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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) today announced the results of a recent reperforming loan sale. The sale of approximately 5,460 loans totaling $663.3 million in unpaid principal balance (UPB) was awarded to JP Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp. (Chase). The transaction is expected to close on August 26, 2022. The pool was marketed with Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as advisor.
The loan pool awarded in this most recent transaction includes:
- 5,460 loans with an aggregate UPB of $663,261,375; average loan size of $121,476; weighted average note rate of 4.49%; and weighted average broker's price opinion loan-to-value ratio of 48%.
The approximate weighted average bid, as a percentage of UPB, was in the low 90s for this pool.
Reperforming loans are loans that have been or are currently delinquent but have reperformed for a period of time. The terms of Fannie Mae's reperforming loan sale require the buyer to offer loss mitigation options to any borrower who may re-default within five years following the closing of the reperforming loan sale. All purchasers are required to honor any approved or in-process loss mitigation efforts at the time of sale, including forbearance arrangements and loan modifications. In addition, purchasers must offer delinquent borrowers a waterfall of loss mitigation options, including loan modifications, which may include principal forgiveness, prior to initiating foreclosure on any loan.
Interested bidders can register for ongoing announcements, training, and other information here. Fannie Mae will also post information about specific pools available for purchase on that page.
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GOMA, Congo (AP) — Renewed clashes between government soldiers and M23 rebels in eastern Congo forced more people from their homes Friday, deepening a crisis that the U.N. says already displaced 40,000 in a week’s time.
The clashes that started at around 5 a.m. sent panic-stricken residents fleeing the towns of Rugari, Kalengera and Kabaya. Some headed for Kanyaruchinya near Goma, where many displaced people have gone since fighting between the two sides resumed on Oct. 20.
“We ask the authorities to find out where we are going to live,” Faida Chantal Nsumba, one of the people who left to get away from the fighting, said Friday.
Aline Semasanga and her family fled to Rumangabo without taking anything with them.
“We waited for bullets fired by the military,” she told The Associated Press. “We were very worried and afraid. Some died and others ended up with us here because God protected us. We ask our government to bring us peace so that we can return home.”
The M23 rebels had been largely inactive for nearly a decade before they reemerged in November 2020. Hundreds were killed and nearly 200,000 people displaced before the surge in violence over the last week.
Congo’s government has accused neighboring Rwanda of supporting the M23, an allegation Rwanda’s government has repeatedly denied.
Residents who fled described chaos and violence in the towns where the most recent fighting took place.
“There were many shots in our area, and it created a total panic,” Nshiyimana Kwako said. “Now we are suffering, we are hungry. We have nothing to eat and we have left other children there.” | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-renewed-clashes-in-east-congo-send-residents-fleeing/ | 2022-10-29 14:24:37 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/international/ap-renewed-clashes-in-east-congo-send-residents-fleeing/ |
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank kept its main interest rate unchanged for a fifth month running on Thursday despite an annual inflation rate of nearly 70%.
The bank said it would keep its policy rate “constant” at 14%, arguing inflation was driven by geopolitical developments and the “temporary effects of pricing formations.” The bank set its expectation for disinflation to begin following measures for price stability and the resolution of an ongoing regional conflict, an apparent reference to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The decision was in line with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s opposition to high borrowing costs in a bid to boost growth, investment and exports. The Turkish leader insists that high borrowing costs cause inflation — a position that contradicts established economic thinking.
Turkey’s central bank has cut rates by five percentage points since September — down to 14% —despite high inflation rates before pausing them since January. The series of rate cuts last year triggered a currency crisis and rising prices which have been aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising energy price rises.
Yearly inflation hit 69.97% in April, deepening the squeeze on households that were already struggling to purchase basic goods.
The central bank’s decision comes as the Turkish lira resumed its decline. The lira has lost about 18% of its value against the dollar since the beginning of the year. The lira’s depreciation was slowed from a rapid fall in December when the government introduced unconventional measures instead of raising interest rates. The lira lost about 44% of its value against the dollar last year.
In an effort to soften the blow on households, the government has implemented tax cuts on basic goods. | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/turkish-central-banks-keeps-rate-at-14-despite-inflation/ | 2022-05-27 01:23:07 | 0 | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/turkish-central-banks-keeps-rate-at-14-despite-inflation/ |
The city of Easton is asking for resident volunteers to help shape the development and growth of the city.
Easton Mayor Sal Panto Jr. announced this week that he is seeking up to seven volunteers from each of the city’s neighborhoods to join several Neighborhood Advisory Task Forces.
According to a release from the mayor’s office, one task force will be established for each of Easton’s neighborhoods – College Hill, Downtown, Southside and West Ward.
In a statement, Panto said recommendations from the task forces’ volunteers will help determine and develop a strategic plan for each neighborhood, taking into account each area’s different needs.
Residents interested in serving on a Neighborhood Advisory Task Force should call the mayor’s Executive Assistant, Carlton Ketchen.
An initial combined meeting of all task force members will take place April 19 at 6 p.m. in city hall.
Panto said new investment has expanded Easton’s tax base, which has allowed the city to address each neighborhood’s needs and wants.
He noted that several issues have already surfaced and are being addressed. These include affordable housing, park and playground upgrades, and developing a strategy to attract locally-owned small businesses and services.
In his release, Panto also announced three new neighborhood pop-up festivals scheduled for April and May.
The festivals will be held on:
- April 22 at Nevin Park, College Hill
- April 29 at Centennial Park, West Ward
- May 6 at the Easton Area Neighborhood Center, Southside
All festivals will run from noon to 5 p.m.
(Original air-date: 4/14/23) | https://www.wdiy.org/wdiy-headlines/2023-04-14/easton-seeking-volunteers-to-join-advisory-task-forces-guide-neighborhood-development-wdiy-local-news | 2023-04-15 04:32:43 | 1 | https://www.wdiy.org/wdiy-headlines/2023-04-14/easton-seeking-volunteers-to-join-advisory-task-forces-guide-neighborhood-development-wdiy-local-news |
A roundup of the week's most newsworthy sports industry press releases from PR Newswire, including a matchup of Manchester United and Arsenal in the U.S.
NEW YORK, May 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the sports industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.
- Manchester United to Face Off Against Arsenal in Historic Matchup at MetLife Stadium July 22
Manchester United and Arsenal are two of the most famous and successful clubs in English football, with 114 major trophies between them and a long history of thrilling and intensely competitive encounters. However, they have never played each other before in the U.S. This match will offer fans an unprecedented opportunity to witness the storied rivalry between these powerhouse clubs in action. - Planet Fitness Invites Teens to Work Out for Free All Summer Long from May 15 - August 31
In its third year, High School Summer Pass continues to offer high schoolers a way to stay active during the summer months in a fun, safe, and Judgement Free environment. - 11th Hour Racing Hosts Film Screening in Collaboration with Protect Our Winters
Shaped by Water comprises a short art film with an original score by Grammy Award-winning sound designer and composer Todd Hannigan and a documentary highlighting humans' intricate connection to all forms of water. - The American Kennel Club National Agility Championship Leaps Onto ESPN2
"Agility is a high-energy competition, and we can't wait for ESPN viewers to get a front row seat to the action," said Carrie DeYoung, Director of Agility. "The best of the best competed, so it will be thrilling to watch." - L.L.Bean Goes "Off the Grid" for Mental Health Awareness Month, Partners with Mental Health America and Strava to Encourage Time Outside
Studies have shown spending time outdoors – whether in green spaces like parks or forests, blue spaces such as near lakes, rivers and coastlines, or even in urban environments – has significant mental health benefits, including greater creativity, lower levels of stress, increased self-esteem and reduced anxiety. - Bank of America Awards Negro Leagues Baseball Museum $1M Grant for New Facility This funding will enable the NLBM to provide the latest state of the art technology that will be used to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity through the lens of America's unsung baseball heroes who overcame tremendous social adversity to play baseball.
- World Rugby Welcomes Gallagher as Official Partner of Women's Rugby, WXV and Rugby World Cup 2025
New multi-year global partnership represents Gallagher's commitment to help grow participation in women's rugby and improve the pathway for women at elite levels of the sport. - Purina and St. Louis CITY SC Introduce New, Dedicated Dog-Friendly Space In CITYPARK for Fans and Their Furry Friends to Catch All of the Action
With sweeping views of CITYPARK, the Purina Club features four loges, each with space to accommodate two dogs and four humans. The space is the first permanent and dedicated pet-friendly section in an MLS stadium. - Athletx Sports Group and SquadLocker Partner on Custom Team Apparel for Diamond Sports Brands
This new partnership with SquadLocker brings custom online team apparel to all of the Athletic Sports Group brands. Athletic Sports Group players, coaches, and fans will be able to take advantage of SquadLocker's groundbreaking e-commerce software and single-unit fulfillment services allowing for quick turnaround of customized apparel with the convenience of ship-to-home individual delivery. - Shawne Merriman's Lights Out Xtreme Fighting Partners with SeventySix Capital Sports Advisory
"I can't tell you how excited I am to have SeventySix Capital as a partner with LXF as we grow into an international brand," says Shawne Merriman, founder of Lights Out Xtreme Fighting. "I brought the same attitude, dedication, and energy I had on the NFL field to the sport of MMA with Lights Out Xtreme fighting. For that reason, growth is the essential next step." - Orangetheory Fitness Teams Up with Golden Globe Winner and New Mom Gina Rodriguez to Champion the Global Fitness Brand's "Mother's Other Day" Movement
The company is declaring Monday, May 15, 2023, as Mother's Other Day. To celebrate this Mother's Day "take two," participating Orangetheory studios nationwide will offer new and existing members a free class to ensure that moms can take at least 60 minutes for themselves that day. - 59FIFTY Day Celebrates Global Influence of New Era's Iconic Cap
New Era Cap will release special caps in the week leading up to 59FIFTY Day (May 9) in celebration of the iconic 59FIFTY. The releases will include New Era branded headwear, pins and clips along with special releases of retro 1954 designs, reflecting the year the 59FIFTY was invented and featuring select MLB, NFL and NBA teams. - Híjole! Named Official Tequila Of New York Mets, Further Establishing The Brand Alongside Major Sport Teams
Through this partnership, two new Híjole!-branded bars have opened at Citi Field and visitors will be able to order Híjole! Tequila throughout the stadium, just in time for the New York Mets game on Cinco de Mayo.
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Supreme Court denies review of Sherman man’s death row conviction
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it will not hear the Sherman capitol murder case of Andre Lee Thomas.
According to the Grayson County’s District Attorney’s Office, Thomas was convicted in the 15th District Court of Grayson County in March 2005 for the capital murder of a child, Leyha Marie Hughes, in Sherman on March 27, 2004, and sentenced to the death penalty by a jury. Thomas had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Evidence at trial showed that on March 27, 2004, Thomas walked to the residence of his estranged wife, Laura Christine Thomas, and upon entry, brutally stabbed her and two young children, Andre Lee Boren and Leyha Hughes, to death.
The district attorneys office said Thomas later stabbed himself and then surrendered to police. He underwent surgery and was later held in the Grayson County Jail where he removed one of his eyes. He was initially found incompetent and hospitalized but was later found to be competent to stand trial.
According to the DA’s office the case was appealed to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals where it was affirmed on direct appeal and in a subsequent appeal by way of a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Appeals were also taken to the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and now the U.S. Supreme Court all of whom affirmed the conviction and sentence.
“This opinion by the Supreme Court today is an affirmation of 18 years of hard work of our office, law enforcement, and the office of the attorney general,” said Grayson County District Attorney Brett Smith. “Our office is going to continue to work diligently to fight for justice on behalf of these family members of the victims of this case. This was probably one of the most horrific murder cases in the history of Grayson County.”
The 15th District Court of Grayson county will request an execution date pending any further pleadings or motions filed.
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Latest addition continues to expand and broaden firm's existing leadership pipeline
HOUSTON, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Greg Baker, CEO/President, of JD Martin is pleased to announce Kelly Johns has joined the company as Regional Vice President for the Houston Region, effective June 15, 2023.
"Kelly has a deep understanding of how our customer needs, distributors and manufacturers all fit together" said Matt Garavaglia, EVP of Texas and Oklahoma. "His background means he understands how to present solutions that create real value for our customers. His sales leadership made him a great choice to lead the Houston Market."
Kelly Johns said, "I'm honored for the opportunity to continue to develop my career at JD Martin." Johns added, "I really look forward to working with the entire JDM team, our world-class manufacturers and distributors. It is exciting to be part of such a great company and to be able to use my previous electrical distribution and contractor experience to help lead our successful efforts in the Houston area."
As a Texas native, Johns has developed a strong reputation and service background in the electrical market. He brings a solid leadership and a sales focused approach that was developed from his deep experience while employed in electrical distribution, contractor and manufacturer roles.
Johns earned a B.A. from Texas Christian University. During his college career, Kelly was a student athlete and pitched for the Horned Frogs for four years.
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JD Martin Company is an electrical manufacturers' representative agency that sells and markets premier lines of electrical products to OEM and MRO contractors, and end-user markets through wholesale distribution. For more than 68 years, we have supported industries such as oil & gas, mining, steel, waste water treatment, wind power generation and commercial construction. We offer impactful solutions and sell electrical products, through qualified electrical distributor channels, in over 16 states in territories that include Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, The Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. To learn more about JD Martin click here.
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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is nearing a decision on a presidential run and is already filming television ads for his potential bid for the GOP nomination, according to two people familiar with his thinking.
The people familiar with Burgum’s thinking spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.
Burgum has not established much of a national political footprint and would face a challenge building name recognition in a prospective GOP field with more well-known candidates. Already in the race is former president Donald Trump. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to officially enter the race next week.
A North Dakota native who grew up in Arthur, a town of 300 people where his family ran a grain elevator business, Burgum ran for governor on a platform of fiscal conservatism, promising to curb “runaway spending” and restore the state’s economy, which was struggling because of low energy and farm commodity prices. His tagline in that race was “a new leader for a changing economy.”
In a recent interview with the editorial board of the Forum in Fargo, Burgum said there was a competitive advantage to “being underestimated all the time.”
He has also raised concern about the nation’s political polarization, arguing that 60 percent of Americans are a “silent majority” who are not being represented in the political debate.
“All the engagement right now is occurring on the edge,” Burgum told the Forum editorial board. “There’s definitely a yearning for some alternatives right now.”
At the same time, Burgum has embraced some staunchly conservative policies, including signing a near-total ban on abortion in his state this year. Burgum has also signed legislation that bans providing gender-affirming care to minors and a bill that bars public schools and government entities from requiring teachers and employees to use a transgender person’s pronouns.
In a recent appearance on the “Plain Talk With Rob Port” podcast, Burgum said he had not made a final decision about running and he did not rule out the possibility of running for governor again in 2024. CBS News was the first to report Thursday morning that Burgum was learning toward jumping into the 2024 race.
While Burgum has both raised money from others and invested his own money in his previous campaigns, his personal wealth could help him build the campaign infrastructure needed to raise money to qualify for the Republican debate stage. The Washington Post has previously reported that candidates are expected to have 40,000 donors to participate in the debates, according to people familiar with the process.
Burgum was an entrepreneur before entering politics. While attending North Dakota State University, he started a chimney sweeping business — a part of his background that he has said intrigued officials at Stanford University when he was applying to get his MBA.
He returned to his home state and helped build Great Plains Software — mortgaging part of the farmland that his father had left him to invest $250,000 in the company. He led Great Plains Software until it was acquired by Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001, and he remained at Microsoft as senior vice president until 2007. At the time he stepped down to run for governor, Burgum was chairman of Atlassian, a software company based in Australia.
Burgum told Forbes in a 2017 interview that he was inspired to run for governor because he had been watching how technology was changing every job, company and industry: “The next frontiers are education, health care, transportation — and the government touches all of these things,” he said at the time. “Doesn’t it make sense to have an elected leader who gets it?” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/05/18/burgum-presidential-election-gop-2024/ | 2023-05-18 22:18:18 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/05/18/burgum-presidential-election-gop-2024/ |
HONOLULU (AP) — As Hawaii’s governor, David Ige faced a volcanic eruption that destroyed 700 homes, protests blocking construction of a cutting-edge multibillion-dollar telescope and a false alert about an incoming ballistic missile. During the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism shut down and Hawaii’s unemployment rate soared to 22.4%.
Crisis response is one way to sum up the Democrat’s eight years leading Hawaii, which are due to wrap up when his successor, Lt. Gov. Josh Green, is inaugurated on Dec. 5.
“It’s stressful, especially during public health emergencies,” Ige said during a recent interview reflecting on his two terms in office. “There are people who don’t like what you do and they don’t like decisions made. And today, they can let you know that.”
Yet the 65-year-old former electrical engineer said that he agrees with other governors who told him shortly after his 2014 election that he was about to get the best job he could ever have.
“You have direct impact on the quality of people’s lives. What we do matters to people every single day,” Ige said.
Ige cited progress he made on affordable housing and homelessness. But he’s most proud of how he responded to the pandemic, and it’s what he’d like to be remembered for after he leaves.
A report by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based nonprofit foundation, found Hawaii had the lowest “excess mortality” rate among the 50 states, a statistic measuring deaths that exceed historical norms for a given time and place. Ige said that Hawaii’s health care system was always able to care for both COVID-19 patients and others throughout the pandemic.
Ige said that he wanted to protect Hawaii’s older people and the health and safety of residents. He didn’t want Hawaii’s hospitals to be overwhelmed, since people would have difficulty getting medical care from a neighboring state.
“We knew that it’s not about driving somebody to the next county or flying somebody to get services. We’re 2,500 miles away from anywhere,” Ige said.
Ige signed executive orders that required wearing masks in public and limiting the size of gatherings. Unique among the 50 states, Hawaii imposed a 14-day quarantine on incoming travelers and actively enforced it. This order effectively shuttered the state’s tourism industry, which is a key economic driver, but officials believe that it also slowed the spread of COVID-19.
Kirk Caldwell, who was Honolulu’s mayor when the pandemic began, said that Ige was under “huge pressure” from people urging him to impose public health protections faster. Later, people pushed him to ease up as conditions improved.
Ige also juggled some counties wanting more restrictions while others wanted looser rules.
Honolulu City Councilmember Andria Tupola, who ran against Ige as the Republican nominee for governor in 2018, praised Ige’s even temperament and acceptance of criticism. But she said that he should have shared power with state legislators or held public hearings instead of issuing COVID-19 executive orders for two years.
“You got to pull back and you got to wean yourself off of making all the decisions, and then start to trust that other leaders collectively can join in the decision making,” she said.
Hawaii House Speaker Scott Saiki, a Democrat, said that Ige’s cautious approach contributed to both successes and failures. It was important for Ige to avoid making hasty decisions and to not overreact during the pandemic, but too often the governor suffered from “analysis paralysis,” he said.
“There were so many times when we wanted him to just take control of the situation, and provide some leadership and direction,” Saiki said. “And it just didn’t happen.”
Lawmakers stepped in on multiple occasions to take on roles that one would expect of the executive branch.
Saiki pointed to how the Legislature mobilized volunteers to help the state process unemployment insurance claims pouring in during the pandemic. He also said that lawmakers worked with Honolulu hospitals to set up two COVID-19 mass vaccination clinics.
There’s also the Thirty Meter Telescope project. The prolonged standoff over its construction on the summit of Mauna Kea, a place many Native Hawaiians consider sacred, deepened community divide.
The House later created a working group that developed recommendations for a new approach to managing Mauna Kea, leading to legislation that Ige signed.
The governor said that he regularly evaluated his response to emergencies and tried to adjust.
“It’s always about being focused on priorities to help you make decisions, and then doing what’s best for the community,” he said. “I’ve tried to make sure that we maintain that focus.”
Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami said that he admired Ige’s ability to handle difficult situations and criticism with grace. He said he aspired to be that kind of leader.
“I’ve just seen a person that was willing to stand in the middle of a storm, wake up every single day and give it his all,” Kawakami said.
Several people who worked closely with Ige said that they never saw him lose his temper or lash out at colleagues, even in stressful situations. Observers from near and far said that they never heard him speak ill of anyone.
Ige didn’t deflect responsibility in 2018 when the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, or HIEMA, terrified residents by accidentally sending an alert across airwaves and cell phones saying that a ballistic missile was heading to the islands.
Caldwell said that a more typical politician would have found someone to blame, fired them and swiftly stepped away from the issue.
“Instead he stood up immediately and apologized for the mistakes made by HIEMA, and continued to apologize throughout the rest of the day and throughout the rest of the week,” Caldwell said.
After an internal investigation, the employee who sent the alert was fired . Ige wouldn’t be pressured by the public or the media into rushing a decision, Caldwell said.
“He’s the most non-politician politician that I’ve come across in my time as mayor,” Caldwell said.
Once out of office, Ige hopes to exercise more, boosting his once-weekly runs to three to four times a week.
He plans to take some software development classes and looks forward to visiting his children living in California and Washington state.
He’s not interested in serving in Congress and doesn’t plan to run for another elected office. He said that he enjoyed his time as governor.
“I worked very hard to do the right thing in the right way on behalf of the community,” he said. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-hawaii-gov-ige-looks-back-on-coronavirus-tourism-shutdown/ | 2022-11-28 00:49:26 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-hawaii-gov-ige-looks-back-on-coronavirus-tourism-shutdown/ |
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The Pima County Sheriff's Department (PCSD) responded to a call regarding a man down in the area of South Nogales Highway and East Felix Road.
The incident occurred on Thursday just after 8 p.m.
As deputies arrived, they found a dead man lying on the edge of the roadway.
They say the man was hit by a car.
Responding crews identified the man as 47-year-old Johnny Laurelez.
Authorities say the responsible vehicle and driver left the area at first.
According to the PCSD, Laurelez had been walking southbound on Nogales Highway, when he was hit by a southbound car.
About an hour after deputies were called to the scene, 50-year-old Johnny Badilla came back and confessed he had hit a person or animal in this area.
Badilla did not stop, but instead continued home before returning to the scene.
Deputies went to Badilla’s residence and located his vehicle, which had damage consistent with this crash.
Badilla was arrested and charged with failing to stop and remain at an accident involving death.
This investigation remains ongoing. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/deadly-pedestrian-hit-near-nogales-highway | 2023-07-14 22:49:12 | 0 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/deadly-pedestrian-hit-near-nogales-highway |
BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) _ Gogo Inc. (GOGO) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $22.2 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Broomfield, Colorado-based company said it had profit of 18 cents.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 13 cents per share.
The in-flight internet provider posted revenue of $92.8 million in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $90.2 million.
Gogo expects full-year revenue in the range of $390 million to $400 million.
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TAIZHOU, China, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co., Ltd. (the "Company", together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") is pleased to announce that, the Group has recently received a notice of acceptance from the National Medical Products Administration to accept the application for a clinical trial of in-housed developed novel adjuvanted recombinant quadruvalent HPV vaccine, REC604a.
The REC604a is equipped with the novel adjuvanted BFA04 independently developed by the Company, which aims to reduce the dose of vaccination by enhancing the immunogenicity and cross-protection effects. Reducing dose number helps save costs and increase vaccination rates, which is recommended by regulatory agencies such as the WHO. Preclinical studies have shown that the BFA04 adjuvant enhances the neutralizing antibodies by 7.7 times when compared with using an aluminum adjuvant. Compared with three-shot of HPV vaccine Gardasil, the levels of HPV neutralizing antibodies induced by two-shot of REC604a were higher than those induced by three-shot of Gardasil. In 24 weeks after the last immunization procedure, the decreasing trend of neutralizing antibody titer induced by REC604a was slower than that induced by Gardasil.
The notice of acceptance of the clinical trial for REC604a further indicates the Company's leading strength in the field of novel adjuvanted vaccines, enhances the Company's core competitiveness and market position, and is expected to provide a better prevention option for accelerating the increase of HPV vaccination rate in China.
In accordance with Article 32 of the Administrative Licensing Law of the People's Republic of China, it is decided to accept it upon examination. Within 60 days from the date of acceptance, if no negative or questioning opinion is received from the Center for Drug Evaluation, the Company may carry out clinical trials in accordance with the submitted plan.
About Recbio
Founded in 2012, Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Recbio or the Company; stock code: 02179.HK) is an innovative vaccine company driven by self-developed technologies. We are dedicated to the R&D, production and commercialization of innovative vaccines, leveraging our core technology platforms (novel adjuvant, protein engineering, immunological evaluation). Staying true to the mission of "Protect human health with best-in-class vaccines", the Company has established high-value pipelines consisting of several blockbuster vaccines with proprietary rights to satisfy the huge unmet demands in the markets of high-burden diseases.
Through years of devotion to the vaccine industry, Recbio has developed three advanced innovative technology platforms, namely novel adjuvant, protein engineering and immunological evaluation platforms, and become one of the few companies in the world capable of developing novel adjuvant systems. We develop promising vaccine candidates constantly, taking advantage of the synergy between the novel adjuvant platform, optimized antigen designs, and immunological evaluation technologies. Recbio never ceases to optimize its technology platforms, and strives to achieve breakthroughs in mRNA vaccines using a joint venture model.
With robust R&D capacity, the Company has developed high-value innovative vaccine portfolios consisting of ten-odd differentiated vaccines, covering cervical cancer, shingles, COVID-19, TB and other high-burden diseases. Our core product REC603, a recombinant 9-valent HPV vaccine in Phase III clinical trial, shows great promise of becoming the first marketed domestic 9-valent HPV vaccine. Apart from that, ReCOV, a recombinant COVID-19 vaccine with its commercialization in the offing, has been recognized as one of the most competitive next-generation COVID-19 vaccines in the world. Recbio has a clear commercialization strategy aiming to penetrate the diversified global vaccine market.
Honed and refined for ten years, Recbio is going to reap the rewards as several products are approaching commercialization.
For more information, please visit https://www.recbio.cn/.
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1 found dead, 3 hurt on beach below California cliff
Published: May. 23, 2022 at 12:10 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Southern California firefighters have found one person dead and three people injured on a beach below an ocean cliff.
Police in the city of Palos Verdes Estates called firefighters before dawn Monday to report a possible person over the side of the cliff.
Firefighters found the four people 300 feet below on the beach.
Fire dispatch supervisor Martin Rangel says one person was dead, two had trauma and one was suffering from minor injuries.
The victims are two females and two males. Officials say they have no details on what happened.
A trail runs along the top of the bluff high above the Pacific Ocean.
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83 percent of security professionals polled say the increase in rate of deployment has led to an increase in previously remediated vulnerabilities being reintroduced
DUBLIN and CHICAGO, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waratek, the Security-as-Code industry pioneer empowering security teams to scale with the speed of modern software development, announced today the results of the company's "What Security Professionals Really Think About DevOps" survey. The survey set out to uncover a greater understanding of what challenges security teams on the front lines face. The respondents largely agreed that the increased rate of software deployments has introduced a serious challenge to security teams, leading to burnout and higher security risks.
"The survey paints a picture of a very frustrated security industry," said Doug Ennis, CEO of Waratek. "The never-ending deployment treadmill has security teams feeling like they are moving fast but going nowhere. As software grows in complexity and release cycles continue to accelerate, previously fixed vulnerabilities are being reintroduced at an alarming rate, making it increasingly difficult to simply even maintain an existing security posture. Manual security processes in the DevOps process, even introduced earlier, just aren't a sustainable way to address the ever-growing threat landscape."
Key takeaways from the report include:
- Nearly 83 percent of security professionals say that the increase in rate of deployment led to an increase in previously remediated vulnerabilities being reintroduced.
- 61 percent of teams have to delay critical security work, even when security is "shifted left" in the DevOps process.
- Tooling is designed to save time, yet almost a third of security professionals spend nearly a third of their week investigating scanner results.
- More than 50 percent of security professionals say they spend days or weeks per year investigating false positives.
"What we found very interesting is that even though security teams are implementing manual security activities earlier in the DevOps process, it's just relocating existing pain," said Ennis. "It's clear that the time is ripe for a Security-as-Code platform that automates the desired security behavior within every deployment, release after release. Companies shouldn't have to choose between staying competitive or staying protected. By providing security teams the template to immutably tell their applications what behavior they want to secure and what they expect, both security and development teams can focus on just doing their jobs."
"Utilizing security as code enables organizations to scale with modern software development by codifying security and policy into development processes and workflows," explained Melinda Marks, Senior Analyst, ESG.
