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In 1984, when Andrew Bader was 5, his parents took him on a cross-country train from California to New York. It was a special trip, one of the last experiences Bader shared with both parents before they split up. Decades later, in 2021, Bader decided to reenact a portion of the trip with his father and 6-year-old son. The plan was for the three generations of Baders to take Amtrak's Coast Starlight train from the San Francisco Bay Area to Seattle, a 22-hour journey, and then catch a Seattle Mariners game at T-Mobile Park.
"I got from my father a love for baseball, and I was trying to connect that between generations," said Bader, a Bay Area public school teacher. If all went well, he hoped to repeat the trip every summer, as a new family tradition.
Bader bought the Amtrak tickets in early May 2021, with a plan to travel in late July. But in early July, he found out that a wildfire had damaged a bridge on the train's path, interrupting the Coast Starlight route. When he got a refund for his canceled tickets, Bader remembers wondering, "Is this something we're going to have to worry about every summer?" The Coast Starlight, one of Amtrak's most scenic routes, was disrupted for a month as the bridge was repaired. Amtrak canceled some trains altogether, while other trips were altered so that passengers transferred to a bus for a portion of the route.
In July 2022, Bader and his son finally got to make the trip they'd planned more than a year earlier. But Bader's father wasn't with them — he'd passed away from cancer just a few weeks earlier. Instead of a new family tradition, the trip turned out to be a memorial. Bader lamented the opportunity he'd lost because of the wildfire. "You just feel incredibly frustrated that you'll never have an opportunity to do those things again," he said.
For Amtrak riders, canceled trains have become a familiar side effect of the extreme weather fueled by climate change. Earlier this year, historic flooding in California disrupted the Coast Starlight again, for nearly a month, along with other Amtrak routes in the Golden State. In the past couple of years, wildfires, coastal erosion, heat waves, and mudslides have closed or altered routes around the country for days, weeks, or months at a time. The federally chartered passenger rail operator tallied more than 450 disruptions from climate shocks between 2006 and 2019, costing the company $127 million in revenue from 1.3 million lost customers. Last year, Amtrak projected that it would sustain another $220 million in climate-fueled losses over the coming decade.
This is a much bigger problem than the frequent headaches and occasional heartbreak that come with canceled trips. If the United States is going to slash its carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050, as President Joe Biden has proposed, it will require a transformation of the country's largest source of greenhouse gases: transportation. And that transformation is far less likely if passenger rail, one of the climate-friendliest travel options, isn't able to withstand the extreme weather its widespread adoption could help prevent.
A recent federal report on decarbonizing the transportation sector said that America will have to "[f]ully leverage the potential for efficient travel modes like rail" to meet its climate goals: On average, Amtrak is 34 percent more energy-efficient than flying for every mile a passenger travels, and 46 percent more energy-efficient than driving. The precise carbon savings vary by route, and depend on whether a train runs on electricity or diesel fuel, but taking Amtrak can be half as carbon intensive as flying. As climate change worsens, Amtrak will be in a unique position to help reduce transportation emissions. But that will require it to figure out a way to guarantee reliable service across the country in the face of mounting disasters, while also expanding service to win over drivers and airline customers who today see passenger rail as either a curiosity or a last resort. And Amtrak will have to do all that without owning most of the tracks it operates on.
"We want to grow passenger rail in America," said Adie Tomer, who leads the Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank. "Rail is cleaner. But the adaptation need is here right now."
Amtrak has been thinking about climate change since at least 2014, when it set up a Climate Resilience Task Group "to explore potential climate risks and respond with recommendations." To prepare for intensifying weather threats, Amtrak identified measures to reduce its vulnerability to sea-level rise, precipitation, extreme temperatures, and wind. They include relocating buildings and equipment outside of floodplains, raising or flood-proofing buildings, and constructing barriers to keep rising waters away from tracks and rail yards. Bridges could be raised, and stones strategically placed to prevent floating debris from damaging their foundations. Culverts, the tunnels that carry water beneath railroads, could be widened to handle climate-fueled floods, and tracks painted white to lower their temperature and prevent them from buckling during heat waves.
However, Amtrak is hamstrung in its ability to implement these types of changes, as it owns just 3 percent of the tracks it operates on. It can only update infrastructure in the Northeast Corridor: the network of tracks that stretch between Washington, D.C., and Boston, the only major chunk of Amtrak's rail network that the company actually owns. Not coincidentally, it's also the only major chunk of the rail network where Amtrak runs its high-speed Acela service — which is faster than regular Amtrak trains, though not so fast by international standards — and where Amtrak effectively competes with flying. The rest of the network is primarily owned by freight companies that move consumer goods and industrial materials from point A to point B, like Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and CSX.
"While weather events on the National Network impact Amtrak services and operations, we do not own most of the assets affected outside of the Northeast Corridor, and therefore would plan and assess vulnerabilities differently," Olivia Irvin, an Amtrak spokesperson, told Grist.
Amtrak is planning to conduct a national climate vulnerability assessment this fiscal year, to "help us identify prominent climate-related risks by region, evaluate how our operations may be impacted, and identify business practices that position us for greater resilience," Irvin said. It doesn't have much room to maneuver: In a 2022 report, the company admitted that it "has limited ability to implement climate adaptation measures on host rail." The report concluded that attempting diplomacy with the freight companies was its best bet: "Collaboration with partners, as well as the ability to communicate the financial benefit of resilient infrastructure through estimating losses avoided over time, is essential for managing use of externally-owned and shared assets."
Amtrak's lack of control over most of the tracks on its routes isn't just a problem for planning for future climate changes. It's also a problem for responding to the climate impacts that are happening today. When fires, mudslides, or flooding damage tracks outside of the Northeast, Amtrak is at the mercy of freight train companies to get its trains up and running again. P.S. Sriraj, the director of the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois Chicago, says that the importance of a route to the freight company dictates how quickly tracks get repaired.
Union Pacific, the freight company that owns the Northern California bridge damaged in the wildfire in 2021, rushed to repair it, since Union Pacific considers the route "vital." But if the damaged track is a section that the freight company leases to Amtrak but doesn't use for its own trains, then it may balk at the cost of repairs or ask the government to take on the burden of fixing it.
"It's very easy to say, 'Oh, the freight railroad owns the track, and so they should be responsible for fixing it,'" Sriraj told Grist. "That really depends on how the lease agreements are drawn up." After Hurricane Katrina disrupted Amtrak's Gulf Coast service in 2005, CSX and Norfolk Southern tried to get Amtrak to pay for $440 million of infrastructure upgrades as a condition of restoring service. (The companies eventually reached a confidential settlement allowing passenger rail service to return.)
A spokesperson for the Association of American Railroads, an industry trade group, said that restoring and repairing tracks after disasters is "essential" and pointed out that freight rail companies "collectively invest more than $20 billion annually to maintain and enhance the rail network." While "[e]ach host-tenant relationship is unique and subject to its own agreement," the spokesperson said, "freight railroads collectively take substantial steps to increase infrastructure resilience and quickly restore service following a natural disaster." The industry has also installed seismic, wind, and water detectors along high-risk tracks, the spokesperson added, and replaced wooden bridges with concrete and steel alternatives.
When your flight gets canceled because of bad weather, you can usually book another one within a few hours or days. When a road gets damaged by mudslides, you can generally find an alternate route to get where you're going. But Amtrak doesn't have that kind of redundancy built into its system. It operates on a measly 21,400 miles of track around the country, compared to 4 million miles of roads. When parts of that track network go down, the passenger rail company has to either cancel its scheduled service or pile passengers onto buses. That's what happened when rising sea levels forced the emergency closure of a section of Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner — the coastal route that carries 3 million passengers annually between San Luis Obispo and San Diego in Southern California — last September, and again following a landslide in April. For more than half a year, Pacific Surfliner passengers have had to transfer from the train to a bus, and then onto a different train, in the middle of their trip.
The patchwork nature of Amtrak's network means that making the rail operator more climate resilient while also helping it attract more passengers is no simple matter. The bipartisan infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed in 2021 could help, indirectly. The $550 billion in spending didn't include any dedicated funding to make railroads more climate resilient, though it did contain $22 billion in grants for Amtrak repairs and some $44 billion in other rail funding. This funding will be largely disbursed by the Federal Railroad Administration, or FRA, an agency within the Department of Transportation.
Michael Johnsen, the Federal Railroad Administration's senior advisor on climate and sustainability, says the agency will be looking to invest that money in projects designed to handle a warmer world. "FRA wants to make sure that when we build something, we build it to last 100 years," he told Grist. The Biden administration announced in January that funding from the law will go toward two train tunnel improvement projects in the Northeast, and Johnsen said his agency wants to make sure "those are being built to withstand projected climate impacts."
The bipartisan infrastructure law also contains funding for a broader strategy that the experts Grist spoke to said is essential both for driving up ridership and for setting resilience priorities: shoring up intercity rail service in corridors that connect urban centers with an economic connection to one another, often thanks to shared industries. The "sweet spot," said Robert Puentes, the president and CEO of Eno Center for Transportation, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C., is "about 400 to 500 miles, where it's too short to fly, too long to drive." Chicago, Columbus, and Pittsburgh fit the bill, for instance, as do Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Investments in such corridors could allow Amtrak to attract more riders with frequent, reliable service, and would also help the company and policymakers target climate resilience efforts effectively. Amtrak has proposed expanding service along many of these corridors and hopes to use some funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law to do so; some smaller, private passenger rail companies have also proposed service filling in these gaps.
"It's important that we designate actual priority corridors where we expect to have significant service," Tomer said. "Those then become the rail corridors to have the utmost environmental protection."
Of course, there's still the problem of Amtrak not controlling the tracks it runs trains on. The solution there, Tomer and Puentes said, is for state governments to step in to play a more active role in resolving conflicts between passenger and freight companies — and, if necessary, buy up the tracks in the public interest. This approach has already seen enormous success in North Carolina and Virginia, both of which have taken active roles in expanding their rail networks. The states saw train ridership reach all-time highs last year, even as national Amtrak ridership was still flagging from the pandemic. Virginia's two-decade effort to shore up train service has "transcended any partisanship," a rail advocate told the Washington Post in 2021, since lawmakers on both sides of the aisle "wanted to bring better rail service to their communities." The state's strategy has included taking over hundreds of miles of tracks.
"If the freight rail companies cannot collaborate in terms of capital investments with the public sector to build corridors that can allow trains to move at international high speed rail standards, then the government needs to do it itself," Tomer said. Rail workers have called for nationalization of the railroads, and many observers have argued that publicly owned tracks could reduce the likelihood of environmental and public health disasters like the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Ultimately, it will take not just federal funding, but also ambition from states to help Amtrak reach its full potential as a disaster-resilient climate solution — and to attract passengers who might not even consider it as an option today. Right now, Sriraj said, Amtrak is "for those that really do not have any other option, and then it's for those that yearn for the nostalgia of train trips. So it becomes a very exclusive, very small segment of the population that looks towards Amtrak as opposed to that being in the public consciousness."
For Bader, the Bay Area school teacher, nostalgia played a big role in the train trip he planned with his son and father. But he says that when he's planning trips and pulls up Google Maps, the first thing he does is check to see if taking the train is possible.
"I would embrace any sort of train option over any sort of long car ride," Bader said. "I would love to take trains over great distances to places that right now flying is the only option."
This story was produced by Grist and reviewed and distributed by Stacker Media.
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TOKYO, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 27, 2023, Buddhist philosopher and peacebuilder Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), issued a statement calling on the leaders of the G7 countries meeting in Hiroshima from May 19-21 to take bold steps toward resolving the conflict in Ukraine and guarantee the security of all humanity by taking the lead in discussions on pledges of No First Use of nuclear weapons.
Ikeda, an ardent proponent of nuclear weapons abolition since the 1960s, sees the G7 Summit in Hiroshima as a chance to build on the unwavering activism of the hibakusha -- survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings -- and their determination that the tragic impacts of nuclear weapons never be experienced again.
He states: "As the G7 leaders revisit the actual consequences of a nuclear weapon detonation and the bitter lessons of the nuclear era, I urge that they initiate earnest deliberations on making pledges of No First Use so that their shared recognition of the inadmissible nature of nuclear weapons can find expression in changed policies."
He warns that with the taboo against the use of nuclear weapons being eroded among the nuclear-weapon states, and frameworks for managing and reducing nuclear arsenals verging on collapse, there has never been a greater need to establish policies of No First Use.
Regarding Ukraine, Ikeda urges that the Hiroshima Summit should provide a "prescription for hope" by working for an immediate cessation of attacks on civilian infrastructure and developing concrete plans for negotiations that will lead to a cessation of hostilities.
He stresses that representatives of civil society, such as physicians and educators who protect people's lives and futures, should join such negotiations as observers.
Ikeda references the work of the physicians from both sides of the Cold War who founded IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) in the early 1980s and met in Hiroshima under the slogan: "Let us Live Together, Not Die Together." In the same spirit, he concludes with the vital need to shift to a "common security" paradigm for all humankind.
This is the third time in the past year that Ikeda, a veteran advocate for nuclear weapons abolition, has called for No First Use policies. He first pushed for declarations of No First Use in 1975, following visits to prominent leaders and thinkers in all five declared nuclear-weapon states.
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The Soka Gakkai is a global community-based Buddhist organization that promotes peace, culture and education. Daisaku Ikeda (1928- ) is president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), an international association of the Soka Gakkai and an NGO in consultative status with UN ECOSOC. For over 40 years, Ikeda has authored proposals and statements offering concrete approaches to resolving the complex issues facing humanity.
Ikeda's proposals: https://www.daisakuikeda.org/sub/resources/works/props/
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Traffic, road conditions and the cost of vehicle maintenance are all things that can make drivers grip the steering wheel a bit tighter. These conditions vary across states for a variety of reasons including population, weather and government investments.
Personal finance website WalletHub took a look at all 50 states to determine which are the best – and the worst – to drive in. Washington state landed second from last on the list.
To rank the states, WalletHub compared them across four key dimensions: cost of ownership and maintenance; traffic and infrastructure; safety; and access to vehicles and maintenance.
Researchers then broke those dimensions down into 31 relevant metrics, including things like average gas prices, the share of rush-hour traffic congestion, number of days with precipitation, road quality, traffic fatality rate, car theft rate and auto-repair shops per capita.
Hawaii, one of the most desirable vacation destinations, came in dead last thanks to the high cost of car ownership, state of the infrastructure and limited access to vehicles and maintenance, the study found.
While Hawaii may have unique challenges when it comes to traffic and infrastructure, the country as a whole desperately needs an upgrade, according to The American Society of Civil Engineers. The ASCE gave America’s roads a D grade on the society’s annual report card, saying underfunding has led to 40% of the country’s roadways falling into “poor or mediocre” conditions.
Washington took 49th place behind Hawaii. The state ranked 47th among all states for its cost of vehicle ownership and maintenance and 39th among states for traffic and infrastructure.
Rounding out the worst 10, were, in order, Delaware, Rhode Island, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Michigan and California.
According to WalletHub, these are the 10 best states to drive in:
- Iowa
- Georgia
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- North Carolina
- Idaho
- Texas
- Tennessee
- Kansas
- Indiana
WalletHub asked experts how states can reduce the number of traffic fatalities. Dr. Arman Sargolzaei, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Southern Florida said the vast majority of U.S. traffic accidents are entirely or partially due to human error.
“A shift in responsibilities from the human driver to self-driving cars can potentially reduce accidents,” he said.
Dr. Shannon Roberts, an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst also said the biggest risk for drivers continues to be not wearing a seat belt or being under the influence while driving.
“Whatever states can do to encourage seat belt usage and discourage driving after drinking/drug usage would help prevent traffic fatalities,” she said.
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YICHANG, China, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Angel Yeast (en.angelyeast.com) (SH600298) attended the 2022 International Forum on Food Safety and Health (2022 IFoFSH), organized by the Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology, on June 23. The company announced plans to vigorously promote the industrialization of its yeast protein in an effort to address the impact of the growing global food crisis on society as well as the animal husbandry sector. To date, Angel has promoted its yeast protein globally for use in meal-replacement powder, drinks powder, sports nutrition supplements, as well as in other fields.
"The global population is expected to grow to 9.7 billion by 2050, according to the United Nations, and the gap between food access and population growth will grow increasingly evident, with a projected protein deficit of 250 million tons by 2050," said Qin Xianwu, Chief Quality Officer and Chief Engineer at Angel Yeast, during the conference. "With the rapid deterioration of the global climate, we are seeing increased deforestation as people look to snap up more arable land, as well as growing demand for meat, which in turn is accelerating the consumption of cereal grains. This, along with greenhouse gas emissions from livestock, means that building a sustainable, high-quality protein supply model has become an urgent matter."
"Angel Yeast will persist with its promotion of the industrialization of yeast protein while developing sustainable and more efficient yeast alternative proteins to help the world cope with the next global food crisis," Qin added. "Yeast protein tech is predicted to become the primary means of protecting the Earth's food supply in the future. It presents an alternative solution with advantages such as low resource consumption, high efficiency, environmental sustainability, and comprehensive nutritional value."
A sustainable, efficient, and green alternative protein source
Compared with animal protein, yeast protein has been found to be more environmentally friendly with reduced carbon emissions. A study published in the journal Nature found that annual deforestation and associated carbon dioxide emissions could be halved by replacing a mere 20 percent of beef production with yeast protein. At the same time, methane emissions would also be lowered. Compared to plant proteins, yeast-based alternatives require less arable land, and seasonal or climatic factors do not affect production efficiency. They also save on using pesticides or antibiotics, thereby avoiding the genetic modification issues associated with plant protein substitution. Yeast protein production is efficient. Some 1000 kg of yeast, soybeans, and cows that are cultured for 24 hours can produce a protein yield of 2000 kg, 10 kg, and 1 kg, laying bare the clear advantages of yeast protein.
Rich nutritional value
Compared with plant proteins, yeast-based alternatives are more nutritious. "Yeast protein contains eight essential amino acids that are full-valent proteins, while yeast protein is rich in lysine, typically the first limiting amino acid in plant protein. " said Qin. "Research on yeast protein shows it can have a significantly positive effect on muscle building and regulation of intestinal microbes."
Research and Applications
Angel currently carries out research on the selection and breeding of high protein yeast strains. This can contribute toward the company realizing batch production of high purity yeast protein while successfully applying it in fields like condiments, meat products, plant-based meat, dairy beverages, and nutritional foods.
Angel has also made good progress in developing technology for using yeast protein in vegetarian meat processing and vegetarian meat flavorings. The company has successfully used yeast protein to replace soy protein in vegetarian meat preparation. It can also help compensate for the lack of some essential amino acids (methionine and lysine) in vegetable proteins and improve the overall nutritional value of vegetarian meat products.
The company has built 12 yeast production lines at home and abroad to date, providing sufficient capacity to support yeast protein production. Angel boasts a production line with annual capacity of 10,000 tons of yeast protein, forming a closed-loop industry chain of "molasses, hydrolyzed sugar - yeast - yeast protein - yeast fermentation liquid - fertilizer - crops".
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Bring along a loved one this summer with Buy One, Bring One 50% off fares
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrate Mother's Day and save on the unique gift of travel thanks to Amtrak's Mother's Day Flash Sale, now available for purchase through Wednesday, May 17. This special offer is valid for travel on most Amtrak routes across the country from June 1 – August 30, with no blackout dates.
Treat mom, grandma, a favorite aunt or another loved one to a memorable opportunity to travel on Amtrak with a guest or a special trip for two! And if you want to bring the whole family, Amtrak recently improved its children's discount so all children 2-12 years old may travel for 50% off with an accompanying adult.
Sample One-Way Fares for Two Customers:
*Northeast Regional – 21 day advance purchase
Don't miss this chance to treat the special mom or mother figure in your life with the experience of a great American adventure this summer on Amtrak's national network of more than 500 destinations in 46 states. Whether it's to visit friends and family, attend a summer concert, watch a baseball game, tour a national park or spend some time at the beach, Amtrak can take you there in style with spacious, comfortable seats, plenty of legroom and no middle seats.
This sale is valid for Coach and Acela Business Class fares. Seats are limited and restrictions apply. To book your next trip, visit Amtrak.com/MothersDay or enter code C514 when booking on the Amtrak app.
About Amtrak®
For more than 50 years, Amtrak has connected America and modernized train travel. Offering a safe, environmentally efficient way to reach more than 500 destinations across 46 states and parts of Canada, Amtrak provides travelers with an experience that sets a new standard. Book travel, check train status, access your eTicket and more through the Amtrak app. Learn more at Amtrak.com and connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto dies at 71
By YURI KAGEYAMA and MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Ryuichi Sakamoto, a world-renowned Japanese musician and actor who composed for Hollywood hits such as “The Last Emperor” and “The Revenant,” has died. He was 71.
Japan’s recording company Avex said in a statement Sunday that Sakamoto died on March 28 while undergoing treatment for cancer.
He was first diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014. In 2022, he revealed that he had terminal cancer, a year after he disclosed suffering from rectal cancer.
Sakamoto was a pioneer of the electronics music of the late 1970s and founded the Yellow Magic Orchestra, also known as YMO, with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi.
Takahashi died in January.
Despite his battle with cancer, Sakamoto released a full-length album “12” on his 71st birthday in January, stating that composing had a “small healing effect on my damaged body and soul,” according to the official statement released with the latest album.
He was a world-class musician, winning an Oscar and Grammy for the 1987 movie “The Last Emperor.”
Sakamoto was also an actor, starring in the BAFTA-winning 1983 film “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.”
He was mostly based in New York in recent years, though he regularly visited Japan.
Born in Tokyo in 1952, Sakamoto started studying music at the age of 10 and was influenced by Debussy and the Beatles.
The statement from Avex said that despite his sickness, when he was feeling relatively well, he kept working on his music in his home studio. “To his final days, he lived with music,” it said.
The statement expressed gratitude to the doctors who had treated him in the U.S. and Japan, as well as to all his fans around the world. It referenced the words Sakamoto loved: “Ars longa, vita brevis,” which refers to the longevity of art, no matter how short human life might be.
Sakamoto also left his mark as a pacifist and environmental activist. He spoke out against nuclear power following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns caused by an earthquake and tsunami.
He took part in rallies and made speeches in Tokyo, and was among a group of respected Japanese artists, like the Nobel-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe, who were not afraid to take an unpopular stand on political issues.
In a July 2012 rally, he got up on stage and read from notes on an iPhone, warning Japan not to risk people’s lives for electricity.
“Life is more important than money,” he said in Japanese, then added in English, “Keeping silent after Fukushima is barbaric.”
He also appeared in advertising for Nissan electric cars, although he acknowledged he got a bashing for being so commercial. At his home in New York, he gets electricity from a company that relies on renewables, he said.
“How we make electricity is going to diversify, with fossil fuel and nuclear power declining,” Sakamoto told The Associated Press in an interview in 2012. “People should be able to choose the kind of electricity they want to use.”
Funeral services have been held with family and close friends, the Avex statement said.
Sakamoto is survived by his daughter Miu Sakamoto, a musician. She posted on her Instagram the years her father had lived — from Jan. 17, 1952, to March 28, 2023 — and a photo of a worn out, half-broken piano. He was separated from his former wife, singer and composer Akiko Yano.
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Which robot vacuum is best?
One invention that has benefited the modern household is the robot vacuum, so it shouldn’t be surprising that Amazon is purchasing iRobot. Today’s robot vacuums don’t require you to be present during cleaning and can be programmed to work automatically using a digital map of your space. They often also support Wi-Fi connectivity or control through a mobile app. Robot vacuums can vary widely in budget and functionality, so figuring out what your house or space’s needs are is crucial.
Basics of a robot vacuum
How do robot vacuums work?
The most obvious difference between regular vacuums and robot vacuums is that they don’t need to be pushed by the user. Robot vacuums simply use a combination of maneuvers and smart technology to navigate a space independently. They also usually use a combination of cleaning functions, most notably a vacuum, to keep floors clean.
Pros and cons of buying a robot vacuum
Pros:
- Using a robot vacuum is time-saving compared to pushing a vacuum or mop.
- Robot vacuums are highly efficient and may hit spots a human could easily miss.
- They’re excellent at mitigating pet hair and dander.
- Most are self-emptying and automatically recharge using a charging dock.
Cons
- Low-end robot vacuums may struggle with large obstacles, so you’ll still have to pick up and clean large objects that could get in the vacuum’s way.
- Robot vacuums tend to be expensive.
What to look for in a robot vacuum
Automatic dirt disposal
Most robot vacuums include automatic dirt disposal for a certain period. This feature only requires users to empty the dock every month or so. Robot vacuums can range in how long they self-empty, usually requiring manual disposal every 30 to 60 days.
Mobile app and Wi-Fi connectivity
Even today’s mid-grade robot vacuums usually offer control via a mobile app and Wi-Fi connectivity. These options make your control of the robot vacuum more versatile. These digital connectivity options often let you use them with other smart home features, too.
Compatible with your floors
Robot vacuums are typically designed for carpet and hard floors. However, checking a particular product is crucial because some low-end vacuums may only work with one or the other. Though most are for dusting and vacuuming, you can also find some robot vacuums with attachments for mopping.
Runtime
Robot vacuums use a rechargeable battery for power, meaning they have limited runtimes before returning to the dock to charge. Most robot vacuums have a runtime of 30 to 120 minutes. Depending on how large your space is and other factors such as the layout of rooms, many robot vacuums can clean an entire home in a single run.
Floor mapping and obstacles
Low-end robot vacuums tend to get stuck, which is why they often compensate with floor mapping. When obstacles are in the way, most mid- and high-grade vacuums will use sensors to go around them. You can also find robot vacuums with added features such as smart floor mapping, virtual boundary strips or voice controls that you can use to offer more specific cleaning guidelines.
Best robot vacuums
iRobot Roomba S9-Plus Robot Vacuum With Charging Base Smart Mapping And Wi-Fi
This premium robot vacuum can vacuum spaces up to 1,500 square feet per charge, and it has Wi-Fi control and automatic dust removal for up to 60 days. This vacuum also has advanced cleaning functionality, such as a suction power boost that makes it effective at cleaning, even for tough-to-remove debris such as pet hair.
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iRobot Roomba 694 Wi-Fi Robot Vacuum With Wi-Fi
This affordable vacuum offers base-level functionality and comes with both a rubber brush and a bristle brush. While it doesn’t offer automatic disposal or a charging base like some of iRobot’s vacuums, it’s a great budget pick for those who just want a basic robot vacuum that lets you upgrade with a charging base down the road.
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Shark IQ AV1002AE Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum With Charging Base
This robot vacuum is affordable and includes a self-emptying chamber and a convenient charging base. It offers 45 days’ worth of automatic disposal, easy app or voice control options and swift home mapping at a fair price.
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iRobot Roomba I7-Plus Robot Vacuum With Automatic Dirt Disposal And Charging Base
This vacuum is an excellent mid-grade option, featuring upgrades such as keep-out zones, mopping options and a high-efficiency filter for trapping dander and other allergens. It can empty itself for 60 days at a time and offers voice control through Alexa and Google Home.
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Shark Ion Robot Vacuum With Wi-Fi And Voice Controls
This vacuum is more affordable than most, and it has a 120-minute runtime, voice controls using Alexa or Google Assistant and a charging dock. You can buy this vacuum model in black, gray or white.
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Tikom 2-in-1 Combo Robot Vacuum And Mop With Wi-Fi And Charging Base
This off-brand robot vacuum is affordable, has strong ratings and includes mopping functionality. It can run for 150 minutes per charge and includes Wi-Fi connectivity and accessories, such as boundary strips, remote control and a water tank.
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Shark IQ RV1001AE Extra-Large Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum With Charging Base
This vacuum has improved suction from Shark’s lower-end vacuums, 45-day bagless self-emptying using its charging base and total home mapping for customizable cleaning. This vacuum also works with the SharkClean app or with voice assistants.
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Eufy by Anker BoostIQ RoboVac Robot Vacuum Cleaner With Charging Base
This is one of the more affordable robot vacuums available, featuring a vacuum time of up to 100 minutes, a charging base for its lithium-ion battery and a handful of high-performance filters. Purchase also includes a 12-month warranty and a remote control.
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iRobot Roomba I3-Plus EVO Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum With Charging Base
This is a mid-tier version of the classic Roomba vacuum, and it self-empties for up to 60 days at a time. It also has Wi-Fi and voice controls and it creates an imprinted smart map of your home, offering intuitive cleaning scheduling and controls.
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iRobot Roomba 692 Robot Vacuum With Wi-Fi And Charging Base
This economy-level Roomba can run for 90 minutes before docking and recharging. However, it doesn’t include any home mapping features. You can buy this robot vacuum on its own or in a bundle with a replenishment kit or a virtual wall.
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Lefant Robot Vacuum Cleaner With Charging Base and Wi-Fi
This is another non-name-brand vacuum with excellent ratings. It has 360-degree infrared anti-collision sensors, Wi-Fi connectivity and multiple cleaning modes. You can buy this robot vacuum in black or white.
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Light ‘N’ Easy Automatic Emptying Robot Vacuum Cleaner
This budget robot vacuum offers a great price for automatic emptying for 30 days at a time and 90 minutes of runtime per charge. It also offers Wi-Fi, a mobile app, programmed cleaning schedules and multiple cleaning modes.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It’s a three-day visit that both countries have described as a time to deepen their “no-limits friendship.”
The visit comes more than a year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with CNN senior international correspondent Matthew Chance in Moscow.
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As Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, U.S. officials are assessing the threat level and planning how the U.S. could respond.
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As Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, U.S. officials are assessing the threat level and planning how the U.S. could respond.
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DEADLINE DAY
The Juan Soto sweepstakes come down to the wire, with baseball's 6 p.m. EDT trade deadline fast approaching.
Soto is the biggest name on the block, with Washington considering bids for the 23-year-old slugger after he turned down a $440 million, 15-year deal to stay with the team. Soto can be a free agent after 2024, and the St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers are considered among the clubs most likely to offer a trade package that could persuade Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo to unload his franchise cornerstone.
Willson Contreras, J.D. Martinez and Josh Bell are some other dangerous hitters likely available, while the starting pitcher pool could include Giants lefty Carlos Rodón, Marlins right-hander Pablo López and Red Sox righty Nathan Eovaldi.
The trade market got busy Monday as several teams made big moves, with the Yankees acquiring Athletics starter Frankie Montas, the Padres picking up All-Star closer Josh Hader from the first-place Brewers, and the Astros obtaining slugger Trey Mancini from the Orioles.
WELCOME BACK
New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom finally returns from a string of injuries to make his season debut in Washington. The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner has not pitched in the majors since July 7, 2021.
“I’m definitely excited,” deGrom said Sunday. “It’s been a long time. This has been a pretty slow process of coming back, so excited to be out there. Nerves haven’t really set in yet, but I’m sure Tuesday I’ll be pretty nervous and I have a feeling it’s going to feel like my debut.”
The 34-year-old right-hander was sidelined the final three months of last season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow, then was shut down late in spring training because of a stress reaction in his right scapula.
Even without deGrom, the Mets have won a season-high seven straight. They've spent nearly the entire season in first place in the NL East and hope his return can help them hold off defending World Series champion Atlanta.
CATCHING ON
Veteran catcher Yadier Molina is expected to rejoin the St. Louis Cardinals for the opener of a three-game series at home against the Chicago Cubs.
The 40-year-old Molina, sidelined since June 16 with knee inflammation, has played only 38 games in his final major league season. He's been on a rehab assignment recently at Triple-A Memphis.
Longtime batterymate Adam Wainwright (7-8, 3.28 ERA) pitches for the Cardinals.
HIS TURN
Trea Turner tries to extend his hitting streak to 20 games when Tyler Anderson (11-1, 2.61 ERA) and the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the rival Giants in San Francisco.
Turner homered Monday night in an 8-2 victory as the NL West leaders won for the fifth time in six games to improve to 23-5 since June 30.
San Francisco is 3-9 since the All-Star break. Alex Wood (7-8, 4.11) pitches for the Giants against his former team.
Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford (left knee inflammation) is scheduled to start a rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento and could join the team as soon as Thursday.
Dodgers rookie James Outman is 5 for 6 with a home run and a double through his first two major league games.
“It’s pretty rare and good to see a young player just not let the emotions get to you and speed the game up,” manager Dave Roberts said.
HERE TO STAY
While teams all around the majors were looking to bring in new talent ahead of Tuesday's trade deadline, the Atlanta Braves locked up one of their own stars for the long haul.
All-Star third baseman Austin Riley and the defending World Series champions agreed Monday to a $212 million, 10-year contract that starts in 2023, the most lucrative deal in team history and a surprise given he had three additional seasons under club control.
The deal with the 25-year-old includes a $20 million club option for 2033 with no buyout, which could make the agreement worth $232 million over 11 seasons.
Riley hit .423 with 11 homers, 25 RBIs and 21 runs in July. His 26 extra-base hits in July were the most by a Braves player in any month, passing Hall of Famer Hank Aaron’s previous record set in July 1961.
The big month left Riley leading the majors with 61 extra-base hits.
Riley is earning $3.95 million this year after losing in arbitration. He would have been eligible for arbitration ahead of the 2023, ’24 and ’25 seasons, then could have become a free agent.
Riley is hitting .301 with 29 home runs, 68 RBIs and a .964 OPS in 101 games this season.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jackson Threadgill's 14 points helped Charlotte defeat Maryland-Eastern Shore 80-47 on Monday night.
Threadgill was 5 of 7 shooting and 3 of 3 from the free throw line for the 49ers (2-0). Brice Williams scored 13 points and added seven rebounds. Igor Milicic Jr. was 5 of 8 shooting and finished with 13 points.
The Hawks (1-2) were led in scoring by Da'Shawn Phillip, who finished with 16 points. Zion Styles added 13 points and three steals for Maryland-Eastern Shore. Dionte Johnson had seven points and two steals.
Charlotte led at halftime at 41-18. Milicic paced the team in scoring in the first half with 13 points. Charlotte outscored Maryland-Eastern Shore by 10 points over the final half, while Isaiah Folkes led the way with a team-high seven second-half points.
Charlotte's next game is Thursday against Boise State. Maryland-Eastern Shore visits George Washington on Friday.
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Somebody’s streak had to end.
Was visiting Baylor going to lose again, increasing its skein to six consecutive losses to West Virginia University in Mountaineer Field?
Or were the Mountaineers going to lose for the fourth time in five games vs. FBS opponents?
That’s what was on the line Thursday night in Milan Puskar Stadium.
Perhaps that’s why the game went to and fro like a metronome.
First it was the Mountaineers, who struck first on running back Tony Mathis’ 7-yard touchdown run with 10:30 remaining in the first quarter. Baylor sort of answered with a 40-yard field goal, but the real answer came on tight end-turned fullback Ben Sims’ 1-yard TD plunge to give the Bears a 10-7 lead.
Then Baylor quarterback Blake Shapen increased the margin with a 35-yard touchdown pass to Gavin Holmes for a 17-7 lead.
That meant the Bears had scored 17 unanswered points.
So was the losing streak about to end?
Not so fast.
WVU promptly mounted a 13-play drive, culminating with a 23-yard field goal by Casey Legg to narrow the margin to 17-10. And the Mountaineers’ rally wasn’t over. On the contrary, it was just getting started.
With 2:41 left in the half, WVU defensive end Sean Martin sacked Shapen for a 9-yard loss, causing a fumble. The Mountaineers’ Jasir Cox alertly grabbed the loose fumble and sprinted 65 yards for a touchdown with 2:41 remaining in the first half.
So, Baylor had scored 17 consecutive points and WVU answered with 10 straight to tie the game again, 17-17.
But not for long.
Only five plays later, Baylor’s Shapen tossed a 39-yard TD pass to Craig Williams, who was the recipient of some shoddy WVU tackling, to regain the lead, 24-17.
Two possessions and a pair of punts later, it was halftime.
If anybody thought the first half was exciting, they hadn’t seen nuthin’ yet.
The second half began with a 24-yard TD pass from Daniels to Kaden Prather to tie the score, 24-24. But after Shapen took a hit to the helmet, he was relieved by Kyron Jones, who promptly tossed a TD pass to put Baylor ahead again at 31-24.
Back and forth it went.
Next, WVU backup running back Justin Johnson broke several tackles while running for a 19-yard TD and a 31-31 score. Next came one of the strangest plays of the game. Baylor’s Qualan Jones ran for a TD, but WVU’s Dante Stills blocked the extra-point kick and the Mountaineers’ Jacolby Spells returned it 87 yards for a 2-point conversion.
Then there was a big fumble forced by WVU’s Aubrey Burks and recovered by WVU’s Cox. That set up a 34-yard TD run by Tony Mathis and gave WVU a 40-37 lead. Speaking of Burks, he intercepted Drones on Baylor’s next possession.
But wait.
Next, WVU quarterback JT Daniels tossed a bad interception to Baylor’s Dillon Doyle. That led to a Baylor field goal to tie the game again, 40-40.
Didn’t anyone want to win this game?
That’s when WVU drove down the field on the strength of a 37-yard run by Mathis to set up a game-winning 22-yard field goal by Legg.
The Mountaineers had won, 43-40.
And yes, Baylor still is winless in Morgantown.
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KERMIT, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – The Kermit Yellow Jackets (2-3) pull off a major upset knocking off the Forsan Buffaloes (4-1) and handing them their first loss of the season.
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KERMIT, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – The Kermit Yellow Jackets (2-3) pull off a major upset knocking off the Forsan Buffaloes (4-1) and handing them their first loss of the season.
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WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained in Russia 130 days ago. Her trial is about to start
Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, told CNN on Thursday she wants U.S. officials to do whatever they have to do to bring the basketball legend home — and she needs to see them do more.
During an interview on the eve of her wife's trial in Russia, Cherelle Griner sat in the Phoenix Mercury locker room and called for more action.
"It's really, really difficult. This is not a situation where the rhetoric is matching the action," she said. "I do have to unfortunately push people to make sure that the things they're telling me is also matching their actions and so it's been the hardest thing to balance because I can't let up. It's over 130 days and BG's still not back."
Brittney Griner, 31, who has played in Russia during the WNBA's offseason, was arrested Feb. 17 at a Moscow airport. Russian authorities claimed she had cannabis oil in her luggage and accused her of smuggling significant amounts of a narcotic substance, an offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Earlier this week, a Russian court scheduled her trial to start Friday, according to her lawyer, and ruled her detention be extended six months pending its outcome. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow will send a diplomat to Friday's hearing, a U.S. official has told CNN.
Cherelle Griner told CNN she wants to see more from U.S. officials and meet with them to be reassured that they are "at that phase where you're actually doing everything in your power to bring her home," she said.
Right now, Cherelle said that what the U.S. government is saying isn't matching their actions. She referred to a day when she was supposed to speak to her wife and Brittney called the embassy in Moscow 11 times but wasn't connected with Cherelle. The State Department blamed the mistake on staffing restrictions imposed by Russian officials.
"You don't have my trust at that point until I see actions that are in BG's best interest," Cherelle said.
She also said she would "absolutely" like to meet with President Joe Biden and humanize Brittney to him so he can "see BG as we see BG."
"While everyone wants to tell me they care, I'd love for him to tell me he cares," she added.
