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Which red light therapy is best?
Red light therapy is a treatment that dermatologists have used for years to treat skin concerns such as acne and scarring, rosacea and skin discoloration, and wrinkles. These days, you can bring this treatment home with devices designed for daily use. Whether you’re looking to reduce the appearance of stretch marks or smooth years-old acne scars, a great red light therapy device, such as top pick Aphrona Moonlight LED Facial Mask, may help.
What to know before you buy a red light therapy device
Device size
You’ll want to select a red light therapy device that’s the right size for the area of your body that you want to treat. Larger panels of lights can cover more of your body, such as your full torso. On the other hand, if you’re looking to treat a more targeted, smaller area, you may want a smaller hand-held red light therapy device.
Price
Red light therapy devices come in a wide range of prices. In general, larger panels of lights tend to cost more. So before you buy, consider how much you’re able to spend on the new device and the size you need to get the job done.
Kinds of light emitted
While red light is the more well-known light used to treat the skin, it’s not the only wavelength that can make an impact. Some devices emit both red and blue light, which may be beneficial, depending on your needs. Blue light is used to kill bacteria that may be clogging pores and causing acne, while red light is better for reducing redness and visible signs of aging. If you’re interested in both treatments, look for a device that offers both red and blue light settings.
What to look for in a quality red light therapy device
Power settings
Some red light therapy devices have multiple power settings. This can be useful if you’re treating different parts of your body and want to apply varying amounts of red light. If you plan to use your device in a few different ways, opt for a model with more than one power setting for maximum versatility.
Built-in timer
Most practitioners of red light therapy like to stick to a regimen that includes a certain number of minutes of red light exposure per day. Using a device with a built-in timer helps you stick to your practice. Plus, it’s a helpful safety feature in case you forget to turn off the device when you’re done.
Heat emission
If you plan to use your red light therapy device directly against your skin, or very close to your body, be sure to check the heat emissions to make sure the experience won’t be too uncomfortable. Many devices top out around 100 degrees. Much hotter, and you may not want to apply the device for the recommended 20 to 30 minutes of exposure.
How much you can expect to spend on a red light therapy device
You’ll quickly find that there’s a significant range of prices when it comes to buying a red light therapy device. For smaller hand-held devices, you can expect to spend around $100. large, full-body light panels can cost upward of $300.
Red light therapy FAQ
Is red light therapy safe?
A. While the efficacy of red light therapy still needs research, it appears to be safe and there are no known side effects when used in the short term. The light emitted from a red light therapy device is not the same as potentially harmful UV rays that are associated with skin cancer. When using red light on your face, however, it is important to use eye protection, as prolonged exposure to the red light can damage the eyes. It’s best to seek a doctor’s informed opinion before starting any new health practice.
How does red light therapy work?
A. Red light therapy is meant to increase the efficacy of the mitochondria in your cells. Mitochondria are responsible for providing the energy your cells need to perform various bodily functions, including healing wounds and scar tissue, reducing inflammation, and fighting disease.
What does red light therapy do?
A. A few scientific studies suggest that red light therapy can help your cells produce collagen, for more elastic, firm skin and stronger joint and ligament connective tissue. It may also increase blood circulation, which can reduce inflammation and improve muscle recovery and strength-building.
What’s the best red light therapy device to buy?
Top red light therapy device
Aphrona Moonlight LED Facial Mask
What you need to know: This red light therapy device is designed to apply powerful red and blue light directly to your facial skin at a close range to maximize results.
What you’ll love: This mask goes beyond red light and includes blue and green light settings that can treat various levels of scars, fine lines, wrinkles, and dark spots.
What you should consider: This facial mask won’t work for other parts of the body.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top red light therapy device for the money
UUPAS Red Light Therapy Device
What you need to know: This is a budget-friendly red light therapy option designed to target deep into your skin to improve wrinkles, discoloration, and fine lines.
What you’ll love: This wand-like red light therapy stick is designed to apply targeted attention to trouble areas, particularly on your face. It’s lightweight and portable, which makes it great for travel.
What you should consider: You’ll need to hold this hand-held device while in use, unlike panel-style red light therapy devices.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Bestqool Red Light Therapy Device
What you need to know: This is a midsized light panel at an affordable price that’s great for most parts of the body.
What you’ll love: The device has a built-in timer and three power settings to target different areas.
What you should consider: The device is a bit too bulky and heavy to be portable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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PLANO, Texas, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SomnoMed Limited (ASX "SOM", or the Company), a leading company in the provision of oral appliance treatment solutions for sleep-related breathing disorders and obstructive sleep apnea ('OSA'), is pleased to provide its quarterly activities report for the period ended 30 June 2022 (Q4 FY22).
Highlights
- Record quarterly revenue of $21.3 million for Q4 FY22, +32% (+32% in constant currency) versus the previous corresponding period (pcp). On an underlying basis, when excluding the Q4 FY21 COVID-19 related HIC1 allowance, Q4 FY22 revenue was up +36% (+37% in constant currency) versus pcp
- Full year unaudited revenue of $72.6 million, up +16% (+17% in constant currency) versus pcp and above guidance of +15% growth for FY22. On an underlying basis, when excluding the COVID-19 related HIC1 allowance, FY22 revenue was up +19% (+20% in constant currency) versus pcp
- FY22 guidance of breakeven EBITDA2 remains
- The record quarter reflects the impact of successful sales and marketing initiatives in all regions, with business conditions improving and the overall trend of patient activity and engagement with their medical clinician normalizing post COVID-19
- Total patients treated worldwide now exceeds 715,000
- Development of Rest Assure®, the Company's first ever in-built technology-enabled oral appliance progressed during the quarter, with the second patient validation study now complete
- SomnoMed had available cash of $15.6 million as at 30 June 2022
- Subsequent to 30 June 2022, SomnoMed secured new debt funding of $16 million (net $11m after repaying HSBC), which delivers sufficient capital to support the ongoing growth within the core business and to complete the development of the new technology, Rest Assure®
Commenting on the results, SomnoMed's Managing Director, Mr. Neil Verdal-Austin said: "I am exceptionally pleased that the Company has met our FY22 revenue guidance and immensely proud that we delivered a record $21.3 million of revenue in the June quarter."
"The improving sales levels SomnoMed is experiencing have been driven by a combination of the strong underlying business activity levels across our key markets and the results of the deliberate investments we made through 2021 to expand our sales and marketing teams to focus on delivering a quality treatment solution for patients with mild to moderate OSA. The sales momentum we have achieved over recent quarters continues to demonstrate the sound fundamentals of the core business and the large growth opportunity for oral appliance solutions in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, globally."
"These results validate our strategy and confirm, once again, that the exceptional 'first time fit' quality and durability of our product range is superior within the marketplace and preferred by clinicians and patients world-wide."
"Our recent attendance at a range of sleep conferences across Europe and the USA have highlighted the growing demand from patients, sleep physicians and other providers, for new technologies that provide an alternative to CPAP where the ongoing, low compliance rates are just not acceptable anymore."
"We are also acutely aware of the current global economic environment and the impact of supply chain issues, rising inflation and interest rates on costs. SomnoMed continues to proactively drive a range of initiatives to secure our supply chain and ensure we limit any negative impact on our own cost structures, so that we protect margins and cash flow."
"The development of SomnoMed's Rest Assure® technology has progressed during the quarter, with our second patient validation study now complete. We anticipate that, once launched and over time, the data collected by Rest Assure® will demonstrate and establish the true clinical effectiveness of Continuous Open Airway Therapy™ (COAT™), driving prescriptions, increased reimbursement and ultimately greater OSA therapy market share."
"As we move into FY23 we have strong revenue momentum, an increasing rate of patient engagement, a passionate and energized global team, a strengthened balance sheet and an exciting technology development in Rest Assure®, which all leave the Company poised to deliver solid growth in the year ahead. I look forward to providing more formal FY23 guidance with our FY22 financial results release in August."
Financial Review
Quarterly revenue of $21.3 million for Q4 FY22, +32% (+32% in constant currency) versus pcp represents the highest quarterly revenue the Company has ever recorded. This reflects the sales success of both AVANT™ and Herbst Advance Elite™ and the investment the Company has made into sales teams and business development channels in all regions, allowing the Company to penetrate the sector more deeply and drive growth.
The revenue growth posted in both North America and Europe continued, with the momentum seen in those regions during the year driven by the continued normalization of the impacts of COVID-19 on the healthcare market.
Full year unaudited revenue of $72.6 million, up +16% (+17% in constant currency) versus pcp and above guidance for FY22. EBITDA2 guidance remains at breakeven for FY22 and will be detailed in the upcoming FY22 financial results release in August.
Cashflow from operations was a positive $3.3 million for the quarter (positive $1.8 million for FY22), due to the strong sales momentum seen in both Q3 and Q4, as well as effective cash management and collections to year end.
Investment in R&D continues with total cash expenditure during the quarter of $1.5 million specifically related to our technology investment. The FY22 technology investment has been approximately $7.8 million, primarily associated with the development of Rest Assure® and under the guidance provided of $8 million. The investment in Rest Assure® and our other growth initiatives is supported by our balance sheet position and positive cash generation in Q4 FY22.
Subsequent to June 2022, SomnoMed secured new debt funding of $16 million (net $11m after repaying HSBC), which delivers sufficient capital to support the ongoing growth within the core business and to complete the development of the new technology, Rest Assure®.
Operational Review
Business conditions continued to improve across SomnoMed's key regions of North America, Europe and Asia Pacific as the impacts of COVID-19 on the medical sector and broader dental community continued to reduce.
SomnoMed's position in the oral appliance sector within the OSA market remains strong, with the potential to further increase the addressable market by providing an alternative to the traditional default CPAP recommendation by most sleep physicians. The Company continues to experience positive engagement within the medical sector, which is driving further acceptance of COAT™.
North America
The North America market experienced another positive quarter with a +42% (+33% in constant currency) revenue increase versus pcp. This is driven by increased investment in sales and marketing efforts in the region driving greater demand for the product range, especially for the AVANT™ and Herbst Advance Elite™. Direct and targeted marketing campaigns focused on the Company's proprietary B-Flex comfort liner continue to be successful, highlighting the importance of this material that provides both superior comfort and retention.
Europe
Revenue for the quarter was $12.6 million, up +37% (+43% in constant currency) versus pcp. Patient demand for the Company's COAT™ technology remains strong across core countries within Europe driven by strong positive reimbursement trends and a growing acceptance of the benefits of COAT™ technology for mild and moderate OSA patients.
Sales volume growth for the quarter in each of the 7 main European countries in which we trade were over +20% versus volumes in the prior corresponding quarter, reflecting deeper penetration into both core and new markets where SomnoMed has been the leading COAT™ treatment solution for some time.
Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific quarterly revenues were up +8% (+8% in constant currency) versus pcp. After the extended impact of COVID-19 on revenues in the first half, recovery in the second half was strong. SomnoMed continued with its clinical education program and the investment in new sales and marketing resources to advance the adoption of oral appliances within the medical sector.
Rest Assure®
SomnoMed introduced Rest Assure®, its first ever in-built technology-enabled oral appliance, in February 2022 with the aim of addressing the lack of overnight monitoring and objective data in COAT™, which has been a major barrier to prescription and reimbursement rates to date.
Although the Rest Assure® hardware and software is in prototype stage, the design is now complete, and a vendor is manufacturing the docking station and sensor components. The second patient validation study has also been completed. These study results are currently being analyzed and will be submitted for publication in a scientific sleep journal later this calendar year to confirm the algorithms needed to objectively measure efficacy and compliance to ensure long term therapy effectiveness. Patient feedback was also collected during this study, with 29/30 patients able to connect their device to the patient App and dock their device using simple written instructions only, showing the Rest Assure® system is easy to use. All patients in the study expressed a desire to continue COAT™ therapy with Rest Assure® when the device is launched.
The Rest Assure® project remains on schedule, with SomnoMed's focus now on the preparation of documentation required for regulatory submissions to the FDA (USA), TGA (Australia) and for CE marking (Europe). Rest Assure® will be commercialized once these approvals are received.
The Company attended the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) 'SLEEP 2022' conference in Charlotte USA during the quarter. AASM SLEEP 2022 is a leading conference for sleep physicians, sleep medical prescribers and researchers in North America focusing on all aspects of sleep, sleep disorders, screening, pharmaceuticals, technology platforms, tele-medicine, diagnostics, and treatment. The conference with approximately 3,500 delegates allowed the Company to showcase its best-in-class oral appliance treatment solution while also engaging in a range of collaborative interactions and meetings with various industry players. The feedback on the Rest Assure® technology was overwhelmingly positive.
This release has been approved by the Board of SomnoMed Limited.
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About SomnoMed
SomnoMed is a public company providing treatment solutions for sleep-related breathing disorders including obstructive sleep apnea, snoring and bruxism. SomnoMed was commercialised on the basis of extensive clinical research. Supporting independent clinical research, continuous innovation and instituting medical manufacturing standards has resulted in SomnoDent® becoming the state-of-the-art and clinically proven medical oral appliance therapy for more than 715,000 patients in 28 countries. For additional information, visit SomnoMed at http://www.somnomed.com.au
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Reports second quarter 2022 GAAP earnings of $0.33 per share and operating (non-GAAP) earnings of $0.53 per share, in top end of guidance range
Closed on minority sale of FET LLC, raising $2.4 billion at historic premium valuation
Solid execution to improve the balance sheet with over $2.5 billion of debt retired year-to-date
Anticipates achieving targeted FFO/Debt of ~13% in 2023, ahead of schedule
Updates and affirms full-year GAAP and operating guidance and provides outlook for third quarter
AKRON, Ohio, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) today reported second quarter 2022 GAAP earnings of $187 million, or $0.33 per basic and diluted share, on revenue of $2.8 billion. In the second quarter of 2021, the company reported GAAP earnings of $58 million, or $0.11 per basic and diluted share, on revenue of $2.6 billion. GAAP results include special items listed below.
Operating (non-GAAP) earnings* were $0.53 per share for the second quarter of 2022, in the upper end of the company's guidance range. In the second quarter of 2021, operating (non-GAAP) earnings were $0.59 per share and $0.47 per share on a pro forma basis when adjusting for the company's previously announced accounting policy changes, Ohio rate credits and equity financing transactions.
"Through the first half of 2022, we've made tremendous progress to strengthen our culture, optimize our operations and bolster our financial position, supporting our mission to become a more customer-focused and sustainable company," said Steven E. Strah, FirstEnergy president and chief executive officer. "We made substantial progress to improve the balance sheet by utilizing the proceeds from our historic equity raises to retire over $2.5 billion of debt and fund our regulated capital investment programs that generate strong earnings and cash flow," he added. "We now believe we are on the path to achieve solid investment grade credit metrics of approximately 13% Funds from Operations to Debt in 2023 – one year ahead of schedule."
For the third quarter of 2022, the company is providing a GAAP and operating (non-GAAP) forecast range of $400 million to $455 million, or $0.70 to $0.80 per share based on 571 million shares outstanding.
FirstEnergy updated its full-year 2022 GAAP earnings forecast range to $1,240 million to $1,355 million, or $2.17 to $2.37 per share based on 571 million shares outstanding. The company also affirmed its full-year 2022 operating (non-GAAP) earnings guidance range of $1,315 million to $1,430 million, or $2.30 to $2.50 per share based on 571 million shares outstanding.
Second Quarter Results
Second quarter and year-to-date 2022 results reflect the impacts of certain accounting policy changes, rate credits that were provided to Ohio customers under the company's previously approved stipulation, and dilution related to the common equity financing transaction that closed at the end of 2021 and the sale of a minority interest in FirstEnergy Transmission, LLC that closed on May 31, 2022.
Excluding the impact of these items, second quarter operating results in the Regulated Distribution business declined slightly as a result of lower residential customer usage and higher planned expenses. This was partially offset by higher revenues related to capital investment programs in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Total distribution deliveries increased 0.7% compared to the second quarter of 2021. Residential sales decreased 1.6%, largely due to milder weather, while Commercial deliveries increased 1.5% and sales to industrial customers increased 2.4%, reflecting a recovery from pandemic conditions. When adjusted for the impact of weather, total deliveries rose 1.3%, driven by a 2% increase in demand from commercial and industrial customers.
In the Regulated Transmission business, second quarter 2022 operating results benefited from the company's ongoing Energizing the Future capital investment program and lower revolver borrowings.
In the Corporate/Other segment, second quarter 2022 operating results improved as compared to the second quarter of 2021 due to higher returns on legacy, commodity-based investments, lower interest expense due to recent early debt redemptions and higher discrete tax benefits.
First Half Results
For the first half of 2022, FirstEnergy reported GAAP earnings of $475 million, or $0.83 per basic and diluted share, on revenue of $5.8 billion. This compares to GAAP earnings of $393 million, or $0.72 per basic and diluted share, on revenue of $5.3 billion in the first half of 2021. Results for both periods reflect the impact of special items listed below.
Operating (non-GAAP) earnings* for the first half of 2022 were on target at $1.12 per share, compared to $1.28 per share in the first half of 2021 and $1.06 per share on a pro forma basis in the first half of 2021, when adjusting for the impacts of accounting policy changes, Ohio rate credits and equity financing transactions described above.
Results for the first half of 2022, as compared to the same period of last year, primarily reflect the impact from higher investments and lower interest expense, partially offset by higher planned operating expenses.
Non-GAAP financial measures
* Operating earnings (loss) excludes "special items" as described below, and is a non-GAAP financial measure. Special items represent charges incurred or benefits realized that management believes are not indicative of, or may obscure trends useful in evaluating the Company's ongoing core activities and results of operations or otherwise warrant separate classification. Special items are not necessarily non-recurring. Management uses Operating earnings (loss) and Operating earnings (loss) per share to evaluate the Company's performance and manage its operations and frequently references these non-GAAP financial measures in its decision making, using them to facilitate historical and ongoing performance comparisons. Additionally, management uses Operating earnings (loss) per share by segment to further evaluate the Company's performance by segment and references this non-GAAP financial measure in its decision making. Operating earnings (loss) per share and Operating earnings (loss) per share for each segment is calculated by dividing Operating earnings (loss), which excludes special items as discussed herein, for the periods presented by the number of shares outstanding. Basic EPS (GAAP) and Operating EPS (Non-GAAP), as well as Basic EPS (GAAP) and Operating EPS (Non-GAAP) for each segment, are based on 571 million shares for the second quarter, first half, third quarter and full year of 2022 and 544 million for the second quarter and first six months of 2021. Furthermore, pro forma earnings per share are also a non-GAAP financial measure and adjust the 2021 operating earnings (loss) per share for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, for certain accounting policy changes, rate credits and equity financing transactions that took effect or began to impact in 2022, which management believes provides for a more consistent and comparable measure of performance of its businesses period-over-period. Management believes that the non-GAAP financial measures of Operating earnings (loss) and Operating earnings (loss) per share, Operating earnings (loss) per share by segment, and pro forma earnings per share provide consistent and comparable measures of performance of its businesses on an ongoing basis. Management also believes that such measures are useful to shareholders and other interested parties to understand performance trends and evaluate the Company against its peer group by presenting period-over-period operating results without the effect of certain charges or benefits that may not be consistent or comparable across periods or across the Company's peer group. Generally, a non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of a company's historical or future financial performance, financial position, or cash flows that either excludes or includes amounts that are not normally excluded or included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP). These non-GAAP financial measures are intended to complement, and are not considered as alternatives to, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. Also, the non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other entities. Pursuant to the requirements of Regulation G, FirstEnergy has provided, where possible without unreasonable effort, quantitative reconciliations within this presentation of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.
Investor Materials and Teleconference
FirstEnergy's Strategic and Financial Highlights is posted on the company's Investor Information website – www.firstenergycorp.com/ir. To access the report, click on the Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results link.
The company invites investors, customers and other interested parties to listen to a live webcast of its teleconference for financial analysts and view presentation slides at 11:00 a.m. EDT tomorrow. FirstEnergy management will present an overview of the company's financial results, followed by a question-and-answer session. The teleconference and presentation can be accessed on the website by selecting the Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Webcast link. The webcast and presentation will be archived on the website.
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 within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 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 settlement agreement in the derivative shareholder lawsuits; changes in national and regional economic conditions, including recession and inflationary pressure, affecting us and/or our customers and those vendors with which we do business; 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; changing market conditions affecting the measurement of certain liabilities and the value of assets held in our pension trusts may negatively impact our results of operations and related guidance, and may also cause us to make contributions to our pension sooner or in amounts that are larger than currently anticipated; 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 us, 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 the moratoriums on utility disconnections and workforce vaccination mandates imposed at varying points throughout the pandemic; 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; 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; 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; the risks and other factors discussed from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") 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 Corp.'s filings with the SEC, including, but not limited to, the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, 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 Corp.'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 Corp. 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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Jackie Robinson Museum opens in Manhattan
The Jackie Robinson Museum in Manhattan has been in the works for 14 years
Long dreamed about and in development for longer than the big league career of the man it honors, the Jackie Robinson Museum opened Tuesday in Manhattan with a gala ceremony attended by the widow of the barrier-breaking ballplayer and two of his children.
Rachel Robinson, who turned 100 on July 19, watched the half-hour outdoor celebration from a wheelchair in the 80-degree Fahrenheit heat, then cut a ribbon to cap a project launched in 2008.
Her 72-year-old daughter, Sharon, also looked on from a wheelchair and 70-year-old son David spoke to the crowd of about 200 sitting on folding chairs arrayed in a closed-off section of Varick Street, a major thoroughfare where the 19,380-square-foot museum is located. It opens to the public on Sept. 5
"The issues in baseball, the issues that Jackie Robinson challenged in 1947, they’re still with us," David Robinson said. "The signs of white only have been taken down, but the complexity of equal opportunity still exists."
Rachel Robinson announced the museum on April 15, 2008, the 61st anniversary of Jackie breaking the big league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. Robinson became NL Rookie of the Year, the 1949 NL batting champion and MVP, a seven-time All-Star and a World Series champion in 1955. He hit .313 with 141 homers and 200 stolen bases in 11 seasons and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1962.
Robinson, who died in 1972, had an impact beyond baseball, galvanizing a significant slice of American public opinion and boosting the civil rights movement.
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"There’s nowhere on the globe where dream is attached to our name — or our country’s name," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said. "There’s not a German dream. There’s not a French dream. There’s not a Polish dream. Darn it, there’s an American dream. And this man and wife took that dream and forced America and baseball to say you’re not going to be a dream on a piece of paper, you’re going to be a dream in life. We are greater because of No. 42 and because he had amazing wife that understood that dream and vision."
A gala dinner was held Monday night to preview the museum, which contains 350 artifacts, including playing equipment and items such as Robinson's 1946 minor league contract for $600 a month and his 1947 rookie contract for a $5,000 salary. The museum also holds a collection of 40,000 images and 450 hours of footage.
A 15-piece band played at the ceremony, attended by former pitcher CC Sabathia, former NL president Len Coleman and former Mets owner Fred Wilpon, along with players’ association head Tony Clark and Hall of Fame president Josh Rawitch.
"Without him, there would be no me," Sabathia said. "I wouldn't have been able to live out my dream of playing Major League Baseball."
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, director Spike Lee (wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers cap) and former tennis star Billie Jean King also were on hand.
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"It seems like we're more divided than ever," King said. "People like Jackie Robinson was a great reminder every single morning, every single evening that we have to do the right thing every day."
Original projections had a 2010 opening and $25 million cost. The Great Recession caused a delay.
Ground finally was broken on April 27, 2017, when the Jackie Robinson Foundation said it had raised $23.5 million of a planned $42 million and the museum was intended to open in 2019. The pandemic caused more delays, and the total raised has risen to $38 million, of which $2.6 million was contributed by New York City.
Tickets will cost $18 for adults and $15 for students, seniors and children. The second floor includes an education center, part of a plan envisioned by Rachel Robinson.
"She wanted a fixed tribute to her husband, where people could come and learn about him, but also be inspired," said foundation president Della Britton, who headed the project. "We want to be that place, as young people now say, a safe space, where people will talk about race and not worry about the initial backlash that happens when you say something on social media."
David Robinson said his father would have been proud.
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"He was a man who used the word ‘we,’" David said. "I think today Jackie Robinson would say I accept this honor, but I accept this honor on behalf of something far beyond my individual self, far beyond my family, far beyond even my race. Jackie Robinson would say don’t think of you standing on my shoulders, I think of myself as standing on the shoulders of my mother, who was a sharecropper in Georgia, my grandmother, who was born a slave." | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/jackie-robinson-museum-opens-manhattan | 2022-07-26T21:41:11Z | https://www.foxnews.com/sports/jackie-robinson-museum-opens-manhattan | true |
Authorities seeking public’s help in locating missing Florence man
Published: Jul. 26, 2022 at 3:34 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
RANKIN CO., Miss. (WLBT) - Rankin County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing Florence man.
Jonathan David Hankins, 39, is described as a white male around five feet, ten inches tall, with brown hair and blue eyes.
Hankins was last seen at his mother’s residence in the Star community. He was reported missing to the sheriff’s office on July 14.
If anyone has any information, contact investigator Christian Dedmon at (601) 825-1480.
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Emissions shift may reduce taxpayer burden
Labor's revamped rule book on how greenhouse gas emission controls will operate could improve the nation's global environmental credentials and save Aussie taxpayers' money.
The new government's proposed climate change bill - due to reach parliament on Wednesday - locks in a minimum 43 per cent cut in emissions by 2030, trouncing the coalition's 26-28 per cent goal, to set the scene for a future 2035 target and achieve net zero by 2050.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says the stronger commitment "signals to the market, both here and abroad, that Australia is open for business".
And much of the work will be left to the business community.
"This is about a framework for private sector investment, we designed it that way to encourage that private sector investment," the minister said.
An array of agencies and mechanisms will usher in tougher pollution limits for heavy industry in 2023, along with developing a new class of carbon credits for industrial emissions, and electrifying the economy.
More than 200 of Australia's largest industrial facilities will have more stringent caps on emissions, forcing firms to change the design, operation and fuel supply of plants and equipment.
Economic advisor to the federal government Steven Kennedy, a veteran of the decades-long climate wars, says the new arrangements will "significantly" reduce the burden on taxpayers.
The federal Treasury chief has worked closely with numerous prime ministers, treasurers and ministers to draft and repeal climate policy.
The Labor administration is already reviewing the inner workings of the former government's key climate policy tool, the Emissions Reduction Fund, which rewards heavy industry for offsetting emissions.
The so-called safeguard element of the scheme involves the government setting speed limits, or baselines, for the emissions produced by the nation's largest industrial plants.
This design provides an opportunity for governments to set tougher emissions limits over time.
Dr Kennedy says the government has indicated a "willingness" to use the safeguard mechanism to tighten requirements, consistent with achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
"This will also significantly reduce the call on the budget," he said in a recent speech.
In place for seven years, the mechanism covers metals and mining, oil and gas extraction, manufacturing, transport, and waste facilities each producing over 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
Critics say the old baselines have been too soft, allowing heavy emitters to avoid penalties when they were meant to be avoiding emissions.
And while carbon credits have been mostly generated by nature and land-based projects - including growing trees on farmland - a proposed new class of "safeguard credits" will be earned from future projects retrofitted to refineries, chemical plants and other heavy industrial facilities.
"These are potentially pivotal, and critically scalable reforms as we shift from taxpayer to corporate responsibility for the bulk of emission reduction investments," Carbon Market Institute CEO John Connor says.
Polluters can also buy the carbon credits to manage emissions.
An unresolved policy conundrum is whether Australia should be able to trade emissions with other countries.
"There's a tremendous opportunity to create new jobs and industry from securing carbon in our land and through changed land management practices," Greens leader Adam Bandt said.
"But all of this opportunity will be lost if domestic or international offsets are used by Labor as a cover to allow new coal and gas projects."
The latest modelling from research house RepuTex shows the new "baseline and credit" framework will provide companies with a fresh incentive to cut emissions and offer more flexibility to manage emissions.
But RepuTex expects heavy industry to rely on domestic carbon credits to offset emissions before investment begins in truly transformative pollution-busting projects that will retrofit plants and equipment.
The current president of UN climate negotiations, the UK's Alok Sharma, says the 2030 target is "a good start".
But Australia will be expected to show more ambition if it wants to lead international climate talks in coming years, he told the ABC this week.
Preparing the way, Labor's new laws will beef up the Climate Change Authority so it can hold the government to account on progress against national targets and assess what a 2035 target should be.
"New: Job vacancies now open. The Authority is recruiting for multiple positions," the agency's website says after years in the budget doldrums under the coalition government.
Labor says it is also "putting the R back into ARENA" by restoring the focus of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency on renewable energy and electrification, rather than unproven fossil fuel-based technology.
The new climate focus and targets, which the Greens and some independent MPs say won't do enough, will also be enshrined in the mission of the the nation's green bank for investments in green agriculture, energy, hydrogen, infrastructure, property, transport and waste.
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, which finances projects in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia, along with ARENA and Infrastructure Australia, will also be central to the transition.
A new law will give tax cuts to households that buy an electric vehicle, because cars make up almost 10 per cent of Australia's emissions and Labor wants families to be able to afford to switch from petrol and diesel.
Getting a head start, the ACT government plans to phase out petrol and diesel cars and light trucks by 2035, expand the public charging network, and subsidise EV charging infrastructure for apartment buildings.
But contentious methods that extend the use of fossil fuels remain in the federal climate policy toolkit.
Carbon capture and storage technologies, switching industrial facilities from coal to gas, and using alternative fuels such as liquid hydrogen derived from coal and gas for transport fleets are still in the running.
RepuTex says investors also need certainty that one carbon credit equals one tonne of emissions abatement before they accept stronger baselines and more voluntary commitments by firms.
An independent review of existing carbon credits is checking their integrity and will report back to government by the end of 2022.
The Greens, whose votes could be vital to pass the climate bill, support using carbon credits to draw carbon down from the atmosphere, and not for an offset regime for big polluters or the safeguard mechanism.
Nor can the 114 coal and gas projects in the pipeline be offset, Mr Bandt said.
Advice on international carbon credits, commissioned by the former government, has been repackaged for the new minister and is due to be published soon.
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PLANO, Texas, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SomnoMed Limited (ASX "SOM", or the Company), a leading company in the provision of oral appliance treatment solutions for sleep-related breathing disorders and obstructive sleep apnea ('OSA'), is pleased to provide its quarterly activities report for the period ended 30 June 2022 (Q4 FY22).
Highlights
- Record quarterly revenue of $21.3 million for Q4 FY22, +32% (+32% in constant currency) versus the previous corresponding period (pcp). On an underlying basis, when excluding the Q4 FY21 COVID-19 related HIC1 allowance, Q4 FY22 revenue was up +36% (+37% in constant currency) versus pcp
- Full year unaudited revenue of $72.6 million, up +16% (+17% in constant currency) versus pcp and above guidance of +15% growth for FY22. On an underlying basis, when excluding the COVID-19 related HIC1 allowance, FY22 revenue was up +19% (+20% in constant currency) versus pcp
- FY22 guidance of breakeven EBITDA2 remains
- The record quarter reflects the impact of successful sales and marketing initiatives in all regions, with business conditions improving and the overall trend of patient activity and engagement with their medical clinician normalizing post COVID-19
- Total patients treated worldwide now exceeds 715,000
- Development of Rest Assure®, the Company's first ever in-built technology-enabled oral appliance progressed during the quarter, with the second patient validation study now complete
- SomnoMed had available cash of $15.6 million as at 30 June 2022
- Subsequent to 30 June 2022, SomnoMed secured new debt funding of $16 million (net $11m after repaying HSBC), which delivers sufficient capital to support the ongoing growth within the core business and to complete the development of the new technology, Rest Assure®
Commenting on the results, SomnoMed's Managing Director, Mr. Neil Verdal-Austin said: "I am exceptionally pleased that the Company has met our FY22 revenue guidance and immensely proud that we delivered a record $21.3 million of revenue in the June quarter."
"The improving sales levels SomnoMed is experiencing have been driven by a combination of the strong underlying business activity levels across our key markets and the results of the deliberate investments we made through 2021 to expand our sales and marketing teams to focus on delivering a quality treatment solution for patients with mild to moderate OSA. The sales momentum we have achieved over recent quarters continues to demonstrate the sound fundamentals of the core business and the large growth opportunity for oral appliance solutions in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, globally."
"These results validate our strategy and confirm, once again, that the exceptional 'first time fit' quality and durability of our product range is superior within the marketplace and preferred by clinicians and patients world-wide."
"Our recent attendance at a range of sleep conferences across Europe and the USA have highlighted the growing demand from patients, sleep physicians and other providers, for new technologies that provide an alternative to CPAP where the ongoing, low compliance rates are just not acceptable anymore."