The full report from Waratek can be downloaded here.
ABOUT WARATEK
Waratek is the Security-as-Code industry pioneer empowering security teams to seamlessly scale with the speed of modern software development. Companies shouldn't have to choose between staying competitive or staying protected. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, and Dublin, Ireland, Waratek's multiple-award-winning solution is trusted by some of the world's most recognizable brands including IBM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more. The company has been recognized and awarded for its innovation in security deployment by CRN, CDM, Gartner Group, RSA, FinTech Innovation Lab, Computer Technology Review, and Government Computer News. For more information visit www.waratek.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or YouTube.
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NEW ORLEANS, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClaimsFiler, a FREE shareholder information service, reminds investors that they have until June 17, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. (NasdaqGS: LILM, LILMW, QELL, QELLU, QELLW), if they purchased the Company's securities between March 30, 2021 and March 14, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
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Lilium and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On March 14, 2022, market analyst Iceberg Research issued a report on the Company's electric vertical take-off and landing production aircraft, Lilium Jet, highlighting numerous significant problems in design, capability and testing performance as well as other supply and company-wide issues.
On this news, shares of Lilium fell $1.25 per share, or 34%, to close at $2.44 per share on March 14, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume.
The case is Gnanaraj v. Lilium N.V., et al., No. 22-cv-2564.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Hundreds of state employees in Virginia have resigned from their jobs amid the start of a new telework policy.
On May 5, Gov. Glenn Youngkin updated the telework policy for all state employees to begin working in-person full-time by July 5, a change the governor’s office stressed would provide “options for and supports the use of telework where appropriate.” Youngkin said it would help “balance the demands of government services with the needs of our public servants.”
Nexstar’s WRIC learned more than 300 state employees resigned since this new telework policy was announced in early May. Employees were given two weeks to submit their telework applications.
WRIC discovered that 28 out of 183 Virginia Department of Transportation workers who left their positions have cited telework options as their reason for leaving. Two VDOT workers who listed telework as the reason did move to another state agency, records obtained by WRIC after filing a Freedom of Information Act request show.
Since May, the Virginia Department of Health had 78 resignations and the Virginia Employment Commission had 37 resignations from May 5 to June 27. Virginia’s Department of Housing and Community Development had seven resignations from May 5 to July 6 and Virginia’s Department of Emergency Management had six resignations from May 4 to July 7.
Most of the departments did not provide reasons for the resignations, but the Department of Housing shared that 29 former workers cited “Better Job,” three said “Dissatisfied,” six cited “Home Responsibilities,” two listed “Illness,” seven said they were leaving the area, three cited “School” and 27 listed “Other” as the reason.
Some employees said they are concerned with losing the flexibility that comes with telework. Others also raised concerns about the increasing cost of travel and trouble arranging childcare.
VGEA, a volunteer, nonpartisan organization that advocates for Virginia state employees, surveyed its members and the results showed that some felt the policy was rushed, confusing and inefficient.
State employees were given two weeks to submit telework applications and the administration set a June 3 deadline to review all of the requests, but Youngkin missed that goal. The governor’s office told WRIC that some agencies received an overwhelming amount of requests and some workers submitted applications late. Still, the July 5 back-to-work deadline remained in place.
There are more than 21,000 state employees eligible for telework and 46% of those workers chose a telework option. Youngkin’s office told WRIC in a FOIA response that as of July 7, there were at least 1,500 final applications.
It’s unclear how many state workers returned to the office when the deadline hit Tuesday. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/hundreds-of-virginia-state-employees-resign-amid-new-policy-to-bring-them-back-to-the-office/ | 2022-07-10 16:02:16 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/hundreds-of-virginia-state-employees-resign-amid-new-policy-to-bring-them-back-to-the-office/ |
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A federal trial for the man who fatally shot 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue approached its conclusion Friday as the defense, trying to persuade a jury to spare his life, pressed its case that mental illness spurred the nation’s deadliest antisemitic attack.
Robert Bowers, a 50 year-old truck driver from suburban Baldwin, was convicted in June on 63 criminal counts for the 2018 massacre at Tree of Life synagogue. The jury has been hearing testimony in the penalty phase of the trial and will decide whether Bowers will receive the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
Prosecutors have presented evidence that Bowers was motivated by his hatred of Jewish people when he opened fire at the synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, killing members of three congregations gathered for Sabbath worship and study. The defense argues Bowers has schizophrenia and acted out of a delusional belief that Jews were participating in a genocide of white people.
On Friday, a defense psychiatrist who met with Bowers 10 times for nearly 40 hours said Bowers saw himself as a soldier of God in a war in which Satan was trying to use Jewish people to bring about the end of the world. Dr. George Corvin, of Raleigh, N.C., said it was a delusion brought on by psychosis.
Corvin said Bowers continues to express delusional beliefs about Jews — “disgustingly so” — and that he is incapable of remorse. He said Bowers should be on anti-psychotic medication.
Bowers “has a belief that we’re at the end of a war that’s been going on for thousands of years,” Corvin testified. “He still envisions what he did as an unfortunate act of violence at the direction of God — that it will save lives. He believes he’s a tool for God. I know it sounds absurd. It’s psychotic.”
Corvin continued: “This is the result of a mental illness.”
Corvin was one of several defense experts who diagnosed Bowers with schizophrenia, a serious brain disorder whose symptoms include delusions and hallucinations. A neurologist testifying for the prosecution disputed that Bowers has schizophrenia, saying Bowers has a personality disorder but is not delusional, and that mental illness did not appear to play a role in the attack. Prosecutors have noted Bowers spent six months planning the shooting.
Also testifying Friday were Bowers’ aunt and uncle.
The uncle, Clyde Munger, said he visited with Bowers in prison because “he is my nephew and I love him.” He said he prays for Bowers every morning.
The aunt, Patricia Fine, was expected to the final defense witness. She said Bowers had a difficult childhood from infancy, describing the house where he lived as unsafe. She said he was a sad child and that she “was convinced” he would take his own life. A defense expert previously described Bowers’ early life as deeply unstable and said he attempted suicide several times in his teens.
Fine’s testimony was scheduled to resume Monday, with closing arguments and jury deliberations expected to follow. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-defense-presses-case-that-mental-illness-spurred-pittsburgh-synagogue-massacre/ | 2023-07-29 21:38:36 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-defense-presses-case-that-mental-illness-spurred-pittsburgh-synagogue-massacre/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wi-Fiber, a smart network infrastructure provider and winner of the prestigious Smart 50 International Smart City Award, is partnering with Lux Speed to provide an end-to-end connectivity solution. Both companies are experiencing rapid expansion across the nation, with their respective enhanced fiber capabilities and growing smart city/campus deployments.
Lux Speed, headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. is a premier provider of fiber to the home and smart infrastructure. The partnership will allow Wi-Fiber to deepen its current capabilities with universities, cities, and multi-dwelling unit communities.
"The possibilities are endless", said Adair Grover, CEO of Wi-Fiber, "combining our technology with their world-class fiber infrastructure and design will allow our organization to systematically improve student experience, creating real smart cities that can extend to your individual residency, and eliminating the inadequacy of traditional cable providers. Partnering with Lux Speed truly provides a complete solution."
Michael Bertamini, CEO of Lux Speed stated: "Wi-Fiber is well known for its advanced technology and critical thinking to resolve technological constraints. We are honored to support their efforts and find ways to take their advanced AI and bring that to our client base as well. Lux Speed will continue to only partner with best of breed solution and technology providers like Wi-Fiber"
This marks another premier organization added to Lux Speed's partnerships and a major win for the Wi-Fiber team. Both organizations look forward to continuing to offer their customers the best experience in the market.
CONTACT: Shelby Sisler Fenton, ssisler@luxspeed.io
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Jenna Bush Hager had a memorable night with her "family of Swifties!"
Jenna and her husband, Henry, took daughters Mila, 10, and Poppy, 7, to Taylor Swift's concert on May 19 in Foxborough, Massachusetts, for the Eras Tour, a three-hours long show that takes audience members through more than 40 songs from 10 albums — all from a different "era" of the singer's life.
For the concert, Jenna and her daughters matched in T-shirts with “Swift 89” emblazoned on the front, a reference to Swift’s fifth studio album “1989.” Paired with their tees, Mila and Poppy wore sparkly pants, while Jenna wore black leather pants, seeming to perfectly channel her "Reputation" era.
Jenna shared the sweet family snaps with an Instagram post May 20, set to "Style," one of Swift's hits from "1989."
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"ONE for the ERAS! TS forever," Jenna captioned the post, adding a heart emoji. "So fun being a family of Swifties!"
In the first photo, Jenna and her family pose in front of the stage towards the beginning of the concert.
Mila and Poppy twin in jean jackets before later changing into their official Eras Tour merchandise: white hoodie sweatshirts.
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Jenna and Henry also pose for several cute pics, including a sweet photo of them sharing a kiss with the stage as the perfect backdrop.
On her Instagram story, Jenna shared a mirror selfie with her family, using another Swift lyric reference to sum up their concert experience.
"Last night was a fairytale," she captioned the pic.
She also shared a sweet video of Henry and Poppy dancing along to Swift's "22." In the video, Henry scoops up Poppy and bounces her on his hip. As he sets her down, she jumps to the beat of the music as her dad holds her hand.
Jenna revealed that she was going to Swift's concert on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna May 19. She noted that her son, Hal, 3, was too young to attend.
When Hoda asked who was more excited for the show, Mila or Poppy, Jenna answered simply, "Both. Me."
To prepare, Jenna said her family made a playlist based off of her setlist, but she noted that doesn't include the two surprise songs Swift sings at each show.
“We have been listening to it everywhere,” Jenna said.
Swifties online report that the singer performed her hits "Better Man" and "Should've Said No" as the surprise songs for Friday's show.
As for Henry's outfit, Jenna teased that she wanted him to wear a shirt with lyrics from Swift's song, "Anti-Hero" — "It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me."
"He might like a Willie Nelson T-shirt," she said Friday, with a laugh.
But while he doesn't have sparkles, Jenna was clear: Henry is a Swiftie.
"He wouldn't miss it for the world," she said. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/jenna-bush-hager-takes-daughters-mila-and-poppy-to-taylor-swift-concert-one-for-the-eras/3570433/ | 2023-05-21 02:34:07 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/jenna-bush-hager-takes-daughters-mila-and-poppy-to-taylor-swift-concert-one-for-the-eras/3570433/ |
The $11 million investment will advance the company's hybrid musculoskeletal care platform
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Limber Health, Inc., a leader in merging in-clinic and digital musculoskeletal care, has today announced the closing of an oversubscribed $11 million Series A investment.
The round was led by Blue Venture Fund, a unique collaboration among thirty-four Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) plans and special purpose licensees, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and Sandbox, with participation from Glenview Capital. In connection with the financing, Dr. Emir Sandhu, Managing Director at Blue Venture Fund, and Ankit Chadha, Principal at Glenview Capital, have joined Limber Health's Board of Directors.
Founded in 2019, Limber partners with provider groups to offer a unique, hybrid in-person and digital approach to musculoskeletal (MSK) care through its digital home exercise therapy, remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM), data analytics, and care navigation platform. With more than half of US adults suffering from MSK pain every year, Limber works with providers, payers, and employers to deliver patient-centered digital care solutions, improving access and adherence to evidence-based MSK care.
"Limber Health is proud to announce our Series A with the world-renowned healthcare investment teams at Blue Venture Fund and Glenview Capital," said Michael Gruner, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Limber Health. "As MSK continues to be a leading cost driver in healthcare, we see a gap in the market for solutions driving real impact on reducing unnecessary costs. Both digital and in-clinic services are fundamental to maximize impact on patient outcomes and total episode costs, and we are focused on building the leading platform for delivery of hybrid MSK care. With the financing, we look forward to further enhancing our platform and growing our provider and payer partnerships."
Unlike other digital MSK solutions, Limber focuses on partnering with provider groups, empowering in-clinic providers to deliver a hybrid approach to care. Limber has also developed innovative value-based care models in close partnership with providers and payers.
"MSK continues to be a top focus area for payers and we are excited to partner with Limber Health to address one of the most important problems in healthcare," said Dr. Emir Sandhu. "We have strong conviction in Limber's innovative hybrid care model, which has demonstrated exceptional outcomes, and the team has built a robust network of provider partnerships nationwide."
Limber will use the new financing to continue to expand and innovate its musculoskeletal platform and services.
Limber is building the world's leading hybrid model of in-person and digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care. Developed by physicians and physical therapists, Limber enables providers with a complete digital toolkit for remote therapeutic monitoring and the shift to value-based MSK health care. Clinically validated through research conducted at Mayo Clinic and awarded Most Impactful New Technology by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Limber empowers providers in augmenting in-person clinician visits with digital at-home support to best meet patients where they are. To learn more, visit www.limberhealth.com
Blue Venture Fund is a unique collaboration among Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, an association of BCBS companies, and Sandbox, to which thirty-four BCBS plans and special purpose licensees have committed over $890 million across four funds. Blue Venture Fund invests in promising emerging companies of strategic relevance to BCBS companies and provides its portfolio with access to BCBS companies to deploy innovation at scale. Sandbox is an independent company that provides healthcare-related investment management exclusively for the Blue Venture Fund. For more information, visit www.blueventurefund.com
Glenview Capital Management ("Glenview Capital") is a New York based privately held investment management firm founded in 2000 by Larry Robbins. Throughout its 20+ year history, Glenview Capital has invested in public and private companies across several sectors, including a focus on healthcare. Glenview Capital partners closely with management teams and Boards of portfolio companies to drive long term value creation.
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Inside the mind of Sirianni ahead of Super Bowl LVII
February 7, 2023 01:53 PM
Peter King joins Mike Florio and Chris Simms to provide insight from the latest chapter of his Super Bowl tradition of driving with a coach, this time Nick Sirianni, ahead of Super Bowl LVII. | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nfl/profootballtalk/inside-the-mind-of-sirianni-ahead-of-super-bowl-lvii | 2023-07-02 05:19:51 | 0 | https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/nfl/profootballtalk/inside-the-mind-of-sirianni-ahead-of-super-bowl-lvii |
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Jose, CA, and a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, today announced it will report its third quarter fiscal year 2022 financial results and business outlook on Thursday, September 1, 2022 after the close of the market. Broadcom's management will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time on the same day to discuss these results and business outlook.
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM (PT); 5:00 PM (ET)
To Listen via Telephone: Preregistration is required by the conference call operator. Please preregister at https://register.vevent.com/register/BI4b942b6b1ed0474fab3f1f6f2d0f2b98. Upon registering, you will be emailed a link to the dial-in number and unique PIN.
To Listen via Internet: The conference call can be accessed live online in the Investors section of the Broadcom website at https://investors.broadcom.com/.
Replay: An audio replay of the conference call can be accessed through the Investors section of Broadcom's website at https://investors.broadcom.com/.
About Broadcom Inc.
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Jose, CA, is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Broadcom's category-leading product portfolio serves critical markets including data center, networking, enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and industrial. Our solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise, mainframe and cyber security software focused on automation, monitoring and security, smartphone components, telecoms and factory automation. For more information, go to https://investors.broadcom.com/.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Logan Ryan won a pair of Super Bowls in New England while playing with Tom Brady, picked off his final pass with the Patriots for a touchdown and has reunited with him on the Buccaneers.
Getting another ring together in Tampa Bay is a clear goal.
“We’ve been in locker rooms together. We’ve been in Super Bowls together. I played in playoff games against him,” Ryan said on the AP Pro Football Podcast. “I miss that competitiveness in practice. What I look forward to right now, competing against him and me getting better, going against him in practice to make me as prepared as I need to be for the season.”
The 31-year-old Ryan, a third-round draft pick by New England in 2013, was a starting cornerback on the 2016 Patriots team that rallied from a 28-3 deficit against Atlanta to win the Super Bowl. He left after that season and spent three years in Tennessee. In an AFC wild-card game at Gillette Stadium on Jan. 4, 2020, Ryan intercepted Brady’s last pass for New England and returned it 9 yards for a score in the final seconds to seal a 20-13 victory.
Ryan doesn’t playfully remind him about that one.
“He has one of those memories where he doesn’t forget it so I don’t have to, but he also knows how to move on pretty quickly, and he moved on and got a Super Bowl after that,” Ryan said. “And I moved on here to do the same. So, it’s just part of our legacy. Tom has been one of my favorite players, one of my favorite teammates, and I’ve always felt like I played my best when I was with him and I played my best against him.
“He demands the best out of you as a competitor going with him and against him. And that’s why I’m excited to get back on his side. We’re not on the field at the same time. So I have to do what I do, which is come out, communicate, lead, demand the best of my teammates, be a great teammate, put my body on the line and make those plays. And it really does take that type of selfless attitude to win championships. It takes that type of bond. And I know me and Tom have a really tight bond and we’re try to bring our two sides together.”
Ryan is one of three former teammates who joined Brady in Tampa during the offseason, along with right guard Shaq Mason and defensive end Akiem Hicks. Brady also lost his pal Rob Gronkowski, who retired.
“I think when you’ve been in the trenches with those guys, you know what they’re all about,” Brady said in June. “I think the more of those guys that you have — that caliber of player that can play at a championship level — the better it is.”
Ryan played both safety spots for the New York Giants over the past two seasons and also took more than 200 snaps as a nickel cornerback. He joins third-year starter Antoine Winfield Jr. and fourth-year man Mike Edwards in the safety room and is excited to work in coach Todd Bowles’ defense.
“What I like the most about it is the aggressiveness and the attention to detail,” Ryan said. “They already told me they’re going to put a lot on me in terms of knowing multiple positions, but also communicating and taking command right away on that defense. Todd played safety as a player, and he’s obviously coached the position as a coordinator and now head coach. So he has high demand and high standards for his safety. So I was obviously brought in for a reason and I don’t take that lightly. I take the responsibility heavy and I want to do a good job with it.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Raymond “Red” Reddington is finally hanging up his famous black fedora and — fitting for a manipulative genius — he’s doing it on his own terms.
“The Blacklist” ends its 10-year NBC run Thursday with a two-hour send-off, and star James Spader says the cast and crew relished the chance to take their time saying goodbye.
“I was very, very glad we were able to end it exactly the way we wanted to end it. It was deliberate and we weren’t taken by surprise in terms of when the ending was going to come,” he tells The Associated Press. “You’ll see that the ending has conviction and we commit to it.”
The end of “The Blacklist” is a swan song for Reddington, one of the most intriguing and delicious characters on television. A master of brokering shadowy deals for criminals, he offered his help to the FBI tracking down the world’s most dangerous criminals.
Spader reveals that the show — filmed mostly in New York City with an embrace of international characters — went overseas for the finale. “The Blacklist” ends in Spain.
“I really felt like this was complete and I loved how it really completed a circle, in a way,” he says. “It wasn’t just an unbroken line from point A to point Z, but it was a circle of sorts.”
The show attracted Spader all those years ago because he was looking for something that would sustain both his interest and the viewer’s for more than 20 episodes a season, or in his words, create a “limitless landscape.”
The pilot introduced Reddington as an fugitive criminal whose enterprises were worldwide, checking one box for the actor. Spader was also looking for a show that was fluid in tone, which the pilot also delivered.
“I would not be as curious about a show that was either just a drama or a show that was just a comedy,” he says. “I felt that it was sort of nice that this show was very, very intense and brutal at times and then, at other times, very irreverent and sometimes very emotional.”
Reddington, infused with Spader’s elliptical charm, was a stylish addition to network TV, a character who could make an amazing frittata with just a toaster oven and who collected sabers from the Crimean War. He was not good, certainly, but not bad, either. “He’s a scary monster and people like him,” Spader says.
Reddington is deeply cultured, a man able to converse about Cary Grant, the Piazza del Campo in Siena or Kai Tak Airport. Nicknamed “The Concierge of Crime,” he said deeply profound things like, “Not every answer is worth knowing” and “I can only lead you to the truth. I can’t make you believe it.”
“He inhabits the whole world, he really does. He lives in it and he really loves it. And he loves life,” says Spader, a three-time Emmy winner. “I guess one would understand the value of life if one has to take it every so often.”
Even when laying low, Reddington shone. In the fifth season, he was reduced to living in a motor lodge, hanging poolside wearing a baseball cap, but rose again. In federal prison, he managed to drink little bottles of smuggled-in champagne. Reddington was fearless.
“He’s someone who would show reason and caution but he was never fearful of anything. That sort of combination, I think, is compelling for people when faced with so much in one’s life and the world around you,” Spader says.
“I think there’s something compelling, I guess, in losing yourself in a story, going on a ride along with someone, not fearful of whatever might be around the next corner or what might be across that threshold that you’re just about to cross.”
Another thing that sustained “The Blacklist” was its marriage between a weekly procedural needing an end and an overarching, serialized story that started with the pilot and never paused until the finale.
“People could enter the show or sort of access it at any time, and there would be a certain amount of satisfaction in that,” says Spader. “And yet for those people who wanted to stay with it, then it was satisfying as a long and circuitous journey.”
Ten years ago, Spader’s Reddington promised the FBI access to his lengthy roster of politicians, mobsters, hackers, spies — “the criminals who matter,” he taunted agents in the pilot, “the ones you can’t find because you don’t even know they exist.”
A decade later it was Spader during the Hollywood writers’ strike who helped get the finale onto screens. He turned out to be the only executive producer able to help get the last two episodes out.
Spader said Reddington is a welcome addition to his off-kilter gallery of TV characters, which includes Alan Shore on “Boston Legal” and Robert California from “The Office.”
“He sits very comfortably with all the others. He’s got his own place at the table,” the actor says. “It feels complete and sometimes you’re not done with someone that you’ve played. I don’t harbor any regret.”
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BLOOMINGTON – The weight of the McLean County/Heart of Illinois Conference Tournament top seed appeared to sit heavily on the shoulders of the Lexington High School basketball team early in its quarterfinal matchup with LeRoy.
“We haven’t really been the top seed in a while so I think there was a little bit of expectation of the whole town coming out,” Minutemen junior Griffin Hari said. “But after the first quarter we really settled in.”
Lexington pulled even with No. 8 seed LeRoy entering halftime and controlled the second half to earn a 47-35 quarterfinal victory Monday at Shirk Center.
In the second quarterfinal, fifth-seeded Fieldcrest parlayed hot 3-point shooting into a 55-42 win over No. 4 El Paso-Gridley. Lexington and Fieldcrest meet in the semifinals at 6:30 p.m. Friday.
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Jack Edmundson scored nine of his 17 points in the first quarter as LeRoy enjoyed a 15-9 edge.
The Panthers led 19-9 before Lexington scored the final 10 points of the half. The Minutemen snapped a halftime tie with the first of three Hari third-quarter 3-pointers and led 33-28 entering the final period.
“There was a little bit of tightness. We didn’t shoot the ball at all well the first half,” said Lexington coach Doug Yoder. “We got behind 10. That was kind of scary. But we fought back. Logan (Friedmansky) and Ethan (Storm) were all over those guys. I think we wore them down a little bit.”
LeRoy (9-7) got as close as three in the fourth quarter and trailed by five after a Edmundson 3-pointer with 2:50 to play. But Lexington (18-4) scored the final seven points.
“We have a lot of offensive talent on our team, but I think our defense wins us our games,” said Hari, who topped all scorers with 20 points. “We’re a great defensive team. We can play man or zone and all of us can guard all five positions. That’s what won it for us on a cold offensive day.”
Alec Thomas grabbed 11 rebounds to help the Minutemen to a 33-28 margin on the boards. Noah Company led the Panthers with seven rebounds.
Lexington was 14 of 40 from the field, 7 of 20 both outside the 3-point arc and inside it. LeRoy committed 15 turnovers, four more than the Minutemten.
“They are incredibly physical, unbelievably physical because they have such good athletes,” Panthers coach Mark Edmundson said. “And if officials are going to allow a very physical game, they are going to be very tough to beat.”
EPG-Fieldcrest
The 14-6 Knights canned three 3-pointers in each of the first three quarters and finished 9 of 15 from beyond the arc while beating defending tournament champion EPG (9-10) for the third time this season.
“We moved the ball exceptionally well and played really tough defense,” Fieldcrest coach Jeremy Hahn said. “I thought the kids bought into the defensive plan and played really well at that end. We got some turnovers and a couple easy looks at the bucket.”
Knights’ sophomore Ed Lorton scored nine points in the second quarter and eight more in the third on his way to 20 points.
“This year has been kind of a struggle, but today it felt good. Hopefully that will keep going,” said Lorton. “Our shooting was great, our passing was great and I think our finishing was the best part.”
Connor Reichman added 11 points and Brady Ruestman nine for Fieldcrest, which sank half of its 40 shots from the field to offset 6 of 14 free throw shooting.
EPG outrebounded the Knights 29-23 behind the 13 boards of Jonah Funk, who also paced the Titans with 17 points.
“I thought Fieldcrest did a really nice job moving the basketball, and they were physical with us. We didn’t respond very well to those things,” EPG coach Nathaniel Meiss said. “Especially in the first half, I thought we were a little loose with the basketball. Then they turn those things into points.”
The Titans committed seven of their 16 turnovers in the second quarter.
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Lexington's Ethan Storm (3) drives past LeRoy's Jack Edmundson (23) on Monday during the McLean County Boys Tournament at Shirk Center on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University.
Lexington's Logan Friedmansky (2) goes to the basket against LeRoy on Monday during the McLean County Boys Tournament at Shirk Center on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University.
Fieldcrest's Ed Lorton (3) works against El Paso-Gridley's Mac Raymer (2) on Monday during the McLean County Boys Tournament at Shirk Center on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University. Maxon was called for a charge.
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Calvin Caruthers, 76, died March 26, 2023, in Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Calvin was born March 22, 1947. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center, The Dalles. Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence.
Mark Steven Ferrell, 72, a resident of The Dalles,Ore., died March 26, 2023. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
Dean Huddleston, born March 5, 1956, in Creighton, Neb., died April 1, 2023, in The Dalles, Ore. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson’s Tribute Center, The Dalles. Visit www.AndersonsTributeCenter.com to leave a note of condolence.
Ruth Ilene Witzel, 80, a resident of The Dalles, Ore., died April 4, 2023. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
Grace Louise May, 93, a resident of The Dalles, Ore., died April 5, 2023. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
John Edward Buck, 90, a resident of Moro, Ore., died April 6, 2023. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
Doris Ruth Fowler, 96, a resident Rufus, Ore., died April 7, 2023. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
Fredia L. Markham, 96, died April 8, 2023, in The Dalles, Ore. Fredia was born June 11, 1926. Services will be held April 29, at 1 p.m. at Faith Lutheran Church, 2810 W. 10th St, The Dalles. Arrangements are under the direction of Gardner Funeral Home, White Salmon. Visit www.GardnerFH.com to leave a note of condolence.
Lawrence (Larry) James Angell, 80, a resident of Heppner, Ore., died April 9, 2023. A memorial service will be held at Cutsforth Park in Heppner on June 3 at 11 a.m. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
Richard Dennis Field, 73, a resident of The Dalles, Ore., died April 10, 2023. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
Barbara Arlene Frame, 95, a resident of Tygh Valley, Ore., died April 11, 2023. A private burial has been held and a celebration of life will be held at the Wamic Grange Hall in Wamic, Ore., in May. Spencer, Libby and Powell, The Dalles, is in care of arrangements.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Landmark Bancorp Inc. (LARK) on Tuesday reported earnings of $3.4 million in its first quarter.
The Manhattan, Kansas-based company said it had net income of 64 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $18.1 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $14.4 million.
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Latest certification supports company's continued growth and traction in serving private market participants
NEW YORK , June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyndx, the AI-enabled search and discovery platform for identifying growth opportunities in the private market, has announced the successful completion of its Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 Certification. A widely recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA), SOC 2 compliance confirms Cyndx's controls and processes meet AICPA Trust Service Criteria, verified through an in-depth independent audit as they relate to security, availability, and confidentiality of Cyndx's platform and products.
The SOC 2 Type 2 audit was conducted by Armanino LLP and provides a thorough review of how Cyndx's internal controls affect the security, availability, and confidentiality of the systems it uses to process users' data, and the confidentiality and privacy of the information processed by these systems. As part of the SOC 2 Type 2 process, Cyndx's platform underwent random penetration testing over the period of November 1st – March 31st and was deemed compliant. This independent validation of security controls is crucial for customers in highly regulated industries.
