has more than 4.1 million views.
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Two well-established firms unite to create more options for customers in three growing markets
HOUSTON, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greg Baker, CEO/ President of JD Martin, and Tim Klinger, CEO/President, of I-Pro are pleased to announce the two firms have joined forces in the Rocky Mountain Region to form I-Pro Martin effective immediately.
I-Pro and JD Martin represent many of the same premier manufacturers' and are confident regarding the numerous benefits of the collaboration. Their alignment accelerates the efficient delivery of services and support for local channel partners and customers while also expanding growth opportunities for represented manufacturers and product portfolios in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
Baker said, "The I-Pro leadership team has built a solid, successful business. We share many of the same values and similar organizational cultures. Our decision to merge ensures, together, we are better positioned to meet the needs of our customers and the manufacturers we represent in the Rocky Mountain Region."
Tim Klinger added, "We are grateful for the opportunity to join forces with the JD Martin team. Our shared vision enables us to strengthen a foundation built on trust and intentionally create an environment for all to grow."
I-Pro's current leadership team, organizational structure and staff will remain intact while adding local headcount to boost service within existing markets. The firm will continue to provide exemplary service to the commercial, industrial, residential, utility and emerging markets. Tim Klinger will be named President & COO of I-Pro Martin while Greg Baker will hold the position of CEO.
I-Pro has served the Colorado and Wyoming markets since 1995. JD Martin — based out of Houston, Texas — entered Colorado earlier this year with two of their largest manufacturer partners.
Both firms share a common approach to supporting their markets. The merger allows both firms to leverage their collective strengths, multiply best practices, and enhance internal and external support for team members and customers by scaling an enlarged network and heightening a long-term, strategic positioning effort.
ABOUT JD MARTIN:
JD Martin Company is an electrical manufacturers' representative agency that sells and markets premier lines of electrical products to OEM and MRO contractors, and end-user markets through wholesale distribution. For more than 68 years, we have supported industries such as oil & gas, mining, steel, waste water treatment, wind power generation and commercial construction. We offer impactful solutions and sell electrical products, through qualified electrical distributor channels, in over 15 states in territories that include Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, The Carolinas and Florida. To learn more about JD Martin click here.
ABOUT I-PRO MARTIN:
I-Pro Martin is committed to being a premiere, world class manufacturer's representative serving the electrical, electronic, utility, and data com markets in the Rocky Mountain Region. We accomplish this by providing sophisticated, cost-effective, systems solutions, field sales, and marketing services that anticipate and exceed the expectations of our customers, principals and employees. For more about I-Pro Martin click here.
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Alabama public officials recently said they’ve identified the state’s first known cases of monkeypox, a disease emerging in more than 50 countries and most states in the United States.
The Alabama Department of Public Health said in news releases two cases have been identified, the first in Mobile County and the second in Jefferson County.
Dr. Wes Stubblefield says monkeypox has been around for quite some time. Cases began emerging in Europe and the United States this spring.
Most of the roughly 1,000 cases reported in the U.S. have been among men who have sex with men, but health officials stress that anyone can get the disease. | https://www.wvasfm.org/wvas-local/2022-07-19/monkey-pox-in-alabama | 2022-07-19T21:56:27Z | https://www.wvasfm.org/wvas-local/2022-07-19/monkey-pox-in-alabama | false |
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) _ Hancock Whitney Corporation (HWC) on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $121.4 million.
The bank, based in Gulfport, Mississippi, said it had earnings of $1.38 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.34 per share.
The holding company of Whitney Bank and Hancock Bank posted revenue of $340.5 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $331.4 million, which also topped Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $328.2 million.
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What's happening
The omicron variant of COVID-19 keeps changing, creating newer, more contagious variants. BA.5 seems to be the most contagious version to date and is causing most current COVID-19 cases in the US
Why it matters
BA.5 is causing more reinfection in people who already had COVID-19, including earlier versions of omicron. It's also evading immunity from the vaccines.
What it means for you
BA.5 doesn't appear to be causing more severe disease than earlier variants, and the vaccines are still effective at preventing severe disease and death. To stay protected, get the booster shots you're eligible for and wear a mask in public.
Because of the makeup of the newest variant causing COVID-19 cases, people who already had COVID-19 are most likely not as protected as they would've been if facing an earlier strain, federal health officials said last week at a White House COVID-19 Response Team briefing.
This could explain another rise in COVID-19 cases, and more importantly a rise in hospitalizations. While the current seven-day average of new hospitalizations is rising slightly week over week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said, the rate has doubled compared with early May.