"We are also acutely aware of the current global economic environment and the impact of supply chain issues, rising inflation and interest rates on costs. SomnoMed continues to proactively drive a range of initiatives to secure our supply chain and ensure we limit any negative impact on our own cost structures, so that we protect margins and cash flow."
"The development of SomnoMed's Rest Assure® technology has progressed during the quarter, with our second patient validation study now complete. We anticipate that, once launched and over time, the data collected by Rest Assure® will demonstrate and establish the true clinical effectiveness of Continuous Open Airway Therapy™ (COAT™), driving prescriptions, increased reimbursement and ultimately greater OSA therapy market share."
"As we move into FY23 we have strong revenue momentum, an increasing rate of patient engagement, a passionate and energized global team, a strengthened balance sheet and an exciting technology development in Rest Assure®, which all leave the Company poised to deliver solid growth in the year ahead. I look forward to providing more formal FY23 guidance with our FY22 financial results release in August."
Financial Review
Quarterly revenue of $21.3 million for Q4 FY22, +32% (+32% in constant currency) versus pcp represents the highest quarterly revenue the Company has ever recorded. This reflects the sales success of both AVANT™ and Herbst Advance Elite™ and the investment the Company has made into sales teams and business development channels in all regions, allowing the Company to penetrate the sector more deeply and drive growth.
The revenue growth posted in both North America and Europe continued, with the momentum seen in those regions during the year driven by the continued normalization of the impacts of COVID-19 on the healthcare market.
Full year unaudited revenue of $72.6 million, up +16% (+17% in constant currency) versus pcp and above guidance for FY22. EBITDA2 guidance remains at breakeven for FY22 and will be detailed in the upcoming FY22 financial results release in August.
Cashflow from operations was a positive $3.3 million for the quarter (positive $1.8 million for FY22), due to the strong sales momentum seen in both Q3 and Q4, as well as effective cash management and collections to year end.
Investment in R&D continues with total cash expenditure during the quarter of $1.5 million specifically related to our technology investment. The FY22 technology investment has been approximately $7.8 million, primarily associated with the development of Rest Assure® and under the guidance provided of $8 million. The investment in Rest Assure® and our other growth initiatives is supported by our balance sheet position and positive cash generation in Q4 FY22.
Subsequent to June 2022, SomnoMed secured new debt funding of $16 million (net $11m after repaying HSBC), which delivers sufficient capital to support the ongoing growth within the core business and to complete the development of the new technology, Rest Assure®.
Operational Review
Business conditions continued to improve across SomnoMed's key regions of North America, Europe and Asia Pacific as the impacts of COVID-19 on the medical sector and broader dental community continued to reduce.
SomnoMed's position in the oral appliance sector within the OSA market remains strong, with the potential to further increase the addressable market by providing an alternative to the traditional default CPAP recommendation by most sleep physicians. The Company continues to experience positive engagement within the medical sector, which is driving further acceptance of COAT™.
North America
The North America market experienced another positive quarter with a +42% (+33% in constant currency) revenue increase versus pcp. This is driven by increased investment in sales and marketing efforts in the region driving greater demand for the product range, especially for the AVANT™ and Herbst Advance Elite™. Direct and targeted marketing campaigns focused on the Company's proprietary B-Flex comfort liner continue to be successful, highlighting the importance of this material that provides both superior comfort and retention.
Europe
Revenue for the quarter was $12.6 million, up +37% (+43% in constant currency) versus pcp. Patient demand for the Company's COAT™ technology remains strong across core countries within Europe driven by strong positive reimbursement trends and a growing acceptance of the benefits of COAT™ technology for mild and moderate OSA patients.
Sales volume growth for the quarter in each of the 7 main European countries in which we trade were over +20% versus volumes in the prior corresponding quarter, reflecting deeper penetration into both core and new markets where SomnoMed has been the leading COAT™ treatment solution for some time.
Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific quarterly revenues were up +8% (+8% in constant currency) versus pcp. After the extended impact of COVID-19 on revenues in the first half, recovery in the second half was strong. SomnoMed continued with its clinical education program and the investment in new sales and marketing resources to advance the adoption of oral appliances within the medical sector.
Rest Assure®
SomnoMed introduced Rest Assure®, its first ever in-built technology-enabled oral appliance, in February 2022 with the aim of addressing the lack of overnight monitoring and objective data in COAT™, which has been a major barrier to prescription and reimbursement rates to date.
Although the Rest Assure® hardware and software is in prototype stage, the design is now complete, and a vendor is manufacturing the docking station and sensor components. The second patient validation study has also been completed. These study results are currently being analyzed and will be submitted for publication in a scientific sleep journal later this calendar year to confirm the algorithms needed to objectively measure efficacy and compliance to ensure long term therapy effectiveness. Patient feedback was also collected during this study, with 29/30 patients able to connect their device to the patient App and dock their device using simple written instructions only, showing the Rest Assure® system is easy to use. All patients in the study expressed a desire to continue COAT™ therapy with Rest Assure® when the device is launched.
The Rest Assure® project remains on schedule, with SomnoMed's focus now on the preparation of documentation required for regulatory submissions to the FDA (USA), TGA (Australia) and for CE marking (Europe). Rest Assure® will be commercialized once these approvals are received.
The Company attended the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) 'SLEEP 2022' conference in Charlotte USA during the quarter. AASM SLEEP 2022 is a leading conference for sleep physicians, sleep medical prescribers and researchers in North America focusing on all aspects of sleep, sleep disorders, screening, pharmaceuticals, technology platforms, tele-medicine, diagnostics, and treatment. The conference with approximately 3,500 delegates allowed the Company to showcase its best-in-class oral appliance treatment solution while also engaging in a range of collaborative interactions and meetings with various industry players. The feedback on the Rest Assure® technology was overwhelmingly positive.
This release has been approved by the Board of SomnoMed Limited.
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About SomnoMed
SomnoMed is a public company providing treatment solutions for sleep-related breathing disorders including obstructive sleep apnea, snoring and bruxism. SomnoMed was commercialised on the basis of extensive clinical research. Supporting independent clinical research, continuous innovation and instituting medical manufacturing standards has resulted in SomnoDent® becoming the state-of-the-art and clinically proven medical oral appliance therapy for more than 715,000 patients in 28 countries. For additional information, visit SomnoMed at http://www.somnomed.com.au
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DALLAS, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN) ("SUN") announced that the Board of Directors of its general partner declared a quarterly distribution for the second quarter of 2022 of $0.8255 per common unit or $3.3020 per common unit on an annualized basis. The distribution will be paid on August 19, 2022 to common unitholders of record on August 8, 2022.
Sunoco LP (NYSE: SUN) is a master limited partnership with core operations that include the distribution of motor fuel to approximately 10,000 convenience stores, independent dealers, commercial customers and distributors located in more than 40 U.S. states and territories as well as refined product transportation and terminalling assets. SUN's general partner is owned by Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET).
This release is intended to be a qualified notice under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1446-4(b). Brokers and nominees should treat 100 percent of Sunoco LP's distributions to non-U.S. investors as being attributable to income that is effectively connected with a United States trade or business. Accordingly, Sunoco LP's distributions to non-U.S. investors are subject to federal income tax withholding at the highest applicable effective tax rate.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will publish his autobiography just after this year’s midterm elections and it will be titled “So Help Me God.”
The book will recount Pence’s journey from his Indiana youth to the vice presidency, with stops in the House of Representatives and governor’s mansion in between, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. It promises to also discuss his rift with former President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, when, according to the publisher, “Pence kept his oath to the Constitution.”
Trump supporters, and Trump himself, denounced him for not intervening on Jan. 6 in Congress’ formal certification of President Joe Biden’s presidential victory. The certification — which Pence had no power to change — was delayed for hours after hundreds of Trump supporters, some chanting “Hang Mike Pence!,” stormed the U.S. Capitol.
The book will be available on Nov. 15, earlier that initially expected. It was previously announced for next year.
According to a statement from Simon & Schuster, the memoir is “the inside story of the Trump administration by its second-highest ranking official and of a profound faith that has guided Pence throughout his life.”
In addition to Pence, other Trump administration officials to issue books include former White House advisor Kellyanne Conway, former National Security Advisor John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/former-vice-president-mike-pence-to-release-memoir-in-nov/ | 2022-07-26T21:41:37Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/former-vice-president-mike-pence-to-release-memoir-in-nov/ | false |
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 800 wildland firefighters and support staff are battling a blaze in east-central Idaho that officials say is threatening homes, an important north-south corridor, energy infrastructure, recreation opportunities and the municipal watershed for the town of Salmon.
The Moose Fire on Tuesday grew to nearly 60 square miles (155 square kilometers) burning grass, timber understory and dead and down material in the Salmon-Challis National Forest. It's only 10% contained.
Firefighters are protecting structures in several areas as well as the U.S. Highway 93 corridor, a major north-south route. Two helicopter pilots fighting the fire died last week when their CH-47D Series “Chinook” crashed in the Salmon River. Plans call for removing the helicopter from the river with a large crane.
The cause of the fire that started July 17 is undetermined. High temperatures and very dry relative humidity are hampering efforts to control the blaze. Smoke has also been a problem.
Firefighting plans call for trying to check the fire along U.S. Highway 93 and do preparation work to protect structures in the fire's path. Firefighters are also worried about long-range spotting where embers can drift far from the fire and start new spot fires. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Wildfire-in-east-central-Idaho-threatening-homes-17330546.php | 2022-07-26T21:42:33Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Wildfire-in-east-central-Idaho-threatening-homes-17330546.php | true |
NEW YORK — Buzz Aldrin’s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moon’s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8 million.
The jacket displays Aldrin’s name tag on the left breast above the Apollo 11 mission emblem, and the American flag on the left shoulder. It is made of a fire-resistant material known as Beta cloth that was incorporated in spacesuits in response to the fire that killed three astronauts aboard Apollo 1 in 1967, according to Sotheby’s.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers fans made their feelings known as Juan Soto stepped into the batter’s box, just in case the Washington Nationals star didn’t get their message at the All-Star Game.
“Future Dodger!” the crowd of 48,647 chanted. They heartily applauded Soto in his first at-bat.
Whether he ends up in LA or not, Soto put on a show.
His two-run triple capped a four-run fifth inning and the lowly Washington Nationals defeated the NL West-leading Dodgers 4-1 on Monday night, snapping Los Angeles’ 11-game home winning streak.
“Our best player, Soto, comes up with a big hit and drove in some runs,” Nats manager Dave Martinez said. “It was a big moment for Juan to come through.”
The Nationals (33-65) brought the worst record in the majors into Dodger Stadium, where they won for the first time since the 2019 NL Division Series, against the team with baseball’s best record (64-31). The Dodgers’ season-high eight-game overall winning streak ended.
“They shut down a really good team,” Martinez said of his bullpen. “Guys played with a lot of energy.”
Soto said before the game he’s trying not to think about the trade talk swirling around him ahead of the Aug. 2 trade deadline. The chatter isn’t affecting him at the plate. Soto is batting .362 with a 1.260 OPS this month, including six homers, a triple and two doubles.
The 23-year-old All-Star right fielder left his trophy from winning last week’s Home Run Derby in the visitors’ clubhouse, knowing that he’d soon be back here. It rested on a wheeled trunk in the middle of the room with a gold link chain wrapped around it and Derby Champ spelled out in platinum.
The Nationals haven’t signaled that they’re looking to unload the left-handed hitter with a .248 average and .895 OPS. But that hasn’t stopped the growing speculation, especially after Soto turned down a long-term contract offer worth $440 million.
“We don’t need anything but I stand by any team can always get better,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said when asked about Soto before the game. “Juan is a very talented player.”
Soto finished 2 for 4 with a strikeout and a walk. He chatted up former Nats teammate Trea Turner, with whom he stays in regular contact.
The Nationals batted around in the fifth when Yadiel Hernández led off with an opposite-field solo shot over the wall in left that tied the game 1-1.
“It just created more excitement in the bullpen,” Hernández said through a translator.
After two quick outs, Tony Gonsolin (11-1) gave up four straight base hits in his first defeat of the season and his first start since taking the loss for the NL in the All-Star Game. Ehire Adrianza and Victor Robles singled back-to-back before César Hernández hit a bloop single inside the third-base line to make it 2-1.
“He still is terrific,” Martinez said of Gonsolin. “He’s got good stuff.”
Soto’s two-run triple over the first-base bag scored two runs to extend Washington’s lead to 4-1.
The Dodgers had the tying runs on base in the bottom of the inning. Max Muncy and Gavin Lux singled back-to-back off Nats starter Paolo Espino. Andres Machado (1-0) came in to strike out Cody Bellinger before walking Trayce Thompson to load the bases. Mookie Betts took a called third strike and Turner lined out to right for the third out.
“I like coming in that situation,” Machado said.
Kyle Finnegan pitched the ninth to earn his third save.
Washington loaded the bases in a messy eighth for Reyes Moronta, who threw 31 pitches and just 15 for strikes. He had two wild pitches and hit Keibert Ruiz before Robles struck out to end the threat.
The Dodgers had the potential tying run at the plate in the eighth. Turner and Jake Lamb singled before Carl Edwards Jr. struck out Muncy for the third out.
Hitting in the ninth spot, Thompson went deep with two strikes and two outs in the third for a 1-0 lead.
Turner’s ground-rule double to deep center in the fourth extended his hitting streak to 12 games. Freddie Freeman went 0 for 4 with a strikeout to end his 12-game hitting streak.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: 3B Justin Turner (abdomen) could return Tuesday or Wednesday. … RHP Brusdar Graterol (shoulder) played catch but there’s no timetable for him to get on a mound. … OF Chris Taylor (foot) will have a rehab assignment next week. … RHP Walker Buehler (elbow) played catch for the first time since his flexor strain injury last month.
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Nationals: RHP Josiah Gray (7-6, 4.40 ERA) makes his second career start against his former team. He made his MLB debut at Dodger Stadium last July against the Giants.
Dodgers: RHP Mitch White (1-2, 3.78) faces the Nationals for the first time in his career.
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LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. — Kyler Murray has made it no secret he enjoys video games, including the popular “Call of Duty” franchise.
“Kyler knows the playbook better than anyone on this team,” Ertz said Tuesday, when the Cardinals reported for preseason camp. “He’s been in the system a long period of time. Ultimately, I’m happy he signed a deal that he’s happy about.
“I wasn’t there for the process, that’s way above my pay grade, but it seems like he’s in a really good place mentally.”
Murray finalized his five-year deal last week but it received renewed attention on Monday, when NFL Network first reported that Murray’s new contract included an “independent study” clause.
It says the quarterback must study at least four hours each week during the season for Arizona’s upcoming game and that he can’t be distracted by “watching television, playing video games or browsing the internet.”
Fourth-year coach Kliff Kingsbury made it sound like the study addendum wasn’t his idea. He’s just glad the quarterback will remain in a Cardinals uniform for the foreseeable future.
“I don’t get in on the (contract) negotiations,” Kingsbury said. “My entire role on that was prayer and pleading, and it worked out really well for me. That’s the negotiating side, I’m the football side.”
The addendum was unexpected for several reasons, including that Kingsbury has never voiced displeasure with Murray’s preparation for games. The two-time Pro Bowl quarterback has certainly had a few duds during his three-year pro career, but knowledge of the playbook never seemed to be the issue.
So why would the Cardinals feel the need to include that language in his contract? Great question.
Kingsbury said he doesn’t track his players’ iPad usage to see how much they’re studying and that all players need different amounts. He added that the “independent study” mandate in Murray’s contract shouldn’t be a concern.
“He’s got a quarter billion dollars,” Kingsbury said laughing. “You can only be upset for so long, I guess. Negotiations — everybody has their things and wants different stuff. I’m just thrilled that this young man got what I feel he deserves.”
Murray wasn’t available to the media on Tuesday.
As players and support staff filed into a hotel in the western suburbs of Phoenix on Tuesday, no one seemed concern about Murray’s grasp of the playbook.
Ertz — a three-time Pro Bowler who was traded to the Cardinals in the middle of last season after spending 8 1/2 season with the Philadelphia Eagles — said Murray was who he’d go to last season when he had football questions.
“He was the guy helping me along learning the playbook,” Ertz said. “Ultimately, I’ve got to be on the same page as him.”
Murray is entering his fourth season in the NFL and has had considerable success since being drafted No. 1 overall out of Oklahoma, where he won the Heisman Trophy in his final season. He was the league’s Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2019 and a Pro Bowl selection the next two years.
He threw for 3,787 yards, 24 touchdowns and 10 interceptions last season while completing nearly 70% of his touchdowns. He also ran for five touchdowns and has a unique ability to extend plays with his feet, scampering around the pocket before making throws or pulling the ball down and running.
The only major blemish came last season, when the Cardinals started 10-2 and then collapsed down the stretch, losing four of five games before getting dumped by the Los Angeles Rams 34-11 in the NFC’s Wild Card Round.
Murray said last week that the ugly playoff loss could benefit the Cardinals in the long run, since so many of the team’s players are eager to atone for that performance.
Kingsbury said he expects even more improvement in Year 4.
“There’s a handful of quarterbacks you can win a Super Bowl with in this league,” Kingsbury said. “We feel like he’s one of them.”
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A pilot shortage is forcing Chesterfield to cut back hours on MedFlight, a free air ambulance service for patients.
Virginia State Police (VSP) recently announced operational changes to their MedFlight program due to a lack of pilots. Instead of operating for 24 hours, they will operate 16 hours day from 8 a.m. to midnight. The temporary hour change took effect Sunday, July 24.
The agency is now looking to fill four pilot positions at the Chesterfield and Abingdon aviation bases.
State police said it takes about one year to get fully trained and certified to fly an aircraft.
The hour change will remain in effect until these new pilots are qualified and can fully participate in the program. Once they are ready to take off, the 24-hour operation will resume.
Julian Walker, the vice president of communications for the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, said medical professionals are monitoring the situation for any direct impact on patients.
“Certainly, anytime that you have a staffing shortage that impacts public safety which also has an impact on public health that’s something that’s a concern,” Walker said.
Walker said some area hospitals have their own air ambulance services, which could supplement the hours that VSP’s MedFlight isn’t available.
State police added that private entities can sufficiently handle service calls, too.
“This is a system that works comprehensively,” Walker said. “That works together, that involves fire and EMS, that involves law enforcement and state police, that involves healthcare providers.”
The likelihood of a patient being transferred by State Police’s air ambulance services instead of by local hospital services is dependent on several circumstances.
“Depending on the acuity and the severity of a particular patient’s injuries, as well as the location in the commonwealth where that individual was injured, all of those are going to be factors that determine where the patient is transported,” Walker said.
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CLARK COUNTY, Ind. (WXIN) – Eight more women have filed a civil rights lawsuit against an Indiana sheriff, a former jailer and other unknown jail officers.
The women claim the former Clark County jail officer, David Lowe, sold his jail key to male inmates for $1,000, giving them access to a female holding area where the women were raped, assaulted and harassed.
The incident happened on Oct. 23 and Oct. 24 in 2021. A civil lawsuit was also filed in the case last month on behalf of 20 women. Lowe faces criminal charges of trafficking with an inmate, aiding escape and official misconduct. His trial is scheduled for Nov. 1, 2022.
According to court documents, Lowe was on duty on Oct. 23 when he gave male inmates access to the women’s housing pod. They spent several hours inside and didn’t leave until the morning of Oct. 24.
Throughout the entire ordeal, no jail officers came to the women’s aid, according to the lawsuit. The women claimed they were groped, fondled, harassed and intimidated by the inmates. At least two women were allegedly raped.
The men, who covered their heads with towels to hide their identities from surveillance cameras, threatened the women with harm if they yelled for help or used the emergency call button, according to court documents.
After it happened, the women had their dark (lights out) privileges revoked; jail officers left their lights on for 72 straight hours, according to the lawsuit.
The women were also placed on lockdown and restricted to their pods. The lawsuit alleged that jail officers confiscated their property, including blankets, pillows and personal hygiene items.
The lawsuit filed this week accused Lowe of giving inmates access to the women and being “deliberately indifferent” to the “substantial risk” they faced.
Other jail officers, the lawsuit said, failed in their duty to protect female inmates and never intervened to stop the male inmates.
Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel is also named in the suit. He’s accused of poor oversight and inadequate supervision. The lawsuit accused him of hiring jail officers without adequately training them.
“These systemic failures allowed numerous male assailants to have free run of the jail for several hours, resulting in a night of terror for the Plaintiffs and other victims,” attorneys for the women said.
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America is experiencing inflation levels it hasn't seen in decades. Now, there's talk of a possible Recession. And the Biden White House is trying to preemptively fight back against those fears.
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A $52 million project to revamp the exit at College Drive for westbound motorists is now set for completion in late summer of 2023, state officials said Tuesday.
Shawn Wilson, secretary for the state Department of Transportation, said last week he thought January of 2023 was a feasible target date barring repeated weather delays because of possible hurricanes.
But officials involved in the work said a combination of previous weather stoppages and supply chain issues have pushed the latest completion time to late summer next year.
No specific month was offered in the latest update.
The work was originally set to be done by Nov. 30 of this year.
The project is aimed at making it easier and safer for westbound motorists on Interstate 10 to exit at College Drive.
Travelers now have to cross multiple lanes of traffic, and traffic from I-12 merging onto I-10, to reach the exit.
The overhaul will mean travelers only have to cross a single lane to reach College Drive.
About 17,000 westbound motorists use the exit daily and around 78,000 cars and trucks travel between the split and College Drive each day.
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HONOLULU (AP) _ Hawaiian Holdings Inc. (HA) on Tuesday reported a loss of $36.8 million in its second quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Honolulu-based company said it had a loss of 72 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 90 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 86 cents per share.
The parent company of Hawaiian Airlines posted revenue of $691.9 million in the period, which beat Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $665.1 million.
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BOSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - John Hancock Retirement, a company of Manulife Investment Management, today announced the launch of a prospect finder tool for financial professionals. The tool is the latest innovation in John Hancock's suite of online tools for financial professionals to help add scale and efficiency to a retirement practice. Prospect finder is an interactive, data-rich system which can make finding and managing leads simpler, with the ability to run plan comparisons at the industry, state, and national levels. It identifies potential gaps in plans and provides helpful insights and actions to help with the conversations regarding plan design and retirement readiness.
"We understand that more than a third of financial professionals feel that prospecting is the toughest part of business development," said Gary Tankersley, head of sales and distribution, John Hancock Retirement. "We help make it easy to prospect, onboard, and manage your plans so making time with clients is prioritized. The prospect finder tool is accessible and integrated into a financial professional's personalized dashboard as part of our financial professional digital experience to help make plans work as efficiently as possible for both financial professionals and their clients."
- Smart filter by all of the plan characteristics (location, assets, participants, etc.)
- Scouting reports that can be downloaded as a PDF and the ability to save individual prospects
- Plan score comparisons at the industry/state/national level
- A more robust 'Overview' of the plan, giving a snapshot of key plan characteristics, and potential gaps in plan design
- Co-branding capabilities
For more information on the John Hancock Retirement prospect finder tool click here.
John Hancock Retirement is the U.S. retirement business of Manulife Investment Management. For more than 50 years, we've helped people plan and invest for retirement; today, we're one of the largest full-service providers in the United States.i We take a hands-on consultative approach based on the idea that no two plans- and no two plan participants are exactly alike. We partner with plan sponsors, financial professionals, and third-party administrators to ensure that every plan is personal to the participant and delivers results.
As of March 31, 2022, John Hancock serviced over 54,000 retirement plans with over 3.1 million participants and over $215 billion in AUMA.ii
A company of Manulife Investment Management, we serve investors through a unique multimanager approach, complementing our extensive in-house capabilities with an unrivaled network of specialized asset managers, backed by some of the most rigorous investment oversight in the industry. The result is a diverse lineup of time-tested investments from a premier asset manager with a heritage of financial stewardship.
Manulife Investment Management is the global brand for the global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial Corporation. We draw on more than a century of financial stewardship and the full resources of our parent company to serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide.
Headquartered in Toronto, our leading capabilities in public and private markets are strengthened by an investment footprint that spans 18 geographies. We complement these capabilities by providing access to a network of unaffiliated asset managers from around the world. We're committed to investing responsibly across our businesses. We develop innovative global frameworks for sustainable investing, collaboratively engage with companies in our securities portfolios, and maintain a high standard of stewardship where we own and operate assets, and we believe in supporting financial well-being through our workplace retirement plans. Today, plan sponsors around the world rely on our retirement plan administration and investment expertise to help their employees plan for, save for and live a better retirement. Not all offerings are available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit manulifeim.com.
John Hancock Retirement Plan Services LLC provides administrative and/or recordkeeping services to sponsors or administrators of retirement plans through an open-architecture platform. John Hancock Trust Company LLC provides trust and custodial services to such plans. Group annuity contracts and recordkeeping agreements are issued by John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.), Boston, MA (not licensed in NY), and John Hancock Life Insurance Company of New York, Valhalla, NY. Product features and availability may differ by state. All entities do business under certain instances using the John Hancock brand name. Each entity makes available a platform of investment alternatives to sponsors or administrators of retirement plans without regard to the individualized needs of any plan. Unless otherwise specifically stated in writing, each entity does not, and is not undertaking to, provide impartial investment advice or give advice in a fiduciary capacity. Securities are offered through John Hancock Distributors LLC, member FINRA, SIPC.
NOT FDIC INSURED. MAY LOSE VALUE. NOT BANK GUARANTEED.
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BETHESDA, Md., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrus Energy Corp. (NYSE American: LEU) will broadcast its quarterly conference call with shareholders and the financial community over the Internet on Friday, August 5, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. ET. The Company will release its second quarter earnings report for 2022, which ended June 30, 2022, after the close of markets on Thursday, August 4.
The conference call will be open to listeners who log in through the Company's website, www.centrusenergy.com. A link to the call will be located in the Investor Relations section of the website, and a webcast replay will be available through August 15, 2022.
Centrus Energy is a trusted supplier of nuclear fuel and services for the nuclear power industry. Centrus provides value to its utility customers through the reliability and diversity of its supply sources – helping them meet the growing need for clean, affordable, carbon-free electricity. Since 1998, the Company has provided its utility customers with more than 1,750 reactor years of fuel, which is equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal. With world-class technical and engineering capabilities, Centrus is also advancing the next generation of centrifuge technologies so that America can restore its domestic uranium enrichment capability in the future. Find out more at www.centrusenergy.com.
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) _ Stryker Corp. (SYK) on Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $656 million.
On a per-share basis, the Kalamazoo, Michigan-based company said it had net income of $1.72. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $2.25 per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.27 per share.
The medical device maker posted revenue of $4.49 billion in the period, also missing Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $4.53 billion.
Stryker expects full-year earnings in the range of $9.30 to $9.50 per share.
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Russia to quit the ISS after 2024 By Charles Maynes Published July 26, 2022 at 2:27 PM MDT Facebook Twitter Email Listen • 2:15 Russia says it will pull out of the International Space Station after 2024. This echoes intentions previously set by Russia and comes amid tensions with the U.S. and the West over the war in Ukraine. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.kunm.org/2022-07-26/russia-to-quit-the-iss-after-2024 | 2022-07-26T21:55:45Z | https://www.kunm.org/2022-07-26/russia-to-quit-the-iss-after-2024 | false |
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
1-2-2
(one, two, two)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
1-2-2
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RADNOR, Pa., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP (www.ktmc.com) informs investors that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed against Missfresh Limited ("Missfresh") (NASDAQ: MF). The action charges Missfresh with violations of the federal securities laws, including omissions and fraudulent misrepresentations relating to the company's business, operations, and prospects. As a result of Missfresh's materially misleading statements and omissions to the public, Missfresh investors have suffered significant losses.
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CLASS PERIOD: PURSUANT AND/OR TRACEABLE TO MISSFRESH'S JUNE 2021 IPO THROUGH JULY 12, 2022
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In June 2021, Missfresh conducted its initial public offering (IPO), selling 21 million American Depository Shares ("ADSs") at $13.00 per ADS.
On April 29, 2022, after trading hours, Missfresh filed a Notification of Late Filing on a Form 12b-25, which announced that Missfresh "will not be able to file its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 … by the prescribed filing deadline of April 30, 2022." Missfresh explained that "[t]he independent Audit Committee of [Missfresh]'s board of directors, with the assistance of professional advisors, is in the process of conducting an internal review of certain matters, including those relating to transactions between [Missfresh] and certain third-party enterprises." Following this news, Missfresh ADSs fell 13% to close at $0.448 per ADS on May 2, 2021, the next trading day.
Then, on May 24, 2022, after trading hours, Missfresh issued a press release entitled "Missfresh Announces Receipt of Nasdaq Notification Regarding Late Filing of Form 20-F" announcing "that it received a notification letter dated May 19, 2022 . . . from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. ("Nasdaq"), indicating that [Missfresh] is not in compliance with the requirements for continued listing." Following this news, Missfresh ADSs fell 9% over the next two trading days to close at $0.167 per ADS on May 26, 2021.
Finally, on July 1, 2022, Missfresh issued a press release entitled "Missfresh Announces the Substantial Completion of the Audit Committee-Led Independent Internal Review." In the press release, Missfresh disclosed that "certain revenue associated with these reporting periods in 2021 may have been inaccurately recorded in [Missfresh]'s financial statements." As of the date the complaint was filed, Missfresh ADSs closed at $0.389 per ADS, well below Missfresh's IPO price of $13.00 per ADS.
Missfresh investors may, no later than September 12, 2022 seek to be appointed as a lead plaintiff representative of the class through Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP or other counsel, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member. Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP encourages Missfresh investors who have suffered significant losses to contact the firm directly to acquire more information.
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Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP prosecutes class actions in state and federal courts throughout the country and around the world. The firm has developed a global reputation for excellence and has recovered billions of dollars for victims of fraud and other corporate misconduct. All of our work is driven by a common goal: to protect investors, consumers, employees and others from fraud, abuse, misconduct and negligence by businesses and fiduciaries. The complaint in this action was not filed by Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP. For more information about Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP please visit www.ktmc.com.
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CHICAGO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AACC 2022 Open Lab Solutions, Inc., is announcing the formation of a new division, AMCAR Scientific, that will focus on an expanding product line of plastic consumables used in the medical industry. OLS is exhibiting within booth #3257 at the 74th American Association for Clinical Chemistry Annual Scientific Meeting and Clinical Laboratory Exposition (AACC 2022) at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, July 24 – 28th.
This division will be based in the United States and will manufacture medical plastic consumables that are used in the daily operations by healthcare providers such as clinics, diagnostic laboratories, doctors' offices, hospitals, and research hospitals.
"Over the past two years we have seen the impact of offshoring the manufacturing of items used every day in our own Laboratories," said Dennis Loudermilk, the CEO of Open Lab Solutions. "It has been challenging to maintain adequate stock of every-day items we use like pipette tips, plates, and reservoirs, which are all manufactured overseas. Frequent shortages cause strain on our own internal inventory. Without these types of consumables, we cannot make our products and without our products our customers cannot perform the testing that patients need. The past two years have shown that a local source for these goods is needed."
AMCAR Scientific, will initially focus on producing various styles of pipette tips; multiple plates, reservoirs, and trough configurations: and the required storage solutions from polypropylene and polystyrene materials. All of the raw materials and other goods required for manufacturing of these products will be sourced from US based suppliers, and as part of OLS' long term "Medical Consumables Made in America" strategy. AMCAR Scientific's manufacturing facilities will be located within the continental United States to allow for faster services and delivery of supplies and consumables to the healthcare industry.
OLS plans for AMCAR Scientific to begin shipping product by the end of the 3rd quarter of 2023. Longer term plans in development will result in the creation and support of more than 1,000 employees devoted to scientific research, development, and manufacturing.
A site selection process was started earlier this year to determine a suitable location that will provide the best environment for its current and future needs. Three primary candidates have been selected and are undergoing additional evaluation. These sites are located in Allen, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. OLS plans to complete the site evaluations in the next 45 days and announce the final site selection at that time.
Open Lab Solutions, Inc. is a Tulsa, Oklahoma based biotech manufacturer of molecular testing kits with divisions engaged in healthcare software development, medical supply distribution, and managed laboratory services.
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7780 E 106th St.,
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Geoff Ogilvy walked into the locker room two weeks ago at the Barracuda Championship and didn’t recognize many faces. He’s pretty sure they didn’t recognize him, either.
“They were probably thinking, ‘Who’s that old guy with the beard and no hair?‘” he said.
That would be a U.S. Open champion at Winged Foot, the winner of three World Golf Championships who once reached as high as No. 3 in the world and then quietly walked away to spend more time in golf course design and promoting youth golf at home in Australia.