Sebastian Okser, CTO of Cyndx commented: "SOC 2 Type 2 Certification highlights our strong commitment to customers. Our platform now features over 19 million companies in nine languages, and we continue to grow our data set every day. We take the security and confidentiality of that data incredibly seriously, and this certification demonstrates to our customers a high degree of confidence that their data is secure with Cyndx."
Cyndx was founded to improve the efficiency and connectivity of private market participants who are looking to source business investments, advise on a merger or acquisition, or raise capital. Through its automated, AI-driven platform, Cyndx provides unparalleled access to data on more than 19 million global private companies. Cyndx is used by venture capital and private equity firms, investment banks, consulting firms and corporations to better understand their target universe of companies, create custom search queries, and identify actionable opportunities.
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Founded in 2013 by bankers, investors, and data scientists, the company's core product suite includes Cyndx Finder, Cyndx Raiser and Cyndx Owner. Cyndx is headquartered in Florida. For more information visit www.cyndx.com or email info@cyndx.com.
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Biden hit on economy as more say finances poor: AP-NORC poll
By JOSH BOAK and EMILY SWANSON
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More U.S. adults are now feeling financially vulnerable amid high inflation — a political risk for President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats one month before the midterm elections.
Some 46% of people now call their personal financial situation poor, up from 37% in March, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That’s a notable downturn at a particularly inopportune moment for Biden, given that the share of Americans who felt positive about their finances had stayed rock steady over the last few years — even during the economic turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic.
And while a majority of Americans see high prices as beyond Biden’s control, they continue to disapprove of his handling of the economy overall.
Overall, 54% say their finances are good in the latest survey. That figure was at least 62% through the global recession caused by the pandemic in 2020, and even in late 2021 and early 2022 as prices began to rise across the country. But inflation’s prolonged bite has left the U.S. and wider world facing the possibility of a downturn and, despite solid job growth, more consumers are feeling the pain.
In Salado, Texas, Bethany Saunders saw the rate she paid for electricity double in August, and her water bill jumped as well as she dealt with a summer heat and drought. Her utilities bills totaled $800, a shock to the 43-year-old, who had carefully budgeted after going without a pay raise for two years.
“That just drained my bank account — I’m not rich, but I knew what I could live on,” said Saunders, who voted Republican in 2020 and plans to do so again this year.
Overall, views of Biden and of the direction of the country held steady in October, after improving somewhat in September. Forty-three percent say they approve of how Biden is handling his job as president, while 25% say the country is headed in the right direction. Biden’s approval rating had dropped as low as 36% in a July AP-NORC poll, and the percentage saying the country is headed in the right direction dropped as low as 14% in June.
The president has been steadfast in saying he believes the economy can escape a recession, and he said in an interview broadcast Tuesday by CNN that any potential downturn would be modest.
“I don’t think there will be a recession,” Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “If it is, it’ll be a very slight recession. That is, we’ll move down slightly.”
Saunders doesn’t think Biden is entirely to blame for her higher bills, but she said h is $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package from last year with its direct payments to Americans was excessive. Some leading economists say the money helped ignite inflation that reached a 40-year peak in June. The government will release an inflation report on Thursday, and economists expect it to show that prices rose 8.1% in September from a year ago.
“I see him throwing money at things we don’t need,” Saunders said of Biden. “It makes me think of the Oprah episode that became famous. ‘You get a car, you get a car, you get a car.’”
The drop in financial well-being was especially acute among Americans in households making less than $50,000 a year, just 33% of whom now call their personal finances good compared with 50% in March. Sixty-one percent of those in household making between $50,000 and $100,000 call their personal finances good, as do 75% of those making more than that — both down only slightly since earlier in the year.
In the latest poll, 23% call the national economy good. That’s similar to the percentage in June but down slightly from 29% in September, when views of the national economy had shown signs of improvement. The drop since September came primarily among Democrats, from 46% then to 35% now. In September, Democrats had appeared increasingly optimistic about the economy compared with earlier in the summer.
Sandra Baker, 56, said she voted for Biden and intends to support Democrats in this year’s elections. The Lincoln, Nebraska resident said the president is trying his best to fix the economy and address political divides.
“He’s doing all he can do, but everything else is so screwed up it doesn’t really matter,” Baker said. “The general vibe — everything the Democrats do — seems to be toward helping the little man and it’s always been like that.”
But the economy has proved a challenge — with gasoline costs becoming a renewed source of financial pressure. The average price at the pump was $3.92 a gallon on Wednesday, up roughly 5.5% from a month ago, according to AAA. Support for Biden had picked up after a 99-day drop in gas prices from a June high that ended in September.
Views of Biden’s handling of the economy remain underwater. Only 36% say they approve and 63% disapprove. But Americans aren’t heaping all the blame for inflation at Biden’s feet: 55% say higher than usual prices are mostly because of factors outside Biden’s control, while 44% say that’s happening mostly because of Biden’s policies.
The president has blamed rising energy and food prices on Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine. He’s also blasted oil companies and refineries for raking in profits off the higher prices, instead of doing more to increase production. Saudi Arabia and other countries tied to OPEC dealt the U.S. a further blow last week by announcing plans to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day in response to the slowing economy, a move that the administration said would support oil exporters such as Russia.
There are bright spots in the poll for Biden — 55% say they approve of how he’s handling the coronavirus pandemic, long one of his strongest issues, and 63% approve of his handling of natural disaster relief following Hurricane Ian, which battered Florida two weeks ago. On the other hand, just 39% approve of how Biden is handling immigration.
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The poll of 1,121 adults was conducted Oct. 6-10 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — It was the coolest of penalties at the end of one of the wildest matches in Champions League history.
With his cheekily dispatched “Panenka,” Karim Benzema might just have kept Real Madrid’s chances alive against Manchester City in the semifinals.
City won a breathless first-leg match 4-3 at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday but squandered so many chances in an end-to-end, basketball-style epic that it hardly felt like a victory for the English club.
“We could have killed them off,” said Phil Foden, one of City’s four scorers in a game that had pretty much everything.
City built a two-goal lead three times but just couldn’t shake off Madrid, the kings of the competition — as City manager Pep Guardiola calls them.
So it felt inevitable that when Aymeric Laporte gave away a penalty with 10 minutes remaining, Madrid wouldn’t waste the opportunity to return to Santiago Bernabeu for next week’s second leg with, somehow, only a one-goal deficit.
Just when many inside the stadium were losing their heads, Benzema kept his, chipping the ball high and straight down the middle before wheeling away in front of Madrid’s jubilant fans with his arms outstretched.
“The most important thing is we never lay down our arms,” Benzema said. “We are all in this until the end.”
With the France striker in its team, Madrid will never lose hope.
His double here — after back-to-back hat tricks earlier in the knockout stage — took his total in the Champions League this season to a competition-high 14 goals. Benzema now has 41 goals in all competitions in the most prolific season of his career.
Without him, Madrid probably would not be still in with a chance of a record-extending 14th European Cup title.
“Madrid is just Madrid,” Guardiola said. “It doesn’t matter if you are one goal, two goals or three goals ahead.”
Guardiola didn’t have a bad word to say about his team, though. “Exceptional” was his verdict.
But he surely knows City should be out of sight and already preparing for a second straight appearance in the final and the chance to avenge last year’s loss to Chelsea.
The English champions led 2-0 after 11 minutes, with Kevin De Bruyne making a late run into the box to head home Riyad Mahrez’s cross and Gabriel Jesus — retained in the team after scoring four goals against Watford in the Premier League on Saturday — producing a coolly taken finish after spinning David Alaba following De Bruyne’s cross.
Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti lost 5-0 on his previous visit to the Etihad — with Everton on the final day of last season’s Premier League — and City looked like scoring just as many, if not more.
With Madrid fielding a ball-playing midfield — of Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Federico Valverde — that lacked the bite of injured Casemiro, City cut through the visitors at will and should have been further clear before Benzema steered a volley in off the post from Ferland Mendy’s cross in the 33rd.
Riyad Mahrez wasted gilt-edged chances either side of Benzema’s goal to leave Guardiola enraged on the sideline, the first in the 26th when he swung wildly when one-on-one with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and hit the sidenetting, and then just after the restart when he raced through again and curled against the post.
It would have come as a relief to Mahrez that Foden restored City’s two-goal lead in the 53rd, heading home a cross from the overlapping Fernandinho — the 36-year-old club captain who went on at right back for the injured John Stones near the end of the first half.
Back came Madrid two minutes later, with Vinicius Junior turning Fernandinho — showing his fallibility in an unfamiliar position — near the halfway line and sprinting down the left before cutting in and placing a shot beyond Ederson. Laporte chose not to close down Vinicius, instead covering the potential cross into a middle, though that wouldn’t be his biggest mistake of the night.
The chances kept coming, mostly for City, before Bernardo Silva curled a rising shot inside the near post after quick-witted referee Istvan Kovacs decided to play the advantage following a foul on Oleksandr Zinchenko outside the area.
Benzema had the final say, however, like he has so many times in this season’s competition, and Madrid has renewed belief of reaching a first final since 2018.
“It is a defeat,” Ancelotti said, “that leaves us alive in the second leg.”
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Achieva Credit Union branch in Pinellas helps employees in SWFL dealing with Hurricane Ian aftermath
TAMPA, Fla. - In the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, hope is shining through as people help those in their time of need.
Hurricane Ian rocked Southwest Florida last week, but locals like Kevin and Jennifer Stamn are still coming to grips with the aftermath.
"Mentally, we’re strained. I’ve never been through something like this mentally. This is tough," said Kevin Stamn.
Thankfully, their home was spared the worst. The structure held, and the water stayed out, but downed trees and power lines meant they’ve been in the dark ever since.
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The Stamns are new to Florida and with their immediate family in Wisconsin, it’s their work family that came through in their hour of need, even delivering a generator, food and water when their power went out.
"On Friday I got the phone call of them needing people to go this weekend, can you do it? And I was like, yes. The truck’s ready. I have gas. Just tell me where to go," said Jessica Hernandez, a co-worker in their Pinellas County branch.
Achieva Credit Union said it has more than 70 employees in Southwest Florida. Since the storm, the nonprofit has sent more than 30 generators and volunteers to help.
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"If the roles were reversed, and it had come here like first predicted, we know our southern teams would have rallied for us. No matter what, we would have been here for each other," Hernandez added.
In the aftermath of Ian, it’s the picture of people coming together to help one another that has stood out to the Stamns.
Achieva Credit Union is collecting supplies and donations for Hurricane Ian relief at its statewide locations. The nonprofit has also announced a dollar for dollar match up to $50,000 to help communities across Southwest Florida recover and rebuild. To learn more, click here. | https://www.fox13news.com/news/achieva-credit-union-branch-in-pinellas-helps-employees-in-swfl-dealing-with-hurricane-ian-aftermath | 2022-10-04 23:19:45 | 0 | https://www.fox13news.com/news/achieva-credit-union-branch-in-pinellas-helps-employees-in-swfl-dealing-with-hurricane-ian-aftermath |
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former U.S. Marine is being hailed as a hero Friday for finding a 2-year-old boy who had been missing since wandering out of his north Florida home a day earlier.
“I said a prayer about 10 minutes before I found him,” Roy Link told Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis in a video the sheriff's office posted on Facebook.
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Some 500 volunteers and scores of law enforcement officers had searched for Joshua “JJ” Rowland since he was reported missing by his parents. Sheriff's officials said the boy left the home in Brooksville while one of his parents was asleep.
“Roy Link is the man of the year here in Hernando County,” the sheriff said.
Brooksville is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Tampa on Florida's Gulf Coast.
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The boy was found in the woods a “good distance” from his house, Nienhuis said.
“The good news is he did not end up in any water, obviously, and he was not abducted,” the sheriff said. “He was found in the woods. He seems to be fine. He’s definitely going to have something to tell his kids and grandkids about."
The sheriff said he was overwhelmed by the large number of volunteers who turned out to look for the child.
The boy was checked by paramedics and appeared to be fine, the sheriff said.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A $325 million superyacht seized by the United States from a sanctioned Russian oligarch arrived in San Diego Bay on Monday.
The 348-foot-long (106-meter-long) Amadea flew an American flag as it sailed past the retired aircraft carrier USS Midway and under the Coronado Bridge.
The Department of Justice said the Amadea was safely docked after a transpacific journey of over 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) “and will remain in the custody of the U.S. government, pending its anticipated forfeiture and sale.”
The FBI linked the Amadea to the Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, and the vessel became a target of Task Force KleptoCapture, launched in March to seize the assets of Russian oligarchs to put pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
The U.S. said Kerimov secretly bought the vessel last year through various shell companies.
The U.S. won a legal battle in Fiji to take the Cayman Islands-flagged superyacht earlier this month. The Amadea made a stop in Honolulu Harbor en route to the U.S. mainland.
“The successful seizure and transport of Amadea would not have been possible without extraordinary cooperation from our foreign partners in the global effort to enforce U.S. sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war in Ukraine,” the Justice Department said. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/russian-superyacht-seized-by-us-arrives-in-san-diego-bay/ | 2022-06-27 21:47:35 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/u-s-world/russian-superyacht-seized-by-us-arrives-in-san-diego-bay/ |
Report: Tyler Huntley to start for Ravens with Lamar Jackson out again originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Tyler Huntley reportedly will start at quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night against the Cincinnati Bengals.
NFL Network’s Stacey Dales reported that there is a “possibility” that rookie third-stringer Anthony Brown could be used in a limited capacity, too.
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Starter Lamar Jackson was expected to be back in time for the playoff contest between AFC North foes but a lingering knee injury will keep the 2019 MVP off the field for the sixth straight contest. He was ruled out on Friday after missing another full week of practice.
Jackson has missed the team’s last five games, last starting for the Ravens on Dec. 4 in a 10-9 win over the Denver Broncos. Huntley, who played most of that Dec. 4 game, started every game for Jackson before missing the team’s Week 18 contest with a wrist injury.
Brown got the starting nod in that contest – a 27-16 loss to the Bengals, the same team Baltimore faces on Sunday night.
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The Ravens, losers of three of their last four games, failed to score more than 20 points in both December and January without Jackson.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Corsight AI, a leading Facial Recognition Technology provider, continues its rapid expansion with the announcement of new Chief Financial Officer, Moshe Fink. Moshe joins the Corsight team with more than twenty years of finance and accounting experience, with 15+ years spent in finance management and CFO roles.
He previously served as CFO at AI technology firm, Axilion, with prior leadership experience at Amazon, Oracle, and EY. He is an expert in leading organisations through rapid scaled growth and organising finances into a business strategy that delivers valued results.
Moshe will manage Corsight's financial operations and help lead the firm through further anticipated growth cycles in the coming years. Moshe will be located at Corsight's corporate headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel.
"I am thrilled to join Corsight AI to further its mission in enhancing the world of ethical facial recognition technologies." said Moshe Fink. "I look forward to contributing to Corsight's world-class team and helping the company realise its strategic priorities as it scales."
Rob Watts, Chief Executive Officer at Corsight AI, comments: 'I am pleased to appoint Moshe Fink as our new CFO. He has a strong track record in leading financial operations and creating efficiencies at high-quality organisations. We are excited to add him to our executive team, as we scale and build on the widespread customer adoption and demand for our unrivalled AI technology."
For more information, please visit: www.corsight.ai
About Corsight AI
Corsight AI, a leading facial recognition technology provider, is dedicated to creating a game-changing solution with unrivaled speed and accuracy. The technology is powered by Autonomous AI, the most advanced artificial intelligence system. Corsight AI works with government agencies and companies in a variety of sectors, including law enforcement, aviation, retail, entertainment, and more. Corsight AI has recently been named 'SME of the Year' at the prestigious 2021 British Security Awards. This follows their award win at the fourth annual AI Breakthrough Awards, as they won gold in the "Best Facial Recognition System" category in 2021.
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SINGAPORE, July 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Singapore-based Motion G, Inc. has closed a new round of funding led by Episteme, Inc., securing an additional US$16 million. By leveraging advancements in machine learning, AIGC, data science and digital twin technologies, the firm aims to revolutionize the engineering process to significantly drive productivity.
Through its AI-powered generative engineering platform, Motion G delivers groundbreaking integrated solutions for industry applications including motion control and flexible transport, raising the bar for productivity by accelerating projects from concepts to reality with unparalleled speed and accuracy. The solutions have been applied rapidly in multiple industries.
In its pursuit of transforming traditional testing practices, Motion G is also creating an intelligent testing system which will enable engineers to seamlessly combine generative virtual trials with real-time field testing, dramatically increasing overall efficiency.
Through these exemplary innovations, Motion G is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is possible and engineering a productivity revolution across industries.
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Non-invasive sensor simplifies diagnostic process for providers, patients
NAMUR, Belgium, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the millions of people concerned they may have sleep apnea, a confirmed diagnosis can be a lengthy and expensive process. Sunrise, a Belgium-based sleep technology company has created a lightweight, easy to use, at-home sleep test that provides clinically accurate results within hours. The company will unveil the device at SLEEP 2022 in Charlotte, North Carolina June 4-8. Attendees can visit booth #146 to learn about the simplicity it provides to both patient and provider, and the comprehensive clinical insights provided by the new technology.
Laurent Martinot, CEO and co-founder of Sunrise, said the technology has been in use in Europe since 2019, and the device was recently granted a De Novo classification by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The sensor will soon be available in the United States.
"The Sunrise sensor has a single point of contact that rests on the patient's chin, to measure mandibular movement, a novel biosignal close to the source for measuring sleep issues that has been studied for decades," he said. "We have developed and clinically validated our sensor against the gold standard of polysomnography, or a sleep study, on thousands of patients to measure sleep-disordered breathing."
Dr. Atul Malhotra will present the latest clinical research on using mandibular movement as a reliable noninvasive alternative to the gold standard of a sleep study that measures respiratory effort at SLEEP 2022. Malhotra is the research chief of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at UC San Diego Health, and a professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
"Having been involved with some of the recent clinical research, I am impressed with the mandibular movement signal and its potential to provide comprehensive information to clinicians to diagnose various sleep disorders," he said.
Martinot said this is an exciting time for Sunrise. "We're thrilled to be working with global thought leaders in the field of sleep to bring this innovative technology to physicians and patients, and to aid in the diagnosis of the millions suffering unnecessarily from sleep apnea in the U.S.," he said.
Dr. Malhotra's research presentation will take place June 8 at 3:15 p.m. in W209, ABC ballrooms.
About Sunrise: Founded in 2015 and based in Namur, Belgium, Sunrise aims to democratize access to care for sleep apnea syndrome. The team is applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to study a novel biosignal with its simple design of the diagnostic sensor. Sleep apnea is a major comorbidity of cardiovascular disease, and a significant risk factor for type 2 diabetes, stroke, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation, among other conditions. Sunrise's innovation is based on more than 10 years of research on thousands of patients. The technology detects respiratory events based on the analysis of contractions of the respiratory muscles, and the related movements of a person's chin while they sleep.
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GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TAP) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $72.5 million.
The Golden, Colorado-based company said it had profit of 33 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 54 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 26 cents per share.
The beer maker posted revenue of $2.77 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $2.35 billion, also beating Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.23 billion.
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HARWOOD, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland responding to a domestic violence incident fatally shot a man early Saturday after he pointed a firearm at officers, authorities said.
No officers were injured during the incident in Harwood, according to a news release from the office of Attorney General Brian Frosh. The office's Independent Investigations Division is handling the probe.
Anne Arundel County police officers responded to a home just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday after 911 calls reported a domestic violence incident, the news release said. As officers were en route, a 911 caller said the man involved had left the house and fired several shots outside.
When officers encountered the man, he did not comply with demands to drop his firearm, the news release said. The man raised the gun in the direction of officers, and several officers fired at him, striking him multiple times.
Officers and paramedics rendered aid, but the man was declared dead on scene, according to the news release. He was not immediately identified. The woman involved in the domestic violence incident was taken to a hospital and released.
The officers' body cameras were active during the incident, according to the news release. The footage was not immediately released. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Officers-fatally-shoot-man-in-domestic-violence-17448912.php | 2022-09-17 21:37:38 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Officers-fatally-shoot-man-in-domestic-violence-17448912.php |
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth year in a row, Churchill Management Group's President, Randy Conner, ranked in the top 15 on Forbes Magazine's recently released list of America's Top Wealth Advisors on August 24, 2022. Mr. Conner was also previously named the #1 Best-in-State Wealth Advisor for CA – Los Angeles by Forbes in 2022 on April 7, 2022*.
In compiling its list, Forbes Magazine evaluated over 35,000 advisors based on industry experience, assets under management, compliance records, and approach to working with clients.
"At Churchill Management, we believe that close personal attention and a commitment to building wealth over the long term is key to helping clients achieve their personal and financial goals," said Randy Conner, President of Churchill Management Group. "We appreciate that Forbes has acknowledged our dedication to this goal."
Founded in 1963, Churchill Management serves over 6,000 clients with combined assets of over $6.9 billion as of June 30, 2022. The firm credits its success to a combination of its commitment to communication, dedicated 1:1 client service relationship, and unique blend of Tactical and Fully Invested strategies tailored around Comprehensive Financial Planning.
Disclosures: The rating may not be representative of any one client's experience because the rating reflects a quantitative and qualitative analysis of factors that may include only a sample of the experience of CMG's Clients. The ranking is not indicative of future performance.
*FORBES TOP 250 WEALTH ADVISORS FOR 2022 & FORBES BEST IN STATE WEALTH ADVISORS 2022 ranking is for Randy Conner of Churchill Management Group ("CMG"). CMG did not pay a fee to participate in the Rankings but may purchase reprints of the Forbes article. The ranking, which was developed by Forbes' partner Shook Research, is based on in-person and telephone due-diligence meetings and a ranking algorithm for advisors who have a minimum of seven years of experience. The ranking algorithm is based on quality of practice learned through telephone and in-person interviews, client retention, industry experience, review of compliance records, firm nominations; and quantitative criteria, including: assets under management and revenue generated for their firms. Investment performance is not a criterion because client objectives and risk tolerances vary, and advisors rarely have audited performance reports. Rankings are based on the opinions of SHOOK Research, LLC which does not receive compensation from the advisors or their firms in exchange for placement on a ranking.
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Woman falls into massive sinkhole at a car dealership
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WXII) – A woman in North Carolina escaped with just minor injuries after falling into a sinkhole at a Winston-Salem car dealership on Monday.
Kia Long-Gyant said the ground collapsed beneath her in the parking lot as she came out of the dealership.
The fire department safely got her out of the sinkhole.
She was hospitalized with scrapes and bruises, but no broken bones.
“They said I was OK. I’m, you know, mentally messed up,” Long-Gyant said. “I think everywhere I go now I’m going to fall through the ground and that my car’s gonna go through the ground. I can’t sleep at night.”
According to a fire official, the hole was roughly 15 feet wide and 8 feet deep.
A department spokesperson couldn’t identify a cause, but the dealership owner said an underground pipe collapsed.
The owner is working with the city to identify the exact cause and repair the pipe.
Long-Gyant wants someone to take responsibility and wants help from a lawyer.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — For the first time since the COVID pandemic hit, the annual AIDS Walk Northwest was once again an actual in-person walk.
The 36th annual walk, which began at the height of the AIDS pandemic, began at Revolution Hall in Southeast Portland. People gathered to raise funds and show there is still an ongoing impact from HIV/AIDS.
“We still have a lot to do in this work to get to a point where there’s no stigma around HIV/AIDs and we get to a point where there’s no HIV transmission,” said Jessy Friedt, the chief development officer for the Cascade AIDS project. She said they gather as a community “to raise funds for the important work that we’re doing.”
So far, AIDS Walk Northwest said they’ve raised about $218,000 this year, nearing their $240,000 goal.
The money will be used to help them raise awareness about AIDS transmission and treatment. | https://www.koin.com/news/health/lot-of-work-to-do-aids-walk-nw-hits-streets-of-portland/ | 2022-09-17 23:37:32 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/health/lot-of-work-to-do-aids-walk-nw-hits-streets-of-portland/ |
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TimeShuffle, a play-and-earn turn-based tactical RPG, backed by renowned names like Blizzard Fund, Shima Capital, NEXO, is pleased to announce the drop of the exclusive Founders Pass NFTs and pre-alpha off-chain game access.
In TimeShuffle, players battle together and against each other in procedurally generated battlefield arenas. One faction of players is aiming to protect the current timeline whereas the other faction is fighting to rewrite history and change the future.
The pre-alpha launch will feature the game's battle grid along with a selection of attacks and defenses from some of the game's heroes, such as Leonardo DaVinci, Salvador Dali and Cleopatra. This pre-alpha sneak peek will be off-chain and will be made available to selected members of the TimeShuffle community for testing purposes. More details about the tournament will be provided on TimeShuffle's official Discord channel.
The team has taken a gameplay-first approach with development, ensuring that TimeShuffle is entertaining and engaging on its own, as opposed to using blockchain technology as a crutch.
Summarizing this vision, TimeShuffle CEO, Konstantin Dinev says, "We want to give players the experience of uniquely challenging but rewarding gameplay elements, where the whole game experience is supplemented by the Web3 model. This is definitely something that sets us apart from what is currently on the market".
The team behind TimeShuffle has worked extensively in the gaming space and understands the balance between accessibility and engaging gameplay. TimeShuffle will always remain free-to-play and is being developed for mass appeal, where players do not need to be familiar with Web 3.0 or related concepts in order to start playing the game and benefiting from blockchain and NFT integrations.
The game is being launched on the Avalanche network. As mentioned earlier, the pre-alpha release will be made available to the TimeShuffle community for testing purposes before the game's alpha release later this year.
TimeShuffle Founders Pass NFT goes on sale at 05/07/2022 4 PM UTC with a limited supply of 5,500 passes, giving holders a host of perks and benefits apart from pre-alpha access, including exclusive skins, in-game consumables, profile badges, rare NFTs, a life-time supply of monthly treasure chests and more.
To stay updated about the Founders Pass sale and the pre-alpha game release, visit TimeShuffle.io
About TimeShuffle
TimeShuffle is a Free-to-Play-and-Earn Turn-Based Tactical RPG with heroes from across history battling together and against each other in procedurally generated battlefield arenas.
Each player can start their conquest with a Free-to-Play hero and progress their heroes as they play, unlocking the full potential of Blockchain gaming and TimeShuffle's Play and Earn model made possible by Avalanche's scalability and proven track record.
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When it comes to food, South Florida is a great place to be. So many new places open up every day. Here’s what’s coming soon to a city near you.