State Department says it is 'actively engaged'
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Cherelle this week, Sullivan told reporters Tuesday aboard Air Force One.
"Brittney Griner is wrongfully detained, unjustly detained and we have made that clear as an official determination of the U.S. government. Second, the Russian government should release her and allow her to be returned and reunited with her family and come home safe and sound," Sullivan said.
Sullivan declined to detail U.S. efforts to resolve Griner's case, citing the "sensitive matter," but maintained that the Biden administration is "actively engaged."
'Don't be quiet,' families of other detained Americans told her
While Cherelle has not been able to speak to Brittney, the couple writes each other letters. Cherelle said Brittney recently reassured her that her time in detention hasn't driven her crazy after photos from Brittney's court appearance left her wife disheartened. Brittany wrote that she is exhausted and it was disconcerting to emerge into a courtroom where there were 100 or so media members and cameras, Cherelle said.
A photo from Kirill Kudryavstev of Agence France-Presse shows Brittney at her preliminary hearing Monday, arriving at court handcuffed and flanked by guards in black vests.
Cherelle noted her wife, who is 6-foot-9, has a five-hour round-trip drive on court days, and when she is moved, she is in a "very, very, very tiny cage" with her long legs bent at the knee.
Cherelle said she's also met with families of people who have been or remain detained in Russia and other countries. She described the families are loving, genuine and broken people. "And the first thing they said was, you know, 'Do not be quiet about this. Do not let them forget about your loved one,'" she said.
It blew her mind when she learned that for some of those families it has been a three- or four-year ordeal, she added.
"My heart was breaking hearing it because I, I pray to God, you know, three years does not pass by and BG is still wrongfully detained in Russia," she said.
Make a trade if that is what's necessary, wife says
Griner's supporters have expressed concern that she might be used as a political pawn, given rising tensions amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
At first, it was hard for her to imagine that her wife could be used as a pawn, Cherelle told CNN. But she said realizes the answer to the question whether it is possible is "Yes." She said she thinks Russia can get something in return for letting Brittney go
"And at this point, I want them to. Whatever you want, please ask," she said with a laugh.
She said she hasn't listened much to what the measures are that are being contemplated to bring her wife home.
But if a prisoner swap is what's necessary then, "Yes, do it."
Mercury coach wants Griner to be a priority for Washington
In a pregame news conference Wednesday, Phoenix Mercury head coach Vanessa Nygaard said, "We've been hearing some more noise from the Biden administration that there is -- they're supporting us and they know this is a priority. Well, let's make it a priority. I know our Phoenix community feels deeply. Everywhere I go in Phoenix, everyone asks me about BG. ... We just need our government and everybody in power to really push for that (release)."
Nygaard also said that the team will be having a rally for Griner next week.
Griner is one of the best basketball players in the world. The center has won two Olympic gold medals and one WNBA title. She has been a six-time WNBA All-Star, three times as a starter. This season she will be honored as a starter in the All-Star game, scheduled for July 10.
Last season, she averaged a sterling 20.5 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game.
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(NewsNation) — Amtrak ridership has seen a steep drop since 2019 when the train service pulled in 32.5 million riders, to 2021, when Amtrak saw 12.5 million riders. Despite the drop in riders and huge financial losses for the operation, Amtrak executives still received huge bonuses.
Amtrak CEO William Flynn received $284,205 in bonuses in 2021. Company President Stephen Gardner got $261,359 in bonuses, Deputy General Counsel William Herrmann received $300,981 in bonuses. Overall, there were nine Amtrak executives who received more than $200,000 in bonuses.
Gary Peterson, the chief of staff for the Transport Workers Union, said non-executive Amtrak employees can’t make any sense of the executive bonuses given Amtrak’s recent performance.
“Not anything that we can pinpoint in the current environment that would allow for awarding of such rich bonuses for executives while the workers are out there trying to make ends meet with everything going on, specifically the period of COVID, for sure,” Peterson said.
Financial losses have plagued Amtrak virtually its entire existence, despite Congress pumping trillions of dollars into it over the years.
Congress pledged to give $66 billion to the rail sector as part of its $1 trillion infrastructure bill, with Amtrak being one of the primary recipients.
“There is no justification,” Peterson said. “Clearly, Congress did not agree to provide any type of executive bonus compensation, and here we are looking at these numbers that nobody can make sense of.”
In a Wednesday interview with Peterson on NewsNation’s “On Balance with Leland Vittert,” Vittert called into question the practicality of keeping Amtrak funded, given its drop in ridership and severe financial woes.
Peterson said he had no disagreement with the criticisms of Amtrak, but said studies need to be done to make passenger rail more practical, as it will be a critical part of transportation infrastructure in the next century.
“Everything needs to be looked at on viability and why we’re doing it, there’s no disagreement there,” Peterson said. “But even public sector transit as well, as we venture into the next century, how that looks and the studies that are being done to make it viable for the folks that need it certainly needs to be put into perspective.”
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Neuraspace's advanced space debris monitoring and satellite collision avoidance system is already being tested by some the biggest satellite operators.
The product is aimed at Satellite Operators, Insurers, Regulators and Policy Makers.
COIMBRA, Portugal, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuraspace, a Portuguese start-up which is developing an advanced system for monitoring and preventing collisions in space, has announced the market availability of its product starting today.
After having raised 2,5 million euro from investors in Portugal, Neuraspace now takes a decisive step forward with the availability of a solution that is already being used by satellite operators which plan to significantly increase the presence of their satellites in space.
There are currently around 8,000 satellites in orbit. of which only ca. 6,000 are operational. In 2021, 1778 satellites were launched into space. This number will only increase, with space traffic and space debris becoming an obstacle to space technology evolution that becomes inefficient and costly if not addressed. ESA mentions that about 31380 debris objects are currently being regularly tracked, with more than 630 break-ups, explosions, collisions, or anomalous events resulting in fragmentation.
Current solutions for collision probability identification and classification and for avoidance manoeuvre definition rely heavily on manual processes. With the growing number of space objects, both active satellites and debris, the effort that needs to be invested by operators increases exponentially, making operations costly and with an increasing risk of a wrong classification and human error. In addition, an adequate pricing of insurance premiums is increasingly difficult as the assessment of the risk-exposure is complex and subject to many unknowns, making it challenging for insurance providers to adequately address the risk faced by operators.
The traditional approaches face several challenges: insufficient data; a high number of false alerts and a large uncertainty, and the lack of scalability.
This all leads to unnecessary costs that derange operations and business viability. In a Euroconsult report of 2020, it is reported that an emergency manoeuvre in LEO can cost 25k€ for one satellite alone. A 300-satellite constellation may receive about 580 alerts per year requiring human intervention and satellite manoeuvre, costing 14 M€ per year in staff costs, analysis work, infrastructure, and more. The same Eurocosult report states that "[a]n Iridium satellite was involved in a collision in 2009, leading to complete satellite loss. A replacement satellite was in orbit, but when two Iridium satellites were damaged in 2014, the full constellation was not operating at full capacity for over 400 days, resulting in over $8 million in revenues being lost." [Commercial Space Surveillance and Tracking, Euroconsult Report, March 2020].
This is where Neuraspace comes in: The Neuraspace platform is a SaaS (Software as a Service) end-to-end automated solution built on three key pillars enabling satellite higher accuracy in detecting high-risk collisions and reducing human intervention by up to 75%:~
(1) Data Fusion: a persistent and reliable data source for better characterization of conjunction events by reducing uncertainties relies on large quantities of data from different sources are collected and fused into a coherent data warehouse. This warehouse includes: space debris images, CDMs, ephemeris files, state vectors from established catalogues and satellite owners, space weather nowcasts and forecasts, as well as information about the assets being managed.
(2) Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): ML models can automatically detect patterns from complex data, and learn how the data is related. Artificial intelligence leverages big data to provide better predictions for risk mitigation.
(3) Manoeuvring Automation: an end-to-end automated 24/7 AI-enabled collision risk prediction with informative insights and intelligent manoeuvre suggestions based on operator constraints and priorities provides operators full support throughout the full process of risk mitigation
With the space economy growing from more than $300 billion to $1 trillion in the coming years, the system developed by Neuraspace is a cornerstone to secure this growth.
According to Chiara Manfletti, Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Neuraspace, "This is a very important step as we are validating in the market a technology that was developed to help unlock the extraordinary value of the Space economy, which will become more efficient and sustainable. We believe Neuraspace's solution will be a benchmark in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology in the aerospace market worldwide."
About Neuraspace
Neuraspace was established in 2020 with the goal of combating space debris with Artificial Intelligence. The company has developed an advanced satellite-based space debris monitoring and collision avoidance platform with artificial intelligence.
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Leo I. Welsh, who owned an advertising specialties business and was a stalwart presence in Baltimore Irish American organizations, died June 22 at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center.
His son, Christopher Welsh, said his father was found unresponsive in the hospital’s waiting area. Mr. Welsh had taken his wife to the hospital and suffered an apparent heart attack.
He was 81 and a lifelong Mount Washington resident.
Born in Baltimore and raised on Appleby Avenue, he was the son of Edmund Welsh, a Rice’s Bakery salesman, and Delia Donahue, a homemaker.
He attended the Shrine of the Sacred Heart School and was a 1960 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School, where he played baseball and football.
A skilled dancer with an outgoing personality, he established a circle of friends and often danced with his dates at the old Mount Saint Agnes High School and the Alcazar Ballroom.
He attended the University of Baltimore and served in the Coast Guard Reserves.
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While a high school senior, Mr. Welsh started working for Dave Rosenberg of David’s Jewelers in downtown Baltimore. The apprenticeship led to a career in sales and promotions. The business was later renamed Tri-State Distributors, Inc.
Mr. Welsh rose to become its president and purchased the firm, which expanded to sell promotional advertising items, including keychains and T-shirts imprinted with businesses’ names.
He moved the business to North Avenue and Howard Street and later to Lauraville before closing it in 2018..
He met his future wife, Susan Giblin Welsh, on a blind date arranged by a colleague. They married in 1969.
Mr. Welsh joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians St. Brendan’s Division #3 in Towson. He also visited Ireland and met his mother’s cousins in Galway.
“My father was an extrovert and a people person,” said his son, Christopher. “He was known as Uncle Leo and for good reason. He had an institutional memory, and he had something to say.”
He served as Maryland State AOH president several times and was the co-chair of its 2000 Baltimore national convention.
Mr. Welsh became involved with the Maryland Irish Festival and the Baltimore St. Patrick’s Parade. He was a co-founder and past president of the Irish Charities of Maryland and of St. Patrick Celebrations Inc., the group that stages the annual parade along Charles and Pratt streets.
Mr. Welsh also organized a booth promoting the pubs that supported the Irish festival. The booth was stocked with Irish-themed glassware and T-shirts.
After marching in the annual parade for many years and being its 1992 grand marshal, Mr. Welsh decided he preferred to stand at Charles and Pratt streets.
“He had a clipboard and eyeballed the units. If any had dropped out or was out of order, he relayed [the information] on a walkie-talkie to the reviewing stand so the names of the marching units could be correctly announced,” his son said.
“Leo was easygoing and did things in his low-key, unassuming way,” Tim Harvey, a friend, said. “His work was never for recognition, and he sought the good of the cause.”
Mr. Welsh kept up his Calvert Hall ties through its alumni association and was the 1997-98 president of the organization.
“Leo was in the last class to graduate from the old Hall, [in downtown Baltimore] at Cathedral and Mulberry streets. His class remained very active and was a large presence at the annual homecoming,” Art Casserly, another friend, said. “He was incredibly likeable. He had no pretense. He worked hard and took credit for nothing. He always treated people like an old friend.”
In 1987, Mr. Welsh joined the Catholic War Veterans and was the Commander of the Msgr. Hugh J. Monaghan Post 736. He also belonged to the Towson Elks Lodge 469.
A funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Sept. 16 at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church at 5800 Smith Ave., where he was a past parish council president and Eucharistic minister.
Survivors include his wife of nearly 53 years, Susan Giblin Welsh, a retired Roland Park Country School nurse and secretary; a son, Christopher David Welsh of Baltimore; a brother, James Welsh of Catonsville; and three grandchildren.
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20 new Kasas arrive in the coveted Lower East Side neighborhood
NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kasa Living, Inc., a tech-enhanced, flexible accommodations brand and operator, will soon welcome a new property to its portfolio. Kasa Lantern LES opens December 12, 2022. New York-based Delshah Capital owns the property, which it acquired in February 2021.
Situated in the heart of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Kasa Lantern LES will bring 20 new Kasas to 120 Allen Street, a recently constructed "aparthotel," thoughtfully designed by New York City design firm Grzywinski+Pons to pay homage to the neighborhood's tenement block origins.
With generously sized rooms showcasing high-end finishes and a residential appeal, more than half of the Kasa's will feature a kitchen or kitchenette, and all will include Vertuo Nespresso machines, luxurious linens, and ultra-fast Wi-Fi. Select Kasa penthouses boast sweeping city views and private outdoor terraces. The building's lower levels host Ye's Apothecary, an intimate tapas and speakeasy bar serving modern Szechuan cuisine and inventive, herbal-infused cocktails.
Like all Kasas, the property will feature online check-in, a Virtual Front Desk, and smart locks allowing guests to enjoy a seamless travel experience from the moment they arrive. Kasa's guest experience team is available 24/7 via text, chat, or phone.
Kasa is partnering with Delshah Capital, a vertically integrated real estate private equity and asset management firm, to bring Kasa Lantern LES to life. "We're excited to partner with Kasa to usher in an exciting new chapter for this special property," said Michael Shah, CEO of Delshah Capital. "Given the continued rise in digital nomads and remote working, Kasa's flexible residential operating model is a great fit for Manhattan's hip Lower East Side, where young professionals and creatives want to work and play. I am excited to take this first collaboration with Kasa and hope it leads to more."
"The Lower East Side has long been one of New York's most vibrant and youthful neighborhoods, and a beacon for the modern traveler. We're enthusiastic for the chance to showcase our brand of tech-enabled hospitality in such an exciting and dynamic location," said Roman Pedan, Founder and CEO of Kasa.
For more information about Kasa Lantern LES (120 Allen St, New York, NY 10002), visit www.kasa.com.
Kasa Living, Inc. is a tech-powered, flexible accommodations brand and operator founded in San Francisco in 2016 by Roman Pedan. The company partners with real estate owners to transform units at multifamily and hospitality properties into professionally managed accommodations called Kasas. With its technology and deep industry experience — fortified by professionals who previously drove growth at firms like Airbnb, KKR, and Apollo — Kasa delivers reliable, high-quality experiences to guests of all types. For more information, visit www.kasa.com.
Founded in 2006, Delshah Capital is a vertically integrated private equity real estate and asset management firm with over $1.2 billion assets under management that specializes in acquiring, developing, and managing multifamily, retail and hospitality properties, as well as distressed commercial real estate loans. Based in New York, Delshah Capital has significant experience with multifamily value-add and lease-up business plans over the past 16 years and owns and manages over 300 units in Brooklyn currently out of a portfolio over 2,000 NYC multifamily units. The firm employs a fundamental value-driven approach, with a focus on margin of safety and replacement cost, and expertise in identifying, structuring, and managing real estate investments on behalf of institutional and high-net-worth clients. Learn more at https://www.delshah.com/.
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Pro Forma RevPAR Increases 78%; 2019 RevPAR Recapture Rate Reaches New Quarterly High
Completed the Acquisition of $822 Million 27-Hotel NewcrestImage Portfolio
Accretive Transaction Activity Continues with Pending Acquisition of AC Hotel by Marriott & Element Miami Brickell and Pending Sale of Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North
AUSTIN, Texas, May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (NYSE: INN) (the "Company"), today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
"Our operating results continue to improve as we have begun to see a more meaningful increase in demand segments beyond the robust leisure travel demand that has driven the industry's results in the early part of the recovery. We were particularly encouraged by the sequential monthly improvements we experienced across all operating and financial metrics, including first quarter hotel-level profitability that was more than three times higher compared to a year ago. President's Day weekend again served as a notable demand inflection point across our portfolio, culminating with March RevPAR of $120 – a 87% recapture to 2019 – and hotel EBITDA margin of 40%, the highest we have achieved since the onset of the pandemic," said Jonathan P. Stanner, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
"In January, we closed on the previously announced acquisition of 27 hotels from NewcrestImage, which represented the largest transaction in the Company's history and significantly increased our presence in high growth Sun Belt markets. We are also excited to announce the pending acquisition of the newly developed dual-branded AC Hotel by Marriott and Element located in the rapidly growing Brickell submarket of Miami. The transaction represents our first exercised option in connection with our mezzanine lending program. Since the onset of the pandemic, we have closed or announced the acquisition of nearly $1 billion of high-quality hotels. In addition, our joint venture with GIC has entered into an agreement to sell the Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North hotel for $75 million, or $444,000 per key, nearly 30% higher than what we acquired the hotel for in 2019. Collectively, these transactions demonstrate our ability to thoughtfully and opportunistically allocate capital, and we remain well positioned for future growth," continued Mr. Stanner.
First Quarter 2022 Summary
- Net Loss: Net loss attributable to common stockholders improved to $12.4 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $35.1 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2021.
- Pro forma RevPAR: Pro forma RevPAR increased 77.9 percent to $97.09 compared to the first quarter of 2021. Pro forma ADR increased 47.5 percent to $151.97 compared to the same period in 2021, and pro forma occupancy increased 20.6 percent to 63.9 percent.
- Same Store RevPAR: Same Store RevPAR increased 87.6 percent to $98.30 compared to the first quarter of 2021. Same store ADR increased 49.5 percent to $155.63 compared to the same period in 2021, and same store occupancy increased 25.5 percent to 63.2 percent.
- Pro Forma Hotel EBITDA(1): Pro forma hotel EBITDA increased to $47.3 million from $15.8 million in the same period in 2021. Pro forma hotel EBITDA margin expanded to 32.6 percent from 19.7 percent in the same period of 2021.
- Same Store Hotel EBITDA(1): Same store hotel EBITDA increased to $33.8 million from $7.7 million in the same period in 2021. Same store hotel EBITDA margin expanded to 31.2 percent from 13.3 percent in the same period of 2021.
- Adjusted EBITDAre(1): Adjusted EBITDAre increased to $32.9 million from $6.2 million in the first quarter of 2021.
- Adjusted FFO(1): Adjusted FFO was $20.1 million, or $0.17 per diluted share, compared to ($6.9) million, or ($0.07) per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2021.
The Company's results for the three months ended March 31, 2022, are as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):
Monthly Operating Data
Transaction Activity
During the first quarter, the Company completed the previously announced 27-hotel portfolio acquisition through its existing joint venture with GIC from affiliates of NewcrestImage. The transaction included 27 hotels totaling 3,709 guestrooms, two parking structures, and various financial incentives. The total consideration for the transaction is comprised of $776.5 million, or $209,000 per key, for the 27-hotel portfolio, $24.8 million for the two parking structures, and $20.7 million for the various financial incentives.
Pending Transactions
Acquisition of the AC Hotel by Marriott & Element Miami Brickell
Subsequent to quarter-end, the Company exercised its initial equity purchase option to acquire a 90% interest in the newly constructed, dual-branded 264-guestroom AC Hotel by Marriott & Element Miami Brickell (the "Brickell Hotels"). The option price was based on a gross hotel valuation of $89.0 million, or $337,000 per key, and the Company expects to fund its estimated $38 million equity requirement with the conversion of the previously funded $30 million mezzanine construction loan, which earned 9% cash interest during the loan term, and $8 million in cash. The transaction will be funded with the assumption of an estimated $47 million mortgage loan that will have a variable interest rate of 30-day LIBOR + 300 basis points and maturity date of February 15, 2025.
Opened in December 2021, the Brickell Hotels are located in the heart of Brickell, a chic and vibrant neighborhood of downtown Miami, and adjacent to the Brickell City Centre - downtown Miami's landmark mixed-use development consisting of 5.4 million square feet of office, residential, retail and entertainment space. The Brickell Hotels' premier location creates a unique opportunity to capitalize on Miami's robust corporate and leisure demand growth. The Brickell Hotels feature Rosa Sky, a rooftop bar and lounge, an amenity deck with a pool, cabana seating, and outdoor bar, the AC lounge restaurant and bar, modern fitness center, nearly 5,000 square feet of meeting and event space, and 150 structured parking spaces in the property's garage.
The Miami market has been a leader in the lodging recovery during the pandemic ranking first in the nation in nominal RevPAR in both 2020 and 2021 and one of only three markets among the top 25 in the U.S. that surpassed 2019 RevPAR levels in 2021. The Miami market was the best performing top 25 market in the first quarter of 2022 surpassing the comparable 2019 RevPAR by 18%.
The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2022. The project was developed by an affiliate of Robert Finvarb Companies, LLC, an established Miami based developer, who will remain our joint venture partner with a 10% equity interest in the Brickell Hotels. Upon closing, a $10 million letter of credit that currently supports the equity purchase option will be released and the Company will retain the option to acquire the remaining 10% equity interest of the Brickell Hotels in December 2026.
Disposition of the Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North
Subsequent to quarter end, the Company's joint venture with GIC entered into a contract to sell the 169-guestroom Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North for total consideration of $75.0 million, or $444,000 per key. The transaction represents a 1.0% capitalization rate based on the hotel's net operating income after a 4% FF&E reserve for the twelve months ended March 31, 2022. The Company will also forego a comprehensive renovation that was scheduled for late 2022 estimated to be $7.1 million, or $42,000 per key, as a result of the sale.
The joint venture acquired the hotel in October 2019 for $58.0 million, or $343,000 per key, and the transaction is expected to result in a $20.5 million net gain on sale. Net proceeds from the transaction are estimated to be $73 million, of which the Company's share will be equal to approximately $37 million. The Company expects to use the net sale proceeds to repay indebtedness and for other general corporate purposes.
Capital Markets and Balance Sheet
On March 31, 2022, inclusive of its pro rata share of the Joint Venture debt, the Company had the following:
- Pro rata outstanding debt of $1.2 billion with a weighted average interest rate of 3.39 percent.
- After giving effect to interest rate derivative agreements, $839.0 million, or 69 percent, of our pro rata outstanding debt had fixed interest rates, and $377.2 million, or 31 percent, had variable interest rates.
- Pro rata unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of $62.7 million.
- Revolving credit facility availability of $340.0 million, plus an additional $50.0 million available to borrow subject to certain requirements. The Company had no borrowings outstanding on its revolving credit facility.
- Total liquidity of $452.7 million, including unrestricted cash and cash equivalents and revolving credit facility availability.
Capital Improvements
The Company invested $10.3 million during the three months ended March 31, 2022 and plans to invest a total of $60.0 million to $80.0 million on a consolidated basis and $50.0 million to $70.0 million on a pro rata basis for the full year 2022. The Company anticipates completing or starting renovations at 13 hotels during the year, nine of which are expected to commence in the fourth quarter. Renovations expected to be complete by year-end include the Hilton Garden Inn Houston Energy Corridor, Hyatt Place Orlando Universal Studios, and SpringHill Suites Nashville MetroCenter.
Dividends
On April 29, 2022, the Company declared a quarterly cash preferred dividend of $0.390625 per share of the Company's 6.25% Series E Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock for the dividend period ending on May 31, 2022, and a cash dividend of $0.3671875 per share of the Company's 5.875% Series F Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock for the dividend period ending on May 31, 2022.
The Company also declared on behalf of the operating partnership, distributions pertaining to the operating partnership's unregistered 5.25% Series Z Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Units that were issued as part of the recently completed NewcrestImage portfolio acquisition. The cash distributions are $0.328125 per unit for the units issued on January 13, 2022, and $0.249660 per unit for the units issued on March 23, 2022.
The dividends and distributions are payable on May 31, 2022, to holders of record as of May 17, 2022.
2022 Outlook
Given the continued uncertainty and volatility of the operating environment, the Company is not providing operational or earnings guidance at this time. However, the Company is providing its expectations for certain non-operational items based on 101 hotels owned as of March 31, 2022 and pending transaction activity including the acquisition of the 264-guestroom dual-branded AC Hotel by Marriott & Element Miami Brickell and the disposition of the 169-guestroom Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco Airport North currently owned by the Company's joint venture with GIC, both of which are expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2022.
First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call
The Company will conduct its quarterly conference call on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at 9:00 AM ET. To participate in the conference call, please follow the steps below:
- On May 4, 2022, dial 877-930-8101 approximately ten minutes before the call begins (8:50 AM ET).
- Enter conference identification code 3183004.
- Please state your full name and company affiliation and you will be connected to the call.
A live webcast of the quarterly conference call will be available through the Company's website, www.shpreit.com. A replay of the quarterly conference call webcast will be available until 12:00 PM ET Wednesday, May 11, 2022, by dialing 855-859-2056, conference identification code 3183004. A replay will also be available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website until July 31, 2022.
About Summit Hotel Properties
Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. is a publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on owning premium-branded hotels with efficient operating models primarily in the Upscale segment of the lodging industry. As of May 3, 2022, the Company's portfolio consisted of 101 hotels, 61 of which are wholly owned, with a total of 15,228 guestrooms located in 24 states.
For additional information, please visit the Company's website, www.shpreit.com, and follow the Company on Twitter at @SummitHotel_INN. Investors and others should note that the Company routinely announces material information to investors and the marketplace using U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings, press releases, public conference calls, webcasts, and the Investors section of the Company's website. The Company uses these channels as well as social media channels (e.g., the Company's Twitter account @SummitHotel_INN) as a means of disclosing information about the Company's business to our colleagues, investors, and the public. While not all the information that the Company posts to the Company's website or on the Company's social media channels is of a material nature, some information could be deemed to be material. Accordingly, the Company encourages investors, the media, and others interested in the Company to review the information that it shares on https://investor.shpreit.com/corporate-profile.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "intend," "expect," "seek," "anticipate," "estimate," "approximately," "believe," "could," "project," "predict," "forecast," "continue," "plan," "likely," "would" or other similar words or expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and can include future expectations, future plans and strategies, financial and operating projections, or other forward-looking information. Examples of forward-looking statements include the following: the Company's ability to realize growth from the allocation of capital; projections of the Company's cash corporate G&A, interest expense, capital expenditures or other financial items; descriptions of the Company's plans or objectives for future operations, acquisitions, dispositions, and financings; and descriptions of assumptions underlying or relating to any of the foregoing expectations regarding the timing of their occurrence. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, not all of which are known to the Company and many of which are beyond the Company's control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the state of the U.S. economy, supply and demand in the hotel industry, and other factors as are described in greater detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Unless legally required, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
For information about the Company's business and financial results, please refer to the "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Risk Factors" sections of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC, and its quarterly and other periodic filings with the SEC. The Company undertakes no duty to update the statements in this release to conform the statements to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We disclose certain "non-GAAP financial measures," which are measures of our historical financial performance. Non-GAAP financial measures are financial measures not prescribed by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"). These measures are as follows: (i) Funds From Operations ("FFO") and Adjusted Funds from Operations ("AFFO"), (ii) Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization ("EBITDA"), Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization for Real Estate ("EBITDAre"), Adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA (as described below). We caution investors that amounts presented in accordance with our definitions of non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similar measures disclosed by other companies, since not all companies calculate these non-GAAP financial measures in the same manner. Our non-GAAP financial measures should be considered along with, but not as alternatives to, net income (loss) as a measure of our operating performance. Our non-GAAP financial measures may include funds that may not be available for our discretionary use due to functional requirements to conserve funds for capital expenditures, property acquisitions, debt service obligations and other commitments and uncertainties. Although we believe that our non-GAAP financial measures can enhance the understanding of our financial condition and results of operations, these non-GAAP financial measures are not necessarily better indicators of any trend as compared to a comparable measure prescribed by GAAP such as net income (loss).
Funds From Operations ("FFO") and Adjusted FFO ("AFFO")
As defined by Nareit, FFO represents net income or loss (computed in accordance with GAAP), excluding preferred dividends, gains (or losses) from sales of real property, impairment losses on real estate assets, items classified by GAAP as extraordinary, the cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, plus depreciation and amortization related to real estate assets, and adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships, and joint ventures. AFFO represents FFO excluding amortization of deferred financing costs, franchise fees, equity-based compensation expense, debt transaction costs, premiums on redemption of preferred shares, losses from net casualties, non-cash lease expense, non-cash interest income and non-cash income tax related adjustments to our deferred tax assets. Unless otherwise indicated, we present FFO and AFFO applicable to our common shares and common units. We present FFO and AFFO because we consider FFO and AFFO an important supplemental measure of our operational performance and believe it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present FFO and AFFO when reporting their results. FFO and AFFO are intended to exclude GAAP historical cost depreciation and amortization, which assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes ratably over time. Historically, however, real estate values have risen or fallen with market conditions. Because FFO and AFFO exclude depreciation and amortization related to real estate assets, gains and losses from real property dispositions and impairment losses on real estate assets, FFO and AFFO provide performance measures that, when compared year over year, reflect the effect to operations from trends in occupancy, guestroom rates, operating costs, development activities and interest costs, providing perspective not immediately apparent from net income. Our computation of FFO differs slightly from the computation of Nareit-defined FFO related to the reporting of corporate depreciation and amortization expense. Our computation of FFO may also differ from the methodology for calculating FFO used by other equity REITs and, accordingly, may not be comparable to such other REITs. FFO and AFFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss) (computed in accordance with GAAP) as an indicator of our liquidity, nor is it indicative of funds available to fund our cash needs, including our ability to pay dividends or make distributions. Where indicated in this release, FFO is based on our computation of FFO and not the computation of Nareit-defined FFO unless otherwise noted.
EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDAre, and Hotel EBITDA
EBITDA
EBITDA represents net income or loss, excluding: (i) interest, (ii) income tax expense and (iii) depreciation and amortization. We believe EBITDA is useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because it provides investors with an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business. We also believe it helps investors meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the effect of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results. Our management team also uses EBITDA as one measure in determining the value of acquisitions and dispositions.
EBITDAre and Adjusted EBITDAre
EBITDAre is based on EBITDA and is expected to provide additional relevant information about REITs as real estate companies in support of growing interest among generalist investors. EBITDAre is intended to be a supplemental non-GAAP performance measure that is independent of a company's capital structure and will provide a uniform basis to measure the enterprise value of a company compared to other REITs.
EBITDAre, as defined by Nareit, is calculated as EBITDA, excluding: (i) loss and gains on disposition of property and (ii) asset impairments, if any. We believe EBITDAre is useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because it provides investors with an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business. We also believe it helps investors meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the effect of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results.
We make additional adjustments to EBITDAre when evaluating our performance because we believe that the exclusion of certain additional non-recurring or certain non-cash items described below provides useful supplemental information to investors regarding our ongoing operating performance. We believe that the presentation of Adjusted EBITDAre, when combined with the primary GAAP presentation of net income, is useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because it provides investors with an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business. We also believe it helps investors meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the effect of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results.
Hotel EBITDA
With respect to hotel EBITDA, we believe that excluding the effect of corporate-level expenses and non-cash items provides a more complete understanding of the operating results over which individual hotels and operators have direct control. We believe the property-level results provide investors with supplemental information on the ongoing operational performance of our hotels and effectiveness of the third-party management companies operating our business on a property-level basis.
We caution investors that amounts presented in accordance with our definitions of EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA may not be comparable to similar measures disclosed by other companies, since not all companies calculate these non-GAAP measures in the same manner. EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative measure of our net income (loss) or operating performance. EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA may include funds that may not be available for our discretionary use due to functional requirements to conserve funds for capital expenditures and property acquisitions and other commitments and uncertainties. Although we believe that EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA can enhance your understanding of our financial condition and results of operations, these non-GAAP financial measures are not necessarily a better indicator of any trend as compared to a comparable GAAP measure such as net income (loss). Above, we include a quantitative reconciliation of EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre and hotel EBITDA to the most directly comparable GAAP financial performance measure, which is net income (loss) and operating income (loss).
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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — A California man facing a murder charge for allegedly shooting a 9-month-old baby, killing him, was attacked in court on Thursday moments before his arraignment.
Video shot inside Merced County Superior Court shows Daevon Motshwane, 18, handcuffed and sitting down, when another man in an orange-striped jumpsuit, also in handcuffs, attacks him from behind, appearing to strike Motshwane in the head with an elbow.
The man in the jumpsuit, James Clay McRae, was previously charged with first-degree murder, according to the Merced County Sheriff’s Office.
Officers quickly subdued McRae and the courtroom was cleared temporarily.
Also in attendance during the scuffle were family members of the victim, 9-month-old Darius King Grigsby.
“Every time you go in there someone gonna come at you and get beat up every time,” Darius’ mother, Monica Ayala, said. “Just all I gotta say is be ready for what’s coming for you boy. Like a lot is gonna come your way and you’re gonna be hurt. Like damaged real bad.”
Motshwane is in court facing charges for allegedly shooting and killing Darius on November 9, while his mother and a friend walked him in a stroller in the area of Q and 12th streets in Merced, according to Merced Police.
Officers say that the fatal shot was meant for the man who was walking with Darius and his mom on that day.
Merced Police detectives were able to successfully track Motshwane from Merced, in California’s Central Valley, about 85 miles west to the city of Gilroy where a SWAT team took him into custody Nov. 17.
Police also arrested a juvenile believed to have been driving the vehicle.
“Every little thing that he gets towards him he deserves every little bit,” said Darius’ aunt Elena Perez Thursday. “Every little things that happens to him in jail, prison, whatever, he deserves every little bit, no matter what.”
The Merced County District Attorney said Motshwane has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder and that he faces life in prison. They would not say if the death penalty was in play.
Motshwane’s arraignment has been moved to the morning of December 8.
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Texas abortion drug ruling could create ‘slippery slope’ for FDA approvals, drug research and patients, experts say
What happened in one judge’s courtroom in Texas could have drastic effects for the United States’ entire drug approval process, experts warn.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling that suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone was an unprecedented one, the first time a court has bypassed the federal system set up to determine what drugs should be allowed on the market.
Regardless of whether the ruling – or a part of it – is ultimately allowed to stand, legal scholars, scientists and drugmakers are concerned that the decision could start a trend of drugs being targeted in courts, creating a chilling effect on drug development in the US and hurting patients in the process.
Vaccines, including the COVID-19 shots, antidepressants and psychotropic medicines, could be at risk, some said.
“Well, one does not want to be Chicken Little,” former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Jane Henney said Wednesday, but “I can’t imagine that it wouldn’t have implications for other products.
“The approval process will be at risk, and it’s not just an approval process that patients rely on and providers rely on, it’s one that has been considered the gold standard, really, for the world,” said Henney, who was the head of the FDA when mifepristone was approved.
Since the dawn of the 20th century, the FDA has had the sole authority in the United States to regulate drugs. In 1906, the federal government created the agency to enforce the Pure Food and Drug Act, which was instituted to ensure that medicine, food and cosmetics were safe.
Over the years, that authority became more defined.
After elixir of sulfanilamide, a drug used to treat streptococcal infections, killed 107 people in 1937, Congress created the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Signed into law in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it required manufacturers to conduct pharmacological studies to prove that their drugs were safe before they could be sold or advertised. In 1962, drug manufacturers were also required to prove to the FDA that their products were effective.
Modern drug approval in the U.S. is a careful and conscientious process. Before any drug goes to market, there are countless hours of research, the work and expertise of multiple scientists, and several layers of oversight for approval.
Until now, the courts have been deferential to the FDA’s process and have never overturned an FDA decision on the grounds that the agency misjudged the science, said William Schultz, a former deputy commissioner at the FDA and former general counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services.
“Any FDA drug approval involves hundreds of judgments by the agency. And if a court feels free just to kind of take a fresh look at each of those, there’s a chance that a court will find one of those FDA judgments wrong,” Schultz said in an online discussion Monday about the impact of the Texas court’s ruling that was hosted by Protect Our Care, an organization that advocates for equitable and affordable health care.
An ‘assault on science’
Hundreds of well-known biotech and pharmaceutical company leaders, concerned about the effects of Kacsmaryk’s ruling on other drug approvals, signed an open letter Monday in support of the FDA’s authority “to approve and regulate safe, effective medicines for every American.”
The letter also advocated a reversal of the mifepristone decision from a judge with “no scientific training,” saying it “set a precedent for diminishing FDA’s authority over drug approvals, and in so doing, creates uncertainty for the entire biopharma industry.”
In a separate statement, the biotech industry group BIO’s interim president and CEO, Rachel King, emphasized the “dangerous precedent” the decision sets.
“The preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas is an assault on science and the FDA’s long-standing role as the authority to make decisions on the safety and efficacy of medicines. For a court to invalidate the approval of a drug that was reviewed and approved more than two decades ago is without precedent. As legal scholars have noted, the courts do not have the medical expertise to make these types of scientific determinations,” King said.
The main lobbying group for the pharmaceutical industry, PhRMA, criticized Kacsmaryk’s ruling as undermining the regulatory process.
“PhRMA has serious concerns with any court substituting its opinion for the FDA’s expert approval decision-making,” said James C. Stansel, the association’s executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Stansel added that such a decision could have a “chilling effect on the research and development ecosystem.”
The pharmacutical sector is a huge part of the American economy. Of the world’s 25 largest phamacutical companies, 10 are based in the US, and most of the others have a large base of operations in the country.
Often, the US market is the first to get access to new drugs, but that could change if lawsuits undermine the regulatory integrity of the FDA process, said Susan Lee, partner in the law firm Goodwin’s Life Sciences group and Life Sciences Regulatory & Compliance practice, who works with companies to get drugs approved by the FDA.
“If there do tend to be more lawsuits like this, I wonder if there might be a little bit of a tendency to not always look at the US as the first market,” Lee said. “Some manufacturers may say ‘we’d rather go to Europe, where we’re not going to be sued on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis.’ “
Lee also wonders whether manufacturers will abandon efforts to develop drugs that could be considered unappealing to some, such as those that help women’s health or work to prevent HIV.
“I think there are just certain sectors that are already kind of thinking about whether they might also have a target on their back. I’ve definitely heard that discussed,” Lee said.
What could be next?
The groups at the heart of the Texas case have not disclosed any further plans regarding lawsuits over medications, but experts say they are already hearing concern.
“I’ve already been getting questions from lawmakers and other people about ‘could the COVID vaccine be next?’ or other things that may have stigma around it,” said Dr. Kristyn Brandi, an ob/gyn and abortion provider in New Jersey and a spokesperson for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
The Covid-19 vaccines have been thoroughly tested and found to be safe and effective, but they’re the subject of conspiracy theories and misunderstanding about how mRNA vaccines were tested. Beliefs that the vaccines were tested on recently harvested aborted fetal cells made some people decidedly anti-vaccine.
Dr. Lynn R. Goldman, professor and dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, is also concerned that mRNA vaccines could be targeted soon.
“There might be people who disagree with some of the technologies that are used by vaccine makers, like the mRNA vaccines, but feeling uncomfortable about a technology is not the same thing as identifying that there is risk,” she said in the Protect Our Care conversation.
Members of the LGBTQ+ community may also be vulnerable, experts say, as activists could target puberty blockers or hormones used in gender-affirming therapy.
“I don’t like to do slippery slope, but I’m also very worried about things like gender-affirming care, since there’s already been so many laws about that recently in other states,” Brandi said.