And now Ogilvy is back. He’s just not sure for how long, or even where.
“I’m dipping my toes into the ‘playing golf’ ocean,” Ogilvy said upon arriving in Detroit for the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
It will be his second PGA Tour event in the last three weeks, which is a lot for the 45-year-old considering his last PGA Tour appearance was four years ago before finding a window to move his family to Melbourne.
Ogilvy never intended to abandon the game entirely. His hope was a limited playing schedule combined with design work with the golf architecture firm OCM. But then the COVID-19 pandemic happened and forced him to change direction.
Getting out of the country wasn’t the issue. It was getting back in.
“I got forced into pivoting to more full-time design and school pickups and drop-offs,” Ogilvy said. The oldest of his three children is Phoebe, who turns 16 in the fall.
“It was nice to spend so much time with them — long periods of time, not a week here and a week there. It was great. But I was getting itchy to play golf. I’d like to be able to play some tournaments. As much as it’s been enjoyable sitting around with the kids and doing design work, it illustrated to me what I am as a golfer.”
OCM is keeping him plenty busy with a renovation plan for Medinah No. 3 ahead of the 2026 Presidents Cup. What led him back to the PGA Tour was a new club Ogilvy, Mike Cocking and Ashley Mead are designing about two hours west of Minneapolis called Tepetonka.
During a site visit in April, he was told to come back in July for the 3M Open on an exemption. He made plans for the Barracuda Championship in Lake Tahoe — the last of his eight PGA Tour titles in 2014 — but the 3M Open exemption never materialized. He instead was given a spot at Detroit Golf Club.
“I miss contention,” Ogilvy said. “I don’t really miss the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday grinding part of the tour. Winning is a bonus, but that’s not really it. It’s the last nine holes. Being in the mix is the addiction. If I can’t do that, I won’t do it for long.”
He has played a dozen or so times in Australia, and his foundation was behind a new event called the Sandbelt Invitational held over four Melbourne courses, for men and women, pros and amateurs. He also took part in the ISPS Handa Vic Open, where men and women compete alongside each other (different tees) for the same prize fund.
Four years can seem like a long time in golf, and Ogilvy dips his toes in the water as college players are diving in. He sounded no less excited.
“There's something about us with golf where ... there's such a strong drive to play better, which never goes away,” he said.
PRESIDENTS CUP
Abraham Ancer of Mexico is still listed at No. 5 in the Presidents Cup standings for the International team. That doesn't mean he'll be at Quail Hollow Cup in September.
The PGA Tour clarified in a memo to its membership that only players eligible to compete in tournaments can be in the Presidents Cup regardless of their status. Ancer signed on with LIV Golf without authorization (the tour doesn't grant releases for North American events, anyway) and has been suspended.
Louis Oosthuizen resigned from the PGA Tour to join LIV and is not in the standings.
On the U.S. side, the leading 12 players have said they are committed to the PGA Tour. Talor Gooch, among the first to sign with LIV, is at No. 13 (and suspended). Jason Kokrak is at No. 15 in the U.S. standings — he will be suspended when he plays the LIV event this week — while Bryson DeChambeau is No. 25.
CASHING IN
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler can start cashing in even without playing before the FedEx Cup playoffs starts.
Scheffler had such a dominant run that he already has clinched the No. 1 seed for the postseason. That means he has secured the $4 million bonus from the Comcast Business Tour 10, a $20 million program for the leading 10 players after the regular season.
And there’s sure to be more.
With two tournaments left in the regular season, Scheffler is leading the Aon Risk Reward Challenge, which all season has tabulated the best scores on risk-reward holes. Scheffler leads British Open champion Cameron Smith, Rory McIlroy and Max Homa.
Homa is playing the Rocket Mortgage Classic and would need a birdie and eagle at Detroit Golf Club, and then another birdie and eagle at the Wyndham Championship, which he is unlikely to play with the postseason to follow.
Scheffler would pick up an additional $1 million from Aon. And then he starts the chase for the $18 million first prize for the FedEx Cup.
SHIPPEN WINNER
Wyatt Worthington II is all about finding opportunities for Black golfers to get in PGA Tour tournaments. He earned his way into two of them.
Worthington, who teaches at The Golf Depot in central Ohio, was among the 20 club professionals to earn a spot in the PGA Championship at Southern Hills. The next appearance is this week in the Rocket Mortgage Classic, and that might be even tougher.
He took part in The John Shippen, a 36-hole event at Detroit Golf Club where the winner earns an exemption into the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Worthington opened with a 73 and felt there was nothing wrong with his game that some better putting wouldn't solve. He made eight birdies for a 65 to win the event.
“I know I wanted to work on my game to get to this point, but actually living this, I can’t really fathom that. Yeah, this is an unreal experience,” Worthington said Tuesday.
But he doesn't consider it to be a one-time experience.
“We have the game to do this,” said Worthington, who competes on the Advocated Professional Golf Association circuit when he's not giving lessons or caddying to make money on the side. “It’s just getting an opportunity to do this at the highest level, that’s really what’s been the toughest part.”
DIVOTS
The Women's World Golf Rankings next week will start a modification in which players from No. 401 through No. 600 in the world will contribute to the strength-of-field formula. The ranking began in 2006 with only the top 200 players accounting for the field strength, and that was expanded to the top 400 players in 2009. ... Tony Finau was the fifth player this year to rally from five shots or more in the final round and win on the PGA Tour. ... Players from 15 countries have won this season on the European tour, 10 of them from European nations.
STAT OF THE WEEK
David Kocher went 57 starts between victories on the Korn Ferry Tour without registering a top-10 finish.
FINAL WORD
“It’s a weird spot to be in to feel like I’ve been knocking on the door to win a major and I haven’t even won my first PGA Tour event.” — Will Zalatoris, who has been a runner-up in three of the last eight majors.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A decision about whether Pennsylvania's method of funding public education meets the state constitutional requirement that lawmakers provide “a thorough and efficient system” was left in the hands of a state judge Tuesday when argument wrapped up in the long-running case.
Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer did not indicate when she will rule but said lawyers have left her with a massive record to review.
The case could result in substantial changes, as the plaintiffs are challenging whether the amounts and method of distribution of the annual education subsidies issued by the General Assembly comport with the Pennsylvania Constitution.
The defendants, Republican leaders in the state House and Senate, argue that funding has been growing and is adequate.
State education funding was boosted in the state budget that passed earlier this month and has increased by billions of dollars during Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's nearly eight years in office.
Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg, senior lawyer with the Public Interest Law Center, speaking for the plaintiffs, described the current system as plagued by deep and systemic shortcomings. He said people who feel their right to an adequate education has been violated have the right to go to court.
“What you have to show, I think, is that there’s a source for that violation, that the source is the General Assembly failing to do its duty,” Urevick-Ackelsberg told the judge.
Patrick Northen, lawyer for House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, told Cohn Jubelirer that in other states where courts have found school funding fell short of constitutional standards, a typical result has been years of additional litigation and tension between branches of government with “little or no practical results.”
The plaintiffs are six districts, several parents, the state conference of the NAACP and the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools. Cohn Jubelirer's decision is expected to be appealed, no matter how she rules. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Judge-to-decide-if-Pennsylvania-sufficiently-17330721.php | 2022-07-26T21:57:57Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Judge-to-decide-if-Pennsylvania-sufficiently-17330721.php | true |
Russia's gas company Gazprom has once again reduced the flow of natural gas to Europe. To counter that move, the EU has agreed to reduce its gas usage by 15%. But that's easier said than done.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Russia's gas company Gazprom has once again reduced the flow of natural gas to Europe. To counter that move, the EU has agreed to reduce its gas usage by 15%. But that's easier said than done.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-07-26/the-eu-has-agreed-to-cut-gas-consumption-by-15-in-order-to-reduce-reliance-on-russia | 2022-07-26T21:58:28Z | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-07-26/the-eu-has-agreed-to-cut-gas-consumption-by-15-in-order-to-reduce-reliance-on-russia | false |
BOSTON (AP) —
Legislation to ban discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles — such as Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists — in workplaces, school districts and school-related organizations in Massachusetts was signed into law Tuesday by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.
Black women in particular have faced pressure in school and on the job to alter their hair to conform to policies that are biased against natural hairstyles, according to supporters of the law.
The bill had been unanimously approved by the Democrat-controlled Massachusetts House and Senate. The new law defines natural and protective hairstyles as including “braids, locks, twists, Bantu knots and other formations,” and tasks the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination with enforcing the protections.
Policies that limit or prohibit natural hairstyles in all school districts are now banned. The law also prohibits hair discrimination in employment, business, advertising and public spaces.
Massachusetts is the 18th state to adopt a version of the the bill — known as the Crown Act — into law, legislators said.
The law has its roots in the case of a Massachusetts charter school that came under fire in 2017 for a policy of banning hair braid extensions.
The issue came to light when the parents of then-15-year-old Black girls said their twin daughters — Deanna and Mya Cook — were punished for wearing extensions, while white students hadn’t been punished for violations of hairstyle regulations.
After intense criticism, including from Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, the school abandoned the policy.
The sisters attended Tuesday's bill signing.
“It really took me back to that first time when I got my detention. I was thinking about how hard this would be,” Deanna said before becoming emotional, adding that “no one will go through that again.”
Mya pointed to what the law's supporters say will be its far-reaching effects.
“It feels amazing to know that we’ve changed so many lives,” she said.
In 2019, California became the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against Black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and locks.
In March, the U.S. House approved a similar bill that would bar discrimination against Black people who wear hairstyles like Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists in society, school and the workplace. The federal bill would explicitly say such discrimination is a violation of federal civil rights law. President Joe Biden has said he would sign the federal bill.
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley co-sponsored the House bill. The Massachusetts Democrat praised state lawmakers for adopting the law.
“For far too long, Black folks have been punished for the hair that grows on our heads and the way we move through and show up in this world," Pressley said in a written statement. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/New-Mass-law-bans-hairstyle-discrimination-at-17330535.php | 2022-07-26T21:58:47Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/New-Mass-law-bans-hairstyle-discrimination-at-17330535.php | true |
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence and would like to talk with an advocate, call 866-834-4357, TTY 1-800-437-1220. This free, confidential service is available 24/7 and is accessible from anywhere in Maine.
This weekend’s arrest of a 15-year-old boy in the killing of a fellow teenager marks the first time in a decade in Maine when a child has been charged in another child’s killing.
Police on Saturday arrested Aidan Grant of Wayne in the July 18 death of 14-year-old Brooke McLaughlin of Mount Vernon. The pair were in a relationship, according to Grant’s Facebook profile.
McLaughlin is the 18th person this year whose death has been ruled a homicide in Maine, a number that puts the state on track to set a homicide record. But the killing of a child allegedly by another child sets this case apart. Grant is only the ninth juvenile to be charged in a homicide case in Maine since 1995, according to Maine State Police crime statistics.
Grant is being held at Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, the state’s youth prison, according to the Maine State Police, which investigates the majority of homicides in Maine.
The most recent killing in which a child was charged happened 10 years ago, when a 10-year-old Fairfield girl, whom the Bangor Daily News has never named due to her young age, was charged with manslaughter in the death of 3-month-old Brooklyn Foss-Greenaway on July 8, 2012.
Two years later, in a plea agreement, the manslaughter charge was dropped and she pleaded guilty to lesser charges that remain sealed.
Because he is a juvenile, Grant’s case is taking place at the District Court level, where juvenile cases are tried in Maine. But the Maine attorney general’s office, which prosecutes all homicides in Maine, has asked the judge to treat Grant as an adult due to the serious nature of his alleged crime. That would require a public hearing, and if Grant is treated as an adult, a judge could impose a longer sentence.
The goal of the state’s juvenile criminal code is focused on rehabilitation and does not include punishment as a goal, as it does with adults.
Juveniles convicted of crimes can be sentenced to Long Creek up until their 21st birthdays.
The law allows juveniles convicted of manslaughter or murder to be confined to the state’s only jail for young people until they are 21, then moved to an adult facility.
The first time that kind of a sentence was imposed was in the case of Patrick Armstrong, who was 14 when he beat his neighbor, fellow 14-year-old Marlee Johnston, to death with an aluminum baseball bat on Nov. 26, 2005. Armstrong and Johnston lived in Fayette, which neighbors Mount Vernon.
Armstrong agreed to be treated as an adult.
He pleaded guilty to manslaughter in December 2006 and was sentenced to 25 years of incarceration with all but 16 years suspended to be followed by four years of probation. The judge ordered that he be held at the former Mountain View Youth Development Center in Charleston until he turned 21, then moved to an adult facility.
Now 31, Armstrong is on probation being supervised by Ellsworth-based probation officers, according to the Maine Department of Corrections.
Armstrong’s case could serve as an example for how Grant’s might be handled. The biggest known difference between the cases at this early stage is that Armstrong knew but was not dating his victim as Grant allegedly was.
That factor could make Grant the youngest person ever charged in Maine with killing someone he was dating or involved with romantically. Maine State Police statistics show that the most recent domestic violence homicide in which a juvenile was charged was in 2009 when a 17-year-old father was charged with slaying his infant.
The state characterizes a case as a domestic violence homicide when a family member kills another family member or intimate partner. Generally, about half of Maine’s homicides each year are domestic violence homicides.
Just as Maine’s adult homicide rate is low compared with the rest of the country, the rate for juvenile offenders is even lower.
In 2020, 1,122 juveniles in the U.S. were charged with murder, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention within the Department of Justice. Those figures did not break down how many of the victims were juveniles or adults.
That figure represented 8 percent of all homicides in the country that year, a figure far higher than Maine’s share of homicides in which juveniles are accused.
If convicted of murder as an adult, Grant would face between 25 years and life in prison. He would face up to 30 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/news/maine-child-homicides-number-n6hjn1me0n/ | 2022-07-26T21:59:00Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/news/maine-child-homicides-number-n6hjn1me0n/ | true |
(Our Auto Expert) — The world was watching in Dallas Texas, as Lexus showed the fifth generation of its core SUV. The RX was redesigned from the roof rails to the wheels. The big news is just one gas-only engine, two hybrids, and now a plug-in hybrid.
Lexus will have the first hybrid F Sport version of this vehicle. Educating people that electrification can be fun to drive and bringing them closer to carbon neutrality.
Lexus pioneered the luxury crossover segment with the launch of the first RX more than 20 years ago, the new 2023 Lexus RX now comes with several features new to the brand. Safety is important to Lexus. And now they have their safety Sense 3.0, which now can detect motorcyclists. If you were to open the rear door and a motorcyclist was coming past the vehicle, it would sense that, and stop the rear door being opened.
So, the motorcyclist and the rear door would not collide, and because around 5,500 motorcyclists are killed every year. It’s important at Lexus to make sure they keep as many of the occupants of their vehicle safe as motorcyclists. The 2023 Lexus RX is definitely bold in design, new seamless headlights integrated into the grille and body.
The spindle Grill has evolved now giving a 3D look to the RX. During the RX reveal, Lexus did have a surprise and they rolled out the brand new “RZ” They’re an all-electric SUV and they said the big surprise is that this is coming to market very soon.
The 14-inch display houses an infotainment system that Lexus is extremely proud of.
It was developed here in the US and can voice activate many systems on the car. Like the windshield wipers freeing up your hands to stay on the wheel. There is no on-sale date or price for the new RX, but they did tell us when we do get that information. We should be extremely excited. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/automotive/lexus-unveils-new-electrified-suv/ | 2022-07-26T21:59:00Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/automotive/lexus-unveils-new-electrified-suv/ | true |
Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerretta on “Law & Order,” has died. He was 83.
His publicist Roger Neal said he died Monday morning in Indiana of natural causes.
“Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage,” his wife, Dee Dee Sorvino, said in a statement.
In his more than 50 years in the entertainment business, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty’s “Reds,” Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” and mob boss Eddie Valentine in “The Rocketeer.” He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
Born in Brooklyn in 1939 to a mother who taught piano and father who was a foreman in a robe factory, Sorvino was musically inclined from a young age and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he fell for the theater. He made his Broadway debut in 1964 in “Bajour” and his film debut in Carl Reiner’s “Where’s Poppa?” in 1970.
With his 6-foot-4-inch stature, Sorvino made an impactful presence no matter the medium. In the 1970s, he acted alongside Al Pacino in “The Panic in Needle Park” and with James Caan in “The Gambler,” reteamed with Reiner in “Oh, God!” and was among the ensemble in William Friedkin’s bank robbery comedy “The Brink’s Job.” In John G. Avildsen’s “Rocky” follow-up “Slow Dancing in the Big City,” Sorvino got to play a romantic lead and use his dance training opposite professional ballerina Anne Ditchburn.
He was especially prolific in the 1990s, kicking off the decade playing Lips in Beatty’s “Dick Tracy” and Paul Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” who was based on the real-life mobster Paul Vario, and 31 episodes on Dick Wolf’s “Law & Order.” He followed those with roles in “The Rocketeer,” “The Firm,” “Nixon,” which got him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” as Juliet’s father, Fulgencio Capulet. Beatty would turn to Sorvino often, enlisting him again for his political satire “Bulworth,” which came out in 1998, and his 2016 Hollywood love letter “Rules Don’t Apply.” He also appeared in James Gray’s “The Immigrant.”
Sorvino had three children from his first marriage, including Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino. He also directed and starred in a film written by his daughter Amanda Sorvino and featuring his son Michael Sorvino.
When he learned that Mira Sorvino had been among the women allegedly sexually harassed and blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein in the midst of the #MeToo reckoning, he told TMZ that if he had known, Weinstein, “Would not be walking. He’d be in a wheelchair.”
He was proud of his daughter and cried when she won the best supporting actress Oscar for “Mighty Aphrodite” in 1996. He the Los Angeles Times that night that he didn’t have the words to express how he felt.
“They don’t exist in any language that I’ve ever heard — well, maybe Italian,” he said.
By Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/news/nation/goodfellas-law-order-actor-paul-sorvino-dies-at-83/ | 2022-07-26T21:59:13Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/news/nation/goodfellas-law-order-actor-paul-sorvino-dies-at-83/ | false |
If you or someone you know needs resources or support related to sexual violence, contact the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault’s 24/7 hotline at 800-871-7741.
A judge has granted a convicted killer’s request that additional DNA testing be conducted on evidence connected to the murder of a 12-year-old Maine girl in 1988.
Justice Bruce Mallonee granted a motion Friday for further DNA testing requested by attorneys for Dennis Dechaine.
His attorneys argued that the court should allow the testing because of new technology.
Dechaine is serving a life sentence for the murder and sexual assault of Sarah Cherry.
Cherry was kidnapped from a home in Bowdoin while she was babysitting in 1988.
Her body was found days later in the woods. An autopsy ruled she was sexually assaulted, stabbed and strangled.
Dechaine has always maintained his innocence.
In 2015, the state supreme court denied Dechaine’s request for a new trial, concluding that new DNA evidence wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the original trial. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/news/portland/dennis-dechaine-dna-testing/ | 2022-07-26T21:59:39Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/news/portland/dennis-dechaine-dna-testing/ | false |
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I was deeply disturbed upon hearing the results of a recent poll covered by TV station WABI. The survey asked female college students if they attended a college in a state where abortion was illegal or about to be would they transfer to a college in another state where it was legal.
Fourty-five percent of college students in states where abortion is illegal shared they are planning to or consider transferring to a college in a state where abortions are legal.
Twenty percent of students in states where abortion is currently or soon to be illegal said they’d definitely transfer to a different school in a state where abortion is legal. Another 25 percent say they are considering transferring. The remaining 55 percent have no intentions to change schools based on abortion laws.
What disturbs me is the fact that these students will only attend a college where abortion is legal. Doesn’t the quality of education in the colleges matter? It sounds to me like these students are planning on playing around and getting pregnant. So they want to be in a school where abortion is legal so they can have an abortion.
I firmly believe that abortion should only be used when a woman is raped or the life of the mother is in jeopardy or the baby was going to die because of complications with the pregnancy. It should not be used as birth control. There are medications that can be bought to prevent pregnancy. There also is a medication that can be taken the day after having sex so that the pregnancy doesn’t begin.
I am a Christian, and I believe that when the egg has been fertilized it’s the start of a human being. By ending the pregnancy, murder has been committed. I’m not judging anyone who has an abortion because God is the only one that has the right to do that. I’m just asking that you take responsibility to practice safe sex.
Becky Wiers
Palmyra | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/opinion/letters/letter-college-abortion-poll/ | 2022-07-26T22:00:52Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/25/opinion/letters/letter-college-abortion-poll/ | false |
BERLIN (AP) — People infected with COVID-19 will no longer have to quarantine themselves in Austria if they don’t exhibit any symptoms, the country’s health minister announced Tuesday.
The alpine country is scrapping mandatory quarantine for people who have tested positive but don’t feel ill, Austrian news agency APA reported. The new regulations will apply next month.
However, infected people still need to wear masks if they leave their homes unless they are outside or can keep a distance of at least two meters (six feet) from others. They are also not allowed to enter places catering to especially vulnerable people such as hospitals nursing homes or facilities for the disabled.
The decision was also made taking into account the pandemic’s psychological and social impact, Austrian Health Minister Johannes Rauch said.
He told daily Tiroler Tageszeitung that one must “simply take note that we cannot live with this level of pandemic-related crisis mood for years.”
Mandatory reporting of COVID-19 infections to local health authorities remains in place. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/health/ap-health/austria-ends-covid-19-quarantine-for-those-with-no-symptoms/ | 2022-07-26T22:04:52Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/health/ap-health/austria-ends-covid-19-quarantine-for-those-with-no-symptoms/ | false |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican lawmakers on Tuesday narrowly advanced a plan to ban nearly all abortions in the state, despite opposition from abortion-rights supporters, who say the bill goes too far, and anti-abortion activists, who say it doesn’t go far enough.
Indiana has one of the first Republican-run state legislatures to debate tighter abortion laws since the U.S. Supreme Court last month overturned Roe v. Wade. Its debate comes amid an evolving landscape of abortion politics across the country as Republicans face some party divisions and Democrats see a possible election-year boost.
The U.S. Supreme Court formally issued its judgment Tuesday in the June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson ruling — a step that allows some state trigger laws to ban abortion to take effect.
In Indiana, chants from anti-abortion activists, such as “Let their heart beat,” could be heard inside the Senate chamber as a committee wrapped up two days of testimony during which none of the more than 60 people speaking voiced support for the Republican-sponsored bill. Indiana Right to Life, the state’s most prominent anti-abortion group, organized a rally that drew several hundred protesters to the Statehouse, and the group’s president, Mike Fichter, warned that conservative lawmakers need to act or explain themselves to voters in November.
A national poll taken this month found overwhelming majorities believe their state should generally allow abortion in specific cases, including if a pregnant woman’s life is endangered or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. Few think abortion should always be illegal, according to The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.
Indiana’s measure would prohibit abortions from the time a fertilized egg implants in a uterus with limited exceptions — in cases of rape, incest and to protect the mother’s life. Abortion-rights supporters object to the bill’s tighter restrictions on the procedure, while abortion opponents say it’s too lenient with its exceptions and lacks enforcement teeth.
A top legislative Republican, Senate Majority Leader Mark Messmer, voted against the measure, lamenting the “near impossibility of threading the perfect needle” on the issue during a short special legislative session that GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb originally called to address a tax rebate plan. He has not said whether he supports the abortion ban that’s being discussed.
In West Virginia, the Republican-dominated Legislature rejected for the second time in two days efforts by Democrats to add exceptions for rape and incest victims to a bill banning abortion in almost all cases. It would make performing the procedure a felony punishable by three to 10 years in prison.
The Indiana proposal followed a political firestorm over a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to the state from neighboring Ohio to end a pregnancy. The case gained attention when an Indianapolis doctor said the child had to come to Indiana because a newly imposed Ohio law bans abortions if cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo or fetus, possibly as early as six weeks of pregnancy.
Such abortions would still be allowed under the Indiana proposal, though lawmakers voted Tuesday to limit how long rape and incest victims have. Those 16 or older could get an abortion until eight weeks of pregnancy, while people younger than 16 would have until 12 weeks.
The committee voted 7-5 in favor of the ban after also adding provisions under which doctors could face felony criminal charges and up to six years in prison for performing an illegal abortion. That’s the same potential penalty for performing abortions under Indiana’s current 20-week ban.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which has sued over previous abortion restrictions, said the ban would endanger women.
“Indiana legislators are putting the health and safety of Hoosier women at risk, and again surrendering to the demands of a small group of anti-abortion extremists,” said Katie Blair, the organization’s advocacy director.
Cathie Humbarger, a longtime leader of the Fort Wayne-based Right to Life chapter, also opposes the bill — for very different reasons.
“It is totally unenforceable and as such renders it basically worthless,” Humbarger told the committee. “You can, and must, do better.”
More amendments to the bill could be debated by the full Senate on Thursday.
Indiana Republican Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray said lawmakers were struggling to deal with issues they hadn’t faced before Roe v. Wade was overturned.
“We’re working in earnest to try and find a path forward, listening to everybody that’s out there,” Bray said.
Elsewhere Tuesday, a South Carolina judge denied a request to temporarily block enforcement of that state’s six-week abortion ban. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and other plaintiffs had asked the judge for an injunction while courts determine whether the law violates the state constitution.
And in Louisiana, a judge rejected a request from state officials to lift his order blocking a ban while they pursue an appeal. That means abortions remain accessible in that state.
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HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii man accused of using counterfeit bank checks totaling $1.2 million to try to bail three people out of a jail has been arrested and authorities are seeking to keep him locked up with no bail, according to court documents.
Samuela Tuikolongahau Jr. was detained by federal authorities on Monday and a U.S. Secret Service affidavit filed in court alleged that he presented the bank checks for $760,000, $400,000 and $50,000 in 2020 during the attempt to post bail for the three people held at the Oahu Community Correctional Center.
He left a Honolulu courthouse after being told the checks would need verification, the court document said. Officials determined the checks were counterfeit and the two men and woman he tried to get out of jail were not released.
Court documents did not specify his relationship to the three jailed people.
In August 2020, Tuikolongahau obtained a counterfeit cashier’s check for $36,000 purported to be from a credit union and tried to use it, and someone else’s identification, to purchase a Land Rover from a Honolulu used car lot, the affidavit said.
He also used someone else’s identification to open an account online at Charles Schwab and tried to deposit counterfeit and altered checks into that account, the court document said.
Tuikolongahau was scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday for a hearing. Walter Rodby, his court-appointed defense attorney, did not immediately return email and phone messages seeking comment.
According to state court records, Tuikolongahau is currently held on $100,000 bail at the same jail where he tried to release the three people from. He previously pleaded not guilty to charges of unauthorized possession of confidential personal information stemming from separate 2021 allegations. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/us-hawaii-man-used-1-2m-in-fake-checks-to-try-to-post-bail/ | 2022-07-26T22:09:20Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/us-hawaii-man-used-1-2m-in-fake-checks-to-try-to-post-bail/ | true |
The latest UK prime minister debate ended in shock about halfway through the televised show as the host and moderator for the debate, journalist Kate McCann, suddenly fainted.
The camera, at the time, was focused on candidate Liz Truss as she was responding during a debate against another conservative leadership candidate, Rishi Sunak. While you don't see McCann faint and fall on camera, you see Truss react in shock as she seems frozen for the unexpected moment.
“Oh my God!” Truss can be seen and heard saying, while viewers can hear McCann collapse. Viewers reacted on Twitter with shock, not immediately understanding what had happened just off camera.
What on earth just happened during the leaders debate? Liz Truss looks terrified! #TheSunShowdown pic.twitter.com/oSOumyc9YY
— Ewan Carmichael (@ewantc_) July 26, 2022
According to the BBC, TalkTV announced that McCann was "fine" but couldn't continue with the show.
As the Guardian reported, the show was scheduled to last for an hour before it was abruptly halted. The candidates were able to cover issues around tax, the state of the National Health System, and the rising cost of living in the UK, before the televised incident.
The debate for the conservative candidates was being held by The Sun and TalkTV after the recent resignation of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who, among other issues, found himself entangled in a controversy related to breaking COVID-19 lockdown rules by going to a "bring your own booze" party, the BBC reported. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/watch-uk-prime-minister-debates-halted-after-moderator-faints-on-live-tv | 2022-07-26T22:09:32Z | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/watch-uk-prime-minister-debates-halted-after-moderator-faints-on-live-tv | true |
A man who attacked police officers with poles during the riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five years in prison, matching the longest term of imprisonment so far among hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions.
Mark Ponder, a 56-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., said he “got caught up” in the chaos that erupted on Jan. 6, 2021, and “didn’t mean for any of this to happen.”
“I wasn’t thinking that day,” Ponder told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, asking her for mercy before she sentenced him to five years and three months in prison.
That was three months longer than the prison sentence requested by prosecutors. And it’s the same sentence that Chutkan gave Robert Palmer, a Florida man who also pleaded guilty to assaulting police at the Capitol.
More than 200 other Capitol riot defendants have been sentenced so far. None received a longer prison sentence than Ponder or Palmer.
Chutkan said Ponder was “leading the charge” against police officers trying to hold off the mob that disrupted Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
“This is not ‘caught up,’ Mr. Ponder,” she said. “He was intent on attacking and injuring police officers. This was not a protest.”
Chutkan has consistently taken a hard line in punishing Capitol rioters. She has handed down terms of imprisonment to all 13 riot defendants who have come before her, matching or exceeding the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendation in every case, according to an Associated Press review of court records.
Prosecutors had recommended a five-year prison sentence for Ponder, who has been jailed since his arrest in March 2021.
In April, Ponder pleaded guilty to an assault charge punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Federal sentencing guidelines called for a prison term ranging from nearly five years to just under six years, but Chutkan wasn’t bound by those recommendations.
More than 100 police officers were injured during the riot.
Defense attorney Joseph Conte said Ponder was “caught up in the madness that was January 6.” Conte asked for a sentence below the guidelines range.
Ponder swung a pole at a Capitol police officer on the Capitol’s West Plaza, breaking it against the officer’s shield. After retreating into the crowd, Ponder grabbed a sturdier pole colored in red, white, and blue stripes. He used it to assault two other officers, hitting one of them in the left shoulder, before police detained and handcuffed him.
Outnumbered officers released Ponder because they couldn’t get a police vehicle to transport him. They told him to leave the Capitol, but Ponder stayed and joined a mob of rioters clashing with police at a tunnel.
Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, one of the officers assaulted by Ponder, said the force of Ponder’s blow shattered his shield.
“It was horrific,” Gonell said during Ponder’s sentencing hearing. “That particular day will impact me for the rest of my life.”
After his arrest, Ponder told FBI agents that he typically supports police but viewed the officers as “part of the problem” that day.
“At some point in time, the way this country is going, you gonna have to pick a side,” he said, according to prosecutors.
Ponder attended the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6 to hear then-President Donald Trump’s speech and to “peacefully protest the results of the election and the lack of attention to alleged voting irregularities,” Conte wrote in a court filing.
“He did so with no intent to do anything but add his voice to the vocal protests over the injustice he perceived had happened in the election,” the attorney added. “Unfortunately, he got caught up in the riotous atmosphere of the crowd and erroneously perceived the police as standing in the way of the crowd’s desire to protest the election results.”
Ponder has a substantial criminal record spanning three decades, including a 2008 conviction for bank robbery, according to prosecutors.
More than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Over 350 riot defendants have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury or a judge after trials.
More than 220 of them have been sentenced, including approximately 100 who received a term of imprisonment. Ponder is the 15th to be sentenced to a prison term exceeding one year.
The prison sentences for Ponder and Palmer may not be the lengthiest for much longer. Prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison sentence for Guy Reffitt, a Texas man who was convicted of storming the Capitol with a holstered handgun. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich is scheduled to sentence Reffitt on Monday. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/mans-63-month-prison-term-matches-longest-for-capitol-riot/ | 2022-07-26T22:10:29Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/mans-63-month-prison-term-matches-longest-for-capitol-riot/ | true |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 20 Republican attorneys general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Joe Biden's administration over a Department of Agriculture school meal program that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The challenge, led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery, claims that the federal government is attempting to force states and schools to follow antidiscrimination requirements that “misconstrue the law.”
The coalition of attorneys general are hoping for a similar result to a separate challenge from earlier this month when a Tennessee judge temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by Biden's administration that extended protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces.
The judge sided with the attorneys general, ruling that the directives infringed on states’ right to enact laws, such as banning students from participating in sports based on their gender identity or requiring schools and businesses to provide bathrooms and showers to accommodate transgender people.
“This case is, yet again, about a federal agency trying to change law, which is Congress’ exclusive prerogative,” Slatery said in a statement. “The USDA simply does not have that authority. We have successfully challenged the Biden Administration’s other attempts to rewrite law and we will challenge this as well.”