Truluck’s, Fort Lauderdale
After three years away, the upscale steak-and-seafood restaurant chain that once anchored Fort Lauderdale’s Galleria Mall is returning to the city, expected to open later this spring in the Paramount condominiums storefront once occupied by Moréa. LM Restaurants founder Lou Moshakos, owner of Moréa, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that he sold the restaurant to Truluck’s in October. The beachfront restaurant and al fresco terrace will serve in-season Florida stone crabs, lobster bisque and wedge salads, crab cake sandwiches on buttered potato buns, and entrées ranging from trout amandine and miso-glazed seabass to super colossal prawns and broiled center-cut ribeyes. The surf-and-turf eatery, which has Southern Florida outposts in Miami and Naples, last appeared in Fort Lauderdale in May 2020, when it abruptly closed early in the pandemic after a decade. 701 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; Trulucks.com
Bliss Bar & Nightclub, Lauderdale Lakes
This trendy boîte registered to owners Richard and Lisa Roopnarine and Visham and Radhica Ramlochan is expected to open this spring in the plaza shared with Yeasty Brews Artisanal Beers. Along with hip-hop, Latin, Caribbean dancehall and electronica music, the club will feature a full liquor bar and a menu of light appetizers. 3936-3950 NW 19th St.; no website or phone number yet
Cluckin Hot Chicks, Dania Beach
Yet another new chicken franchise is arriving in South Florida sometime in February, this one on South Federal Highway, replacing an old Checkers fast-food restaurant. Registered to owners Ahshan Latif and David Shaw, this fast-casual spot leans into Nashville-style hot chicken and every other poultry configuration imaginable: wings, tenders, quarters, sandwiches, waffles and tacos. Chicken is doused in 10 different sauces, from honey-cinnamon “Sweet Heat” to “What the Cluck.” (The menu is, of course, pun-heavy.) Sides include fries, coleslaw and mac ‘n’ cheese. 645 S. Federal Highway, Dania Beach; 754-777-7901; CluckinHotChicks.com
DalMoros Fresh Pasta To Go, West Palm Beach and Delray Beach
Picture this: Heaps of scratch-made pasta served not on dinnerware but inside Chinese takeout-style rice containers. That’s the fast-casual premise behind this Venice, Italy-spawned pasta franchise, which plans to open its first South Florida location on Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach in early 2023 under local franchisee David Caruso. The 1,436-square-foot restaurant will offer build-your-own-pasta bowls, starting with a base of four styles — fusilli, rigatoni, fettuccine, bigoli — followed by sauce toppings that range from pesto and cacio e pepe to amatriciana and bolognese. Other recent openings have included St. Petersburg, Tampa and Sarasota, and another outpost is expected to debut later this year at 439 E. Atlantic Ave., in downtown Delray Beach. 400 Clematis St., West Palm Beach; Dalmoros.us
Carmela Gourmet Toast & Coffee Bar, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach
This coffee-and-avocado-toast chain, cofounded in Parkland by owners Rainer Abreu and Rafael Baretta, is in rapid expansion mode, with a rebranded name (changed from Carmela Coffee Co.) and nine new locations planned for 2023. Before that, Carmela’s next Boca Raton location expects to open within the upscale Park Place plaza in February. Along with caffeine, they sling empanadas, avocado toast, flatbreads, salads and more. A West Palm Beach outpost is set to follow in February at the Village Commons plaza. 5560 N. Military Trail, Suite 322, Boca Raton; 701 Village Blvd., Suites 101-102, West Palm Beach; CarmelaCoffee.com
Amar Bistro, Boca Raton
In just two years, Amar is quickly becoming a bit of a boutique brand with the first eatery (and a nearby separate bakery) in Delray Beach as well as another bakery in Boynton Beach. Now comes word that the Amar Bistro reach will extend into Boca Raton, where Amar’s owners — wife-husband team Susanna and Nicolas Kurban — plan to open a second restaurant this summer. “In general, the menu will be 80% similar to our Delray Beach offerings of authentic Lebanese cuisine,” Nicolas Kurban said. “But we will be adding a modern twist to several dishes along with Eastern Mediterranean specialties from Turkey, Greece and the other countries in that region. The Boca Raton location will have a bar, so we plan to offer small bar bites and a happy hour menu, something we couldn’t do in Delray due to the lack of space.” Time will tell, but he adds that the service may include lunch on weekdays and brunch on weekends. The new 2,250-square-foot location will be able to seat 76 people indoors (plus another eight at the bar) and 20 to 24 outdoors. 9982 Glades Road, Boca Raton; amardelray.com
Disdwet Restaurant, Boynton Beach
This Haitian takeout restaurant registered to owner Wilphanie Alcegaire is expected to open this winter near the intersection of North Congress Avenue, a few blocks south of the Boynton Beach Mall. Disdwet (which translates from Creole to “10 fingers”), serves Haitian-style pasta, fried plantains, pikliz, boulèt vyann (Haitian-style meatballs), rice and beans, pate kòde (fried Haitian patties) and house-made akra, or crunchy malanga fritters tossed in bold spices. 1403 Boynton Beach Blvd., Unit 12, Boynton Beach; 262-671-6998; Instagram.com/Disdwet
Culver’s, Loxahatchee
After its Broward County debut in August 2020, this rapidly growing franchise known for its burgers and Wisconsin cheese curds is looking to add its newest SoFlo location in Loxahatchee this June from local franchisees Kase and Jennifer Bethel. Savory dishes aside, there are frozen custard concrete mixers (blended with candy toppings), toothsome sundaes and waffle cones that ooze with warm butterscotch and hot fudge. The menu also features chicken tenders, cranberry bacon-bleu salads and Reuben melt sandwiches, but Culver’s star is undoubtedly the ButterBurger, a smashed beef-blend patty so named for its fresh, lightly buttered kaiser roll. 15339 Southern Blvd., Loxahatchee; Culvers.com
Lefkes Estiatorio, Delray Beach
Billed as having a modern take on traditional Greek cuisine, Lefkes Estiatorio is expected to open in the Delray Beach Market food hall in late 2023. The fine dining restaurant morphs into what the brand — out of Englewood Cliffs, N.J. — is calling a “nightlife destination featuring top DJs and entertainment.” Lefkes Estiatorio and Bounce Sporting Club will become two new anchors at the Delray Beach Market when the food hall reopens after renovations this summer. 33 SE Third Ave., Delray Beach; lefkesnj.com
World of Beer Bar & Kitchen, Royal Palm Beach
This chain emporium of craft-beer suds, wine, cocktails and pub fare plans to open its latest South Florida taproom in February on Southern Boulevard, roughly 3 miles west of the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre. The beer hall touts a mind-numbing variety of draft and bottled brews (there are hundreds, from saisons and stouts to hard seltzers and mead), and its menu features soft-baked pretzels, chicken wings doused in eight sauces and dry rubs, salads and tacos, six styles of hamburgers and four flatbreads, and entrees including steak frites and grilled Atlantic salmon brushed with India Pale Ale glaze. 11121 Southern Blvd., Royal Palm Beach; WorldofBeer.com
Naked Farmer, Sunrise
This casual American restaurant whose healthy menu changes with the seasons is scheduled to open in February on West Sunrise Boulevard. A farm-to-fork born in Tampa, Naked Farmer created its own direct supply chain with Florida farms, where it sources proteins and vegetables. The restaurant specializes in “build-your-own-harvest-bowls” filled with rosemary-roasted chicken, Faroe Island salmon and grass-fed beef, and topped with “your choice of (un)dressing,” per its website. Bowls also include sides such as chilled beets and feta, roasted sweet potatoes and carrots with lemon gremolata. The mini-chain operates three other outposts in Coral Gables, Tampa and St. Petersburg. 13945 W. Sunrise Blvd., Sunrise; EatNakedFarmer.com
The Peach Cobbler Factory, Pembroke Pines and Fort Lauderdale
You need to know about The Peach Cobbler Factory, because this dessert destination has big plans for SoFlo. Franchise co-owners Gregory George and Larry Johnston say they’re developing 30 locations from West Palm Beach to Key West over the next three to five years. The first entries into the market are expected sometime in January: an eatery at Crossroads Square in Pembroke Pines and a 40-foot, double-decker stationary bus in Fort Lauderdale. The concept is a family-style dessert shop with a menu that includes 12 cobbler flavors (served with free ice cream), 12 banana pudding flavors, six cinnamon roll flavors, 11 Bigger & Better Cookies, 12 Cobbler Cookies along with Sweet Peachy Tea, cold brew coffee and Latin blend coffee. Created in 2013 as a Nashville food truck, The Peach Cobbler Factory has appeared on The Food Network and now has almost 200 franchises in the works. 212 N. University Drive (Crossroads Square shopping center), Pembroke Pines; PeachCobblerFactory.com
Pizza Cucinova, Wellington
Around this time in 2022, Pizza Cucinova opened three blocks from Fort Lauderdale beach, near where Las Olas Boulevard ends at State Road A1A. Then roughly 10 months later, that location suddenly closed with zero notice on their website or social media. Now we hear from The Mall at Wellington Green that the restaurant is moving operations there. There’s no firm opening date yet. Pizza Cucinova offered “craft-your-own” pizzas, pastas and salads in the $8 to $15 range. 10300 Forest Hill Blvd., Wellington; shopwellingtongreen.com
Naked Taco, Wellington
This clubby Mexican restaurant from chef Ralph Pagano (once of “Hell’s Kitchen” fame) is on its way to debuting its fourth location sometime in mid-2023, within the under-construction Lotis Wellington plaza, north of the corner of State Road 7 and Forest Hills Boulevard. The 3,800-square-foot space will employ 60 people and join Pagano’s (Yes Hospitality Group) other Naked Tacos in Miami Beach, Coconut Creek and Boca Raton. The restaurant has a full-liquor menu and serves ceviche, enchiladas, burritos and fajitas, plus upscale tacos loaded with grilled octopus, Philly cheesesteak, Key West shrimp and chipotle-flavored brisket. Two other Naked Tacos are also planned, in Naples and Pinecrest, later in 2023. 1351-1381 S. State Road 7, Wellington; LoveNakedTaco.com
Bagels & Co., Wilton Manors
Philadelphia-based Glu Hospitality plans to debut the first Florida outpost of its bagel-centric breakfast chain in early 2023, replacing the former Starbucks near Five Points on Northeast 26th Street. The 2,500-square-foot cafe (which includes a patio) will serve hot and ice coffees, lemonade, chai and matcha lattes, breakfast sandwiches as well as lunch sandwiches including turkey club and cheesesteak. There are also 17 bagel flavors and a raft of 29 specialty cream cheese flavors, from bacon cheddar to birthday cake. 1015 NE 26th St., Wilton Manors; BagelsandCoPHL.com
El Camino Mezcal and Tequila Bar, Boca Raton
This popular Mexican restaurant chain plans to unveil its fourth location — and its largest — during late spring/early summer of 2023 at Boca Raton’s planned Restaurant Row. The new El Camino will be an expansive 10,000 square feet with the brand’s largest indoor/outdoor bar, plus indoor and outdoor seating for 300 people. Billed as “Mexican soul food,” it features signature dishes from the scratch kitchen such as Mexican street corn, brisket quesadillas, crispy fish tacos, achiote chicken, chili-rubbed steak, burritos, enchiladas and fajitas, as well as Mexican beers and handcrafted margaritas. Menu prices range from $15 to $25 for lunch, $10 to $15 for happy hour, and $20 to $35 for both brunch and dinner. Other locations are in Fort Lauderdale, Delray Beach and West Palm Beach. 5355 Town Center Road, Unit 4, Boca Raton; ElCaminoBocaRaton.com
Kanpai, Boca Raton
Closed more than a year after a fire caused structural damage to the restaurant in July 2021, this Japanese sushi-barbecue mashup registered to Lian He is readying its second act. The restaurant plans to reopen in early 2023 with an updated interior and redesigned menu that will still include sushi boats, hibachi fried rice, sashimi and nigiri, as well as Korean-influenced bibimbap, bulgogi and seafood pancakes. 20 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton; 561-361-8688; KanpaiBoca.com
Jackson’s Chicken Shack, Lake Worth Beach
Fried-chicken purveyors are having a moment in South Florida, and the latest example is this shack registered to owner Stephen Difiore, which is expected to debut in early 2023 in a Jog Road plaza shared with Walmart Neighborhood Market. Jackson’s touts fried and grilled chicken handhelds, wraps, salads, fries — and tenders, naturally — slathered in toppings, dressings and cheeses. 6169 Jog Road, Lake Worth Beach; JacksonsChickenShack.com
Effe Cafe, Cooper City
More than a year after Nunzio Fuschillo and Patty Lopez’s pop-up bakery ran out its lease at a Cooper City Marathon gas station, the husband-and-wife duo are heading back to their old stomping grounds. Fuschillo and Lopez, both chefs who cut their teeth at a two-star Michelin restaurant in Italy’s Tuscany region, started Effe in 2020 after getting laid off from Michael Beltran’s Nave in Coconut Grove. The plan is for the resurrected Effe storefront to reopen in early 2023, and if the past is prologue, eaters should expect more mojo pork sandwiches, parigiana puff-pastry pizzas, lobster rolls, Cuban sandwich croissants, quiches and cafes con leche from the cult-favorite cafe. 10295 Stirling Rd, Cooper City; Instagram.com/effe.cafe or Facebook.com/effe.cafe
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, Delray Beach
Now that this beloved export from New Haven, Conn.’s Wooster Street has delivered its char-blistered pies to Plantation, Frank Pepe has set its sights on Delray Beach. The “apizza” icon is plotting a spring 2023 opening within the Fresh Market plaza on the corner of Linton Boulevard and Federal Highway. Frank Pepe, which has a rabid following among South Florida’s snowbirds and Northeastern transplants, fires its coal-fired apizza (pronounced “ah-beets”) at a super-hot 600 degrees Fahrenheit for a few minutes, yielding its trademark crispy-chewy thin crust. 1701 S. Federal Highway, Delray Beach; PepesPizzeria.com
Black Rock Bar & Grill, Coral Springs
A new location of this Michigan-born, grill-your-own-steaks chain is set to debut in early 2023 in the space formerly occupied by The New York Bagel Factory. As with its Fort Lauderdale location (which opened in April 2019), Black Rock’s DIY gimmick is simple: Customers grill and flip their raw Angus beef steaks and seafood to desired doneness over 755-degree volcanic bricks served tableside. The restaurant (which touts a mammoth 14-page menu) also features hamburgers, French dips and Reubens, rib slabs and Maine lobster tail. For dessert, there’s a towering brownie “volcano” loaded with vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate and caramel, and speared with shooting sparklers. 2554 N. University Drive, Coral Springs; BlackRockRestaurants.com
Stalk & Spade, Coconut Creek
Touting plant-based, dairy-free comfort food, this Minnesota-made vegan chain plans to debut an outpost in early 2023 inside the Promenade at Coconut Creek. Stalk’s 1,800-square-foot space, behind World of Beer, will offer meatless hamburgers, so-called “chick’n” sandwiches and nuggets, fries, wraps and oat milk shakes. It’s one of five new South Florida locations for Stalk. 4437 Lyons Road, Suite E105, Coconut Creek; StalkandSpade.com
Rice Mediterranean Kitchen, Fort Lauderdale
This Miami-based boutique chain of fast-casuals has been serving up Eastern Mediterranean flavors since the early 2000s. There are seven locations in Miami-Dade County. The Fort Lauderdale location is set to debut in the first quarter of 2023 in the Bank of America Plaza at Las Olas City Centre, alongside other eateries such as Coyo Taco, Subway and Smoothie King. The extensive menu includes kabobs, wraps and falafel platters. There are also tenderloin, chicken, snapper and sirloin platters. 401 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; RiceKitchen.com.
SushiMas, Fort Lauderdale
This fast-casual is expected to enter the Fort Lauderdale market in spring 2023 with a location at The Quantum, on the edge of the Flagler Village enclave. As the name makes clear, the restaurant serves sushi and Japanese cuisine, and it originally debuted as a delivery- and takeout-only operation in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood in August 2020. A dine-in location opened in Aventura last May. The ambitious expansion slated for this year also includes eateries in Kendall, Doral and Miami Beach, with longer-range plans for Coconut Grove and West Palm Beach. Essentially, the menu will remain the same, with sushi rolls, makis and tiraditos in the $11 to $19 range, as well as crispy rice, gyosa and bao bun dishes from $7.95 to $16. 701 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale; SushiMas.com.
Violet’s & Zen’s, Wilton Manors
This sushi-tapas rooftop lounge from the same owners behind Jasmine Thai & Sushi in Margate — Preecha and Benjamin Hongnopkhun — is expected to debut in early 2023 on the southern edge of Wilton Drive, in the space formerly occupied by Siam Cuisine. The restaurant will feature Cobb salads and cheese sampler platters as starters and pasta al Pomodoro and seared ahi tuna as entrees. 2010 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors; VandZWilton.com
Pummarola Pizzeria Napoletana, Fort Lauderdale
With any luck, this eighth location, in Fort Lauderdale, will open in a few more months. The newest Pummarola Pizzeria Napoletana has to do a complete buildout, turning what was an attorney’s office into a restaurant. But the location — behind the Broward Center for the Performing Arts at the foot of the drawbridge on Avenue of the Arts — was irresistible to the four brothers who own the boutique chain of Pummarolas. Lorenzo, Alessandro, Adelchi and Larry Mele imported their grandmother’s original eatery from Naples to South Florida, where there are now locations in Boca Raton, Midtown Miami, Miami Beach, Kendall (in The Falls) and Coral Gables. There are also two Spanish locations, in Ibiza and Barcelona. The first thing that catches your eye when you go to a Pummarola Pizzeria Napoletana is the sawed-in-half Fiat 500 mounted on the wall, a nod to nonna Rosa Donna Rummo, who was known to tool around town in her red sportscar (which Neopolitans said looked like a tomato, or “pummarola” in the dialect of southern Italy). But once you get past that, “the ingredients are what really shine at Pummarola,” says Larry Mele. 620 W Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; Pummarola.us
PopStroke, Delray Beach
This 3-acre, mini-golf course and restaurant designed by Tiger Woods is expected to open another Florida location on an under-construction lot north of George Bush Boulevard sometime in spring 2023. Along with two 18-hole putting courses, there will be a 4,600-square-foot restaurant selling “an expansive variety of craft beer, wine, ice cream, and food to enjoy on and off the course,” according to its website. Its Port St. Lucie menu also lists build-your-own pizzas, salads, chicken wings tossed in 11 different sauces and appetizers such as baby back pork ribs, baked pretzels and potstickers. Delray PopStroke joins outposts in Fort Myers, Port St. Lucie, Sarasota and Orlando. 1314 N. Federal Highway, Delray Beach; PopStroke.com
Grain & Berry, Fort Lauderdale
This Tampa-based, build-your-own-bowl chain plans to plant its newest outpost sometime this spring in Flagler Village, across the street from Holiday Park. Grain’s first South Florida location (and 13th in the state) comes from co-franchisee Jeremy Dover, one half of Fort Lauderdale’s Demesmin & Dover law firm. The chain focuses on superfoods and serves bowls with different bases including acai, spirulina, pitaya or yogurt. The menu also features flatbreads and quesadillas with cauliflower or broccoli crusts, avocado toast, smoothies and juices. A Pembroke Pines location is expected to follow in early 2023. 701 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale; GrainandBerry.com | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/explore-florida/fl-et-restaurants-coming-soon-feb-2-20230202-nuuqvp3ovjcwrh2x6okmyef4qe-story.html | 2023-02-02 18:53:48 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/explore-florida/fl-et-restaurants-coming-soon-feb-2-20230202-nuuqvp3ovjcwrh2x6okmyef4qe-story.html |
Alpha-1 Patients Consent, Connect, and Share all their Health Data Seamlessly to power their longitudinal health record in real-time
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SEQSTER PDM, Inc. ("SEQSTER") and PatientsLikeMe (PLM), leaders in patient-centric healthcare data technology and patient engagement have collaborated to launch one of the first rare-disease studies focused on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD). The study aims to better understand how to reduce delays in diagnosis, decrease disparities in care and improve outcomes in patients with AATD through enhanced digital real time data, peer support and real-world evidence.
"We have been working with SEQSTER for the past year designing a best-in-class operating system to empower rare disease patients and researchers with longitudinal health data in real-time," stated Chris Renfro-Wallace, Chief Operating Officer of PatientsLikeMe. "This study provides a unique opportunity for both SEQSTER and PLM to connect disparate patient health data on one platform, while enhancing engagement by empowering patients in their own care."
AATD is a rare genetic condition occurring in approximately 1/3500 people. It is characterized by low levels of the alpha-1 antitrypsin protein, leading AATD patients to be very susceptible to lung and/or liver disease. Although AATD can be diagnosed through genetic testing or through AATD serum level, many cases of AATD are undiagnosed, with some studies suggesting up to 90% of patients may be undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.
"SEQSTER and PatientsLikeMe have come together to put the patient at the center of their health data," stated Ardy Arianpour, CEO & Co-Founder at SEQSTER. "Connecting patients to their own data, and empowering them through engagement is critical especially for those who live with a rare disease and have unique diagnostic odysseys involving many trips to specialists and medical tests."
Participants living with AATD now can consent, share, and engage with all of their data in one place, leading to a seamless longitudinal patient journey.
Seqster is the leading healthcare technology company that breaks down health data silos at scale. Its enterprise operating system aggregates disparate health data sources into a single, 360-degree view of a patient in real-time, solving a multitude of challenges for life sciences, patient engagement and data interoperability.
Seqster has nationwide coverage of EHRs from hospitals and medical groups, genomic DNA, wearables, pharmacy and social determinants of health data. Through its customizable white-label approach, Seqster provides accelerated access to de-identified, tokenized, real-time data and comprehensive curated data to address critical needs across the healthcare continuum.
Seqster is privately held and headquartered in San Diego. To learn more about the Seqster Operating System for Patient Registries, Clinical Studies and the Digital Front Door, please contact us at info@seqster.com or visit www.seqster.com.
PatientsLikeMe is the world's largest integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform. On PatientsLikeMe, members can put their disease experiences in context and find answers to their questions. They can easily connect directly with members who have the same conditions, are experiencing the same symptoms, or have used similar treatments. Data generated by members themselves are systematically collected and quantified while also providing an environment for peer support and learning. The site enables members to monitor symptoms of their condition(s), share their disease experiences and treatment outcomes, and learn how to improve their care through peer-to-peer interactions. These data capture the complex temporality and competing influences of different lifestyle choices, socio-demographics, conditions, and treatments on a person's health. Everything members share empowers the community with personal agency, establishing PatientsLikeMe as a clinically robust resource with demonstrated impact, including more than 100 studies in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. To learn more about PatientsLikeMe, visit www.patientslikeme.com.
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Strong earnings growth driven by higher revenues in key end markets and early benefits from the implementation of 80/20 actions
RACINE, Wis., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modine Manufacturing Company (NYSE: MOD), a diversified global leader in thermal management technology and solutions, today reported financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2022.
Fourth Quarter Highlights:
- Net sales of $574.4 million increased 12 percent from the prior year
- Operating income of $20.6 million increased $34.9 million from the prior year operating loss
- Adjusted EBITDA of $56.7 million increased $14.5 million, or 34 percent, from the prior year
- Earnings per share of $0.16 compared to a loss per share of $0.29 in the prior year
- Adjusted earnings per share of $0.57 compared to $0.51 in the prior year
- Investor and Analyst Day planned for June 22, 2022 at the NYSE
Full Year Highlights:
- Net sales of $2.1 billion increased 13 percent from the prior year
- Operating income of $119.2 million increased $216.9 million from the prior year, primarily due to impairment charges related to the Automotive segment recorded in the prior year and the reversal of a portion of those charges in the current year
- Adjusted EBITDA of $158.8 million decreased $6.0 million from the prior year
- Earnings per share of $1.62 compared to a loss per share of $4.11 in the prior year
- Adjusted earnings per share of $1.23 compared to $1.14 in the prior year
"We generated strong growth in our Building HVAC ("BHVAC") and Commercial and Industrial Solutions ("CIS") segments this quarter, and are starting to see the early benefits of the 80/20 actions taken in fiscal 2022 to simplify our business and improve profitability," said Modine President and Chief Executive Officer, Neil D. Brinker. "We continue to work diligently to offset inflationary pressures, particularly the impact of higher material costs. We have focused on improving our commercial processes, including instituting multiple pricing adjustments throughout the year. This was particulary evident in our CIS segment, which benefited from early execution of 80/20 actions by our leadership team. Finally, we continue to focus on taking actions to improve margins, including moving forward with the restructuring plans announced last quarter to reprioritize resources and capital. Overall, we are pleased with a strong finish to our fiscal year and the realization of early benefits from our deliberate, strategic actions."
Financial Results
Net sales increased 12 percent in the fourth quarter to $574.4 million, compared with $514.9 million in the prior year. The increase was driven by market-related volume improvements and favorable pricing adjustments in response to raw material price increases in the CIS, BHVAC and Heavy Duty Equipment ("HDE") segments, but was partially offset by a $23.1 million sales decrease in the Automotive segment, which was impacted by the sale of the air-cooled business in the first quarter of fiscal 2022 and the ongoing semiconductor shortages.
Gross profit increased 14 percent in the fourth quarter to $95.2 million and gross margin improved by 30 basis points to 16.6 percent. These increases were primarily driven by the higher sales volume, partially offset by the ongoing impact of higher material prices, including underlying metal prices and related premiums, fabrication, freight and packaging costs, compared to the prior year.
Selling, general and administrative ("SG&A") expenses were $53.5 million in the fourth quarter, which was 10 percent lower than the prior year. This decrease was primarily driven by lower incentive compensation expenses and lower automotive exit strategy costs, as compared to the prior year.
Operating income in the fourth quarter was $20.6 million, compared to an operating loss of $14.3 million in the prior year. This improvement was driven primarily by the absence of $32.4 million of impairment charges recorded in the prior year, higher gross profit, and lower SG&A expenses. These favorable drivers were partially offset by higher restructuring expenses compared to the prior year. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022, the Company recorded $21.1 million of restructuring charges, primarily related to targeted headcount reductions. Excluding restructuring charges and certain other charges totaling $0.6 million, as well as depreciation and amortization expense, adjusted EBITDA of $56.7 million increased $14.5 million, or 34 percent, compared with $42.2 million in the prior year.
Earnings per share was $0.16 in the fourth quarter, compared with a loss per share of $0.29 in the fourth quarter last year. This improvement was primarily due to higher operating earnings, including the absence of significant impairment charges recorded in the prior year. Adjusted earnings per share was $0.57 in the fourth quarter, compared with adjusted earnings per share of $0.51 in the fourth quarter last year.
Fourth Quarter Segment Review
- BHVAC segment sales were $101.9 million, compared with $66.9 million one year ago, an increase of 52 percent. This increase was driven by higher sales to data center and commercial HVAC customers. The higher commercial HVAC sales were driven by higher sales of heating and school ventilation products. The segment reported gross margin of 27.9 percent, which was 310 basis points lower than the prior year, primarily due to higher inflationary costs, including freight charges, and unfavorable sales mix. The segment reported operating income of $15.6 million, a 63 percent increase from the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA for the BHVAC segment was $17.4 million, an increase of $6.4 million, or 58 percent, from the prior year.
- CIS segment sales were $171.3 million, compared with $142.8 million one year ago, an increase of 20 percent. This increase was driven by higher sales to commercial HVAC and refrigeration customers and favorable pricing adjustments in response to raw material price increases. The segment reported gross margin of 18.5 percent, up 490 basis points compared with the prior year, primarily due to the positive impact of increased sales volume, favorable sales mix, pricing, and operational efficiencies. The segment reported operating income of $18.6 million, a $12.8 million improvement from the prior year, primarily due to higher gross profit on increased sales. Adjusted EBITDA for the CIS segment was $24.1 million, an increase of $11.9 million, or 98 percent, from the prior year.
- HDE segment sales were $226.1 million, compared with $207.4 million one year ago, an increase of 9 percent. This increase was driven by higher sales to off-highway, bus and specialty vehicle customers, and includes a significant impact from material pass through price increases. The segment reported gross margin of 10.7 percent, down 250 basis points from the prior year. This decrease was primarily driven by higher material prices in excess of contractual pricing adjustments along with higher freight, packaging and surcharges. The segment reported operating income of $9.6 million, a $3.6 million decrease compared to the prior year. This decrease was primarily due to lower gross profit. Adjusted EBITDA for the HDE segment was $15.6 million, a decrease of $5.2 million from the prior year.
- Automotive segment sales were $89.3 million, compared with $112.4 million one year ago, a decrease of 21 percent. This decrease was primarily driven by the sale of the air-cooled automotive business earlier this fiscal year and, to a lesser extent, the impact of the ongoing semiconductor shortage on automotive production volumes. The segment reported gross margin of 12.8 percent, down 160 basis points compared with the prior year, primarily due to lower sales volume. The segment reported an operating loss of $18.2 million, an improvement of $12.0 million from the prior year. The operating loss in the current year was negatively impacted by $20.1 million of restructuring expenses, primarily related to targeted headcount reductions in Europe. The operating loss in the prior year was negatively impacted by $32.4 million of impairment charges, which were primarily related to the air-cooled automotive business that was sold earlier in fiscal 2022. Adjusted EBITDA for the Automotive segment was $3.6 million, compared with adjusted EBITDA of $5.9 million in the prior year.
Full-Year Fiscal 2022 Overview
In fiscal 2022, net sales increased 13 percent to $2,050.1 million. The increase was primarily driven by higher sales in the HDE, CIS, and BHVAC segments, partially offset by lower sales in the Automotive segment, which decreased 21 percent from the prior year. Automotive sales were lower due to the sale of the air-cooled automotive business early in the fiscal year and the impact of the ongoing semiconductor shortage on automotive production volumes. Gross margin decreased 110 basis points to 15.1 percent, primarily due to the significant increase in material prices, including underlying metal prices and related premiums, fabrication, freight and packaging costs, compared to the prior year.