There is political pressure against other vaccines, antidepressants and psychotropic medicines, among others, former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and former Principal Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein wrote in an editorial published Thursday in the journal Science.
“If judges begin to dictate the terms of medication access, then others will seek to use ideology and influence to advance their agendas,” they warn.
A ‘serious moment’ for doctors and patients
Goldman said that any legal decision that could undermine the FDA drug approval process would ultimately hurt the doctors who prescribe them and the people who use them.
Doctors don’t have time to vet all the studies used to prove that a drug is safe and effective, so they rely on the FDA for this work, she said. Court interference could confuse this process.
“I think that this is, for doctors, an incredibly serious moment, because up to now, we have been able to trust that an approval by the FDA is a science-based decision and that we can say that if the FDA has approved a drug, that it is safe for us to use,” Goldman said.
A lack of confidence in the drug approval process will ultimately hurt people far beyond the most recent decision, Protect Our Care Chair Leslie Dach says.
“Confidence that the FDA can do its work is essential for clinicians and patients who depend on it in its decision-making for matters of life and death,” Dach said.
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Electric cars are growing in popularity. More people than ever are looking to buy one, and car brands are producing a wider range of electric car models than ever before.
As they grow in popularity, some people are worried about the impact a surge in electric cars might have on their electric bills.
Mary asked VERIFY in an email if there’s any home appliance that’s “equivalent” to electric vehicles in electricity demand. “Would charging an EV be about the same as getting another refrigerator, or air conditioner, or is it much worse?” she asked.
THE QUESTION
Does charging an electric vehicle use a similar amount of electricity as other home appliances?
THE SOURCES
- Fueleconomy.gov, which is run by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Federal Highway Administration
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- PickHVAC, an online buying guide for heating and cooling systems
- EnergySage, a renewable energy marketplace funded by the U.S. Department of Energy
- Sense, a company that makes home energy consumption monitors
- Product information for various appliances
THE ANSWER
Some home appliances use a similar amount of electricity to electric vehicles, but it depends on the appliance and vehicle. Some use less, and some use more.
WHAT WE FOUND
The electricity requirements of both electric cars and home appliances vary based on the efficiency of the models you own, as well as how often you use them.
We’ll show you what we mean by comparing several electric vehicles to several different appliances, including multiple models of the same type of appliance, based on how much an average home uses them in a year.
First, let’s do the math on electric vehicles.
According to fueleconomy.gov, which is run by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), new electric cars use between 0.24 kWh (kilowatt hours, a measure of electricity consumption) per mile and 0.53 kWh per mile.
The Federal Highway Administration said the average driver traveled 14,263 miles in 2019. So if you were to drive as much as the average person, and you fully charge your car at home throughout the year, you’d use between 3,423 kWh and 7,559 kWh to charge a new electric vehicle.
Here’s the breakdown of how much electricity each of six popular electric vehicle models would use annually using this model:
- Tesla Model 3: 3,566 kWh at 0.25 kWh per mile
- Chevrolet Bolt: 3,994 kWh at 0.28 kWh per mile
- Tesla Model Y: 3,994 kWh at 0.28 kWh per mile
- Nissan Leaf: 4,279 kWh at 0.30 kWh per mile
- Ford Mustang Mach-E: 5,135 kWh at 0.36 kWh per mile
- Ford F-150 Lightning: 7,274 kWh at 0.51 kWh per mile
Now, let’s compare that to household appliances.
The two most electricity-demanding appliances in the average American household are water heaters and electric furnaces, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey. The average home uses a little more than 3,000 kWh of electricity each year on heating the air, and another 3,000 kWh on heating water, meaning an electric car would require at least a little more electricity than it takes to run each of these appliances in the average U.S. home.
But one reason why this claim needs context is because not all appliances are created equal. There are some appliances that use more electricity than many electric vehicles.
EnergySage, a renewable energy marketplace funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, says that the most common electric furnace uses about 3,163 kWh of electricity in a year. But EnergySage also notes there are electric furnaces powerful enough to consume 4,745 kWh of electricity in a year.
When it comes to water heaters, the average model typically requires a little less electricity than the most common electric vehicles, but some water heaters require much less electricity. One Rheem water heater uses about 3,531 kWh of electricity in a year, according to the product’s EnergyGuide tag, a label required on many appliances by the federal government. A high-efficiency Rheem water heater, on the other hand, uses 1,219 kWh annually, according to its EnergyGuide tag.
Air conditioning units also vary by size. For example, a typical 1.5 ton central A/C unit, the smallest size available for most product lines, uses about 1,485 kWh over the course of a year. However, a 5 ton A/C unit, the largest size in most residential product lines, typically uses 4,950 kWh of electricity in a year, according to PickHVAC, an online buying guide for heating and cooling systems.
Many other appliances use far less electricity. New fridges use a few hundred kWh a year, while 25-year-old refrigerators use 1,031 kWh of electricity annually, according to Sense, a company that makes home energy consumption monitors. EnergySage says the typical washing machine uses no more than 220 kWh each year, and the average dishwasher will probably use about 300 kWh or less each year.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — China has reportedly established dozens of “overseas police stations” in nations around the world that activists fear could be used to track and harass dissidents as part of Beijing’s crackdown on corruption.
Information about the outposts underscored concerns about the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s influence over its citizens abroad, sometimes in ways deemed illegal by other countries, as well as the undermining of democratic institutions and the the theft of economic and political secrets by bodies affiliated with the one-party state.
Spanish-based non-government group Safeguard Defenders published a report last month, called “110 Overseas. Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild,” that focused on the foreign stations.
Laura Harth, a campaign director with the group, told The Associated Press that China has set up at least 54 overseas police service stations.
“One of the aims of these campaigns, obviously, as it is to crack down on dissent, is to silence people,” Harth said. “So people are afraid. People that are being targeted, that have family members back in China, are afraid to speak out.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Thursday that Beijing wasn’t doing anything wrong. “Chinese public security authorities strictly observe the international law and fully respect the judicial sovereignty of other countries,” Mao said.
Many of the facilities appeared to have links to the Fuzhou and Qingtian areas, where many overseas Chinese originate.
The Irish government said it told China to close a Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station operating in Dublin. The Department of Foreign Affairs said Chinese authorities did not make an advance request to set up the office.
“Actions of all foreign states on Irish territory must be in compliance with international law and domestic law requirements,” the Irish government said, noting why it had told the Chinese Embassy that the office “should close and cease operations.”
“The Chinese Embassy has now stated that the activities of the office have ceased,” it said.
The Dutch government said this week it was looking into whether two such police stations — one a virtual office in Amsterdam and the other at a physical address in Rotterdam — were established in the Netherlands.
“We are investigating the activities of these so-called police centers. Once there is more clarity on the matter, we will decide on appropriate action,” the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement sent to the AP. “We have not been informed about these centers via diplomatic channels.”
Another Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Wang Wenbin, described the foreign outposts identified by Safeguard Defenders as service stations for Chinese people who are abroad and in need of help with, for instance, renewing their driver’s licenses.
Wang added that China also has cracked down on what he called transnational crimes but said the operation was conducted in line with international law.
In its report, Safeguard Defenders reproduced Chinese media accounts about people suspected of alleged crimes in China being interrogated by video link from some of the locations in other countries that Beijing allegedly did not declare to other governments.
In one instance, according to the group, a Chinese man accused of environmental crimes was persuaded in 2020 to return from Madrid to Qingtian, in Zhejiang province, where he turned himself in to authorities.
Visits by The Associated Press to some of the locations identified by Safeguard Defenders in Rome, Madrid and Barcelona found, respectively, a massage parlor, the Spanish headquarters of an association of citizens from Qingtian and a firm providing legal translation services. There was no indication of police stations or other activity directly related to the Chinese government.
A worker at the Barcelona translation company confirmed to the AP that a Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station operated on the premises for a few weeks this year in a test-drive capacity.
The employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists, the press, said the police service center offered document renewal services to Fuzhou citizens living in the Barcelona region who could not return to China due to pandemic travel restrictions and the high cost of flights.
According to Safeguard Defenders, China claims 230,000 suspects of fraud were “persuaded to return” to China from April 2021 to July 2022.
“These operations eschew official bilateral police and judicial cooperation and violate the international rule of law, and may violate the territorial integrity of third countries involved in setting up a parallel policing mechanism using illegal methods,” its report said.
The European Union’s executive arm said Thursday it was up to member countries to investigate such allegations since it would be a matter of national sovereignty.
A Hungarian opposition lawmaker claimed this month to have discovered two sites in Budapest where Chinese overseas police stations operated without the knowledge of the country’s Interior Ministry.
The lawmaker, Marton Tompos, said one of the two locations in Hungary’s capital had a sign that said Qingtian Overseas Police Station. Tompos said he was unable to contact anyone affiliated with the sites and that when he visited again days later, the sign had been removed.
The Hungarian Interior Ministry did not immediately respond to AP questions on the matter.
Three informal Chinese police stations are operating in Portugal, Safeguard Defenders reported. Portuguese authorities did not immediately reply to AP questions about the claim.
A Portuguese TV report said one of the venues, located in an industrial complex in northern Portugal, appeared to be a car shop operated by a Chinese man. The man denied any connection with the Chinese government, though broadcaster S.I.C. Noticias showed him in a video promoting the Beijing Winter Olympics and said he heads a local association that helps Chinese immigrants.
In Tanzania, both police and the Chinese Embassy have denied the presence of a Chinese-run police station in the country’s commercial hub and former capital, Dar es Salaam, after the BBC reported on it last week.
“You are fabricating stories,” the embassy tweeted, calling the report an example of disinformation aimed at dividing China-Africa relations. A police spokesman sent the AP a copy of China’s denial in response to questions Thursday.
In Lesotho, a kingdom in southern Africa, national police Senior Superintendent Mpiti Mopeli also denied the existence of any Chinese law enforcement activities. He said such operations would be illegal as any form of policing in Lesotho is conducted by local authorities.
Over his decade in power, Chinese President Xi Jinping has pushed a relentless anti-corruption drive that has seen tens of millions of Communist Party cadres investigated and expanded overseas via a pair of campaigns known as Sky Net and Fox Hunt. Both are tasked with locating allegedly corrupt officials who have fled abroad and convincing them to return to China with their stolen state assets.
Since China began opening up in the 1980s, corruption has been a major problem among those enjoying access to state funds and resources with few safeguards in place, and cash was often squirreled away abroad, particularly in the U.S. and other countries without extradition treaties with China.
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Herbert Moyo in Maseru, Lesotho, Cara Anna in Nairobi, Kenya, Francesco Sportelli and Maria Grazia Murru in Rome, Justin Spike in Budapest, Renata Brito in Barcelona, Aritz Parra in Madrid, Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Samuel Petrequin in Brussels, Jill Lawless in London and AP reporters in China contributed to this story.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s federal arraignment in Miami on Tuesday was historic — yet virtually invisible to the public.
In an era when people are accustomed to instantly available images and sounds of important events, Trump’s not-guilty plea to charges of hoarding classified documents was a step back in time. Hundreds of photographers and television crews were at the courthouse — many broadcasting live from outside — but they couldn’t show the key moments inside the courtroom.
Efforts by news organizations to loosen restrictions that generally prohibit cameras in federal courtrooms failed, despite the event’s unprecedented nature. It was a stark contrast from Trump’s arraignment in New York earlier this year.
Trump eventually found a way Tuesday to fill the void after leaving the courthouse — with a stop at a Cuban restaurant, where he could bathe in the cheers of supporters.
“This is the visual he wants — I just left the court. I’m good,” said CNN’s John King.
Earlier, he arrived at the courthouse to be booked and enter his plea and then left without being seen. Cameras followed a motorcade of black vehicles with tinted windows.
“This is a little bit old-fashioned,” said Fox News Channel’s Mark Meredith. “We’re not going to be able to see what’s going on in the courtroom.”
News organizations had petitioned the court to allow photographs of Trump to be taken prior to his arraignment, and permit the public release of an audio recording of the court proceeding after it was done. Yet on Monday night, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman denied the requests.
Also Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga ordered that no journalists could possess electronic equipment anywhere in the courthouse on the day of the arraignment. Prior to her order, credentialed journalists at the courthouse had been allowed to use cell phones and computers.
“It’s kind a black hole inside the building,” said David Reiter, executive producer of special events for CBS News.
Most reporters in the courthouse were confined to an overflow room, where they watched the proceedings on “the kind of televisions you get in low-cost hotel rooms,” CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane said.
Through a random draw, some journalists — including at least one sketch artist — were allowed into the courtroom itself.
News organizations scurried to make arrangements to deal with the restrictions. Several television networks, for example, placed a handful of reporters and producers in the overflow room, sending them out one-by-one to report from the outside on what had happened. Reporters also discovered working phones by a bathroom that allowed them to make outgoing calls.
The limits on journalists were quickly apparent. ABC News, for example, reported while the hearing was still ongoing that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith was in the courtroom. Yet when NBC News reporter Gabe Gutierrez was asked about that by anchor Lester Holt, he confessed he wasn’t certain because he was limited in what he could see.
Some commentators couldn’t resist making assumptions, either, like when ABC’s John Santucci suggested Trump would be “trying to find a way to be a little charming” when he spotted Smith.
CNN’s Jake Tapper, in debriefing reporter Evan Perez, said he couldn’t ask him to be a mind-reader in assessing Trump’s mood. Then he did precisely that.
“He appeared very glum,” Perez said. “He did not seem to have a lot of energy.”
With time to fill, most networks took it live when Trump lawyer Alina Habba spoke outside the courtroom. MSNBC cut her off, however, and CBS’ John Dickerson noted that she did not address the specifics of any charges against the former president.
An outage at the Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit on Tuesday severely restricted some news organizations, including The Associated Press, from sending material at precisely the time of Trump’s arraignment. The Verge, the Boston Globe and PennLive.com were also affected.
Reporters kept a close eye on people gathered outside of the courtroom, including several banner-waving Trump supporters, a few anti-Trump demonstrators, and journalists from around the world — China, Australia, France, Germany and Australia.
A handful of news organizations that sent reporters to the scene hired private security in case there was trouble.
“It’s a small price to pay for peace of mind,” said Nathan King, the White House correspondent for China’s state-run CGTN. King said he had to flee an angry group of demonstrators at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and watched as some of his equipment was destroyed.
Katie Taylor, a 76-year-old retired real estate agent and Trump supporter, drove 15 hours from Virginia to be part of the scene.
“We all know what’s going to happen inside the courtroom. What I care about is what they report on what is happening out here,” said Taylor, who gets her news mostly from conservative outlets like Newsmax and Bannon’s War Room. “I want to see it with my own eyes.”
Some Trump supporters snapped photographs of people in the media and recorded their interviews.
Dominic Santana, who retired in Miami after decades of operating an eatery in the New York area, showed up wearing a black and white striped jailhouse uniform, complete with handcuffs and a plastic ball and chain to celebrate what he hopes will be Trump’s imprisonment. He carried a sign saying, “Lock Him Up.”
“A fellow New Yorker can spot a rat a mile away,” said Santana, 61, a political independent who said his mother and daughter voted for Trump.
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Art history sleuths in Europe have determined that two separate portraits by a 17th-century Flemish artist actually belong together — and the two works of art have been reunited in a Danish museum.
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Art history sleuths in Europe have determined that two separate portraits by a 17th-century Flemish artist actually belong together — and the two works of art have been reunited in a Danish museum.
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SYDNEY, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: KZIA; ASX: KZA), an oncology-focused drug development company, today announced that final data from its phase II study of paxalisib in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma will be the subject of an oral presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO), which will be held from 17-20 November in Tampa, FL.
The oral presentation will build on key findings previously presented at the ASCO and ESMO annual meetings earlier in the year.
In addition, Professor Matt Dun from the Hunter Medical Research Institute at the University of Newcastle, Australia, will present the latest data from his ongoing research with paxalisib in diffuse midline gliomas, an aggressive form of childhood brain cancer.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Title: Multi-center, phase 2 study evaluating the pharmacokinetics, safety and preliminary efficacy of paxalisib in newly diagnosed adult patients with unmethylated glioblastoma (GBM).
Date: Saturday, 19 November
Session: Clinical Trials: Non-immunologic
Presenter: Professor Patrick Wen – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Abstract ID: CTNI-27
PLENARY PRESENTATION
Title: Preclinical and case study examination of the combination of the CLPP agonist ONC201 with the PI3K/AKT inhibitor paxalisib for the treatment of diffuse midline glioma.
Date: Friday, 18 November
Session: Preclinical Experimental Therapeutics
Presenter: Professor Matt Dun – Hunter Medical Research Institute
Abstract ID: EXTH-12
Kazia Therapeutics Limited (NASDAQ: KZIA; ASX: KZA) is an oncology-focused drug development company, based in Sydney, Australia.
Our lead program is paxalisib, a brain-penetrant inhibitor of the PI3K / Akt / mTOR pathway, which is being developed to treat multiple forms of brain cancer. Licensed from Genentech in late 2016, paxalisib is or has been the subject of ten clinical trials in this disease. A completed phase II study in glioblastoma reported promising signals of efficacy in 2021, and a pivotal study for registration, GBM AGILE, is ongoing, with final data expected in 2H CY2023. Other clinical trials are ongoing in brain metastases, diffuse midline gliomas, and primary CNS lymphoma, with several of these having reported encouraging interim data.
Paxalisib was granted Orphan Drug Designation for glioblastoma by the US FDA in February 2018, and Fast Track Designation for glioblastoma by the US FDA in August 2020. In addition, paxalisib was granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation and Orphan Designation by the US FDA for DIPG in August 2020, and for atypical teratoid / rhabdoid tumours (AT/RT) in June 2022 and July 2022, respectively.
Kazia is also developing EVT801, a small-molecule inhibitor of VEGFR3, which was licensed from Evotec SE in April 2021. Preclinical data has shown EVT801 to be active against a broad range of tumour types and has provided compelling evidence of synergy with immuno-oncology agents. A phase I study commenced recruitment in November 2021.
For more information, please visit www.kaziatherapeutics.com or follow us on Twitter @KaziaTx.
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VICTORIA, Seychelles, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OKT Chain (OKTC), the EVM and Wasm-compatible chain backed by OKX, the world's second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, has announced its sponsorship of the upcoming Web3athon event taking place in conjunction with Consenus 2023.
Organized by Coindesk, Hackerearth, and Alchemy, the event is set to take place online from April 17 to May 31, with additional offline activities taking place at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas. Following the success of the 2022 Web3athon event, which was the largest multi-chain hack to date, this year's event promises to be even bigger and better, bringing together over 5,000 developers from around the world to create new decentralized applications.
At the event, OKTC will also be hosting online and offline workshops to explore the chain's cutting-edge Wasm and EVM interoperability capabilities and introduce the wider OKTC ecosystem.
The Web3athon sponsorship is just one of OKTC's initiatives to support developers and provide them with the tools, resources, and support they need to bring their ideas to life and drive innovation in the blockchain space.
OKX and OKT Chain's dedication to building developer communities
OKT Chain's sponsorship of the Web3athon event aligns with its vision of empowering individuals and organizations to adopt blockchain technology and foster a decentralized future.
OKT Chain recently hosted a successful hackathon with Google Cloud, attracting over 200 attendees and 46 teams who submitted 32 projects showcasing the potential of decentralized, blockchain-based applications to transform various industries. By supporting these events and hosting similar developer-focused events in the future, OKT Chain aims to establish a stronger and more connected community of developers within the rapidly evolving Web3 ecosystem.
OKTC has recently integrated the Wasm Virtual Machine (WasmVM) and launched an internal bridge to connect EVM and WASM in a single public chain, making it more accessible to Web2 developers who are familiar with Wasm-supported languages to kickstart building on OKTC as well as enable projects running on Wasm to seamlessly transition onto OKTC.
With over 400 projects already deployed on OKTC, and over 139 million transactions and over 100 million addresses, OKTC is primed for greater growth and success. Through events like the Web3athon and other developer-focused initiatives, OKT Chain aims to create a stronger community where developers can learn from each other, collaborate, and innovate using the cutting-edge capabilities of OKTC.
About OKX
OKX is the second largest global crypto exchange by trading volume and a leading Web3 ecosystem. Trusted by more than 50 million global users, OKX is known for being one of the fastest and most reliable crypto trading app for investors and professional traders everywhere.
OKX's leading self-custody solutions include the Web3-compatible OKX Wallet, which allows users greater control of their assets while expanding access to DEXs, NFT marketplaces, DeFi, GameFi and thousands of dApps.
OKX partners with a number of the world's top brands and athletes, including: English Premier League champions Manchester City F.C., McLaren Formula 1, The Tribeca Festival, golfer Ian Poulter, Olympian Scotty James, and F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo.
OKX is committed to transparency and security and publishes its Proof of Reserves on a monthly basis.
About OKTC
OKTC (previously known as OKC/OKX Chain) is an EVM- and IBC-compatible L1 built on Cosmos with a focus on true interoperability and maximized performance. At high scalability, developers can build and scale with low gas fees. The OKTC ecosystem and infrastructure, including the all-in-one multi-chain Web3 interface, enables a seamless experience for both developers and users.
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Grizzlies vs. Bucks: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - April 7
On Friday, April 7, 2023 at Fiserv Forum, the Milwaukee Bucks (58-22) will attempt to continue a three-game winning run when hosting the Memphis Grizzlies (50-30). It airs at 8:00 PM ET on NBA TV, BSWI, and BSSE.
In this article, you can check out odds and spreads for the Grizzlies vs. Bucks matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
Grizzlies vs. Bucks Game Info
- Date: Friday, April 7, 2023
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: NBA TV, BSWI, and BSSE
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Venue: Fiserv Forum
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Grizzlies vs. Bucks Odds, Spread, Over/Under
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Grizzlies vs. Bucks Betting Trends
- The Grizzlies are outscoring opponents by 4.0 points per game with a +315 scoring differential overall. They put up 116.9 points per game (ninth in the NBA) and allow 112.9 per outing (12th in the league).
- The Bucks outscore opponents by 4.2 points per game (posting 117.1 points per game, sixth in league, and conceding 112.9 per contest, 12th in NBA) and have a +337 scoring differential.
- These teams score 234 points per game combined, 4.5 more than this game's over/under.
- Opponents of these teams combine to average 225.8 points per game, 3.7 fewer points than this contest's over/under.
- Memphis has covered 35 times in 80 chances against the spread this season.
- Milwaukee has compiled a 44-32-4 record against the spread this season.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Zach Greinke allowed just one run on four hits, helping the Kansas City Royals avoid a three-game sweep by beating the Texas Rangers 2-1 on Wednesday.
Kansas City's Kyle Isbel provided the winning cushion with his second home run in as many games.
Greinke (2-4) made his 500th career start, the 48th pitcher in Major League Baseball history to do so and the only active pitcher to reach that milestone. He went six innings, striking out three and walking one.
Three Royals relievers combined for three strikeouts and one hit allowed over three innings, and Scott Barlow picked up his 10th save in 12 chances with a perfect ninth inning.
Texas' Dane Dunning (1-6) suffered his first loss when allowing fewer than three runs this season. He gave up six hits in six innings, walking three and striking out three.
The Royals scored a run in the bottom of the first on an RBI single by MJ Melendez. Hunter Dozier was thrown out at the plate trying to make it 2-0.
The Rangers' Leody Taveras tied it in the fifth with a leadoff home run that just cleared the wall in right field. It was his first homer of the season.
Isbel answered that with his second home run of the season, a line drive into the seats in right field.
GREINKE-GRAM
Greinke was drafted sixth in the first round of the 2002 draft and spent his first seven years with the Royals, returning for a one-year contract this past offseason.
TRAINERS ROOM
Rangers 3B Josh Smith was back in the lineup after leaving Tuesday’s game with a right calf contusion after fouling a ball off his leg.
UP NEXT
The Rangers and Royals both have Thursday off. The Rangers will open a three-game series in New York against the Yankees; the starting pitchers have not been determined. The Royals will open a three-game series in Detroit. RHP Brad Keller (2-9, 4.56 ERA) will start for KC, with Detroit’s starter to be determined.
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For the second year in a row, Temple will once again hold its annual Black History Month ceremony at the end of February.
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HAIFA, Israel, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- proteanTecs, a global leader of deep data analytics for advanced electronics, has been named the Most Promising Israeli Startup 2022 by Globes, a leading Israeli business publication. proteanTecs topped the annual list of 10 groundbreaking startups, which is selected based on nominations from leading local and foreign investment firms who operate in the Israeli high-tech market. This year 86 different firms participated in the thorough selection process.
Now in its 17th year, the Globes' Most Promising Startup list is the longest established startup ranking in Israel. Often referred to as the Startup Nation, Israel has over 6,000 active startups and has the most technology companies and engineers per capita.
proteanTecs' founders also co-founded Mellanox—the Israeli success story that topped the Globes' ranking in 2005—two years before they went public on the NASDAQ, eventually being acquired by NVIDIA for $6.9 billion.
"We are incredibly honored to be recognized as the Globes' Most Promising Israeli Startup," said Shai Cohen, co-founder and CEO at proteanTecs. "This coveted award is a testament to our team's hard work and determination over the last five years, and it serves as validation from the investment community on our future success."
The Most Promising Startups rankings are part of the annual Enterprise Technology Summit held by Globes and JP Morgan. Past winners include Fiverr, Monday.com, WalkMe, Gett and MyHeritage.
"proteanTecs appears to be generating an industry buzz the likes of which we don't see often," stated Assaf Gilead, tech editor at Globes. "Its business model is the thing revolutionizing the chip market, thanks to the practices it brings from the software industry. Using the data continuously transmitted by sensors, proteanTecs offers a service that checks the health and integrity of the chip, from the planning and production stages, and on through years of use."
The full Globes' profile on top-ranking proteanTecs is available here.
proteanTecs is the leading provider of deep data analytics for advanced electronics monitoring. Trusted by global leaders in the datacenter, automotive, communications and mobile markets, the company provides system health and performance monitoring, from production to the field. By applying machine learning to novel data created by on-chip monitors, the company's deep data analytics solutions deliver unparalleled visibility and actionable insights—leading to new levels of quality and reliability. Founded in 2017 and backed by world-leading investors, the company is headquartered in Israel and has offices in the United States, India and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.proteanTecs.com.
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A prominent critic of Germany's pandemic restrictions who repeatedly spread false information about the coronavirus has been acquitted of incitement to hatred for comments about Jews and Israel.
A regional court in the northern town of Ploen ruled Tuesday that Thai-German microbiologist Sucharit Bhakdi didn't break the law when he described Israel as worse than Nazi Germany.
In a video published online in 2021, Bhakdi also said that "the terrible thing about Jews is: they learn well" and described the country of Israel as a "living hell."
The court concluded that it couldn't be determined without reasonable doubt that Bhakdi had been spreading antisemitic hatred toward Jews rather than criticizing the Israeli government and its policies, German news agency dpa reported.
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Prosecutors had argued that such comments could lead to Jews in Germany becoming the targets of hatred.
Judges also said that Bhakdi's claims about the COVID vaccine being part of a second Holocaust didn't constitute a downplaying of the Nazi genocide which killed 6 million Jews, public broadcaster NDR reported.
Bhakdi, who was greeted by dozens of supporters as he arrived at the court, could have faced a fine if convicted.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously approved a report finding that Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter got preferential treatment while she was applying for a real estate appraiser’s license in 2020.
The findings of last year’s legislative probe, which was conducted by a Republican-controlled Government Operations and Audit Committee, repudiate Noem’s insistence that her daughter, Kassidy Peters, didn’t receive special treatment with her application. An Associated Press report on Noem’s actions surrounding her daughter’s licensure sparked the investigation.
State lawmakers on Wednesday approved the committee’s findings by a voice vote and without discussion.
Noem, who is running for reelection and is positioned for a 2024 White House bid, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, despite holding a meeting that included Peters and key decision-makers from the agency that was evaluating her license application just days after the agency moved to deny her the license. After the meeting, Peters received another opportunity to demonstrate she could meet federal standards and was ultimately awarded the license.
The Republican governor on Wednesday stuck to her defense, saying in a statement that “Kassidy followed the same process as other applicants did to obtain her license. She did not receive preferential treatment.”
But the report says Peters received three opportunities to demonstrate to state regulators that she could meet federal standards with her appraisals, which deviated from the standard certification process that gives applicants two opportunities before their application is denied.
Even before the meeting at the governor’s mansion where the third opportunity for Peters was discussed, Noem’s labor secretary, Marcia Hultman, took an unusual, hands-on role that spring, the report states. After Peters failed to meet federal standards on her first try, the state’s appraiser certification program entered a disposition agreement with her that allowed her to take additional training, fix errors and resubmit her work.
“Secretary Hultman changed the disposition agreement and removed the requirement for additional course training,” the report says. “This was the first time the (Department of Labor and Regulation) Secretary inserted herself into any disposition agreement.”
Peters failed to pass a work review for a second time, and lawmakers found that in July of 2020, she was sent a notice of a pending denial to her application. The report states that at that point, Peters should “have waited the required six months and reapplied.”
Instead, lawmakers found that a meeting was held at the governor’s mansion a week later and the agency’s director at the time, Sherry Bren, was asked to come prepared to discuss the next steps so that Peters could pass her certification.
Four months later, Peters received her license. And in the weeks after that, Bren was repeatedly pressured to retire by Noem’s labor secretary. She eventually filed an age discrimination complaint and left her job in March of 2021 after receiving a $200,000 settlement agreement with the state.
Bren told the committee last year that she had been forced to retire.
The governor has implied that Bren, who directed the appraiser certification program since its inception in the 1990s, was getting in the way of new appraisers getting their certification. But the Legislature’s report found that Bren did just the opposite, stating that she worked to “encourage efficiency and support changes that would ease entry into the appraisal industry.”
Amid scrutiny of her licensure, Peters has surrendered her license and quit her appraisal work. Last year, she wrote in a letter to Hultman that she was angry that her professional reputation was damaged.
The five-page report doesn’t say whether Noem’s actions were appropriate, and Noem claimed that lawmakers found no wrongdoing. However, government ethics experts have said Noem inappropriately interfered to help her daughter. Also, three of the five House members on the Government Operations and Audit Committee earlier this year voted in favor of a failed House resolution that sought to label her actions “unacceptable.” One Republican on the committee, Rep. Sue Peterson, was excused from the House vote and another voted against it.
The governor also argued anew that she was trying to “fix the broken appraiser program in South Dakota,” claiming a decade of action as a congresswoman and governor. During her eight years in Congress, Noem twice joined over 100 other Republicans in signing on to bills that would have, among other financial reforms, adjusted federal appraiser regulations.
While lawmakers have no plans to pursue their probe further, the state’s Government Accountability Board is considering whether to investigate Noem’s actions.
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PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Brooks Koepka has returned to the top at the PGA Championship.
Six weeks after letting a two-shot lead get away on the final day of the Masters, Koepka fended off challenges from Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler to win his third PGA title at sun-splashed Oak Hill.
Koepka fired a 3-under 67 in the final round to finish at 9 under for the tournament, two clear of Hovland and a late-charging Scheffler.
The victory gave Koepka five major titles, joining the U.S. Opens he won in 2017 and 2018 and the PGAs he captured in 2018 and 2019.
The 33-year-old Koepka is the 20th player to win at least five majors. He is one of six players to claim three or more PGAs, joining Jack Nicklaus (5), Walter Hagen (5) Tiger Woods (4), Gene Sarazen (3) and Sam Snead (3).
Koepka sealed the victory by hitting his approach shot on the par-4 16th to within 5 feet. He sank the ensuing birdie putt while Hovland double-bogeyed after his shot out of a fairway bunker on the same hole became plugged on the lip.
The 25-year-old Hovland was attempting to become the first Norwegian player to win a major title. Instead, he settled for his third straight top-10 finish in golf’s signature events.
Scheffler made a late charge with a final round 5-under 65 but couldn’t completely close the gap. He’ll have to settle for returning to the No. 1 ranked player in the world.
PGA club professional Michael Block’s storybook tournament finished with a flourish. The 46-year-old aced the par-3 15th on his way to a 1-over 71. That left Block at 1-over for the tournament and a tie for 15th, earning him a spot in next year’s PGA Championship at Valhalla.
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As if Southern California club pro Michael Block hasn’t done enough to electrify the crowds at the PGA Championship this week. He now has a hole-in-one to add to his electrifying run at Oak Hill.
The 46-year-old did it on the par-3, 151-yard 15th when his high-arcing shot went directly into the hole. The force of the ball going in actually bent away the grass at the front lip of the hole.
Block celebrated by doffing his black cap and high-fiving with playing partner, Rory McIlroy. Smiling as he walked toward the green, Block stopped before the hole, looked down and initially fumbled getting the ball out before plucking it out on his second try and holding it up for the cheering crowd.
The ace brought Block back to even-par for the round and tournament. He had opened the final round bogeying Nos. 1 and 7.
Just as important, Block moved into a tie for 14th place. The top 15 players, plus ties, earn an automatic invite into next year’s PGA Championship.
Block is competing in his seventh major, and first in which he’s made the 36-hole cut after shooting even-par 70s on each of the first three days.
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Brooks Koepka is nine holes away from his third PGA Championship.
Koepka reached the turn at Oak Hill with a one-shot lead over Viktor Hovland following a somewhat uneven front nine. Koepka reeled off three straight birdies to open a three-shot advantage before consecutive bogeys at Nos. 6 and 7 allowed Hovland to get back within striking distance.
The 25-year-old Hovland is trying to become the first men’s major champion from Norway.
World No. 2 Scottie Scheffler and 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau are three shots back as they head into the later stages of what been a taut week on the East Course.
Koepka is seeking his fifth major and first since capturing the 2019 PGA at Bethpage Black. He blew a two-shot lead in the final round at Augusta National in April, a collapse he likened to “choking.”
Several of the top players in the field have put together a Sunday charge at an Oak Hill course softened by steady rain during the third round.
Sepp Straka and Cameron Smith both posted 5-under 65s to get under par for the tournament. Eighteen players have already carded rounds of 1-under 69 or better with most of the frontrunners still out on the course. Only seven players broke par during the soggy third round.
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Brooks Koepka is off to a hot start in the final round of the PGA Championship, giving him a little wiggle room as he chases a fifth major title.
Koepka began his final tour of the East Course with a par on the first hole before reeling off three straight birdies to get to 9-under par. That’s three shots clear of playing partner Viktor Hovland.
Koepka began the day hoping to avoid a repeat of his performance in the final round at the Masters last month when he let a two-shot lead slip away.
While several players are making a move below Koepka on the leaderboard, his closest pursuers have fallen a bit off the pace. Hovland is the only player within four shots of Koepka as the two reach the midpoint of the front nine.
Reigning British Open champion Cam Smith is putting together the best round of the week at par-70 Oak Hill. He has seven birdies against just one bogey to get to 6 under for the day and 2 under for the tournament.
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Brooks Koepka’s pursuit of a third PGA Championship is underway. He may have to go low to close it out at suddenly forgiving Oak Hill.
Koepka entered the final round with a one-shot lead over Viktor Hovland and Corey Conners on the East Course. The 33-year-old Koepka is seeking his fifth major title and his first since winning the PGA in 2019.
Seven players began the day within five shots of the lead, including major champions Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau and Rory McIlroy.
The leaderboard became a bit more crowded as several players who began the day well off the pace took advantage of a course softened by Saturday’s steady rain.
Victor Perez birdied four straight holes on the front nine to get to 3 under. He was joined there by Justin Rose, who birdied the first to get within three shots of Koepka.
Cam Smith set the early pace. The reigning British Open champion opened with a 4-under 32 on the front nine. He’s joined at 1 over by Xander Schauffele, who has three birdies against zero bogeys through 14 holes.
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Conditions are proving ideal at Oak Hill, with the early groups enjoying a relative birdie fest during the final round of the PGA Championship.
Led by Cameron Smith and Adam Scott, who are both 4 under on the day, there are 19 competitors shooting under par on an East Course that allowed just nine scores at 69 or better on Saturday. Third-round leader Brooks Koepka (66) and Tommy Fleetwood (68) were the only two to shoot 2 under or better in the third round.
Smith, the 2022 British Open champion, moved into a tie for eighth with birdies on four of his first six holes to move to even par for the tournament. Scott has climbed into a tie for 19th by improving to 2 over for the tournament with four birdies through 14 holes.
The difference is the weather. Oak Hill is drying up after the third round was played amid a persistent rain and a few downpours, which required course workers to squeegee several fairways and greens where water had pooled.
The sun has been out all day, with the temperature projected to climb to 74 by the time the final group of Koepka and Viktor Hovland are scheduled to tee off at 2:30 p.m. EDT.
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The weather has broken at Oak Hill ahead of the final round of the PGA Championship.
Brooks Koepka fired a 4-under 66 in the third round at the soggy East Course to reach 6 under for the tournament. Koepka has a one-shot lead over Viktor Hovland and Corey Conners as he pursues his fifth major championship and third PGA title.
The 33-year-old Koepka also is seeking a bit of redemption after letting the 54-hole lead get away at the Masters in April.
Only seven players will begin the final round under par following a rain-soaked third round that ranked among the most difficult at the PGA in the last 20 years.
Major championship winners Bryson DeChambeau, Justin Rose, Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler are among those within five shots of the lead.
Club professional Michael Block is six shots back. The 46-year-old has put together three consecutive rounds of even-par 70. Block is currently tied for eighth, the first club pro to rank inside the top 10 through 54 holes in 33 years.
Conditions figure to ease up a bit at Oak Hill. Sun is expected throughout the day with temperatures topping out in the low-70s.
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Tesla has confirmed a $3.6 billion expansion of its Nevada battery “Gigafactory” that the company claims will supply over one million EVs annually.
The investment will add 3,000 new jobs and two new factories at the Sparks, Nevada, site, Tesla said in what reads as a press release—with a few more details confirmed as part of Tesla’s quarterly financial call Wednesday.
One factory will be the first high-volume plant dedicated to producing batteries for the Tesla Semi, while the other will produce 4680-format battery cells, enough to supply 1.5 million light-duty vehicles annually.
If Tesla can achieve that manufacturing capacity for its $3.6 billion investment, will almost certainly be the most efficient battery plant project ever, in terms of money spent compared to factory output.
“If you look at the size of Giga Nevada that is allocated to make 100 gigawatt hours, it’s a small fraction of the size that currently makes 35,” said Musk, who remarked that the company is now applying its advanced manufacturing toolbox to battery cell making.
“The goals we outlaid at Battery Day on reducing the investment required to deploy cell manufacturing, that’s been a key focus of ours and the team has done a good job of hitting the marks on that focus,” added CFO Zachary Kirkhorn.
Tesla announced the Gigafactory in 2014, with plans to produce 50 gigawatt-hours (gwh) annually by 2020, enough for 500,000 vehicles. The company said it’s invested $6.2 billion to build the current 5.4-million square foot factory. A huge initial investment from Panasonic helped get the project started, and the Japanese battery supplier has remained involved as a technical partner.
To date, Tesla says the Nevada Gigafactory has produced 7.3 billion battery cells (equivalent to 37 gwh annually), 1.5 million battery packs, 3.6 million drive units, and one million energy-storage modules for a total capacity of 14 gwh. Tesla also launched onsite battery recycling at the Gigafactory in 2019.