In May, the USDA announced that it would include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as a violation of Title IX, the sweeping 1972 law that guarantees equity between the sexes in “any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” The directive requires states to review allegations of discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, as well as update their policies and signage.
The agency warned that states and schools that receive federal funds, which include the national school lunch program overseen by the USDA, have agreed to follow civil rights laws. Although the agency says it wants voluntary compliance, it also has promised to refer violations to the Department of Justice. It is not clear whether the federal government would hold back funding for school meal programs as part of its enforcement.
The directive followed a landmark civil rights decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 that, under a provision called Title VII, protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in the workplace.
According to the lawsuit, the attorneys general allege that the USDA's new directive is based on a “misreading” of the Supreme Court's ruling and did not provide states and other groups the opportunity to provide public comment.
The attorneys general involved in the lawsuit filed Tuesday are from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
A spokesperson for the USDA did not immediately return a request for comment. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/republican-ags-sue-us-agency-over-lgbtq-school-guidance/OFJ5IO5D3FEBNKUR7MBFGUXLIE/ | 2022-07-26T22:10:50Z | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/ohio/republican-ags-sue-us-agency-over-lgbtq-school-guidance/OFJ5IO5D3FEBNKUR7MBFGUXLIE/ | false |
Which pet tracker is best?
If you’ve ever lost your dog or cat, even for a few minutes, you know what a terrifying experience it is. With a pet tracker, you always can find your canine companion or feline friend.
That said, some trackers are simply more effective than others, and some are only suited to specific uses or locations. The Whistle GPS and Health and Fitness, on the other hand, is a good versatile choice for dogs.
What to know before you buy a pet tracker
Tracking methods
Pet trackers can use one of four tracking methods: GPS with cellular, GPS with a receiver, radio frequency or Bluetooth. The best choice for you depends on where and how you intend to use it.
- GPS with cellular: These trackers use GPS to locate your pet, but they rely on cellular service. This means there’s a monthly subscription fee to use them, and they don’t work anywhere without cell signal. However, they are accurate and give you real-time location information on your phone.
- GPS with receiver: GPS trackers that come with a receiver don’t need cell service to work, so they’re great for rural locations. Additionally, there’s no monthly fee. However, their range is more limited (though usually around 10 miles), and they’re expensive to buy.
- Radio frequency: Radio frequency trackers don’t rely on GPS, so there’s no monthly fee, and they work anywhere. However, they don’t show your pet’s location on a map. Instead, they work like radar, showing you the direction your pet is in and how far away. This can take a bit of getting used to. Plus, their range is limited to around 2 miles.
- Bluetooth: Bluetooth trackers can only locate your pet up to around 500 to 800 feet away. They are great for finding cats who hide in strange places in your home but aren’t really suited to long-range tracking or finding your pet if they get loose.
Health and activity tracking
In addition to tracking your pet’s location, some trackers also monitor your pet’s health and fitness. These are basically activity trackers for pets. They gather data like how far your pet has traveled in a day, the calories they’ve burned and the types of activities they’ve engaged in, such as running or playing. They can also alert you if your pet licks or scratches themselves too much, which could be a sign of a health issue.
What to look for in a quality pet tracker
Tracking range
Some GPS trackers have unlimited range. As long as there’s cell service wherever your pet is, you could track their location from halfway around the globe. Others can only track within a few miles or less than 500 feet.
Virtual perimeters
With certain trackers, you can set a safe place or a virtual perimeter. This might be around your home and yard, for instance. You’ll then get alerts to your phone if your pet strays out of this area.
Waterproof
If your pet loves to swim, make sure to choose a waterproof tracker so it won’t break should it get submerged.
How much you can expect to spend on a pet tracker
Basic Bluetooth trackers start at around $10-$25, but their function is limited. High-end GPS units can cost as much as $800-$1,000, but you can find solid cellular-reliant GPS versions for around $100-$200.
Pet tracker FAQ
How do you track a pet’s location?
A. In most cases, trackers are compatible with a companion app. You download the app to your phone or tablet and use this to track your pet’s location. In the case of GPS trackers, you’ll see a map on the screen with a real-time location.
With Bluetooth trackers, you use the app to “ping” the tracker so it makes a noise. This works for cats hiding under furniture but not for pets who’ve wandered miles away.
You can also get radio frequency trackers and some high-end GPS trackers with their own handheld tracking unit. This displays your pet’s location either on a map or in the form of direction and distance information.
How accurate are GPS pet trackers?
A. Under optimal conditions, GPS trackers are accurate to less than 10 feet, so you can easily pinpoint your pet’s exact location. However, factors such as satellite position, weather conditions, buildings and topography can all affect their accuracy.
What’s the best pet tracker to buy?
Top pet tracker
Whistle GPS and Health and Fitness
What you need to know: Not only does this app track dogs via GPS, it also monitors their health and fitness.
What you’ll love: You can track your pet anywhere with an AT&T signal. The app gives you data on your pet’s activity levels and calories burned, and it informs you of potential health concerns, such as scratching and licking.
What you should consider: It’s not suitable for cats. It has a monthly subscription fee.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pet tracker for the money
What you need to know: While not designed specifically for pets, it does a great job tracking dogs and cats.
What you’ll love: The modular attachment system works on a range of collars. It’s small enough to fit cats comfortably. You can set “trusted places” and get alerts when your pet leaves them.
What you should consider: You’ll need to pay a monthly fee to keep it functional.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Eureka Technology Marco Polo Advanced Pet Tracking System
What you need to know: Using radio frequency, you can track your pet over a 2-mile range even where there isn’t cell service.
What you’ll love: The tracking tag is waterproof and compact enough for cats and small dogs. It’s great for rural areas where cell coverage is unreliable. There’s no monthly fee. The battery lasts up to six weeks.
What you should consider: It takes a little while to get used to deciphering the tracking data.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Tampa woman pleads guilty to Hyde Park murder; sentenced to 30 years in prison
TAMPA, Fla. - Melissa McNutt doesn’t look like a cold-blooded criminal, but prosecutor Scott Harmon said that’s what made her so dangerous.
"She signals Mr. Heilig to her car and he gets in her car, and he is driven to his death," Harmon said.
Harmon argued that during a bond hearing nearly four years ago.
Prosecutors said on the night of Sep. 30, 2018, McNutt lured the victim, Justin Heilig, a stranger she picked up in Ybor City.
Justin Heilig's final Facebook post hours before his murder
Heilig's last Facebook post had a picture of himself with the caption: "Late nights with a selfie."
Hours later, he was dead.
Prosecutors said McNutt robbed, stabbed and shot him. She then drove him to Hyde Park and left him there to die.
A Tampa detective said that home surveillance video showed Heilig banging on doors and begging for help before he died from his injuries.
But prosecutors said what did McNutt in was a Pandora bracelet and a bloody knife with her DNA found at the crime scene.
Four years later, the case was back in a Tampa courtroom on Tuesday. The 29-year-old was facing a first-degree murder charge but instead, she pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder and robbery with a firearm.
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Tampa judge Michael Williams addressed McNutt in court.
"How do you wish to plea to those charges?" asked Williams.
"Guilty in my best interest," responded McNutt.
As part of the plea agreement, McNutt will serve 30 years in prison, followed by 10 years of probation.
She will also have to cooperate with the state if any others face criminal charges in the future. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/tampa-woman-pleads-guilty-to-hyde-park-murder-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison | 2022-07-26T22:11:53Z | https://www.fox13news.com/news/tampa-woman-pleads-guilty-to-hyde-park-murder-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison | true |
Merrick Garland does NOT rule out prosecuting Trump for January 6: AG says he intends to hold 'anyone who was criminally responsible for events surrounding' Capitol riot or who interfered with the transfer of power
- Attorney General Merrick Garland did not rule out prosecuting former President Donald Trump for his role in January 6 in a new interview with NBC's Lester Holt
- 'We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding January 6 ... accountable,' Garland said
- Holt pointed out to Garland that prosecuting a former president or a potential presidential candidate could 'arguably tear the country apart'
- 'Do you have to think of things like that?' the NBC Nightly News anchor asked Garland
- Garland spoke in vague terms, saying, 'Look, we pursue justice without fear or favor'
Attorney General Merrick Garland did not rule out prosecuting former President Donald Trump for his role in January 6 in a new interview with NBC's Lester Holt.
'We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding January 6, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable,' Garland said. 'That's what we do.'
In a clip previewing the interview, which will air Tuesday night on NBC's Nightly News, Holt pointed out to Garland that prosecuting a former president or a potential presidential candidate could 'arguably tear the country apart.'
Attorney General Merrick Garland did not rule out prosecuting former President Donald Trump for his role in January 6 in a new interview airing Tuesday on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
In a clip previewing the interview, NBC's Lester Holt (right) pointed out to Attorney General Merrick Garland (left) that prosecuting a former president or a potential presidential candidate could 'arguably tear the country apart'
Holt asked Garland how much he factored that in to his decision to prosecute.
'Do you have to think of things like that?' the NBC Nightly News anchor asked.
In his answer, Garland spoke in vague terms.
'Look, we pursue justice without fear or favor,' he said.
Holt asked if Trump launching a 2024 presidential bid would complicate matters.
'We don't pay any attention to other issues with respect to that,' Garland said, pushing that the Department of Justice would charge Trump as if he's anybody else.
'I'll say again that we will hold accountable anyone who is criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer - legitimate, lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next,' Garland added.
The Department of Justice's probe into January 6 is ongoing, with Vice President Mike Pence's former Chief of Staff Marc Short caught by ABC News leaving D.C. District Court on Friday.
Sources told the network that Short appeared before a grand jury under subpoena.
The DOJ investigation is separate from the work the House select committee on January 6 is doing.
However the committee's top Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney, said earlier this month the Congressional panel may make criminal referrals to federal prosecutors.
She said, 'we'll make a decision as a committee.'
'The Justice Department doesn't have to wait for the committee to make a criminal referral, and there could be more than one criminal referral,' Cheney said on ABC's This Week. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11051297/Merrick-Garland-does-NOT-rule-prosecuting-Trump-January-6.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-26T22:14:04Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11051297/Merrick-Garland-does-NOT-rule-prosecuting-Trump-January-6.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Most Americans have 'little to no savings,' nearly half are falling deeper into debt as they are unable to set money aside due to rising inflation: Economists put chance of recession at 47 percent over the next 12 months
- A LendingTree survey of 1,008 Americans in July found that 43 percent of consumers will take on additional debt in the next six months
- Another poll from Bankrate found 51 percent of Americans had little to no savings or emergency funds lined up
- More than a third also reported having less savings than they did in 2021
- It comes as inflation, which hit a 41-year high last month at 9.1 percent, has eaten away at people's savings with the soaring costs of goods and services
- The troubles are expected to be compounded as economists said there was nearly a 50 percent chance of a recession will hit in the next 12 months
More than half of Americans have little to no savings lined up and are expected to fall deeper into debt over rising inflation as they are unable to set aside savings or emergency funds.
A nationwide Bankrate poll of 1,025 adults found 51 percent of Americans said they had little to no savings or emergency funds lined up.
And while less than half have savings lined up, a LendingTree survey of 1,008 consumers in July found that 43 percent of Americans will take on additional debt in the next six months in order to make ends meet, with more than half of that number represented by parents with young children.
It comes as the country saw inflation hit its highest mark in 41 years last month with prices for goods and services soaring, all while economists say there's a 47 percent chance a recession will hit within the next year.
A Bankrate survey of 1,025 consumers in June found 51 percent said they had little to no savings or emergency funds lined up as debt is expected to grow and a recession is forecasted
It comes as inflation hit a 41-year record high of 9.1 percent in June
More than a third of those who responded to the Bankrate survey said they now have less savings than they did last year, with only 24 percent saying they had more
According to the LendingTree survey, more than three in five Americans are already dealing with debt, with credit cards expected to be the most common reason why nearly half will sink further into the red.
LendingTree found that of those in debt, 70 percent had credit card debt, 33 percent had auto loans, 29 percent had mortgages and 20 percent had student loans.
Breaking down the debtors by age groups, the survey predicted 55 percent of Gen Zers and 56 percent of millennials would fall into further debt. Older American's faired a bit better, with 41 percent of Gen Xers and 21 percent of Baby Boomers expected to fall into debt.
The rise in debt will likely take a toll on consumer's savings, which for a third of Americans is already lower than it was last year.
According to the June Bankrate poll, 23 percent of Americans have no emergency savings at all, and only 28 percent have savings to last three months worth of expenses.
About 22 percent of respondents said they could cover three to five months worth of expenses, but only 27 percent could cover six months or more — the amount recommended by financial experts.
LendingTree found that of those in debt, 70 percent had credit card debt, 33 percent had auto loans, 29 percent had mortgages and 20 percent had student loans
The LendingTree survey on debt found those below the age of 42 are more likely to take on more debt than older Americans
When asked how their current emergency funds compare to last year's, 34 percent said they have less savings now than before.
About 32 percent said their savings were at the same amount, and about 24 percent said they have more savings than in 2021. About 10 percent said they had no savings then or now.
The number of Americans now worried that their savings might not be enough has risen to 58 percent, up from 44 percent in 2020, Bankrate found.
'The percentage of Americans who are comfortable with their emergency savings has gone from 54 percent to 42 percent in the past two years, while those [feeling] uncomfortable has jumped from 44 percent to a majority 58 percent,' Greg McBride, Bankrate's chief financial analyst, said in a statement.'
'Inflation, at the highest levels in 40 years, will erode the comfort level with and buying power of your emergency savings.'
According to the full breakdown, 32 percent of respondents said they were very uncomfortable with the amount they have saved for emergencies, with 26 percent saying they were only 'somewhat uncomfortable.'
About 29 percent said they were somewhat comfortable with their savings, and only 13 percent said they were very comfortable with their emergency funds.
The number of Americans now worried that their savings might not be enough has risen to 58 percent, up from 44 percent in 2020
Along with McBridge, American Consumer Credit Counseling (ACCC) CEO Allen Amadin said the high costs of goods was eating away at people's savings as the nation braces for an expected recession by 2023.
Last month, the ACCC found that 48 percent of consumers said the rising costs of basic necessities impacted their family's lifestyle, up from the 39 percent reported in the first quarter.
'Consumers have been going through many different financial phases in a very short period of time forcing them to pivot several times accordingly to the challenge,' Amadin said in a statement.
Those changes already appear to be in affect as stocks for Walmart plummeted 10 percent on Tuesday following the retail giant's prediction that profits would fall as surging prices for food and fuel prompted customers to cut back on discretionary purchases.
The $361 billion retailer saw its share price fall from $132 to $121 as the market opened on Tuesday, with it's market value dropping to $325 billion as shares are still down by more than 7.7 percent after a small rebound in the afternoon.
Just one day prior, Walmart, a bellwether for the retail sector that caters to cost-conscious shoppers, said its full-year profit would decline 11 to 13 percent, compared to the one percent fall it previously forecasted.
That behavior is forcing the nation's largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, to step up discounts on general merchandise items like home furnishings and electronics to move inventory.
It also pledged to cut prices of clothing and general merchandise more aggressively than it did in May to reduce a spring backlog.
Walmart shares fell by 10 percent on Tuesday morning, with shares still down more than 7.7 percent after a small rebound by the afternoon
Target, one of Walmart's biggest retail rivals, saw it's stock plummet by 4.66 percent as of Tuesday afternoon amid big losses for retailers across the nation
Excluding divestitures, full-year earnings per share are expected to drop 10 to 12 percent, the company said.
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in a statement 'The increasing levels of food and fuel inflation are affecting how customers spend.'
McMillon added the company is expecting more pressure on general merchandise in the second half of the year. However, Walmart said it is encouraged by early signs for sales of back-to-school supplies.
Shares of rival Target also tanked by 4.66 percent after Walmart's warning, which signaled a 'proverbial train wreck' for retailers, Burt Flickinger, managing director at Strategic Resource Group, said.
Online shopping faired no better, with Amazon reporting a drop by more than 4.5 percent, and Shopify sinking more than 14 percent as it lays off 10 percent of its workforce.
Online shopping giant Amazon was not sparred from the ripple effects, with the company seeing more than a 4.5 percent drop
Shopify saw a steeper drop of more than 14 percent as it begins to lay off 1,000 employees
In a letter to employees, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke said the company had bet that online shopping would overtake retailers within the next five years as the pandemic saw a boost in Internet purchases.
'It's now clear that bet didn't pay off,' Lütke wrote. 'Ultimately, placing this bet was my call to make and I got this wrong.'
'As a consequence, we have to say goodbye to some of you today and I'm deeply sorry for that,' he added that about Shopify 1,000 employees will be out of a job.
Evidence of a consumer spending pullback is growing, and an update later this week on US economic growth may show output shrank in the April to June period for the second quarter in a row.
The news from Walmart comes as the Federal Reserve is set to announce another hefty hike in its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday.
Together with its previous rate increases, the Fed's moves will make borrowing costlier for individuals and companies and likely dampen the economy over time.
Several major banks and financial experts also expect the Fed's move to bring about a recession, with a July survey of economist from Bloomberg agreeing that there was nearly a 50-50 chance that the nation will hit a recession in the next 12 months, up from 30 percent last month.
'[The Fed] has made it clear it is prepared to sacrifice growth as it desperately tries to get a grip on inflation via higher interest rates,' James Knightley, chief international economist at ING, told Bloomberg.
'In this environment, we see the clear risks of retrenchment in consumer spending while falling corporate profitability means businesses start to hunker down,' he added. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11051103/Nearly-50-percent-Americans-falling-deeper-debt-rising-inflation.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-26T22:15:25Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11051103/Nearly-50-percent-Americans-falling-deeper-debt-rising-inflation.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Family murdered in tent at campground, 9-year-old boy the only survivor
MAQUOKETA, Iowa (AP) - A 9-year-old boy who was camping at an Iowa state park with his parents and 6-year-old sister survived a shooting that killed the rest of his family.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety identified the victims as Tyler Schmidt, 42; his 42-year-old wife, Sarah Schmidt; and their 6-year-old daughter, Lula Schmidt, all of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Their bodies were found in their tent early Friday at the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground, about 180 miles east of Des Moines.
Authorities said the suspected gunman, 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin, was found dead Friday in a wooded area of the park with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Department of Public Safety’s division of criminal investigation, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the motive for the attack was still unknown.
“We don’t know what led up to this, what precipitated it,” he said, adding that so far, “the investigation has not revealed any early interaction between the Schmidt family and him.”
Adam Morehouse, Sarah Schmidt’s brother, said the family had no connection to Sherwin and he believed it was a “completely random act.”
Cedar Falls Mayor Rob Green, who said he is a neighbor of the Schmidts, posted on Facebook on Friday that the couple’s 9-year-old son, Arlo, “survived the attack, and is safe.” The post did not say whether Arlo was in the tent or even at the campsite when the shootings happened, and the mayor told the AP he didn’t have those details.
Morehouse confirmed Arlo was on the family’s camping trip, but said he did not know exactly where the boy was at the time of the shooting or know specifics about how it unfolded.
“He is with family and he is OK, but I have not had any interaction with him,” Morehouse said Saturday. “As far as I know, he was uninjured physically.”
By Saturday evening, more than $75,000 had flowed into a GoFundMe page created for Arlo. The page, organized by a cousin, Beth Shapiro, said: “Arlo is a strong boy, surrounded by family and friends who are supporting him as best we can.” The page says the fund will help Arlo now, and help fund his future education.
The killings prompted the evacuation of the park and campground, including a children’s summer camp. After the evacuations, Sherwin was the only person unaccounted for, Mortvedt said.
He said that during the course of the investigation, authorities learned Sherwin was armed and “that of course heightened our awareness.” Iowa allows people with permits to carry firearms virtually anywhere in the state. Officials did not say if Sherwin had a permit and provided no information about the firearm used to kill the Schmidts.
The Des Moines Register reported that Sherwin was from La Vista, Nebraska. La Vista Police Chief Bob Lausten told the newspaper that Sherwin lived in an apartment complex with his parents and had no history of criminal conduct.
Felicia Coe, 35, of Des Moines, was at the campground Friday morning with her boyfriend and his two sons, ages 11 and 16. She said the 16-year-old went out early to go running, and she was talking with someone at the park at about 6:30 a.m. when two park rangers dressed in helmets, vests and carrying what looked like automatic rifles told them to leave the campground.
More law enforcement and an ambulance showed up as Coe went to find her boyfriend’s teenage son.
At the time, Coe did not know what happened. But she recalls seeing a little boy standing near the paramedics.
“He was in his pajamas. I distinctly remember he had one blue tennis shoe,” she said. She later saw a picture of the Schmidt family online and said she recognized the boy she saw as Arlo.
“He’s got this really cute, floppy-curly, moppy, strawberry-blond hair that’s really distinguishable,” Coe said. “He was in these super cute little pajamas, like a cotton T-shirt and shorts that matched. ... He was just standing there. He wasn’t crying. He wasn’t distraught. But he also wasn’t being comforted. He was just standing there by himself.”
She said the campers got little information about what happened and she began piecing it together on the drive home.
“It’s hard to be so grateful that it wasn’t your family, when you know that another family, is just being ripped apart — multiple families,” she said.
Green, the Cedar Falls mayor, said Sarah Schmidt worked at the city’s Public Library, which was closed Saturday.
“Like many of you just hearing the news, I’m devastated,” Green wrote on Facebook. “I knew Sarah well, and she & her family were regular walkers here in the Sartori Park neighborhood. I was working with her this week on a public library tech presentation for 7/26.”
Morehouse said Tyler Schmidt’s parents live in the Cedar Falls area, and Sarah Schmidt’s family members are scattered around the country, but were heading to Iowa. He said Tyler and Sarah lived in Lawrence, Kansas, for a time, where Sarah worked at the University of Kansas. Tyler was an IT software engineer. At one point, he said, Sarah worked on a project about monarch butterflies, and the couple were huge Kansas Jayhawks fans.
In 2018, the Schmidts moved to Cedar Falls and had been active in the community ever since, Morehouse said. He said they loved the outdoors, and just got four pairs of snowshoes for Christmas.
“The best way to describe all four of them was the quintessential Midwestern family. They gave everybody everything they possibly could. They loved family ... They enjoyed the outdoors, enjoyed the hiking — and this is just a question mark of ‘Why that campground and that campsite on that night?’”
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Forliti reported from Minneapolis.
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An earlier version of this article misspelled Lula Schmidt’s first name.
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Video: San Jose K-9 bites man’s throat for 1 minute re-igniting police dog concerns
SAN JOSE, Calif. - WARNING: Images in this story are graphic and disturbing.
Anthony Paredes never missed a chance to show off his voice.
Even as he struggled to keep his rocky life on track, the 41-year-old sang every Sunday at church, belted out tunes at family functions and loved karaoke.
But his voice was forever damaged two years ago when a San Jose police K-9 sunk its teeth into his throat and held on for a full minute, shredding his windpipe and fracturing thyroid cartilage.
Parades was suspected of helping his girlfriend in a robbery and he was hiding in a trash bin when police deployed their German shepherd, Tex, to apprehend him.
Body-worn camera footage obtained by KTVU shows the fateful encounter in graphic detail, blood covering Paredes’ face as the dog thrashed its head side-to-side.
WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO: K-9 bites Anthony Paredes' neck for one minute
"He lost something," Paredes' aunt, Leticia Salazar, said in a recent interview. "He lost that little kick. He lost that happy-go-lucky guy that he was."
The episode underscores major concerns critics have been raising about the use of K-9s: Unlike other use-of-force options, police dogs can be unpredictable, often leading to devastating and disproportionate injuries regardless of what a person has done. In Paredes’ case, his injuries were nearly fatal, requiring two weeks in a hospital.
And while advocates have long praised police dogs as valuable tools to reduce risks to officers, critics say most situations can be resolved without deploying a K-9.
In California, there’s little accountability after a police dog injures and maims someone. And state law leaves it up to each agency to decide how the animals are used.
MORE: K-9s in question: Bay Area police dogs bite with little consequence
SJPD deploy the most K-9s in Bay Area
In fact, San Jose police deploy K-9s more than any law enforcement agency in the Bay Area – 187 bites in five years, a KTVU investigation earlier this year revealed.
The San Jose Police Department declined to comment on the case due to the pending litigation. Paredes has filed a federal excessive force lawsuit against SJPD.
But the city attorney’s office denied wrongdoing in court papers.
Deputy City Attorney Kathryn Zoglin wrote that Parades' injuries resulted from his own "wrongful actions" and that he had "committed crimes including, but not limited to, failure to yield to police authority."
Paredes’ lawyer countered that the attack on his client highlights how vicious police dog bites can be, adding that it's shameful how callous the police and the public view these K-9 injuries.
"Anthony’s life had no value and they treated him like garbage and he almost died," said civil rights attorney Izaak Schwaiger. "He came within inches of his life while the very people who were sworn to protect him stood by and did nothing."
Advocates say dogs do their jobs
But pro-K-9 advocates argue that the K-9 did its job and using them often protects police.
Don Cameron, a retired Bay Area police officer and use-of-force trainer, said Paredes had many opportunities to surrender before police deployed the dog.
"You don’t know whether he’s armed with a gun. You don’t know if he’s armed with a knife. And you don’t know what his capabilities are," he said after reviewing the video at the request of KTVU.
Because Paredes was in the trash bin, Cameroon said the officers couldn’t use batons, Tasers or other force options.
Anthony Paredes' windpipe was crushed by a SJPD K-9 in 2020.
K-9 deployed when suspect ran
The K-9 scenario unfolded on Feb. 7, 2020, when an employee at a Safeway on Berryessa Road called police saying a woman had grabbed more than $350 worth of tequila and attempted to run, according to a police report of the incident obtained by KTVU.
When the worker tried to stop the woman, Paredes ran up and threatened to "cut" the employee, the report says. Records show Paredes never brandished a knife. Police later found he had brass knuckles.
Paredes and his girlfriend fled on foot into a surrounding neighborhood where Paredes was captured on a police helicopter’s thermal camera. Officers approached the backyard with Tex. The K-9 discovered Paredes had crawled into a trash bin.
The dog pawed at the bin and barked as officers approached with their guns drawn. An officer grabbed a broom and pushed the bin over, toppling it to the ground.
Graphic photos: Police K-9s cause serious injuries throughout the Bay Area
"Show us your hands!" the officers yelled to Paredes.
Seconds later, the dog bit down on his neck.
"Don’t fight the dog! Let go of the dog!" an officer yelled.
Officers began pulling Paredes out of the bin. Still, the dog remained clamped on his throat as an officer pulled on the dog’s harness.
"That’s contrary to police training and common sense," Schwaiger told KTVU. "Dogs have curved teeth. They’re like fishhooks. When you pull back, it just tears more and teeth become more firmly embedded in whatever they’re biting."
Anthony Paredes was hiding in a trash bin when Tex, a San Jose police dog, bit his neck for a minute in February 2020.
Dog clamped on throat for 60 seconds
Sixty seconds after the K-9 first bit Paredes’ neck, Tex finally released.
Ernest Burwell, a retired Los Angeles County Sheriff K-9 handler and police dog expert, reviewed the video as he was asked to write up a report for Schwaiger’s suit. He does not think the police dog was used appropriately.
"The dog was holding onto Anthony’s neck like it was some kind of wild dog over in Africa where it was going to choke him to death," Burwell said. "Everybody just stood around and did nothing to get that dog off for a long period of time. The other officers need to be held accountable for failing to intervene."
In Burwell’s opinion, the handler should have called the dog back, and given Paredes a chance to exit the waste bin. The dog also shouldn’t have been "on the bite" for so long, Burwell said. The recommended time is 10 seconds or less, he said.
Burwell said he supports the use of police apprehension K-9s – when they’re used with restraint.
He said controversial cases like Paredes’ show that police dogs need more oversight.
"I don’t want to see anybody lose their K-9 department," Burwell said. "It’s a very important tool. But unless something changes, it will happen."
Paredes later pleaded guilty to one count of being an accessory and possession of brass knuckles. He was sentenced to two years in state prison.
MORE: By the numbers: How often Bay Area police agencies deploy K-9s to bite
Anthony Paredes and his baby girl. Photo: family
Suspect can no longer sing
The two-year sentence was only the latest in Paredes' troubled life.
At 16, he was getting into trouble on the street and was shot six times. He faced his own charge of assault with a deadly weapon while a juvenile, records show.
He later struggled with homelessness and drug addiction, including meth and heroin use, his defense attorney said in court papers. He was arrested several times over the years for drug-related offenses.
Since he was bitten by the K-9, Parades has been sober, his attorney said.
He’s also a father to a baby girl.
He currently works at a hospital testing people for COVID, his aunt said.
And he still goes to the Family Life Center Church on Hellyer Avenue in San Jose.
But he’s no longer in the choir.
He can speak but he cannot sing.
He’s also gotten more withdrawn and depressed.
His aunt said that her nephew, one that she considers a son, has changed not only physically, but emotionally as well.
He suffers night terrors and needs prescribed medication to sleep.
"He’s having a hard time dealing with it," Salazar said about her nephew. "He’s trying to push forward every day. He lost something. He used to walk in the house and sing his Jesus songs. He doesn’t do that anymore."
Lisa Fernandez is a reporter for KTVU. Email Lisa at lisa.fernandez@foxtv.com or call her at 510-874-0139. Or follow her on Twitter @ljfernandez. Evan Sernoffsky is an investigative reporter for KTVU. Email Evan at Evan.Sernoffsky@foxtv.com and follow him on Twitter @evansernoffsky. | https://www.fox4news.com/news/video-san-jose-k-9-bites-mans-throat-for-1-minute-re-igniting-police-dog-concerns | 2022-07-26T22:21:49Z | https://www.fox4news.com/news/video-san-jose-k-9-bites-mans-throat-for-1-minute-re-igniting-police-dog-concerns | true |
Processed Meat Market is expected to witness steady growth at a CAGR of 4.6% through 2031
Posted on 2022-07-26 by Fact.MR in Food & Beverage // 0 Comments
According to a recent report by Fact.MR, a market research and competitive intelligence provider, sales of processed meat are expected to reach a valuation of US$ 356.5 Bn by 2031, rising at a CAGR of around 4.6% over the next ten years.
In the global food & beverage industry, innovation and new product creations are based on strong natural, health, and sustainability credentials. Products made with healthy and nutritious components and labeled with assurances of minimal processing or demonstrable health benefits from natural ingredients appeal more to consumers, especially in developed economies with higher incomes and an aging population.
Due to rising affluence and healthy eating trends, emerging countries such as China and India are likely to play a significant role in the global meat and poultry sector. Because they are sold by well-established corporations such as the WH Group in China and Godrej Tyson Foods Ltd in India, packaged processed beef products are deemed hygienic and of good quality. These manufacturers have gradually moved their focus from shelf-stable processed meat to chilled processed meat in response to increased consumer demand for more fresh and healthful processed meat products.
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Consumer preference for organic food products is expected to witness significant increase over the next few years. Manufacturers and distributors of processed meat are tailoring their product offerings to meet consumer demand. Due to high profit margins and consumer demand for natural products, growing number of manufacturers are entering the organic processed meat market. In the next 2 to 3 years, many companies are expected to launch organic processed meat.
Some of the market players featured in the report are JBA SA, Hormel Foods, Harim Co. Ltd., Tyson Foods Inc., Danish Crown A/S, Cargill Meat Solution Corp., WH Group, BRF SA, Smithfield Foods Inc., SYSCO Corp., OSI Group, ConAgra Foods Inc., and Cherkizovo Group PJSC.
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- Processed Meat for Food Processing Industry
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- Digi Communications N.V. announces the exercise of stock options by the Executive Director of the Company pursuant to the decision of the Company’s general meeting of shareholders dated 30 April 2020 and in accordance with the stock option plan approved at the level of the Company in 2017
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- Digi Communications NV announces the availability of the instructions on the 2020 share dividend payment
- Digi Communications NV announces that conditional stock options were granted to several Directors of the Company based on the approval of the general meeting of shareholders from 18 May 2021
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the Company’s General Shareholders Meeting resolutions adopted on 18 May 2021 approving, amongst others, the 2020 Annual Accounts
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- Amendment of Digi Communications N.V. Financial Calendar for 2021
- 4iG and Digi Communications NV’s Romanian subsidiary have entered into a term sheet with regards to a potential acquisition by 4iG of DIGI Group’s Hungarian operations
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- Digi Communications N.V. announces Share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares
- Digi Communications N.V.: Announces an Amendment to the Financial Calendar for 2021
- Ideanomics Invests $13M in Italian EV Motorcycle Company, Energica
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- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the 2020 Preliminary Financial Results
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- Henrik Stampe Appointed CEO for Mono Solutions
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- Anna Mossberg leder Nordens största privata AI-lab i Sverige: "Utan AI riskerar svenska företag att förlora sin konkurrensfördel."