The Company reported operating income of $119.2 million compared to a $97.7 million operating loss in the prior year. This $216.9 million improvement was driven primarily by $166.8 million of impairment charges recorded in the prior year and the partial reversal of those charges in the current year. During fiscal 2022, the Company recorded net impairment reversals totaling $55.7 million and recorded restructuring expenses, a loss on sale of the air-cooled automotive business, and certain other charges totaling $40.5 million. During fiscal 2021, impairment charges, restructuring expenses, and certain other charges totaled $193.9 million. Excluding these items and depreciation and amortization expense, adjusted EBITDA was $158.8 million in fiscal 2022 and $164.8 million in fiscal 2021. Earnings per share in fiscal 2022 was $1.62 compared with a loss per share of $4.11 in fiscal 2021, and adjusted earnings per share in fiscal 2022 was $1.23, compared with $1.14 in fiscal 2021.
Balance Sheet & Liquidity
Net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended March 31, 2022 was $11.5 million, a decrease of $138.3 million compared to the prior year. Free cash flow for the year ended March 31, 2022 was a use of $28.8 million, down $145.9 million from the prior year, primarily resulting from unfavorable net changes in working capital and higher capital expenditures as compared to the prior year. Higher inventory balances resulted from increased raw material prices and strategic safety stock builds in connection with supply chain challenges. In addition, free cash flow was unusually strong in the prior year due to the deferral of certain cash payments in an effort to conserve cash in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the purchase of certain program-related equipment and tooling. Cash payments for restructuring activities, automotive exit strategy costs, strategic reorganization costs, environmental costs and certain other items during fiscal 2022 totaled $19.7 million.
Total debt was $377.8 million as of March 31, 2022. Cash and cash equivalents at March 31, 2022 were $45.2 million. Net debt was $332.6 million as of March 31, 2022, an increase of $35.9 million from the end of fiscal 2021.
Outlook
"Although we currently expect our key markets to remain strong, we continue to monitor and assess the uncertainty created by inflationary risks, the lockdowns in China and the war in the Ukraine," said Brinker. "We are aggressively addressing these risks along with the ongoing volatility created by the supply chain challenges around the globe, and are working to strengthen our customer and supplier relationships. Similarly, we remain diligent in addressing inflationary pressures with further commercial actions as well as executing on our previously announced cost reduction initiatives. Our key focus remains on growth in our target verticals, while simultaneously taking actions to reduce complexity and improve margins where we see opportunities for efficiencies. This is an inflection point for Modine as we anticipate that the actions taken this year will unlock the inherent value in the underlying business and provide benefits in fiscal 2023 and beyond. We look forward to providing an overview of our strategies and expectations during our Investor and Analyst Day next month."
Based on current exchange rates and market outlook, Modine provides its outlook for fiscal 2023:
- Full fiscal year-over-year sales up 6 to 12 percent;
- Adjusted EBITDA of $180 million to $195 million.
Conference Call and Webcast
Modine will conduct a conference call and live webcast, with a slide presentation, on Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. Central Time (9:00 a.m. Eastern Time) to discuss its fourth quarter fiscal 2022 financial results. The webcast and accompanying slides will be available on the Investor Relations section of the Modine website at www.modine.com. Participants are encouraged to log on to the webcast and conference call about ten minutes prior to the start of the event. A replay of the audio and slides will be available on the Investor Relations section of the Modine website at www.modine.com on or after May 26, 2022. A call-in replay will be available through midnight on May 31, 2022 at 800-770-2030, (international replay 647-362-9199); Conference ID# 79220. The Company will post a transcript of the call on its website on or after May 31, 2022.
About Modine
Modine, with fiscal 2022 revenues of $2.1 billion, specializes in thermal management systems and components, bringing highly engineered heating and cooling components, original equipment products, and systems to diversified global markets. Modine is a global company headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin (USA), with operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. For more information about Modine, visit www.modine.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements, including information about future financial performance and market conditions, accompanied by phrases such as "believes," "estimates," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "intends," and other similar "forward-looking" statements, as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Modine's actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements because of certain risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to those described under "Risk Factors" in Item 1A of Part I of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2021 and under Forward-Looking Statements in Item 7 of Part II of that same report and in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended June 30, 2021, September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2021. Other risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the national and global economy, our business, suppliers, customers, and employees; the overall health and pricing focus of Modine's customers; our ability to successfully execute our strategic and operational plans, including applying 80/20 principles to our business; our ability to effectively and efficiently modify our cost structure in response to sales volume increases or decreases and complete restructuring activities and realize benefits thereon; our ability to comply with the financial covenants in our credit agreements and to fund our global liquidity requirements efficiently; operational inefficiencies as a result of program launches, unexpected volume increases or decreases, and product transfers; economic, social and political conditions, changes and challenges in the markets where Modine operates and competes, including foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, inflation, tariffs and sanctions (and potential trade war impacts resulting from tariffs, sanctions or retaliatory actions), supply chain disruptions and supplier constraints, including semiconductor shortages and logistic and transportation challenges, changes in interest rates or tightening of the credit markets, recession, restrictions associated with importing and exporting and foreign ownership, public health crises, and the general uncertainties about the impact of regulatory and/or policy changes, including those related to tax and trade, the COVID-19 pandemic, the military conflict in Ukraine and other matters, that have been or may be implemented in the U.S. or abroad; the impact on Modine of any significant increases in commodity prices, particularly aluminum, copper, steel and stainless steel (nickel) and other purchased components and related costs, and our ability to adjust product pricing in response to any such increases; the nature of and Modine's significant exposure to the vehicular industry and the dependence of this industry on the health of the economy; Modine's ability to recruit and maintain talent in managerial, leadership, operational and administrative functions; Modine's ability to protect its proprietary information and intellectual property from theft or attack; the impact of any substantial disruption or material breach of our information technology systems; costs and other effects of environmental investigation, remediation or litigation; and other risks and uncertainties identified by the Company in public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are as of the date of this release, and the Company does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
Non-GAAP Financial Disclosures
Adjusted EBITDA, adjusted earnings per share, net debt, and free cash flow (which are defined below) as used in this press release are not measures that are defined in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These non-GAAP measures are used by management as performance measures to evaluate the Company's overall financial performance and liquidity. The Company believes these measures provide a more consistent view of performance than the closest GAAP equivalent for management and investors. Management compensates for this by using these measures in combination with the GAAP measures. However, these measures are not, and should not be viewed, as substitutes for the applicable GAAP measures, and may be different from similarly-titled measures used by other companies.
Definition – Adjusted EBITDA
Net earnings excluding interest expense, the provision or benefit for income taxes, depreciation and amortization expenses, other income and expense, restructuring expenses, impairment charges, costs associated with the review of strategic alternatives for the Automotive segment's business operations, strategic reorganization costs, and certain other gains or charges. The Company believes that adjusted EBITDA provides a relevant measure of profitability and earnings power. The Company views this financial metric as being useful to assess operating performance from period to period by excluding certain items that it believes are not representative of its core business. Adjusted EBITDA, when calculated for the business segments, is defined as GAAP operating income excluding depreciation and amortization expenses, restructuring expenses, impairment charges or reversals, and certain other gains or charges.
Definition – Adjusted earnings per share
Diluted earnings per share plus restructuring expenses, impairment charges or reversals, costs associated with the review of strategic alternatives for the Automotive segment's business operations, strategic reorganization costs, and excluding changes in income tax valuation allowances and certain other gains or charges. Adjusted earnings per share is an overall performance measure, not including non-cash impairment charges, costs associated with restructuring activities and certain other gains or charges.
Definition – Net debt
The sum of debt due within one year and long-term debt, less cash and cash equivalents. This is an indicator of the Company's debt position after considering on-hand cash balances.
Definition – Free cash flow
Free cash flow represents net cash provided by operating activities less expenditures for property, plant and equipment. This measure presents cash generated from operations during the period that is available for strategic capital decisions.
Forward-looking non-GAAP financial measure
The Company's fiscal 2023 guidance includes adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, which is a non-GAAP financial measure. The full-year fiscal 2023 guidance for adjusted EBITDA is based upon the Company's estimates for interest expense of approximately $16 to $17 million, a provision for income taxes of approximately $24 to $28 million, and depreciation and amortization expense of approximately $58 to $62 million. Adjusted EBITDA also excludes certain cash and non-cash expenses or gains. These expenses and gains may be significant and include items such as restructuring expenses (including severance costs and plant consolidation and relocation expenses), impairment charges and certain other items. Estimates of these expenses and gains for fiscal 2023 are not available due to the low visibility and unpredictability of these items.
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – A popular Hulu show and a city council meeting aren’t normally something talked about in the same conversation, but that was the case this week in Huntington, West Virginia.
Huntington City Council member Tia Rumbaugh displayed and explained symbols of the abortion-rights movement at the council’s meeting on Monday, Sept. 26 to make a point about abortion laws in West Virginia.
One of those symbols was a costume from the “Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel and now popular television series, which depicts a dystopian future in which women are dominated by men.
“It seems like every symbol, every issue around abortion is controversial that there’s no right answer, no one symbol that can unify all of us, and if we can’t be unified at least all of us can speak out,” she said.
In addition to the outfit, Rumbaugh also brought a coat hanger which she says is also controversial but represents a time when abortions were not legal and women were forced to take drastic and sometimes deadly actions to end their pregnancies.
The final item she brought was a green bandana which became a symbol of the movement in Latin America by the organization Catholics for the Right to Decide.
“It is a new symbol of hope, of perseverance and unity on a global scale,” she said at the meeting.
In response to her demonstration, Rumbaugh says she has received some backlash. Some people told her the demonstration was “insensitive,” while others said a public meeting wasn’t the right time or place to address the issue.
“If not now when and if not in this manner what manner can we educate our constituents, our residents?” Rumbaugh asked. “I have a very small voice and my voice is only the amplification of everyone else’s voices within our community.”
At least one council member stood in support for Rumbaugh.
“She spoke during ‘good and welfare’ about the recent abortion law in West Virginia and to be honest I thought it was a beautiful expression of her first amendment right,” said Holly Smith Mount, chairwoman of the Huntington City Council.
Rumbaugh said she won’t be wearing the “Handmaid’s Tale” costume to another meeting, but she will continue to wear the green bandana as a symbol to speak up and stand up for women’s rights.
West Virginia’s governor signed into law a sweeping abortion ban with few exceptions earlier this month, a bill that several members of the Republican supermajority said they hope will make it impossible for the state’s only abortion clinic to continue to offer the procedure.
“It is going to shut down that abortion clinic, of that I feel certain,” Republican Sen. Robert Karnes said on the Senate floor, amid shouts from protesters standing outside the chamber doors. “I believe it’s going to save a lot of babies.”
Under the legislation, rape and incest victims would be able to obtain abortions at up to eight weeks of pregnancy, but only if they report to law enforcement first. Such victims who are minors would have until 14 weeks to terminate a pregnancy and must report to either law enforcement or a physician.
Rape and incest victims would have to report the assault within 48 hours of getting an abortion, and a patient must present a copy of a police report or notarized letter to a physician before the procedure can be performed.
Abortions also would be allowed in cases of medical emergencies.
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Long list of Oklahoma Republicans look to replace retiring Senator Inhofe
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - One of the longest serving U.S. senators will soon retire, and there is a long line of Oklahoma politicians looking to replace him.
87-year-old Senator Jim Inhofe is ending his 28 year run in the U.S. Senate. Thirteen Republicans are fighting to get their name on the November general election ballot. One candidate will need 51 percent of the primary vote to secure the Republican nomination without a runoff election.
University of Oklahoma professor Tyler Johnson says the large field of candidates to
“Who’s got name recognition coming into this contest vs who has to find ways to build it,” Johnson said. “Who’s got money to bring to bear, either because they’ve raised it already, they’ve got connections.
The Republican National Committee says Republican voters this cycle are looking for candidates who can help with kitchen table issues.
“We’re seeing inflation numbers rise,” RNC Western Regional Communications Director Alex Kuehler said. “We’re seeing gas prices rise. To work, people are having trouble filling up their tank, just to get to work sometimes.”
The RNC points to recent Texas special election winner Mayra Flores for popular border policy
“She wants to build the wall. She wants to make sure that we secure our border. She wants to make sure that we have a legal process for immigration.”
Professor Johnson said, because of Oklahoma’s the political makeup, it is extremely unlikely Tuesday’s Republican primary winner will lose to a Democrat in the general election.
Johnson says that makes the primary the real race or to replace Inhofe.
“The old Kennard that you run to the right in the primary, and then you have to moderate yourself in the general election in order to win. That’s not something you need to do here, so I would guess we’re going to see someone who is in the mold of Inhofe.”
Johnson said current Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-OK, has the best chance to rise above 50 percent of the vote and avoid a runoff election
The RNC said, given the sheer size of the field, they do not expect a single candidate to earn more than half the vote. A runoff election would take place August 23.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spoken Cinema®, the award-winning entertainment innovation, featuring renowned spoken word poet, Steve Connell, premiered it's latest multi-sensory performance piece, RISE, at the Bridgestone Arena last month for the Scott Hamilton & Friends annual fundraising gala & ice show.
Combining Olympic, World, and National Champion Figure Skaters with some of the biggest names in music and, for the first time ever, poetry, the event was a once-in-a-lifetime experience benefiting the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation. All proceeds helped change the future of cancer by funding advanced, innovative research that treats the cancer while sparing the patient.
"RISE is an eight-minute, never-before-seen piece that I wrote, accompanied by an original cinematic score and an immersive digital background that was projected onto the ice, scoreboards, and every other digital surface within the arena," explains Steve Connell. "The technology literally placed my live performance inside of a movie, bringing my poem to life with breathtaking creativity."
RISE is the hallmark of the work done by Spoken Cinema®, a joint venture between Steve and Go West Creative, spearheaded by their CEO and founder, David Fischette.
A poet, actor, and transformative entertainer whose live performances are as dynamic as the words he delivers, Steve Connell has graced his poetic voice at private events for President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, Quincy Jones, and more, while his work has been showcased on networks such as HBO, MSNBC, and MTV, as well as at the Sundance Film Festival, Kennedy Center, and The White House.
In over 38 years as founder and CEO of the award-winning Go West Creative, David Fischette has established himself as a creative force in the live event, media, and entertainment industries. In that time, Go West Creative has been named to the global "Top 50 Events Companies", as well as Event Marketer Magazine's Top 100 It List for Event Agencies. Together, as Spoken Cinema®, Steve and David have created over 200 astonishing live and digital works for such diverse companies as CVS, Sonic, Dunkin', and many others.
"I don't know how Spoken Cinema did it. They somehow managed to collapse a 30-year journey into an 8-minute piece. Truly amazing!" - Scott Hamilton
To interview Steve Connell, contact Eileen Koch of EKC PR at 310-441-1000 or eileen@ekcpr.com
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Officials with the Little Rock Police Department said that at least two people are injured after a cutting incident at a gas station Friday night.
Police said that the incident happened at a store in the 8100 block of Stagecoach Road near I-430 shortly after 5 p.m.
LRPD officials said that one person is in surgery and at least one other was injured.
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Missing mother's body found in Palmetto ditch; man charged with dumping her body, deputies say
PALMETTO, Fla. - The body of a missing Manatee County mother has been found in Palmetto, and authorities have arrested a man who they say dumped her body in a ditch.
The Manatee County Sheriff's Office said 38-year-old Stephanie Shenefield's body was discovered Thursday night.
Shenefield was supposed to attend a concert Friday evening in Ybor City with a friend, but never showed up. When the mother of two then missed a shift at work on Sunday, her friends filed a missing persons report.
Sheriff Rick Wells said Shenefield's roommate helped investigators track her last known whereabouts after being able to get into her computer. They accessed her Uber account and saw that her latest activity was a ride to the home of 51-year-old William Redden at 1:20 a.m. on Friday, June 3.
When detectives spoke to Redden, he verified that Shenefield had been there that night, saying that they hung out for a while but that she left the next morning.
When Redden gave investigators consent to look throughout his home, detectives noticed he had numerous cameras both inside and outside the residence. Wells said Redden allowed them to take the DVR for the cameras.
"He tells them they do not record inside the residence. He was wrong," Wells said. "Thankfully he's ignorant and didn't know that. Because it worked for us."
When detectives began to review videos on Redden's DVR, they verified that Shenefield was there – but died at some point during the night in the home.
Wells said investigators have not yet determined the cause of death.
"What we do know is William Redden does nothing about it," the sheriff said. "He doesn't call 911. He doesn't call authorities."
Instead, the sheriff said Redden could be seen "dragging her lifeless body throughout the house" wrapped in a sheet.
Redden's exterior cameras then showed him loading Shenefield's body into a vehicle, and then driving off with her body inside.
When detectives went back to Redden's house to confront him, Wells said he refused to talk.
As investigators searched for the location of her body, two citizens walking near railroad tracks in Palmetto around 6:50 p.m. Thursday ended up seeing her body in a 12-foot-deep ditch.
"William Redden is a piece of crap, that's what he is. He had the opportunity to call law enforcement. He's an eight-time convicted felon. He's still refusing to talk to us," Wells said. "He could have done a lot of things, but that's not his character. The only thing he thought of was getting rid of the evidence that was in his car – that was a human being."
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The chatting app Discord, which is one of the most popular ways gamers communicate online, finds itself at the center of an investigation into the leak of classified documents about the war in Ukraine.
The investigation is unfolding as Discord makes an ambitious push to recruit more users and expand the way they use the versatile app.
Discord said it is cooperating with law enforcement in the investigation of the leak, which is believed to have started on the site. A Massachusetts Air National Guard member reportedly posted on Discord for years about guns, games, favorite memes and, according to some who chatted with him, closely guarded U.S. secrets.
WHAT IS DISCORD?
Discord started in 2015 as a nerdy online hangout for gamers and had some hiccups in its quest for mainstream success. Its growth accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic as a forum for its mostly younger users to gossip or even help each other with homework.
“Every month, more than 150 million people come to Discord to hang out with family, friends and communities,” its co-founder and CEO, Jason Citron, said last month at a press event. “It’s become a place where they have fun and get things done together.”
Discord users skew young — about 38% of its web users and nearly half of its Android app users are between the ages of 18 and 24, according to digital intelligence platform Similarweb. They are roughly 75% male, the research group says.
Recently, the app has also pitched itself as a gateway to artificial intelligence tools such as Midjourney, which conjures up new imagery based on commands it’s given in a Discord chat.
Discord announced in January that it was buying another teen-focused social app called Gas, which enables people to share online polls and uplifting compliments.
The purchase was part of a larger push to target communities beyond gaming, according to Insider Intelligence analyst Jeremy Goldman. Goldman said Discord has also benefited from the turmoil surrounding Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover as a “not-insignificant number” of gamers put Discord handles on their Twitter profiles to show they were decamping.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Discord can be accessed through desktops, smartphones or gaming consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation. It allows users to create invite-only “servers.”
The servers, which resemble the professional messaging platform Slack, allow users to create subchannels where they can communicate over text, voice or video chats.
Some users might have “friend servers” of several dozen people they know in real life, while others might join larger servers devoted to an online community of people interested in a specific topic.
The company hosts nearly 21,000 servers, the vast majority of which are dedicated to gaming. Others are focused on topics like generative AI, entertainment or music.
WHAT ABOUT THE LEAKED DOCUMENTS?
The Massachusetts Air National Guard member was identified as Jack Teixeira, 21, who was arrested Thursday in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues. The breach has raised questions about America’s ability to safeguard its most sensitive secrets.
Some of the leaks are believed to have started on Discord. A chat group called “Thug Shaker Central” drew roughly two dozen enthusiasts who talked about their favorite guns and shared memes and jokes, some of them racist. The group also included a running discussion on wars that included talk of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In that discussion, one user known as “the O.G.” would for months post material that he said was classified.
HAS DISCORD BEEN INVOLVED WITH ANY OTHER INVESTIGATIONS?
The white gunman who killed 10 Black shoppers and workers last year at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, shared detailed plans for the attack with a small group of people on Discord about half an hour beforehand.
The diary, kept on a private, invite-only server, included months of racist, antisemitic entries along with step-by-step descriptions of the shooter’s assault plans, a detailed account of a reconnaissance trip he made, and hand-drawn maps of the store. He livestreamed the attack on a different platform, Twitch.
Discord said 15 users clicked on the invitation and would have had access to his entries before the attack. There was no evidence anyone saw them before then.
Discord said it removed the diary and banned the shooter’s account as soon as it became aware of them. The company said it also took steps to prevent content related to the attack from spreading.
Since 2020, Discord has been part of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a group co-founded by tech companies such as Microsoft, Facebook and YouTube that works to tamp down the spread of mass shooting videos livestreamed by their perpetrators.
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United States Postal Service files with PRC to adjust prices for some shipping services, enhancing ground shipping solution at launch
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service today established proposed published pricing for its new product offering, USPS Ground Advantage. Pending favorable review and comments from the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), USPS Ground Advantage would launch on July 9. At launch, USPS Ground Advantage would provide a simple, reliable and more affordable way to ship packages up to 70 lbs in two-to-five business days.
USPS Ground Advantage Will Feature
- $100 insurance included for both retail and commercial customers, USPS Ground Advantage outbound and return parcels.
- Package forwarding and return to sender endorsements will be included for the USPS Ground Advantage product offering.
- Free package pickup on the carrier's route.
Published prices for USPS Ground Advantage will decrease 1.4 percent relative to current Parcel Select Ground and First-Class Package Service pricing. USPS Ground Advantage Retail prices will decrease 3.2 percent and USPS Ground Advantage Commercial published prices will decrease 0.7 percent.
Over the past year the Postal Service has focused on strengthening its shipping solutions as part of its 10-year strategic plan for service excellence, on-time delivery, and revenue generation from enhanced package delivery services. With more than 31,000 Post Offices, various pickup options, including free package pickup, and no surcharges for fuel or residential delivery, the Postal Service provides exceptional value and convenience to customers.
Visit the USPS Coming Soon page to learn more about USPS Ground Advantage and join the official countdown to launch.
Shipping Services prices are primarily adjusted according to market conditions. The Postal Service governors evaluate shipping rates and fees and adjust them when needed as part of Postal Service's 10-year Delivering For America plan to return the organization to financial sustainability and achieve service excellence while maintaining universal six-day mail delivery and expanding seven-day package delivery.
The complete Postal Service price filings with prices for all products can be found on the PRC website under the Daily Listings section at prc.gov/dockets/daily. For the Shipping Services filing, see Docket No. CP2023-151. The Postal Service provides additional resources to assist customers regarding the price changes. These tools include price lists, downloadable price files and Federal Register Notices. This information will be available on the Postal Service's Postal Explorer website at pe.usps.com/PriceChange/Index.
Please Note: The United States Postal Service is an independent federal establishment, mandated to be self-financing and to serve every American community through the affordable, reliable and secure delivery of mail and packages to nearly 165 million addresses six and often seven days a week. Overseen by a bipartisan Board of Governors, the Postal Service is implementing a 10-year transformation plan, Delivering for America, to modernize the postal network, restore long-term financial sustainability, dramatically improve service across all mail and shipping categories, and maintain the organization as one of America's most valued and trusted brands.
The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
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Musk plans to relaunch Twitter premium service, again
LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk said Friday that Twitter plans to relaunch its premium service that will offer different colored check marks to accounts next week, in a fresh move to revamp the service after a previous attempt backfired.
It’s the latest change to the social media platform that the billionaire Tesla CEO bought last month for $44 billion, coming a day after Musk said he would grant “amnesty” for suspended accounts and causing yet more uncertainty for users.
Twitter previously suspended the premium service, which under Musk granted blue-check labels to anyone paying $8 a month, because of a wave of imposter accounts. Originally, the blue check was given to government entities, corporations, celebrities and journalists verified by the platform to prevent impersonation.
In the latest version, companies will get a gold check, governments will get a gray check, and individuals who pay for the service, whether or not they’re celebrities, will get a blue check, Musk said Friday.
“All verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check activates,” he said, adding it was “Painful, but necessary” and promising a “longer explanation” next week. He said the service was “tentatively launching” Dec. 2.
Twitter had put the revamped premium service on hold days after its launch earlier this month after accounts impersonated companies including pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co., Nintendo, Lockheed Martin, and even Musk’s own businesses Tesla and SpaceX, along with various professional sports and political figures.
It was just one change in the past two days. On Thursday, Musk said he would grant “amnesty” for suspended accounts, following the results of an online poll he conducted on whether accounts that have not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam” should be reinstated.
The yes vote was 72%. Such online polls are anything but scientific and can easily be influenced by bots. Musk also used one before restoring former U.S. President Donald Trump’s account.
“The people have spoken. Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk tweeted Thursday using a Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people, the voice of God.”
The move is likely to put the company on a crash course with European regulators seeking to clamp down on harmful online content with tough new rules, which helped cement Europe’s reputation as the global leader in efforts to rein in the power of social media companies and other digital platforms.
Zach Meyers, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform think tank, said giving blanket amnesty based on an online poll is an “arbitrary approach” that’s “hard to reconcile with the Digital Services Act,” a new EU law that will start applying to the biggest online platforms by mid-2023.
The law is aimed at protecting internet users from illegal content and reducing the spread of harmful but legal content. It requires big social media platforms to be “diligent and objective” in enforcing restrictions, which must be spelled out clearly in the fine print for users when signing up, Meyers said.
Britain also is working on its own online safety law.
“Unless Musk quickly moves from a ‘move fast and break things’ approach to a more sober management style, he will be on a collision course with Brussels and London regulators,” Meyers said.
European Union officials took to social media to highlight their worries. The 27-nation bloc’s executive Commission published a report Thursday that found Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it this year compared with 2021.
The report was based on data collected over the spring — before Musk acquired Twitter — as part of an annual evaluation of online platforms’ compliance with the bloc’s voluntary code of conduct on disinformation. It found that Twitter assessed just over half of the notifications it received about illegal hate speech within 24 hours, down from 82% in 2021.
The numbers may yet worsen. Since taking over, Musk has l aid off half the company’s 7,500-person workforce along with an untold number of contractors responsible for content moderation. Many others have resigned, including the company’s head of trust and safety.
Recent layoffs at Twitter and results of the EU’s review “are a source of concern,” the bloc’s commissioner for justice, Didier Reynders tweeted Thursday evening after meeting with Twitter executives at the company’s European headquarters in Dublin.
In the meeting, Reynders said he “underlined that we expect Twitter to deliver on their voluntary commitments and comply with EU rules,” including the Digital Services Act and the bloc’s strict privacy regulations known as General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.
Vera Jourova, the European Commission’s vice president for values and transparency, tweeted Thursday evening that she was concerned about news reports that a “vast amount” of Twitter’s European staff were fired.
“If you want to effectively detect and take action against #disinformation & propaganda, this requires resources,” Jourova said. “Especially in the context of Russian disinformation warfare.”
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In early 2021, I found myself at a new place in my career. I had been a freelance writer for a couple of years, but for the first time I was doing interviews, many of them with high-profile names. This would have been wonderful if I’d been allowed to interact with the interview subjects in person, but the pandemic was in full swing and I, along with nearly everyone else, was stuck at home.
Though regular phone interviews were an option, speaking with someone face-to-face is so much more intimate. It allows for better conversation and makes it easier to know how someone feels about the questions being asked. I looked into Zoom, which I’d heard of but hadn’t actually used. It seemed easy enough, so I did a test call on my laptop — and that’s when I learned just how important lighting is, even just for a quick video call.
My home office has a large window that lets in a lot of light, and an overhead light that works fairly well. The lighting in the room is fine for what I need to do on a day-to-day basis. But when on Zoom, the light from the window only hits one half of my face, leaving the other side of my face in shadow. I needed something that could add more light to the front of my face so that the person on the other end of the call could actually see me.
I did some reading about ring lights and found some very large, very expensive options. But I didn’t want anything fancy. My interviews appear in print, so I didn’t need to have a studio-quality setup. Plus, my home office isn’t huge, so I didn’t want something that would take up too much space.
After much research, I came across the Cyezcor Video Conference Lighting Kit. For under $30, it’s an inexpensive, easy fix that provides exactly what I needed.