Meanwhile, Panasonic selected Kansas City last summer for what it has claimed will be the largest battery plant in the world—if you consider each piece of the breathtakingly large Nevada Gigafactory separately, perhaps. Panasonic later clarified that the “world’s largest” claim for this factory—it’s first battery plant in the U.S. outside of its Tesla partnership—referred to expected monetary investment.
With additional reporting from Bengt Halvorson
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PHOENIX (AP) — Leave the math to everyone else. The Los Angeles Dodgers know how to win baseball games.
Mookie Betts hit a three-run homer, Cody Bellinger added a two-run double and the Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-0 on Monday night behind Tyler Anderson, becoming the first major league team to clinch a playoff spot this season.
For real, this time.
The Dodgers thought they had secured a playoff berth Sunday after beating the Padres, celebrating with a postgame toast and distributing caps with the postseason logo on them. After further review, the math didn’t quite add up, and the Dodgers were just short.
So for the second straight day, the Dodgers celebrated a trip to the postseason.
“I don’t know if that’s ever been done,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said with a grin. “But it feels good.”
The Dodgers could make it three celebrations in three days on Tuesday, when a win would allow them to clinch the NL West. The Dodgers won their 97th game of the season Monday and are 54 games over .500.
Anderson (15-3) and Diamondbacks rookie Ryne Nelson engaged in an impressive pitching duel for the first six innings.
The Dodgers broke through against the D-backs’ bullpen in the seventh, loading the bases with no outs. Trayce Thompson snapped the scoreless tie with a sacrifice fly off Kevin Ginkel and then Bellinger pushed the Dodgers ahead 3-0 with a double into the right-center gap.
It was a good moment for Bellinger, who was the 2019 NL MVP but hasn’t come close to reaching that level of production since. He came into the game with a .200 batting average, 17 homers and 55 RBIs.
“Belly will be Belly, he’ll be fine,” Betts said. “He always finds ways. He competes. He plays a Gold Glove center field, which is huge. For some odd reason, he comes through in those clutch situations. We always know he’ll be there, be a fierce competitor and be ready when the lights turn on.”
Betts crushed a three-run shot to left in the ninth, giving the Dodgers a six-run cushion. It was his 34th homer of the season, a career high.
Anderson went seven innings, giving up five hits, walking two and striking out two.
“I didn’t think he had his best stuff, to be honest,” Roberts said. “But it just kind of shows his compete and his will. He made pitches when he needed to, got groundballs, fielded his position and got outs.”
Nelson threw six shutout innings in his second major league start, extending his scoreless streak to 13 innings since he was called up to the big leagues last week.
The 24-year-old threw seven shutout innings against the Padres in his debut on Sept. 5.
“He’s been fantastic,” Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said. “He fills up the strike zone, he’s got three pitches he can mix in and he does a great job of following the game plan.”
Nelson didn’t have much trouble with the Dodgers’ potent lineup, giving up just two hits and two walks while striking out six. He allowed a two-out triple to Trea Turner in the sixth and then intentionally walked Freddie Freeman, but retired Will Smith on a liner to center that ended the inning.
WEB GEMS
Betts made a nice play for the Dodgers while getting a rare start at second base.
Speedy D-backs outfielder Alex Thomas hit a grounder that deflected off Anderson’s glove, which made Betts readjust his path as he charged in to field the ball. Betts then flipped the ball with his glove hand to Freeman, beating Thomas by a split second.
Betts is usually the team’s right fielder but made his fifth start of the season at second, subbing for injured Gavin Lux. Betts came to the big leagues as an infielder before switching to the outfield.
Betts’ infield cameo isn’t expected to be a long-term arrangement, but he does give the Dodgers options.
“It makes me miss being in there,” Betts said of playing second. “But they pay me pretty good to be in right field, so I’ll go back out there.”
MAKING MOVES
Diamondbacks: Called up OF Jordan Luplow from Triple-A Reno. Designated INF Wilmer Difo for assignment.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: Roberts told reporters that INF Gavin Lux (neck) continues to improve, was doing “all baseball activities” and could be put on the active roster this weekend. … Tony Gonsolin (right forearm strain) threw a bullpen Sunday and Roberts said the All-Star right-hander came out feeling “OK.” Roberts is still confident Gonsolin can return to the rotation by the end of the season but acknowledged that time is running short.
UP NEXT
The teams play again on Tuesday. Arizona sends RHP Merrill Kelly (12-5, 2.94 ERA) to the mound against LHP Clayton Kershaw (7-3, 2.62).
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KU out to clinch 1st winning record since ‘08 at Texas Tech
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCTV) -- On the list of things that Kansas hasn’t done in a while, they’ve checked plenty off. On Saturday, they’ll attempt to mark another thing off their list as they try to clinch their first winning record since 2008 a week after securing a bowl bid for the first time since that same season.
Kansas (6-3, 3-3 Big 12) at Texas Tech (4-5, 2-4), Saturday, 6 p.m. CST (ESPN+)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK COLLEGE LINE: Texas Tech by 3 1/2.
Series record: Texas Tech leads 21-2.
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
Kansas is bowl eligible for the first time since 2008, and now tries to clinch its first winning record since that same season. The Jayhawks had a season-high 554 total yards against Oklahoma State last week while breaking a three-game losing streak. The Red Raiders need to win two of their final three games to get to consecutive bowls for the first time in a decade. Tech is 4-1 at home.
KEY MATCHUP
Kansas defense against Texas Tech passing game. The Jayhawks have multiple interceptions in consecutive games in the same season for the first time since 2018, with three last week. The Red Raiders, who have used three different starting quarterbacks, are the league leader with 318.6 yards passing per game. They also have thrown 16 interceptions, six more than any other Big 12 team.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Kansas: RB Devin Neal has 761 yards rushing and is second in the Big 12 at 6.4 yards per carry. He rushed 32 times for 224 yards and had six catches for 110 yards against Oklahoma State last week.
Texas Tech: Sixth-year LB Krishon Merriweather is the team’s leading tackler with 78, which is 19 more than any other Red Raiders player. He is second in the Big 12 with 8.7 tackles per game. His 11 tackles last week against TCU was his third game with at least 10 tackles.
FACTS & FIGURES
Kansas is coming off a 37-16 win at Oklahoma State, and earlier this season beat Iowa State. Both of those opponents beat the Jayhawks by more than 50 points last season. According to STATS, Kansas is the first team since at least 1980 to twice in the same season avenge such lopsided losses from the previous year.
Texas Tech hasn’t won five home games in the same season since 2009.
Kansas’ Jason Bean has thrown for 986 yards with 11 touchdowns and three interceptions in 3 1/2 games since taking over for injured starter Jalon Daniels.
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Hornets head coach blasts team’s defensive effort after loss: ‘There’s not a bright spot’
The Charlotte Hornets are 7-21
The Charlotte Hornets are bad and their head coach is not pleased with the effort.
In his second stint as head coach in Charlotte, Steve Clifford ripped his team’s defensive effort following a 141-134 overtime loss to the Detroit Pistons.
"Until we care about something besides how many points we score, we’re not going to win much," Clifford told reporters after the loss. "Can’t play like that. Our offense was good. That’s five out of the last seven games we’ve been pretty good on offense. We are playing no defense. Not one guy. There’s not a bright spot.
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"We don’t run back on defense, we don’t guard the ball, our pick and roll stuff… all stuff that was good. I think we were as high as 12th or 13th in defense about 10 games ago, and we’re right back to where we started, ground zero, where all we want to be is ‘Let’s try to outscore the other team.
"It doesn’t work in the NBA."
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Wednesday’s loss to the Pistons was the sixth in a row for Charlotte, dropping the Hornets to 7-21 on the season. It was the fourth consecutive game in which Charlotte allowed at least 119 points.
The Hornets allowed six Pistons players to score in double figures, dropping Charlotte to 25th in the NBA in defensive rating.
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"What I just told them, this is either you build a game that will actually work at the end of the year when you play the important games, or you don't," Clifford continued. "That's it. That's what the NBA is all about.
"It’s not that we don't have the talent to do it. All we care about is scoring. That’s it. And if you’re going to try to play like that, you better have like five All-Stars. And we don’t have that kind of talent."
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SAN JOSE, Calif., August 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco has scheduled a conference call for Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 1:30 PM (PT); 4:30 PM (ET) to announce its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 financial results for the period ending Saturday, July 30, 2022.
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DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving are just two games into figuring out how to be co-stars for the Dallas Mavericks, who are behind schedule based on last season’s surge that sparked a deep playoff run.
The Mavericks have no choice but to win games while working out the kinks because of a tightly packed Western Conference.
There’s roughly a three-game difference between home-court advantage in the first round and missing the playoffs altogether, and second-year coach Jason Kidd accepts that reality a year after a strong second half that sent the Mavs on their way to the West finals.
“This would be a good time to have that kick, but again, with Kai, we’re still getting to know each other,” Kidd said Wednesday as the club returned from the All-Star break with a practice a day before starting a six-game homestand against San Antonio.
With that, Kidd smiled and referred to the last time Doncic and Irving were on the court together with the Mavs, when they passed back and forth multiple times and didn’t get a shot off in the final seconds of a 124-121 loss to Minnesota.
“There’s going to be some times when you can see those two out there playing catch with one another,” Kidd said. “Hopefully that’s over. One of them will shoot the ball, I guarantee.”
Irving missed the last game before the break with back tightness, and solo Doncic wasn’t enough in a 118-109 loss at Denver when Dallas trailed by as many as 21 points.
Doncic was out for Irving debut’s because of a heel injury that sidelined him for four games. The pair is 0-2 together, but barring injury, Dallas can expect Doncic and Irving to be together on the court in most, if not all, of its 22 remaining games.
Center Dwight Powell is one of the starters tasked with helping the new pairing work.
“At the end of the day, I’ve just got to be ready for the opportunities they’re creating because they gravity of those two is insane,” Powell said. “Having them out there at the same time, I really got to be ready for a multitude of situations, and their creativity means I have to be making decisions on the fly.
“It’s a lot of film. It’s getting used to guys in practice. But it’s one of those things that comes with time. Looking forward to how we all kind of grow together over these next few games.”
A year ago, the Mavs started their surge around the new year, finishing fourth in the West and beating Utah twice without an injured Doncic in a six-game series win in the first round.
After blowing out Phoenix on the road in Game 7 of the West semifinals, Dallas lost to Golden State in five before the Warriors won the title.
The roster wasn’t quite the same this season after Jalen Brunson, a huge part of the first-round win over Utah, left for New York in free agency. A similar surge hasn’t happened.
There’s plenty of time for the Mavs to get back to where they finished in the standings last season, maybe even higher, if their All-Star tandem can reach its potential.
“It’s beautiful to watch someone so creative play the game the way he does,” Powell said, referring to Irving but aware he’s been watching something similar from Doncic for five seasons. “To have two guys that are at that level of mastery is exciting for us around them and gives us a crazy amount of firepower. It’s on us to remain ready.”
Irving had 32 points, a game-high 15 assists and played a Team LeBron-high 29 minutes in a 184-175 All-Star Game loss to Team Giannis. Doncic, a fellow Team LeBron starter, played 19 minutes and scored four points.
Now the numbers will be more similar — both scored in the 20s in their debut together and in the 30s against the Timberwolves. And both will be pushing 40 minutes per game, another issue for Kidd to sort out.
The soon-to-be 24-year-old Doncic probably won’t play every minute after halftime, which he has done several times while remaining neck-and-neck with Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid in the scoring race.
“For Kai, I think it’s just a matter of the time spent on and off the floor with the guys,” Kidd said. “With the break, everybody kind of goes their separate way. We’ve got 22 games left. Now it’s just about connecting not only on the floor but off the floor. He’s an adult. He knows how to do that.”
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Gap grows between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential ban
By HALELUYA HADERO
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — On the one side are dozens of lawmakers on Capitol Hill issuing dire warnings about security breaches and possible Chinese surveillance.
On the other are some 150 million TikTok users in the U.S. who just want to be able to keep making and watching short, fun videos offering makeup tutorials and cooking lessons, among other things.
The disconnect illustrates the uphill battle that lawmakers from both sides of the aisle face in trying to convince the public that China could use TikTok as a weapon against the American people. But many users on the platform are more concerned about the possibility of the government taking away their favorite app.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said during a nearly six-hour congressional hearing Thursday that the platform has never turned over user data to the Chinese government, and wouldn’t do so if asked.
Nevertheless, lawmakers, the FBI and officials at other agencies continue to raise alarms that Chinese law compels Chinese companies like TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to fork over data to the government for whatever purposes it deems to involve national security. There’s also concern Beijing might try to push pro-China narratives or misinformation through the platform.
“I want to say this to all the teenagers out there, and TikTok influencers who think we’re just old and out of touch and don’t know what we’re talking about, trying to take your favorite app,” said Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw during the hearing. “You may not care that your data is being accessed now, but you will be one day.”
Many TikTok users reacted to the hearing by posting videos critical of lawmakers who grilled Chew and frequently cut him off from speaking. Some called a potential TikTok ban, as some lawmakers and the Biden administration has reportedly threatened, the “biggest scam” of the year. And others blamed the surge of scrutiny on the platform on another tech rival, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
But few expressed fear of possible Chinese surveillance or security breaches that lawmakers continue to amplify as they look to rein in TikTok.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., whose district is in the heart of Silicon Valley, said he is mindful of the value that platforms like TikTok provide to young people as an outlet for creative expression and building community. “But there’s absolutely no reason that an American technology company can’t do that,” said Khanna, the top Democrat on the cyber subcommittee on House Armed Service. “America has the most innovative technology companies in the world.”
He added that Congress should move forward with a proposal that would force platform’s sale to an American company for continued access for its millions of users while “ensuring that the platform isn’t subject to Chinese propaganda or compromises people’s privacy.”
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of Americans aged 13 to 17 use TikTok, and 16% of all teens say they use it almost constantly. It’s because of TikTok’s large user base that Lindsay Gorman, a former tech adviser for the Biden administration who now works as a senior fellow for emerging technologies at the German Marshall Fund, says the Biden administration will likely pursue every option short of a ban first. That would include the option for the app’s Chinese owners to divest, which the Biden administration is reportedly demanding from TikTok if it wants to avoid a nationwide ban.
TikTok itself has been trying to leverage its popularity. On Wednesday, it sent dozens of influencers to Congress to lobby against a ban. It has also ramped up a broader public relations campaign, plastering ads all over Washington that tout its promises of securing users’ data and privacy and creating a safe platform for its young users.
Some popular TikTokers who speak out against a ban are concerned — and angered — about how it might impact their personal lives. Many earn income from their videos and have inked brand partnerships to market products to their audiences — another stream of revenue that could be wiped away if the platform disappears. They would also lose the social capital that comes from having a large following on the trend-setting app.
Demetrius Fields, a standup comedian who amassed 2.8 million followers on TikTok from posting comedy sketches, said he spent a long time building his career and followership on the platform. He has one active deal with the fast fashion retailer Fashion Nova, which allows him to earn an income along with the videos he posts on TikTok.
If the app is taken away, he said building an audience on another platform would be challenging for him due to the competition to grab user attention.
“The financial implications for me would be pretty terrible,” Fields said. “I would probably have to go back to working a desk job.”
Sarah Pikhit, an 18-year-old student at Penn State University, said she used to use TikTok a lot, but started cutting back when she realized how much time she spent scrolling through videos on the app. She still uses it, but mostly to post her own content, which she says she can do on other platforms. She said she wouldn’t care if TikTok gets banned — but her friends would.
“They like the excessive scrolling,” Pikhit said.
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The Cannes Film Festival, which will kick off Tuesday, is such a colossal extravaganza that taking measure of its ups and downs is notoriously difficult. It’s a showcase of the world’s best cinema. It’s a red-carpet spectacular. It’s a French Riviera hive of dealmaking.
But by at least some metrics, Cannes — following a canceled 2020 festival, a much-diminished 2021 edition and a triumphant 2022 return — is finally all the way back.
“Let’s just say it’s gotten very hard to get restaurant reservations again,” says Christine Vachon, the veteran producer and longtime collaborator of Todd Haynes.
When the 76th Cannes Film Festival opens Tuesday with the premiere of “Jeanne du Barry,” a historical drama by Maïwenn starring Johnny Depp, the gleaming Cote d’Azur pageant can feel confident that it has weathered the storms of the pandemic and the perceived threat of streaming. (Netflix and Cannes remain at an impasse.)
Last year’s festival, a banner one by most judgments, produced three Oscar best-picture nominees (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Elvis” and the Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness” ), again proving Cannes as the premiere global launching pad for films big and small.
A BLOCKBUSTER CANNES
This year’s festival is headlined by a pair of marquee premieres: Martin Scorsese’s Osage Nation 1920s epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, and James Mangold’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” starring Harrison Ford in his final performance as the character.
But as blockbuster as Cannes can be, even those films suggest the wide spectrum of cinema on hand. Both Scorsese and Mangold were first in Cannes decades ago to premiere their early breakthrough films in the Directors Fortnight sidebar. Scorsese with 1973’s “Mean Streets,” Mangold with 1995’s “Heavy.”
This time, though, they’ll debut much bigger films, sure to be the hottest tickets on the Croisette. Scorsese has his $200 million epic for Apple TV+. And Mangold will premiere, as he says, “a more splendiferous project” than his minimalist debut.
The “Indy” celebration will include a tribute to Ford. He, along with Michael Douglas, will be given honorary Palme d’Ors. To Mangold, it’s a chance for Ford to embrace the franchise’s international following. The “Indiana Jones” films’ essence, the director says, is rooted in golden-age cinema.
“These are things where you’re taking your guidance from the classics,” Mangold says. “That’s something that’s really appreciated by the French about American cinema. In many ways, they revere the old pictures more than even the audience in the United States do. That makes it a really wonderful platform.”
A RECORD HIGH FOR FEMALE FILMMAKERS
This year, 21 films are competing for the Palme d’Or, which will be decided by a jury led by last year’s winner, Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund. Seven are directed by women, a new high for Cannes in its nearly eight decades of existence. Among the most anticipated is Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” starring Josh O’Connor and Isabella Rossellini.
The festival, running through May 27, will unspool against the backdrop of labor unrest on both sides of the Atlantic. France has been beset in recent months by protests over pension reforms, including raising the retirement age. In the U.S., screenwriters are on strike to seek better pay in the streaming era.
The prospect of a prolonged work stoppage could potentially drive up prices for finished films at Cannes, the world’s top movie market. Among the titles seeking distribution is Haynes’ “May December,” which stars Natalie Portman as a journalist who embeds with a couple (Julianne Moore, Charles Melton) once renown for their age discrepancy.
Though arthouses have struggled to match the box-office recovery at multiplexes, Vachon, a producer on “May December,” says her company, Killer Films, and the indie stalwart Haynes are accustomed to “pivoting endlessly and finding opportunities no matter what the sea winds bring.”
AUTEURS AND A-LISTERS
As usual, this year’s competition lineup returns plenty of Cannes heavyweights, including Hirokazu Kore-eda (“Monster”), Wim Wenders (“Perfect Days”), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (“About Dry Grasses”), Ken Loach (“The Old Oak”) and Nanny Moretti (“A Brighter Tomorrow”).
Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” shot in Auschwitz, is one of the festival’s most eagerly awaited films. It’s his first since 2013’s “Under the Skin.” Pedro Almodóvar will premiere the short “Strange Way of Life,” with Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke. Wes Anderson, flanked by another starry ensemble, will debut “Asteroid City.”
There’s also the upcoming HBO series “The Idol,” from “Euphoria” filmmaker Sam Levinson starring the Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp; “Firebrand” with Alicia Vikander as Catherine Parr and Judd Law as Tudor King Henry VIII; and the Pixar movie “Elemental,” which closes the festival.
Steve McQueen, the “12 Years of Slave” filmmaker, will debut the longest film playing at Cannes and one of its most thought-provoking. “Occupied City,” which McQueen made with his wife, Dutch author Bianca Stigter, is a four hour-plus documentary that combines narration detailing violent incidents across Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation with present-day footage from those locations.
McQueen, too, began his feature filmmaking career at Cannes. His 2008 debut,” Hunger,” won the Camera d’Or, a prize for best first film. “It’s never as good as the first time,” McQueen says.
“But it’s the most important film festival,” continues McQueen. “Our film is asking questions. This is where you want to premiere films that challenge and films that ask questions. You’re right on the front line.”
POTENTIAL BREAKTHROUGHS
While many eyes will be on reactions to the new Scorsese or “Asteroid City,” Cannes will, as it does every year, bring new directors to wider film audiences. Senegalese filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s “Banel & Adama” is the rare first feature in Palme competition.
Argentine filmmaker Rodrigo Moreno, 50, will be making his first trip to Cannes with “The Delinquents,” a heist drama sprinkled with existentialism and cinematic flourishes. It’s one of the highlights of the Un Certain Regard section.
The film took Moreno five years to make, partially because of the pandemic. But its Cannes selection is a long time coming in another way. Moreno’s first feature as a solo director was invited to both Un Certain Regard and main competition at Berlin. The producers chose Berlin.
“At this point of my career. I’m focused on: If this allows me to keep on working and make the next film, to me, that’s OK. It’s the only thing I really want,” says Moreno.
“The shooting of this film spanned almost five years, which is crazy,” he adds. “But the nice side of that is that every year, I had to shoot. The one thing I knew was that a new year began, and I had to shoot. And the following, I had to shoot.”
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Electricity and energy prices are major issues in Maine's gubernatorial race ahead of what is expected to be a difficult winter for many families. But the political rhetoric often obscures the real reasons electricity rates are rising across New England – and appear poised to go even higher in Maine.
Former Republican Gov. Paul LePage and Democratic Gov. Janet Mills may agree on one key point when it comes to electricity prices – namely, that Maine residents are paying too much. But the two longtime political rivals have very different explanations for why Maine's electricity rates are rising as LePage blames Maine’s renewable energy policies while Mills (along with many energy policy observers and experts) say skyrocketing natural gas prices are the primary factor.
That difference was crystal-clear during a lengthy back-and-forth between the former and current governor.
“In 2010 when I took over, the state of Maine was 10th highest energy costs in the United States,” LePage said during the televised WGME/Bangor Daily News debate. “We got it up to 11. Right now (we’re) No. 4 highest. And it isn’t fossil fuel. It’s net metering and it’s solar energy. That’s what’s causing it.”
"Maine solar policies are not the reason why energy prices have increased,” Mills responded. “Our energy prices have increased because of our dependence on fossil fuels, pure and simple, like natural gas,” Mills said. “We are so dependent on natural gas because Mr. LePage, in my view, failed to diversify our energy sources during his eight years. So if you want to look at the reason why prices are so high, look at my opponent."
Maine and its New England neighbors consistently have among the highest electricity rates in the nation. And that unfortunate distinction isn't likely to change in the near future because of the key cost driver within the New England regional power grid – natural gas.
"We generate about half of our electricity in New England from natural gas,” said Bill Harwood, who heads Maine’s Office of the Public Advocate that is tasked with representing the interests of ratepayers on all things related to utilities. "And there are constraints and limits on the amount of natural gas we can get into New England. And when you constrain the supply and demand remains the same, the prices go up. And we are seeing substantial increases in the price of natural gas, which are affecting prices on the supply side."
The “spot price” for natural gas has nearly tripled in the last two years as global demand has exceeded production. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine then threw already volatile energy markets into all-out turmoil as European nations that relied on Russia for natural gas desperately sought out other sources, including U.S. gas producers. Further complicating factors locally, New England is at the tail end of pipelines that can only carry so much natural gas. As a result, New England also relies on liquified natural gas, or LNG, to supplement its supplies when demand peaks on bitterly cold winter days.
"And that worked pretty well for the last several years until war broke out in Ukraine,” Harwood said. “And now LNG is bought and desired for Europe. So we are competing with Europe for a limited supply of LNG. And as a result, prices go up.”
In Maine, most customers of Central Maine Power and Versant saw the supply portion of their rates increase 83% and 88%, respectively, earlier this year. The two utilities only deliver electricity -- they don't produce it. Instead, the supply rates that account for about half of a household electric bill are set by the Maine Public Utilities Commission based on bids from the companies that actually generate the power.
The PUC will set new so-called "standard offer" rates this month. Commission chairman Phil Bartlett said those bids are still coming in. But based on current natural gas prices – and the recent experiences of his counterparts in other states – Bartlett said he expects prices to be higher again. Both CMP and Versant are also separately seeking to increase their distribution rates.
"Timing matters a lot – these prices are very volatile, they are based on expectations of future prices, which are changing. you know, almost daily,” Bartlett said. “So it's hard to predict with any certainty what it is going to be except to say that we do expect prices to be higher than they were last year."
Under Gov. Mills, Maine has set ambitious renewable energy targets. And last year, more than 70% of the electricity generated within Maine came from renewable sources, with hydropower and wind turbines producing the most megawatts. But because Maine is part of ISO New England, the state’s electricity generation, usage and pricing are all wrapped up in the regional grid.
During a recent campaign event at Colby College, Mills accused LePage of undermining development of renewable energy when he was governor and pointed to his past support for oil exploration off the New England coastline. Meanwhile, Mills says her own policies have lead to a boom in development of rooftop solar as well as larger, grid-level solar projects.
"People are smartening up and saying we don't want to depend on gas for generation of electricity,” Mills told a few dozen students and other attendees. “We want to be a little more self-sustaining and a little more kind to our climate and not burn fossil fuels which emit carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere."
LePage counters that his focus is on the cost to Maine ratepayers.
“Folks, I am agnostic to the technology that is used to create electricity,” LePage said during a News Center Maine debate. “What I am not agnostic to is pricing.”
LePage is correct, however, that one renewable energy policy in particular could drive up electric rates in Maine.
The state's practice of providing electricity bill credits to solar projects could substantially increase costs for all ratepayers in the next year or two as solar farms proliferate across Maine. Both the PUC's Bartlett and Harwood, the state's public advocate, are part of a group that will recommend changes to the "net energy billing" program later this year.
But Dan Sosland, who is president of the nonprofit Acadia Center that works on energy and climate policies, said wind and solar are often now cheaper than natural gas. So Sosland said the data simply don't support LePage’s arguments that renewable energy is behind the recent surge in electricity prices.
"We need more renewables,” Sosland said. “And if we do more renewables, many studies show including ones here in New England show that prices will go down over time, that there will be increased public health benefits, there will be ratepayer benefits. And it all makes sense because we import fossil fuels and we have wind and solar here. And we have efficiency here.”
In fact, Sosland added, efficiency is the cheapest way to reduce energy and electricity bills. And he said there is still "enormous potential" in Maine for reducing electric bills through efficiency.
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NORTH BETHESDA, Md., April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Matthew Siegal Goodworx Foundation Inc. (https://www.matthewsiegal.com), a 501(c)(3) non-profit located in the Washington, DC metro area, today announced that it has made two new charitable grants.
LGBTQ+ UKRAINIAN REFUGEE FUND
The foundation's LGBTQ+ Ukrainian Refugee Fund made a $50,000 grant to ORAM (Organization for Refuge, Asylum, and Migration) (https://www.oramrefugee.org/) to be used to evacuate LGBTQ+ refugees from Ukraine to safe and welcoming host countries, including Germany. According to the BBC, "around 100 towns and regions across Poland, nearly a third of the country, have passed resolutions declaring themselves free of "LGBT ideology."
"ORAM would like to express our sincere gratitude to Matthew Siegal Goodworx Foundation for their generous grant," said Steve Roth, Executive Director of ORAM. "Their gift will help us open a safe space in Berlin for displaced LGBTIQ Ukrainians to connect with each other and with needed support and services. The grant also helps makes it possible for ORAM to provide those in need with safe and secure housing in Berlin, a more welcoming city for LGBTIQ people."
BACK ON THEIR FEET FUND
The foundation's Back on Their Feet Fund made a $10,000 grant to Family PASS (https://familypassfairfax.org/), a non-profit that helps working families in Fairfax County, Virginia who are at risk of homelessness. The funds provided by Matthew Siegal Goodworx Foundation were used by Family PASS to purchase a car for its client.
"Our client is a single mom of a child with special needs. Recently, her car was totaled which made it very difficult to get to work and get her child to medical appointments," said Debi Sutton, Executive Director of Family PASS. "She earned too much to be eligible for Vehicles for Change, yet she did not have enough savings or sufficient credit to buy a new car. The grant from Matthew Siegal Goodworx Foundation enabled Family PASS to buy her a car."
Anyone who wishes to make a tax-deductible donation to support Matthew Siegal Goodworx Foundation's Back on Their Feet or LGBTQ+ Ukrainian Refugee funds can do so at https://matthewsiegal.com/current-projects.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Indiana’s Republican governor met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday, following two recent high-profile visits by U.S. politicians that drew Beijing’s ire and Chinese military drills that included firing missiles over the island.
Gov. Eric Holcomb arrived Sunday evening in Taiwan for a four-day visit that will focus on economic exchanges, particularly in semiconductors, according to a statement from his office.
His visit comes at a particularly tense time for Taiwan, China and the U.S. after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited earlier this month. China claims the self-ruled island as its own territory and views any exchanges with foreign governments as an infringement on its claim.
Tsai acknowledged the tensions in her opening remarks ahead of the meeting and welcomed further exchanges.
“Taiwan has been confronted by military threats from China, in and around the Taiwan Strait. At this moment, democratic allies must stand together and boost cooperation in all areas,” she said.
Separately, Japanese lawmakers Keiji Furuya and Minoru Kihara arrived in Taiwan on Monday and are to meet Tsai on Tuesday. Furuya said they also plan to visit the tomb of late Taiwanese leader Lee Teng-hui.
“China’s military provocations and other actions defying what’s acceptable have caused risks to the peace and safety of not only Taiwan but also to all of East Asia,” Furuya tweeted Monday.
In response to Pelosi’s visit, China’s military held several days of exercises that included warplanes flying toward the island and warships sailing across the midline of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial buffer between the island and China.
China also imposed visa bans and other sanctions on several Taiwanese political figures, though it’s unclear what effect the sanctions will have.
Holcomb emphasized the economic nature of his visit, noting that his state is among the top in the U.S. for direct foreign investment and home to 10 Taiwanese companies. “We both seek to deepen and enhance our already excellent cooperation that we’ve established over the years,” he said.
Holcomb was also meeting representatives of the semiconductor industry and was expected to promote academic and tech cooperation between Taiwan and Indiana. His delegation is meeting with National Yang-Ming University and National Cheng Kung University as part of the exchange.
He is traveling with officials from the state’s economic development council, as well as the dean of engineering at Purdue University, which has just established a semiconductor degree program. He visits South Korea next.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room.
They stayed with their daughter around the clock when she was moved to a rehab center to regain her strength. Finally, the 8-month-old stopped batting away her bottles and started putting on weight again.
“She was doing well and we started to ask when can she go home,” Lauren Hackney said. “And then from that moment on, at the time, they completely stonewalled us and never said anything.”
The couple was stunned when child welfare officials showed up, told them they were negligent and took their daughter away.
“They had custody papers and they took her right there and then,” Lauren Hackney recalled. “And we started crying.”
More than a year later, their daughter, now 2, remains in foster care. The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home.
They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities.
The U.S. Justice Department is asking the same question. The agency is investigating the county’s child welfare system to determine whether its use of the influential algorithm discriminates against people with disabilities or other protected groups, The Associated Press has learned. Later this month, federal civil rights attorneys will interview the Hackneys and Andrew Hackney’s mother, Cynde Hackney-Fierro, the grandmother said.
Lauren Hackney has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder that affects her memory, and her husband, Andrew, has a comprehension disorder and nerve damage from a stroke suffered in his 20s. Their baby girl was just 7 months old when she began refusing to drink her bottles. Facing a nationwide shortage of formula, they traveled from Pennsylvania to West Virginia looking for some and were forced to change brands. The baby didn’t seem to like it.
Her pediatrician first reassured them that babies sometimes can be fickle with feeding and offered ideas to help her get back her appetite, they said.
When she grew lethargic days later, they said, the same doctor told them to take her to the emergency room. The Hackneys believe medical staff alerted child protective services after they showed up with a baby who was dehydrated and malnourished.
That’s when they believe their information was fed into the Allegheny Family Screening Tool, which county officials say is standard procedure for neglect allegations. Soon, a social worker appeared to question them, and their daughter was sent to foster care.
Over the past six years, Allegheny County has served as a real-world laboratory for testing AI-driven child welfare tools that crunch reams of data about local families to try to predict which children are likely to face danger in their homes. Today, child welfare agencies in at least 26 states and Washington, D.C., have considered using algorithmic tools, and jurisdictions in at least 11 have deployed them, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Hackneys’ story — based on interviews, internal emails and legal documents — illustrates the opacity surrounding these algorithms. Even as they fight to regain custody of their daughter, they can’t question the “risk score” Allegheny County’s tool may have assigned to her case because officials won’t disclose it to them. And neither the county nor the people who built the tool have ever explained which variables may have been used to measure the Hackneys’ abilities as parents.
“It’s like you have an issue with someone who has a disability,” Andrew Hackney said in an interview from their apartment in suburban Pittsburgh. “In that case … you probably end up going after everyone who has kids and has a disability.”
As part of a yearlong investigation, the AP obtained the data points underpinning several algorithms deployed by child welfare agencies, including some marked “CONFIDENTIAL,” offering rare insight into the mechanics driving these emerging technologies. Among the factors they have used to calculate a family’s risk, whether outright or by proxy: race, poverty rates, disability status and family size. They include whether a mother smoked before she was pregnant and whether a family had previous child abuse or neglect complaints.
What they measure matters. A recent analysis by ACLU researchers found that when Allegheny’s algorithm flagged people who accessed county services for mental health and other behavioral health programs, that could add up to three points to a child’s risk score, a significant increase on a scale of 20.
Allegheny County spokesman Mark Bertolet declined to address the Hackney case and did not answer detailed questions about the status of the federal probe or critiques of the data powering the tool, including by the ACLU.
“As a matter of policy, we do not comment on lawsuits or legal matters,” Bertolet said in an email.
Justice Department spokeswoman Aryele Bradford declined to comment.
NOT MAGIC
Child welfare algorithms plug vast amounts of public data about local families into complex statistical models to calculate what they call a risk score. The number that’s generated is then used to advise social workers as they decide which families should be investigated, or which families need additional attention — a weighty decision that can sometimes mean life or death.
A number of local leaders have tapped into AI technology while under pressure to make systemic changes, such as in Oregon during a foster care crisis and in Los Angeles County after a series of high-profile child deaths in one of the nation’s largest county child welfare systems.
LA County’s Department of Children and Family Services Director Brandon Nichols says algorithms can help identify high-risk families and improve outcomes in a deeply strained system. Yet he could not explain how the screening tool his agency uses works.
“We’re sort of the social work side of the house, not the IT side of the house,” Nichols said in an interview. “How the algorithm functions, in some ways is, I don’t want to say is magic to us, but it’s beyond our expertise and experience.”
Nichols and officials at two other child welfare agencies referred detailed questions about their AI tools to the outside developers who created them.
In Larimer County, Colorado, one official acknowledged she didn’t know what variables were used to assess local families.
“The variables and weights used by the Larimer Decision Aide Tool are part of the code developed by Auckland and thus we do not have this level of detail,” Jill Maasch, a Larimer County Human Services spokeswoman said in an email, referring to the developers.
In Pennsylvania, California and Colorado, county officials have opened up their data systems to the two academic developers who select data points to build their algorithms. Rhema Vaithianathan, a professor of health economics at New Zealand’s Auckland University of Technology, and Emily Putnam-Hornstein, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Social Work, said in an email that their work is transparent and that they make their computer models public.
“In each jurisdiction in which a model has been fully implemented we have released a description of fields that were used to build the tool, along with information as to the methods used,” they said by email.
A 241-page report on the Allegheny County website includes pages of coded variables and statistical calculations.
Vaithianathan and Putnam-Hornstein’s work has been hailed in reports published by UNICEF and the Biden administration alike for devising computer models that promise to lighten caseworkers’ loads by drawing from a set of simple factors. They have described using such tools as a moral imperative, insisting that child welfare officials should draw from all data at their disposal to make sure children aren’t maltreated.
Through tracking their work across the country, however, the AP found their tools can set families up for separation by rating their risk based on personal characteristics they cannot change or control, such as race or disability, rather than just their actions as parents.
In Allegheny County, a sprawling county of 1.2 million near the Ohio border, the algorithm has accessed an array of external data, including jail, juvenile probation, Medicaid, welfare, health and birth records, all held in a vast countywide “data warehouse.” The tool uses that information to predict the risk that a child will be placed in foster care two years after a family is first investigated.
County officials have told the AP they’re proud of their cutting-edge approach, and even expanded their work to build another algorithm focused on newborns. They have said they monitor their risk scoring tool closely and update it over time, including removing variables such as welfare benefits and birth records.
Vaithianathan and Putnam-Hornstein declined the AP’s repeated interview requests to discuss how they choose the specific data that powers their models. But in a 2017 report, they detailed the methods used to build the first version of Allegheny’s tool, including a footnote that described a statistical cutoff as “rather arbitrary but based on trial and error.”
“This footnote refers to our exploration of more than 800 features from Allegheny’s data warehouse more than five years ago,” the developers said by email.
That approach is borne out in their design choices, which differ from county to county.
In the same 2017 report, the developers acknowledged that using race data didn’t substantively improve the model’s accuracy, but they continued to study it in Douglas County, Colorado, though they ultimately opted against including it in that model. To address community concerns that a tool could harden racial bias in Los Angeles County, the developers excluded people’s criminal history, ZIP code and geographic indicators, but have continued to use those data points in the Pittsburgh area.
When asked about the inconsistencies, the developers pointed to their published methodology documents.
“We detail various metrics used to assess accuracy — while also detailing ‘external validations,’” the developers said via email.
When Oregon’s Department of Human Services built an algorithm inspired by Allegheny’s, it factored in a child’s race as it predicted a family’s risk, and also applied a “fairness correction” to mitigate racial bias. Last June, the tool was dropped entirely due to equity concerns after an AP investigation in April revealed potential racial bias in such tools.
Justice Department attorneys cited the same AP story last fall when federal civil rights attorneys started inquiring about additional discrimination concerns in Allegheny’s tool, three sources told the AP. They spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying the Justice Department asked them not to discuss the confidential conversations. Two said they also feared professional retaliation.
IQ TESTS, PARENTING CLASS
With no answers on when they could get their daughter home, the Hackneys’ lawyer in October filed a federal civil rights complaint on their behalf that questioned how the screening tool was used in their case.
Over time, Allegheny’s tool has tracked if members of the family have diagnoses for schizophrenia or mood disorders. It’s also measured if parents or other children in the household have disabilities, by noting whether any family members received Supplemental Security Income, a federal benefit for people with disabilities. The county said that it factors in SSI payments in part because children with disabilities are more likely to be abused or neglected.
The county also said disabilities-aligned data can be “predictive of the outcomes” and it “should come as no surprise that parents with disabilities … may also have a need for additional supports and services.” In an emailed statement, the county added that elsewhere in the country, social workers also draw on data about mental health and other conditions that may affect a parent’s ability to safely care for a child.