At the meeting, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president's chief medical adviser, explained how the virus that causes COVID-19 keeps mutating, and the virus "essentially bumped one variant off the table after the other," which has led to a long parade of increasingly contagious subvariants of omicron. The mutation that's now responsible for the majority of COVID-19 cases is BA.5, an extremely contagious version of omicron.
Though the newest subvariant "substantially" evades antibodies from prior infections and vaccines, Fauci said, being up-to-date with a booster (or two boosters, if you're 50 or older) is still protective against severe disease and death. That's because research shows that BA.5 doesn't lessen the protection against severe disease compared with earlier versions of omicron. And while not much is known about its clinical severity compared with earlier subvariants of omicron, it doesn't appear to be causing more severe disease, Response Team officials said.
In an effort to target the most relevant strain of virus causing COVID-19, vaccines based on the BA.5 subvariant (along with BA.4) will be the first choice for COVID-19 booster shots this fall. Response Team Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha encouraged everyone to get a booster if they're eligible and haven't opted for one yet, because it won't affect their ability to get vaccinated come fall or winter when new boosters start rolling out to Americans. What's more, COVID-19 treatments, including Paxlovid, are predicted to be effective still, and the US Test to Treat clinics are still up and running to connect people most at risk with prescriptions for treatments if they need them.
Here's what we know about BA.5.
Do the at-home tests detect BA.5?
Right now there's no reason to suggest that the at-home rapid COVID-19 tests (a few boxes of which are free when you order through the government's website) are less effective against BA.5 compared with earlier versions of omicron. Generally speaking, the FDA says early data suggests the antigen tests detect omicron but may have reduced sensitivity.
Typically, rapid home tests work by detecting the part of the COVID-19 virus protein that doesn't change much between variants, called the nucleocapsid, Slate reports. "Because of that, the tests are able to detect the different variants," Nate Hafer, an assistant professor of molecular medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, told the publication.
If you have symptoms of COVID-19 but test negative with an at-home COVID-19 test, consider having a PCR test done, which is a highly sensitive and accurate lab-based COVID-19 test.
How severe is BA.5? Do COVID-19 treatments still work?
BA.5 is a subvariant of omicron, which means it's different from the "original" omicron, but not different enough to constitute its own variant status. (Delta is a different variant from omicron and beta, for example.) BA.5 is understood to be the most contagious version of the virus yet, however, and it's evading immunity. This means more people will get reinfected with COVID-19, which can put them at risk of complications and long COVID symptoms, even if the infection itself was mild.
Walensky said Tuesday that we don't definitively know yet about the clinical severity of BA.5 compared to earlier subvariants of omicron. But that said, BA.5 doesn't appear to be associated with more severe disease compared to recent strains of the virus, Fauci said.
In an analysis of a preliminary (not yet peer-reviewed) report from the Kirby Institute in Australia, Dr. Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scrips Research, wrote that BA.5's ability to infect cells might be more similar to the delta variant than other versions of omicron. He also writes that changes in BA.5 might explain reports of people taking longer to test negative compared to illnesses with earlier omicron subvariants.
As with other versions of omicron that whittled down our immunity, the vaccines and boosters available are still expected to provide protection against severe disease and death. Boosters -- including a second booster -- have been particularly important for protecting older adults and other people more vulnerable to severe disease in the age of omicron, and have substantially cut the risk of death from COVID-19.
Paxlovid, an effective antiviral medication, is still expected to be effective at treating COVID-19 in people at higher risk of severe disease, Fauci said Tuesday. The monoclonal antibody therapy available, bebtelovimab from Eli Lilly, is also predicted to be effective against BA.5, as is Evusheld.
If you test positive for COVID-19 and are at higher risk of severe disease (you're an older adult or you have a health condition), reach out to your doctor or find a Test to Treat clinic near you.
What are the symptoms?
Right now, there aren't any reports that show BA.5 is giving people different symptoms compared to earlier versions of omicron.
For many people who become sick with COVID-19 these days (particularly those who are fully vaccinated and boosted), symptoms resemble cold symptoms such as sore throat, runny nose and fatigue. Back pain is a peculiar new symptom of COVID-19 that some people with omicron have reported, and the once very common loss of taste or smell appears to be much less common with omicron variants than with older strains.
If you have symptoms and are wondering whether it's COVID-19, taking a test and staying home while you're sick will help protect people more vulnerable to severe COVID-19 disease.