Cyezcor Video Conferencing Light
The light itself is small — roughly 5” — and clips onto a laptop or monitor. Once clipped on, just plug it into a USB port and turn on the switch. (If, like me, you’re a Mac user, a USB-C to USB adaptor works fine.)
The light has three color temperatures (white light/warm light/natural light), five levels of brightness adjustment, and 48 LED lamp beads with 10W brightness. It took a few minutes of playing with the various options to find the light that worked best for me, but once I did, I just left the light on that setting and haven’t had to adjust it since.
Cyezcor Video Conferencing Light Pros and Cons
I’ve been using the Cyezcor Video Conferencing Light for more than a year and it’s worked out well. It’s easy to use and provides the lighting I need for my work.
That said, I have a few minor complaints:
The clip attached to the light is very, very strong. Because of this, I’m wary of clipping it directly to my Macbook, which has a slim frame. Instead, I attach it to a computer monitor in my office, which has a much sturdier frame, but I do so gently and make sure to unclip the light between uses. It hasn’t caused any damage whatsoever to my monitor, but I want to ensure that it doesn’t cause the monitor to crack.
The light can be very bright and sometimes reflects off my glasses, which is incredibly distracting when trying to talk to someone over a computer screen. Thankfully, the light angle is adjustable, so I can move it into a position where I still catch the light, but it’s not reflecting off of my glasses. It took a lot of trial and error to get it into the right spot, but I haven’t had to adjust it since.
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Parks and Rec. to say goodbye to director of planning, development after 14 years
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - After 14 jam-packed years, Shawnee County Parks + Recreation will say goodbye to its director of planning and development.
Shawnee County Parks + Recreation says on Tuesday, Dec. 20, that it will say goodbye to John Boyd, director of planning and development, as he retires. His last day with the department is set for Dec. 30 with a retirement celebration set for 1 - 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at the Reynolds Lodge in Tinman Circle at Lake Shawnee.
SCP+R noted that Boyd has spent 14 years with the department as he joined back in 2008 as park supervisor for athletic and aquatic maintenance. In 2015, he became superintendent of greenspace and parkland before he was promoted to his current position.
The Department indicated that major projects Boyd has overseen include the extension of the Deer Creek Trail and working on a master plan for the development of Family Park.
“I’ve had my fingers in a lot of projects [throughout my career],” Boyd said.
Those include the development of the Bettis Family Sports Complex, the Junior Pond renovation at Lake Shawnee and the Lake Shawnee Arboretum walking trails.
Boyd said he considers the most rewarding part of his career to be hiring young seasonal staff and watching them grow. He even keeps in touch with a few former employees who are now adults and have become successful in their own careers.
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Los Angeles Rams vs. Kansas City Chiefs odds: NFL Week 12 point spread, moneyline, total
The Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs play on Sunday in a game on the NFL Week 12 schedule.
What do the odds say about the game?
The Chiefs are a 14.5-point favorite, according to Tipico Sportsbook.
The Chiefs are -450 on the moneyline in the game.
The Rams are +360.
The over/under for the game is set at 44 points.
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The Rams are coming off a 27-20 loss against the New Orleans Saints.
The Chiefs beat the Los Angeles Chargers, 30-27.
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These teams did not play each other last season.
The NFL Week 12 game is scheduled to kick off at 2:25 p.m. MST Sunday and can be seen on Fox.
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BOISE, Idaho — Wednesday Weekly: May 10, 2023.
While we have a moment, let’s go over Taylen Green’s season box score — as in, where do his 586 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns last year stack up among quarterbacks in Boise State history? I can’t believe I haven’t done that yet. Turns out Green was six yards short of Grant Hedrick’s 592 yards in 2014, the most ever by a Boise State QB. Green’s TDs were three short of Jared Zabransky’s quarterback record 13 scores in 2004. In fact, Zabransky is No. 2 on the list as well, with 11 touchdowns in 2005. So, who’s third behind Hedrick and Green in single-season yards by a Broncos QB? You have to go all the way back to 1979, when Joe Aliotti rushed for 440 yards. What sets Green apart from all these guys is that he was a redshirt freshman.
OJUKWU’S CHANCES OF BEING A TITAN
Nick Baumgardner of The Athletic has a list of “2023 NFL best UDFA fits: One undrafted prospect to watch on each roster.” And for the Tennessee Titans, he goes with John Ojukwu of Boise State. Writes Baumgarner: “Ojukwu has a great frame (6-4, 309 pounds; 34-inch arms, 38 5/8-inch wingspan) with room to keep going. He was a five-year starter at Boise State (51 combined starts at left and right tackle), though he could — and probably should — be a guard in the NFL. If his power holds up in the trenches against NFL defensive linemen, he could surprise Tennessee.” Like so many other Broncos, Ojukwu has the football smarts and is a great locker room guy. It’s nice to know that those in the know think he has a shot.
A tweet over the weekend by former Boise State cornerback Tyreque Jones indicates he’s been invited to the Seattle Seahawks rookie camp this week. It’s a tryout — the goal is an invitation to training camp this summer. The highlight of Jones’ Broncos career was his 100-yard pick-six at UCF in the 2021 season opener. Former Boise State and Arizona State safety DeAndre Pierce will get the same opportunity with the Las Vegas Raiders. Pierce’s dad, Antonio, is linebackers coach for the Raiders. No nepotism here—DeAndre has worked hard for this.
BAIR BEARS DOWN AT THE BYU INVITATIONAL
Burley High phenom Gatlin Bair, the highest-rated football recruit in Idaho history, probably isn’t going to be signing with Boise State. But Bronco Nation will always be able to appreciate the fact that Bair had Boise State in his final top 5, joining Michigan, Nebraska, TCU and Oregon, and passionately defended that fact when experts questioned it. There might be a top 6 now, as Bair revealed Sunday that he has a new offer from Alabama. That came on the heels of another stunning performance in track. Last week, Bair smoked an elite field in a couple of events at the BYU Invitational in Provo, clocking a 10.25 in the 100-meters and 20.47 in the 200 while winning by Secretariat-like margins in video that went viral. Bair ran a 10.18 100 last month at a meet in Texas — the fastest time ever by an Idaho high schooler.
RYPIEN THE RAM
It was in mid-March that the Denver Broncos notified Brett Rypien that they will not be making him a qualifying offer for 2024, and after four years with the team, he was a free agent. The former Boise State standout found a landing spot late last week, as he was signed to a one-year deal with the L.A. Rams. There would seem to be an opportunity there as a No. 2 QB, as veteran Matthew Stafford missed eight games last season — the final six due to a spinal cord contusion. Stafford is 35 years old now. But Rypien will be competing for the backup spot against Stetson Bennett, the Rams’ fourth-round draft pick who led Georgia to the last two national championships. Rypien appeared in four games for Denver last year in place of the injured Russell Wilson, throwing for 778 yards and four touchdowns against eight interceptions.
FRESNO FLOATS SOME NICE DRAWINGS
From the “let’s see what happens” department, Fresno State has unveiled a $250 million plan to upgrade its athletic facilities, including crumbling Bulldog Stadium. They’re calling the project “Elevate,” and it’s clearly on the fast-track as the university tries to stay in the public conversation about Big 12 expansion. (As an aside, I’d characterize Boise State as being in the “private conversation,” and that’s the best place for the Broncos to be.) At any rate, the Bulldogs’ plan will start with suites on the east side of their stadium this summer. Then revenue from the suites will be used for work on the problematic north end zone. The interesting thing: it looks like they’re counting on another try at a Fresno County tax measure that failed last November. Fresno State is trying to create some momentum. Will it work?
STEELIES APPEAR TO HAVE THEIR MOJO BACK
Remember the Idaho Steelheads’ start to the Kelly Cup Playoffs? Five full periods without a goal? That’s pretty much behind them as they return to Boise tonight for Game 2 of the Mountain Division Finals against Allen. Last Friday night in Game 1 (the night before the tragic shooting in Allen put the series on hold), the Steelheads fell behind 1-0, but it wasn’t as worrisome against the Americans as it was against the Utah Grizzlies two weeks ago. Nor was Allen’s 2-1 lead in the second period. Five different Steelies scored as they held off the Americans for a 5-4 victory. That makes Idaho 9-0 this season against Allen (I know Steelheads fans are knocking on wood). It’s going to be a wild time in Idaho Central Arena—four games in five nights (the fourth one Sunday, if necessary). Playoff hockey, baby.
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE
Boise State men’s basketball appears to have cured what ailed its roster, as depth now seeps from all pores. Now we’ll see what the Broncos do on the court late this fall, and opportunity knocks. They’ll be playing in the ESPN Invitational in Orlando in November. Already in the field are Texas A&M (which Boise State beat last season), Penn State, Virginia Tech, Iowa State, Butler and VCU. And Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports reports that Florida Atlantic is finalizing an agreement to be the eighth and final team in the tournament. The Owls, of course, were knocked out in the Final Four last month by San Diego State. FAU returns the majority of the team that finished 35-4. Methinks there are Quad 1 chances here. That’s what got the Broncos an at-large berth in this year’s NCAA Tournament.
A TENACIOUS TROY MERRITT
Every week is a clean slate for Troy Merritt. His next rebound try is in the AT&T Byron Nelson, teeing off Thursday at TPC Craig Ranch in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Merritt hasn’t been able to buy a break lately. Last week he missed the cut at the Wells Fargo Championship when he lost three strokes on his final two holes in the second round. Merritt double-bogeyed the par three 17th and bogeyed the 18th. With the exception of team play at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Merritt hasn’t made a cut since January at the Sony Open in Hawaii.
BRONCOS LOOK TO LIGHT IT UP
Boise State softball will bask in the bright lights at San Diego State as the Broncos open the Mountain West Tournament Thursday against the winner of today’s San Jose State-Fresno State game. Boise State, the MW regular season champion, is the No. 1 seed and has earned the right to host the tourney at Dona Larsen Park next year. That’s where the bright lights come in. The Broncos can only host if they have lights, and coach Justin Shults has not-so-gently nudged athletic director Jeremiah Dickey to get that done. As he has in so many other cases, I’m thinking Dickey figures it out. (The Broncos may not actually play under the lights — their tournament opener Thursday is at 4 p.m. Pacific.)
SHIELDS’ SHINY TROPHIES
First, legendary tennis player Luke Shields was named to the Boise State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2020. And COVID twice postponed the induction ceremony. Then Shields was named head men’s tennis coach of his alma mater last year. Then the induction finally happened last November. Then Shields led the Broncos to the Mountain West championship 12 days ago in his first season at the helm. Then yesterday, he was named Mountain West Coach of the Year after leading Boise State to its best season in eight years. Shields won the award twice at Fresno State — in 2017 and 2019 — before the Bulldogs dropped the program. What a blessing that was for the Broncos.
THIS DAY IN SPORTS…May 10, 2018, five years ago today:
The end of one of the most remarkable coaching legacies in college tennis, as Greg Patton steps down after 22 seasons spanning more than 25 years as Boise State men’s tennis coach. There are two sides to the General. One is his record: 807 victories, 14 conference championships, 16 NCAA Tournament berths, 10 conference coach of the year awards, and an NCAA Coach of the Year honor in 1997, when the Broncos were ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation. The other side is his spirit: Patton’s endlessly positive vibe saturated this city (and still does).
(Tom Scott hosts the Scott Slant segment during the football season on KTVB’s Sunday Sports Extra and anchors four sports segments each weekday on 95.3 FM KTIK. He also served as color commentator on KTVB’s telecasts of Boise State football for 14 seasons.)
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Greenleaf Trust has been recognized as the number one Cool Place to Work for medium sized businesses and the sixth overall by Crain's Detroit Business.
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cool Places to Work in Michigan is a research-driven program from Best Companies Group. The award focuses on a company's practices, programs and benefits and surveys employees from their perspective. Best Companies group has specialized in identifying and recognizing great employers to work for over the last seventeen years through independent research.
The Cool Places to Work award reflects Greenleaf Trust's ongoing success in integrating "best practices" throughout its wealth management business, now with $16B in assets under advisement*.
"Greenleaf Trust sets high expectations for itself to be a place that embraces the people who work here. Our diligent focus on building a team that not only works together, but cares for each other has been pivotal to our success," said Karen Baldwin, Executive Vice President and Director of Human Resources at Greenleaf Trust.
The Cool Places to Work award falls within Crain's Detroit "Best Places" competition. Greenleaf Trust was recognized as the #1 "Cool" firm within the medium company (50 – 249 employees) category, and #6 in the all-inclusive category. In competing for the award, Greenleaf Trust was evaluated on its workplace policies, practices, and demographics, followed by a comprehensive survey of its employees.
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Woman hits $426 million Mega Millions jackpot with $20 ticket, lottery officials say
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Gray News) - A woman in California cashed in the biggest lottery jackpot so far this year in the state, thanks to the Mega Millions game.
The California State Lottery reports Kristine Wellenstein hit the $426 million Mega Millions jackpot with the ticket she purchased at a Chevron gas station in Los Angeles County in January.
Her ticket was the only one in the country to match all six numbers: 3-16-25-44-55-13.
“When I realized I’d won, I was overcome with so many emotions, but mostly gratitude,” Wellenstein said.
The new multi-millionaire said she considers herself a private person and is not interested in speaking publicly but is interested in doing some good with her money.
“I want to give back and support local and global-based initiatives,” she said. “The real impact of my life’s work begins now.”
Lottery officials said Wellenstein has opted to take the lump sum in collecting her winnings.
The Chevron station where she bought the lucky Mega Millions ticket on Topanga Canyon Boulevard gets the maximum $1 million bonus for selling the winning ticket.
“We love having big jackpots and big wins in California,” said Alva V. Johnson, director of the California State Lottery. “Higher jackpots typically result in higher sales, which means more money for public education.”
Mega Millions draws happen twice a week on Tuesday and Friday nights. Tickets are $2 each.
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EFFINGHAM, Ill. (AP) _ Midland States Bancorp, Inc. (MSBI) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter profit of $32.9 million.
The Effingham, Illinois-based bank said it had earnings of $1.30 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 85 cents per share.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 91 cents per share.
The company posted revenue of $124.1 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $97.4 million, which topped Street forecasts.
For the year, the company reported profit of $99 million, or $4.23 per share. Revenue was reported as $325.6 million.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added a sizzling 517,000 jobs in January, a surprisingly strong gain in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive drive to slow growth and tame inflation with higher interest rates.
The unemployment rate dipped to 3.4%, the lowest level since 1969.
Friday’s government report added to the picture of a resilient labor market, with low unemployment, relatively few layoffs and many job openings even as most economists foresee a recession nearing. Though good for workers, employers’ steady demand for labor has also helped accelerate wage growth and contributed to high inflation.
But the Fed’s inflation watchers might be reassured somewhat by January’s wage data: Average hourly pay rose 4.4% last month from a year earlier, slower than the 4.8% year-over-year increase in December. And from December to January, wages rose 0.3%, below the 0.4% increase the previous month.
On top of the sizzling job growth it reported for January, the government on Friday also revised up its estimate of the gains in November and December by a combined 71,000.
January’s job growth was broad-based across industries. A category that includes restaurants and bars added 99,000 workers. Professional and business services jobs, including bookkeepers and consultants, rose by 82,000.
Governments added 74,000, boosted by the end of a worker strike against California’s state university system. Health care added 58,000 jobs, retailers 30,000. Construction gained 25,000 jobs. Manufacturing added 19,000.
Economists, who had collectively estimated that the economy added just 185,000 jobs last month, were caught off-guard by the magnitude of the gains.
“This is a labor market on heat,’’ said Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management. It would be difficult, she suggested, “to see the Fed stop raising rates and entertain ideas of rate cuts when there is such explosive economic news coming in.”
The proportion of adults who either had a job or were looking for one — the so-called labor force participation rate — stayed at 62.4%, well below pre-pandemic levels.
January’s job growth far exceeded December’s 260,000 total and extended a streak of substantial gains that raised concerns at the Fed about inflation pressures. The Fed has raised its key rate eight times since March to try to contain inflation, which hit a four-decade high last year but has slowed since then.
Companies are still seeking more workers and are hanging tightly onto the ones they have. Putting aside some high-profile layoffs at big tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others, most workers are enjoying an unusual level of job security even at a time when many economists foresee a recession approaching.
For all of 2022, the economy had added a sizzling average of roughly 375,000 jobs a month. That was a pace vigorous enough to have contributed to the painful inflation Americans have endured, the worst such bout in 40 years. A tight job market tends to put upward pressure on wages, which, in turn, feed into inflation.
The Fed, hoping to cool the job market and the economy — and, as a consequence, inflation — has steadily raised borrowing rates, most recently on Wednesday. Year-over-year measures of consumer inflation have steadily eased since peaking at 9.1% in June. But at 6.5% in December, inflation remains far above the Fed’s 2% target, which is why the central bank’s policymakers have reiterated their intent to keep raising borrowing rates for at least a few more months.
The Fed is aiming to achieve a “soft landing” — a pullback in the economy that is just enough to tame high inflation without triggering a recession. The policymakers hope that employers can slow wage increases and inflationary pressures by reducing job openings but not necessarily by laying off many employees.
But the job market’s resilience isn’t making that hoped-for outcome any easier. On Wednesday, the Labor Department reported that employers posted 11 million job openings in December, an unexpected jump from 10.4 million in November and the largest number since July. There are now about two job vacancies, on average, for every unemployed American.
The Labor Department’s monthly count of layoffs has amounted to fewer than 1.5 million for 21 straight months. Until 2021, that figure had never dropped so low in records dating back two decades.
Yet another sign that workers are benefiting from unusual job security is the weekly number of people who apply for unemployment benefits. That figure is a proxy for layoffs, one that economists monitor for clues about where the job market might be headed. The government said Thursday that the number of jobless claims fell last week to its lowest level since April.
The pace of applications for unemployment aid has remained rock-bottom despite a steady stream of headline-making layoff announcements. Facebook parent Meta is cutting 11,000 jobs, Amazon 18,000, Microsoft 10,000, Google 12,000. Some economists suspect that many laid-off workers might not be showing up at the unemployment line because they can still find new jobs easily.
AP Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber contributed to this report.
This story has been corrected to show that the labor force participation rate was unchanged in January and did not rise. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/us-adds-a-surprisingly-strong-517000-jobs-despite-fed-hikes/ | 2023-02-03 15:47:03 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/us-adds-a-surprisingly-strong-517000-jobs-despite-fed-hikes/ |
Before I tap the red start button, before I press the leather-tipped shift lever into first gear, before I stupidly dump coffee dregs in my lap as I prep for the tense half-hour ahead, I say a little prayer.
I’m about to grab the Tail of the Dragon—hallowed ground for sports car drivers, motorcyclists, or really anyone who wants to drive 11 miles through 318 turns without any mailboxes, without any driveways, without any interruptions other than the carpenter-bee buzz of sport bikes tilting and whirling around 15-mph carousel kinks while they lay nearly flat.
I pray to the gods of grip. All I want to do is keep it safe, keep it shiny, and stay out of sight of anything with a municipal crest on its doors. I’m probably already breaking the law before the first turn. I’m doing drag, after all: I’m basically cosplaying Little Red Riding Hood in a place where, even if the Trump signs have faded, the sentiment hasn’t.
Then I put it all out of my mind. The Tail of the Dragon isn’t a time for distractions. It calls for wide eyes, radio-free ears, sharp reflexes, and the right blade with which to cut—which is why I grip the thick-rimmed steering wheel of BMW’s latest M2 with a little extra force. It’s up to the occasion; I want to be, too.
It’s a stiff-kneed long-distance tourer, but the BMW M2 comes into brilliant focus on roads like the Tail of the Dragon.
BMW M2: a stiff-kneed long-distance tourer
After all, we anointed the last M2 our Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2017. This one, as before, evolves the latest 2-Series Coupe into M status through horsepower, tuning, and bodywork. Once again, the M2’s gotten bigger. Overall length has risen by 4.7 inches, track has widened by 1.5 inches in front and 1.6 inches at the rear, and the wheelbase has stretched by 2.1 inches. That makes it more livable. It doesn’t make it a bit less lovable.
The Appalachian mountains puddle up at the horizon like a comforter on an unmade bed as I try to smooth out the road to get to the Tail with the rear-drive, turbo-6 M2 in its must-have manual-shift configuration—what used to be the norm, now a bittersweet throwback.
This one’s a winner, mostly. It has rubbery detents in its shift action and in the clutch pedal action, too. It keeps perfectly smooth shifts a half-step out of reach, but it’s still better than what’s possible on some rival sports cars—where they still exist.
It’s here on the interstate where the M2’s at its least. It’s a stiff-kneed long-distance tourer, and it drones too much on textured concrete pavement. The road noise generated by its massive Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires (275/35-ZR19 in front, 285/30-ZR20 in back) overwhelms the voice recognition of the infotainment system; it even mutes the silken twin-turbo inline-6. That 3.0-liter inline-6 posts up at 453 hp, some 48 hp more than its predecessor, and twists out 406 lb-ft of torque as it winds toward a 7,200-rpm redline.
The tire noise can’t damp the M2’s gusto. Snick down a gear and step into it, and it erases the distance to the next exit ramp. BMW claims a 0-60 mph time of 4.1 seconds (3.9 seconds with the available automatic) and a top speed of 155 mph (177 mph with the M Driver’s Package).
In its transformation to M2, the 2-Series gets a host of upgrades, from an active rear differential to a stiffer chassis, aluminum suspension pieces, adaptive dampers, and more finely tuned electric steering. It’s almost too taut to daily. On one stretch of highway, the M2 pogoed rhythmically and couldn’t be calmed: no damper setting was loose or firm enough to resolve it. Once it got to asphalt again, it settled down, but the slight wandering on center didn’t; the M2 wants to bump-steer with pavement blemishes thanks to those staggered wheels.
Bigger, heavier, and more expensive: what’s not to love about the latest BMW M2? It takes the right road to reveal its magic.
BMW M2: grabbing the Tail of the Dragon
The M2 wasn’t meant to thrive in that environment, anyway. It begs for roads like the Tail; the only clue you need is the pair of red toggles on the steering wheel coded M1 and M2. Programmed by the driver, these presets can flick the car from one configured with more relaxed steering and throttle tip-in, to one that’s on the correct side of frantically engaged. I leave it in a user-configurable M1 drive mode as I make a left turn and trundle through a dozen miles of small-town North Carolina, before the road interferences drop out of sight, along with cellphone signal. Even Slack goes slack. It’s the perfect time for M2—the other user-set switch and the car, naturally.
In an instant, I’m in the middle of a Foreman/Ali match with the esses, duking it out with very slim runoffs and tangoing with a line of Miatas, motorcycles, and assorted Broncos, all parading by cameramen from Killboy.com who rest safely in the corners to take shots of cars flying through the ever-tighter corners. It’s a scene: every corkscrewy bend in the road has been bejeweled with candy-colored Camaros and Corvettes and fifty shades of German-car gray.
My eyeballs start to slosh around like pickles in a barrel and my gut starts to swish in rhythm with them as the M2 gets into its groove, tracing the steps taken by a yellow clapped-out Mazda Protégé. Sport bikes slip by ever so closely in the oncoming lane, followed occasionally by a Bronco or, worse, by a big crossover filled with gawkers who quickly get paralyzed by fear, like a straight bro stumbling into his first gay bar, unwittingly or otherwise.
Its weight gets spread around nearly equally, a 50/50 split, but the M2 is a thick one at 3,814 pounds with the manual. A stomp on the gas obliterates most of the leaden feel it can have at low throttle, as pure power lifts the M2 out of its commuter-speed doldrums.
It’s a second-gear rapper’s delight, and I leave it in rev-matching mode for the odd upshift-downshift into third and back because the pedal array proves challenging for my size 12EEE feet. Not only does the tip of my left shoe get caught in the toe box when I declutch, the height between brake and gas doesn’t sit at a friendly distance for heel-and-toe shifting.
Braking barely begs a question: it just stops, and stops hard, thanks to huge 6-piston calipers and 15.0-inch rotors in front and single-piston calipers with 14.6-inch rotors at the back. The calipers are blue, peeking out from inside those staggered wheels (9.5 inches across in front, by the way, and 10.5 inches at the back).
I reel off a hundred turns or more before I notice fatigue and before the veins start to stand out on my forearms. When I first got in the car, I didn’t think the steering wheel needed to be as fat as it is, nor did I believe the steering needed to be as heavy as it is. The Tail proved me at least a little wrong. Once I started to filter through the 15-mph curves, chasing my own tail around them, the heft kept the wheel from getting chucked off-line from the stray pothole or rock. The M2 has lost some of the lightness and precision of its steering, sure. But in exchange, it just sticks. It sticks it out longer than most drivers can. It’s a murder hornet that eats up almost everything in sight.
The M2 passes the touchscreen test, with a massive display and wireless Apple CarPlay. But who cares, when there’s 453 hp on tap?
BMW M2: passing the touchscreen test
I take a breather when I reach the end of US 129, on to an hour of stupid traffic on the interstate, and darkness. While the M2 disappears the two hours of road between me and a hotel bed, I tap into its creature comforts.
I’m not sold on the style: it’s puffy and its air intakes look unsuccessful at letting some of the air out of the car, a bouncy house of a two-door coupe with just enough shove-ahead from its wedgy stance to make me forget it. Order it in black for best results. The rear diffuser and its quad exhaust tips get the most approving nods, but there’s a lot of Lexus RC here.
Inside, the M2 transforms my notion of a sports-car interior through digital displays. It has a conjoined pair of wide screens set together under glass, and wakes up with an M-logo splash screen in the gauge cluster and a spinning M2 on the touchscreen. The cluster can be configured with navigation at its center, if you like. It’s a flourish of progress thrown in your face—but how great would it be if you flipped into Sport mode and it traded its hockey-stick digital gauges for some proper round dials?
Elsewhere, BMW prints the door panels with red and blue pixels and embosses diamond patterns into it, both of which tie in with the leather sport seats. The standard front chairs (carbon-fiber seats are available) get a lot right, with great under-leg support, a cinched waist, and a reclined headrest—and still, with all the adjustment available, I can’t quite get the M2 driving position exactly as I’d like it. With the seat as low as possible, the steering wheel doesn’t drop as much, so I grip the wheel at four o’clock and eight o’clock, instead of three and nine.
I hardly worry about the glass sunroof tucked above my head, or the automatic emergency braking that’s never called into duty, but I give thanks again for the safety net of the M2’s 10-stage stability control system, though I never get to engage the Track mode that turns off all assistance. Nor do I get to sample Drift mode; I like the M2’s tires too much, and folks with badges in these parts tend to frown on strangers doing donuts in parking lots.
It costs too much to treat that casually, in any case. Built in Mexico alongside its frumptastic 2-Series kin, the M2 costs $63,195, including $995 in destination. Now that a 1,341-hp electric BMW M2 is reportedly in the works, and will no doubt be even more expensive, you’ll want to savor this sweet throwback while it’s still dewy and fresh.
Take it to the Tail, if you can. Sure, other sports cars will take you from point A to point B. The M2 will take you to church.
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Races in the upcoming municipal primary election are set.
Noon Friday was the deadline for filing one’s candidacy for the local May 2 primary election. Up for grabs this year is the mayor’s office, city clerk, Kokomo City Council districts 1-6 and three at large seats.
This year, there are three contested primaries, and they’re all on the Republican ticket. Notably, only two Democrats filed to run in the primary — both in the City Council at large race — meaning there will be no Democratic candidates for mayor, city clerk or City Council districts 1-6 in this year’s primary election.
That doesn’t mean the Howard County Democratic Party won’t field candidates for the November general election. The party has until noon July 3 to fill any general election ballot vacancy due to no one filing to run in the primary.