The Hackneys have been ordered to take parenting classes and say they have been taxed by all of the child welfare system’s demands, including IQ tests and downtown court hearings.
People with disabilities are overrepresented in the child welfare system, yet there’s no evidence that they harm their children at higher rates, said Traci LaLiberte, a University of Minnesota expert on child welfare and disabilities.
Including data points related to disabilities in an algorithm is problematic because it perpetuates historic biases in the system and it focuses on people’s physiological traits rather than behavior that social workers are brought in to address, LaLiberte said.
The Los Angeles tool weighs if any children in the family have ever gotten special education services, have had prior developmental or mental health referrals or used drugs to treat mental health.
“This is not unique to caseworkers who use this tool; it is common for caseworkers to consider these factors when determining possible supports and services,” the developers said by email.
Before algorithms were in use, the child welfare system had long distrusted parents with disabilities. Into the 1970s, they were regularly sterilized and institutionalized, LaLiberte said. A landmark federal report in 2012 noted parents with psychiatric or intellectual disabilities lost custody of their children as much as 80 percent of the time.
Across the U.S., it’s extremely rare for any child welfare agencies to require disabilities training for social workers, LaLiberte’s research has found. The result: Parents with disabilities are often judged by a system that doesn’t understand how to assess their capacity as caregivers, she said.
The Hackneys experienced this firsthand. When a social worker asked Andrew Hackney how often he fed the baby, he answered literally: two times a day. The worker seemed appalled, he said, and scolded him, saying babies must eat more frequently. He struggled to explain that the girl’s mother, grandmother and aunt also took turns feeding her each day.
FOREVER FLAGGED
Officials in Allegheny County have said that building AI into their processes helps them “make decisions based on as much information as possible,” and noted that the algorithm merely harnesses data social workers can already access.
That can include decades-old records. The Pittsburgh-area tool has tracked whether parents were ever on public benefits or had a history with the criminal justice system — even if they were minors at the time, or if it never resulted in charges or convictions.
The AP found those design choices can stack the deck against people who grew up in poverty, hardening historical inequities that persist in the data, or against people with records in the juvenile or criminal justice systems, long after society has granted redemption. And critics say that algorithms can create a self-fulfilling prophecy by influencing which families are targeted in the first place.
“These predictors have the effect of casting permanent suspicion and offer no means of recourse for families marked by these indicators,” according to the analysis from researchers at the ACLU and the nonprofit Human Rights Data Analysis Group. “They are forever seen as riskier to their children.”
As child welfare algorithms become more common, parents who have experienced social workers’ scrutiny fear the models won’t let them escape their pasts, no matter how old or irrelevant their previous scrapes with the system may have been.
Charity Chandler-Cole, who serves on the Los Angeles County Commission for Children and Families, is one of them. She landed in foster care as a teen after being arrested for shoplifting underwear for her younger sister. Then as an adult, she said, social workers once showed up at her apartment after someone spuriously reported that a grand piano was thrown at her nephew who was living at her home — even though they didn’t own such an instrument.
The local algorithm could tag her for her prior experiences in foster care and juvenile probation, as well as the unfounded child abuse allegation, Chandler-Cole says. She wonders if AI could also properly assess that she was quickly cleared of any maltreatment concerns, or that her nonviolent offense as a teen was legally expunged.
“A lot of these reports lack common sense,” said Chandler-Cole, now the mother of four and CEO of an organization that works with the court system to help children in foster care. “You are automatically putting us in these spaces to be judged with these labels. It just perpetuates additional harm.”
Chandler-Cole’s fellow commissioner Wendy Garen, by contrast, argues “more is better” and that by drawing on all available data, risk scoring tools can help make the agency’s work more thorough and effective.
GLOBAL INFLUENCE
Even as their models have come under scrutiny for their accuracy and fairness, the developers have started new projects with child welfare agencies in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Arapahoe County, Colorado. The states of California and Pennsylvania, as well as New Zealand and Chile, have also asked them to do preliminary work.
And as word of their methods has spread in recent years, Vaithianathan has given lectures highlighting screening tools in Colombia and Australia. She also recently advised researchers in Denmark and officials in the United Arab Emirates on how to use technology to target child services.
“Rhema is one of the world leaders and her research can help to shape the debate in Denmark,” a Danish researcher said on LinkedIn last year, regarding Vaithianathan’s advisory role related to a local child welfare tool that was being piloted.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded a national study, co-authored by Vaithianathan and Putnam-Hornstein, that concluded that their overall approach in Allegheny could be a model for other places.
HHS’ Administration for Children and Families spokeswoman Debra Johnson declined to say whether the Justice Department’s probe would influence her agency’s future support for an AI-driven approach to child welfare.
Especially as budgets tighten, cash-strapped agencies are desperate to find more efficient ways for social workers to focus on children who truly need protection. At a 2021 panel, Putnam-Hornstein acknowledged that “the overall screen-in rate remained totally flat” in Allegheny since their tool had been implemented.
Meanwhile, foster care and the separation of families can have lifelong developmental consequences for the child.
A 2012 HHS study found 95% of babies who are reported to child welfare agencies go through more than one caregiver and household change during their time in foster care, instability that researchers noted can itself be a form of trauma.
The Hackneys’ daughter already has been placed in two foster homes and has now spent more than half of her short life away from her parents as they try to convince social workers they are worthy.
Meanwhile, they say they’re running out of money in the fight for their daughter. With barely enough left for food from Andrew Hackney’s wages at a local grocery store, he had to shut off his monthly cell phone service. They’re struggling to pay for the legal fees and gas money needed to attend appointments required of them.
In February, their daughter was diagnosed with a disorder that can disrupt her sense of taste, according to Andrew Hackney’s lawyer, Robin Frank, who added that the girl has continued to struggle to eat, even in foster care.
All they have for now are twice-weekly visits that last a few hours before she’s taken away again. Lauren Hackney’s voice breaks as she worries her daughter may be adopted and soon forget her own family. They say they yearn to do what many parents take for granted — put their child to sleep at night in her own bed.
“I really want to get my kid back. I miss her, and especially holding her. And of course, I miss that little giggly laugh,” Andrew Hackney said, as his daughter sprang toward him with excitement during a recent visit. “It hurts a lot. You have no idea how bad.”
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On New Year's Day 2019, tennis greats Serena Williams and Roger Federer took the court as opponents.
It was an unusual treat for fans of the sport: the two superstars who separately dominated their own fields of women's and men's tennis were facing off against each other in a mixed doubles match.
But any competitive energy Williams and Federer wielded during the match melted away during a post-game interview, when they traded compliments and gleefully shared what it was like to play against the best in the world.
"For me, it was super cool," Williams said with a laugh. "I literally wanted to take pictures and wanted to bring my baby out. I'm, like, way too excited."
Federer was delighted, too.
"It was a bit nerve-wracking too, to be honest, because all of the sudden you're serving, especially the last serve at three-all, I'm like, 'I gotta win this point, but it's Serena Williams!'" he said to laughs from the crowd.
"And I was telling myself, this is maybe what I've always wanted, a big-time moment like this," Federer added, smiling.
Now Williams, 40, and Federer, 41, have both announced in short succession their plans to retire, leaving the tennis world without two iconic competitors who were among the best the sport has ever seen and whose appeal eclipsed the game.
Their retirements leave a 'gaping hole' in the tennis world
Jon Wertheim, a senior writer at Sports Illustrated and a Tennis Channel analyst, told NPR it's expected that given their ages, Williams and Federer plan to retire. But the announcements were still a shock.
"This is like the Sears Tower and the Empire State Building are both scheduled for demolition within a few weeks of each other," he said.
Last month, Williams announced on Vogue magazine's website that she would retire after this year's U.S. Open, saying that at her age, "something's got to give."
Federer's announcement came last week. He said his body's "message to me lately has been clear" and noted that his final competition would be this week's Laver Cup in London.
Williams and Federer have 23 and 20 Grand Slam titles, respectively, but neither player has won a major title in recent years.
The current top-ranked tennis players – Carlos Alcaraz of Spain and Iga Swiatek of Poland – are 19 and 21 years old. And men's tennis greats Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are still in the mix, Wertheim noted.
"The sport has sort of moved by [Federer and Williams] on both the men's and women's side, but I think it's just this gaping hole in terms of what the casual fans think about when they think of tennis."
Williams' and Federer's influence went beyond the sport
For Williams, her impact comes not only from her athletic ability, but also her public coming-of-age as a Black woman in a historically white sport.
Williams and her sister, fellow tennis player Venus, have been criticized throughout their careers for their appearance, from Venus getting penalized in 1999 for her hair beads falling out to Serena being accused of disrespecting tennis after wearing a black catsuit during the 2018 French Open.
The family has also been subjected to racist comments, including about Serena's pregnancy with husband Alexis Ohanian, who is white.
Akilah Carter-Francique, dean of Benedict College's School of Education, Health and Human Services, told NPR the Williams sisters have had to navigate a tennis world that wasn't always welcoming to them.
"The ism's were definitely out there, whether it be racism, sexism, classism. All of those things they had to battle in real time in front of us in a media-heavy space and endure that," she said. "They did that with such grace."
And because the star athletes also became cultural icons, Carter-Francique suggested their appeal extended not only to aspiring tennis players, but also young girls and women as well as Black youth and other youth of color.
"Here is a space that was not designed for them, but they came in and reimagined it, pushed the envelope, raised the bar in many ways, and influenced not only tennis culture but I think influenced pop culture," she said.
Federer, who began playing tennis at a young age like the Williams sisters, has been characterized by his effortless play style and his decency toward other players, fans and the media.
Djokovic, one of Federer's top rivals, said on Instagram that the Swiss player's career "set the tone for what it means to achieve excellence and lead with integrity and poise."
Now, with Williams and Federer on their way out, tennis moves into a new phase.
But Wertheim suggested that it could be in fact due to the contributions of the pair that tennis remains as popular and relevant as ever even as two of its biggest names move on.
"Maybe their legacy is ultimately that their individual loss won't really be to the sport's detriment, because they brought so many new people to the party."
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-9-0, FIREBALL: 1
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LONDON and HINGHAM, Mass. and WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OPEN Health, a global provider of scientific communications and market access services, announced that it signed a binding agreement to acquire The CM Group, a leading US domestic medical communications platform from NaviMed Capital ("NaviMed"). The partnership between OPEN Health and The CM Group expands the platform's global reach and portfolio of best-in-class scientific solutions for the pharma and biotech industry.
Daniel Leonard, CEO of The CM Group, said, "We are thrilled to join OPEN Health and continue the journey of being a strategic partner to pharma and biotech customers. With new colleagues and capabilities to utilize, we now have the ingredients to offer an even better suite of integrated solutions to our clients." In addition, he commented, "I would like to thank NaviMed Capital for their partnership in helping The CM Group develop and execute its vision to strengthen its core competencies while expanding into new services and technologies."
NaviMed's Dr. Bijan Salehizadeh, Co-Founder and Managing Director, and Ryan Ross, Principal, commented, "Our journey with The CM Group began with a strong foundation, which enabled acquisitions and expansions that further entrenched its market position across US scientific communications. We believe that OPEN Health is an ideal partner to lead the company's next growth phase as a global scientific leader, and we are excited about the company's bright future."
"The CM Group provides us with a significant scientific communication offering within the US domestic marketplace. Our clients are global and need providers who understand not only the increasing complexity of the science, but also the ever-changing global and local landscapes," said OPEN Health CEO, Rob Barker.
The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals.
OPEN Health brings together deep scientific knowledge, global understanding, and broad specialist expertise to support our clients in improving health outcomes and patient wellbeing. We are united as one flexible organization, harnessing the power of the collective to solve complex challenges. For more information on OPEN Health, please visit www.openhealthgroup.com.
Grounded in science—and powered by the patient voice—The CM Group is an integrated healthcare agency of innovative and imaginative subject-matter experts dedicated to providing scientific and commercialization strategies and services to the life sciences industry. For more information on the CM Group please visit www.thecmgroup.com.
NaviMed is a Washington, D.C.-based private capital firm with over $400 million of assets under management, focused exclusively on the healthcare industry. NaviMed invests in fast-growing lower-middle market healthcare businesses that NaviMed believes are poised to benefit from the reform and technology innovation reshaping the healthcare industry. The firm focuses on healthcare services, healthcare IT, hospital products and pharmaceutical services businesses.
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US Marshals Service still recovering from ransomware attack
(CNN) - The U.S. Marshals Service is working on updating a computer system hit by a ransomware attack earlier this year.
An agency spokesperson shared Monday that it will soon bring a new version of the system online with better security after, back in February, hackers hit a computer network used by the secretive marshals service unit known as the Technical Operations Group.
The group uses high-tech surveillance methods to track fugitives.
The agency said at the time that the affected computer system held “law enforcement sensitive information.”
The data included personal information of subjects of U.S. Marshals Service investigations and employees.
The U.S. Marshals Service said most critical tools related to the network “were restored within 30 days of the breach discovery.”
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The Fact Pack Features an In-Depth Analysis on Current Digital Trends, Augmented and Virtual Reality and Culturally Relevant Advertising Practices to Better Serve Black Consumers
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- B Code, My Code's digital media platform for engaging Black audiences, today released its 2023 Black Consumer Fact Pack. The annual research report conducted by My Code's Intelligence Center provides key insights and data, to help marketers and brands reach Black audiences with deeper authenticity while analyzing current market trends. This year's report focuses on the digital preferences of Black consumers, including a look into the future of consumer engagement through Augmented and Virtual Reality experiences and pushing boundaries of culturally relevant advertising.
"The annual Black Consumer Fact Pack is a cornerstone of what we do at B Code. It informs direction for our clients on how they can more effectively connect with Black consumers, marrying science with creativity, says Damian Benders, General Manager of B Code. "We are seeing increased outreach to the Black audience over the past few years, however a majority of Black audiences continue to feel misunderstood. This ongoing research helps us to provide insight and guidance to marketers as they work to improve relevancy and brand trust with this audience. "
My Code's Intelligence Center is the company's proprietary platform dedicated to analyzing and reporting on ever-changing multicultural American consumers' sentiments, opinions, and habits. Data was collected online from over 1,500 Black Americans representative of all main geographical areas of the United States, ages 18-64.
Key findings from the 2023 Black Consumer Fact Pack include:
Culturally Relevant Advertising – 58% of Black consumers say culturally relevant advertising makes them feel like brands understand them. When advertising demonstrates a deep understanding of Black consumers in relatable ways, it can have a stronger positive impact potential on purchase and consideration behaviors.
Multi-Dimensional Representation – As Black consumers continue to grow in influence and buying power, brands must go beyond racial or ethnic representation and consider depictions that break racial stereotypes. Effective culturally relevant campaigns also stem from the alignment of both media placement and creative, speaking to audiences within environments that understand the conversations and nuances of their audience.
Digital Media Consumption – Black consumer internet usage momentum continues to outpace the national average, while mobile phones remain the leading internet access point at 92%. This conveys the overwhelming need for marketers to ensure optimal digital reach content experiences during campaign planning.
Augmented and Virtual Reality – 99% of Black consumers are aware of Virtual Reality with Augmented Reality awareness trailing behind slightly at 85%. These numbers highlight the importance of exploring AR and VR as an underutilized device to target Black audiences. In particular, 73% of Black consumers have a positive or very positive response to virtual reality.
The U.S. Black Population is Younger and Increasingly Diverse – Multiracial Black population has shown significant growth at +89% between 2010-2020. The median age is 33 which is 5.8 years below the total U.S. median age of 38.8.
The 2023 B Code Fact Pack can be viewed in full here.
About B Code
B Code is a data-backed digital media entity focused on understanding Black audiences in order to authentically reach, inform and connect with them in the digital spaces they embrace most. B Code's mission is to empower brands with the right tools and resources to deliver meaningful and culturally nuanced messaging for Black audiences, backed by proprietary data intelligence. Marketing expertise, innovation, and resources make B Code one of few digital media agencies that can provide it all: Data, Media, and content solutions. The B Code publisher network also provides digital publishers with growth opportunities and access to increased ad revenue in order to dismantle investment disparities. This overall insights-driven approach provides a constant pulse on ever-changing Black American sentiments, preferences, and habits.
About My Code
My Code is the leading media company representing the multicultural landscape of America by amplifying, supporting and funding diverse publishers, creators and producers. My Code was formed following the expansion of H Code, a 2x Inc. 5000-ranked company founded in 2015, into additional demographics beyond Hispanic consumers. The company's diverse team of marketers, sellers, researchers, and storytellers specializes in an ever-growing selection of Cultural and Affinity Codes including: A Code, B Code, W Code and Pride Code. My Code helps companies of all sizes reach millions of Hispanic, Black, AANHPI, multicultural female and LGBTQIA+ consumers with unmatched authenticity. As a minority-dominant organization, its team is dedicated to the economic empowerment of the diverse communities and audiences they represent. In 2022, the company acquired Impremedia (the leading Hispanic news publisher) and Veranda Entertainment (which distributes Spanish-language film and television content across CTV platforms) and continues to expand its portfolio to better serve brands and advertisers. For more information about My Code and its brands, please visit https://mycodemedia.com/.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida told the Justice Department on Saturday to provide her with more specific information about the classified records removed from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate and said it was her “preliminary intent” to appoint a special master in the case.
The two-page order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon signals that she’s inclined to grant a request from Trump’s lawyers, who this week asked for the appointment of an independent special master to oversee the review the records taken from Mar-a-Lago and identify any that may be protected by executive privilege, and to ensure the return of any documents outside the scope of the search warrant.
The judge scheduled a Thursday hearing to discuss the matter further, suggesting the Justice Department will have a chance to raise objections to the judge's intentions. In other recent high-profile cases in which a special master has been appointed, the person has been a former judge.
Cannon also directed the Justice Department to file under seal with her more detailed descriptions of the material taken from Trump’s estate “specifying all property seized.” The former president’s lawyers have complained that investigators did not disclose enough information to them about what specific documents were removed when agents executed a search warrant on Aug. 8 to look for classified documents.
The special master appointment, if it happens, is unlikely to significantly affect the direction of the Justice Department investigation, though it’s possible an outside review of the documents could slow the probe down.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Now things get serious for Creighton.
The 10th-ranked Bluejays beat UC Riverside 80-51 Thursday night in their final tuneup before the Maui Invitational, where they could face as many as three AP Top 25 teams next week after beating four low-major opponents by an average of 26.5 points.
“Transferring to Creighton, a big reason why was to play the high-level teams,” Baylor Scheierman said. “It's going to be on a national stage, and it's going to be a lot of fun.”
Scheierman scored 17 points in his best offensive game since transferring from South Dakota State. Ryan Kalkbrenner, Arthur Kaluma and Trey Alexander had 12 points apiece for the Bluejays (4-0).
Wil Tattersall had 11 points to lead the Highlanders (1-2), who were 3 of 19 on 3-pointers and shot 35.5% overall.
“Tonight was our best game,” Creighton coach Greg McDermott said. “This was the best team we've played. We’re not having any more of these games the rest of the year. It’s basically Power Five competition from here on out, so hopefully this has prepared us for it.”
Scheierman, who was 2 of 8 from the field against Holy Cross on Monday, made back-to-back 3s to start the game. Creighton went into a lull, and that allowed the Highlanders to take two leads totaling one minute. Zyon Pullin’s jumper put them up 26-25 before they missed 10 of their next 11 shots.
That's when Creighton went on a tear. Kaluma’s 3 began a 16-2 run to close the half and send the Bluejays into the locker room ahead 41-28. They never led by fewer than 12 points in the second half.
Next up for Creighton is its Maui opener against No. 23 Texas Tech on Monday. The Bluejays play either No. 9 Arkansas or Louisville on Tuesday. Their Wednesday game is to be determined, with No. 14 Arizona or No. 17 San Diego State among possible opponents.
“I can’t wait to play some high-caliber teams that are supposed to be Top 25,” Alexander said. “I think we'll be able to showcase our abilities. We definitely can’t wait to get out there and play against some of the best players in the nation, just to see how we match up.”
BIG PICTURE
UC Riverside: The Highlanders came from 18 points down to win at Loyola Marymount last week, but they didn't have the firepower to keep up once the Bluejays got going.
Creighton: The game illustrated how many offensive options the Bluejays have. Scheierman disappeared in Monday's game and led the team in scoring Thursday. Kalkbrenner is dominant around the basket and has developed a perimeter shot. Kaluma is good for double figures every night. Alexander is a slasher. The bench is deep.
KALKBRENNER STREAK
Kalkbrenner hit his first three shots to extend his consecutive field goals streak to 22. He had made his last nine against North Dakota and went 10 for 10 against Holy Cross before making a couple short shots and a 3-pointer against the Highlanders. His streak ended when a 3 from the wing bounced off the rim.
UP NEXT
UC Riverside hosts Division III Occidental College on Saturday.
Creighton faces No. 23 Texas Tech on Monday in Hawaii.
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Police: New Orleans woman arrested in stabbings of 2 children; 1 dead, 1 critical
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - New Orleans police said a 4-year-old girl died and a 2-year-old boy was left critically injured Sunday after they were stabbed by a distraught woman at their home in the Florida neighborhood of the city.
Detectives booked 31-year-old Janee Pedescleaux on second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to a juvenile in connection with the double stabbing, which was reported at 11:17 a.m. at a home in the 3100 block of Law Street.
Police did not immediately confirm reports from neighbors that Pedescleaux was the children’s mother. Instead, the NOPD said, “The preliminary investigation indicates that this incident is guardian in nature.”
Surveillance video obtained by WVUE showed a man believed to be the children’s father arriving to the scene in a white pickup truck and running toward the house. Minutes later, the same man is seen rushing back to the truck with the injured children, with the older sibling stumbling and falling to the sidewalk, before getting up to run again.
In a more disturbing video – since deleted from Pedescleaux’s Instagram page – the woman faces the camera in a blood-stained tank top, sobbing, “I’m dying. My children is dead. I’m dying! I’m done with life!”
Neighbors who did not wish to be named told WVUE it was this social media post that alerted the father that his children were in grave danger or injured. When he arrived to the slightly elevated house, the man broke and climbed through a front window to rescue the children, taking them for hospital treatment himself.
Police said the girl died at the hospital, and that her younger brother was listed in critical condition.
A witness said Pedescleaux was arrested at the scene and taken away strapped to an ambulance gurney. The NOPD said she was booked into the Orleans Justice Center later Sunday.
NOPD child abuse detective Mario Bravo is heading the investigation. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact the Special Victims Section at (504) 658-5267 or Crimestoppers at (504) 822-1111.
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Mike Babcock is back in the NHL with the Columbus Blue Jackets, confident he has evolved as a coach in his nearly four years out of a pro job.
The 2008 Stanley Cup-winning coach with Detroit finally took over Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, introduced as the person the organization’s brass believes is the right fit for a team looking to win again. Now 3 1/2 years removed from being fired by Toronto and word emerging about some of his polarizing old-school tactics, Babcock sounded like someone who has learned from his time in the college ranks and is ready to adjust to modern players.
“Change in all of us takes time,” Babcock said at a news conference streamed on Zoom. “I think what this has done is given me a chance to get outside my body and have a look and see what I’m doing and understand you needed to change, you needed to grow.”
Babcock returns to the NHL following the end of his lengthy contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs, who fired him early in his fifth season with them in 2019.
Columbus decided early last month to hire Babcock but had to wait until July to make it official because of the significant money still owed to him on the $50 million, eight-year deal he signed with Toronto in 2015. This is just a two-year contract, Babcock and general manager Jarmo Kekalainen confirmed.
President of hockey operations John Davidson said he spoke to recently elected Hall of Fame coach Ken Hitchcock about the Blue Jackets’ vacancy.
“He said, ‘There’s only one guy to hire,’” Davidson recalled and Hitchcock confirmed by text Saturday. “I said, ‘Who are you thinking?’ He says, ‘Mike Babcock.’”
Babcock, who also made trips to the Cup Final with Anaheim in 2003 and Detroit in 2009 and guided Canada to Olympic gold medals in 2010 and 2014, gives the Blue Jackets an accomplished veteran behind the bench to oversee their attempt to become a contender again in the Eastern Conference.
“We’re convinced that we got the best coach for the job,” Kekalainen said. “His coaching achievements talk for themselves. Everybody knows that. But I’m also convinced that he’s the right person, the right man for the job.”
Columbus missed the playoffs the past three seasons after making it four years in a row under now-Philadelphia coach John Tortorella. The Blue Jackets finished tied for the second-fewest points in the league this past season, selected Adam Fantilli with the third pick in the draft and signed him Saturday to his entry-level contract.
They fired coach Brad Larsen in April after two seasons in that role, the second of which was derailed by injuries all over the roster after Columbus had signed top free agent Johnny Gaudreau last summer and looked poised to take a step forward. That’s now up to Babcock.
“We’re going to be better,” Davidson said. “This the most excited that I’ve been in a very long time with the Blue Jackets.
Once considered the best hockey coach in the world — and paid accordingly by the Leafs — Babcock saw his reputation take a hit a few years ago when stories emerged about some of his techniques.
Longtime Detroit forward Johan Franzen in 2019 called Babcock the “worst person” he has ever met, and former teammate Chris Chelios said Babcock berated Franzen in 2012 to the point of a nervous breakdown. Maple Leafs All-Star center Mitch Marner said during his rookie year that Babcock made him rank his teammates from hardest- to least-hardest working and shared that with a couple of the teammates near the bottom.
Babcock said his daughter told him, “It’s not what you say, it’s your tone,” and he has tried to transfer that lesson over to coaching hockey.
“The message sent and the message received often isn’t the same,” Babcock said, referencing past dealings with players he thought were good before realizing they didn’t feel the same way. “The ability to communicate and send the right message that you want to send and do it in a way that’s totally respectful to me is what the last 3 1/2 years has been about.”
Babcock credits that to a “growth opportunity” spending time as senior adviser for the University of Vermont’s men’s hockey team before returning home to his native Western Canadian province to coach the University of Saskatchewan in 2021-22. The opportunity allowed him to get accustomed to coaching younger players.
“We are going to have a relationship with all 23 players, one that is a give and take,” he said. “Communication is so important. I have to find out what they think works best for them in communication, and they have to know if I’ve crossed a line with them they are allowed to say, ‘Babs you are out of line.’ It’s two ways.”
Now 60, Babcock will be in his fourth NHL job after stints in Anaheim, Detroit and Toronto.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday slapped sanctions on dozens of Russian and Ukrainian officials and a number of Russian companies for human rights abuses and the theft of Ukrainian grain.
The State Department said it had imposed sanctions on at least 23 officials and 31 Russian government agencies and firms for their roles in supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine. Some, but not all, of those penalized were already subject to U.S. sanctions, which include asset freezes and a ban on Americans conducting business with them.
“Those designated today — from perpetrators of violence to an official facilitating the purposeful removal of children from Ukraine — provide examples of the behavior that has become synonymous with the Government of Russia’s unprovoked war," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
“The United States will continue to take actions against those who support Russia’s defense-industrial base, its violation of human rights, and its attempts to legitimize its occupation of Ukrainian territory, wherever they may be,” he said in a statement.
Among those targeted on Thursday include 17 Russian and Ukrainian officials who were said to be working for, or on behalf of, the Russian government to destabilize Ukraine. Another five people were sanctioned for participating in the alleged theft of Ukrainian grain. Many of them were appointed by Russia to local leadership positions in parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Among the government agencies and companies hit with sanctions were Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, which has been subject to U.S. penalties since 2016, but has since been accused of running so-called “filtration” camps through which Ukrainians have been forcibly deported.
Other companies include high-tech firms involved in Russia's space and satellite sectors and computer companies that produce micro-processors and semiconductors used by the Russian armed forces.
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The specialty retailer expands New Mexico footprint, bringing its signature next-day white glove delivery and array of financing options to local customers
HOUSTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) is expanding in New Mexico with the opening of a new 40,000 square foot retail location in the Santa Fe Place Mall at 4350 Cerillos Road in Santa Fe. A grand opening celebration is scheduled for Saturday, June 25, 2022, featuring food trucks and special promotions, including coupons and free prizes for guests.
Conn's HomePlus, based in The Woodlands, Texas, offers a wide selection of home goods, including furniture, appliances, and consumer electronics, from national brands such as G.E., Samsung, LG and more. Conn's offers white-glove, next day delivery service on all in-stock items so customers don't have to wait to enjoy their purchase. Through a personalized selection of payment options, including flexible in-house financing, Conn's strives to help all customers create a home they love.
Customers shopping at any of the five Conn's HomePlus stores in New Mexico can also expect store promotions through August, including next-day delivery on all major appliance purchases, TV purchases over $999, all mattress purchases over $999, all major fitness equipment purchases over $999 and select furniture purchases.
"We're excited to grow our presence in New Mexico and introduce our wide selection of home products to customers in the Santa Fe area who are looking to turn their home life to home love," said Chandra Holt, President and CEO of Conn's HomePlus. "We believe customers here will appreciate our next-day delivery service, and their ability to choose the payment option that works best for them."
Conn's HomePlus has over 160 locations across 15 states. For more information on Conn's HomePlus, please visit http://www.conns.com.
Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) is a specialty retailer of home goods, including furniture, appliances and consumer electronics, with a mission to elevate home life to home love. With more than 160 stores across 15 states and online at Conns.com, our over 4,000 employees strive to help all customers create a home they love through access to high-quality products, next-day delivery and personalized payment options, including our flexible, in-house credit program. Additional information can be found by visiting our investor relations website at https://ir.conns.com and social channels (@connshomeplus on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn).
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‘Queen of the House’ singer Jody Miller dies at age 80
BLANCHARD, Okla. (AP) — Jody Miller, whose “Queen of the House” won the 1966 Grammy Award for best country performance by a woman, died Thursday at age 80.
Miller died in her hometown of Blanchard, Oklahoma, of complications from Parkinson’s disease, according to Universal Music Group, owner of Capitol Records, which released most of her hits.
“Queen of the House” was released in 1965 as an answer to Roger Miller’s hit “King of the Road.” The hit opened up a crossover career for Jody Miller, who wasn’t related to the “King of the Road” composer and singer.
Her 1965 teen protest song “Home of the Brave” was her biggest-selling single, despite being banned from some radio stations’ playlists. Another hit was “Long Black Limousine,” a song about a man’s funeral procession.
In the 1970s, Miller moved to Epic Records, where she had hits with “Baby I’m Yours,” There’s a Party Goin’ On,” “Darling, You Can Always Come Back Home,” and the Grammy-nominated crossover hit cover of “He’s So Fine.”
She retired in the 1980s to spend more time with her husband and children. After her husband’s death, she recorded a 2018 single, “Where My Picture Hangs on the Wall,” with daughter Robin Brooks Sullivan and Miller’s two grandchildren.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing the possibility that the Supreme Court will reject President Joe Biden’s plan for student loan forgiveness, the White House is aiming to turn the political heat toward Republicans while deflecting criticism from disappointed borrowers.
At stake is the loyalty of young, college-educated voters who are a critical part of the Democratic coalition that Biden is counting on to return him to the White House for a second term. And plenty of people are making sure he doesn’t forget.
“The president still has the responsibility to ensure that we see this become a reality,” said Wisdom Cole, national director of the NAACP Youth and College Division. “There are folks that are still suffering, and we want to ensure that they have the opportunity to see relief.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday the president would make it clear to borrowers that “we have your back,” but it’s far from clear that the administration has a backup idea to cancel debt.
“We do not have another plan,” she told reporters. “This is our plan. This is it.”
In arguments this week, the court’s conservative majority appeared deeply skeptical of Biden’s plan, which would slash federal student loan debt burdens through an executive order he signed last year.
In all, up to 43 million Americans could benefit. Out of the 26 million who have applied for relief, 16 million have been approved, according to administration officials. However, all relief has been on hold amid legal challenges from Republicans.
“I’m confident we’re on the right side of the law,” Biden told reporters Wednesday at the White House. “I’m not confident about the outcome of the decision.”
With a Supreme Court ruling expected by summer, the White House is vigorously labeling culprits — and is sure to hit that message even harder if the court kills the program.
“Currently, the only thing blocking that plan is opponents of the plan suing us,” Biden said Monday during a Black History Month reception at the White House.
Foreshadowing what aides said would be his likely political message should the court overturn the plan, Biden criticized Republicans who sued and those in Congress who cheered them on.
“They’re the same folks who had hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions of dollars, in pandemic relief loans forgiven,” he said. “And many of them in Congress, by the way, Republicans, who voted for tax cuts (that) overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest people in America, who are the people who paid to bring these suits.”
Clearly, not everyone sees it that way. In fact, Republicans seem happy to fight over student debt relief, saying it’s actually the Democrats’ plan that is a “bailout for the wealthy.”
“Biden’s student loan cancellation unfairly punishes Americans who saved for college or made a different career choice,” Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, said in a statement on Tuesday. “While hardworking families struggle with soaring costs, Biden is giving a handout to the rich, and voters see right through this desperate vote grab.”
Some legal scholars have suggested that Biden’s plan was always on shaky legal ground, and they’ve urged the administration to start over. However, White House officials insist they’re still confident about their case.
One basis for that hope is that the justices may decide that the plaintiffs, which include several Republican-led states and two students, don’t have legal standing to sue.
The administration also draws parallels to the tough questioning over the Affordable Care Act more than a decade ago. The court eventually upheld most of that law’s provisions.
While publicly unwilling to entertain the prospects of a judicial brushback, Biden aides privately harbor the belief that for all the embarrassment, there is little to lose politically if the Supreme Court overturns the loan forgiveness program the president proposed and fought for.
The administration has communicated Biden’s efforts to the tens of millions of people whose emails were collected as part of the application process.
Survey data suggest a college degree is increasingly tied to identification with the Democratic Party. Forty-one percent of Democratic voters in 2019 had at least a college degree, up from just 22% in 1996, Pew Research Center surveys show. By comparison, 30% of GOP voters in 2019 had a degree, up slightly from 27% in 1996.
Biden won support from a majority of college-educated voters in the 2020 presidential election, according to AP VoteCast data.
In 2022, VoteCast found that college graduates voting in the midterm elections were slightly more likely than those without a degree to approve of Biden’s job handling student debt, 50% vs. 44%.
VoteCast also shows that the youngest midterm voters were especially likely to approve of Biden’s job handling student debt. Sixty percent of voters under 30 approved, compared with 39% of voters ages 65 and older.
Biden issued his debt-forgiveness executive order only after months of pressure from activists, something that Democratic lawmakers reminded demonstrators of outside the Supreme Court this week.
“All of you rallied around this country to try to make sure our president, who at the time was hesitant, would finally realize that this was not just a politically viable thing, but it was the right thing to do,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. “And after we get the president to sign the executive order, canceling student debt, bringing hope and promise to millions of people who had been begging, marching, what did Republicans do? What they always do, which is snatch hope from the American people.”
Even if the broad debt cancellation is overturned, other major policies enacted by the Education Department would remain in place. For example, the agency revamped a loan forgiveness program for public workers, making it easy for them to get their debt erased after 10 years of payments. The department separately made it easier for borrowers to get their debt canceled if they were defrauded by their schools.
Through those policies and others, the department says it has already provided $48 billion in loan relief to 1.8 million borrowers.
In perhaps the biggest change in the long run, the administration is now pursuing a new loan repayment plan that promises to serve as a safety net for borrowers. The plan would lower monthly payments for many borrowers and allow more to pay nothing at all while their incomes stay below a certain level. And for many borrowers, the plan would erase all remaining debt after 10 years of payments.
However, no issue has attracted the same amount of attention as debt cancellation.
Melissa Byrne, an activist who helped organize demonstrations outside the Supreme Court, said the issue won’t go away if payments go back into effect.
“Every single month,” she said, “they’ll be reminded that the right-wing infrastructure stole their money.”
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Associated Press writers Collin Binkley and Hannah Fingerhut contributed to this report.
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LONDON — A lawyer representing the young person at the center of allegations of sexual misconduct by a top BBC host has disputed the claims made in a British tabloid newspaper.
The male host — whose identity has not been made public — is accused of paying a teenager 35,000 pounds (nearly $45,000) for sexually explicit photos over a three-year period. The exchanges allegedly began when the person was 17.
The Sun newspaper broke the story on Friday with an interview with the alleged victim's mother. She told the paper her teen used the money to fund a drug habit.
"I blame this BBC man for destroying my child's life," the unidentified mother was quoted as saying. "Taking my child's innocence and handing over the money for crack cocaine that could kill my child."
But in a statement issued to the BBC Monday, the lawyer representing the young person claimed there was no truth to the allegations. "For the avoidance of doubt, nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place between our client and the BBC personality and the allegations reported in The Sun newspaper are rubbish."
The statement claims that a denial was sent to The Sun on Friday evening via WhatsApp, but the tabloid ignored the message and continued with publication.
In response, a spokesperson for The Sun said, "We have reported a story about two very concerned parents who made a complaint to the BBC about the behavior of a presenter and the welfare of their child. Their complaint was not acted upon by the BBC. We have seen evidence that supports their concerns. It's now for the BBC to properly investigate."
On Sunday, the BBC said it had suspended an unnamed male member of staff. The network says it first became aware of a complaint about him back in May, and had been investigating — before "new allegations" of a "different nature" were made Thursday. At that point, the BBC notified "external authorities," it said.
Police say they held a virtual meeting Monday morning with BBC officials and are "assessing the information discussed at the meeting" – but that no formal investigation is yet underway.
"Further enquiries are taking place to establish whether there is evidence of a criminal offence being committed," police said in a statement carried by local media.
This is only the latest scandal to tarnish the storied British broadcaster, which is funded domestically by TV license fees. Its chairman resigned earlier this year in a conflict of interest row over a financial favor he did for the prime minister who'd appointed him. For decades, the BBC failed to investigate one of its entertainers, Jimmy Savile, who was later found to have committed sex crimes.
U.K. politicians have called for a swift, sensitive and thorough investigation. The country's culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, called the allegations "deeply concerning" and said she had spoken to the BBC's director-general about them.
Since breaking the story last week, The Sun says this unnamed BBC host has made at least two panicked phone calls to his alleged victim, asking "What have you done?" He also reportedly asked them to halt the investigation and to call their mother and urge her to stop talking to media.
Speculation has been rife over who the unnamed BBC presenter is. Other top BBC personalities have flooded social media with statements saying it's not them.
The Sun's former editor, Kelvin MacKenzie, told the BBC's World at One radio program that the newspaper decided to withhold the BBC presenter's name because the U.K. media landscape has "changed dramatically" in recent years, in terms of privacy.
"In the good old days there would have been absolutely no doubt that the name would have been there," MacKenzie said. "And any pictures associated with the story would have been published."
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BEIJING (AP) — A building collapse one week ago in central China killed 53 people, state media reported Friday as the search of the large pile of debris ended after rescuers found 10 survivors.
Authorities said at a news conference that all the missing had been accounted for as of 3 a.m., state broadcaster CCTV said in an online post.
The residential and commercial building in the city of Changsha suddenly collapsed the afternoon of April 29. Aerial photos showed it pancaked to about the second story between other buildings about six stories tall. At least nine people have been arrested on suspicion of ignoring building codes or committing other violations.
Survivors were pulled out of the rubble over several days. The 10th and last one was pulled out shortly after midnight on Thursday, 5 ½ days after the collapse. All of the survivors were reportedly in good condition after being treated in a hospital.