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- Digi Communications N.V. announces: the Supreme Court of Hungary dismissed the Company’s appeal related to the 5G Tender procedure
- Customer Data Platform Industry to Reach $1.5 Billion in 2021: CDP Institute Report
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- Donna Thomas Joins Visual Data Media Services as Senior Vice President of Sales, Americas
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- Digi Communications N.V. announces the publishing of the Financial Calendar for 2021
- Digi Communications NV announces: Final dismissal by the US Court of the claim brought by certain US citizens against all the initial defendants, including i-TV Digitális Távközlési Zrt
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- Haizol Deliver Fast Lead Times & Quality Parts at speed in the lead up to Chinese New Year
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the conclusion a MVNO agreement between the Company’s Italian subsidiary (Digi Italy) and Vodafone regarding the access to Vodafone’s radio spectrum and mobile communication network and infrastructure
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- Spanish team wins the Farming by Satellite Prize 2020
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the senior facility agreement concluded between Digi Group and a syndicate of banks
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- Visual Data Media Services to Partner with Endeavour Capital for Next Phase of Growth
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2020 Financial Results
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- Palette Life Sciences expands availability of online education and resources for paediatric urologists across Europe
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- Digi Communications NV announces the extension of the agreement entered into between the Company’s subsidiary from Spain (Digi Spain) and Telefonica Moviles España, S.A. regarding the access to TME’s radio spectrum and mobile communication network and infrastructure
- U.S. Presidential Election Wagering Heats Up
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- Mono Solutions partners with Lokale Internetwerbung to launch in leadhub platform
- Syniti Launches Podcast Series to Address Growing Focus on Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, featuring Leading CEOs
- This Year's NFL Season Could Be One For the Ages
- Mono Solutions and Ecwid partner for the seamless delivery of websites with e-commerce for small businesses
- Galata Chemicals to produce Tin Stabilizers and Intermediates at Dahej, India
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- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the H1 2020 Financial Results
- New Chief Financial Officers appointed at Mono Solutions & Bauer Media Group SME Services
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- Digi Communications NV announces Investors Call on the Financial Results for H1 2020
- Palette Life Sciences AB and Gedeon Richter Plc. Receive National Marketing Authorization in the United Kingdom for Novel Pain Relief Product, LIDBREE™
- Palette Life Sciences launches Deflux.com/UK, an online resource for paediatric urologists, parents and caregivers in the United Kingdom
- Billionaire Richard Branson Called a Trademark Bully by the Trademark Law Professors of University of Washington, School of Law
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the publishing of Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor of the Company on 30 July 2020 regarding the information included in the current reports issued by the Company under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- The Pavilions Hotels & Resorts Excited To Announce First Luxury Resort Brand In El Nido, Palawan Island Philippines
- RCH Group Cements its International Reach
- New Customer Data Platform Options Emerge During Pandemic Slowdown: CDP Institute Report
- Digi Communications N.V. announces The Competition Council authorized the economic concentration accomplished by the Company’s Romanian subsidiary („RCS&RDS”) by gaining control over some of the assets held by Akta Telecom S.A., Digital Cable Systems S.A. and ATTP Telecommunications S.R.L.
- TABS Score™ Expands its European Footprint; Begins Partnership Discussions Amongst Key Players in EU Venture Ecosystem
- Virgin’s unethical business practices against small start ups and non-profit foundations
- Mono and Brandify partner to bring appointment booking to local businesses
- While major games dropped cases because of social separating conventions, sportsbooks are discovering approaches to keep players inside the action during this pandemic
- Digi Communications N.V. announces ANCOM approval for RCS & RDS S.A. to continue to apply a surcharge for certain roaming services provided in the EEA for a renewed maximum period of 12 months
- DerbySoft Expands Metasearch Coverage for Hotels Around the World
- Palette Life Sciences Announces European Distribution Expansion for Deflux® and Solesta® for More Than Twenty Countries Through Five Leading Distributors and Direct Sales Effort
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- Virgin hires private investigators to spy and find out where VIRGINIC employees live in the US. VIRGINIC wins with Virgin twice in the UK
- Former Duff & Phelps EMEA Leader Yann Magnan joins 73 Strings as Co-founder and CEO
- Concern for the oceans drives consumers to 'vote with their forks' for sustainable seafood
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock option by Marius Catalin Vărzaru, a Non-Executive Director and VP of the Board of Directors of the Company
- USBLockit.com releases Free App to “Password Protect the USB Flash Drive” for Android
- VIRGINIC defends its case and stands up to Virgin after attack on Linkedin profiles of shocked VIRGINIC employees
- SecurLine Certified to Protect Classified Communications
- Digi Communications N.V. announces that a stock option programme was approved for employees and managers of the Romanian Subsidiary of the Company
- Digi Communications NV announces the exercise of stock options by the Executive Directors of the Company
- Matvil Corp. Continues Its Fight Against Illegal Actions of the Legal System of Moldova
- Matvil Corp. продолжает бороться с противозаконными действиями юридической системы Молдовы
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q1 2020 Financial Results
- Digi Communications NV announces that conditional stock options were granted to several Directors of the Company based on the general shareholders’ meeting approval from 30 April 2020
- PayPerHead® Sportsbook Software Helps Online Bookies Stay in Business
- MEDIS medical imaging systems acquires Advanced Medical Imaging Development S.r.l. (AMID) and secures further investment from Van Herk Ventures
- Digi Communications NV announces Investors Call on the Financial Results for Q1 2020
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the availability of the instructions on the 2019 share dividend payment
- Mono Solutions hires Chief Product Officer
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 27 – 30 Apr 2020
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- Digi Communications N.V.: GSM resolutions from 30 Apr 2020 approving, amongst others, the 2019 Annual Accounts; availability of the adopted Annual Financial Report for the year ended Dec 31, 2019 for the Group
- RCH Embark on Lasting Partnership with Culinary Institute JRE
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 20 – 24 Apr 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13 – 17 Apr 2020
- PayPerHead® Steps Up To Help Small Business Owners
- COVID-19: Digi Communications N.V. recommendation regarding participation of shareholders to the AGM convened for 30 April 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 6 – 10 Apr 2020
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.: Exercise of stock option by a Non-Executive Director of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 30 Mar – 3 Apr 2020
- Chief Commercial Officer joins Mono Solutions
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 23 – 27 Mar 2020
- Digi Communications N.V. reports the admission to trading on the regulated market operated by the Irish Stock Exchange plc (trading as Euronext Dublin) of the senior secured notes issued by RCS & RDS S.A., its Romanian subsidiary
- Delft University of Technology Purchases its Second WebClip2Go Video Production System
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 16 – 20 Mar 2020
- Integrated Services Monitoring Capability Launched by Bridge Technologies
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Convocation of the Company’s general shareholders meeting for 30 April 2020 for the approval of, among others, the 2019 Annual Report and of the 2019 Financial Statements
- Digi Communications N.V. announces The Hungarian Competition Council’s decision to issue a new decision approving the Invitel transaction
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Business continuity in light of the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) outbreak
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9 – 13 Mar 2020
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in February 2020 or in other period but effective in February 2020, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 2 – 6 Mar 2020
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24 – 28 Feb 2020
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17 – 21 Feb 2020
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Preliminary Financial Results for year ended 31 December 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 10 – 14 Feb 2020
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in January 2020 or in other period but effective in January 2020, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Preliminary Financial Results for the year ended 31 December 2019
- Consolidation Looms for Fast-Growing Customer Data Platform Industry: CDP Institute Report
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 3–7 Feb 2020
- Digi Communications N.V. hereby reports successful closing of the offering of senior secured notes by RCS & RDS S.A., its Romanian subsidiary
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 27 – 31 Jan 2020
- Digi Communications N.V.: Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor on 30 Jan 2020 regarding the information included in the current reports under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications N.V.: Rectification of the report published on 15 Jan 2020, regarding legal documents concluded by DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. in other periods but effective in Dec 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications N.V. reports the upsize and successful pricing of the offering of senior secured notes by RCS & RDS S.A., its Romanian subsidiary
- RCH To Present New Smart ECR, Robust and Vintage POS Systems at EuroShop 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 20 – 24 Jan 2020
- Digi Communications N.V.: (i) launch of an offering by RCS & RDS S.A. of senior secured notes; (ii) issuance of a notice of conditional full redemption of all outstanding €550.0m 5.0% senior secured notes due 2023 issued by the Company and (iii) restatement by the Company of its unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the 9-month period ended 30 Sep 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13 – 17 Jan 2020
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in December 2019 or in other period but effective in December 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 6 – 10 Jan 2020
- SuitePad Announced as the Best Guest Room Tablet in the 2020 HotelTechAwards
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- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the publishing of the Financial Calendar for 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol 16-20 Dec 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 Dec 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in November 2019 or in other period but effective in November 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 2-6 Dec 2019
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 25-29 Nov 2019
- RCS & RDS S.A., Digi Communications N.V.’s subsidiary in Romania, entered into agreements to operate the telecommunications networks of the Romanian companies Digital Cable Systems S.A., AKTA Telecom S.A. and ATTP Telecommunications S.R.L
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- Digi Communications N.V. announces Syndicated facility agreement concluded between the Digi Group and a syndicate of banks
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- CEDRIC KOUKJIAN’S SCULPTURE, “LIAISON” TO BE EXHIBITED IN PUBLIC BY CULTURAL COMMISSION OF COLOGNY IN SWITZERLAND
- Digi Communications N.V.: Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor regarding the information included in the current reports under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Il 18° tour del lago Qinghai si conclude con la celebrazione della "maggiore età"
- La 18ª Vuelta al Lago Qinghai concluye con la celebración de su “mayoría de edad”
- 18e ‘Tour of Qinghai Lake’ wordt afgesloten met een ‘coming-of-age’-viering
- Digi Communications N.V.: Rectification of reports published on 15 Feb, 15 Mar, 15 Apr, 15 May and 14 Jun 2019 regarding legal documents in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 22 and 26 July 2019
- GEANGO at ENSO ANGO - Summer Culture Retreat in Kyoto 2019
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol (15-19 July 2019)
- Nanto Cleantech Inc victorious in BYK-Altana patent opposition lawsuit
- Mono Solutions Joins Bauer Media Group to Strengthen SME Marketing Services Across the Globe
- UK Investors File Lawsuit in the Canaries Against Blue Explorers for Misleading Shareholders
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 8 – 12 July 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 11 July 2019
- OFERTA de casas vacacionales de lujo para menos de €25 por persona por noche este verano
- Noticias de Turismo: este verano sacarás más partido de tu presupuesto vacacional encontrando precios más competitivos
- TRAVEL NEWS: Your holiday spending money stretches even further this summer in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1 – 5 July 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program approved by the GSM from 30 April 2019 and the duration of this program
- Global Software Innovator, AnyDesk, Announces Record 100 Million Downloads
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 24 and 28 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the launch by RCS & RDS S.A., its subsidiary in Romania, of the Digi Mobil 5G Smart service
- Tauschen Sie Ihren Dripper aus und verändern Sie den Geschmack Ihres Kaffees! HARIO veröffentlicht den Double Mesh Metal Dripper.
- Change your dripper and change the flavor of your coffee! HARIO launches the Double Mesh Metal Dripper
- Matvil Corp. противостоит беспределу судебных властей Молдовы
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17 – 21 June 2019
- Matvil Corp. Fights the Illegal Actions of the Legal System of Moldova
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10 and 14 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in May 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol between 3 – 7 June 2019
- PDA Explores the Transformation of Healthcare at 4th Annual European Meeting
- ASI President John Cross Named AGMA Chairman
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 27 – 31 May 2019
- Breakthrough on laser powder bed fusion technology brings effective production of larger componentscloser to mainstream
- PDA Announces All-Star Speaker Lineup for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products Conference
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by the Executive Directors of the Company
- Digi Communications N.V. announces DIGI Kft., the Hungarian subsidiary of the Company, launches mobile telephony services in Hungary
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 21 and 24 May 2019
- ZYXEL READY WITH 5G SAMPLES IN AUGUST 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the initiation of the share buy-back program as authorized by the Company’s GSM on 30 April 2019
- Digi Communications N.V Q1 2019 Financial Report and the report regarding legal documents for April 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 released
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the new date of the Conference Call for the presentation of the Q1 2019 Financial Report. Update to the Company’s 2019 Financial Calendar.
- Rhenium-SCT® (SCT= Skin Cancer Therapy) now being offered in Hanau, Germany
- Project consortium aims at driving the adoption of selective laser melting (SLM) for large scale metal parts printing
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the availability of the instructions on the 2018 share dividend payment
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 April 2019 – 1 May 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program
- Biodiversity Report Is Urgent Call to Action Beyond Fixes; Geneva Global Initiative Calls on World Community to Focus on Concrete Actions
- Digi Communications N.V.’s general Shareholders’ meeting resolutions from 30 Apr 2019 approving, amongst others, the 2018 Annual Accounts and the availability of the adopted Annual Financial Report for the year ended Dec 31, 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol, 22 – 26 April 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 15 April 2019 – 19 April 2019s
- XPAND Code was successfully scanned from 200 meters/700 feet at Olympics stadium
- Wasser eingießen, Warten und Einschalten
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in March 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8 and 12 April 2019
- Snowman releases new EP
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 1 – 5 April 2019
- Streamlining adoption of high-speed and high-resolution surface texturing delivered with the Prometheus project
- Customer Data Platform Institute Launches RealCDP to Reduce CDP Confusion
- ASI Technologies Focuses on the future as ASI Drives, and New AGV Pallet Robot, FRED2500
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 March 2019 – 29 March 2019
- Towards a Europe of Stakeholder Nations
- Associazione Veneta Lotta alla Talassemia (AVLT) and the UK Thalassaemia Society (UKTS) Clarification on European Regulatory Status of LENTIGLOBIN™
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19 March 2019 – 22 March 2019
- A new flagship project on Additive Manufacturing skills aims to maintain Europe leading position in industrial competitiveness
- Consultancy Partnership Revolutionizes Agile Project Management
- Jeroen Schouten Named Regional Manager, Europe of AeroGo, Inc.
- Digi Communications N.V. Convocation of the Company’s general shareholders meeting for 30 April 2019 for the approval of, among others, the 2018 Annual Report and of the 2018 Financial Statements
- España arrasa con la competencia y es nombrado como el país ideal para estudiar en el extranjero
- Xverify targets European Email Verification market with local data processing, Dublin office
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the resignation by Mr. Sambor Ryszka from his position as non-executive director of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in February 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- New Services Larry Hurt income Tax Services
- Admission of Digi Communications N.V. €200,000,000 5.0% additional senior secured notes due 2023 to the listing on the Official List and trading on Irish Stock Exchange’s Main Securities Market
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the appointment of Dan Ioniță as a non-executive director of RCS & RDS S.A., the Romanian subsidiary of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 4 and 8 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 4 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 February – 1 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 1 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 18 and 22 February 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: finalization and registration by the Company of the conversion of 1,200,000 A shares into an equal number of class B shares
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by a PDMR in accordance with the stock option plan for the Group’s Romanian employees
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 February 2019
- Dearly Beloved, The Latest Single By Alternative Urbane Artist Expands Up-And-Coming ADN Lewis's Global Fan Base
- Report of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in January 2019 or in other period but effective in January 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Availability of Preliminary Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2018 for Digi Communications N.V. Group
- Mono Solutions launches a new interface to drive the ultimate do-it-with-me (DIWM) experience
- Digi Communications NV Announces Investor Call on the Preliminary Financial Results for the year ended 31 December 2018
- Digi Communications NV: New date of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results; Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 4 and 8 February 2019
- R.W. Chelsea Holdings Ltd Starts To Hold Fixed Income Investor Meetings In Vienna, Zurich, Geneva and London
- Digi Communications N.V. successfully increased and priced its Offering at €200,000,000 5.0% additional senior secured notes due 2023
- Digi Communications N.V. to offer additional €125,000,000 5.0% senior secured notes due 2023; new notes will be consolidated and treated as its existing €350,000,000; adjustment on interim unaudited consolidated financial statements for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2018
- World's largest superhero statue to be built in Central Europe
- The resignation of Mr. Bendei Ioan – VP and executive director of RCS&RDS S.A., DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.’s subsidiary in Romania
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 28 January 2019 – 1 February 2019
- RCH Group to Showcase Integrated Selling Solutions at EuroCIS
- Mono and bfound partner to expand digital offerings for small businesses in the Middle East
- Digi Communications N.V. publishes the Independent Limited Assurance Report in accordance with Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- ERRATA of the reports dated 15 Jan 2019 and 15 Oct 2018 regarding the legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in Dec 2018 and Sep 2018
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 21 – 25 January 2019
- Céline Dion visite son premier concept store de vêtements CELINUNUNU à Paris
- Anytime, anywhere tailored learning opportunities for welding professionals and apprentices alike
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- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 14 - 18 January 2019
- Mono helps Fonecta strengthen their digital presence offering for SMBs
- The Bucharest Tribunal’s decision regarding the investigation conducted by the Romanian National Anti-corruption Directorate with respect to RCS & RDS S.A., Integrasoft S.R.L. and certain of their directors
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by a PDMR in accordance with the stock option plan approved by the Company for the Romanian employees of the Group in 2017
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for December 2018
- Digi Communications N.V.: resolution of the Board of Directors to convert class 1,200,000 A shares into an equal number of class B shares for the purpose of the ongoing employees and directors stock option plans
- CELINUNUNU OUVRE SON PREMIER POP-UP À PARIS
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 07 – 11 January 2019
- Digi Communications NV: Announcement of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results. Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- A new Government Emergency Ordinance imposing additional corporate taxes with impact on the telecommunications sector in Romania
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 31 December 2018-04 January 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Dec 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17-21 Dec 2018
- US Customer Data Platform authority David Raab to Host First CDP Workshop in Belgium
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Dec 2018
- US-amerikanischer Customer-Data-Platform-Experte David M. Raab leitet ersten gemeinsamen CDP-Workshop mit b.telligent in München
- Arriva Designflows, la prima competizione di mobile design in Italia
- BWW 2018 – Best Wine Critics of World have been selected – Jancis Robinson MW is the Winner!
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 December 2018
- Farming by Satellite Prize is won by Teagasc from Ireland
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 26-30 Nov 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19-23 November 2018
- First Non-Melanocytic Skin Cancer Patients treated with Rhenium-SCT® in South Africa
- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 12-16 November 2018
- Base Element and Cognigy Announce Strategic Partnership
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the Hungarian Competition Council’s decision to formally withdraw and reassess the Invitel merger decision on certain limited aspects
- Amerikaanse Customer Data Platform authoriteit David M. Raab leidt eerste CDP Workshop in Nederland
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2018 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 5-9 November 2018
- Cobots and RPA Gain Centerstage in Automotive Robotics Space; Labor Issues Prevail as a Key Challenge
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for Q3 2018
- Food Waste Recycling Machine Sales to Reach 10,890 units in 2018 on the Back of Growing Investments in Sustainable Solutions
- SMEs Accounted for Nearly 60% Share of SAP Cloud Platform Services Market in 2017, Finds New Fact.MR Study
- China’s Dominance of Pneumatic Rollers Production and Demand Continues, Finds Fact.MR Study
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 October-2 November 2018
- ILC Dover to Open New Production Facility in Blarney, Ireland for Added Capabilities, Capacity and Jobs
- OEMs Hold 90% Share of Automotive Switches Sales Channel, Finds Fact.MR
- US$ 3 Billion RF Power Amplifiers Market Driven by Growing Cellular Applications, Finds Fact.MR Study
- Kidney Stone Management Device Sales to Surpass 340,000 Units in 2018 with Lithotripsy Devices Leading the Rally, Finds Fact.MR
- Fact.MR Study Finds Contractor Preference Shifting from Skid Steers to Compact Track Loaders in Lucrative Markets
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 22-26 October 2018
- DB CyberTech Launches into the European Market
- Hungarian coding bootcamp opens in Prague in order to train career changers looking to enter the IT industry
- Gasoline Vehicles Accounted for 8 in 10 Automotive Fuel Injector Sales in 2018, finds Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study Finds Global Demand for Crawler Cranes to Reach 3,648 Units in 2018, Greater China Leads with 30% Share
- Surplus Supply Reflects Growing Avidity in the Europe Cocoa Market – Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study Shows Declining Demand for Tilapia in US Offset by Encouraging Gains in Domestic Markets
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 15-19 October 2018
- Europe Home Diagnostics Market Driven by Burgeoning Glucose Monitoring Device Sales, Consumer Demand for Non-Invasive Kits Largely Unmet – Fact.MR Study
- Europe Bicycle Parking Racks Market Driven by Consumer Focus on Sustainability and Carbon Consciousness
- Halloumi Cheese Popularity Soars in Europe as UK Maintains its Lead as the Largest Market – Fact.MR Study
- Vehicle Interior Air Quality (VIAQ) Takes Centerstage in US$ 6.5 Million Europe Automotive Headliners Market
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for September 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8-12 Oct 2018
- Europe Emulsifier and Co-Emulsifier Market Witnessing a Shift Towards Bio-based Variants – Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study on IBM Watson Services Market Lists Business Agility and Customer Service Transformation as Key Motivations to Adoption
- Europe Non-Dairy Toppings Market Riding on the Coattails of Growing Vegan Revolution, Finds a New Fact.MR Study
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- ‘Sustainability’, ‘Functionality’ and ‘Cost-Effectiveness’ Among Key Expectations of European Consumers from Automotive Tow Bars Industry
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1-5 Oct 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Sept 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 17-21 Sept 2018
- New Study Reconfirms Effectiveness and Safety of Fotona Dynamis Laser Treatment for Minimally-Invasive Urinary Incontinence
- New study reveals that hate speech is becoming the ‘new normal’ on social media
- The launch of fixed broadband and fixed telephony services by Digi Communication N.V.’s subsidiary in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Sept 2018
- coMakeIT appoints Durga Prakash Kone as Head of Global Sales
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 Sept 2018
- 80% Satisfaction Rate in Europe for Customer Data Platform Early Adopters
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 27-31 Aug 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 20-24 Aug 2018
- DB CyberTech Launches GDPR Continuous Monitoring Solution with the First to Market Advanced Data Classification
- DATA4 Brings Pioneering Payment Systems to Kiosk Summit 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13-17 Aug 2018
- Zuuse to acquire GCPay, a leading North American provider of construction payment applications software
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q2 2018 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 6-10 August 2018
- Plus Ultra strongly denies the fraud allegations bought against them in the Spanish class action lawsuit
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for H1 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 30 July-3 August 2018
- Europe’s largest battery and H/EV event moves to manufacturing hub for e-mobility
- Mono Solutions announce a new partnership with PA DIGITAL, the leading provider of digital services for small businesses in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23-27 July 2018
- Digi Communications N.V. publishes report of legal acts concluded by the company in accordance with Romanian Law, FSA Regulation as well as the Independent Limited Assurance Report
- Spahn & Rose Named to ProSales 100 List
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 16-20 July 2018
- RCH Europe Brings New Innovative Selling Solutions to FAFGA 2018
- Lanzamiento de un nuevo sitio web de comparación financiera
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 July 2018
- European Customer Data Platform Vendors Lead Industry in New Direction
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 2-6 July 2018
- iBwave Design Helps MTS Deliver Superior Fan Experience During the 2018 Soccer Games in Russia
- Get Ahead Of Your Business Competition with Customized Advertising Campaigns by Manesta Programmatic Agency
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the publishing of ANCOM approval for RCS & RDS S.A. to continue to apply a surcharge for certain roaming services provided in the EEA for a renewed period of 12 months
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25-29 June 2018
- Euro Staff Solution: First 2 Employees are on Us
- Press conference: Illegal sales of Schengen and Medical Visa Scandal involving Maltese PM’s Office
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 18-22 June 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol (June 11-15, 2018)
- Settlement of litigations between RCS & RDS S.A. and Antena Group entities
- Dr. Christina Marrongelli to lead World Congress on Pharmacology & Chemistry of Natural Compounds
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and Rule no. 1/2006 of CNVM – May 2018
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- Mit der Eröffnung eines neuen Büros in Spanien stärkt IN-GRY seine Präsenz in Europa
- Con la inauguración de una nueva sede en España, INRGY reforzará su presencia en Europa
- With the opening of a new office in Spain, IN-RGY strengthens its business presence in Europe
- Avec l’ouverture d’un nouveau bureau en Espagne, IN-RGY renforce sa présence commerciale en Europe
- Revealed: Top Tips for Sunseekers on a Shoestring in Spain
- Qoobo, a Pillow That Wags Its Tail to Your Touch, Is Coming to CEBIT
- Digi Communications NV: The initiation by the Company of the share buy-back program as authorized by the Company’s GSM from 2 May 2018
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- Nagarro sets up technical center in Malta to focus on growing iGaming clientele
- Digi Communications NV: The closing of the acquisition by the Company’s Hungarian subsidiary, DIGI Távközlési és Szolgáltató Kft., of the Hungarian telecommunications operator Invitel Távközlési Zrt.
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- Digi Communications NV Stock option plan meant for the employees and officers of Digi Spain S.L.U. and conditional stock options granted to certain Romanian directors and employees
- Leading European Crowdfunding Firm FundedByMe Kicks-Off Property Portal MIPARO’s Campaign May 21
- Digi Communications NV Announces that Conditional stock options were granted to several Directors of the Company based on the general shareholders’ meeting approval from 2 May 2018
- Digi Communications NV Announces the Exercise of stock options in accordance with the stock option plan approved at the level of the Company in 2017 for its Executive Directors
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- RCH Group to Showcase Innovative Selling Solutions at EuroCIS
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GreenMantra Technologies Announces Exclusive Distribution Relationship with HARKE GROUP
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ZURICH (AP) _ Chubb Corp. (CB) on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings of $1.22 billion.
The Zurich-based company said it had profit of $2.86 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $4.20 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $3.59 per share.
The insurer posted revenue of $9.94 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $10.51 billion, which missed Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $10.52 billion.
Chubb shares have decreased almost 3% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P's 500 index has declined 18%. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $188.28, a rise of 12% in the last 12 months.
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CHICAGO (AP) _ Equity Residential (EQR) on Tuesday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations.
The Chicago-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $347.8 million, or 89 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 85 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $223.3 million, or 59 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $687 million in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Eight analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $670.6 million.
For the current quarter ending in October, Equity Residential expects its per-share funds from operations to range from 89 cents to 93 cents.
The company expects full-year funds from operations in the range of $3.48 to $3.58 per share.
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The SEC’s investigation into Coinbase brings the major question of who released confidential, non-public information as crypto lawyer says doing so doesn’t make sense for the crypto exchange nor the regulators.
Today’s guest is Stephen Palley, a senior partner at Anderson Kill law firm. Palley gives us a deeper understanding into the SEC and Coinbase fiasco.
In the world of crypto we discuss:
- SEC probes into Coinbase
- Binance files a lawsuit against Bloomberg subsidiary
- Tesla’s Bitcoin Sell Estimates
- U.S. Lawmakers delay stablecoin bill
- U.S Senators introduce a new crypto tax bill | https://www.forbes.com/sites/rosemariemiller/2022/07/26/private-information-about-coinbase-brings-crypto-market-lower-video/ | 2022-07-26T22:29:50Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/rosemariemiller/2022/07/26/private-information-about-coinbase-brings-crypto-market-lower-video/ | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL has extended its deal with SiriusXM to broadcast and market the league's games over North America another five years through the 2027 Super Bowl.
The deal announced Tuesday extends an agreement first reached in 2004. Brian Rolapp, the NFL's chief media and business officer, said the league is pleased to continue this deal.
“SiriusXM continues to be an important part of the NFL family, providing fans access to live game audio as well as all the news and information around their favorite teams in addition to SiriusXM’s great 24/7, 365 League coverage on SiriusXM NFL Radio," Rolapp said.
Under this new agreement, SiriusXM becomes the exclusive third-party audio provider for each NFL game across North America. Subscribers will get access to every NFL game live on SiriusXM radio, the SXM app and SiriusXM NFL Radio. That's the company's channel covering the league daily.
The company's app provides access to all 32 NFL team's channels. SiriusXM also is adding pre- and postgame shows to each team's channel along with offering subscribers coaches' shows and news conferences through the app to subscribers.
Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM's president and chief content officer, said they couldn't be more pleased to expand their relationship with the NFL and keep delivering “comprehensive access” to their listeners.
“The popularity of the NFL, and the passion of their fans, is extraordinary,” Greenstein said. “Since 2004 the NFL has been an important component of SiriusXM’s programming lineup as we deliver those fans exceptional access to all their favorite teams.”
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(KRON) — Folks who enjoy their music from a “higher plane” are in luck this year, as the cannabis experience Grass Lands will return to the Golden Gate Park during Outside Lands, according to a press release from Grandstand Media.
The music festival returns to San Francisco from August 5-7, and Grass Lands will be there for the whole ride. This is the fourth year the space will feature a cannabis experience at the Outside Lands festival. Back in 2018 Grass Lands was the first curated cannabis experience at a major music festival, according to the press release.
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Grass Lands will take place South of the Polo Field where festival goers 21-years-old and up can explore new attractions including the “Garden of Weed’n” and “The Farmers’ Market.” A collection of cannabis partners will be at the event including STIIZY, High Times, Traditional, Treez, Timeless, ZigZag, Sundae School and others.
Grass Lands will even feature it’s own musical guests. The schedule features DJ Funklor, DJ Sep, and APE. For more information on the event, visit the Grass Lands website. | https://www.kron4.com/news/grass-lands-cannabis-experience-returns-to-outside-lands-2022/ | 2022-07-26T22:33:11Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/grass-lands-cannabis-experience-returns-to-outside-lands-2022/ | false |
MUSKEGON, MI – Ludington’s public safety director is one of two finalists in Muskegon’s search for a new public safety director.
Tim Kozal, director of the Ludington Department of Public Safety, and Derrick Turner, police chief for the Mobile, Alabama, Airport Authority, were chosen as finalists in the second search for Muskegon’s next public safety director. | https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2022/07/muskegon-police-chief-search-has-2-finalists-and-one-is-ludingtons-chief.html | 2022-07-26T22:33:11Z | https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2022/07/muskegon-police-chief-search-has-2-finalists-and-one-is-ludingtons-chief.html | false |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Over the weekend, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox as a public health emergency and asked for a worldwide effort to contain the outbreak.
“It can start like a little red spot,” CDC HIV Prevention Director Demetre Daskalakis said while describing monkeypox.
“It can become a pimple then it becomes a bigger pimple, and then eventually the pimple breaks. It becomes a scab and then it’s covered over with skin,” Daskalakis said.
The disease is spread by close contact, and at this point, mostly affects men who have sex with men. But it is not just a sexually transmitted disease, as anyone in close contact with someone who’s infected is at risk. The World Health Organization says the monkeypox outbreak has become a significant threat to global health.
“So it’s really important for general information to go out about how monkeypox transmits and what the disease looks like,” Daskalakis said.
According to the CDC, more than 3,400 cases are confirmed in the U.S. Those who contract monkeypox will experience a fever, severe muscle aches, exhaustion, and will eventually develop the rash. The White House says it is doing its part to address the health crisis both at home and abroad.
“First, is to dramatically scale up procurement, production and distribution of vaccines. Second, is to significantly expand access to testing” White House COVID Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said.
The CDC encourages Americans at risk and those in close contact with them, to get the monkeypox vaccine, once the FDA approves additional doses and it becomes more available. | https://www.kron4.com/washington-dc/white-house-cdc-take-steps-to-deal-with-monkeypox-outbreak-as-w-h-o-declares-public-health-emergency/ | 2022-07-26T22:33:45Z | https://www.kron4.com/washington-dc/white-house-cdc-take-steps-to-deal-with-monkeypox-outbreak-as-w-h-o-declares-public-health-emergency/ | false |
NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies owned by minority groups in the United States, such as those from the Latino community, continue to experience disparity when seeking financing, explains Angelica Fuentes, impact investor.
Despite the legal efforts raised in the Community Reinvestment Law of 1977 and the creation in 2011 of the Office of Consumer Financial Protection, both focused on reducing discriminatory barriers in the banking system, Angelica Fuentes points out that Latino entrepreneurs have not overcome the structural obstacles.
"As far as venture capital is concerned, companies owned by women and men of Latin origin obtained only 2.6% of the investments, segregating them from the North American entrepreneurial ecosystem," she says.
Another challenge they face is the lack of financial products designed specifically for Latino communities, which are generally offered at higher interest rates than those for individuals of US origin.