Here’s the final primary election ballot, according to the Howard County Clerk’s Office:
Republican Party
Mayor
- Tyler Moore
City Clerk
- Diane Howard
City Council District 1
- David Capshaw
- Jason Acord
City Council District 2
- Joni DeLon
City Council District 3
- Ray Collins
City Council District 4
- Jeff Plough
City Council District 5
- Greg Davis
- Kara Kitts-McKibben
City Council District 6
- Crystal Sanburn
- Kevin Summers
City Council At Large (choose up to 3)
- Matthew Grecu
- Tom Miklik
- Tony Stewart
Democratic Party
City Council At Large (choose up to 3)
- Essie Foster
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Doner celebrates 85th anniversary with new leadership and expanded network
DETROIT and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, full-service agency Doner, known for operating at the intersection of Modern & Main Street, marks its 85th anniversary by welcoming award-winning creative agency Wolfgang to the Doner Partners Network (DPN). As part of this acquisition by Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the founding partners of Wolfgang will take on meaningful leadership roles within the DPN and enhance the network's West Coast presence. These moves come as the DPN accelerates momentum with new business wins and industry accolades, including Doner's recognition as an Ad Age A-List 2022 Standout Agency
Colin Jeffery, currently Chief Creative Officer of Wolfgang, will become the CCO of Doner. Jeffery has driven great success as CCO at Wolfgang, and before that, as CCO of David&Goliath for 10+ years. Among Jeffery's long list of accolades include being credited with helping KIA Motors become the fastest growing car brand in the U.S. He brings with him global experience in Singapore and South Africa, and category expertise across CPG, QSR, sports, travel, gaming, alcoholic beverage, entertainment and lifestyle.
"Doner is not an agency that rests on its laurels, or really rests at all." said David DeMuth, CEO and Chair, Doner Partners Network. "In our 85th year, we continue to grow, evolve and innovate, and that continues to attract top talent. We're certain Colin will make an immediate impact as Doner's CCO and thrilled for what's ahead as Wolfgang joins the DPN."
Jeffery will oversee Doner and Wolfgang's creative departments in his newly appointed role, leading all innovation and delivering purposeful and culturally relevant creative work.
"Doner has an incredible legacy and has created a wide range of iconic work over the years," said Colin Jeffery, CCO, Doner. "The agency's 'At the intersection of Modern & Main Street' positioning is smart, widely relatable, and very much in tune with the times. I'm looking forward to helping our clients create the next chapter of famous, transformational work. And with Doner's diverse and impressive client roster, there's opportunity all around us."
Mike Geiger, CEO of Wolfgang and former president of JWT North America, has also been appointed CEO of production studio Cahoots. Under Geiger's leadership, Cahoots will continue to provide clients within the DPN, and the industry, access to top-tier directorial talent and innovative and efficient post production capabilities, while expanding its offerings and talent roster.
Seema Miller, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Strategy Officer, Wolfgang, will remain in that role, and lead strategic and new business initiatives across Stagwell. Miller has held leadership roles in strategic planning at David&Goliath, Wieden+Kennedy and Leo Burnett.
Stagwell acquired a minority interest in Wolfgang in 2019. Today's acquisition brings Wolfgang fully into the Stagwell family. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Stagwell is the challenger holding company built to transform marketing. We deliver scaled creative performance for the world's most ambitious brands, connecting culture-moving creativity with leading-edge technology to harmonize the art and science of marketing. Led by entrepreneurs, our 13,000+ specialists in 34+ countries are unified under a single purpose: to drive effectiveness and improve business results for our clients. Join us at www.stagwellglobal.com.
You'll find us at the intersection of Modern & Main Street. It's where we help Main Street brands compete in the modern marketplace – and Modern brands scale by connecting with everyday Americans. Our clients include McDonald's, Johnson & Johnson, Stellantis, Amazon, JBL, Hackensack Meridian Health, Bloomberg Media, The UPS Store, and many more of America's favorite brands. We apply data-driven strategy to bring our creativity to life across all platforms. And we offer our clients speed and efficiency with an in-house content studio that is the largest in the Midwest and unmatched in the industry. To learn more about Doner and see some of our work, visit doner.com.
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Updated January 31, 2023 at 12:13 PM ET
A major winter storm battering the Southern U.S. has created dangerous travel conditions and disrupted thousands of flights. At least one person died in a car accident in Texas, authorities said.
The ice storm stretching from Texas to Tennessee will continue through at least Thursday morning, with expected ice accumulation affecting travel and possibly spurring scattered power outages, the National Weather Service reported.
Early Tuesday, sleet and freezing rain were falling across north and central Texas, with the NWS predicting that road conditions would become even more "treacherous" as the day wore on.
With icy and snowy conditions on roads across the state Tuesday morning, a number of accidents have already been reported. The Austin Fire Department said it was seeing a spike in multiple-car pile-ups causing significant injuries and that at least one person had died in a collision.
On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott said he was mobilizing the resources of multiple state agencies to prepare for the storm.
"As we mobilize the resources Texans need to stay safe, I encourage everyone to remain weather-aware, check DriveTexas.org before traveling, and heed the guidance from local officials," Abbott said in a statement.
More than 1,300 U.S. flights were canceled Tuesday morning, and over 1,900 were delayed as of 11:30 a.m. ET, according to the flight tracker FlightAware. Most of the flight disruptions were at airports in Texas: Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Dallas Love Field Airport.
Sleet, freezing rain and ice had also moved north into southern Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas, where hazardous road conditions were making driving dangerous and at least one accident was reported. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she activated winter weather support teams from the Arkansas National Guard.
Additionally, many schools and colleges in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas were planning to shut down or switch to online learning Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.
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Former President Donald Trump blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a Saturday night rally in Texas and accused him of prosecutorial misconduct.
"The district attorney of New York under the auspices and direction of the 'department of injustice' in Washington, DC, is investigating me for something that is not a crime, not a misdemeanor, not an affair," Trump told the thousands of people who packed into the Waco Regional Airport for the former president's first rally since announcing his 2024 campaign.
"This is really prosecutorial misconduct," Trump added. "The innocence of people makes no difference to these radical left maniacs."
Trump insisted that Bragg's office has "nothing" on him and that he "stacked his office with DC operatives to make sure that Trump got taken care of."
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"People see it's bulls--t," Trump told the crowd.
It is believed that Bragg's office will indict Trump sometime next week as part of its probe into alleged hush money payments Trump allegedly made to former porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
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Bragg has been widely criticized by Republicans for attempting to indict Trump and top House Republicans have demanded in the form of letters that Bragg testify to Congress about the indictment and turn over documents related to the case warning that the indictment could "erode confidence in the evenhanded application of justice and unalterably interfere in the court of the 2024 presidential election."
Bragg has rejected those accusations as recently as Saturday when his office responded to a tweet from Republican Rep. Jim Jordan's office with an excerpt from a letter he sent that claims his office is simply following the law.
Bragg's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Trump also took aim at the Biden administration during his speech which he says has "weaponized" the justice system against him and coordinated with Bragg's office to take him down.
"For seven years, you and I have been taking on the corrupt, rotten, sinister forces trying to destroy America," Trump said. "The Biden regime’s weaponization of our system of justice is straight out of the Stalinist Russia horror show." | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/trump-slams-manhattan-da-braggs-probe-as-prosecutorial-misconduct-people-see-its-bulls--t/article_d6140653-d360-59e1-b46c-a7963163619c.html | 2023-03-26 05:16:30 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/trump-slams-manhattan-da-braggs-probe-as-prosecutorial-misconduct-people-see-its-bulls--t/article_d6140653-d360-59e1-b46c-a7963163619c.html |
Robert Kolker was out walking his dog in Brooklyn, N.Y., early Friday morning when his wife texted him with some very unexpected news: More than 13 years after the bodies of five women were found on the same Long Island beach, and nearly a decade after "Lost Girls" — his bestselling book about their lives and the unsolved murders, later adapted into a Netflix movie — was published, authorities finally arrested a suspect in the case.
“I gasped,” Kolker told Yahoo News in an interview. “I thought, ‘A suspect? Really?’ I rushed home, sat down in front of my computer and really didn't get up again for the rest of the day.”
According to police, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was taken into custody without incident near his office in Manhattan on Thursday night and charged with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders: Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
Heuermann is also the prime suspect in the 2007 disappearance and death of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, according to Suffolk County prosecutors, but has yet to be charged.
In a new Yahoo News interview series called 3 Big Questions, we asked Kolker to help us make sense of Heuermann's arrest, what it means for the families of the victims and where the case goes from here. Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
1. When you heard about the arrest and then saw the suspect — who prosecutors described as living in plain sight — what were your first thoughts?
He lived in Massapequa Park, and my first reaction was how close that was to where those four sets of remains were dumped. I thought, well, that's very convenient. Then I learned he was an architect who worked in Manhattan and I immediately thought of the cell phone pings from a few of the victims’ phones that were traced to Midtown. And then I looked at his office and I saw that it was a block from Madison Square Garden, which also happens to be Penn Station, where Maureen Brainard-Barnes was last heard from before she disappeared. And so all of that seemed right to me. But the thing that really surprised me was that he had this very public-facing job at an architecture firm that had done work for a lot of high-profile, established corporate clients. And my personal feeling this whole time was that the killer would be someone who is more of a loner. Then I learned he was a family man, that he's married, that he has two kids. That also surprised me. Then we all learned more about the case and the details from the DA’s office. There were many, many more surprises: He owned 92 gun permits; his DNA is traced to the victims. And here this is someone whose name never came up before publicly. Simply amazing, amazing developments.
2. Prosecutors said they looked at his internet search history and found that not only was he looking at news about the crimes and the investigation, but he was also looking into family members and following them on social media. What did you make of that?
We've known for years that he used one victim's phone to make harassing phone calls to the family members of that victim. And so clearly from the start he wanted some sort of contact, some sort of relationship with the family members of the victims. I suppose you could say that that's about domination, that's about him wanting to prolong the experience in some way. But it doesn't surprise me. It wouldn't surprise me if the person responsible would be Googling like crazy for years trying to relive and prolong the experience. And it makes me wonder what else is on his computer. They raided his house, so I'm wondering what else they found.
3. The focus of your book was on the lives of the victims, and you wrote in the New York Times over the weekend about how when you first started reporting on this case, these women were reduced in the media to a "single dimension" by their profession as prostitutes, how police were reluctant to even look for them when they missing and how much that has changed for the better. But do you have any fear that given the renewed media attention on the case and suspect there's a possibility of that reduction happening again?
There's always a possibility of the reduction happening again. The arrest in this case doesn't mean an end to misogyny by any stretch of the imagination. I was moved to write something because I knew that the news cycle was gonna go hard on the suspect and it's gonna be all about him very soon. And so I thought, ‘Well, here's one last chance to talk about the family members, to talk about the victims and to make it clear that they aren't just plot devices in a true crime story.’ However, I really do feel that at the press conference, not only did they have family members there, they also spoke in highly respectful tones about the victims. I mean, you could call it performative if you want to, but it happened. That is different. The relationship between the police and the victims’ families back when I first reported “Lost Girls” was tense, uncomfortable and highly acrimonious. At times it seemed like the police had contempt for them. And that's certainly not the case anymore.
OK those are my “3 Big Questions,” but I was wondering, have you already gotten a call to work on a follow-up or an updated version of “Lost Girls”?
I've been getting a lot of calls for sure. And there are a lot of folks who would like me to continue reporting on this and I'm definitely going to stay in it and want to see this through.
Are you expecting to be called as a witness?
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NEW YORK (AP) — Five high school students have received a prize that will enable them to share their passion for poetry in their communities and beyond, while receiving a $5,000 cash award.
Students from New York City to Sante Fe, New Mexico have been named National Student Poets, an honor presented by the National Student Poets Program. They will serve 1-year terms as “poetry ambassadors,” giving talks and presiding over workshops and other programs.
The poets are 10th and 11th graders chosen from five regions out of a pool of some 22,000 applicants around the U.S. They are Vidhatrie Keetha (Northeast) from the Horace Mann School in New York City, Emily Igwike (Midwest) from the University School of Milwaukee, Winslow Hastie, Jr. (Southeast) from the Charleston County School of the Arts in North Charleston, South Carolina; Jessie Begay (Southwest) from the New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe, and Diane Sun (West) from Interlake High School in Bellevue, Washington.
The director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Crosby Kemper, will formally appoint the student poets during a Sept. 27 ceremony at the Planet Word Museum in Washington, D.C. Poet Naomi Shihab Nye will be the keynote speaker.
“Poetry is for the soul. Our five young National Student Poets display plenty of that in their passionate work,” Kemper said in a statement Wednesday. “As they help lead us out of our long bout with the pandemic they will provide balm for our distresses and delight for our hearts.”
The decade-old National Student Poets Program is a partnership including the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, which manages the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Awards jurors this year included former U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and poet Edward Hirsch. | https://www.pahomepage.com/entertainment-news/5-high-school-students-to-serve-as-national-student-poets/ | 2022-08-03 21:11:21 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/entertainment-news/5-high-school-students-to-serve-as-national-student-poets/ |
Denver Riggleman, a former GOP lawmaker and House Jan. 6 committee aide, wrote in his forthcoming book that his mom texted him saying she was “sorry you were ever elected” after the then-Republican lawmaker went on CNN to condemn QAnon.
Riggleman marketed his book as a behind-the-scenes look at the Jan. 6 investigation, and an excerpt provided to The Hill in advance of its Tuesday release reveals details on Riggleman’s relationship with his mother as he publicly raised concerns about former President Trump and right-wing conspiracy theories.
“What will it take to wake you up son….I love you so, but cannot stand by and listen to your elitist attitude and being praised by elitist journalist and democrats,” Riggleman’s mother texted him. “Congratulations you are now part of the swamp…I’m sorry you were ever elected…You are officially a politician…I have cried over you and my heart is broken by you.”
Riggleman wrote that the text came after CNN’s Jake Tapper interviewed him on Oct. 14, 2020, nearly two weeks after the Virginia Republican sponsored a resolution condemning QAnon that passed the House with 17 Republican “no” votes.
Riggleman’s book, which is titled “The Breach,” has reportedly drawn the ire of his former colleagues on the House Jan. 6 investigation who did not want information to leak out about the committee’s work.
Beyond his work on the panel, Riggleman’s book goes on to detail a number of disgruntled messages between him and his mother.
“I knew my mom and I were not on the same page politically, but this is something else,” Riggleman wrote. “Any hope for a mostly normal relationship seemed dim. She was damn near disavowing me.”
The former Virginia congressman describes his mother in the book as being solidly Republican and religious.
Riggleman wrote that she kicked him out of the house after he abandoned his Mormon mission but they still stayed in touch afterwards, and their relationship only improved when he unsuccessfully ran for Virginia governor in 2016.
He later won a House seat in 2018, only to lose the Republican nomination two years later as controversy grew over his officiating of a same-sex wedding and more moderate voting record.
In his final months in office, the former intelligence officer became an outspoken advocate against QAnon and Republican support for the conspiracy, including from Trump.
“My relationship with my mom made it through my break with her Mormon Church,” Riggleman wrote in his book. “I wasn’t sure if it could survive the Church of Trump.”
After their relationship soured, Riggleman wrote that he and his mom only reconnected when his sister’s health took a turn for the worst, but the former lawmaker said he never told his mom about his work on the Jan. 6 committee.
“If I can help even one person turn away from this fringe conspiracy culture or recognize Trump for the un-American grifter that he is, it would make everything worth it,” Riggleman wrote. “I’d be especially happy if that one person was my mom.”
Judy Kurtz contributed to this report. | https://www.cbs42.com/hill-politics/riggleman-after-i-criticized-trump-my-mom-texted-me-im-sorry-you-were-ever-elected/ | 2022-09-26 21:38:11 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/hill-politics/riggleman-after-i-criticized-trump-my-mom-texted-me-im-sorry-you-were-ever-elected/ |
Glendale firefighter loses battle with cancer: 'Our hearts are truly broken'
GLENDALE, Ariz. - The Glendale Fire Department is mourning the loss of one of its firefighters who died of cancer.
Firefighter Mark Fowl, who spent 22 years with the department, died on Dec. 19 after a year-long battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Fowl joined Glendale Fire on Jan. 17, 2002, and ended his career on Engine 156 on the C shift.
"His fellow firefighters say they could always count on his warm smile to greet you and a ‘how are you buddy, things good?’ to follow," the department said.
Fowl was diagnosed with brain cancer last year "and battled his prognosis each and every day."
"His wife and two children provided a constant source of strength and love as he battled the unforgiving disease," the department added.
Funeral arraignments for Fowl have not yet been announced.
"Our hearts are truly broken as we navigate the loss of our brother, Mark," Capt. Ashley Losch said. "As a beloved member of our department, Mark will be deeply missed and we will do our best to honor him and his family."
Mark Fowl (Glendale Fire Department) | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/glendale-firefighter-loses-battle-with-cancer-our-hearts-are-truly-broken | 2022-12-20 15:01:05 | 0 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/glendale-firefighter-loses-battle-with-cancer-our-hearts-are-truly-broken |
Chicago Automobile Trade Association and USO Partner for 10th Year
CHICAGO, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicagoland's new-car dealers are firing up the grills to raise awareness and funds for local military and their families. The 10th Annual USO Barbecue for the Troops community fundraising events will take place throughout the area on Saturday, July 15. More than 80 dealerships have signed on to support the cause, and are planning to offer everything from patriotic ceremonies, classic car shows, live music, games for kids of all ages and – of course – barbecue.
Since the program's inception, CATA dealers have rallied to raise more than $1 million to support USO programs and services with more than 600 fundraisers taking place.
"New-car dealers are pillars of their communities and so it makes a lot of sense for the dealers to rally their neighbors for this grassroots fundraiser, all in support of local troops and their families," said Kelly Webb Roberts, Chicago Automobile Trade Association chairwoman. "Last summer we achieved a major fundraising milestone and we look forward to adding to that running total with this year's barbecue."
"The support of service members' hometown communities and local new-car dealerships has allowed USO Illinois to positively impact more than 300,000 service members and their families annually through hundreds of programs and services as well as our 10 USO Centers across Illinois," said Christopher Schmidt, USO Illinois Executive Director. "Neighbors helping neighbors through initiatives like Barbecue for the Troops makes communities even stronger and joining your local dealership for their BBQ in July is a great way to get involved!"
"From the USO Illinois and all those who serve our nation, we thank all of the participating dealers and their communities for the generous support," Schmidt continued.
For those who can't visit a dealer USO Barbecue for the Troops event on July 15, fundraising will take place online throughout the entire month of July. Those interested can also make a donation online at https://p2p.onecause.com/bbq4troops2023/home.
To find the full listing of CATA dealer USO Barbecue for the Troops fundraisers, visit DriveChicago.com. For more information about USO Illinois, visit Illinois.USO.org.
About the Chicago Automobile Trade Association
Founded in 1904, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association is one of the nation's largest metropolitan dealer organizations. It is comprised of more than 420 franchised new-car dealers and an additional 150 allied members. The group's dealer members employ about 19,000 people in the metropolitan area. The association has produced the world-famous Chicago Auto Show since 1935. For more information please visit www.CATA.info.
About USO
The USO strengthens America's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation. At hundreds of locations worldwide, we are united in our commitment to connect our service members and their families through countless acts of caring, comfort, and support. The USO is a private, nonprofit organization, not a government agency. Our programs, services and entertainment tours are made possible by the American people, support of our corporate partners, and the dedication of our volunteers and staff. To join us in this important mission, and to learn more about the USO, please visit Illinois.USO.org.
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BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — Leaves are changing, and sweaters are getting broken out of the closet. The Autumn Equinox officially began on September 22nd, so we are in the peak of Fall weather now.
The trees are getting ready for winter and because there is not enough light in winter for photosynthesis, the trees begin to close down their food production systems. That’s what reduces the amount of chlorophyll in their leaves.
As the days get colder, they also get shorter. In fact, the other day was one of the last days we will see the sun set past 7 P.M. Friday night, the sunset was at 6:58 P.M.
Friday, the high temperature is around 50 and thankfully, the wind has died down but it’s still quite breezy today. Winds were out of the north around 16 to 13 miles per hour.
Some of us have already seen some snow, but thankfully, nothing has stuck to the ground yet.
The official start to Winter isn’t until December 21st, but if you’re a native to North Dakota, you can probably bet on seeing some more snow before then. | https://www.kxnet.com/news/destination-dakota-fall-facts/ | 2022-10-15 02:33:43 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/news/destination-dakota-fall-facts/ |
By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE
Associated Press
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The shooting of a first-grade teacher by a 6-year-old boy has plunged the nation into uncharted waters of school violence, with many in the Virginia shipbuilding city where it happened demanding metal detectors in every school.
But experts warn there are no easy solutions when it comes to preventing gun violence in schools.
“This is a real game changer,” said Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, which trains law enforcement members who work in schools.
“How do we begin to approach the idea of protecting students and staff from an armed 6-year-old?” he said of the attack Friday in Newport News.
American educators have long been trying to create safe spaces that feel less like prisons and more like schools. If anything, Friday’s shooting fuels a debate over the effectiveness of metal detectors — which are still relatively rare in schools — and other safety measures.
“Metal detectors and clear backpacks are more likely to cause young children to be fearful and feel criminalized,” said Amanda Nickerson, a school psychology professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
“Many of the strategies being suggested do not have any research evidence, and they may actually erode a healthy school climate,” she said — one where students and staff feel free to share concerns about possible threats, which has been shown to prevent shootings.
A more effective approach fosters “positive social, emotional, behavioral and academic success,” Nickerson said.
Ron Avi Astor, a professor of social welfare and education at the University of California, Los Angeles, said “it’s really the gun owners who need to be held responsible.”
Police in Newport News say the 6-year-old brought his mother’s gun, which had been purchased legally, to school, though it’s unclear how he gained access to it. A Virginia law prohibits leaving a loaded gun where it is accessible to a child under 14, a misdemeanor crime punishable with a maximum one-year prison sentence and $2,500 fine. No charges have been brought against the mother so far.
Astor said that a public health approach to reducing gun violence in schools is needed, as well as gun licensing.
“Let’s all agree that gun education is really important, particularly around gun safety and accidents and kids getting access to guns,” Astor said. “Let’s make that part of health class. Let’s make sure every kid, parent and educator goes through education and hazardous materials safety training in every school in the United States.”
“Gun safety education … is something that most Americans agree on, based on national polls. That’s a great place to start saving lives and reducing injury or death,” Astor said.
The shooting Friday occurred as Abigail Zwerner taught her first-grade class at Richneck Elementary. There was no warning and no struggle before the 6-year-old pointed the gun at Zwerner and fired one round.
The bullet pierced Zwerner’s hand and struck her chest. The 25-year-old hustled her students out of the classroom before being rushed to the hospital. She has improved and was listed in stable condition Monday, authorities said.
Police Chief Steve Drew described the shooting as “intentional.” A judge will determine what’s next for the child, who is being held at a medical facility following an emergency custody order.
Meanwhile, the superintendent of Newport News Public Schools said the shooting “will cause us to rethink how we handle our youngest children.”
City schools rely on metal detectors and random searches in high schools and middle schools, but not for elementary buildings, Superintendent George Parker III said at a Monday news conference.
“I hate to be at this point where I’m considering this, but we have to start relying on those types of deterrents at the elementary level as well,” Parker said.
James Graves, president of the Newport News Education Association, said the teachers union would ask the school board for metal detectors in every school.
“If a metal detector in every school is going to allow our kids to be safe, so be it,” he told The Associated Press.
The union will also propose that students be required to carry only clear backpacks so the contents can be easily seen, Graves said.
Eric Billet, whose three children attend Newport News public schools, said he supports more security measures, like metal detectors, bag searches and a security officer at every school. But he would also like more behavioral specialists and counselors working with students.
Two of Billet’s children go to Richneck, including his fourth-grade daughter who’s endured nightmares following the shooting.
“The more challenging piece is the culture change,” he said.
“I know some teachers have had trouble controlling classrooms since COVID,” Billet added. “I do not know all of the reasons, whether it’s parenting at home or other influences, or a lack of authority and discipline at school. I definitely do not blame the teachers for this.”
Rick Fogle, whose grandson is in second grade at Richneck, supports increased use of metal detectors. But he also said schools need to be more willing to search backpacks, pockets and desks if kids are suspected of having a gun.
“They’ve got to overcome social pressure to respect people’s rights and realize that the rights of those who could be injured need to be considered,” Fogle said.
Researcher David Riedman, founder of a database that tracks U.S. school shootings dating back to 1970, said he’s only aware of three other shootings involving 6-year-olds in that time period — and only one other case of a student younger than that.
At the same time, people are shot or guns are taken away at schools almost every day, Riedman said. There were 302 shootings on school property last year. And since 1970, more than 250 teachers, principals and other school staff have been shot.
Still, he questioned how realistic it is for schools to ramp up use of metal detectors.
“Schools are already struggling with adequate resources — finding bus drivers, finding enough teachers,” Riedman said. “To have comprehensive school security with 100% weapons detection essentially requires a TSA-style agency that would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to implement across the country. And that’s not viable.”
The use of metal detectors in schools, particularly elementary schools, is still rare, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
During the 2019-2020 school year, less than 2% of public elementary schools performed random metal detector checks on students. It was 10% for middle schools and 14.8% for high schools.
About 2% of elementary schools required backpacks to be clear while just over 9% of middle schools and 7% of high schools imposed that requirement, the center said. About 54.6% of elementary schools had security staff present at least once a week; at middle schools it was 81.5% and at high schools 84.4%.
Canady said equipping schools with metal detectors requires a lot of training and maintenance — and can provide a false sense of security if they’re not operated correctly.
A relationship-based policing approach can better help avert school violence, he said. “Every student in a school environment should have at least one trusted adult that they can connect with,” Canady said.
Krista Arnold, executive director of the Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals, agreed. She worked as an elementary school principal for 18 years in Virginia Beach before retiring in 2021.
“I had a couple of knives brought to school during my 18 years, and (the students) usually sing like canaries and tell somebody,” Arnold said. “And that usually got to the front office pretty quickly.”
Arnold said she’s not a proponent of turning schools into fortresses. Instead, she supports teaching empathy and other behavioral skills.
“My experience is when you build that community and you explicitly teach social, emotional skills — and you talk about how it makes the other person feel if you’ve hurt them … you build that good citizenship and you reduce the amount of discipline and aggression in the school,” she said.
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Lavoie reported from Richmond, Virginia.
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Joshua Dobbs has been a part of an NFL playoff team in his six-year career.
Not bad for someone signed off Detroit's practice squad on Dec. 21.
No pressure at all.
“I know it is a big game,” Dobbs said Tuesday. “I haven’t been here the entire year, but any time you have a chance to go to the playoffs, it is a tremendous opportunity. I’m excited for it.”
The fourth-round pick by Pittsburgh in 2017 was on the Steelers’ playoff teams in 2017 and 2020. The quarterback with a degree in aerospace engineering who has done internships with NASA through the NFL Players Association has been just as busy learning the Titans’ game plan as his new teammates’ names.
The 6-foot-3, 216-pound Dobbs will be making the eighth appearance of his career.
Dobbs doesn’t see Saturday night’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars (8-8) as a validation of a journey that has taken him from Pittsburgh to Jacksonville in 2019 and back to Pittsburgh for 2020 and 2021 and stints with Cleveland, a brief stop in Detroit and now back in Tennessee as validation of his career.
This has just been his journey, and now he has the chance to lead the Titans (7-9) to something this franchise hasn’t done since the first three years of its existence in the original AFL — three straight division titles — and a fourth straight playoff berth.
“You just have to live in your world, maximize your journey, the opportunities that come, and take advantage of them,” Dobbs said. “I’m excited for this one this weekend.”
The Titans chose to start Dobbs over rookie Malik Willis, who is 1-2 as a starter and ran for his lone touchdown this season in his most recent start. Dobbs threw for more yards by halftime than Willis, the third-round pick out of Liberty, had managed in any of his starts. Dobbs finished with 232 yards passing.
Titans coach Mike Vrabel said Dobbs quickly adjusted despite playing with teammates whose first names he didn’t know in last week’s 27-13 loss to Dallas. Vrabel also isn’t worried about Dobbs being around Tennessee only a short time, noting half the battle is acting like a quarterback.
Vrabel also sees Dobbs as bringing a calming presence and confidence.
“Joshua is going to be very well prepared and understands that we will have to go into a great environment on Saturday night ...,” Vrabel said. “He understands that. He has played quarterback. He has played in front of big crowds. He has played in big games.”
One big advantage Dobbs will have in trying to snap the Titans’ six-game skid, the franchise’s longest since 2015, is having two-time NFL rushing champ Derrick Henry back. The Titans scratched Henry against Dallas despite the running back ranking second in the NFL in rushing.