The arrested include the building owner, three people in charge of design and construction and five others who allegedly gave a false safety assessment for a guest house on the building’s fourth to sixth floors. The building also had residences, a café and a restaurant.
Rescuers used search dogs, hand tools, drones and electronic life detectors.
In an account of Monday’s rescue of the eighth survivor, state media said rescuers faced an unstable pile of rubble that they had to work around rather than demolish. Prior to the rescue, they were able to feed in video equipment to communicate with the girl and establish that one of her legs was trapped. They also fed in saline solution for her to drink.
An increase in the number of collapses of self-built buildings in recent years prompted Chinese President Xi Jinping to call for additional checks to uncover structural weaknesses.
Poor adherence to safety standards, including the illegal addition of extra floors and failure to use reinforcing iron bars, is often blamed for such disasters. Decaying infrastructure such as gas pipes has also led to explosions and collapses.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Volume is delighted to announce a partnership with Vyper, Curve, Encode, and ATX DAO for the Austin Hackathon, happening from June 10th to June 12th, 2022.
Volume, together with sponsorship partners Curve and Vyper will join Encode and ATX DAO at the Thompson Conference Center at the University of Texas and offer several bounties hackers can answer to win great prizes for programming the best new Vyperlang applications that will run on the Ethereum blockchain.
"Vyper is a contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) on the Ethereum Blockchain. Finally, Python developers all over the world can enter the Ethereum developer ecosystem with a language built with love for them. Given that Python is now the first language many computer science students learn, we're excited to see what the University of Texas Students will create." said Taariq Lewis, Founder, Volume. "The future of blockchain software development begins again with Python. Ethereum was first written in Python so we're happy to see Vyper bring back a familiar structure to building on the EVM."
About the Encode x ATX DAO Austin Hackathon
The Encode x ATX DAO Austin Hackathon, happening from Friday, June 10th to Sunday, June 12th in Austin, Texas alongside the Consensus conference. The event is an in-person, cross-chain web3 hackathon at one of the most prestigious universities in the land, the University of Texas at the Thompson Conference Center. Participants are invited to attend coding workshops including Introduction to Vyper, Blockchain, NFTs, Solidity, DeFi, Cross-chain, L2, and Rust. Learn more about the event and registration by visiting Volume's Event Listings here.
About Volume
For blockchain software developers, Volume provides blockchain automation and scheduling software that manages smart contracts on any blockchain, enabling high volume execution to all protocols. Learn more about Volume.
About Curve
Curve is DeFi's leading AMM, (Automated Market Maker). Hundreds of liquidity pools have been launched through Curve's factory and incentivized by Curve's DAO. Users rely on Curve's proprietary formulas to provide high liquidity, low slippage, and low fee transactions among ERC-20 tokens. Learn more about Curve.
About Vyper
Vyper is a contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Vyper's main's focus is secured smart contracts, simplistic language, and auditability. If you know Python, you are one step closer to being a blockchain developer with Vyper. Learn more about Vyper.
About Encode Club
Encode Club is a web3 education community learning and building together through fantastic programs with the leading protocols in the space. Together we organize programs like education series, bootcamps, hackathons, and accelerators both online and in person. We then help our community get jobs and funding for projects and startups.
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(The Hill) – Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Sunday said he saw little value in attempting to have Donald Trump testify before the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol because he did not trust the former president would tell the truth, even under oath.
“Donald Trump has made it clear that he doesn’t mind not telling the truth. Let’s just put that mildly. He lies all the time. I wouldn’t put it past him to even lie under oath, so I’m not sure what the value is there,” Kinzinger said Sunday on CBS “Face the Nation.”
While Kinzinger told host Margaret Brennan he doesn’t see value in having the former president testify in person before the panel, he said he would like to hear the perspective of former Vice President Mike Pence.
“I think it would be important to hear everything he has to say,” Kinzinger said, though he added that he wasn’t sure if he preferred a subpoena for Pence to testify in person or a request for a transcribed interview. “That said, I’m not sure we get a ton more out of him than what his staff has already told us.”
The former vice president’s chief of staff Marc Short testified before the committee in January. On CBS last week, Short said it would set a “very risky precedent” to ask his former boss to talk to the committee.
Kinzinger said Sunday that the committee’s eighth public hearing, scheduled for Thursday, is the end of this “grouping” but that he expects to have more hearings as new information surfaces.
“I think the thing to keep in mind is this: This investigation is not winding down. We may be towards the end of this tranche of hearings. We may have more hearings in the future. And the investigation is still ongoing. So we’re getting to the bottom of what we need to know,” he said.
“As you saw with Cassidy Hutchinson, if we get information that the American people need to know, we may end up bringing up more hearings at that time too,” he said.
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TORONTO, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - EQ Bank, powered by Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™, announced it is increasing its interest rate by 0.35% to 2.00%1, effective September 6, 2022.
"Being able to offer meaningful value on an everyday bank account can be a real benefit to the average customer," said Mahima Poddar, Group Head of Personal Banking. "When we look at the rates offered on accounts in the market, EQ Bank stands out as providing Canadians one of the best values, both now and long term. With a high everyday interest rate, customers can earn on their balances when money comes in and before it goes out, whether it's for bills, their mortgage or other daily spending needs. We also stay away from promo rates; always offering our best rates to everyone, not just new or preferred customers. It's all part of what we're doing to create a banking experience that allows our customers to get ahead while they meet their everyday banking needs."
In addition to the 2.00% non-promotional rate, EQ Bank's easy sign-up process, no daily banking fees, unlimited transactions, seamless free transfers between Canadian banks, fast international money transfers, and great rates on GICs that can be purchased at the touch of a button are just some of the reasons more people are choosing EQ Bank as their primary bank. There are also more enhancements planned to keep pushing the boundaries of what smart, value-first everyday banking can be. In the coming months, EQ Bank will launch its first payment card, creating more convenient access to funds and providing rewards for point-of-sale purchases.
The new 2.00% interest rate is available as of September 6, 2022, to all current and new customers, and applies to EQ Bank Savings Plus Accounts, TFSA Savings Accounts and RSP Savings Accounts. With over $7 billion in deposits and more than 250,000 customers, EQ Bank was named the top Bank in Canada on the Forbes World's Best Banks 2021 and 2022 list.
All EQ Bank deposit products are eligible for CDIC deposit insurance†
EQB Inc. trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: EQB, EQB.PR.C and EQB.R) and serves more than 360,000 Canadians through its wholly owned subsidiary Equitable Bank, Canada's Challenger Bank™. Equitable Bank has a clear mandate to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people's lives. Founded over 50 years ago, Equitable Bank provides diversified personal and commercial banking and through its EQ Bank platform (eqbank.ca) has been named the top Schedule I Bank in Canada on the Forbes World's Best Banks 2022 and 2021 lists. Please visit equitablebank.ca for details.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s central bank on Tuesday surprised markets by increasing its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 3.85% despite pausing its climb last month and new evidence that inflation is slowing.
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s meeting on April 4 was the first in a year to leave rates on hold to allow time for the bank’s board to observe the impacts of recent hikes.
Most economists expected the cash rate would remain steady at 3.6% at the bank’s May meeting. Last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that inflation in the March quarter had slowed to 7% from 7.8% in December.
But bank Gov. Philip Lowe said inflation remained too far outside his bank’s target range of 2% to 3%.
“Inflation in Australia has passed its peak, but at 7% is still too high and it will be some time yet before it is back in the target range,” Lowe said in a statement.
“While the recent data showed a welcome decline in inflation, the central forecast remains that it takes a couple of years before inflation returns to the top of the target range; inflation is expected to be 4.5% in 2023 and 3% in mid-2025,” Lowe added.
The increase brings the cash rate to 3.85%, Australia’s highest since April 2012.
National Australia Bank chief economist Alan Oster said he was surprised by the rate rise and expected it would be the last in the current cycle.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the move was a reminder of Australia’s difficult economic circumstances.
“This is a reminder that inflation remains the primary challenge in our economy,” Chalmers said.
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(WSYR-TV) — The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), welcomes the Class of 2026 on campus this week. The freshman class began moving in on Monday, August 22.
Orientation week ends with the college’s traditional Saturday of service at locations throughout Syracuse, which gives students the opportunity to serve their new home. Classmates of SUNY ESF say they’re excited to welcome new students on campus!
“We really like to interact and engage with students because I’m a student here myself…we’ll make them feel more comfortable and engaging with them is really important and welcoming them to the community,” says Megan Cammett, Orientation Leader at SUNY ESF.
Classes start Monday, August 28.
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VENICE, Italy (AP) — When most people think of “carpaccio,” they think of the thinly sliced raw beef appetizer made famous by Venice’s iconic Harry’s Bar. Few people know that the dish is named for a lesser-known Venetian, the Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio, because of the intense red hues he favored.
Carpaccio the painter has recently been getting more attention outside his native Venice. In November, the National Gallery in Washington inaugurated the first retrospective exhibit of his work outside Italy. The show, “Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice,” is set to move to Venice’s showcase Palazzo Ducale on March 18.
The Washington exhibit includes two Carpaccio paintings which, after a restoration, left Venice for the first time in more than 500 years.
“At first, we were a bit hesitant, because allowing these masterpieces to leave their natural habitat is always a risk,” said Piergiorgio Millich, the grand guardian of the institution that boasts having more Carpaccios under the same roof for which they were originally commissioned than anywhere else.
But after art conservator Valentina Piovan analyzed the works and undertook a yearlong restoration, she convinced the institution that the canvases could safely make the journey.
Piovan is now working on restoration of several other Carpaccios in the headquarters of the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni fraternity, which was founded in 1451 by a group of Venetians as a social center providing medical and spiritual support for members — mostly sailors in the republic’s naval fleet. When the fleet defeated the Ottomans in the Turkish-Venetian wars, they were paid handsomely.
As a result, they were able to hire one of the most prominent Venetian painters of his time, Carpaccio, to paint a series of paintings dedicated to St. George, the legendary figure who slayed a dragon, saved a princess and convinced the Selenites to convert to Christianity.
In the first painting in the cycle “Saint George and the Dragon,” a masterpiece more than three meters (around 10 feet) long, Carpaccio paints the saint on horseback with his lance thrust into the mouth of the dragon and the ground littered with the body parts of partially devoured humans. The princess, dressed in a “carpaccio” red robe, clasps her hands together in gratitude as she watches the scene from a rocky outcropping above.
It is classic Carpaccio, a combination of narrative storytelling and attention to detail.
And it clearly was an inspiration for Giuseppe Cipriani, the Venetian restauranteur and owner of Harry’s Bar, who invented a dish named for the painter in the 1950s. According to the official Harry’s Bar history, Cipriani had a customer, Contessa Amalia Nani Mocenigo, whose doctors had prescribed a strict diet without cooked meat.
Cipriani came up with a dish of sliced raw beef with a sauce of mayonnaise and Worcestershire sauce, and named it after the painter in part because of its ressemblance to his favorite reds that were on exhibit in Venice at the time.
“I think people are starting to get an appreciation of paintings, Venetian paintings, from the very beginning of the 16th century, and also learn maybe where the word carpaccio,” came from, said Melissa Conn, director of the Venice office of Save Venice, an American nonprofit which has provided $400,000 for the restoration of several Carpaccio works.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACXP) ("Acurx" or the "Company"), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of antibiotics for difficult-to-treat bacterial infections, announced today certain financial and operational results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022.
Highlights of the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022 include:
- Acurx continues to enroll patients in its Phase 2b clinical trial, which includes 28 U.S. sites (up from the initial 12 clinical trial sites), in patients with C. difficile infection (CDI) with an interim review of clinical data anticipated in mid-2023;
- The Phase 2b clinical trial will compare the efficacy of oral ibezapolstat, the Company's lead antibiotic candidate, to oral vancomycin, the current standard of care for CDI;
- Based on the blinded observed data from the ongoing Ph2b clinical trial to date, in January 2023, the Company filed a protocol amendment to its Investigational New Drug Application (IND) with FDA to allow for an Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) to review interim clinical data. If acceptable to FDA, the IDMC will review the clinical data upon enrollment of 36 patients in the Ph2b clinical trial. The Company currently has enrolled 25 patients in the Ph2b clinical trial. The IDMC will determine and recommend to the Company whether the most appropriate course of action forward is to early terminate the Ph2b clinical trial (as the Company had done with the Ph2a clinical trial) or to continue patient enrollment. The Company intends to report available data promptly after the IDMC conducts this interim review. The Company assembled its IDMC during this first quarter of 2023 for this purpose.
- The Company has continued its R&D collaboration with Leiden University Medical Center (Holland) to further evaluate the mechanism-of-action of Acurx's inhibitors against the DNA pol IIIC enzyme, which is the bacterial target of our antibiotic product pipeline for the systemic treatment (IV and oral) of other gram-positive bacterial infections. Data generated from this program was critical to include in a recent grant application for $11.3 million of non-dilutive funding (described below) with a decision anticipated in April 2023. Based on this successful collaboration, LUMC has proposed a second-stage, two-year project to further analyze chemical structure relationships of new Acurx compounds with a propensity for reduced antimicrobial resistance. At this point, this new project proposal is subject to review, approval and funding by the Dutch government for an additional $500,000 and the Company anticipates a decision by mid-2023;
- The Company completed certain portions of its laboratory study at the University of Houston comparing the killing effect of ibezapolstat to vancomycin, fidaxomicin and metronidazole using both in vitro and ex vivo analyses. Certain results were presented at the Anaerobe Society of America annual scientific conference and results demonstrated that ibezapolstat has favorable killing kinetics compared to vancomycin to treat C. difficile infection at standard and high bacterial concentrations, supporting continued development of this first-in-class antibiotic to treat C. difficile Infection. Comparisons of the killing effect of ibezapolstat to fidaxomicin and metronidazole are ongoing. These reported clinical results support the expectation that microbiome effects may be predictive of beneficial patient outcomes including low rates of recurrence;
- In October 2022, the Company filed for a non-dilutive grant of up to $11.3 million which, if approved, would provide funding for ACX-375, our second antibiotic program targeting the treatment of MRSA infections, for a period of 5 years up to the start of Ph2 clinical trials. The Company is now in the third and final round of consideration for this non-dilutive grant and a decision is expected in April 2023. If approved, the Company would need to pay approximately $5 million of the approximate $16 million program total cost over a five-year period with approximately $11.3 million paid by the grant provider;
- Next month, the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (commonly referred to as ECCMID), one of the most comprehensive and influential scientific conferences in clinical microbiology and infection, will hold its 33rd session in Copenhagen. An abstract entitled "Novel pharmacology and susceptibility of ibezapolstat against C. difficile isolates with reduced susceptibility to C. difficile-directed antibiotics" has been accepted. Dr. Kevin Garey, Professor and Chair, University of Houston College of Pharmacy and the Principal Investigator for microbiome aspects of our ibezapolstat clinical trial program, will present on our behalf;
- Additionally, our Executive Chairman, Robert J. DeLuccia, has been invited to present the Company's preclinical, systemic oral and IV program for treatment of other gram-positive infections caused by MRSA, VRE and DRSP in their "Pipeline Corner" featured session at ECCMID, organized by Dr. Ursula Theuretzbacher, a world-renowned microbiology expert for antibacterial drug research, discovery and development strategies and policies for clinical and public health needs. More details on these presentations will be announced prior to the meeting date.
Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Financial Results
- Cash Position:
The Company ended the year, with cash totaling $9.1 million compared to $13.0 million as of December 31, 2021. - R&D Expenses:
Research and development expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2022 were $1.4 million compared to $0.7 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021. The increase was due to an increase in Phase 2b trial related costs. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, research and development expenses were $4.8 million versus $2.0 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2021. This increase was due primarily to Phase 2b trial related costs. - G&A Expenses:
General and administrative expenses for the three months ended December 31, 2022 were $1.8 million compared to $1.9 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in professional fees. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, general and administrative expenses were $7.3 million versus $10.8 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2021. The decrease was primarily attributable to a decrease in professional fees and stock-based compensation, partially offset by an increase in insurance costs. - Net Income/Loss:
The Company reported a net loss of $3.3 million or $0.28 per diluted share for the three months ended December 31, 2022 compared to a net loss of $2.6 million or $0.26 per diluted share for the three months ended December 31, 2021, and a net loss of $12.1 million or $1.12 per share for the twelve months ended December 31, 2022, compared to a net loss of $12.7 million or $1.49 per diluted share for the twelve months ended December 31, 2021 for the reasons previously mentioned.
Conference Call
As previously announced, David P. Luci, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Robert G. Shawah, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call to discuss the results and provide a business update as follows:
About the Ibezapolstat Phase 2 Clinical Trial
The completed multicenter, open-label single-arm segment (Phase 2a) study is now followed by a double-blind, randomized, active-controlled, non-inferiority, segment (Phase 2b) at 28 US clinical trial sites which together comprise the Phase 2 clinical trial (see https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04247542). This Phase 2 clinical trial is designed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of ibezapolstat in the treatment of CDI including pharmacokinetics and microbiome changes from baseline and continue to test for anti-recurrence microbiome properties seen in the Phase 2a trial, including the treatment-related changes in alpha diversity and bacterial abundance and effects on bile acid metabolism.
The completed Phase 2a segment of this trial was an open label cohort of up to 20 subjects from study centers in the United States. In this cohort, 10 patients with diarrhea caused by C. difficile were treated with ibezapolstat 450 mg orally, twice daily for 10 days. All patients were followed for recurrence for 28± 2 days. Per protocol, after 10 patients of the projected 20 Phase 2a patients completed treatment (100% cured infection at End of Treatment), the Trial Oversight Committee assessed the safety and tolerability and made its recommendation regarding early termination of the Phase 2a study and advancement to the Ph2b segment. In the currently enrolling Phase 2b, trial segment, patients with CDI will be enrolled and randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either ibezapolstat 450 mg every 12 hours or vancomycin 125 mg orally every 6 hours, in each case, for 10 days and followed for 28 ± 2 days following the end of treatment for recurrence of CDI. The two treatments will be identical in appearance, dosing times, and number of capsules administered to maintain the blind. This Phase 2 clinical trial will also evaluate pharmacokinetics (PK) and microbiome changes and continue to test for anti-recurrence microbiome properties, including the change from baseline in alpha diversity and bacterial abundance, especially overgrowth of healthy gut microbiota Actinobacteria and Firmicute phylum species during and after therapy. In the event non-inferiority of ibezapolstat to vancomycin is demonstrated, further analysis will be conducted to test for superiority.
Phase 2a data demonstrated complete eradication of colonic C. difficile by day three of treatment with ibezapolstat as well as the observed overgrowth of healthy gut microbiota, Actinobacteria and Firmicute phyla species, during and after therapy. Very importantly, emerging data show an increased concentration of secondary bile acids during and following ibezapolstat therapy which is known to correlate with colonization resistance against C. difficile. A decrease in primary bile acids and the favorable increase in the ratio of secondary-to-primary bile acids suggest that ibezapolstat may reduce the likelihood of CDI recurrence when compared to vancomycin
About the Microbiome in Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI) and Bile Acid Metabolism
C. difficile can be a normal component of the healthy gut microbiome, but when the microbiome is thrown out of balance, the C. difficile can thrive and cause an infection. After colonization with C. difficile, the organism produces and releases the main virulence factors, the two large clostridial toxins A (TcdA) and B (TcdB). (Kachrimanidou, Microorganisms 2020, 8, 200; doi:10.3390/microorganisms8020200.) TcdA and TcdB are exotoxins that bind to human intestinal epithelial cells and are responsible for inflammation, fluid and mucous secretion, as well as damage to the intestinal mucosa.
Bile acids perform many functional roles in the GI tract, with one of the most important being maintenance of a healthy microbiome by inhibiting C. difficile growth. Primary bile acids, which are secreted by the liver into the intestines, promote germination of C. difficile spores and thereby increase the risk of recurrent CDI after successful treatment of an initial episode. On the other hand, secondary bile acids, which are produced by normal gut microbiota through metabolism of primary bile acids, do not induce C. difficile sporulation and therefore protect against recurrent disease. Since ibezapolstat treatment leads to minimal disruption of the gut microbiome, bacterial production of secondary bile acids continues which may contribute to an anti-recurrence effect.
About Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI)
According to the 2017 Update (published February 2018) of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for C. difficile Infection by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society or Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), CDI remains a significant medical problem in hospitals, in long-term care facilities and in the community. C. difficile is one of the most common causes of health care- associated infections in U.S. hospitals (Lessa, et al, 2015, New England Journal of Medicine). Recent estimates suggest C. difficile approaches 500,000 infections annually in the U.S. and is associated with approximately 20,000 deaths annually. (Guh, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine). Based on internal estimates, the recurrence rate of two of the three antibiotics currently used to treat CDI is between 20% and 40% among approximately 150,000 patients treated. We believe the annual incidence of CDI in the U.S. approaches 600,000 infections and a mortality rate of approximately 9.3%.
About Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Acurx Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new antibiotics for difficult to treat infections. The Company's approach is to develop antibiotic candidates that target the DNA polymerase IIIC enzyme and its R&D pipeline includes early-stage antibiotic product candidates that target Gram-positive bacteria, including Clostridioides difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin resistant Enterococcus (VRE) and drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (DRSP). To learn more about Acurx Pharmaceuticals and its product pipeline please visit www.acurxpharma.com.
Any statements in this press release about our future expectations, plans and prospects, including statements regarding our strategy, future operations, prospects, plans and objectives, and other statements containing the words "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," and similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: whether ibezapolstat will benefit from the QIDP designation; whether ibezapolstat will advance through the clinical trial process on a timely basis; whether the results of the clinical trials of ibezapolstat will warrant the submission of applications for marketing approval, and if so, whether ibezapolstat will receive approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration or equivalent foreign regulatory agencies where approval is sought; whether, if ibezapolstat obtains approval, it will be successfully distributed and marketed; and other factors. In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press release represent our views as of March 16, 2023. We anticipate that subsequent events and developments will cause our views to change. However, while we may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so.
Forward-Looking Statements
Any statements in this press release about our future expectations, plans and prospects, including statements regarding our strategy, future operations, prospects, plans and objectives, and other statements containing the words "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," and similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: whether ibezapolstat will benefit from the QIDP designation; whether ibezapolstat will advance through the clinical trial process on a timely basis; whether the results of the clinical trials of ibezapolstat will warrant the submission of applications for marketing approval, and if so, whether ibezapolstat will receive approval from the FDA or equivalent foreign regulatory agencies where approval is sought; whether, if ibezapolstat obtains approval, it will be successfully distributed and marketed; and other risks and uncertainties described in the Company's annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, and in the Company's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and Acurx disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements, except as may be required by law.
Investor Contact:
Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
David P. Luci, President & Chief Executive Officer
Tel: 917-533-1469
Email: davidluci@acurxpharma.com
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Biden signs bill to protect Supreme Court justices into law
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed a bill Thursday that will give around-the-clock security protection to the families of Supreme Court justices.
The new law, which passed the House this week and the Senate last month, comes eight days after a man carrying a gun, knife and zip ties was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house after threatening to kill the justice.
The bill calling for the expansion of security protections was approved unanimously by the Senate and passed shortly after the leak of a draft court opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade and sharply curtail abortion rights in roughly half the states.
Supporters of the legislation said threats to the justices have increased since then, with protesters sometimes gathering outside their homes. Justices were provided 24-hour protection by the U.S. Marshals. The new law expands that protection to their families.
The bill was initially delayed in the House as Democrats sought to broaden the measure to include protection for families of court employees. Republicans ramped up pressure to pass the proposal after the arrest of Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, at Kavanaugh’s house. Roske was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday, charged with a single count of attempting to murder a Justice of the United States. Prosecutors say he traveled from California to the justice’s home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with the intent of killing Kavanaugh.
The House passed the bill Tuesday, 396-27. Democrats said they would pursue the protections for families of court employees separately.
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These days, around 57 million Americans work in the “gig economy.” In addition, almost 5 million work for tips and as drivers, and nearly 15 million are paid mostly through commissions or bonuses.
While there have always been folks whose pay depended on the projects they could hustle or the hours they worked, the pandemic caused the gig economy to boom. And lots of folks, from contract workers and freelancers to food deliverers and landscapers, found that they liked the flexibility and autonomy that “gigging” provides.
But three studies in the Journal of Applied Psychology — one of waiters, one of “by the piece” online workers, and one of folks in finance, marketing and sales — show that there’s a price to pay for picking your own hours, being your own boss, and/or never being sure what your income is going to be. Your health can suffer.
Regardless of how much money a gig worker earns, having income uncertainty causes chronic stress that triggers headaches, stomach aches, backaches, eye strain and insomnia. That stress also is associated with less time spent exercising, eating less healthy foods and having unhealthy lifestyle habits.
If you’re a gig worker you need to make a commitment to your health by scheduling in daily time for exercise, adopting stress-reducing techniques like meditation, eating a plant-based diet, free of highly processed foods, and practicing good sleep habits (go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day). If you’re your own boss, set up rules for work and play — and enforce ’em.
Health pioneer Michael Roizen, M.D., is chief wellness officer emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic and author of four No. 1 New York Times bestsellers. His next book is “The Great Age Reboot: Cracking the Longevity Code for a Younger Tomorrow.” Do you have a topic Dr. Mike should cover in a future column? If so, please email questions@GreatAgeReboot.com.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — A person with knowledge of the hiring tells The Associated Press that Sean Payton is bringing back ex-Broncos head coach Vance Joseph to Denver to serve as his defensive coordinator.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the hiring hadn’t been announced by the team.
Two other former NFL head coaches — Rex Ryan and Matt Patricia — also interviewed for the job in recent days.
Joseph coached the Broncos from 2017-18, compiling an 11-21 record before being replaced by Vic Fangio. He spent the past four seasons as the Arizona Cardinals defensive coordinator.
Joseph also interviewed for Philadelphia’s defensive coordinator vacancy this week after Jonathan Gannon left to serve as the Cardinals head coach following the Super Bowl.
Payton was hired last month after spending a year in the Fox broadcast studio following his departure from the New Orleans Saints. He replaced Nathaniel Hackett, only the fifth head coach in NFL history not to make it through his first season.
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Georgia’s dogged and focused Kemp overcomes Trump and Abrams
By JEFF AMY
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican Brian Kemp is arguing that his no-drama conservative approach is the way forward for the GOP as he celebrates his reelection as governor. Kemp overcame attacks by President Donald Trump, demolished a primary challenge from a former U.S. senator and again vanquished Democrat Stacey Abrams. The performance came even as Kemp was often underestimated. But he avoided attacking Trump and used his office to bolster his standings, signing conservative legislation while spending heavily. she was unable to overcome the advantages Kemp built up. Kemp’s favorability ratings consistently topped those of Abrams in polls, reflecting years of Republican attacks on Abrams.
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GRANDVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — A roller rink in Grandville, Michigan, is facing backlash after it hosted a homecoming dance that some parents are describing as racist.
“We’ll be hosting a multi-school dance party complete with DJ & sound system, laser light show & photo opportunities, help us spread the word!” the Facebook event from Tarry Hall Roller Skating Rink said, according to screenshots sent to WOOD.
“This exclusive event is welcoming all current high school students with a valid student ID from the following schools,” it said, followed by a list of 11 area high schools.
People on social media pointed out schools invited to the Saturday event are all predominantly white, while more diverse schools were not included on the list.
“It’s very clear what schools were invited and it seems like it was mainly directed toward race,” said Abby Cuevas, who has two students at Wyoming Public Schools and a recent Wyoming High School graduate. “I am not one to pull the race card, but … it couldn’t have been more clear.”
In a Facebook post after the event, Tarry Hall Roller Skating Rink said the amount of schools listed were limited due to capacity restrictions. It said the schools were selected based on past support, not demographics.
“Due to capacity restrictions, inviting every surrounding school is simply not possible,” the roller rink said. “We invited the local schools who have supported our rink through booking events and school parties since we saved Tarry Hall Roller Rink in January of 2021.
“We are a privately owned business who put on a private event for our own high school kids, their friends, and the area schools who have continued to support our rink through these challenging times. School demographics were not entered into the equation on which schools to invite.”
But the superintendent of a high school just four miles down the road, Wyoming Public Schools, called the roller rink out for not inviting his school.
In a statement, Superintendent Craig Hoekstra said his district “has a long history of supporting and spending valuable resources at Tarry Hall Roller Rink.”
“We have hosted school skating parties and Team 21 events at the facility for many years. When our scholars asked, in advance, to participate in the Tarry Hall Roller Rink Homecoming event, they were denied,” Hoekstra wrote in the statement. “I have reached out to Tarry Hall Roller Rink and am awaiting a return call to better understand why our community was not included in this event but has been accepted in the past when we have hosted private events. Their unwillingness to provide clarity and engage in a conversation is highly disappointing and the optics of the situation are divisive versus bringing youth from different areas across the community together.”
Hoekstra pointed out other diverse local high schools that were not included: “East Kentwood, Godfrey-Lee, Godwin Heights, Kelloggsville, and Grand Rapids Public Schools.”
“The schools invited lack diversity and some are located further from Tarry Hall Roller Rink than the schools listed above,” he wrote.
The student population of Wyoming High School is about 28% white and 72% non-white, according to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics. The invited schools averaged 85% white and 15% non-white:
- Allendale High School: 82% white, 18% non-white
- Byron Center High School: 82% white, 18% non-white
- Grandville Calvin Christian High School: 95% white, 5% non-white
- Grandville High School: 73% white, 27% non-white
- Hudsonville Freshman Building and Hudsonville High School: 88% white, 12% non-white
- Jenison High School: 82% white, 18% non-white
- South Christian High School: 95% white, 5% non-white
- Tri-Unity Christian School: 87% white, 13% non-white
- Unity Christian High School: 95% white, 5% non-white
- Wayland High School: 87% white, 13% non-white
- Zeeland East High School and Zeeland West High School: 88% white, 12% non-white
Parents of students at Wyoming Public Schools expressed concerns about the event.
“My junior, she’s like, ‘This sounds like a segregated event to me. What year are we living in?'” Abby Cuevas said.
Erin Albanese’s daughter is a student at Wyoming High School. She went to the event at the rink after Wyoming’s homecoming dance, which also took place on Saturday, as the guest of another student.
As she was looking up more information on the list, she said she also “noticed how these were all predominantly-white schools.”
“It was very concerning to me. I value diversity and inclusion very much,” Albanese said. “It’s why I send my kids to a diverse school district. … It was about capacity, which I don’t really understand what the issue there would be because you can just sell a certain number of tickets and then cap it.”
Megan Vitale, who has two children at Wyoming Public Schools, said she understands why people are concerned, but wants more information from the roller rink explaining its side of the story.
“I can see where they would consider it a racist thing but also I don’t think we have enough information,” she said. “I also see how it could be taken as offensive.”
She echoed Albanese’s suggestion, saying the roller rink could have had a first come, first serve policy and limited the amount of available tickets.
Tarry Hall has been under new ownership since around January 2021. In its Facebook post, it thanked those who attended the event.
“We’re thankful to our community for their ongoing support of our family-owned and operated business so we can continue to host these private events as well as our normal public skating sessions,” it said. “These first two years of purchasing and owning a recreation business in a post-pandemic world was a huge gamble for us. We are very grateful to everyone who comes to skate, dance, and support us in our passion to provide a fun and safe environment for both our own kids, families, and yours, hopefully for years to come!”
Its owners did not respond to requests for an interview.
WOOD investigator Susan Samples contributed to this report.
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The Hebrew University Portfolio Company addresses modern medicine's number one problem: extending lifespan without disease and has the potential to improve quality of life for the world's rapidly growing aging population.
JERUSALEM, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vitalunga, the biotech startup based on the research led by Professor Einav Gross and Professor Shmuel Ben-Sasson of The Hebrew University's Faculty of Medicine, has developed a novel oral drug that aims to treat and prevent aging-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. While many successes have been made to extend lifespan in aging adults, disease-free aging has remained a challenge. The novel drug-candidate has the potential to remarkably improve the quality of life of aging adults, Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University announced today. Vitalunga is currently raising funds in order to begin pre-clinical studies.
Aging-related diseases have a common pathogenic mechanism that results in the deterioration of cells in otherwise healthy tissues. Professor Gross and Professor Ben-Sasson's creative drug-design platform enabled them to discover a family of novel compounds that facilitate potent autophagy (a fundamental cell survival mechanism that allows cells to adapt to metabolic stress) and mitophagy (a mitochondrial quality control mechanism that prevents detrimental effects and reinstates cellular homeostasis in response to stress) in human cells. Moreover, it promotes lifespan and healthspan in the model organism C. elegans. Their manuscript, which describes in detail the biological features of the first generation of these compounds, was just published online in "Autophagy", a leading journal in the field. The discovery of these compounds led Vitalunga to the development of further more advanced novel agents, targeting prevention of aging-associated deterioration. Vitalunga's proprietary platform ensures the perpetual rejuvenation of cells in diseased tissues, enabling, for the first time, a drug-responsive, unified target for the prevention and treatment of multiple aging-related diseases.
According to the UN's World Population Aging report, the global population of aging adults in 2019 was 703 million and is expected to surpass 1.5 billion by 2050. At a time when countries like Japan are struggling with population record highs of elderly individuals and the subsequent burdening of healthcare systems, Vitalunga's platform is a promising solution that will both minimize these burdens, while providing a better, healthier quality of life for its users.
"Our observations in-lab of the unique properties of these molecules are extremely exciting," remarked Professor Muli Ben-Sasson. "A success of the Vitalunga drug-candidate in the clinic will mean an entry to a universe of healthy aging."
"Professor Ben-Sasson and Professor Gross's findings have a high significance for the global aging population," said Dr. Itzik Goldwaser, CEO of Yissum. "This milestone will bring the startup one step closer to minimizing the unbearable burden that aging-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's has on individuals, their families and the health care system as a whole. Yissum is proud of this project and looks forward to Vitalunga's inevitable growth."
About Yissum:
Yissum is the technology transfer company of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Founded in 1964, it serves as a bridge between cutting-edge academic research and a global community of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry. Yissum's mission is to benefit society by converting extraordinary innovations and transformational technologies into commercial solutions that address our most urgent global challenges. Yissum has registered over 11,000 patents globally; licensed over 1,140 technologies and has spun out more than 200 companies. Yissum's business partners span the globe and include companies such as Boston Scientific, ICL, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis and many more. For further information please visit www.yissum.co.il
Contact: Prof. Muli Ben-Sasson
+972-54-23-25-254
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans had been told that their former quarterback Deshaun Watson was sexually assaulting and harassing women during massage sessions, but instead of trying to stop him, the team provided him with resources to enable his actions and “turned a blind eye” to his behavior, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
The lawsuit against the team was filed in Houston by one of the 24 women who had previously sued Watson over allegations of sexual misconduct when he played for the Texans. Last week, the women’s attorney, Tony Buzbee, announced 20 of the 24 lawsuits have been settled.
Watson, who was later traded to the Cleveland Browns, has denied any wrongdoing and vowed to clear his name. Watson is facing discipline from the NFL over the allegations. He is set to have a hearing this week with NFL disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson, who will decide if the 26-year-old violated the league’s personal conduct policy. Robinson is expected to rule before the Browns open training camp late next month.
In their lawsuits, the women accused Watson of exposing himself, touching them with his penis or kissing them against their will during massage appointments. One woman alleged Watson forced her to perform oral sex.
The lawsuit against the Texans accuses the team and some of its employees of having been told or being aware of Watson’s troubling behavior. Joni Honn, the owner of a massage company that was contracted with the Texans, told police investigators that her therapists were aware of Watson’s “known tendency to push boundaries during massage sessions,” according to the lawsuit.
Honn told the Texans, including the team’s head trainer, that Watson was reaching out to random women on Instagram for massages in early 2020, according to the lawsuit.
Magen Weisheit, another massage therapist who worked with the Texans, told Houston police investigators she and others were well aware of Watson’s conduct during massage sessions. When Weisheit learned of the allegations made against Watson by a woman who filed the first lawsuit against him, she wrote in a text to the woman’s former co-worker that she could reach out to the team’s player personnel person but “they don’t do much about the situation though,” according to the lawsuit.
“Despite being actually aware of what can only be described as troubling behavior, the Houston Texans turned a blind eye. Worse, the Houston Texans organization enabled Watson’s egregious behavior. The Texans also protected and shielded Watson — for Watson’s own protection and the protection of the organization itself,” according to the lawsuit.
The woman’s lawsuit alleges the Texans provided Watson with various resources, including rooms at a Houston hotel, massage tables and a non-disclosure agreement the women were told to sign, that allowed the quarterback “to further his misconduct with women by turning the massage sessions into something sexual.”
The Texans are also accused of having their head of security remove from the internet an Instagram video from November 2020 in which a woman had detailed alleged misconduct by Watson during massage sessions with her.
In a statement, the Houston Texans did not specifically address the various allegations made against the team.
“We are aware of the lawsuit filed against us today. Since March 2021, we have fully supported and complied with law enforcement and the various investigations. We will continue to take the necessary steps to address the allegations against our organization,” the Texans said.
Buzbee said the lawsuit against the Texans was the first of many he plans to file against the team.
“Suffice it to say, the overwhelming evidence collected indicating that the Houston Texans enabled Watson’s behavior is incredibly damning. We believe the Texans knew or most certainly should have known of Watson’s conduct,” Buzbee said in a statement.
The NFL declined to comment on the lawsuit against the Texans.
“I never assaulted anyone,” Watson said June 14 in his first public comments since being introduced by the Browns in March. “I never harassed anyone or I never disrespected anyone. I never forced anyone to do anything.”
In March, two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict him on criminal complaints stemming from the allegations.
Houston police Detective Kamesha Baker, the lead investigator in the criminal investigation, told Buzbee in a deposition that she believed Watson had committed crimes in the 10 criminal complaints that had been filed against the quarterback. Baker also said that Watson’s conduct during the massage sessions was escalating in such a way she believed that he would commit even more serious crimes, according to the lawsuit.
After the grand juries declined to indict, several teams pursued Watson, who agreed to be traded to the Browns. Cleveland signed the three-time Pro Bowler to a five-year, $230 million contract in March.
The four lawsuits still pending against Watson could still go to trial, but that wouldn’t happen until 2023 at the earliest.
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AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi in Tampa, Florida, and AP Sports Writer Kristie Rieken in Houston contributed to this report.
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A winter storm dumped massive amounts of precipitation across southern California this weekend, including more than 6.5 feet of snow to Mountain High and more than 5 inches of rain to Cucamonga Canyon.
The hefty snowfall totals included 5 feet to Snow Valley, 57 inches to Bear Mountain Snow Summit, 50 to 55 inches to Wrightwood Acorn Canyon, 45 inches to Green Valley Lake, 38 inches to Mount Baldy, and 36 inches to Lake Arrowhead, according to the National Weather Service in San Diego.
In addition, heavy rainfall brought several inches of rain to the area, including more than 4 inches in Holy Jim Canyon, Lower Silverado Canyon and Henshaw Dam; more than three inches in La Jolla Amago, Costa Mesa, Mount Woodson and Carlsbad Airport; and more than two inches to John Wayne Airport, Escondido, San Bernardino and Temecula, according to the service's 5-day rainfall reports.