"Audit studies have revealed that entry-level entrepreneurs are shown different and more expensive banking products and face more questions to legitimize their businesses. You will need some evidence of implicit bias and discriminatory practices at the time of initial engagement," explains the "State of Latino Entrepreneurs" report by the Standard Graduate School of Business.
"The odds of a national bank approving a $100,000 loan are 60% lower for Latinos than for white business owners, even after accounting for business performance measures.
For Angelica Fuentes, the structural barriers limit Latino entrepreneurs' development, even though statistics show that they are the racial group that presents the best cash flow and stability.
"More than a third of Latino entrepreneurs are immigrants, so their work history and credit record in the United States will hardly be a good source of support," says Angelica Fuentes.
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HOUMA, La., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Benton Energy Services Company (BESCO Tubular), a highly respected tubular running service company, specializing in the makeup and pulling of high alloy production tubulars, operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and Spoked Solutions LLC (Spoked), an oil industry-focused research and development company that provides patented and proprietary tool design and technology, have signed a binding license agreement allowing BESCO Tubular to utilize the patented Spoked Elevator Roller Insert System (ERIS) with BESCO's patented Bail Assisted Thread Saver system (BATS).
The combination of these tools provides a very innovative patented pneumatic weight compensating system to make up or break out tubular connections vertically whether in singles or stands. This system allows the joint to remain in neutral weight to minimalize the chance of galling or damaging threads on tubulars during connection or disconnection. The weight compensation system is controlled and fine-tuned via a control panel located on the rig floor during operation. The BESCO Tubular control panel includes the capability for a single person to monitor and directly control the elevator / single joint elevators / single joint elevator arms / spider / sliding base plate / and control line push arm eliminating the need for additional personnel during tubular make up and break out operations. The ERIS, while supporting stand weight, allows tubulars to spin relatively frictionless inside the elevator. The combination of these tools has been tried and tested by some of our greatest customers; and was first put in use with BESCO's customers eight years ago.
BESCO Tubular and Spoked have amicably reached an agreement to license the ERIS technology assuring BESCO's return to serving our valued customers. BESCO Tubular is ready to address the improving market we see emerging for our services. "By offering the BATS and ERIS tools together, operators will be getting the best stand building compensation system on the market," said Antoinette Benton, Chief Executive Officer of BESCO Tubular.
BESCO Tubular specializes in Gulf of Mexico Deepwater and Shelf completion tubing operations. Located in Houma, Louisiana, founded in 2002 we have proudly served the Gulf Coast area for 20 years. Our veteran personnel have the experience, training and technology to safely and efficiently run tubing of all sizes in Deepwater and Shelf Gulf of Mexico. Our family history in this field spans four generations. To learn more, visit www.bescotubular.com.
Spoked is an oil industry-focused research and development company that recognizes the gaps in technology. It provides simpler and better solutions to fill the missing link in the industry for operators and service providers alike. Spoked offers more than 10 proprietary tools, which are covered by over 20 granted or pending patents. Spoked provides solutions to industry giants and other players in the Gulf of Mexico and globally. Spoked has the expertise and strategically located operations to provide customers world-class solutions for even the most unsolved oil field tool design problems. To learn more, visit www.spokedsolutions.com.
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SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A bear going through trash has been killed by authorities in Sitka, a community that experienced a record number of bear incidents last year.
The weekend shooting of the male brown bear by Sitka police was the first bear shooting this year in the southeast Alaska city, the Daily Sitka Sentinel reported. Last year, 14 bears were killed in and around Sitka, which the newspaper reports was a record for the community.
Steve Bethune, a wildlife biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said four shots were fired, at least two of which hit the bear.
Police received a call about a bear around 11:40 p.m. Saturday. By the time Bethune arrived around 1 a.m. Sunday, officers had killed the animal, he said.
“The bear sounded like it was being very aggressive and (the shooting) sounded very justified,” he said. The bear was “actively eating trash” when it was killed, he said, and “had been acting aggressive enough early that evening, basically immediately preceding getting shot.”
The bear likely was defending a trash pile, he said.
“This bear, my guess, had decided that there was enough trash in that neighborhood to start defending it like a bear in the wild would defend moose kill or something like that… There was more than one house in the neighborhood with trash out,” Bethune said.
Police later Sunday issued citations at three addresses for having bear attractants.
Bethune estimated the bear was 8 to 12 years old and otherwise healthy. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/brown-bear-eating-trash-killed-in-southeast-alaska-city/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-07-26T22:45:18Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/brown-bear-eating-trash-killed-in-southeast-alaska-city/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | false |
TUCSON, Ariz. — Rounding up 32 games from the 1980s and 90s, "Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium" is bursting at the seams with treasures from yesteryear.
A worthy follow-up to the 2021 "Capcom Arcade Stadium" and a companion to the recently-released "Capcom Fighting Collection," the anthology is packed with hours of gameplay and ample quality-of-life improvements.
Phil Villarreal: I loved exploring quirkier arcade versions of games I was already familiar with. "Mercs," 'Ghosts 'n Goblins," "Commando," and "1942" are some of my favorites that I poured dozens of hours into throughout my childhood, and I had only ever dabbled in them when I found them in the arcades back in the day.
The arcade versions are uniformly tougher, but the modern enhancements make them much more manageable. The ability to pop in an infinite amount of coins to keep your game going is a godsend, as are save states. I especially appreciated the rewind feature, which allows you to undo an ill-advised mistake and correct your course without hardly a hiccup.
Which games stood out to you, Sean?
Sean Newgent: Of course, I went straight for the fighting games because nothing makes me happier than a quick skirmish in "Street Fighter" — even if I am the polar opposite of an EVO participant and can't pull off a Hadouken if my life depended on it. But nothing is more nostalgic to me than an arcade cabinet smackdown with Ken and Guile, and I enjoyed getting to recreate those memories, no matter how artificial. The game offers the chance to play on a fight stick, but my days of overnight booze-fueled "Street Fighter" beatdowns are long past, so I had to let a controller suffice.
I also found myself dabbling in the "Megaman" offerings, a pair of bizarre and honestly not-so-great fighters that are essentially a boss-rush version of the NES games. Getting to play as Bass is pretty cool; for a "Megaman" fan, these are not essential but cute little distractions.
Then there was "Capcom Sports Club," which had me playing tennis for a couple of hours.
Some of these games are a lot more accessible and fun than others. Still, as you said, Phil, the bevy of options allows gamers of any experience to drop in without feeling the stress of running out of quarters or making one small mistake that erases so much progress.
How did you like the presentation, Phil?
Phil Villarreal: I could have done without the faux-arcade borders, but I appreciated all the customization options. The ability to choose between the U.S. and Japanese ROMs is fascinating. It's near as fun to mess around with the settings and check out the different versions as playing the games themselves.
That said, there is a definite feel of a money grab going on. There may be a ton of games included, but several seem to be from the previous release or straight-up DLC. It got to the point where I winced every time I spotted a game I wanted to try. My heart could only take so much rejection when a non-included game prompted me to open the Microsoft store.
Having somehow missed the original "Capcom Arcade Stadium Game," I now strongly urge you to buy that one so I can have an even larger backlog of unplayed classics to neglect.
I wholeheartedly recommend getting "2nd Stadium," but nostalgic gamers, buyer beware — as great as it is, it's also very much a commercial for all the classic Capcom titles you don't have.
Final thoughts, Sean?
Sean Newgent: The summer of the re-release continues, Phil, and with so few new titles on the radar, with maybe the exception of "Xenoblade 3" at this point, there's something to be said about taking the time to get acquainted or reacquainted with the classics.
This collection is another homerun for Capcom as far as packaging goes, offering enough customization of the user interface and options to keep gamers as I stated after another frustrating defeat in a game meant to eat your allowance.
The selection is great and has enough classics mixed in with oddities that there will be 10 or so games that make the price of entry well-worth it, no matter the gamer.
This is another must-buy for those building their classic game collections while awaiting the next big-budget adventure.
The publisher provided review codes. Phil played the game on Xbox Series X. Sean played on PS4.
Past game reviews by Sean and Phil:
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Diablo II Resurrected
NEO: The World Ends with You
Rainbow Six: Extraction
King of Fighters XV
WWE 2K22
Weird West
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
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CALGARY, AB, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Enbridge Inc. (TSX: ENB) (NYSE: ENB) (Enbridge or the Company) announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.860 per common share, payable on September 1, 2022 to shareholders of record on August 15, 2022. The amount of the dividend is consistent with the June 1, 2022 dividend.
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BOSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Hemp Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of new strains of hemp to its already popular line of products. Boston Hemp Inc. has added Purple Urkle, Sour Dog and Gogi OG to its line-up of available hemp flower. The new strains are available as smalls. Smalls are from the same harvest as larger buds but are smaller in size. There is no difference in the levels of CBD that can be found in this smaller sized bud of these new strains. The new strains are available to be infused with additional cannabinoids such as Delta-8 THC, HHC or THC-O.
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Russia's gas company Gazprom has once again reduced the flow of natural gas to Europe. To counter that move, the EU has agreed to reduce its gas usage by 15%. But that's easier said than done.
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(The Hill) – Lawmakers are asking the inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security to step aside from an ongoing investigation into “erased” text messages at the Secret Service.
Inspector General Joseph Cuffari notified Congress earlier this month that text messages from the agency on Jan. 5 and 6 appeared to have been erased as part of a device replacement program – leaving lawmakers peeved he waited months to alert them.
“We are writing to express our grave concerns with Inspector General Cuffari’s failure to promptly notify Congress of crucial information while conducting an investigation of the Secret Service’s preparation for and response to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,” House Homeland Security Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) wrote in a letter.
“These omissions left Congress in the dark about key developments in this investigation and may have cost investigators precious time to capture relevant evidence,” they wrote.
“Inspector General Cuffari’s actions in this matter, which follow other troubling reports about his conduct as Inspector General, cast serious doubt on his independence and his ability to effectively conduct such an important investigation. In light of these serious failures, we request that Inspector General Cuffari step aside from the ongoing investigation into the Secret Service’s erasure of text messages,” the two lawmakers wrote.
It’s a remarkable request as inspectors general are expected to impartially review matters at the agencies they help hold accountable. The lawmakers ask that the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency appoint a different inspector general to conduct the investigation.
The letter alleges that Cuffari has known since December that messages sent and received by the Secret Service for that time period were no longer available.
“Yet, Inspector General Cuffari took no steps to inform Congress of this serious and flagrant violation of federal records laws,” they wrote.
Cuffari’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cuffari’s notification to Congress set off a storm of activity. The letter was forwarded to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which is also chaired by Thomspon.
Once public, the National Archives requested that DHS’s custodian of records do its own investigation into the texts and the Jan. 6 committee also subpoenaed the texts.
The Secret Service said they have just one text on record from that time period, noting that individual agents were required to preserve text messages before the agency underwent migration to a new mobile management software.
The Jan. 6 panel has since argued their handling of the matter could violate public records law.
But Tuesday’s letter indicates Cuffari’s delay could also be a violation of the law, in this case of the Inspector General Act, which requires inspectors general to report particularly serious matters to the head of their agency.
Cuffari evidently did not alert DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, something the lawmakers said: “calls into question whether Inspector General Cuffari has the professional judgment and capacity to effectively fulfill his duties in this investigation.”
His only warnings of struggles with the Secret Service came in a report earlier this year where he complained of “significant delay of OIG’s access to Secret Service records” that were “impeding” his Jan. 6 investigation.
Mayorkas’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cuffari has been the inspector general at DHS since 2019, after being nominated to the role by Trump.
The committee chairs list a long line of other grievances with Cuffari, pointing to prior letters about slow-moving investigations into the death of two children in Customs and Border Protection custody and other cases where he appeared to remove findings detailing domestic abuse and sexual harassment by DHS employees.
But they also wrote it’s “not the first time Inspector General Cuffari has shown an unwillingness to investigate the Secret Service,” saying Cuffari refused to take on excessive use of force investigations or evaluate the agency’s COVID protocols.
He also refused to investigate the Secret Service’s role in the clearing of Lafayette Park in the wake of protests into George Floyd’s death at the hands of police.
The letter gives Cuffari until August 9 to respond. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/lawmakers-ask-watchdog-to-step-aside-from-probe-into-erased-secret-service-texts/ | 2022-07-26T22:49:01Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/lawmakers-ask-watchdog-to-step-aside-from-probe-into-erased-secret-service-texts/ | true |
'I got this wrong:' Shopify CEO announces plan to lay off 10 per cent of staff
Canadian tech giant Shopify Inc.'s share price fell by more than 14 per cent Tuesday after revealing it will lay off 10 per cent of its workforce because the company misjudged the growth of the e-commerce sector.
The Ottawa e-commerce company's stock closed at $40.69 after chief executive Tobi Lutke said in a blog post that most of the staff impacted by the cut work in recruiting, support and sales.
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Shopify will also eliminate "overspecialized and duplicate" roles as well as groups that Lutke said were "convenient to have but too far removed from building products."
Shopify did not share a total number of workers affected by the cuts, but its most recent management information circular shows it ended 2021 with 10,000 employees and contractors, including 3,000 added last year alone. Ten per cent of that total would encompass 1,000 workers.
The company is carrying out the cuts because the COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in demand for Shopify's software as consumers shifted to making a higher number of purchases online, Lutke said.
Shopify bet the amount of shopping people did online instead of at brick-and-mortar retailers would leap ahead by five or 10 years from pre-pandemic predictions.
"We couldn't know for sure at the time, but we knew that if there was a chance that this was true, we would have to expand the company to match," Lutke said.
"It's now clear that bet didn't pay off."
Shopify has recently seen people are reverting to pre-pandemic shopping habits. While e-commerce is still growing steady, Lutke said it doesn't amount to a five-year leap ahead, forcing Shopify to make cuts.
"Ultimately, placing this bet was my call to make and I got this wrong. Now, we have to adjust," said Lutke.
"As a consequence, we have to say goodbye to some of you today and I'm deeply sorry for that."
Incorrect assumptions are largely to blame for Shopify's follies, said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, in a note to investors.
"Put bluntly, this was a huge strategic mistake that was driven by an insufficient understanding of customer behaviour, a lack of rigour in analyzing the market, and a bit of hubris," he said.
Yet Shopify is not alone in laying off workers. Over the last few months, Wealthsimple, Klarna, Twitter and Netflix have all shed staff as investor exuberance around tech stocks has faded, inflation has soared to an almost 40-year high and recession rumours have loomed.
Data aggregator Layoffs.fyi has counted 401 global startups that have laid off a collective 57,552 employees so far this year.
Amid a broad market sell-off that has particularly weighed on the tech sector, the price of Shopify's stock has sunk more than 78 per cent since its late 2021 peak of $222.87. The company completed a 10-for-one share split earlier this year.
The cuts coupled with Shopify's recent performance increases the likelihood the company will lower its outlook, when it releases its latest earnings Wednesday.
RBC Capital Markets analyst Paul Treiber told investors that he expected Shopify to revise its full-year expectations. The company previously suggested the number of merchants using Shopify's software would be comparable to that of 2021 and that merchant solutions revenue growth would be more than twice the rate of subscription solutions revenue growth on a year-over-year basis.
Those affected by Tuesday's layoffs will get 16 weeks of severance pay, plus an additional week for every year of tenure at Shopify. The company will also remove any equity cliff -- a minimum amount of period workers have to stay at a company before they can start receiving equity.
Laid off workers will get access to career coaching, interviewing support, resume crafting services and Shopify will cover some of their internet costs during the severance period.
Workers will also be able to keep their home office furniture the company gave them a stipend for earlier in the pandemic and will give a "kick-start allowance" that can be used to buy new laptops.
But Shopify needs to do more than cut workers, Saunders argued.
He wrote, "With Amazon ramping up its services to merchants and opening its solutions to businesses that are not part of its platform, Shopify needs to work harder to appeal to new businesses and retain those existing clients using its services."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 26, 2022. | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/i-got-this-wrong-shopify-ceo-announces-plan-to-layoff-10-per-cent-of-staff-1.18286110 | 2022-07-26T22:50:52Z | https://www.iheartradio.ca/ctv-news-content/i-got-this-wrong-shopify-ceo-announces-plan-to-layoff-10-per-cent-of-staff-1.18286110 | true |
PLYMOUTH — State, local, and federal officials are wielding an array of governmental tools to block a plan to discharge about 1 million gallons of radioactive waste water from the shutdown Pilgrim nuclear power plant into Cape Cod Bay.
Town councils on Cape Cod and the South Shore have voted to condemn the plan, the state Senate has passed an amendment to prohibit the discharge until the fall of 2024 at the earliest, and the Environmental Protection Agency said that an unauthorized discharge could result in “criminal prosecution.”
A spokesperson for Attorney General Maura Healey said that a waste water discharge would violate a permit currently held by Holtec, the company dismantling Pilgrim. “We are prepared to take action to prevent any violations,” the spokesperson said.
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But at a heated public meeting Monday evening at Plymouth Town Hall, Holtec declined to rule out the possibility of discharging waste water into the bay. The company has said that the concerns about the potential dangers to public health and the marine environment are overblown and that the water would be treated and cleaned before any kind of disposal.
The waste water currently sits in pools inside Pilgrim, which shut down in 2019 after 46 years in operation. Some of the water was used to cool spent nuclear fuel rods, which would have caused it to “[pick] up low levels of radioactivity,” according to a spokesperson for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The water is also understood to contain nonradiological pollutants.
Local residents, lobstermen, and realtors have voiced concern about possible environmental impact — such as the contamination of shellfish — or economic consequences — such as a perception, warranted or not, that the bay would not be safe for swimming. At demonstrations, protesters have held signs with slogans including “not one drop.”
“Don’t dump radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay. Period,” Diane Turco, the director of the Cape Downwinders advocacy group, said at the meeting.
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Holtec reiterated at the meeting that it will not discharge any water until an independent expert or group of experts to be selected by Senator Edward J. Markey can study the water.
The controversy has been building since last fall and came to a head Monday. At times, the meeting devolved into shouting and name calling, revealing divisions not only between Holtec and Massachusetts residents, but also between activists and state government officials, and within the local community itself.
At one point, Jack Priest, director of the state’s radiation control program, warned Barry Potvin, chairman of the Plymouth Board of Health, against spreading “disinformation.” Priest said that Potvin’s claim about the amount of tritium, a radioactive isotope, in the water was exaggerated by 10,000 times.
“We’re working hard to convince Holtec that there’s better alternatives to dispose of the water,” Priest said during the meeting, “so the important part is I think we need to remain factual.”
Potvin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The problem is that the facts, both about the waste water and about Holtec’s plans, have been hard to pin down.
A central question — What is in the water? — has not been answered, at least not to the satisfaction of some activists and regulators. The EPA said in an e-mail to the Globe that Holtec has not provided a sufficiently detailed accounting of the nonradiological pollutants in the water. (Holtec CEO Kris Singh said in a June 6 letter to Markey that the company had shared “general water quality conditions … with the EPA.”)
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Additionally, Holtec has sent mixed messages about its plans.
In May, the company publicly vowed to pause any plans to discharge waste water even as a Holtec executive made the case to the EPA, in a letter that came to light this month, that an existing permit authorized the company to do so at will. (The EPA sharply rebuked Holtec’s interpretation of the permit.)
Also in May, at a congressional hearing, Singh and Markey discussed the possibility of shipping the water to another site for disposal, instead of discharging it into the bay. After Singh said the company would consider the possibility, he wrote to Markey in his June 6 letter that the company had “discarded the idea.”
Or had it? At the Monday meeting and in e-mails to the Globe, Holtec has said shipping the waste water “is still on the table.”
Some precedents exist for releasing treated waste water from nuclear plants. In Japan, the government is preparing to release 1.25 million tons — an amount that dwarfs the million gallons stored at Pilgrim — of waste water into the Pacific from the Fukushima plant, where reactors melted down after a 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The Japanese government has said that the water can be treated to reduce radiological content to safe levels.
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In Massachusetts, the back-and-forth has set local residents on edge.
One point of frustration for local communities and activists is a sense that they have little control over a large-scale project with potentially significant implications for the region. Holtec, a New Jersey–based energy industry company, is responsible for dismantling Pilgrim and returning the site to the community in good condition.
The NRC, a federal agency, has principal regulatory oversight of the project. But other state and federal entities are increasingly asserting their own authority.
Last Thursday, the Massachusetts Senate passed an amendment to an economic development bill that would bar Holtec from discharging water into the bay until a study, overseen by the attorney general’s office, can be completed. The effort, which would not be completed until fall 2024, would assess the health, environmental, and economic impacts of a discharge.
Senator Susan Moran, a Falmouth Democrat who co-sponsored the amendment, said she was optimistic that it would be approved by the House of Representatives and become law.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency told Holtec in a stern June 17 letter that an existing permit did not authorize the company to discharge the waste water. An EPA spokesperson said last week that the agency could assess monetary penalties if Holtec discharged water in violation of the permit, adding that “knowing” violations “can result in criminal prosecution.”
At the Monday meeting, David Noyes, a Holtec compliance manager, said the company “would not pursue discharge of the water in violation of any state or federal requirements.”
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Noyes said that the waste water will be filtered before any discharge and that any remaining radioactivity would be well below the levels deemed safe by the NRC. (People are exposed to low levels of radiation on a daily basis without adverse health effects.) An NRC spokesperson said the plant has the capacity to monitor radiation levels in the water to ensure they remain safe and that any discharge would occur in small batches.
The EPA, though, wants more information about nonradiological pollutants, such as lead, zinc, or carcinogenic chemicals known as PCBs (short for polychlorinated biphenyl), before ruling on the safety of discharging the water.
Mike Damiano can be reached at mike.damiano@globe.com. Alexander Thompson can be reached at alexander.thompson@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @AlMThompson | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/26/metro/local-state-us-authorities-line-up-against-possible-plan-releasing-treated-radioactive-waste-pilgrim-plant-into-cape-cod-bay/ | 2022-07-26T22:51:42Z | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/26/metro/local-state-us-authorities-line-up-against-possible-plan-releasing-treated-radioactive-waste-pilgrim-plant-into-cape-cod-bay/ | true |
ORANGE, Conn. (AP) _ Avangrid Inc. (AGR) on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings of $184 million.
On a per-share basis, the Orange, Connecticut-based company said it had net income of 48 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 46 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 33 cents per share.
The diversified energy and utility company posted revenue of $1.79 billion in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.6 billion.
Avangrid expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.20 to $2.38 per share.
Avangrid shares have dropped roughly 7% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $46.44, a fall of 10% in the last 12 months.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Richmond’s Sheriff acknowledged the Richmond Justice Center faces staffing shortages and other issues, but she claimed reports of widespread safety concerns for deputies are not fully accurate.
CBS 6 and other outlets have received reports that deputies and inmates face near-daily attacks and physical assaults. The Richmond Free Press reported that deputies were concerned about a lack of response from jail leadership after several vicious attacks recently.
“We do have issues at the Sheriff’s Office. Yes, we do. Some of the information you’re getting is not correct,” said Sheriff Antoinette Irving at the Public Safety Committee meeting of Richmond City Council.
Irving said the jail’s population averages around 600 people and about half of them are accused or convicted of violent offenses. The Sheriff’s Office faces major staffing shortages, like many agencies, but Irving said her department currently has 160 unfilled deputy positions.
“Whatever goes on in the streets of the city of Richmond, those are things we have to deal with once those individuals are brought into our facility. So, we work diligently to separate individuals,” Irving said. “I’m not looking for excuses; I’m looking for solutions. Getting people to come to work. Making sure people are trained. That’s what I’m looking for. Getting people the mental health treatment that they need.”
Prior to Irving’s remarks, a former Richmond deputy who was injured on the job spoke out, calling for accountability for jail leaders.
“I was attacked September 13, 2020, working at the Richmond City Justice Center,” said Charles Davis, who said he no longer works at the jail. “I ended up with a concussion. I ended up with PTSD. I ended up with post-concussion syndrome. I had to hire a private attorney. I had to fight workman’s comp to get coverage for what happened to me on video within the city of Richmond jail.”
“We shouldn’t have to worry about being punched in the face, having boiling water thrown us, having people break bones,” Davis continued.
Irving acknowledged she contacted Davis after the attack and tried to work with him. Irving said the department investigates all incidents inside the Justice Center.
Reva Trammell, the chairwoman of the committee and the sole member to attend Tuesday, said the reports she received from deputies and concerned family members of inmates were alarming even with staffing shortages.
“The deputies cannot be making up all these stories, and the loved ones too,” Trammell told Irving.
“I take the responsibility for that. But when you have someone tell you I don’t care, they’re not telling you the truth,” Irving replied.
Irving and Trammell promised to collaborate on fixing the issues and called on more city leaders to help out. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/richmond-sheriff-addresses-safety-concerns-richmond-city-jail-july-26-2022 | 2022-07-26T22:56:32Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/richmond-sheriff-addresses-safety-concerns-richmond-city-jail-july-26-2022 | true |
Let’s be painfully honest, OK?
Let’s not sugarcoat anything. Let’s not be homers or dug-in defenders as the Miami Dolphins start training camp Wednesday.
Let’s tell it like it critically is:
This is the best overall Dolphins roster since they went to the AFC Championship Game in 1993.
That statement come with asterisks, plural, as I’ll get to. But it stands on its own, too. This roster has experience in good places. It filled big holes with big money for the likes of receiver Tyreek Hill and tackle Terron Armstead.
How many times in this long, long — so very long offseason did you look at all the Dolphins speed on offense and rising talent on defense and think this is the season they spent the three previous years to have?
If it’s under a dozen times, it’s only because you were busy engaged in nonsensical debates about quarterback Tua Tagovailoa or were clicking on purposeless polls. You know who you are. The overreaching and overreaction to this Dolphins era on both sides — good and bad, believers and non-believers — defies any point in team history.
The latest example was a whimsical poll by NBC Sports’ Ahmed Fareed. He seeded the coach-quarterback tandems in a battle royale brawl to pass the time to training camp.
Mike McDaniel and Tagovailoa were seeded 32nd. That’s last. That’s based on their lack of size and purported punching power compared to, say the top see of Tennessee’s Mike Vrabel and Ryan Tannehill. Goliath doesn’t always beat David, but it’s how you’d bet, right?
In a selfless act of team pride Dolphins fans stormed the ballot box with torches, pitchforks and endless mouse clicks. McDaniel and Tagovailoa won each of their online bouts and were voted the top battle royale tandem in the league. Take that, doubters.
That’s the Dolphins fan base, 2022. They’re loud. They’re online. And they’re desperate to make this all work out, meaning McDaniel and Tagovailoa don’t just succeed but become stars. The opportunity is there for each. The supporting cast is, too.
Are they up for it? Those are where you put the asterisks. They’re married to each other in the manner most coaches and quarterbacks are (ex-Dolphins coach Brian Flores and Tagovailoa being an exception). They have enough surrounding talent to make it work, assuming they can make it work.
There’s no need to debate if they will. The answer won’t come with a deep pass in June or the opening of camp Wednesday. Sit back and trust the process of 17 coming Sundays this season.
If you pick the Dolphins second in the AFC East, as many are doing, that means they’re a good break here or timely injury there from nudging ahead of Super Bowl-favorite Buffalo. Right?
Well, right?
That gets to the next issue and the new word for this franchise: Expectations. For the past three years, no one expected anything at all except some improvement. That’s the beauty of being in tanking-not-tanking mode.
Now the Dolphins assemble for training camp with the expectation to at least make the playoffs. Why else spend big on Hill and Armstead? Why fire Flores, who was one final Sunday win from the postseason?
There’s a caveat to saying this is the best Dolphins roster in three decades. It’s that few of the teams did much. That 1992 team got blown out in the AFC Championship game. Jimmy Johnson won two playoff games in three playoff years in the late-1990s. This franchise has won one itty-bitty playoff game since.
It’s no fun meeting everyone when the elevator is going down on careers. Maybe this time it can go up? Certainly that’s the way everyone is talking now. But look around. That’s how it is everywhere.
In his camp-opening news conference, New England’s tight-lipped Bill Belichick used the following phrases about second-year quarterback Mac Jones: “dramatic improvement,” “significant offseason work,” “much further along,” and “tremendous.”
It’s like he was trying to top Hill saying Tagovailoa was the “most accurate passer in the NFL.”
It’s a harmless fun and conversation, at least until September when “tremendous” Mac Jones meets “most-accurate” Tua in the season opener. Wednesday’s opening of camp is the official step toward that.
The Dolphins begin with the best general roster they’ve had in years. That’s being brutally honest. The question becomes if the asterisks get erased as this season progresses.
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EVANGELINE PARISH, La. (KLFY) – As the midway point of the 100 deadliest days for teen drivers passes, Evangeline Parish Shariff Charles Guillory spreads the message of safe driving.
The 100 deadliest days for teen drivers spans from Memorial Day to Labor Day. On average, 2,081 teen drivers were involved in fatal crashes each year between 2010 and 2019, according to AAA. 30% of those, occurred within the 100 deadliest days.
“What we recommend parents do is, I know a lot of them have apps that can follow their children around, do that,” Guillory said. “It’s okay because you’re just trying to protect your child.”
Guillory also warned that distractions could be dangerous. “A lot of times they’re distracted. Could be a cell phone, they could have two or three of their friends in the car joking and laughing. So any type of distraction that takes your eyes away from the roadway is dangerous,” Guillory stated.
In general, traffic fatalities have surged between 2019 and 2021, and this year is no different.
According to Guillory, “there has been more accidents that do result in deaths and, in order to prevent that, highway safety is going to be the most important thing.”
“The main thing is the safety aspect, just get home alive. That’s all I want, for people to get home safely,” he added.
To spread the message of safe driving, law enforcement offices like the EPSO are promoting more “Click it or Ticket” campaigns, much like the one the ESPO had last weekend.
“It resulted in 106 violations. We did stop 57 vehicles and out of 57 vehicles, we wrote 75 violations for seatbelts. All that is part of safety. The Labor Day weekend is coming and that is a big weekend for a lot of accidents. Just be careful and drive safer, that’s all we ask for,” Guillory said. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/traffic-fatalities-on-the-rise-100-deadliest-days-for-teen-drivers/ | 2022-07-26T22:57:34Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/traffic-fatalities-on-the-rise-100-deadliest-days-for-teen-drivers/ | true |
NEW YORK (AP) — Visa Inc. said Tuesday that its fiscal third quarter profits rose 32% from a year earlier, helped by yet another double-digit rise in the amount of money processed on its credit and debit card network.
The payment processing company said it earned a profit of $3.4 billion, or $1.60 a share, compared to a profit of $2.57 billion, or $1.18 a share, in the same period a year earlier. Excluding one-time costs, Visa earned $1.98 per share this quarter, which was much better than the $1.75 a share that analysts had been expecting, according to FactSet.
San Francisco-based Visa has been benefiting from a worldwide migration from cash to digital forms of payments, either through online shopping or through the increased use of contactless payments. The company processed $2.939 trillion on its network last quarter, up 12% from a year earlier. Visa earns a small fee from every transaction that crosses its network, depending on the type of transaction and the merchant who used it.
Most notably cross-border payments were up 40% from a year earlier, a signal that consumers are returning to their pre-pandemic traveling habits.
“Consumers are back on the road, visiting various corners of the world, resulting in cross-border travel volume surpassing 2019 levels for the first time since the pandemic began in early 2020,” said Al Kelly, chairman and CEO of Visa, in a statement. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Visa-s-profits-jump-32-as-consumers-start-17330848.php | 2022-07-26T22:58:08Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Visa-s-profits-jump-32-as-consumers-start-17330848.php | false |
FAIRFAX, Va., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- USmax Corporation ("USmax"), a leading provider of Global Mission Support, Cyber Security, IT Modernization, and Professional services, has been awarded a five-year task order on its GSA OASIS contract for General Support Services (GSS) to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Democracy, Development, and Innovation (DDI or "the Bureau").
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NEW YORK (AP) — A self-described manager and adviser to R. Kelly pleaded guilty Tuesday to an interstate stalking charge, less than a week after he was convicted of making a phone threat that gunfire was about to occur in a Manhattan theater where a documentary about the singer was about to be shown.
Donnell Russell, 47, of Chicago, entered the plea in Brooklyn federal court.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said Russell used threats, harassment and intimidation to silence one of Kelly’s sexual abuse victims. Kelly, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison last month, was convicted last year of racketeering and sex trafficking.
Peace said in a statement that Russell sent threatening messages to the woman and her mother and later published explicit photos of the victim on the internet.
Russell could face up to five years in prison at a Nov. 17 sentencing.
Prosecutors said the harassment campaign stretched from November 2018 to February 2020 after the woman filed a civil lawsuit against Kelly.