Read more: Is It Allergies or COVID? How to Tell the Difference
Understanding omicron, variants and subvariants
Variants are made up of multiple lineages and sublineages. Each variant has a "parent" lineage, according to the CDC, followed by other lineages, which you can think of like a family tree. As the virus spreads between people, mutations occur, but not all of them change the characteristics of the virus in meaningful ways.
The omicron variant and its sublineages made the virus much more contagious and capable of infecting more people, but it's led to less severe disease, on average, than the delta variant.
One of the most important things we can do to stop the virus from mutating is keeping community levels of COVID-19 low so the virus has less chance to mutate, Fauci said.
Genomic surveillance can detect variants and sublineages. Scientists in South Africa were able to quickly identify omicron as a new variant because of the way it presents through PCR tests. The original omicron causes a dropped signal or marker on the test that sets it apart from delta, which was the dominant variant prior to omicron. BA.2, however, didn't have the same signal, called an S gene target failure. This made it more "stealthy" and gave it its name. Genomic sequencing will detect all omicron subvariants and coronavirus variants in general.
However, detecting new variants or subvariants may be becoming more difficult as the number of sequences shared across the world have "dropped precipitously," Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, an infectious disease specialist with the World Health Organization, said in June. While the impact was still enormous, having real-world data available quickly after scientists detected omicron was a benefit during the worldwide surge last winter.
The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives. | https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/ba-5-symptoms-and-everything-else-we-know-about-the-new-covid-variant/ | 2022-07-19T21:58:16Z | https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/ba-5-symptoms-and-everything-else-we-know-about-the-new-covid-variant/ | false |
Man pleads guilty to murdering his grandparents, gets 2 life sentences
EUGENE Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - An Oregon man was sentenced to prison last week after pleading guilty to murdering his grandparents last year.
Nicholas Kenneth Borden-Cortez, 26, pled guilty to the murder of his grandparents on June 14 and was sentenced on July 13 to two life terms in prison, one for each victim, according to a statement from the Eugene Police Department.
Investigators said they found his grandparents, Nancy L. Loucks-Morris, 85, and Gerald Edward Morris, 87, dead inside a home and quickly determined that the couple was murdered.
Later that afternoon, police named Borden-Cortez, their grandson, as a suspect, KPTV reported. Borden-Cortez was arrested on May 7, 2021, in Springfield, Oregon, while he was driving. Police said he initially challenged officers to shoot him before he was taken into custody.
Borden-Cortez will be eligible for parole after serving a minimum 50 years of his sentence.
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Sarah Hyland and her friends had a wild time at her recent bachelorette party. But the craziest thing they got up to might not be what you'd expect.
"The wildest thing that happened was that we were dancing on tables singing musical theater," the Modern Family actress exclusively told E! News' Daily Pop on July 19. "I did the entire Chicago soundtrack by myself. Is that sad or is that everything? I think it's everything."
With talented pals like Vanessa Hudgens—who gifted the group with matching swimsuits—in her bridal party, it's no surprise that Sarah and her crew busted out some songs on her pre-wedding getaway in Punta Mita, Mexico.
"I just have the greatest friends in the entire world," the 31-year-old gushed. "It was just truly, truly magical."
Sarah's been engaged to Bachelor in Paradise bartender Wells Adams since 2019, and after delaying their wedding due to the coronavirus pandemic, they're finally set to tie the knot. But she told Daily Pop that she doesn't think their relationship will change much after saying "I do," believing that to be a good thing.
"After you get married, if nothing really big changes, it means that your relationship is still—you're still keeping it fresh," Sarah continued. "I truly think it will just be about paperwork and taxes, boring adult things."
Among many decisions to make before her upcoming nuptials, the Love Island USA host revealed there's one big decision she hasn't made yet: whether or not to take her fiancé's last name.
"My mom didn't take my father's last name, so that's never been a thing for me," Sarah shared. "I do like being called 'Mrs. Adams' when we're on vacation and stuff and if the reservation's under his name, I'm like, 'Oh my god, I'm so cute.' But I don't know. Haven't decided on it."
If there's one thing the actress does know, it's that her potential married name sounds like it belongs in a different time. "Sarah Jane Adams sounds like a woman burned at the stake in Salem, with my bonnet and everything," Sarah joked. "She went out in style. She went out in flames."
Check out the full interview above to hear Sarah chat more about Love Island USA, which premieres today, July 19, exclusively on Peacock, with six new episodes dropping every week.
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