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The precipitation came as a rare blizzard warning was in effect for parts of southern California and the Los Angeles region, spawning unfamiliar wintry conditions at higher elevations.
The same storm system is moving east and is expected to produce a significant damaging wind event across the central US on Sunday. More than 20 million people are under the threat of severe storms Sunday from western Texas to Illinois, including Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City, Fort Worth, and St. Louis.
Meanwhile, a new winter storm is set to bring more rain and snow to the western US, starting with the Pacific Northwest on Sunday.
More than a foot of snow is possible with the system across the Sierras and Cascades. A second system will be right on the first's heels, pushing inland across the Pacific Northwest tonight bringing even more snow.
An additional 1 to 2 feet of snow is possible across the Cascades, Sierras, and Rockies through Tuesday. Isolated areas of the Sierras could see up to 3 feet.
The snowstorms will create dangerous or impossible travel conditions across the western mountain ranges through the beginning of this week.
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- Experts selected EV6 for its modern, cutting-edge interior design
- Kia's first dedicated EV continues to earn accolades within months of launch
IRVINE, Calif., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Kia EV6 was named winner of a Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX award. The EV6 is Kia's first dedicated battery-electric vehicle and is the first step in a projected cadence of efficient and progressive vehicles guided by the brand's 'Plan S' strategy.
"We are honored to receive this award for the EV6, which represents an important step toward Kia's transformative 'Plan S' global electrification strategy," said Steven Center, COO and EVP, Kia America. "The EV6's modern, bold design elements and interior solutions thoughtfully integrated with intuitive technology reinforce Kia's future-forward vision for electric vehicles."
To determine the winners, the team at Wards evaluates new or heavily redesigned vehicle interiors and user-experience technology. Scoring is based on a variety of metrics including design and aesthetics, comfort, materials, fit-and-finish, connectivity and infotainment, displays and controls, advanced driver assist systems and value.
"The Kia EV6 is a solid overall value, with a stylish and sporty interior and highly innovative morphing controls that save space and reduce clutter," said Drew Winter, WardsAuto editor and judge. "That, plus its very spacious and comfortable cabin and top-notch materials, put the EV6 firmly on our 2022 Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX list."
The EV6 continues to rise in popularity. To date, more than 10,000 EV6 models have been sold throughout the U.S., contributing to the 132-percent growth in sales of Kia's electrified vehicles over the previous May record set in 2021; and the 5-percent increase over the all-time monthly sales record for the vehicle category set in March of 2022.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrified vehicles sold through a network of nearly 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America. For media information, including photography, visit www.kiamedia.com. To receive custom email notifications for press releases the moment they are published, subscribe at www.kiamedia.com/us/en/newsalert.
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Terry Gans will be appearing at a local author book fair on Oct. 22.
When term limits prompted former Longboat Key Commissioner and Mayor Terry Gans to find another way to spend his time in 2018, he told the Longboat Observer he wasn’t sure what he’d do next, but he knew what he wasn’t going to do.
“Things, they come organically. It’ll be fine. I’m not going to haunt commission meetings. I’m not going to go on the Planning and Zoning Board,” he said.
By January 2019, Gans, 76, had already found a new haunt far from Longboat Key: The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He called it a confluence that his term in public office was up at nearly the same time the center opened.
The public can view a Bob Dylan exhibit at the center, but only qualified researchers are permitted to visit the archives to look at draft lyrics and listen to recordings. Gans, one of those qualified researchers, receieved approval and began traveling back and forth to Tulsa to research the iconic musician’s album, “Infidels.”
His research led to a book called “Surviving in a Ruthless World: Bob Dylan’s Voyage to Infidels.” He and his book are being featured at a book fair sponsored by Bookstore1 in Sarasota on Saturday.
“The research started when the album came out without any intent of writing a book,” Gans said. “It was a departure from what had come before, both lyrically, musically and theme-wise.”
When the album was released in 1983, a series of leaked outtakes further piqued Gans interest in “Infidels.”
“I thought this would be a good subject because I’ve always been interested about what choices were made and how it evolved,” he said. “I didn’t have any intent of writing a book, but as I got more and more information, I felt there was more and more of a story to tell.”
While the book details each track on the album, it also delves into the inspiration of the whole. Gans didn’t speak to the man himself while writing, but he did track down and interview the man who built the Water Pearl, Dylan’s legendary schooner.
“I think the development of that album was partially inspired by the time he spent floating on the boat in the Caribbean, “Gans said, “Not totally, but there was some influence there.”
Which led Gans to subtitle the book “Bob Dylan’s Voyage to Infidels.” “Surviving in a Ruthless World” was rumored to be the working title of the album.
During his research, Gans found a piece of paper from the St. Regis Hotel in New York to back up that tidbit. Dylan had sketched out what the back cover of the album should look like and hand wrote, “Surviving in a Ruthless World.”
A couple other tidbits Gans research dug up—the first song on the album, “Jokerman,” has 14 iterations, and Dylan has terrible handwriting. Deciphering it was one of Gans’ most difficult tasks.
“That was always a wonderful moment when you figured out exactly what it said,” Gans said. “But I’d say the big thing I got out of the time in the archives is the ceaseless dedication to craft this guy has.”
Gans book is available locally at Bookstore1 or online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Walmart.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Yatsen Holding Limited (NYSE: YSG).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities who purchased Yatsen Holding Limited American Depository Shares ("ADS") between November 19, 2020 and March 10, 2022 or acquired Yatsen ADS pursuant or traceable to documents issued in connection with Yatsen's November 2020 initial public stock offering.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until November 22, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Yatsen Holding Limited issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: the registration statement and prospectus used to effectuate the Company's initial public offering ("IPO"), Yatsen and the other named defendants misled investors into believing that Yatsen's most significant brands, Perfect Diary and Little Ondine, were thriving, thereby driving Yatsen's "healthy" top-line growth at the time of its IPO and quarter after quarter thereafter. In truth, however, cosmetic and skincare sales of Perfect Diary and Little Ondine products were declining in the period leading up to (and including at the time of) the IPO and throughout 2021. Moreover, as the truth about Yatsen's business reached the market, the value of the Company's shares declined dramatically, causing Yatsen investors to suffer significant damages.
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NBA Teams with most Conference Finals appearances originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington
The Conference Finals stage is set and the NBA playoff field is narrowed down to four.
We still have to wait a few weeks to find out who advances between the Celtics-Heat and Mavericks-Warriors, but just making the Conference Finals is an accomplishment.
The Celtics lead the pack with 21 conference appearances in franchise history, followed by Miami and Golden State who are tied with nine, with Dallas rounding out the quartet with five appearances.
Meanwhile, the New Orleans Pelicans and the Charlotte Hornets are the lone franchises still searching for their inaugural Conference Finals appearances.
Where do these measure against the top of the league? We’ve got the top-five franchises with the most Conference Finals.
1. Los Angeles Lakers (23 appearances)
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Recent history aside, the Lakers are still king of the dance. Their 23 Conference Final appearances – the most of any team from either conference -- came behind sustained dominance for over half a century.
The Lakers’ first major dry spell came in the 1990s when they missed the Conference Finals for six straight years. After a period of soul searching, they found their answer in drafting a high schooler by the name of Kobe Bryant in 1996. With Bryant at the helm, the Lakers made eight of the next 14 Western Conference Finals, winning five NBA Championships.
The end of Bryant’s career and eventual retirement brought about the slow decline of the franchise, as they struggled to keep up with up-and-coming Western Conference rivals like the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors. From 2010 to 2019, the Lakers only appeared in the playoffs three times, never making it past the second round. The Lakers reminded the world of their place on the NBA stage in the 2020 playoff bubble when LeBron James and Anthony Davis led them to their 17th NBA Championship over the Miami Heat.
2. Boston Celtics (21 appearances)
Celtics-Lakers is among the most elite rivalries in sports, joining the likes of Yankees-Red Sox and North Carolina-Duke. It goes beyond Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. It’s about banners and trophies.
In addition to having 17 NBA champions of their own, Boston leads Los Angeles in league MVPs (10 vs. 8), games won (3,513 vs. 3,460) and total head-to-head matchups (206-164). One area they trail? Conference Finals.
The Celtics have made significant ground in the past decade, advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals four of the past six seasons. With Brad Stevens and Ime Udoka in tandem at the front office, and the core of Jayson Tatum, Marcus Smart and Jaylen Brown still relatively young in their careers, there’s no reason to believe they won’t surpass the Lakers in the near future.
If they beat the Miami Heat in the upcoming series, they just might have a chance to tip the scales in their favor with an 18th NBA title.
3. San Antonio Spurs (14 appearances)
While the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers are the bluest of the blue bloods, San Antonio is no longer the newcomer on the block. Throughout the 90s the Spurs quietly built a winning culture that took off with the addition of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili.
The Spurs’ Big Three, and eventual Big Four with Kawhi Leonard, led San Antonio to 22-straight playoff appearances and five NBA titles. Within that two-decade stretch, the Spurs became regulars in the Western Conference Finals with 10 appearances.
T-4. Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons (11 appearances)
Unlike the Lakers-Celtics rivalry, which is etched in tradition, the Bulls-Pistons is all about the personalities. Isiah Thomas and the Bad Boys of Detroit took the NBA by storm in the late 1980s, winning back-to-back titles and seemed poised to stake their claim on the Eastern Conference.
But along came Michael Jordan, and the Pistons were suddenly a thing of the past, playoff contenders that struggled to get past the first round, while the Chicago Bulls built an empire on six championships.
It’s been over a decade since either team has made the Eastern Conference Finals.
T-5. Seattle SuperSonics/Oklahoma City Thunder and Phoenix Suns (10 appearances)
It might come as a surprise to see both these teams so high on the list, considering they combined for a grand total of one NBA Championship, but there’s no doubt they’ve had stretches of dominance in the Western Conference.
In 41 seasons in Seattle, the Sonics made the Conference Finals six times, winning the franchise’s lone NBA title in 1979. One bitter relocation and rebranding later, they settled in Oklahoma City, giving 30-year-old Sam Presti the keys to build a winning culture. Presti did just that and more, drafting three-straight NBA MVPs and helping the Thunder reach the Western Conference Finals four times from 2011 to 2016.
The Suns, on the other hand, are only recently returning to relevance after a decade-long playoff dry spell. Their original hey day came in the 1990s and early 2000s with Shawn Marion, Kevin Johnson and Steve Nash all giving Arizona plenty to celebrate. Despite 10 Conference Finals appearances, the Suns’ trophy case has one big vacancy – the Larry O’Brien Trophy.
After their second-round loss to the Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix is left to wait another year.
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NEW YORK, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SOCOTEC Consulting, Inc., part of SOCOTEC USA, a leading provider of TIC (Testing, Inspection, and Certification), consulting, and advisory services with a strategic focus on building and infrastructure sectors, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Spinnaker Group, a South Florida-based energy efficiency and sustainability consulting firm and respected leader in the green-building movement. Established in 2003, Spinnaker Group has built a reputation for delivering high-quality sustainable building projects, with more than 150 LEED Certified projects, over 700 million sf. of commissioned building space, and more than $10 billion in project values worldwide.
The acquisition of Spinnaker Group strengthens SOCOTEC USA's energy and sustainability consulting services, adding to its existing expertise in the field and further promoting its commitment to sustainable development. In addition to providing sustainability consulting services, Spinnaker Group's diverse team of design and construction professionals offer energy modeling, fundamental and enhanced building commissioning, neighborhood planning, operations and maintenance consulting, indoor air quality testing, and life-cycle analyses for all types of building projects.
"Acquiring The Spinnaker Group is important for SOCOTEC USA, and we are excited to welcome their talented team of experts to our organization," said Marc Weissbach, CEO of SOCOTEC USA. "The addition of Spinnaker Group's expertise and experience to our team will enable us to rapidly deploy sustainability consulting services in the growing South Florida marketplace."
"Our team is thrilled to join SOCOTEC USA," said Jonathan Burgess, President of Spinnaker Group. "At Spinnaker Group, we are passionate about transforming lives by fostering sustainable, resilient, and healthy spaces. Joining forces with SOCOTEC USA will enable us to reach a wider audience and have a greater impact on the sustainability of buildings and communities."
"The addition of Spinnaker unites industry leaders and introduces SOCOTEC into the South Florida marketplace for energy, sustainability, commissioning, and retro-commissioning services we are already well known for in other geographies. We are steadfast in our commitment to help our clients reduce the carbon footprint of their built assets" added Jeremy Schinasi, Principal of SOCOTEC USA and Practice Leader, responsible for Strategic Partnerships and Integration.
"SOCOTEC Group is a leading international group (26 countries) and an independent trusted third party for the built assets. With Spinnaker joining our US team, we are constantly working on building the best ever value proposition to the American market on how we can make a difference for a sustainable building environment." added Hervé Montjotin, CEO of the SOCOTEC Group.
About SOCOTEC
The SOCOTEC Group, headed by Hervé Montjotin, has built its reputation as an independent, trusted partner assisting companies in the areas of quality, sustainability and safety, and the environment.
Today a leading $1.2 billion USD company that more than doubled in size in 6 years (CAGR of 15%), SOCOTEC's mission is to ensure the integrity and performance of building and infrastructure assets and people's safety. Through its inspection and measurement, assistance and consultancy, training and certification services, SOCOTEC helps to optimize the performance of companies in every sector by managing the risks inherent in their activities. Drawing on its expertise and positioning itself as a long-term partner, SOCOTEC supports its clients throughout their project's lifecycle.
As a leader in construction inspection and a major player in TIC for the construction and infrastructure sectors, the SOCOTEC Group has 200,000 clients with operations in 26 countries, 11,300 employees and over 250 external recognitions.
SOCOTEC, an industry leader in the building and infrastructure sectors, offers the combined highly technical expertise of an expansive and holistic network of experts across six service lines: (i) Building Envelope; (ii) Energy & Sustainability; (iii) Code & Planning; (iv) Project Advisory; (v) Dispute Resolution; and (vi) Specialty Engineering. In the USA, SOCOTEC employs over 400 professionals in more than 20 offices.
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How to scan a QR code with your iPhone or Android phone (no apps needed)
QR codes are those pixelated squares you see in restaurants, advertisements, stores, food packaging, business cards, airline tickets — you name it.
Your smartphone is full of surprises. There's an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.
Third-party programs take up space on your phone, and many are redundant thanks to your phone’s built-in capabilities. Tap or click here for common apps you can delete right now.
Quick Response codes, better known as QR codes, are those pixelated squares you see in restaurants, advertisements, stores, food packaging, business cards, airline tickets — you name it. Some developers would lead you to believe you need to download their app to scan them. Spoiler: Your phone can do that with built-in features.
Follow the maze
QR codes were initially created to track automotive parts, but now they’re used for much more.
How many calories are in those fries? Where can you buy the outfit you see in an ad? How many miles can this car travel on a gallon of gas? A quick QR code scan can resolve all these questions and more. Think of this tech as a smart barcode.
QR codes existed long before smartphones, and your device can scan them right out of the box. Here’s how to use this helpful feature without third-party software.
Use your phone’s native capabilities to avoid malware
Third-party scanning apps are popular, making them prime delivery systems for malware. Hackers hide dangerous code in these helpful apps, which can steal your money, hijack your personal information, or even take over your device.
RELATED: QR code app caught hiding malware – Check your phone!
How to scan a QR code with your iPhone’s Camera app
Your iPhone’s built-in Camera app can scan QR codes, and it’s as easy as taking a photo. Here’s how:
- Open the Camera app and hold your iPhone, so the QR code appears in the viewfinder.
- Your phone should recognize the QR code and give you a notification.
- Tap the notification to open the link associated with the QR code.
How to scan a QR code with your Android phone
Your Android phone's camera likely can scan QR codes without the use of a third-party app. Here's how:
- Open the Camera app and hold your Android phone so that the QR code appears in the viewfinder.
- Your phone should recognize the QR code and give you a notification.
- Tap the notification to open the link associated with the QR code.
- If you aren't notified, go to Settings and enable QR code scanning.
Use your Samsung’s Camera app
Samsung’s camera app comes with native support for QR code scanning. Here’s how:
- Open the Camera app and hold your Samsung phone so the QR code appears in the viewfinder.
- Your phone should recognize the QR code and give you a notification.
- Tap the notification to open the link associated with the QR code.
- If you aren't notified, go to Settings and enable QR code scanning.
Use Google Lens
Google Lens started as a feature in Pixel phones but soon became standard in many Android phones. The tool is part of your camera app and can do many things, from identifying a dog breed to translating text. Here’s how to use it:
- Open your Camera app and tap More > Google Lens.
- Now you’ll have a Lens icon you can use whenever you open your camera, and it can scan QR codes.
- You can also use Google Assistant to activate Google Lens. Say "OK Google," then tap Google Lens at the bottom right.
Tap or click here to get even more out of Google Lens.
Use Bixby
Samsung’s virtual assistant can help you learn more about anything with a QR code. Here’s how:
- Launch your camera app and tap Bixby Vision.
- Then tap Allow to enable permissions. Enable all pop-up permissions.
- Scan and tap Go to navigate to view the QR code content.
While convenient and entertaining, scanning a QR code can expose you to malware and scams. Tap or click here for tips on what to look out for.
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Following increasing theft of homes and real estate, breakthrough blockchain protection for towns and homeowners is finally available
SARASOTA, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Town clerks and leaders across the country are working hard to ensure their citizens and homeowners are protected against a wave of homeowner title theft.
Protecting homes from title theft: new blockchain solution available to towns and homeowners
"It is easy to get a copy of any homeowner deed. It took less than 5 minutes to get my deed, and I was never even asked for ID" said Michael Danforth, a homeowner in Norwalk, CT.
Thieves across the country are taking this easily accessed information and using it to remortgage and steal properties, along with millions of dollars, from homeowners in small towns to big cities. It is happening with primary and vacation homes, raw land and more.
Town officials and homeowners alike are frustrated. Existing solutions can alert to a problem, but they cannot stop the thefts or prevent an altered deed from being re-recorded.
TruDoss (www.trudoss.com) is on a mission to help towns and homeowners protect their real estate through patented use of blockchain technology with distributed ledgers which keeps altered deeds from ever being recorded.
Paul Hartzell, co-founder of TruDoss, noted "recent stories in Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida tell us about people who were shocked to discover they no longer owned real estate they thought was theirs. This is wrong, and we have a solution that is available to towns right now."
Hartzell went on to say "TruDoss can stop theft before it happens by using our patented blockchain technology which uses a cryptographic hash, to identify the digital content immutably, making it impossible to submit an altered document without immediate detection before recording. This is how TruDoss will stop the thieves cold."
The TruDoss architecture allows integration with all types of document and data management platforms and provides this protection at reasonable cost. The service can be purchased by an annual license with no upfront costs and include 100% text search, global security certifications and a complete administrative console allowing highly secure citizen access, while not breaking the annual town budget.
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Monday marks the start of the growing season in the Bismarck-Mandan region, and plant stores in the area are seeing business pick up.
The National Weather Service office in Bismarck marks the start of the growing season by monitoring for conditions that would warrant a frost advisory, freeze watch or freeze warning. None of those appears likely anytime soon, with high temperatures this week forecast in the 60s and 70s and overnight lows expected to drop only into the 40s.
“A lot of people are tired of winter and are ready to plant,” Plant Perfect owner Casey McCollum said, referencing the prolonged winter that was the second-snowiest in city history. He said things are “just getting started" at the north Bismarck business.
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Ben Dagley at the family owned Faulkner's Mark on The Strip in Mandan had a similar perspective on the late spring.
“It seems like people have been cooped up so long and need to get out," he said, adding that “Generally around Mother’s Day to Memorial Day is really busy.”
Mother's Day fell on Sunday.
Top vegetable sellers so far this year are tomatoes, peppers, celery, ground cherries and cabbage, according to Dagley. Popular flowers are marigolds, calibrachoa and hanging baskets.
Ample moisture
There's plenty of moisture in the ground right now for new plants. Bismarck so far this year has received 5.1 inches of precipitation, an inch above normal. Much of the moisture has accumulated since March, and drought in the region has declined over the past couple of months.
The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map, released late last week, shows most of the area out of any drought category, including all of Burleigh County and all but the very western part of Morton County. Two months ago, moderate drought covered the southern portion of Morton and the northeastern tip of Burleigh, with the rest of the two counties considered abnormally dry.
Drought statewide has diminished in that time span from 67% of North Dakota in moderate drought and 3% in severe drought, to 15% in moderate drought now and no areas in severe drought. Conditions also eased again over the week.
"Based on multiple indicators ... abnormal dryness was reduced across northern parts of North Dakota," National Drought Mitigation Center Climatologist Curtis Riganti wrote in the weekly report.
Dryness persists in much of the western third of the state, however, where moderate drought remains. Many counties in the western half of the state have some sort of outdoor burning restrictions in place, according to the state Department of Emergency Services. Burleigh County is not one, but Morton County last Thursday imposed a ban tied to the North Dakota Daily Fire Danger Rating. Outdoor burning is restricted when the rating is in the high, very high or extreme category.
The fire danger in western North Dakota on Sunday was rated low.
None of eastern North Dakota is in any drought category, after an overly wet spring that led to flooding issues. The last flood-related highway shutdown was lifted last week, when state Highway 5 west of Joliette in Pembina County reopened after Red River floodwaters receded.
The U.S. Drought Monitor is a partnership of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Drought Mitigation Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Augmented aid
The U.S. Department of Agriculture late last week announced that it has enhanced disaster recovery programs including the Livestock Indemnity Program and the Livestock Forage Disaster Program, in response to prolonged drought followed by the harsh winter.
Enhancements include an extended June 2, 2023, deadline to submit notices of loss and applications for payment for 2022 losses.
"Cognizant of the fact that many of our producers are managing open range operations, unprecedented amounts of snow, and in some cases are just now realizing all their losses, we are extending the deadline to apply for these critical programs to allow these producers the time they need to manage their recovery,” said Marcy Svenningsen, state executive director for USDA's Farm Service Agency.
She added that "Expenses eligible for assistance can include above-normal feed purchases, above-normal freight, even snow removal in some cases.”
More information is at www.farmers.gov/recover.
Crop report
The most recent weekly crop report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service showed that 10% of the state's staple spring wheat crop was planted, well behind the average pace of 27% due to the late spring. Durum wheat was 6% seeded, compared with the average of 16%.
Planting of corn, canola, oats, barley, dry peas, flaxseed and sugar beets was underway in the state, but all of those crops are well behind the average pace. For example, only 1% of the sugar beet crop was in the ground at the time of the report, when normally nearly half of it would be seeded.
The wet spring has boosted soil moisture supplies, however -- topsoil moisture statewide was rated 81% adequate to surplus, and subsoil moisture supplies were 73% in those categories.
Pasture and range conditions were rated 87% fair to good. Stock water supplies were 90% adequate to surplus.
An updated report was scheduled to be released Monday afternoon. Reports can be found at bit.ly/41tbVcj.
Trees and shrubs
State Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is encouraging homeowners to research products before buying and planting nursery stock.
Goehring said his office receives numerous complaints every year from both consumers and dealers about non-hardy stock being sold in the state. North Dakota is in plant hardiness zones 3 and 4. State law requires that all trees and shrubs designated by the agriculture commissioner as non-hardy must be labeled “non-hardy in North Dakota.”
“With warmer weather finally approaching, homeowners may be anxious to add trees and shrubs to their landscapes,” Goehring said. “Many varieties of trees and shrubs adapt well to North Dakota’s climate and soils, but before you plant, you may want to talk with a trusted nursery dealer, horticulturist or local extension agent."
A detailed listing of non-hardy trees and shrubs and a list of all licensed nurseries is available at https://www.ndda.nd.gov/nursery-program. A plant hardiness zone map is available at http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/.
Weather service warnings
The National Weather Service criteria for cold weather watches and warnings:
A frost advisory is issued when the temperature is expected to be 33-36 degrees over a wide area during the following 24 hours. Some injury to sensitive vegetation is expected under those conditions.
A freeze watch is issued when there is the potential for temps to be 32 degrees or colder for longer than an hour over a wide area in the following 12-48 hours.
A freeze warning is issued when the temp is expected to be 32 degrees or colder for longer than an hour over a wide area in the following 24 hours. Significant damage to vegetation is possible under those conditions.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP)Caleb Spencer scored 15 points, Clifford Omoruyi had 14 points and nine rebounds and Rutgers defeated Wake Forest 81-57 on Saturday.
Caleb McConnell added 13 points, Paul Mulcahy had 10 points and seven assists and Aundre Hyatt also scored 10 points for the Scarlet Knights (7-4), who shot a season-high 58%. Their nationally-ranked top-five scoring defense held Wake Forest (8-4) to its lowest total of the season.
Damari Monsanto hit 6 of 12 3-point attempts and led the Demon Deacons with a season-high 22 points. Cameron Hildreth added 13 points and Tyree Appleby, the ACC scoring leader at 18.7 coming in, had 10.
Rutgers lost it previous two games to Ohio State and Seton Hall by a combined three points but took control early and never trailed in this one, leading by 10 at halftime and maintaining a double-digit lead throughout the second half. They forced a season-high 22 turnovers – 14 off steals – that turned into 26 points and outscored the Deacons in the paint 44-16.
Rutgers pushed a 10-point halftime lead out to 20 when it opened the second half on a 12-2 run, including consecutive 3-pointers by Spencer. Three-pointers by Hildreth, Monsanto and Daivien Williamson helped cut Wake Forest’s deficit to 10. The Scarlet Knights put the game away with an 11-0 run that left them up by 23 with 6:21 remaining.
In the first half, Rutgers used a 17-6 run with seven points from Omoruyi to take a 17-point lead before Appleby scored four straight points and Andrew Carr added a 3-pointer to get Wake Forest back within 44-33 at halftime.
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TEMPERATURES STAY ABOVE. TODAY, OUR NEWS 8 STORM TEAM FORECAST STARTS OUT SUNNY AND A BIT CHILLY. WE HAVE SOME TWENTIES OUT THERE EVEN WITH A LIGHT BREEZE. A COUPLE OF WIND CHILLS ARE IN THE TEENS. SO WATCH OUT FOR THAT THIS MORNING. BUT WINDS WILL BE OVERALL LIGHTER THIS AFTERNOON AND TEMPERATURES WILL BE WARMER. 48 FOR OUR HIGH FEW HIGH CLOUDS THIS EVENING MOSTLY CLEAR AND A LIGHT BREEZE 38. TONIGHT WE DROP TO ABOUT THE FREEZING MARK. WE’LL SEE INCREASING THICKENING CLOUDS. I THINK TOMORROW THERE’LL BE SOME SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS AROUND THE AFTERNOON. BUT THEN WE DRY BY EVENING. TOMORROW’S HIGHS 42 TO 46, TAKING A LIVE LOOK IN YORK. IT’S CLEAR YOU CAN SEE A STRIP OF LIGHT ON THE HORIZON THERE THIS MORNING. CURRENT TEMPERATURE IS 27, 28 IN LANCASTER, 30 IN HARRISBURG, BUT WITH A BREEZE STILL UP TO ABOUT 15 MILES PER HOUR IN HARRISBURG, FEELS LIKE THE UPPER TEENS CHECKING OUT SUPER DOPPLER 8 NOT MUCH TO SEE. WE ARE DRY AND CLEAR. THERE’S A STORM SYSTEM OFF TO OUR NORTH EAST. ANOTHER ONE COMING IN FROM THE WEST. AND THIS IS WHERE WE WILL GET THOSE FEW SHOWERS FROM TOMORROW. SO AGAIN, NOT BIG CHANCE OF RAIN TOMORROW, JUST A LITTLE BIT DAMP. SOME SHOWERS IN THE MORNING AND IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON. TAKING A LOOK AT THE PREDICTOR AFTER SUNNY SKIES TODAY. CLOUDS THICKEN UP TONIGHT. TOMORROW MORNING, THERE COULD BE A SHOWERS AROUND AND THE PREDICTOR REALLY DOESN’T SHOW TOO MUCH IN THE AFTERNOON. BUT I STILL THERE COULD BE SOME LIGHT SHOWERS THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. WE SEE A LITTLE BIT OF CLEARING TOMORROW NIGHT, BUT CLOUDS FILL BACK IN AS WE HEAD INTO WEDNESDAY. LOOKS MOSTLY CLOUDY ON WEDNESDAY WITH SOME CLEARING LATE IN THE DAY. THURSDAY, RAIN RETURNS AND IT LOOKS LIKE A BETTER CHANCE OF RAIN ON THURSDAY. SO ALTHOUGH TOMORROW RAIN WON’T AMOUNT TO TOO MUCH, A COUPLE HUNDREDS OF AN INCH OF RAIN, WE COULD SEE BETTER CHANCES FOR YOU THURSDAY INTO EARLY FRIDAY. FRIDAY WILL TURN BLUSTERY BEHIND THAT SYSTEM BUT NOT ALL THAT COLD. IN FACT THERE’S NO REAL COLD AIR BEHIND IT. SO STILL STAY ABOVE AVERAGE FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKEND
We're in for a pleasant start to the week, and a beautiful Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Look for sunny skies and highs in the upper 40s. It won't be as windy as yesterday.Tonight, clouds will increase, and temperatures will fall to near freezing. Tuesday will feature cloudy skies and scattered light showers in the morning and afternoon. A few showers will be around for the Inauguration at noon in Harrisburg. Highs will reach the low-to-mid 40s.Wednesday will be breezy and mild, with highs near 50 degrees. Rain returns Thursday, and breezy conditions will follow Friday. Temperatures will still be above average at the end of the week, in the low 40s.
We're in for a pleasant start to the week, and a beautiful Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Look for sunny skies and highs in the upper 40s. It won't be as windy as yesterday.
Tonight, clouds will increase, and temperatures will fall to near freezing.
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Tuesday will feature cloudy skies and scattered light showers in the morning and afternoon. A few showers will be around for the Inauguration at noon in Harrisburg. Highs will reach the low-to-mid 40s.
Wednesday will be breezy and mild, with highs near 50 degrees.
Rain returns Thursday, and breezy conditions will follow Friday. Temperatures will still be above average at the end of the week, in the low 40s.
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BERLIN, Germany — A 101-year-old man was convicted in Germany of more than 3,500 counts of accessory to murder on Tuesday for serving at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
The Neuruppin Regional Court sentenced him to five years in prison.
The man, who was identified by local media as Josef S., had denied working as an SS guard at the camp and aiding and abetting the murder of thousands of prisoners.
In the trial, which opened in October, the centenarian said that he had worked as a farm laborer near Pasewalk in northeastern Germany during the period in question.
However, the court considered it proven that he worked at the camp on the outskirts of Berlin between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing, the German news agency dpa reported.
“The court has come to the conclusion that, contrary to what you claim, you worked in the concentration camp as a guard for about three years,” presiding Judge Udo Lechtermann said, according to dpa. He added that, in doing so, the defendant had assisted in the Nazis' terror and murder mechanism.
“You willingly supported this mass extermination with your activity," Lechtermann said. “You watched deported people being cruelly tortured and murdered there every day for three years.”
Prosecutors had based their case on documents relating to an SS guard with the man’s name, date and place of birth, as well as other documents.
The five-year prison sentence was in line with the prosecution's demand.
The defendant's lawyer had sought an acquittal. Defense attorney Stefan Waterkamp said after the pronouncement of the sentence that he would appeal the verdict, dpa reported.
Germany's leading Jewish group welcomed the ruling.
“Even if the defendant will probably not serve the full prison sentence due to his advanced age, the verdict is to be welcomed,” said Josef Schuster, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
“The thousands of people who worked in the concentration camps kept the murder machinery running. They were part of the system, so they should take responsibility for it,” Schuster added. “It is bitter that the defendant has denied his activities at that time until the end and has shown no remorse.”
For practical reasons, the trial was held in a gymnasium in Brandenburg/Havel, the 101-year-old’s place of residence. The man was only fit to stand trial to a limited extent and was only able to participate in the trial for about two and a half hours each day. The process was interrupted several times for health reasons and hospital stays.
Efraim Zuroff, the head Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s office in Jerusalem, told The Associated Press that the sentence “sends a message that if you commit such crimes, even decades later, you might be brought to justice."
"And it’s a very important thing because it gives closure to the relatives of the victims," Zuroff added. “The fact that these people all of a sudden feel that their loss is being addressed and the suffering of their family who they lost in the camps is being addressed ... is a very important thing.”
However, Zuroff expressed concern that S. might serve only part of the sentence or none at all because of his planned appeal and his advanced age.
Sachsenhausen was established in 1936 just north of Berlin as the first new site after Adolf Hitler gave the SS full control of the Nazi concentration camp system. It was intended to be a model facility and training camp for the labyrinthine network that the Nazis built across Germany, Austria and occupied territories.
More than 200,000 people were held there between 1936 and 1945. Tens of thousands of inmates died of starvation, disease, forced labor and other causes, as well as through medical experiments and systematic SS extermination operations including shootings, hangings and gassing.
Exact numbers on those killed vary, with upper estimates of some 100,000, though scholars suggest figures of 40,000 to 50,000 are likely more accurate.
In its early years, most inmates were either political prisoners or criminal convicts, but they also included some Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals. The first large group of Jewish prisoners was brought there in 1938 after the so-called Night of Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht, an antisemitic pogrom.
During the war, Sachsenhausen was expanded to include Soviet prisoners of war — who were shot by the thousands — as well as others.
As in other camps, Jewish prisoners were singled out at Sachsenhausen for particularly harsh treatment, and most who remained alive by 1942 were sent to the Auschwitz death camp.
Sachsenhausen was liberated in April 1945 by the Soviets, who then turned it into a brutal camp of their own.
Tuesday's verdict relies on recent legal precedent in Germany establishing that anyone who helped a Nazi camp function can be prosecuted for being an accessory to the murders committed there.
In a different case, a 96-year-old woman went on trial in late September in the northern German town of Itzehoe. The woman, who allegedly worked during the war as the secretary for the SS commandant of the Stutthof concentration camp, has been charged with more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder.
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BOSTON, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TetraScience, the Scientific Data Cloud company, announced today that ACD/Labs, a leading provider of scientific software for R&D, has joined the Tetra Partner Network to help pharma and biopharma customers achieve greater scientific insights and outcomes.
"We are thrilled to partner with ACD/Labs, who have a long history of innovating how customers use analytical data analysis in R&D," said Simon Meffan-Main, Ph.D., VP, Tetra Partner Network. "Combining their characterization, lead optimization and interpretation products with the Tetra Data Platform will further help customers respond to the ever increasing pace of innovation in biopharma."
For decades ACD/Labs has been helping scientists to assemble multi-technique analytical data from major instrument vendors in a single environment. The company's Spectrus platform standardizes analytical data processing and knowledge management to help customers get answers, make decisions, and share knowledge. Digital interpretations stored with chemical context and the expert's annotations enable R&D organizations to store and manage knowledge that is chemically searchable. ACD/Labs' enterprise technologies remove the burden of routine data analysis from the scientist, automate data marshalling, and improve data accessibility and integrity.
The Tetra Data Platform produces Tetra Data, which is vendor-agnostic, liquid, and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) scientific data that can be searched, accessed, and analyzed across the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical pipelines. With this partnership, customers will be able to use Tetra Data with ACD/Labs' Spectrus products to accelerate workflows and analyze scientific data with more specificity.
"Solutions from ACD/Labs and TetraScience work to remove the burden of data management from the scientist's workflow and make the IT function more effective," said Graham McGibbon, Director of Strategic Partnerships, ACD/Labs. "We share a common goal of creating unrestricted innovation for scientists and IT departments and are delighted to be part of the Tetra Partner Network."
"Industry participants of all kinds – global pharmas, biotech startups, informatics providers, CROs, biopharma app companies, and more – recognize that this movement to the Scientific Data Cloud must be driven by vendor-neutral and open partnerships that are deeply data-centric," explained Patrick Grady, CEO of TetraScience. "Biopharma needs to unify and harmonize experimental data in the cloud, in order to fully capitalize on the power of AI and data science. In turn, AI and data science will uncover insights that will accelerate discovery and development of therapeutics that extend and enhance human life. We are thrilled to further extend this network together with ACD/Labs."
To learn more about ACD/Labs and our partnership, please read the blog "Science at Your Fingertips - Across the Enterprise".
TetraScience is the Scientific Data Cloud company with a mission to accelerate scientific discovery and improve and extend human life. The Scientific Data Cloud is the only open, cloud-native platform purpose-built for science that connects lab instruments, informatics software, and data apps across the biopharma value chain and delivers the foundation of harmonized, actionable scientific data necessary to transform raw data into accelerated and improved scientific outcomes. Through the Tetra Partner Network, market-leading vendors access the power of our cloud to help customers maximize the value of their data. For more information, please visit tetrascience.com.
ACD/Labs is a leading provider of scientific software for R&D. We help our customers assemble digitized analytical, structural, and molecular information for effective decision-making, problem solving, and product lifecycle control. Our enterprise technologies enable automation of molecular characterization and facilitate chemically intelligent knowledge management.
ACD/Labs provides worldwide sales and support, and brings decades of experience and success helping organizations innovate and create efficiencies in their workflows. For more information, please visit www.acdlabs.com or follow ACD/Labs on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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TX Norman OK Zone Forecast for Thursday, January 5, 2023
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201 AM CST Fri Jan 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70. South winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cold with lows around 30. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in
the lower 40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60.
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Including the city of Quanah
201 AM CST Fri Jan 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Cold with lows in the upper 20s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
30s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows around 40.
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Including the city of Crowell
201 AM CST Fri Jan 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cold with lows around 30. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
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40s. Highs around 60.
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Including the cities of Munday and Knox City
201 AM CST Fri Jan 6 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cold with lows around 30. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 60. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the upper 60s.
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201 AM CST Fri Jan 6 2023
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15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds
around 10 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then clearing.
Cold with lows in the upper 20s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
30s. Highs in the mid 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in
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201 AM CST Fri Jan 6 2023
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20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southwest winds
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midnight.
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GENEVA (AP) — A United Nations conference on Monday drummed up funds and other support to help Pakistan cope with the fallout of last summer’s devastating flooding, which the U.N. chief called a “climate disaster of monumental scale” that killed more than 1,700 people in the immediate aftermath. Millions are still living near contaminated and stagnant flood waters.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres attended in-person, while world leaders such as French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took part virtually, as many countries chipped in to better help Pakistan pull together an estimated $16.3 billion that’s needed to help the country rebuild and recover.
Authorities in Pakistan hope about half of that funding need will come from the international community. Responding to Pakistan’s appeal, the Islamic Development Bank pledged to contribute $4.2 billion for reconstruction in flood-hit areas across the country. Brian Denver, of the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations, also said Washington “is pledging an additional $100 million of recovery funding, bringing the U.S. government’s total contribution to more than $200 million since the middle of August.”
The announcement was quickly hailed by Pakistan. Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb tweeted that international community and development partners “are demonstrating exemplary compassion for flood victims.”
The conference has shaped up as a test case of just how much the rich world will pitch in to help developing-world nations like Pakistan manage the impact of climatic swoons, and brace for other disasters.