Last Friday, a Manhattan federal court jury found Russell guilty of threatening physical harm through interstate communication.
The jury concluded that Russell made a phone threat that forced the evacuation of a theater where Lifetime's “Surviving R. Kelly” series was to be shown, and a panel discussion was to occur featuring several women in the documentary.
Prosecutors argued during the one-week trial that Russell was trying to protect the lucrative career of Kelly, a Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling songwriter.
A trial witness had testified that a man with a deep voice had called the theater to warn that “someone had a gun and they were going to shoot up the place.” Prosecutors said the call was placed to the theater from Russell's home on a day when Russell made nine phone calls to the theater to try to stop the airing of the documentary. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/self-described-r-kelly-manager-pleads-guilty-to-stalking/UUNATKY3CVHAXHMMOE42PRTQZE/ | 2022-07-26T22:58:10Z | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/self-described-r-kelly-manager-pleads-guilty-to-stalking/UUNATKY3CVHAXHMMOE42PRTQZE/ | true |
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's only abortion clinic is preparing for what could be its final day of performing procedures, with a trigger ban due to take effect Thursday that will likely force patients to travel hundreds of miles to receive care pending the clinic's relocation across the border to Minnesota.
Barring a judge's intervention, the Red River Women's Clinic will provide abortion services Wednesday then shut down. Owner Tammi Kromenaker is building a new clinic in Moorhead, Minnesota, with the aid of nearly $1 million raised through GoFundMe.
Kromenaker has not said when the new clinic will open and she did not respond to messages Tuesday. Planned Parenthood has said it can perform abortions at its own Moorhead facility to fill the gap if needed, but it is not clear if that will happen.
Once North Dakota’s ban takes effect, the nearest abortion clinics will be in Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota, a drive of about four hours from Fargo, and in Billings, Montana, which is nearly four hours from North Dakota’s western border.
Destini Spaeth, the volunteer leader of an independent group that helps fund abortions in North Dakota, is investigating temporary solutions until the Moorhead clinic opens. That could include helping to pay for trips to Minnesota and Montana.
“To have to cross state lines and to be treated like and spoken about like a criminal in your home state and forced to travel elsewhere, pleading for care, desperate for care,” said Spaeth, spokeswoman for the North Dakota Women In Need fund. “It's got to be just so traumatic.”
Kristi Wolff, executive director of the North Dakota Women's Network, said the women's advocacy group still refers people to the Red River Women's Clinic or to a physician “if that's what's needed.” Wolff said she has fielded numerous calls from women showing “a lot of uncertainty and despair and anger" about what's in store.
“If there is no clinic operating within North Dakota, women will have to travel farther,” Wolff said. “In order to do that, they have to have the resources for adequate transportation, you know, gas money, child care, time off work, they need all those things. To have to do that just get to health care, that’s unacceptable.”
The clinic is suing in state court to block the trigger law, which was passed years ago to take effect if the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Roe v. Wade precedent establishing a right to abortion. The lawsuit argues that a ban would be contrary to the state constitution. It also argues that Attorney General Drew Wrigley prematurely started the 30-day countdown for the law to take effect.
“I'm not holding my breath for an injunction," Spaeth said. “I think we're preparing for tomorrow to be the last clinic day in North Dakota for a while.”
The first abortion clinic in Fargo opened in 1981, in a two-story house that was more than 70 years old. It was the site of intense protests in the early 1990s sparked by a national group that locked themselves to cars, trees, street signs and other objects. The clinic moved to its current location in downtown Fargo in 1998.
While the move to Moorhead will add a couple of miles for patients from the Dakotas, it will also mean that the weekly group of anti-abortion protesters won't be traveling much further. Some of them have called Wednesday's planned Fargo finale bittersweet and said they will resume their posts when the new clinic opens.
McKenzie McCoy, executive director of North Dakota Right To Life, said she’s “overjoyed the clinic is closing” but isn’t blind to the fact that the clinic is reopening a few miles away.
“So we will continue to go across to Minnesota to love these women and show that, you know, we’re here for you, regardless of the decision, but that there really are other solutions,” she said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/North-Dakota-abortion-clinic-prepares-for-likely-17330851.php | 2022-07-26T23:00:12Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/North-Dakota-abortion-clinic-prepares-for-likely-17330851.php | false |
Bethlehem is being named one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in America.
Livability.com, a website ranking the nation’s most livable small and mid-sized cities, included Bethlehem after considering such factors as economic stability, housing, amenities, infrastructure, demographics, social and civic capital, and health care. Livability examined more than 2,300 cities (with a population under 500,000) based on more than 50 data points before grouping them into categories for its data-driven analysis.
“If you’re a young person looking for a fresh start, sick of living paycheck to paycheck due to insane rent prices and want to find a community that will welcome you with open arms, this list is for you,” Livability states in the report’s introduction released on July 19.
Bethlehem came in at No. 82 on the list; the No. 1 spot went to Madison, Wisconsin. The only other Pennsylvania city to make the list was Pittsburgh, coming in at No. 9. Visit here to see the full list as well as Bethlehem’s entry. All the methodology used for the rankings can be found here.
Bethlehem’s reputation as the “Christmas City” was highlighted, as were its top industries and sectors, restaurants and entertainment venues, and high-quality educational institutions, such as Lehigh University and Moravian University, and Northampton Community College’s Fowler Family Southside Center.
“This former steel city has gone through a recent renaissance, and the Lehigh Valley is now a place that churns out patents for new products and is home to companies like OraSure Technologies and Crayola. Community traditions (there’s a Peeps drop on New Year’s Eve!), good schools, and impressive arts and culture complement the innovation,” the report states.
Bethlehem additionally was noted for its strong economy anchored by manufacturing and related industries. The city is home to such diverse employers as Lehigh Heavy Forge, a legacy of Bethlehem Steel; and Bowery Farming, which broke ground in December 2020 on its most technologically advanced project yet.
Livability recognized the Lehigh Valley Health Network and St. Luke’s University Health Network, noting the healthcare sector being a major employer for those living in the city and beyond. The report stated more than 5% of Pennsylvanians work from home with one of the largest economies in the country on top of a low cost of living in Bethlehem.
“Bethlehem is full of cafes, bars and co-working spaces for those looking to get out of a home office and plenty of parks for off-hours,” the report states. “All households in the city of Bethlehem have access to high-speed internet of up to 1,000 Mbps.”
The list highlighted such businesses as the Moravian Book Shop and amenities like Bethlehem Skateplaza; organizations like ArtsQuest; and restaurants like Tapas on Main. It also identified other nearby places to visit, such as hiking a section of the Appalachian Trail or kayaking along the Lehigh River.
The report mentions, as real estate sales hit historic highs and inflation began to uptick, more than 42% of the U.S. population has either moved or considered moving since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
“... It is more important than ever that we create homes in places that are both affordable and functional for a diverse and growing population,” the report states. “Affordability is a core value for Livability, so we look for places that are growing wages and home values while maintaining an affordable cost of living.”
In addition to Livability’s list, Bethlehem’s 18018 ZIP code last year was ranked by Realtor.com as the 12th hottest ZIP code in America.
Quick facts about Bethlehem:
Average Commute: 23.1 miles
Median Home Value: $301,006
Median Household Income: $56,034
Total Population: 75,571
Median Property Tax: $3,798
Source: Livability.com
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MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) _ Four Corners Property Trust Inc. (FCPT) on Tuesday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter.
The real estate investment trust, based in Mill Valley, California, said it had funds from operations of $33 million, or 41 cents per share, in the period.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $28.1 million, or 35 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $55.4 million in the period, which topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $55.3 million.
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The landmark trial that could reshape how Pennsylvania pays for education wrapped up Tuesday, with lawyers for the petitioners arguing that the commonwealth’s education-funding system violates its constitution and is “inadequate,” “inequitable,” and “illogical.”
Eight months after the funding trial began — and eight years after school districts, parents, and organizations filed the lawsuit — lawyers gave their post-trial arguments before Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer in a Harrisburg courtroom.
» READ MORE: A landmark case that could change school funding across Pa. is going to trial
What’s at issue in the Pa. funding case?
In a trial that stretched over four months, attorneys for the petitioners argued that less wealthy districts like Philadelphia and William Penn in Delaware County — one of the petitioners — simply cannot meet their students needs, despite a constitutional obligation to do so, because the state fails to allocate enough money to districts that educate large numbers of needy students. (Wealthier districts are better able to raise the funds they need through property taxes.)
That’s tantamount to discrimination, the petitioners argue. Administrators, teachers, and students described large classes, crumbling buildings, insufficient staff, and not enough supports in such districts.
Lawyers for defendants Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman and House Speaker Bryan Cutler said Pennsylvania meets constitutional standards; they pointed out that the commonwealth’s average per-pupil spending ranks in the top 10 states in the nation. (Still, Pennsylvania has among the biggest gaps in spending between high-wealth and low-wealth districts.)
» READ MORE: Gap between rich and poor Pa. school districts has grown, funding lawsuit says
They suggested standardized test scores were not an adequate measure of educational quality, as the petitioners had presented, and one lawyer asked a McKean County superintendent, “What use would someone on the McDonald’s career track have for Algebra 1?”
What arguments did lawyers make Tuesday?
Lawyers amplified points outlined in their post-trial filings.
Katrina Robson, arguing for the petitioners, delved into the state constitution’s education clause, asserting that the framers “imposed on the General Assembly a mandate to provide a system of education that was ‘thorough and efficient.’ Those words are critical, they have meaning, and they are why we are here today.”
Jubelirer peppered both sides with questions, noting at one point that she was playing “devil’s advocate.” She asked Robson whether a “thorough and efficient” standard would equal basic proficiency as measured by state exams (she said no), or would it mean 100% of all students were proficient on those tests?
Robson said the court must arrive at a standard that is “workable and practical.”
» READ MORE: What does Pa.’s state budget deal mean for Philly area K-12 schools?
Though the state has boosted education funding, including adding more money for the neediest districts, that still doesn’t meet the constitutional standard, lawyer Dan Urevick-Acklesberg said. (The state also adopted a fair-funding formula several years ago, but the bulk of all aid is not run through that formula. If it were, Philadelphia alone would receive about $400 million more annually.)
“It’s a generational problem,” Urevick-Acklesberg said. “You can’t climb out of it in one year.”
At issue is whether an education is constitutionally guaranteed
The constitution “does not confer a right to receive an education,” said Anthony Holtzman, a lawyer for Corman. Rather, the legislature gave children that right. The legislature is only obligated to provide a system of public schools, he said.
Thomas DeCesar, another Corman lawyer, said the court must judge only what schools provide, not what those resources produce.
“Outcomes are widely impacted by out-of-school factors,” DeCesar said. “Judging the system of education based on those outcomes, which reflect much more than what is going on in the system of education, would mean that the General Assembly is responsible and school systems are responsible for things they cannot control.”
It could be months before Jubelirer makes a decision, and whatever she decides is likely to be appealed to the state Supreme Court.
Lawyers for the respondents said that it was the General Assembly’s responsibility to determine at what level students must achieve to meet an adequacy standard, and that requiring the court to do so would mean “this court would have to become essentially a super school board. ... Courts are not supposed to act as super school boards setting educational policy.”
Gov. Tom Wolf is also a party to the lawsuit. Sophia Lee, a lawyer representing him, diverged from the legislative respondents in maintaining that the state must weigh education spending heavier than, say, spending on prisons or roads, which the state is not constitutionally obligated to provide.
“A non-constitutional need cannot take priority over the constitutional mandate for a thorough and efficient system that serves the needs of the commonwealth,” Lee said.
At one point, DeCesar was asked about building conditions in low-wealth schools — specifically a lack of heat and air-conditioning.
“I don’t believe I recall testimony about any school building not having heat,” DeCesar said. He said he recalled testimony about heat breaking on occasion, and said “almost all, if not all” air-conditioning problems “were being remedied.”
In Philadelphia, about half of all district buildings lack air-conditioning in all instructional spaces.
» READ MORE: When it’s hot, Philly schools will now only close buildings without AC. Here are the ones affected.
As lawyers argued, parents and kids rally in Harrisburg
Paul Vandy, a senior at Penn Wood High School in Delaware County, traveled to Harrisburg on Tuesday, he said, because the outcome of the trial is enormously important to him and the thousands of other students like him across the state who are learning in poor districts.
Vandy, 17, said his awareness of the problem grew when he visited neighboring schools in more well-off areas.
“It’s not right that these students a few miles down the road have all these opportunities and we don’t,” said Vandy, who said Penn Wood lacks a robust list of Advanced Placement courses and programs because of its funding situation. “We’re all still students. We’re in the same state and we have so much less than them.”
Laura Johnson, parent of three children in the Pottstown School in Montgomery County, also joined the lunchtime rally, where about three dozen people gathered in the Capitol Rotunda.
She got involved in the funding fight because “the state does not contribute to schools in a way that’s equitable or fair,” said Johnson, a Pottstown school board member.
“Our middle school doesn’t have music and it doesn’t have foreign language anymore,” said Johnson. “Things have been cut because the budget has to be balanced. And we can’t just keep continually draining our taxpayers.”
What happens next?
Oral arguments, which lasted all day, finished Tuesday. It could be months before Jubelirer makes a decision, and whatever she decides is likely to be appealed to the state Supreme Court. | https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania-school-funding-trial-arguments-20220726.html | 2022-07-26T23:05:33Z | https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania-school-funding-trial-arguments-20220726.html | false |
WATCH: Nursing monk seal attacks swimmer to protect her pup in Hawaii
WAIKIKI (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) – A protective monk seal attacked a swimmer in Waikiki on Sunday morning.
The encounter was caught on camera around 8 a.m. at Kaimana Beach.
Before the incident, witness Markus Faigle said the monk seal mom appeared to lose her pup around the corner and started barking.
“I can’t imitate it, but it basically freezes your soul because she’s looking for the pup, and then she found the pup, and then she went back to the part where she normally is, the Diamond Head side of the beach,” Faigle said.
Video shows the woman swimming about 20 to 25 feet offshore. Once her head pops out of the water, the mother monk seal charges at her.
“So, I guess that’s mother’s instinct to protect her pup,” said witness Curt Otsuka. “Everybody was yelling ‘Careful, careful, get away.’”
Marine life officials said the woman was previously warned of the dangers of being in the area.
Bystanders pulled her from the water. Witnesses said the woman appeared to have an injury to her upper arm. EMS crews responded and took her for further treatment.
Officials with the Department of Land and Natural Resources said the woman is a 60-year-old elementary school teacher from California. She and her husband, who have been in Hawaii for three weeks, were questioned by state officials to learn more about what happened.
Signs and a rope perimeter were up along that stretch of shoreline ever since a monk seal mom named Rocky gave birth to a pup there in early July.
The Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) team are keeping a watchful eye on the monk seal pair. In a statement, the HMAR team reminds people to respect posted warning signs and keep their distance on land and in the water.
“People are again reminded that Hawaiian monk seal moms with pups are protective, can be dangerous, and have inflicted serious wounds on nearby swimmers. We continue to warn people not to engage in in-water activities when a monk seal mother with a pup are in the area and to stay at least 150 feet from mother seals with pups,” HMAR said.
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NYPD transit chief tells MTA board that assaults on officers have skyrocketed
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NEW YORK, New York (WABC) — NYPD transit chief Jason Wilcox told MTA board members at a meeting Monday that assaults on his officers have skyrocketed this year. In many cases, Wilcox said, while officers are attempting to enforce so-called quality of life infractions.
“We have seen over a 55% increase in assaults on police officers this year. The majority of these assaults on our officers began as officers were engaging persons who committed fare evasion and other quality of life violations on the trains and in the stations,” Wilcox said.
During a recent incident in Harlem, officers said a teen turned on them in a rage and for several minutes, it was pandemonium in the 125th Street station. Video showed the teen throwing punches and landing punches as the officers struggled to arrest him.
He was eventually subdued and taken into custody and then released within 24 hours without posting bail, to the frustration of MTA officials.
“I don’t understand how the law would permit that guy to be released-when he has two priors that he’s already out on the street for-to have him immediately released for that attack on a police officer. I don’t get it. I know our riders don’t get it,” MTA Chairman Janno Lieber said.
Police officials said the officers were attacked after they spotted the teen jumping the turnstile with his girlfriend and that he lashed out at them after they told the couple to leave the subway station.
The teen had two recent prior arrests, including one case where he was arrested with several others in possession of a loaded 40-caliber gun and a crossbow.
It was one of two attacks on NYPD transit officers this past weekend.
“The criminals underground know they can get in a brawl, choke a cop and be back out in hours,” said PBA president Patrick Lynch. “Cops are putting ourselves on the line to make the subways safer, but we are feeling abandoned by a justice system that won’t back us up.”
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Little Rock police have arrested a man in connection with a robbery at Stickyz Rock'n'Roll Chicken Shack after the business reported a man stealing bottles of liquor from the bar.
Danielle Deedon, an employee at Stickyz, witnessed the crime and attempted the confront the individual.
The man reportedly walked around the bar and threatened Deedon, warning her to, "Keep quiet or get shot".
The suspect fled the scene and was later located by police and identified as Patrick Smith.
At the time of his arrest, Smith was publically intoxicated and had two bottles of liquor in his possession that matched the description of the stolen property.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Over the weekend, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox as a public health emergency and asked for a worldwide effort to contain the outbreak.
“It can start like a little red spot,” CDC HIV Prevention Director Demetre Daskalakis said while describing monkeypox.
“It can become a pimple then it becomes a bigger pimple, and then eventually the pimple breaks. It becomes a scab and then it’s covered over with skin,” Daskalakis said.
The disease is spread by close contact, and at this point, mostly affects men who have sex with men. But it is not just a sexually transmitted disease, as anyone in close contact with someone who’s infected is at risk. The World Health Organization says the monkeypox outbreak has become a significant threat to global health.
“So it’s really important for general information to go out about how monkeypox transmits and what the disease looks like,” Daskalakis said.
According to the CDC, more than 3,400 cases are confirmed in the U.S. Those who contract monkeypox will experience a fever, severe muscle aches, exhaustion, and will eventually develop the rash. The White House says it is doing its part to address the health crisis both at home and abroad.
“First, is to dramatically scale up procurement, production and distribution of vaccines. Second, is to significantly expand access to testing” White House COVID Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said.
The CDC encourages Americans at risk and those in close contact with them, to get the monkeypox vaccine, once the FDA approves additional doses and it becomes more available. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/white-house-cdc-take-steps-to-deal-with-monkeypox-outbreak-as-w-h-o-declares-public-health-emergency/ | 2022-07-26T23:09:30Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/white-house-cdc-take-steps-to-deal-with-monkeypox-outbreak-as-w-h-o-declares-public-health-emergency/ | false |
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Describing himself as playing a game of poker, Jerry Jones acknowledged he had options for who would be the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys this season.
In retaining Mike McCarthy for a third year, Jones decided the hand he held was worth playing a little longer.
“We won 12 games last year. I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t get a little bit of feel good out of those 12 games. ... That’s not enough. But it’s enough to go again,” Jones said.
Jones, the Cowboys' owner and general manager, used the opening statement of a news conference Tuesday ahead of the start of training camp to deliver a defense of McCarthy following offseason of speculation about his job security.
“I want to be real clear. He wouldn’t be sitting here today if I didn’t think he was the man to lead this team to a Super Bowl. He would not be, and I have choices. So that’s not meant to be insensitive to anybody. That’s a fact,” Jones said.
McCarthy led the Cowboys to a 12-5 record, their best mark since 2016, and the NFC East division title this past season before losing 23-17 to the San Francisco 49ers in a wild-card playoff game at home. The chaotic nature of that defeat, in which Dallas ran out of time before being able to attempt a final play from the San Francisco 24-yard line following quarterback Dak Prescott’s designed run, and a plethora of available candidates including offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, and former New Orleans Saints head coach and Dallas assistant Sean Payton resulted in a torrent of conjecture about McCarthy’s future.
Jones believes the Cowboys can continue to build on the regular-season success McCarthy had last year. That would represent significant progress for a franchise that has not made the postseason in consecutive years under the same coach since Chan Gailey in 1998-99.
“I think we’re in better shape today to make a run at it than when we were sitting here this time last year,” Jones said.
McCarthy said Jones’ public statement reflected their private discussions.
“I obviously have the opportunity to meet with Jerry in the GM, the head coach realm, and our conversations are about partnership, direction, vision,” McCarthy said. “But also I do have the opportunity to speak to Jerry as the owner to the head coach. ... I think it just really is in line with our conversations, and that’s really where my focus has always been is on this partnership.”
McCarthy signed a five-year contract in January 2020. He is 18-15 in his first two seasons with the Cowboys and 143-92-2 overall in 15 seasons as an NFL head coach, having led the Green Bay Packers to the Super Bowl in the 2010 season.
However, with his typical flamboyance, Jones offered reminders that how he feels about McCarthy and the team could be different in a few months.
Asked how he communicates the urgency to return to a Super Bowl to the organization, Jones replied: “Told ’em I got a birthday coming up here real quick. I don’t have time to have a bad time. It ain’t on my schedule.”
Following some chuckles from assembled reporters, Jones said, “I’m not so sure that’s a joke. That’s the way it is.”
NOTES: Jones said there has been no guidance if CB Kelvin Joseph will face discipline under the NFL’s personal conduct policy. Joseph was a passenger in a sport utility vehicle from which a man was fatally shot in Dallas in March, but he was cleared of wrongdoing and will not face charges. ... Chief operating officer Stephen Jones expressed optimism a long-term contract extension with TE Dalton Schultz will be reached. Schultz will play this season on the franchise tag worth $10.9 million after the two sides were unable to negotiate a new deal by the July 15 deadline.
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Police: California burglar forgot keys inside crime scene
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California burglar returned to the scene of the crime this weekend after he forgot his keys inside a doughnut company’s corporate office.
The thief stole some petty cash from Johnny Doughnuts’ office in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday night, police said. In another twist, he also grabbed the keys to a bakery vehicle, but didn’t steal the vehicle itself.
San Rafael police are seeking the public’s help to identify the burglar, who used an unknown tool to “manipulate” the office’s doorknob and get inside around 10 p.m., according to Lt. Dan Fink. The crime was reported to police on Monday.
Surveillance video shows the man moving between the office and a back storage area, where he pried open a filing cabinet, Fink said.
The lieutenant said the thief took a bank bag with an unknown amount of cash.
“Part of the investigating is finding out why this specific business was targeted,” he said.
Representatives from Johnny Doughnuts did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.
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Liz Truss has pledged to publish police league tables while asking forces to slash serious crime by 20% if she wins the race for No 10.
The Tory leadership hopeful also said she wants police to “spend their time investigating real crimes, not Twitter rows and hurt feelings”.
If she becomes prime minister at the beginning of September, Ms Truss said her Government would tell police to cut homicide, serious violence and neighbourhood crime by a fifth by the end of this parliament.
She would release crime rate statistics showing how each force is performing against the national average, with leaders of underperforming ones forced to set out plans to improve.
Ms Truss also wants every domestic burglary to be attended by a police officer in person.
In her bid to win over Tory members before they start voting for their party’s leader next week, the Foreign Secretary said she would give police and crime commissioners more powers to “veto training that focuses on identity politics”.
Free speech would be protected in the code of practice governing hate incidents, she said.
Ms Truss said: “People across our country want criminals locked up, and crime prevented, so they feel safe on their streets.
“We and our fantastic Conservative police and crime commissioners have made good progress since the 2019 election, with over 13,000 new police officers on the streets and the increase in powers and resources having a real impact in communities around the country, but we now need to go further and faster.
“It’s time for the police to get back to basics and spend their time investigating real crimes, not Twitter rows and hurt feelings. People can trust me to deliver and these league tables will help hold the police to account – making our streets safer and our country more prosperous.”
The Commons Public Accounts Committee recently warned that the Home Office faces “significant challenges” in hiring another 6,500 officers by next March to reach the Conservative manifesto target of 20,000.
MPs on the powerful committee criticised the programme’s focus so far “on getting people through the door” without setting out how the new officers’ impact on crime will be assessed.
A Truss campaign source said: “Burglars, thugs and murderers should expect to be taken off our streets and thrown behind bars, but it’s unfortunate that some chief constables are not cracking down as hard as they should be.
“Liz will hold their feet to the fire, and these newly published statistics will help the public do the same.”
A campaign spokesperson for Rishi Sunak said: “A lightweight plan based on publishing data the Government already does and a power grab away from Police and Crime Commissioners, including many excellent Conservative PCCs driving down crime in their area.
“The real way to get crime down is more police on the streets, which is why Rishi Sunak has prioritised funding to get these 20,000 new officers by the next general election.
“And on ‘non crime hate incidents’, we don’t need a code of practice. Things are either illegal or legal. Free speech is legal and the police should not be wasting time getting involved, and they won’t in a Rishi Sunak government.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3534121/truss-vows-to-tell-forces-to-cut-crime-by-20-and-police-streets-not-twitter/ | 2022-07-26T23:12:35Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3534121/truss-vows-to-tell-forces-to-cut-crime-by-20-and-police-streets-not-twitter/ | false |
The next prime minister should cut red tape for housing, childcare and energy to help counter spiralling costs for households, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has said.
In a new report, the free-market think tank argues that cash handouts “act as mere sticking plasters” and drive up inflation.
Instead, the Government should focus on deregulation, the IEA said, in proposals branded “alarming and dangerous” by critics.
The IEA said that childcare costs, which in the UK have risen to one of the highest levels in the developed world, could be cut by around 40% – or more than £300 per child per month – by relaxing staff-to-children ratios and other rules.
It said easing land use planning restrictions could see private sector rents in England drop by 35%, saving the average household around £250 per month.
Deregulation of the energy market and tax cuts, including removing VAT on fuel, could reduce transport costs for the typical consumer by £200-250 a year, and energy bills by around £240, the IEA added.
The think tank also called for tax reductions on alcohol, cigarettes and sugary drinks.
Matthew Lesh, IEA head of public policy, said: “The cost-of-living crisis is an ideal opportunity to reconsider the underlying policies that are driving up costs for families.
“Britain needs a serious supply-side reform agenda that would significantly boost quality of life for millions, make life easier for entrepreneurs and unlock our stalled productivity”.
Dr Kristian Niemietz, head of political economy at the IEA, said: “In a number of important sectors, Government policy is systematically driving up the cost of living for no good reason, and has been doing so for a long time”.
But representatives from the progressive think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) criticised the IEA’s suggestions.
Joshua Emden, a senior research fellow at IPPR, said: “At a time when people’s incomes are being squeezed, stripping protection from their homes, children and our energy system would be alarming and dangerous.
“For example, removing planning permissions leads to poor-quality housing and energy bills that can be as much as £500 higher than they need to be.”
Rachel Statham, an associate director at IPPR, added: “The notion that our childcare crisis can be resolved by slashing staff-to-child ratios – a key marker of quality in the sector – is a fundamental misdiagnosis of the problem.
“In order to deliver on the promise of levelling up on children’s outcomes we need to see efforts to improve affordability alongside measures to improve the quality of early years education, or else we can expect to see gaps between disadvantaged children and their peers widen further”. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3534208/cut-red-tape-in-housing-childcare-and-energy-think-tank-urges-government/ | 2022-07-26T23:12:56Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3534208/cut-red-tape-in-housing-childcare-and-energy-think-tank-urges-government/ | false |
Family murdered in tent at campground, 9-year-old boy the only survivor
MAQUOKETA, Iowa (AP) - A 9-year-old boy who was camping at an Iowa state park with his parents and 6-year-old sister survived a shooting that killed the rest of his family.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety identified the victims as Tyler Schmidt, 42; his 42-year-old wife, Sarah Schmidt; and their 6-year-old daughter, Lula Schmidt, all of Cedar Falls, Iowa. Their bodies were found in their tent early Friday at the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground, about 180 miles east of Des Moines.
Authorities said the suspected gunman, 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin, was found dead Friday in a wooded area of the park with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Department of Public Safety’s division of criminal investigation, told The Associated Press on Saturday that the motive for the attack was still unknown.
“We don’t know what led up to this, what precipitated it,” he said, adding that so far, “the investigation has not revealed any early interaction between the Schmidt family and him.”
Adam Morehouse, Sarah Schmidt’s brother, said the family had no connection to Sherwin and he believed it was a “completely random act.”
Cedar Falls Mayor Rob Green, who said he is a neighbor of the Schmidts, posted on Facebook on Friday that the couple’s 9-year-old son, Arlo, “survived the attack, and is safe.” The post did not say whether Arlo was in the tent or even at the campsite when the shootings happened, and the mayor told the AP he didn’t have those details.
Morehouse confirmed Arlo was on the family’s camping trip, but said he did not know exactly where the boy was at the time of the shooting or know specifics about how it unfolded.
“He is with family and he is OK, but I have not had any interaction with him,” Morehouse said Saturday. “As far as I know, he was uninjured physically.”
By Saturday evening, more than $75,000 had flowed into a GoFundMe page created for Arlo. The page, organized by a cousin, Beth Shapiro, said: “Arlo is a strong boy, surrounded by family and friends who are supporting him as best we can.” The page says the fund will help Arlo now, and help fund his future education.
The killings prompted the evacuation of the park and campground, including a children’s summer camp. After the evacuations, Sherwin was the only person unaccounted for, Mortvedt said.
He said that during the course of the investigation, authorities learned Sherwin was armed and “that of course heightened our awareness.” Iowa allows people with permits to carry firearms virtually anywhere in the state. Officials did not say if Sherwin had a permit and provided no information about the firearm used to kill the Schmidts.
The Des Moines Register reported that Sherwin was from La Vista, Nebraska. La Vista Police Chief Bob Lausten told the newspaper that Sherwin lived in an apartment complex with his parents and had no history of criminal conduct.
Felicia Coe, 35, of Des Moines, was at the campground Friday morning with her boyfriend and his two sons, ages 11 and 16. She said the 16-year-old went out early to go running, and she was talking with someone at the park at about 6:30 a.m. when two park rangers dressed in helmets, vests and carrying what looked like automatic rifles told them to leave the campground.
More law enforcement and an ambulance showed up as Coe went to find her boyfriend’s teenage son.
At the time, Coe did not know what happened. But she recalls seeing a little boy standing near the paramedics.
“He was in his pajamas. I distinctly remember he had one blue tennis shoe,” she said. She later saw a picture of the Schmidt family online and said she recognized the boy she saw as Arlo.
“He’s got this really cute, floppy-curly, moppy, strawberry-blond hair that’s really distinguishable,” Coe said. “He was in these super cute little pajamas, like a cotton T-shirt and shorts that matched. ... He was just standing there. He wasn’t crying. He wasn’t distraught. But he also wasn’t being comforted. He was just standing there by himself.”
She said the campers got little information about what happened and she began piecing it together on the drive home.
“It’s hard to be so grateful that it wasn’t your family, when you know that another family, is just being ripped apart — multiple families,” she said.
Green, the Cedar Falls mayor, said Sarah Schmidt worked at the city’s Public Library, which was closed Saturday.
“Like many of you just hearing the news, I’m devastated,” Green wrote on Facebook. “I knew Sarah well, and she & her family were regular walkers here in the Sartori Park neighborhood. I was working with her this week on a public library tech presentation for 7/26.”
Morehouse said Tyler Schmidt’s parents live in the Cedar Falls area, and Sarah Schmidt’s family members are scattered around the country, but were heading to Iowa. He said Tyler and Sarah lived in Lawrence, Kansas, for a time, where Sarah worked at the University of Kansas. Tyler was an IT software engineer. At one point, he said, Sarah worked on a project about monarch butterflies, and the couple were huge Kansas Jayhawks fans.
In 2018, the Schmidts moved to Cedar Falls and had been active in the community ever since, Morehouse said. He said they loved the outdoors, and just got four pairs of snowshoes for Christmas.
“The best way to describe all four of them was the quintessential Midwestern family. They gave everybody everything they possibly could. They loved family ... They enjoyed the outdoors, enjoyed the hiking — and this is just a question mark of ‘Why that campground and that campsite on that night?’”
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Forliti reported from Minneapolis.
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An earlier version of this article misspelled Lula Schmidt’s first name.
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SÃO PAULO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Telefônica Brasil - (B3: VIVT3; NYSE: VIV), announces its results for 2Q22.
Acceleration of the customer base evolution leads to double-digit revenue growth
Net Operating Revenue grew 11.1% YoY (or +7.6% YoY when excluding the effect of the Oi Mobile acquisition) led by Mobile Service Revenue which increased 15.1% on a yearly comparison (or +9.4% YoY when excluding the effect of
the Oi Mobile acquisition). Revenue increase was driven by the accelerated expansion of the customer base growth, which now has 114 million total accesses, due to the incorporation of Oi Mobile and solid organic growth in the quarter. Handset revenue had a robust increase of 26.4% YoY, given the larger portfolio of smartphones and accessories at Vivo's stores.