“We need to be honest about the brutal injustice of loss and damage suffered by developing countries because of climate change,” Guterres told the gathering. “If there is any doubt about loss and damage — go to Pakistan. There is loss. There is damage. The devastation of climate change is real.”
Guterres said that people in South Asia are 15 times more likely to die from climate impacts than elsewhere, and his “heart broke” when he saw the devastation left behind from Pakistan’s floods.
“No country deserves to endure what happened to Pakistan,” he said. “But it was especially bitter to watch that country’s generous spirit being repaid with a climate disaster of monumental scale.”
In November’s U.N. climate talks, countries agreed to set up a fund for loss and damage caused by climate change. The details of the fund will be worked out by a committee this year. Vulnerable nations like Pakistan would be expected to receive compensation from the fund.
Many scientists, policymakers and others say emissions of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, mostly by industrialized countries, over generations are largely to blame for a warming global climate.
Many countries already doled out cash, supplies and other support for Pakistan in the immediate follow-up to the flooding. On Monday, Macron said France was injecting some 360 million euros into the French development agency to help Pakistan to rebuild and adapt to climate change, in addition to another 10 million euros for emergency aid. The EU announced tens of millions in new aid.
Thousands of Pakistanis are still living in open areas in makeshift homes and tents near the stagnant water in southern Sindh and in some areas in southwestern Baluchistan, the two worst-flood hit provinces in Pakistan.
UNICEF warned Monday that up to 4 million children are still living near contaminated and stagnant flood waters, risking their survival and well-being, more than four months after a national state of emergency was declared in Pakistan.
The Pakistani prime minister likened the flooding to “a tsunami from the sky.” He said the flooding immediately affected 33 million people and destroyed more than 2 million homes, adding that the ferocity of the flowing water damaged over 8,000 kilometers of roads (nearly 5,000 miles), and more than 3,100 kilometers of railway track.
“Today’s meeting is an attempt to give my people another chance at getting back on their feet,” Sharif said. “We are racing again time” to help the victims amid a harsh winter, and in the worst-affected areas where schools and health systems have collapsed, he added.
Alluding to a catchphrase often used in military contexts, he said: “Pakistan needs a new ‘coalition of the willing’: One that can save lives and put them on a path to responsible global citizenship.”
Pakistan has played down initial expectations of big-ticket contributions, and has downgraded what was originally billed as a pledging conference to a “support” conference — in anticipation that not just funding will be offered up by donors.
Organizers hope the conference will underpin a recovery and build resilience after the punishing floods between June and October, which also damaged 2 million houses and washed away 13,000 kilometers (8,000 miles) of roads. At one point, a third of the country was submerged.
Pakistani authorities last week cited a U.N.-backed assessment that the total damage amounted to more than $30 billion.
The world body says funding raised so far for Pakistan’s flood victims will run out this month, and an emergency appeal launched in October has garnered only about a third of the $816 million sought for food, medicines and other supplies for Pakistanis.
Pakistan plays a negligible role in global warming and emits less than 1% of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, but like other developing countries, it has been vulnerable to climate-induced devastation, experts say. The country has seen extreme heat, glacial melt and rising sea levels in recent years.
Climate scientists found that the floods in Pakistan were worsened by global heating although economic, societal and construction-oriented factors also played a role.
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Munir Ahmed reported from Islamabad.
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This story has been corrected to show that Erdogan is Turkey’s president, not prime minister.
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How to Watch the Stars vs. Kraken Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for NHL Playoffs Second Round Game 1
Published: May. 1, 2023 at 9:12 PM CDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
The Seattle Kraken take the road against the Dallas Stars in Game 1 of the NHL Playoffs Second Round on Tuesday, May 2, beginning at 9:30 PM ET on ESPN, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS.
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Stars Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info
- When: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 9:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas
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Stars vs. Kraken Head-to-Head
Stars Stats & Trends
- Defensively, the Stars have been one of the stingiest units in league action, allowing 215 total goals (2.6 per game) to rank third.
- The Stars' 281 total goals (3.4 per game) make them the seventh-best scoring team in the league.
- In the last 10 games, the Stars have gone 8-1-1 (85.0% of possible points).
- Defensively, the Stars have given up 17 goals (1.7 per game) in those 10 outings.
- They have scored 34 goals during that time.
Stars Key Players
Kraken Stats & Trends
- The Kraken's total of 252 goals conceded (3.1 per game) is 14th in the league.
- The Kraken's 289 goals on the season (3.5 per game) rank them fourth in the league.
- Over the last 10 contests, the Kraken have claimed 75.0% of the possible points with a 5-5-0 record.
- Over on the defensive end, the Kraken have allowed 2.4 goals per game (24 total) in those 10 outings.
- They are scoring at a 2.4 goals-per-game average (24 total) during that time.
Kraken Key Players
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Financial Results
- Total revenues decreased by 21.1% year over year to RMB487.8 million (US$70.7 million) [[1]] for the second half 2022.
Organic revenues, excluding revenues of Argyle and Urban, decreased by 15.8% year over year to RMB466.0 million (US$67.6 million) for the second half 2022.
- Income from operations increased by 516.4% year over year to RMB20.0 million (US$2.9 million) [1] for the second half 2022.
- Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) [2] decreased by 21.2% year over year to RMB118.3 million (US$17.2 million) for the second half 2022.
SHANGHAI, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenTree Hospitality Group Ltd. (NYSE: GHG) ("GreenTree", the "Company", "we", "us" and "our"), a leading hospitality management group in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second half and fiscal year of 2022.
Second Half 2022 Operational Highlights
- As previously disclosed, the Company has been in a dispute with Mr. Kevin Zhang, the founder, and the minority shareholder of Argyle, as to performance of relevant transaction documents and/or compliance with local laws and regulations by Mr. Zhang. As a result, since June 2022, GreenTree has not been able to maintain effective control over Argyle which therefore has been deconsolidated from GreenTree. The total number of hotels as of December 31, 2022 and GreenTree's balance sheet do not include Argyle related data. Argyle owned and operated 51 hotels as of December 31, 2021 and contributed 2.4% of GreenTree's total revenue in 2021.
- GreenTree and Urban's minority shareholder entered into definite agreements on November 23, 2022 for the minority shareholder and its designated person to repurchase all of the equity interest in Urban held by GreenTree as of November 25, 2022. As a result, the total number of hotels as of December 31, 2022 and GreenTree's balance sheet do not include Urban related data. Urban owned and operated 749 hotels as of December 31, 2021 and contributed 8.8% of GreenTree's total revenue in 2021.
- A total of 4,059 hotels with 302,497 hotel rooms were in operation as of December 31, 2022, compared to 4,659 hotels and 337,153 hotel rooms as of December 31, 2021.
Excluding Argyle and Urban hotels, the total of 4,059 organic hotels increased by 5.2%, compared to 3,859 organic hotels and 292,219 organic hotel rooms as of December 31, 2021.
- As of December 31, 2022, the Company had 61 leased-and-operated ("L&O") hotels and 3,998 franchised-and-managed ("F&M") hotels in operation in 355 cities across China, compared to 66 L&O hotels and 4,593 F&M hotels in operation in 367 cities as of December 31, 2021. Excluding Argyle and Urban hotels, the Company had 55 L&O hotels and 3,804 F&M hotels in operation as of December 31, 2021.
- During the second half of 2022, the Company opened 161 hotels, a decrease of 159 compared to 320 hotels opened in the second half of 2021. Of the hotels opened in the second half of 2022, 24 were in the mid-to-up-scale segment, 93 in the mid-scale segment, and 44 in the economy segment. Geographically, 10 hotels were in Tier 1 cities [3], 31 in Tier 2 cities and the remaining 120 in Tier 3 and lower cities in China as of December 31, 2022.
Excluding Argyle and Urban hotels, the Company opened 136 organic hotels, compared to 265 organic hotels opened in the second half of 2021.
- As of December 31, 2022, the Company had a pipeline of 916 hotels contracted for or under development with 235 in the mid-to-up-scale segment, 486 in the mid-scale segment, and 195 in the economy segment.
- The average daily room rate, or ADR, for all hotels in operation was RMB 168 in the third quarter of 2022, an increase of 3.4% from RMB163 in the third quarter of 2021. Such ADR was RMB165 in the fourth quarter of 2022, a 2.9% year-over-year decrease.
- The occupancy rate, or OCC, for all hotels in operation was 71.1% in the third quarter of 2022, down from 72.4% in the third quarter of 2021. Such OCC was 63.0% in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared with 69.2% in the fourth quarter of 2021.
- The revenue per available room, or RevPAR, which is calculated by multiplying our hotels' ADR by its occupancy rate, was RMB120 in the third quarter of 2022, a 1.5% year-over-year increase. RevPAR was RMB104 in the fourth quarter of 2022, a 11.6% year-over-year decrease.
- As of December 31, 2022 the Company's loyalty program had over 78 million individual members and approximately 1,935,000 corporate members, compared to over 74 million individual members and approximately 1,905,000 corporate members, respectively, as of June 30, 2022.
Fiscal Year 2022 Operational Highlights
- For the full year 2022, the Company opened 362 hotels, a decrease of 49.9% comparing to 722 newly-opened hotels in the full year 2021. Of the hotels opened in 2022, 67 were in the mid-to-up-scale segment, 201 were in the mid-scale segment, and 94 were in the economy segment. Geographically speaking, 23 hotels were in Tier 1 cities, 83 were in Tier 2 cities and the remaining 256 were in Tier 3 and other cities in China as of December 31, 2022. During 2022, the Company closed 155 hotels, and added a net of 207 hotels to its portfolio.
Excluding Argyle and Urban hotels, the Company opened 295 hotels, a decrease of 52.3% comparing to 618 newly-opened organic hotels in the full year of 2021.
- The average daily room rate, or ADR, for all hotels in operation, was RMB159 in the full year 2022, a 3.1% year-over-year decrease.
- The occupancy rate, or OCC for all hotels in operation was 63.7% in the full year 2022, compared with 71.1% in the full year 2021.
- The revenue per available room, or RevPAR, which is calculated by multiplying our hotels' ADR by its occupancy rate, was RMB101 in the full year 2022, a 13.2% year-over-year decrease.
"2022 was a year full of changes and challenges. During the first half, COVID-19 outbreaks in many parts of the country resulted in lockdowns in many cities, especially in Shanghai. As we entered the third quarter, transportation restrictions were relaxed and Revpar recovered. However, October and November brought a fresh wave of outbreaks, slowing down our recovery once again. Thanks to the introduction of flexible anti-pandemic measures by the government early December, Revpar recovered in the second half of the month to more than 95% of its pre-pandemic levels. Throughout all these challenges, we continued to execute our long-term strategic growth plan that strives to assist franchisees in maintaining quality operations, extend our hotel network, deliver stable operating profitability, and maintain healthy cash flow," said Mr. Alex Xu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GreenTree.
As we entered 2023, recovery was uneven. During the first half of January, recovery slowed again due to the rapid evolvement of pandemic after the pandemic control measures were lifted in China. Outperforming our expectations, Repvar during the Spring Festival recovered to more than 90% of its pre-pandemic levels. Such a recovery accelerated in February, resulting in more than a 5% increase compared to 2019. However, recovery slowed again in March due to outbreaks of influenza A in certain cities.
This March we entered the restaurant business to complement our hotel business and create a new stream of growth as we completed the acquisition of Da Niang Dumplings and Bellagio, two leading restaurant chain businesses in China from our controlling shareholder. We are eager to integrate Da Niang Dumplings and Bellagio into GreenTree, leveraging upon synergies between our respective teams within our Company's unique ecosystem. We are confident in our ability to harness consumer demand for quality food services and build upon the broad appeal of these beloved restaurant brands in China's rapidly-growing food service industry. We are confident that this acquisition will create value and deliver growth for our shareholders.
After another difficult year, life is gradually returning to normal, no matter how many twists and turns we may experience. At the beginning of a new year full of hope, I want to give special thanks to our team, franchisees, and partners for supporting each other through very challenging times and continually contributing to our jointly-developed business.
Second Half 2022 Financial Results
Total revenues for the second half of 2022 were RMB487.8 million (US$70.7 million) [1], a 21.1% year-over-year decrease. The decrease was primarily due to the deconsolidation of Argyle and the disposal of our interest in Urban, and the impact of COVID-19, which resulted in lower RevPAR at L&O hotels and F&M hotels. Excluding the impact of Argyle and Urban, compared with the second half of 2021, total revenues for the second half of 2022 decreased by 15.8% Total revenues for the full year 2022 were RMB945.1 million (US$137.0 million), a 21.6% year-over-year decrease.
Total revenues from leased-and-operated hotels for the second half of 2022 were RMB 167.2 million (US$24.2 million) [1], a 23.6% year-over-year decrease. The decrease was primarily due to 3 reasons: first, the deconsolidation of Argyle and the disposal of our interest in Urban; second, the disposal of 6 hotels in operation since the fourth quarter and was partially offset by an increase of 8 newly opened L&O hotels; and third, a 4.6% year-over-year decrease in L&O hotels' fourth quarter RevPAR and was partially offset by a 2.7% year-over-year increase in L&O hotels' third quarter RevPAR. Excluding the impact of Argyle and Urban, total revenues from L&O hotels for the second half of 2022 decreased by 16.3%. Total revenues from L&O hotels for the full year 2022 were RMB338.5 million (US$49.1 million), a 13.6% year-over-year decrease.
Total revenues from franchised-and-managed hotels for the second half of 2022 were RMB315.2 million (US$45.7 million) [1], a 16.8% year-over-year decrease. Initial franchise fees for the second half of 2022 decreased 54.8 % year-over-year, mainly because of the decrease in the gross opening number and closing number of F&M hotels. Recurring franchisee management fees and others for the second half of 2022 decreased by 12.4% year-over-year, primarily due to 3 reasons: first, a 12.0% decrease in F&M hotels' RevPAR for 2022Q4 and offset by a 1.5% increase in F&M hotels' RevPAR for 2022Q3; second, the fee waivers to franchisees of quarantined hotels; and third, the deconsolidation of Argyle and the disposal of our interest in Urban. Excluding the impact of Argyle and Urban, total revenues from F&M hotels for the second half of 2022 decreased by 15.2% year over year. Total revenues from F&M hotels for the full year 2022 were RMB590.8 million (US$85.7 million), a 23.7% year-over-year decrease.
Total operating costs and expenses
Hotel operating costs for the second half of 2022 were RMB286.3 million (US$41.5 million) [1], a 21.5% year-over-year decrease. The decrease was mainly due to the deconsolidation of Argyle and the disposal of our interest in Urban, and disposal of L&O hotels. Hotel operating costs for the full year 2022 were RMB594.0 million (US$86.1 million), a 8.8% year-over-year decrease.
Selling and marketing expenses for the second half of 2022 were RMB 19.7 million (US$ 2.9 million) [1], a 27.4% year-over-year decrease. The decrease was primarily due to lower staff related expenses and advertising expenses, due to less employee business travels during the pandemic, and the deconsolidation of Argyle and the disposal of our interest in Urban. Selling and marketing expenses for the full year 2022 were RMB38.5 million (US$5.6 million), a 42.4% year-over-year decrease.
General and administrative expenses for the second half of 2022 were RMB111.2 million (US$ 16.1 million) [1], a 13.9 % year-over-year decrease. The decrease was mainly attributable to the reduction in consulting fees, and the deconsolidation of Argyle and the disposal of our interest in Urban. General and administrative expenses for the full year 2022 were RMB210.9 million (US$30.6 million), a17.7% year-over-year decrease.
Other general expenses were RMB 65.0 million (US$9.4 million) [1] in the second half of 2022, which included the provisions for loan receivables related to franchisee loans, and impairments of certain fixed assets.
Gross profit for the second half of 2022 was RMB 201.5 million (US$ 29.2 million) [1], a year-over-year decrease of 20.4%. Gross margin for the second half of 2022 was 41.3%, compared to 41.0% a year ago. Gross profit for the full year 2022 was RMB351.1 million (US$50.9 million), a 36.7% year-over-year decrease.
Income from operations for the second half of 2022 was RMB20.0 million (US$ 2.9 million) [1], a year-over-year increase of 516.4%, with a margin of 4.1%. Excluding other general expenses, income from operation from purely operating activities was RMB 85.0 million, with a margin of 17.4%. Income from operations for the full year 2022 was RMB-437.7 million (US$-63.5million), a year-over-year decrease of 384.4%.
Net income for the second half of 2022 was RMB-48.3 million (US$-7.0 million) [1], compared to RMB61.5 million in the second half of 2021 and net margin was -9.9 %. The year-over-year decrease was mainly attributable to the losses from investment in equity securities, which included market-to-market value change of stocks the Company and write down of long-term equity investment in Argyle, and other general expenses. Excluding other general expenses, net income was -23.9 million RMB, with a margin of -2.5%.Net income for the full year 2022 was RMB-409.2 million (US$-59.3 million), a year-over-year decrease of 296.9%.
Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) [2] for the second half of 2022 was RMB 118.3 million (US$ 17.2 million) [1], a year-over-year decrease of 21.2 %. Adjusted EBITDA margin, defined as adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) as a percentage of total revenues, for the second half of 2022 was 24.3 %, compared to 24.3 % a year ago. The decrease was mainly attributable to the increased number of LO hotels—both newly opened and in the pipeline. Excluding the impact of newly-opened and pipeline hotels, adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) for the second half of 2022 was RMB 146.0 million, with a margin of 34.6%. Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) for the full year 2022 was RMB211.6 million (US$30.7 million), a year-over-year decrease of 35.0%.
Core net income (non-GAAP) for the second half of 2022 was RMB 67.7 million (US$ 9.8 million) [1]. The core net margin, defined as core net income (non-GAAP) as a percentage of total revenues, for the second half of 2022 was 13.9%, compared to -1.7 % one year ago. Excluding the impact of newly opened hotels, core net income (Non-GAAP) was RMB422.0 million, with a margin of 30.0%. Core net income (non-GAAP) for the full year 2022 was RMB173.6 million (US$25.2 million), a year-over-year increase of 54.7%.
Earnings per ADS (basic and diluted) for the second half of 2022 were RMB-0.48 (US$-0.07) [1], down from RMB0.59 one year ago. Core net income per ADS (basic and diluted) (non-GAAP) for the second half of 2022 was RMB0.66 (US$0.10) [1] Earnings per ADS (basic and diluted) for the full year 2022 was RMB-3.68 (US$-0.53) down from RMB2.05 one year ago. Core net income per ADS (basic and diluted) (non-GAAP) was RMB1.70 (US$0.25) for the full year 2022, a increase from RMB1.09 a year ago.
Cash flow Operating cash inflow for the second half of 2022 was RMB151.0 million (US$21.9 million) [1] as a result of income from operations. Investing cash inflow for the second half of 2022 was RMB116.4 million (US$16.9 million) [1], which was primarily attributable to proceeds from short-term investments, and proceeds from the disposal of our interest in Urban. Financing cash outflow for the second half of 2022 was RMB160.3 million (US$ 23.2 million), mainly attributable to the repayment of bank loans by the end of December 31, 2022. Operating cash inflow for the full year 2022 was RMB281.7 million (US$40.8 million). Investing cash outflow for the full year 2022 was RMB439.0 million (US$63.6 million). Financing cash inflow for the full year 2022 was RMB341.9 million (US$49.6 million).
Cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, short-term investments, investments in equity securities and time deposit. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had total cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, short term investments, investments in equity securities and time deposits of RMB1,055.5 million (US$153.0 million) [1], compared to RMB1,079.5 million (US$156.5 million) as of June 30, 2022. The decrease from the second half 2022 was primarily attributable to the repayment of bank loans, offset by cash from operating activities,
Guidance
Taking into account the recovery in long-term trends and short-term industry fluctuations, we expect total revenues of the hotel business for the full year of 2023 to grow 30%~35% over the 2022 levels. Furthermore, considering the merger of the restaurant business into the group and the revenue contribution from restaurant business, we expect total revenues of the whole company for the full year of 2023 to grow 90%~95% over the company's 2022 levels.
The guidance set forth above reflects the Company's current and preliminary views based on its recovery and may not be indicative of the final financial results for any future periods and the full year.
Conference Call
GreenTree's management will hold an earnings conference call at 9:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time on April 6, 2023 (9:00 AM Beijing/Hong Kong Time on April 7, 2023).
Dial-in numbers for the live conference call are as follows:
Participants should ask to join the GreenTree call, please dial in approximately 10 minutes before the scheduled time of the call.
A telephone replay of the conference call will be available after the conclusion of the live conference call until April 13, 2023.
Dial-in numbers for the replay are as follows:
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at http://ir.998.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The presentation of Adjusted EBITDA and core net income should not be construed as an indication that our future results will be unaffected by other charges and gains we consider to be outside the ordinary course of our business.
The use of Adjusted EBITDA and core net income has certain limitations because it does not reflect all items of income and expenses that affect our operations. Items excluded from Adjusted EBITDA and core net income are significant components in understanding and assessing our operating and financial performance. Depreciation and amortization expense for various long-term assets, income tax and share-based compensation have been and will be incurred and are not reflected in the presentation of Adjusted EBITDA. Each of these items should also be considered in the overall evaluation of our results. Additionally, Adjusted EBITDA and core net income does not consider capital expenditures and other investing activities and should not be considered as a measure of our liquidity. We compensate for these limitations by providing the relevant disclosure of our depreciation and amortization, interest expense/income, gains/losses from investments in equity securities, income tax expenses, share-based compensation, share of loss in equity investees, government subsidies and other relevant items both in our reconciliations to the corresponding U.S. GAAP financial measures and in our consolidated financial statements, all of which should be considered when evaluating our performance.
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GreenTree Hospitality Group Ltd. ("GreenTree" or the "Company") (NYSE: GHG) is a leading hospitality management group in China. As of December 31, 2022, GreenTree had a total number of 4,059 hotels. In 2021, HOTELS magazine ranked GreenTree Top 11 Ranking among 225 largest global hotel groups in terms of number of hotels in its annual HOTELS' 225. GreenTree was also the fourth largest hospitality company in China in 2021 based on the statistics issued by the China Hospitality Association.
GreenTree has a broad portfolio of diverse brands spanning from the economy to mid-scale, and up-scale segments of the hospitality industry mainly in China. Through its strong membership base, expansive booking network, superior system management with moderate charges, and fully supported by its operating departments including Decoration, Engineering, Purchasing, Operation, IT and Finance, GreenTree aims to keep closer relationships with all of its clients and partners by providing a diverse brand portfolio that features comfort, style and value.
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By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Louise Glück’s next book was as unexpected for her as it will likely be for the Nobel laureate’s readers.
After more than 10 poetry collections and two books of essays, including such prize winners as “The Wild Iris” and “Faithful and Virtuous Night,” the 79-year-old writer has completed her first prose narrative, to come out in October. “Marigold and Rose: A Fiction” runs 64 pages, unfolding like a fable as Glück imagines the thoughts of infant twins.
She has written about children before, notably in her acclaimed 1990 collection “Ararat.” But while her poems were drawn in part from her childhood and her experiences as a parent, “Marigold and Rose” originates in a very contemporary way: from videos of her granddaughters Emmy and Lizzy sent by her son from California while Glück was unable to visit because of the pandemic.
“I remember telling someone that watching twins was like going to the zoo; you see behavior you don’t ordinarily see in babies, because these children are having relationships with each other before they have relationships with almost anyone else,” Glück, who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said during a recent telephone interview.
Watching the videos, she said, “became to me an obsession.”
The sounds and images of Emmy and Lizzy eventually led to words. Glück composed a short chapter and emailed it her son, who told her he liked the work so much he was reading it aloud to the family, even if the babies were too young to understand. She continued writing chapters and sending them, and within weeks had finished what became “Marigold and Rose.”
“It was just bliss to write,” says Glück, who wondered if the speed of the writing process might “unnerve and mystify” some readers. “People don’t like to hear that because it suggests shallowness. But in my experience some of my best work comes very fluently. I don’t see it as a bad thing. It usually means you’re riding a wave.”
From the opening lines — “Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V. Rose didn’t care for books” — Glück joins and contrasts the lives of the introspective Marigold and the sociable Rose. Marigold is already forming a story in her head, while looking upon the “calm self-confidence” of her twin and reasoning that “Together they included everything.”
In chapters with such titles as “Sharing with Bunnies” and “Rose and the Elephant,” Marigold and Rose spend a summer’s day watching their mother garden, Marigold comes up with a title for her planned book (“The Childhood of Mother”), Rose begins speaking and the parents consider buying a house. Glück even places a version of herself in the story — as “Other Grandmother,” the one “not interested in the things babies were interested in.”
Glück, winner of the Nobel in 2020, explained in her prize lecture that she was drawn to poems that make readers or listeners the “recipient of a confidence or an outcry, sometimes as co-conspirator.” In “Marigold and Rose,” Glück has granted herself and her fans the knowledge that the narrator of her poem “Child Crying Out” longs for. Part of the “Ararat” collection, “Child Crying Out” is a meditation on the distance between people, including a mother’s lament over the silence of her son’s soul, the feeling he is “far away” even when she holds him in her arms.
“There’s much more anguish in that poem because the speaker is the mother and the child is unreachable in a certain way,” Glück says.
“I remember reading Dr. Spock at the time (when her son was an infant), about how a mother always knows the meaning of a child’s cry. And I thought, ‘Great, I flunked already.’ I was struggling. I had no idea. I couldn’t figure it out and I felt helpless and despondent and confused. It got easier. But it only got easier when he started to talk.”
Glück has never published a novel or story collection and says that before “Marigold and Rose” she had no desire to write narrative fiction. She remembers attempting a short story in her late teens and finding the result uninspiring — “sterile,” “just terrible.” Decades of letter writing and essays served to “oil” the mechanism for extended prose, she says, but she still didn’t expect to complete a work like her new one.
“I would have said the chances I would write a book in prose were zero,” she explained. “No chance in the world.”
Glück’s editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Jonathan Galassi, says the new book was a “total surprise,” but also cites what he calls “quintessential Glück humor” — the wry touch of having Marigold be a writer before she can even read. Her friend and fellow author Kathryn Davis, to whom Glück sends early drafts of her work, said she wasn’t surprised, if only because Gluck is “astonishingly willing to admit change into her life.”
“The arrival of the twin girls … was prelude to the possibility of even bigger changes,” Davis told the AP. “The narrative arrived like the twins, like the recounting of a dream, uninterrupted, immutable.”
Glück refers half-jokingly to “Marigold and Rose” as “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Baby.” The tone is engaging and witty, but Glück weaves in larger and more primal themes, giving the book the feeling of a creation myth, an awakening from innocence. The twins’ maternal grandmother dies (“Grandmother went to heaven. This is not like when Father went to work”), and the babies discover that being “happy” can only be understood when they’re not. Marigold herself realizes that the accumulation, and arrangement, of words co-exist with loss and change.
“Everything will disappear. Still, she thought. I know more words now. She made a list in her head of all the words she knew: Mama, Dada, bear, bee, hat,” Glück writes.
“And both these things would continue happening: everything will disappear but I will know many words. More and more and more and more, and then I will write my book.”
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McNeese vs. SE Louisiana Women's Basketball Predictions & Picks - February 25
Published: Feb. 23, 2023 at 11:39 PM CST|Updated: 2 hours ago
Saturday's contest at University Center (LA) has the SE Louisiana Lions (17-9) taking on the McNeese Cowgirls (10-17) at 2:00 PM ET (on February 25). Our computer prediction projects a lopsided 72-54 win as our model heavily favors SE Louisiana.
In their last matchup on Thursday, the Cowgirls secured a 65-60 victory over Houston Christian.
McNeese vs. SE Louisiana Game Info
- When: Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET
- Where: University Center (LA) in Hammond, Louisiana
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McNeese vs. SE Louisiana Score Prediction
- Prediction: SE Louisiana 72, McNeese 54
McNeese Schedule Analysis
- Against the Texas A&M-Commerce Lions on February 4, the Cowgirls picked up their best win of the season, a 75-67 road victory.
- McNeese has nine losses against Quadrant 4 opponents, tied for the 28th-most in Division 1.
McNeese 2022-23 Best Wins
- 69-54 at home over Houston Christian (No. 278) on January 14
- 65-60 on the road over Houston Christian (No. 278) on February 23
- 69-34 on the road over Incarnate Word (No. 284) on January 26
- 71-65 at home over Northwestern State (No. 310) on January 5
- 76-66 at home over UL Monroe (No. 338) on December 14
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McNeese Performance Insights
- The Cowgirls put up 64.9 points per game (184th in college basketball) while allowing 69.8 per contest (303rd in college basketball). They have a -132 scoring differential and have been outscored by 4.9 points per game.
- McNeese has averaged 0.6 fewer points in Southland games (64.3) than overall (64.9).
- In 2022-23 the Cowgirls are scoring 9.9 more points per game at home (70.0) than away (60.1).
- At home McNeese is allowing 66.4 points per game, 6.5 fewer points than it is away (72.9).
- While the Cowgirls are scoring 64.9 points per game in 2022-23, they have fallen short of that over their last 10 games, amassing 61.8 points per contest.
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NEW CARLISLE — Tecumseh High School football coach Chris Cory could describe Arrows senior Lucas Berner as “a different kind of kid” — the kind who’ll do whatever it takes to win football games.
“I’ve known him since he was a little kid and his mindset is different,” Cory said. “I’ve always said he’s like a cyborg. He gets up and works out, comes to practice and then goes home and works out. … He has a focus and he’s going to do what he sets out to do. I’ve never seen him get tired. He’s never asked out of a game.”
The hard work is paying off. Berner has rushed for 1,168 yards and 11 touchdowns this season.
“I’ve just been trying to have fun and be successful with my team,” Berner said.
After starting 2-2, the Arrows have won three of their last five games, including back-to-back wins over London and Shawnee.
“Our defense has played exceptionally well, probably the best I’ve seen since I’ve been here and I’ve been here a long time,” Cory said. “Offensively, we haven’t scored a lot of points, but we’ve been doing kind of what our blueprint is — holding onto the ball, running clock and trying to keep their offense off the field. … We’re just playing old school football.”
Berner has played a key role in the Arrows’ success this season. He’s rushed for 90 or more yards in every game, including a career-high 305 yards and four TDs in a Week 5 victory at Benjamin Logan. He also tallied 42 tackles at linebacker for the Arrows.
“He’s playing 100 snaps every game,” Cory said.
A year ago, Berner rushed for 335 yards and five TDs in season-opening wins against Fairborn and Carroll, but suffered an injury that forced him to miss the next five games.
“It was pretty hard to watch my team and not be able to play with them,” Berner said. “I learned a lesson through it. You can’t always be there, you have to help your team in other ways. It’s hard to watch when you want to be out there on the field.”
He rushed for 627 yards and six TDs last season.
“He was well on pace for 1,000 yards when he had the injury and probably came back a little too soon,” Cory said.
This fall, he’s making up for lost time. Berner carried the ball 43 times for 178 yards in last week’s 21-17 victory over Shawnee, playing every snap of the game, including defense.
“You have to do what you have to do,” Berner said. “I wanna be out there. I wanna be playing.”
He gave all the credit to his teammates for creating plenty of room to run in the Arrows physical, run-based Wing-T offense. The Arrows’ senior class has been running the same system for six years and it fits their smashmouth style of play, Berner said.
“I have a really great line and great blocking in front of me,” Berner said. “We all know our offense to a tee. We run it every day in practice. We don’t make mistakes in it anymore. We all know we can rely on each other since we’ve been together so long running the exact same thing.”
Berner has deceptive speed and can run over people, Cory said. He’s also got “that one little move in the hole” to make someone miss and get another four to five yards. It also helps having spent so much time in the offense.
“He has a feel for where the hole is going to be and where his guy is going to block,” Cory said.
All three of the Arrows’ losses this season have been by seven points or less, including two 3-point losses to both Graham and Bellefontaine.
Two weeks ago, the Arrows beat London 6-3 and beat rival Shawnee 21-17 last week. The early season losses helped Tecumseh during those victories, Berner said.
“We learned to persevere through them,” he said. “We’ve been there before and we knew what to do.”
Tecumseh (5-3, 2-1) sits one game back of first-place Bellefontaine (7-1, 3-0) in the Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail Division race. They travel to Plain City for a key division game against Jonathan Alder (5-3, 1-2). They’ll need to earn victories against Jonathan Alder and Kenton Ridge in their final two games and get some help to earn a share of their first CBC title since 2012.
“We’ve got to take care of business,” Cory said. “It’s out of our hands, but we’ve put ourselves in a position where we have a chance.”
Berner is hoping the Arrows can take care of business and keep playing as long as possible. The Arrows are also likely in the mix for a playoff berth in Division III, Region 12.
“I love being with my team,” Berner said. “They’re all my brothers.”
Cory knows Berner and his teammates will be ready to finish strong.
“He’s one of the hardest-working kids I’ve ever had and I’ve been here 27 years,” Cory said. “He’s one of the single most-focused kids – nutrition, weight room, running, he’s still in the running for valedictorian. He’s such a focused kid. He’s a pleasant kid. He’s the kind of the kid that you would want your daughter to date.
“But when he’s on the football field, he wants to play football and that’s his focus.”
Friday’s games
Miamisburg at Springfield
Triad at Northeastern
Greeneview at Catholic Central
Southeastern at Cedarville
Tecumseh at Jonathan Alder
Bellefontaine at Kenton Ridge
Shawnee at London
Urbana at Northwestern
Greenon at Madison Plains
West Liberty-Salem at Mechanicsburg
Graham at Benjamin Logan
(All games scheduled for 7 p.m.)
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ATLANTA (AP) — A new Georgia commission to discipline and remove wayward prosecutors would be the latest move nationwide to ratchet up oversight on what Republicans see as “woke prosecutors” who aren’t doing enough to fight crime.
The Georgia House voted 97-77 on Monday for Senate Bill 92 to create the commission. The Senate later sent the measure to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature or veto. Kemp has previously voiced support for the concept.
The Georgia bill parallels efforts to remove prosecutors in Florida, Missouri, Indiana and Pennsylvania, as well as broader disputes nationwide over how certain criminal offenses should be charged. All continue anti-crime campaigns that Republicans ran nationwide last year, accusing Democrats of coddling criminals and acting improperly by refusing to prosecute whole categories of crimes including marijuana possession. All the efforts raise the question of prosecutorial discretion — a prosecutor’s decision of what cases to try or reject and what charges to bring.
Carissa Hessick, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the Republican push tries to reverse a sea change in prosecution. Hessick, who directs the Prosecutors and Politics Project, said that for the first time voters are confronted with meaningful debate about prosecutors’ policies.
“I think it’s happened because several years ago, there was a push to try to use the office of prosecutor to address mass incarceration and injustices within the criminal justice system,” she said. “That movement was successful in a lot of places.”
Georgia Democrats intensely oppose the measure, saying majority Republicans are seeking another way to impose their will on local Democratic voters.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has decried the measure, claiming it’s a racist attack after voters elected 14 nonwhite district attorneys in Georgia in 2020. Willis pushed herself to the center of the controversy even as she’s mulling charges against former President Donald Trump for interfering in Georgia’s 2020 election. Some have viewed it as Republican retribution against the Atlanta prosecutor.
But the energy behind the bill has not been against Willis, whom in addition to targeting Trump is pursuing a tough-on-crime offensive against alleged gang members. Instead, many Georgia Republicans are most angered by Deborah Gonzalez, a district attorney who covers two counties including Athens, Kemp’s hometown. She’s under fire for refusal to prosecute marijuana crimes, an outflow of prosecutors working under her, and failure to meet court deadlines.
“That’s the whole point of this bill, is to restore public safety in places where you have rogue district attorneys who simply are not doing their job,” said Georgia Republican Rep. Houston Gaines of Athens.
The effort was born from frustrations involving a white Republican prosecutor in suburban Atlanta who was indicted for bribery related to sexual harassment claims. He lingered until he pleaded guilty to unprofessional conduct and resigned in 2022.
Some Democrats were interested in similar measures for a time because of Jackie Johnson, the coastal Georgia district attorney later charged with hindering the police investigation into the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
Democratic interest cooled after voters ousted Johnson. Now they say Republicans should respect the will of local voters.
Rep. Tanya Miller, an Atlanta Democrat and former prosecutor, on Monday described the bill as a “a power grab by the majority party to usurp the will of the voters by putting this body in the business of overseeing duly elected prosecutors throughout this state.”
Crucially, the Georgia bill mandates that a prosecutor must consider every case for which probable cause exists and can’t exclude categories of cases from prosecution. A similar bill pending in Indiana would let an oversight board appoint a special prosecutor to handle cases when a “noncompliant” prosecutor refuses to charge certain crimes.
Hessick said considering every case individually is an unrealistic standard because prosecutors turn away many more cases than they accept. She said the Georgia law is less likely to change prosecutors’ decisions about which cases they pursue than to muzzle their ability to talk about their decisions.
“It’s designed to stop them from running on these platforms of reform,” Hessick said.
The rules could also target prosecutors who declared before Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022 that they would not prosecute abortion-related offenses. Seven current Georgia district attorneys made such pledges, among dozens nationwide.
In some states, such laws could face hurdles. A New York court struck down a 2018 commission to investigate prosecutorial conduct after district attorneys sued saying it gave state lawmakers too much oversight over independent offices.
Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2021 signed another version into law. The commission isn’t yet operating because some members haven’t been appointed, a court spokesperson said.
Georgia lawmakers can already impeach district attorneys and solicitors general — elected prosecutors in some Georgia counties who handle lower-level cases. But they say impeachment would take up too much of lawmakers’ time. Instead, the new commission would investigate and make decisions. A prosecutor could appeal a decision to a state-level court, and eventually to the state Supreme Court.
Impeachment is proceeding in Pennsylvania, where state House Republicans voted in November to impeach Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for reasons including his failure to prosecute some minor crimes, his bail policies and management.
Krasner sued to challenge the impeachment’s legality, and a divided state court ruled for him, finding impeachment articles didn’t reach the needed legal threshold.
Plans for an impeachment trial in the Republican-majority Pennsylvania Senate have been on hold while that decision is appealed. In the meantime, the Republican majority that voted to impeach in the House is now a Democratic majority. It’s unclear what that will mean for any trial.
Other governors and legislatures have moved more directly to remove prosecutors. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended State Attorney Andrew Warren in Tampa’s Hillsborough County in August. A federal judge found DeSantis illegally targeted Warren because he’s a Democrat who has publicly supported abortion and transgender rights and because it would politically benefit DeSantis. But the judge wrote he had no power to reinstate Warren, leading the Democrat to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
In the meantime, the prosecutor that DeSantis tapped to replace Warren has resumed prosecuting some misdemeanors — including suspended licenses, disorderly conduct and panhandling — that Warren had stopped bringing to trial.
The GOP-led Missouri legislature is also maneuvering to override a Democratic prosecutor — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. It would let Republican Gov. Mike Parson appoint an additional special prosecutor for five years in any jurisdiction where the homicide rate exceeds 35 killings per 100,000 residents. The bill was drafted with St. Louis in mind.
Also, Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey is seeking to remove Gardner from office, alleging negligence in her job. If a judge agrees, Parson would appoint her replacement. A hearing date hasn’t been set.
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Associated Press writers Jim Salter in O’Fallon, Missouri, Alana Durkin Richer in Boston and Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this report.
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