We added 4,671 thousand postpaid accesses with the acquisition of Oi Mobile. However, our organic growth also presented solid additions of 1,361 thousand new accesses this quarter. Core services subscribers account now for 93.1% of all accesses, a 2.9 p.p. YoY increase.
Vivo reached 5.0 million (+24.8% YoY) homes connected with FTTH. Currently, Vivo's FTTH coverage is available in 354 cities (+13 cities in 2Q22), with 21.0 million homes passed.
Core fixed revenue (+10.8% YoY), now corresponds to 73.3% (+6.0 p.p.) of our Net Fixed Revenue (+1.7% YoY). This growth relates to a 23.7% YoY increase in FTTH Revenue, as we continue to expand our network and connect customers throughout Brazil. Core business revenue now represents 91.6% (+2.9 p.p.) of total revenues.
Recurring Total Costs grew 12.9% YoY, slightly above inflation (IPCA-12M), which increased 11.9%.
Recurring EBITDA totaled R$4,578 million (+8.3% YoY) in 2Q22, with a Recurring EBITDA margin of 38.7%.
Free Cash Flow after Leases reached R$ 2.2 billion this quarter (+15.5% YoY).
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Majid Haq has noted “deafening silence” from Scotland players following the publication of a report which found the governing body institutionally racist.
The testimonies of Haq and former international team-mate Qasim Sheikh prompted an independent review which found 448 examples of institutional racism in Cricket Scotland.
A day after the damning report was published, the pair’s solicitor, Aamer Anwar, questioned what the point was in Scotland players “taking the knee” during the T20 World Cup when “no white team member has chosen to say anything much or at all over the last few days on institutional racism”.
Answering the question on Twitter, Haq said: “Looks like it was nothing other than a bit of virtue signalling & tick box exercise because the deafening silence from a lot of them speaks volumes.
“They might feel uncomfortable but their privilege is never having to think you’ll not make the team because of racism.”
Scotland face New Zealand at the Grange in Edinburgh on Wednesday in a T20 encounter, the first of a three-game series against the tourists.
Sheikh praised former skipper George Salmond for speaking out on Monday to support him and Haq and also demand change.
He wrote: “The late Asim Butt told me when I was 15 that the reason he loved playing for (Scotland) was because of his captain @SalmondG – now I see why, proper leader.”
Haq also responded to a comment from Jameel Gardee, a cricket coach, who claimed he had been asked by a Cricket Scotland director to delete a tweet questioning Haq’s punishment in 2015 and threatened with disciplinary action.
Haq was sent home from the World Cup by Cricket Scotland, suspended for three months and never played for his country again after writing a tweet which hinted that race played a part in him being dropped.
Scotland’s record wicket-taker wrote: “Several people have told me that the senior people in charge @CricketScotland have warned them to stay away from me & to stop engaging with me on social media otherwise it might harm their chances of progressing which is pathetic.”
Sheikh added: “Sadly the same has been said to me from a number of ex @CricketScotland staff members who were also told not to engage with me!”
Haq has questioned why more is not being asked of the authorities after the institutional racism was allowed to happen “for so many years” and included the Scottish Government, Sportscotland and the International Cricket Council in his tweet.
The ICC, which is staging its annual conference in Birmingham, has responded to the report findings.
A spokesperson said: “Discrimination of any kind has no place in cricket and everyone involved in the sport has a responsibility to create a safe and welcoming environment.
“Cricket is a sport for everyone and we will support the new board and leadership at Cricket Scotland as they work to ensure the sport is more diverse and inclusive.”
The entire Cricket Scotland board stepped down on Sunday and Sportscotland, the national agency for sport, has placed the governing body under special measures until at least October 2023 following the review recommendations.
The report also recommended the Western District Cricket Union, one of five regional associations, be placed under special measures by Cricket Scotland with its disciplinary processes immediately halted.
A statement from the organisation read: “The WDCU has made contact with Cricket Scotland in connection with the recommendations of the report, and will work with the national governing body, and Sportscotland, going forward in the aftermath of the report.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3533968/majid-haq-deafening-silence-speaks-volumes-in-wake-of-cricket-scotland-review/ | 2022-07-26T23:14:02Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3533968/majid-haq-deafening-silence-speaks-volumes-in-wake-of-cricket-scotland-review/ | false |
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — It's been five days since the tragic shooting at Maquoketa Caves State Park that killed three members of a Cedar Falls family: Sarah, Tyler and Lula Schmidt.
As the Cedar Falls community reels from the tragedy, however, residents feel no closer to finding answers.
As they continue to process the grief, they are finding new ways to memorialize the victims. At the Cedar Falls Public Library, where Sarah worked, there's a painted memorial to her and her lost family members on one of the building's windows.
One resident who spoke to Local 5 today said she just recently moved into town, and hearing about the tragedy came as a shock.
"I never in a million years would've thought that within two months, I would hear a story like this," said Karen Sego. "It's just so shocking and so random. It just seems extra wrong because of that.".
A GoFundMe has been set up for the family's surviving 9-year-old son, Arlo. So far, the online fundraiser has raised more than $200,000.
According to Cedar Falls Mayor Rob Green, a celebration of life for the Schmidt family is scheduled for the evening of Aug. 2 at Overman Park. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/maquoketa-caves-state-park-shooting-memorial-cedar-falls-reaction/524-a6f4adff-c13e-4197-815a-cd0a36530fd1 | 2022-07-26T23:14:41Z | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/maquoketa-caves-state-park-shooting-memorial-cedar-falls-reaction/524-a6f4adff-c13e-4197-815a-cd0a36530fd1 | false |
Yvette Nicole Brown's latest project is her most magical yet.
The actress is joining the likes of Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden and Idina Menzel for the upcoming Disney+ film Disenchanted, a sequel to 2007's Enchanted. Without spoiling what surprises are in store, the Community alum revealed that fans of the original movie musical will be pleased with the new installment exclusively on E! News' Daily Pop, while promoting Heirs of Afrika's 5th Annual International Women of Power Awards.
"It's just gonna be a wonderful romp through Ireland," Brown told Daily Pop's Loni Love and Essence Atkins on July 26. "We were in Ireland last summer for three months, and it's a love letter to those that love the original Enchanted. And I am one of those fans that was waiting forever, and I can't believe that I get to be in the sequel."
Set to release this Thanksgiving, the film—directed by Adam Shankman—is set 10 years after the original and also stars Glee alum Jayma Mays and comedian Maya Rudolph, who will portray the movie's villain.
While fans will have to wait a few more months to find out what Giselle (Adams) and Robert (Dempsey) have been up to since their last on-screen appearance, Brown shared some behind-the-scenes details on Daily Pop, stating being on set was almost like "being inside a jukebox."
"Everybody that was on the set can sing, and our director Adam Shankman played music in between each take," the 50-year-old shared. "Amy Adams and Maya Rudolph would just start doing two-part harmony—I tried to get in, Jayma would get in. So, it was just a lot of fun, just lovely people."
In addition sharing what an excellent time she had working on Disenchanted, Brown also had a glowing review for their filming location.
"And if you have not been to Ireland," she added, "go to Ireland."
Check out the full interview above, ahead of the International Women of Power Awards, which take place on July 31 at the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles Hotel.
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2 adults face numerous child abuse, sex abuse charges after 5-year-old dies
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (Gray News) – Two people are facing numerous abuse and sex crime charges after a 5-year-old boy died in Maryland.
According to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a home after receiving a call about an unconscious child on Friday afternoon.
First responders attempted life-saving measures on the 5-year-old boy, and he was rushed to a children’s hospital in Washington D.C., where he was pronounced dead.
Following an investigation, detectives arrested the boy’s mother, 30-year-old Catherine Thrasher, and an adult male, identified as Timothy Lee Haselden.
Authorities did not specify Haselden’s relationship to Thrasher or to the victim.
Haselden is charged with the following:
- Child Abuse 1st Degree: Death less than 13 years old
- Rape 1st Degree
- Rape 2nd Degree
- Assault 1st Degree
- Assault 2nd Degree
- Child Abuse 2nd Degree: Custodian
- Child Abuse 1st Degree: Severe Physical Injury
- Neglect of a minor
- Sex Abuse of a Minor
Thrasher is charged with the following:
- Child Abuse 1st Degree: Death less than 13
- Assault 1st Degree
- Assault 2nd Degree
- Child Abuse 1st Degree: Severe Physical Injury
- Sex Abuse of a Minor
- Child Abuse 2nd Degree: Custodian
- Neglect of a minor
Both Haselden and Thrasher are being held without bond at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Detention Center.
The child’s body was taken to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Washington D.C. for an autopsy. A cause of death has not yet been released.
Detectives found that two other children, ages 2 and 3, were living in the home at the time of the 5-year-old’s death. The 2-year-old was taken to the hospital for treatment of undisclosed injuries and was released. Both children are now in the care of the Washington County Department of Social Services.
The sheriff’s office did not provide further details.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – According to new data from the Arkansas Department of Health, active cases of COVID-19 in the state have been seeing a continued decline over the past week.
The ADH reported Tuesday that Arkansas currently has 15,516 active cases of the virus, down 65 from the previous day. The latest figures also put the state’s pandemic case total at 897,760, which is up 1,485 from Monday.
There are currently 418 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the Natural State, an increase of five. The number of COVID patients in ICUs decreased by seven to now stand at 70, while the number of COVID-19 patients on ventilators remains at 15.
There were five deaths attributed to COVID-19 added Tuesday, pushing the total for the state to 11,678.
Currently, 1,649,186 Arkansans are fully vaccinated, with another 287,487 residents being partially vaccinated. | https://www.kark.com/news/health/coronavirus/covid-19-in-arkansas-active-cases-see-continued-decline/ | 2022-07-26T23:19:07Z | https://www.kark.com/news/health/coronavirus/covid-19-in-arkansas-active-cases-see-continued-decline/ | true |
MADISON, Wis., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wisconsin cheese, butter and yogurt makers win the most awards of any state, totaling more than one-fourth (26%) of all awards at the 2022 American Cheese Society Judging and Competition in Portland, Ore. That's twice the awards won by the next closest competing state.
In total, Wisconsin dairy product artisans earned 27 first place awards, 33 second place and 30 third place. An impressive 28 Wisconsin cheese and dairy companies received awards demonstrating the depth and breadth of Wisconsin Dairy. The ACS Competition shines a spotlight on American cheesemakers by showcasing their talents and work as leaders within the industry, both for their excellent cheesemaking and commitment to food safety. The 2022 ACS competition included 1,387 entries from 196 companies. Awards are given to cheeses and cultured dairy products which have achieved technical excellence and exhibit the highest aesthetic qualities.
"We are incredibly proud of the artisanship and innovation within the Wisconsin dairy community. Wisconsin's dairy heritage is evident in every wedge of cheese, stick of butter and cup of yogurt they make," said Chad Vincent, CEO for Wisconsin Cheese and Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin. "With access to the world's best milk and cheesemaking traditions dating back to before Wisconsin was a state, our cheesemakers never stop obsessing, creating and recreating to craft award-winning products."
The Buholzer family of Klondike Cheese Company had a strong show taking home 15 awards for their expertise in yogurt and cheeses including various feta varieties, muenster and brick. Klondike Cheese has been producing award winning cheese at the same location since the late 1800's and today is home to six Master Cheesemakers. The three brothers of the leading third generation – Ron, Dave and Steve Buholzer – along with Adam Buholzer, son of Steve and representing the fourth generation, as well as Matt Erdley and Ron Bechtolt, have all achieved Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker status. Wisconsin's Master Cheesemaker Program® is one of only two in the world and takes 15 years to complete.
Among the all-star roster of winners from Wisconsin are Marieke Gouda of Thorp with 9 awards, Schuman Cheese of Turtle Lake with 7 awards, Widmer's Cellars of Theresa with 7 awards, The Artisan Cheese Exchange of Sheboygan with 5 awards, BelGioioso of Green Bay with 4 awards, Crave Brothers of Waterloo with 4 awards, Cedar Grove of Plain with 3 awards, Hook's Cheese of Mineral Point with 3 awards, Nasonville of Marshfield with 3 awards, Prairie Farms of Shullsburg with 3 awards, Ron's of Kewaunee with 3 awards and Sartori of Plymouth with 3 awards. For more Wisconsin cheese wins and a complete listing of the 2022 ACS winners, visit CheeseJudging.org
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Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University
(THE CONVERSATION) Russia intends to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, according to an announcement from Yuri Borisov, the new head of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, in a meeting with Vladimir Putin on July 26, 2022. Borisov also said future efforts will focus on a new a Russian space station.
Current agreements on the ISS have it operating through 2024, and the station needs Russian modules to stay in orbit. The U.S. and its partners have been seeking to extend the station’s life to 2030. Russia’s announcement, while not a breach of any agreement or an immediate threat to the station’s daily operation, does mark the culmination of months of political tensions involving the ISS.
Over its 23-year lifetime, the station has been an important example of how Russia and the U.S. can work together despite being former adversaries. This cooperation has been especially significant as the countries’ relationship has deteriorated in recent years. While it remains unclear whether the Russians will follow through with this announcement, it does add significant stress to the operation of the most successful international cooperation in space ever. As a scholar who studies space policy, I think the question now is whether the political relationship has gotten so bad that working together in space becomes impossible.
What would this withdrawal look like?
Russia operates six of the 17 modules of the ISS – including Zvezda, which houses the main engine system. This engine is vital to the station’s ability to remain in orbit and also to how it moves out of the way of dangerous space debris. Under the ISS agreements, Russia retains full control and legal authority over its modules.
It is currently unclear how Russia’s withdrawal will play out. Russia’s announcement speaks only to “after 2024.” Additionally, Russia did not say whether it would allow the ISS partners to take control of the Russian modules and continue to operate the station or whether it would require that the modules be shut down completely.
Given that the Russian modules are necessary to station operations, it’s uncertain whether the station would be able to operate without them. It’s also unclear whether it would be possible to separate the Russian modules from the rest of the ISS, as the entire station was designed to be interconnected.
Depending on how and when Russia decides to pull out of the station, partner countries will have to make tough choices about whether to deorbit the ISS altogether or find creative solutions to keep it in the sky.
A continuation of political tensions
The announcement of the withdrawal is the latest in a series of events concerning the ISS that have occurred since Russia first invaded Ukraine in February. Russia’s decision to leave should not have a significant effect on the daily function of ISS. Like a number of minor incidents that have happened over the previous months, it is more of a political action.
The first incident occurred in March, when three Russian cosmonauts emerged from their capsule in yellow and blue flight suits that were similar in color to the Ukrainian flag. Despite the resemblance, Russian officials never spoke about the coincidence. Then, on July 7, 2022, NASA publicly criticized Russia for apparently staging a propaganda photo. In the photo, the three Russian cosmonauts pose with flags associated with regions in eastern Ukraine occupied by Russian forces.
There have been no disruptions to the operation of the station itself. Astronauts on the station continue to perform dozens of experiments every day, as well as carrying out joint spacewalks. But one substantial effect of the increasing tensions was the end of Russian participation in joint experiments with European nations aboard the ISS.
With little information available about how Russia’s withdrawal will affect the use of its modules, in the short term, it seems likely that the largest effects will be on scientific experiments.
Why now?
It’s unclear why Russia made this announcement now.
Tensions surrounding the ISS have been high since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. At the time, Dmitry Rogozin, then head of Roscosmos, insinuated that Russia’s leaving the ISS might be a possibility. However, Rogozin was recently fired, and NASA and Roscosmos announced a seat swap for the ISS. Under this deal, an American astronaut would launch to the station on a future Soyuz mission while a cosmonaut would launch on an upcoming SpaceX Dragon launch. The two moves together suggested that the two sides might still be able to find ways to work together in space. But it seems those impressions were misleading.
The announcement also comes as the U.S. is considering the future beyond the ISS. NASA is currently in the first phase of development of a commercial space station as a replacement for the orbiting lab. While accelerating the development of this new space station would be difficult, it does signal that the ISS is nearing the end of its productive and inspirational life, no matter what Russia does.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/russias-withdrawal-from-the-international-space-station-could-mean-the-early-demise-of-the-orbital-lab-and-sever-another-russian-link-with-the-west-187754. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Russia-s-withdrawal-from-the-International-17330813.php | 2022-07-26T23:22:02Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Russia-s-withdrawal-from-the-International-17330813.php | true |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Another body has surfaced at Lake Mead — this time in a swimming area where water levels have dropped as the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam recedes because of drought and climate change.
The National Park Service did not say in a statement how long officials think the corpse was submerged in the Boulder Beach area before it was found Monday by people who summoned park rangers.
Clark County Coroner Melanie Rouse said Tuesday it was partially encased in mud at the water line of the swimming area along the shore north of Hemenway Harbor marina.
The gender of the dead person was not immediately apparent, Rouse said, and it was too early to tell a time, cause and manner of death. Investigators will review missing persons records as part of the effort, Rouse said.
The corpse was the third found since May as the shoreline retreats at the shrinking reservoir between Nevada and Arizona east of Las Vegas. The lake surface has dropped more than 170 feet (52 meters) since the reservoir was full in 1983. It is now about 30% full.
The coroner said her office was continuing work to identify a man whose body was found May 1 in a rusted barrel in the Hemenway Harbor area and a man whose bones were found May 7 in a newly surfaced sand bar near Callville Bay, more than 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) from the marina.
On July 6, the body of a 22-year-old Boulder City woman was found in the water near where she disappeared while riding a personal watercraft. Rouse said it may take several weeks to determine her cause of death.
The case of the body in the barrel was being investigated as a homicide after police said the man had been shot and his clothing dated to the mid-1970s to early 1980s.
The discoveries have prompted speculation about long-unsolved missing person and murder cases dating back decades — to organized crime and the early days of Las Vegas, which is just a 30-minute drive from the lake.
The drop in the lake level comes while a vast majority of peer-reviewed science says the world is warming, mainly because of rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Scientists say the U.S. West, including the Colorado River basin, has become warmer and drier in the past 30 years. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/body-near-lake-mead-swimming-site-3rd-to-surface-since-may/ | 2022-07-26T23:31:37Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/body-near-lake-mead-swimming-site-3rd-to-surface-since-may/ | true |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
418 PM MDT Tue Jul 26 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central
Hudspeth County through 500 PM MDT...
At 417 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles northwest of Finlay, moving northwest at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Fort Hancock, Acala and McNary.
This includes Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 63 and 78.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3124 10583 3129 10587 3129 10590 3131 10591
3131 10593 3132 10594 3136 10595 3137 10598
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
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ATLANTA — Glenn Bell calls himself a risktaker. He's hoping his latest risk nets him $830 million in the form of a Mega Millions jackpot prize. Bell said he would only tell his family if he won and help them with whatever they need.
"Housing, whatever, just to ease up everything and take the stress and relief off everything," Bell said. "If I catch the right play, you might not see me again.”
Gretchen Corbin, president and CEO of the Georgia Lottery Corporation, said players have a one in 303 million chance to win the jackpot. Players have a one in 24 chance to win a prize as part of Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing. The $830 million jackpot alone has generated $16.4 million for education in Georgia, Corbin said, and since 1992, the Georgia Lottery has raised almost $25 billion for programs like Pre-K and the HOPE Scholarship.
"Over two million students have benefitted from the HOPE program in Georgia, and over 1.7 million 4-year-old's have attended Pre-K," Corbin said. "We're thankful for our players because we know every time they play, a student wins."
Corbin said history bodes well for lottery players in Georgia, especially when they play Mega Millions. The Peach State's last jackpot winner hit for $83 million in November 2016. A maintenance man in Bainbridge won more than $160 million in 2015, and a woman from Stone Mountain won a share of a $648 million prize in 2013.
"Georgia's a lucky state, and we've had 20 Mega Millions jackpot tickets sold in Georgia in our history," Corbin said. "The Georgia lottery is for Georgians. It’s for us to all have fun, but at the end of the day, it’s for the revenues to go back to education in the state to Georgia.”
Stores that sell the winning jackpot ticket get a commission and a $50,000 bonus, officials told 11Alive.
Benjamin Carr said he would buy health insurance, pay for gas and travel if he won big.
"I would actually be able to find a spouse if I won," Carr said. "Lottery winning can be the worst thing that could possibly happen to you, it could ruin your life. But at the same time, what an interesting way to go.”
With rising food and gas prices, and inflation touching nearly every sector, Bell said hitting the lottery would make his risk-taking style worth it.
"If I hit this, we wouldn't be worrying about the inflation," Bell said. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/lottery/mega-millions-jackpot-lottery-georgia-education-scholarship-money/85-75cdb186-fc00-4262-9271-eed6962700af | 2022-07-26T23:32:15Z | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/lottery/mega-millions-jackpot-lottery-georgia-education-scholarship-money/85-75cdb186-fc00-4262-9271-eed6962700af | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — By one common definition, the U.S. economy is on the cusp of a recession. Yet that definition isn’t the one that counts.
On Thursday, when the government estimates the gross domestic product for the April-June period, some economists think it may show that the economy shrank for a second straight quarter. That would meet a longstanding assumption for when a recession has begun.
But economists say that wouldn’t mean that a recession had started. During those same six months when the economy might have contracted, businesses and other employers added a prodigious 2.7 million jobs — more than were gained in most entire years before the pandemic. Wages are also rising at a healthy pace, with many employers still struggling to attract and retain enough workers.
The job market’s strength is a key reason why the Federal Reserve is expected to announce another hefty hike in its short-term interest rate on Wednesday, one day before the GDP report. Several Fed officials have cited the healthy job growth as evidence that the economy should be able to withstand higher rates and avoid a downturn. Many economists, though, are dubious of that assertion.
The Fed is also trying to combat raging inflation, which reached a 9.1% annual rate in June, the worst mark in nearly 41 years. Rapid price increases, particularly for such essentials as food, gas and rent, have eroded Americans’ incomes and led to much gloomier views of the economy among consumers.
The definition of recession that is most widely accepted is the one determined by the blandly named National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit group of economists whose Business Cycle Dating Committee defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months.” The committee assesses a wide range of factors before publicly declaring the death of an economic expansion and the birth of a recession — and it often does so well after the fact.
So if we’re not in a recession, what’s going on with the economy, which is sending frustratingly mixed signals? Here are some answers to those and other questions:
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IS THE ECONOMY SHRINKING — OR NOT?
It did in the first three months of the year, when GDP contracted 1.6% at an annual rate. Economists have forecast that on Thursday, the government will estimate that the economy managed to grow at an annual rate of just below 1% in the April-June quarter, according to data provider FactSet. If accurate, that forecast would indicate that the economy isn’t technically in recession by any definition.
Even if growth does go negative for a second straight quarter, Fed officials and Biden administration economists point to a lesser-known measure called “gross domestic income.”
GDP calculates the value of the nation’s output of goods and services by adding up spending by consumers, businesses and governments. By contrast, GDI, as the name implies, seeks to measure the same thing by assessing incomes.
Over time, the two measures should track each other. But they often diverge in the short run. In the first quarter, GDI grew 1.8% — much better than the 1.6% decline in GDP.
As part of its judgment of whether an economy is in recession, the NBER considers an average of the two measures. In the first quarter, the average was 0.2%, suggesting that the economy expanded slightly.
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WHAT ELSE DOES THE NBER MONITOR?
The NBER studies many other data points in determining recessions, including measures of income, employment, inflation-adjusted spending, retail sales and factory output. It puts greater weight on jobs and a gauge of inflation-adjusted income that excludes government support payments such as Social Security.
That gauge covers combined income from all workers, so it rises when the unemployed find a job or when existing workers receive a pay raise. The measure increased slightly in April and May after a flat reading in the first quarter of this year.
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BUT DON’T A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK A RECESSION IS COMING?
Yes, because many people now feel more financially burdened.
With wage gains trailing inflation for most people, higher prices for such essentials as gas, food, and rent have eroded Americans’ spending power,
On Monday, Walmart reported that higher gas and food costs have forced its shoppers to reduce their purchases of discretionary spending such as new clothing, a clear sign that consumer spending, a key driver of the economy, is weakening. The nation’s largest retailer, Walmart reduced its profit outlook and said it will have to discount more items like furniture and electronics.
And the Fed’s rate hikes have caused average mortgage rates to double from a year ago, to 5.5%, causing a sharp fall in home sales and construction.
Higher rates will also likely weigh on businesses’ willingness to invest in new buildings, machinery and other equipment. If companies reduce spending and investment, they’ll also start to slow hiring. Rising caution among companies about spending freely could lead eventually to layoffs. If the economy were to lose jobs and the public were to grow more fearful, consumers would further reduce spending.
The Fed’s rapid rate hikes have raised the likelihood of recession in the next two years to nearly 50%, Goldman Sachs economists have said. And Bank of America economists now forecast a “mild” recession later this year.
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WHAT ARE SOME SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING RECESSION?
The clearest signal that a recession is underway, economists say, would be a steady rise in job losses and a surge in unemployment. In the past, an increase in the unemployment rate of three-tenths of a percentage point, on average over the previous three months, has meant that a recession will soon follow.
Many economists monitor the number of people who seek unemployment benefits each week, which indicates whether layoffs are worsening. Last week, applications for jobless aid rose to 251,000, the highest level in eight months. While that is a potentially concerning sign, that is still a low level historically.
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ANY OTHER SIGNALS TO WATCH FOR?
Many economists also monitor changes in the interest payments, or yields, on different bonds for a recession signal known as an “inverted yield curve.” This occurs when the yield on the 10-year Treasury falls below the yield on a short-term Treasury, such as the 3-month T-bill. That is unusual. Normally, longer-term bonds pay investors a richer yield in exchange for tying up their money for a longer period.
Inverted yield curves generally mean that investors foresee a recession that will compel the Fed to slash rates. Inverted curves often predate recessions. Still, it can take 18 to 24 months for a downturn to arrive after the yield curve inverts.
For the past two weeks, the yield on the two-year Treasury has exceeded the 10-year yield, suggesting that markets expect a recession soon. Many analysts say, though, that comparing the 3-month yield to the 10-year has a better recession-forecasting track record. Those rates are not inverted now.
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WILL THE FED KEEP RAISING RATES EVEN AS THE ECONOMY SLOWS?
The economy’s flashing signals — slowing growth with strong hiring — have put the Fed in a tough spot. Jerome Powell is aiming for a “soft landing,” in which the economy weakens enough to slow hiring and wage growth without causing a recession and brings inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target.
But Powell has acknowledged that such an outcome has grown more difficult to achieve. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s COVID-19 lockdowns have driven up prices for energy food, and many manufactured parts in the U.S.
Powell has also indicated that if necessary, the Fed will keep raising rates even amid a weak economy if that’s what’s needed to tame inflation.
“Is there a risk that we would go too far?” Powell asked last month. “Certainly there’s a risk, but I wouldn’t agree that’s the biggest risk to the economy. The biggest mistake to make…would be to fail to restore price stability.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/explainer-how-do-we-know-when-a-recession-has-begun/ | 2022-07-26T23:32:33Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/explainer-how-do-we-know-when-a-recession-has-begun/ | false |
Glacier National Park has released the names of the two Flathead County men killed in a climbing accident on Dusty Star Mountain this week.
The mountaineers were 67-year-old Brian McKenzie Kennedy from Columbia Falls, and 67-year-old Jack Dewayne Beard from Kalispell.
According to park staff who knew the men personally, Kennedy and Beard were considered expert climbers and have been summitting mountain peaks in Glacier National Park for decades.
As long-time members, both men contributed greatly to the Glacier Mountaineering Society and were well-known in the Flathead Valley community.
The men were climbing Dusty Star Mountain and initiated the trip on July 21 with the plan to hike out July 22.
They were reported missing on July 24 and park rangers located their vehicle at the trailhead on the same day.
An air search began on July 24 in the Dusty Star Mountain area on the east side route of the approach. Two Bear Air flew on July 24 in daylight and darkness.
Minuteman Aviation took over the air search with NPS spotters on board on the morning of July 25 and located the bodies of the climbers. The bodies were recovered on the same day by Two Bear Air. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/montana-news/bodies-of-climbers-recovered-from-glacier-parks-dusty-star-mountain | 2022-07-26T23:35:04Z | https://www.kbzk.com/news/montana-news/bodies-of-climbers-recovered-from-glacier-parks-dusty-star-mountain | true |
TAMPA BAY, Fla. — According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cybercriminals are creating fake cryptocurrency investment platforms to steal people’s money.
A report published last week by the FBI shows that since last year, 244 people have fallen victim to fraudulent cryptocurrency investment websites losing a total of $42.7 million.
The FBI said these websites claim crypto investors owe taxes or fees and will threaten to take your money if you don’t pay more, which is what Tampa bakery owner Lorena Brunson believes happened to her.
“We make birthday cakes, decorated sugar cookies, fruit bouquets, chocolate-covered strawberries,” said Brunson.
After retiring, Lorena Brunson followed her dream and became the owner of Beanie and Bellies Cupcakery in south Tampa, but COVID hit her business hard.
“And I had lost my partner earlier this year, so I was kind of struggling as far as money,” said Brunson.
The bakery was in danger of going under, and she needed help. Then last month, out of nowhere, she said it looked like she was going to get the break she needed.
Her son Joseph met someone on Instagram who introduced him to investing through a cryptocurrency website, and he was making money.
“I wanted to make sure it was legitimate, so I asked her if I could withdraw the funds, and she showed me how to do it,” said Joseph Brunson.
He said after a week, he was getting big returns.
“So I was telling all my family members, ‘Hey, this is probably legitimate. Let’s try to make some money off of this; it might help,’” said Joseph.
So Joseph’s mother, Lorena, started investing what she had been saving, and at first, she said it went well.
“The money had doubled and was tripling, and we thought, this is great, let’s invest more,” she said.
They invested more. But when they wanted to make another withdrawal, they were told they needed to pay taxes, or they would lose the money they had in their account. So they scrambled to get the tax money, even borrowing from friends and family.
“I took cash advances from my credit card because I can return it back in a matter of days,” said Lorena.
They say they paid $29,000 but were told that because they had help from others, they had to pay a risk hedge fee.
“And then we had two days to get them the $62,000,” said Lorena.
By this time, they realized something was wrong, so they filed a report with the police and FBI.
But it was already too late. Within a month, Lorena says she lost more than $100,000 and fears she will lose her bakery.
“I’m probably going to lose everything,” said Lorena.
She said the most frustrating part is the website is still active.
Cryptocurrency expert Armando Pantoja said Brunson’s experience with the website follows a familiar pattern of cybercriminals.
“They take the money, the crypto, from you. And then they’re able to manipulate the database on this made-up website. They can put whatever they want. They could say you have $10,000, $50,000, $100,000,” said Pantoja.
He said the website operator threatened to take your money unless you paid more.
“Normally, it’s like you have to pay taxes or an international exchange fee. They just come up with something for you to send them more money,” said Pantoja.
The FBI said it's seeing many more cases and that the cryptocurrency world is still very new to most people.
“That's the other thing with cryptocurrency; it’s still kind of the wild west,” said Sundanah Parsons, FBI special agent.
Special agents Sundanah Parsons and Kelly Shannon in Tampa’s FBI field office say that most crypto exchanges are not criminal. Still, if a fraudulent case originates in a foreign country, it presents a challenge.
“Criminals that may be located overseas or websites that may not be located here in the United States, it takes time to work with foreign partners and coordinate on all of those investigative matters,” said Shannon.
When it comes down to it, experts say you need to look out for yourself.
Pantoja said some red flags in the crypto world are:
- People reaching out through social media
- A website that looks outdated has stretched images, misspellings, or oddly worded sentences
- Being rushed to make quick decisions
- Big returns
“An average return in the stock market is 9%. Anything above that, you need to do your due diligence,” said Pantoja.
Which is something Joseph says he wishes he had done more of.
“It’s heartbreaking because I’ve never seen her (Lorena) cry, maybe more than once in my life. That hurt a lot because she put all her trust in me,” said Joseph.
For Lorena, she said she wants to pay back her friends and family and warn others.
“I would hate to have to see someone else endure all of this. You work hard for all you have your whole life and to have it all taken away in a matter of a month,” said Lorena.
We sent a message to the company whose website displays Brunson’s crypto account. There was no phone number, only a Gmail address. We have not received a response by the time of this publication.
The FBI encourages people to report any cybercriminal activity to their nearest FBI field office.
Wendi Lane at WFTS first reported this story. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/florida-bakery-owner-loses-life-savings-in-cryptocurrency-investment | 2022-07-26T23:35:22Z | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/florida-bakery-owner-loses-life-savings-in-cryptocurrency-investment | false |
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