Henry currently ranks third with 1,429 yards and is tied for second with 13 rushing TDs.
Dobbs, who never beat Henry and Alabama in college, thinks it’ll be a lot of fun being in the same backfield.
“I watched Derrick play a lot of football in college across the sideline from him, since being in the league across the sideline from him,” Dobbs said. “So he’s a dynamic back, as we all know. I’m excited to hand the ball off to him and watch it from a field perspective, what he’s able to do.”
NOTES: They signed DT Curtis Brooks, DB Shyheim Carter and OLB Sam Okuayinonu to the practice squad.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida teenager has documented how it feels to be young and transgender for a film set to debut at a festival as transgender people around the world celebrate visibility and lawmakers across the country look to restrict their rights and care.
Carys Mullins, 19, who is gender non-conforming and uses she and they pronouns, said their experience inspired conversations with community members for a documentary, “You’re Loved.” The film directed and produced by Mullins is set to premiere Friday at the Tampa Bay Transgender Film Festival on International Transgender Day of Visibility.
“That’s a big part of what the festival is,” Mullins said. “A big part of the Tampa Bay Transgender Film Festival is: Look at us.”
“You’re Loved” debuts at a time where access to gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary young people is under assault across the United States. Florida, Missouri and Texas have regulations banning puberty-blocking hormones and gender-affirming surgeries for minors. At least 11 other states ban gender-affirming care for minors by law: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Utah, South Dakota and West Virginia.
Federal judges have blocked enforcement of laws in Alabama and Arkansas, and nearly two dozen states are considering bills this year to restrict or ban care.
When describing how it feels to be a gender-nonconforming person in their home state, Mullins draws many comparisons.
“It feels like you’re under a microscope.”
“It feels like we’re all in a circus.”
“It almost feels like you’re a guinea pig of sorts for people who have no idea what it’s like to be trans, to be nonbinary, to be gender-nonconforming. They don’t see us as people.”
Mullins interwove perspectives from three young transgender people in Florida, Texas and Illinois, along with mental health providers, advocates and allies. They sent participants a set list of questions, depending on their role in the documentary, and edited together their recorded answers.
Topher Malone, a Black transgender high school student in Round Rock, Texas, said participating in the documentary gave her space to be herself.
“I could share my story,” Malone said. “And, you know, those opportunities don’t come often, especially for Black trans youth.”
Malone spoke at a Texas House committee hearing on Monday about a measure seeking to restrict care. The hearing started around 8 a.m. Malone said she wasn’t able to speak until after 11 p.m.
“I’m a youth. I go to public school. I’m supposed to be supported by my government,” Malone said, “And so, that not being true is just so difficult.”
The bills have a measurable impact on the well-being of transgender youth. Half of transgender adults ages 18 through 34 say they have had suicidal thoughts in the past year, and about a quarter said that they have engaged in self-harm, they had an eating disorder and they misused alcohol or drugs, according to a Washington Post-KFF poll of transgender adults in the U.S.
The poll shows nearly 8 in 10 transgender adults overall say living as a gender that is different from the gender they were assigned at birth has made their lives more satisfying.
But the poll also shows transgender adults say they are satisfied with their lives at a lower rate than the U.S. adult population as a whole.
Transgender adults are especially likely to report feeling anxious, depressed or lonely in the past year. About two-thirds say they have faced discrimination because of their gender identity or expression. And 78% say that growing up, they experienced serious mental health problems such as depression or anxiety.
“The landscape right now is urgent,” said Jonah DeChants, senior research scientist at The Trevor Project.
However, while the numbers are grim, DeChants does not want them to be the sole focus in conversations about transgender youth. He said polls and surveys have also shown that access to adult role models and communities that affirm their identity can play a significant role in lowering suicide risk.
“For me especially as a scientist and a former youth worker, it’s really exciting to see data that firmly shows that being an ally to young people matters,” DeChants said.
Florida-based psychologist Dani Rosenkrantz, who also participated in the documentary, sees herself as part of this larger support system for the young transgender and nonbinary people she works with. Despite the challenges she faces operating as an LGBTQ+ therapist in Florida, Rosenkrantz wants to give space for her clients to not only process their grief, but also to find joy in their identities.
“Our life isn’t just these awful, sad, real statistics that are really important to know about and resist, but it’s also these beautiful, thriving people.” Rosenkrantz said.
Mullins hopes their documentary resonates with transgender people and with the community at large. They see the message of love as universal.
“At the end of the day, if you take away these labels and these identities, the whole point of this film is you are loved and you are seen, no matter what experiences you go through,” Mullins said.
In Texas, Malone finds her joy in many places: at underground ballroom events, in online communities, and even Monday after the hearing. Malone said there was a rally as they were leaving the state Capitol after midnight, with people shouting, laughing, and dancing.
“There was a sense of community,” Malone said. “There was a sense of trans joy in that moment.” | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/florida-teen-debuts-trans-visibility-film-as-bans-spread/ | 2023-04-01 12:08:56 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/entertainment-news/florida-teen-debuts-trans-visibility-film-as-bans-spread/ |
Feds order 6 companies to stop selling cannabis edibles that look like kids’ snacks
The agency said that illegal cannabis products resemble Doritos and Cheetos
The Biden administration this week ordered six companies to stop their illegal sales of food products that contain cannabis and are dressed up to look like popular kids' snacks.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent cease and desist letters to the companies for trying to get their products to look like "chips, cookies, candy, gummies or other snack food items" such as Doritos, Cheetos and Nerds candy. The agencies said the products can be accidently taken by children or used in too large of doses by adults due to misleading marketing.
Letters went to Delta Munchies, LLC; Exclusive Hemp Farms; North Carolina Hemp Exchange, LLC; Dr. Smoke, LLC; Nikte’s Wholesale, LLC, and The Haunted Vapor Room. The FDA said the copycat snacks contain varying levels of Delta-8 THC, which is a substance extracted from cannabis to provide the psychoactive impact of the plant.
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"Dr. Smoke, LLC, for example, sells THC-infused ‘Doritos’ that are marketed in packaging that is nearly the same as that of Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Tortilla Chips… including using the same red background, the use of the Doritos name and triangle logo, and the depiction of two tortilla chips in the same position," the FTC said. "In addition, Dr. Smoke’s THC-infused ‘Cheetos’ are sold in packaging that is nearly identical to that of Cheetos Crunchy Flamin’ Hot Cheese Flavored Snacks, right down to the use of the Chester Cheetah mascot."
"Children are more vulnerable than adults to the effects of THC, with many who have been sickened and even hospitalized after eating ‘edibles’ containing it," said FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D. "The products we are warning against intentionally mimic well-known snack food brands by using similar brand names, logos, or pictures on packaging, that consumers, especially children, may confuse with traditional snack foods."
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Delta-8 THC has not been evaluated or approved for safe use by the FDA. The agency said it has received reports of serious adverse events from the substance such as "hallucinations, vomiting, tremor, anxiety, dizziness, confusion, and loss of consciousness."
More than 40% of all human poison exposure cases in 2020 were from children ingesting marijuana edibles, according to a study this year in the journal Pediatrics that relied on data from the National Poison Data System. The study concluded cases of pediatric ingestion of edibles has steadily increased from 2017 to 2021.
The FTC determined the copycat snacks may violate Section 5 of the FTC Act, which bans deceptive products or commerce. As a result, the FTC sent the companies "cease and desist" letters.
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The six companies have 15 days to respond on how to address the agencies' concerns.
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"Marketing edible THC products that can be easily mistaken by children for regular foods is reckless and illegal," said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. "Companies must ensure that their products are marketed safely and responsibly, especially when it comes to protecting the well-being of children." | https://www.foxnews.com/health/feds-six-companies-stop-selling-cannabis-edibles-kids-snacks | 2023-07-06 16:59:41 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/health/feds-six-companies-stop-selling-cannabis-edibles-kids-snacks |
Crowds of students have begun to walk out of Northern Virginia schools on Tuesday in protest of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed restrictions on transgender students’ rights.
More than 90 schools are set to participate, including 59 in Northern Virginia, and thousands of students are expected to join the demonstrations.
Chopper footage from NBC Washington showed crowds of students outside C.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Colgan High School in Manassas, Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, Rachel Carson Middle School in Herndon and James W Robinson, Jr. Secondary School in Fairfax.
“Trans rights are human rights,” a sign held up by one student said. Students waved rainbow flags and the Progress flag, which includes light blue, light pink and white stripes to honor transgender people, and black and brown stripes to honor marginalized Black and brown communities and people with AIDS.
Youngkin's proposed policy would restrict which pronouns students may use and require teachers to reveal a student's identity to their parents without the student's permission.
The policy changes would take effect 30 days after a mandatory public comment period that began Monday. More than 15,500 comments had been submitted by Tuesday morning.
Youngkin said the final decision on the policy will be made by the Virginia Department of Education once the public comment period closes. Go here if you want to weigh in. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/virginia-students-protest-youngkins-proposed-transgender-policy-walk-out-of-schools/3374634/ | 2022-09-27 16:11:03 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/virginia-students-protest-youngkins-proposed-transgender-policy-walk-out-of-schools/3374634/ |
2 inmates, including man convicted of double murder, escape Ohio prison
Posted/updated on: May 23, 2023 at 4:53 pm(OHIO) -- Two inmates, including one convicted of murdering two people, have escaped from an Ohio prison, authorities said.
The Allen County Sheriff's Office warned residents on Tuesday to "be aware and use caution" after the two men escaped from the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima.
"If you see either inmate please DO NOT APPROACH," the sheriff's office said on social media. "Immediately call 911."
The inmates were identified by the sheriff's office as Bradley Gillespie, 50, and James Lee, 47.
Gillespie was convicted of murdering a man and woman in 2016 and sentenced to 32 years to life in prison, according to Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction online records. He is described by authorities as being 200 pounds and bald with blue eyes.
Lee was convicted in 2021 of charges including burglary, safecracking and breaking and entering and was serving at least 20 years in prison, state records show. He is described by authorities as being 300 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.
No other information was immediately available on the escape.
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Two men were killed in a shooting at a private party in Seattle’s Bitter Lake neighborhood Saturday evening, according to the Seattle Police Department.
At 10:13 p.m., police responded to the 900 block of North 145th Street for reports that a person had been shot.
Responding officers found a 25-year-old man with with fatal gunshot wounds, and a 30-year-old man who had also been shot, according to a Seattle Police blotter post.
Officers and Seattle Fire Department medics attempted emergency first aid on the 30-year-old man, but he died at the scene.
Police said a suspect was identified after interviews with several witnesses and was taken into custody at the North Precinct,
No other details were immediately available.
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SAN RAMON, Calif., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flosum, a leading provider of end-to-end secure DevSecOps, data management, data protection and security automation platforms built on Salesforce, has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2022 honor by San Francisco Bay Area Top Workplaces. Flosum is recognized as #7 in the top 126 of the best companies to work for in the San Francisco Bay Area.
"It is quite an honor to be ranked so highly as a top place to work, especially given the technology sector hiring and retention challenges," said Girish Jashnani, CEO of Flosum. "Our continued focus on our customers and partners has led to tremendous growth, and we couldn't be more excited to keep building an engaged and happy workplace."
The list is based solely on employee feedback and gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 culture drivers that are critical to the success of any organization: including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few.
"Earning a Top Workplaces award is a badge of honor for companies, especially because it comes authentically from their employees," said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. "That's something to be proud of. In today's market, leaders must ensure they're allowing employees to have a voice and be heard. That's paramount. Top Workplaces do this, and it pays dividends."
Flosum is a leading provider of end-to-end secure DevSecOps, data management, data protection and security automation platforms, built 100% natively to Salesforce. Our mission is to enable IT leaders to manage the cloud with confidence and empower developers to innovate using Flosum's release management, Salesforce data backup and recovery and Salesforce security solutions. Enterprises around the world leverage Flosum to accelerate digital transformation by making the software release process fast and easy and increasing developer productivity while remaining secure and compliant. For more information, visit http://www.flosum.com.
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Energage is a purpose-driven company that helps organizations turn employee feedback into useful business intelligence and credible employer recognition through Top Workplaces. Built on 16 years of culture research and the results from 27 million employees surveyed across more than 70,000 organizations, Energage delivers the most accurate competitive benchmark available. With access to a unique combination of patented analytic tools and expert guidance, Energage customers lead the competition with an engaged workforce and an opportunity to gain recognition for their people-first approach to culture. For more information or to nominate your organization, visit energage.com or topworkplaces.com.
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PHOENIX — A child custody dispute ended with a parent pulling out a handgun from her purse at a Phoenix elementary school two months ago, authorities said.
Phoenix police released the body camera video from the September 22 incident at Mountain View School in a tweet Monday.
It was during school dismissal when the school resource officer was called to the front office of the school to help during a domestic dispute between two parents, the Washington Elementary School District law enforcement said.
The fight carried out to the parking lot, and that’s when authorities said Desira Marce Eliza Featchurs, 29, brandished the weapon.
In the body camera video, a child is seen getting into a car as they are next to a man, and Featchurs approaches them, yelling.
The officer is heard saying, “He wanted to get in. He’s getting in.” As Featchurs continued to walk, she yelled, “you think I’m [expletive] playing?” as she pulled out the handgun from her purse.
The school resource officer quickly grabbed Featchurs and disarmed her.
The 29-year-old was arrested and booked on charges of endangerment and possession of a gun on school grounds, court records said.
But Featchurs has not been formally charged at this time.
The Maricopa County Attorney’s office told 12News they received the case against Featchurs but have furthered it back to law enforcement for additional information.
12News asked Phoenix police if they will resubmit the case for a charging decision, but have not heard back.
In a letter to parents, Washington Elementary School District reminded parents and visitors that it is against the law to possess a weapon on school grounds.
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Mark Appel is proof that even for a No. 1 draft pick, the road to the major leagues is sometimes a bumpy one.
Appel was called up by the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday, nine years after he was drafted first overall by Houston. In between, he bounced around the minors, was traded in the 2015 deal that sent Ken Giles to the Astros — and even quit baseball for a bit.
He resurfaced last year and finally joined the Phillies this weekend, although he didn’t pitch. If the 30-year-old Appel does appear in a game for Philadelphia, he’ll be the fourth No. 1 overall selection to make his major league debut this year, joining 2017’s Royce Lewis (Twins), 2019’s Adley Rutschman (Orioles) and 2020’s Spencer Torkelson (Tigers).
Only one other time have four top picks made their debuts in one year. That was in 1989, when Andy Benes, Ken Griffey Jr. and Jeff King — the No. 1 pick in each of the previous three years — all began their big league careers. The other top pick to make his debut in 1989 was Ben McDonald, who had actually been drafted that same year by Baltimore.
With the draft coming up next month, here are a few other notes about the history of No. 1 overall picks, with some help from Baseball-Reference.com:
— Although so far, 1989 is the only year four top picks have made their big league debuts, there were other seasons when three No. 1s did it. Those were 2007 (Luke Hochevar, Justin Upton and Josh Hamilton) and 1987 (B.J. Surhoff, Shawn Abner and Tim Belcher).
— Although it was more common in the early days of the draft, McDonald is the last player to make his debut the same year he was drafted first overall. The longest wait belongs to Matt Bush, who was taken in 2004 by San Diego and finally pitched in the majors in 2016 for Texas. He’s still with the Rangers.
— Appel is one of a handful of No. 1 picks who haven’t played in the majors. Steve Chilcott, picked in 1966 by the New York Mets, and Brien Taylor, taken by the New York Yankees in 1991, had injury problems. Brady Aiken, selected in 2014 by Houston, is a more recent example. Last year’s top pick, Henry Davis, has reached Double-A in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ system.
TRIVIA TIME
Appel was drafted by two other teams (and didn’t sign) before the Astros picked him first overall. Who were those franchises?
LINE OF THE WEEK
Austin Hays had to beat the weather to hit for the cycle. On Wednesday night, Hays and the Orioles routed Washington 7-0 in a game shortened to six innings. That was enough time — he hit a single in the first, a homer in the third, a triple in the fourth and a double in the sixth.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
Down 2-0 with two outs in the ninth and nobody on, the Los Angeles Dodgers had a 1.1% chance of beating Atlanta on Sunday night, according to Baseball Savant. Then ex-Dodger Kenley Jansen allowed a pair of singles, putting men on first and third. After Chris Taylor stole second, Trayce Thompson’s single scored both runners to force extra innings.
Each team scored once in the 10th before the Dodgers finally won 5-3 in 11. Los Angeles won two of three in Freddie Freeman’s return to Atlanta.
TRIVIA ANSWER
The Detroit Tigers drafted Appel out of high school in 2009 in the 15th round. He was picked eighth overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2012 before returning to Stanford for his senior season and moving up to No. 1.
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Ethos recognized for achievements in innovative technology and making life insurance accessible for all.
NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CB Insights today named Ethos to its first annual Insurtech 50, which showcases the 50 most promising private insurtech companies across the globe.
The 2022 Insurtech 50 cohort has raised over $11B from approximately 400 disclosed investors, across 215 equity deals, since 2017 (as of 6/10/22). In 2021 alone, companies from this cohort raised over $5.5B across 55 deals.
"The companies in our inaugural Insurtech 50 have built and harnessed new technologies to improve all aspects of the insurance value chain, from customer acquisition to underwriting and claims for a variety of different insurance products," said Brian Lee, SVP of CB Insights' Intelligence Unit. "Together they are accelerating innovation across an industry that directly impacts human health and well-being."
"Our mission is to protect the next million families, and we are thrilled to be recognized for our innovative technology and how it is being used to make life insurance more accessible and affordable for everyone," said Peter Colis, CEO at Ethos. "Being named to the 2022 CB Insights Insurtech 50 is a testament to the hard work and dedication from the entire Ethos team to make this mission a reality."
Using the CB Insights platform, the research team picked these 50 private market vendors from a pool of over 2,000 companies, including applicants and nominees. They were chosen based on factors including R&D activity, proprietary Mosaic scores, market potential, business relationships, investor profile, news sentiment analysis, competitive landscape, team strength, and tech novelty. The research team also reviewed hundreds of Analyst Briefings submitted by applicants.
Ethos' mission – to make life insurance more affordable and accessible to as many Americans as possible – is exactly why CB Insights included Ethos on the Insurtech 50 list. With Ethos, consumers can obtain life insurance policy quotes and apply online in minutes without medical exams. Using its proprietary technology stack, Ethos can process the application instantly, providing information about coverage eligibility and rates. Once the application is approved, the policyholder can activate their coverage immediately.
For those wanting to learn more about the Insurtech 50 and the selection process, please register for the webinar, Behind the Scenes of the Insurtech 50, on June 15, 2022 at 2:00 pm EST.
2022 Insurtech 50 Investment Highlights:
- Global representation: This year's winners represent ten different countries across the globe. Thirty-one of the selected companies are headquartered in the US. The United Kingdom came in second with five winners, followed closely by France with four winners and India with three. Other countries home to a winner/winners on this year's list include Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Singapore, Chile, and Australia.
- Early-stage Innovation: Fourteen of the winners are Series A or Series B companies with promising product ideas, from accelerating claims management to creating parametric insurance for climate change-related perils.
- Unicorns: This year's list includes twenty unicorns with a $1B+ valuation.
About CB Insights
CB Insights builds software that enables the world's best companies to discover, understand, and make technology decisions with confidence. By marrying data, expert insights, and work management tools, clients manage their end-to-end technology decision-making process on CB Insights. To learn more, please visit www.cbinsights.com.
About Ethos
Ethos is a technology company. We make it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families with life insurance online, in minutes, without any medical exams. Ethos has created the insurance industry's most advanced proprietary technology, eliminating the traditional barriers to life insurance by developing instant and accessible products. We issue billions in coverage each month and an invaluable amount of peace of mind for our families every single day. Ethos is a global company, with offices in Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, India, and Singapore. To learn more, visit www.ethoslife.com.
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Speaking at Boston’s airport on Monday, President Joe Biden highlighted his administration’s $25 billion investment to improve airports around the country, including $62 million for Logan International so far.
The bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year included $5 billion specifically for airport terminal improvements, and the Biden administration announced the first $1 billion in funding for 85 airports earlier this summer.
At Logan International, its Terminal E — which is home to most international airlines — will expand to improve customer experience, Biden said. Another $12 million will go to bettering roads around the airport.
When the terminal first opened in 1974, it served 1.4 million international passengers, according to the White House, compared to 5.9 million in 2019.
“It means crowded gates, longer taxi times, airplanes full of passengers just waiting — all of which is causing congestion and flight delays,” Biden said.
“It's frustrating. It's inconvenient. And it’s bad for the environment. And there's simply no reason for it. This is the United States of America, for God's sake.”
Biden has often pointed to the fact that the U.S. used to be ranked first in the world for investment in research and development, now surpassed by China and other major economies.
“We've talked about having the best economy in the world. We've talked about asserting American leadership around the world, with the best of the safest roads, railroads, ports, airports,” he said. “Now, we're finally doing something about it. We're finally getting it done.”
The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure law is the largest investment in roads, bridges, broadband, waterways, ports, airports and more in decades.
The president on Monday also pointed out how the airport improvements will create jobs and boost the local economy.
The construction is expected to support around 5,900 jobs, of which 90% would be union jobs.
The White House also called Logan Airport is an “economic engine for the region,” supporting small businesses and helping employ more than 162,000 people.
Biden on Monday said that not a single American airport ranks in the top 25 around the world. The infrastructure law’s funding for airports is expected to be doled out over the next five years, reaching airports large and small.
“Just imagine walking in here when the construction is done. A bright modern terminal. You know you're in the 21st century, the greatest country in the world, one of the finest cities in the country,” the president mused.
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ATLANTA (AP) — This was a game the Atlanta Braves absolutely had to win.
They had the right guy on the mound.
Kyle Wright, baseball’s only 20-game winner, threw six brilliant innings to outduel Zack Wheeler as the Braves evened their NL Division Series at one game apiece, blanking the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 on Wednesday night.
After steady rain delayed the first pitch by nearly three hours, Wright surrendered just two hits and claimed the win when the Braves got to Wheeler for three runs in the bottom of the sixth.
The reigning World Series champions were in a must-win situation after losing the opener of the best-of-five series 7-6.
The Braves turned to the right-hander with a big arm and snapping curveball who has finally cashed in on his enormous potential.
“I’ve worked on a lot of things this year,” Wright said. “Really, it just goes back to confidence. ”
Wright, the fifth overall pick in the 2017 amateur draft, struggled to get past Triple-A and came into this season with a record of 2-8 in the majors. He totally turned that around, going 21-5 to collect three more wins than any other big league pitcher.
Wright kept it going in the playoffs. His only major threat came in the second, when Bryce Harper led off with a double, then tagged and moved to third on a flyout to deep center by Nick Castellanos.
Harper had to scramble back to third on Alec Bohm’s sharp grounder to first, and Brandon Marsh struck out swinging on a four-seamer that clocked in at 96 mph.
“As he’s out there and figures things out, he’s going to continue to develop and grow and gain confidence,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said of Wright. “With that arsenal he’s got, he can be a force for a long time.”
A.J. Minter, Raisel Iglesias and Kenley Jansen closed out the three-hitter with one inning apiece.
Jansen earned the save, the 20th of his postseason career but first with the Braves after spending the last dozen seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Game 3 is Friday in Philadelphia.
Dansby Swanson made a dazzling play to end the Phillies’ sixth.
Sprinting with his back to the infield, the shortstop reached out to snare a pop fly from J.T. Realmuto while tumbling to the outfield grass. Wright threw both arms in the air when he realized Swanson had pulled off the catch.
It turned out to be the final pitch of Wright’s 83-pitch gem, in which he struck out six with one walk.
Wright watched from the top step of the dugout as the Braves finally broke the scoreless tie in the bottom half, doing all the damage after Wheeler retired the first two hitters.
It started when Wheeler plunked Ronald Acuña Jr. near the right elbow on a 96 mph fastball that rode up and in on the slugger.
There was a delay of several minutes while Acuña, writhing in pain, was checked out by the training staff. In the Atlanta dugout, Gil Heredia prepared to go in. Wheeler, meanwhile, tossed a few pitches trying to stay loose.
The right-hander who grew up in metro Atlanta wasn’t the same after Acuña finally trotted down to first base.
Swanson walked and Matt Olson drove in the first run of the game, ripping a single past first baseman Rhys Hoskins, who meekly waved at a ball he could’ve at least knocked down.
“I think if you asked Rhys, he would say he should make that play,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said.
Olson was generously credited with an RBI single, but the Braves weren’t done. Austin Riley’s mighty swing produced a little dribbler down the third-base line for an infield hit that made it 2-0.
Then, it was Travis d’Arnaud grounding one up the middle for another run-scoring hit before Wheeler finally got the third out.
Far too late to keep the Braves from tying the series.
ROAD WARRIORS
At least the wild-card Phillies are finally heading home.
Game 3 will be Philadelphia’s first game at Citizens Bank Park since a regular-season loss to the Braves on Sept. 25.
The Phillies have played 14 straight road games since then, including four playoff games in their first postseason appearance since 2011.
“To leave here with a split and go back home in front of a packed house of passionate people … I think will give our guys a little shot in the arm,” Thomson said.
PAINFUL PLUNK
Acuña is sure to be sore after getting hit by Wheeler’s pitch, but Snitker said there was no structural damage.
“Probably good we have a day off,” the manager said. “They can treat him up.”
DEFENSIVE BRAVES
Swanson’s catch wasn’t even the best defensive play of the night for the home team.
Riley made a similar back-to-the-field grab in foul territory in the eighth, only it was even tougher because the third baseman had to navigate the railing and the tarp stored in front of it.
He made the catch, slid along the tarp and managed to hang on while crashing to the dirt.
UP NEXT
RHP Aaron Nola (11-13, 3.25 ERA) gets the nod in Game 3 for the Phillies. The Braves had not yet announced their starter, which will either be RHP Charlie Morton (9-6, 4.34) or rookie RHP Spencer Strider (11-5, 2.67). Strider hasn’t pitched since Sept. 18 because of an oblique injury.
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UNION, N.J., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) today announced that it has entered into a privately negotiated exchange agreement with an existing holder of its 4.915% Senior Notes due 2034 (the "2034 notes") and 5.165% Senior Notes due 2044 (the "2044 notes"). The existing holder owns approximately $9.5 million aggregate principal amount of 2034 notes and $22.0 million aggregate principal amount of 2044 notes (collectively, the "exchange notes"). Pursuant to the exchange agreement, Bed Bath & Beyond will issue an aggregate of approximately 2.8 million shares of common stock to the existing holder, consisting of the issuance of (a) 1.8 million shares in exchange for the exchange notes, (b) 0.1 million shares in satisfaction of including accrued and unpaid interest thereon the exchange notes, and (c) 0.9 million shares in exchange for a cash payment from the existing holder of $3.5 million (the "transaction"). Following the closing of the transaction, the exchange notes will be cancelled and no longer outstanding. The proceeds of the private placement of common stock will be used for general corporate purposes. The transaction is expected to close on or about November 14, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. This transaction is exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) and Rule 506(c) under the Securities Act of 1933.
Sue Gove, Bed Bath & Beyond's President and CEO said, "We continue to demonstrate progress towards securing a stronger financial position and enabling our strategic repositioning to better serve our customers and gain market share. Today's announcement outlines a strong framework and compelling opportunity to improve our balance sheet and liquidity by reducing long-term debt, lowering interest expense, and adding an infusion of new capital for equity. This transaction, in conjunction with our overall enhanced liquidity via our ABL Facility, FILO and current ATM program, underscores our ability to achieve greater stability and flexibility in our business. We remain committed to capturing value for our financial stakeholders and appreciate the support of our holders as we execute our turnaround plans."
This press release is not an offer to buy or sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sales would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.
About the Company
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") is an omnichannel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. The Company sells a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty and Wellness markets. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including, but not limited to, statements about the transaction. Many of these forward-looking statements can be identified by use of words such as may, will, expect, anticipate, approximate, estimate, assume, continue, model, project, plan, goal, preliminary, and similar words and phrases, although the absence of those words does not necessarily mean that statements are not forward-looking. Our actual results and future financial condition may differ materially from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements as a result of many factors. Such factors include, without limitation: general economic conditions including the recent supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, wage pressures, rising inflation and the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine; challenges related to our relationships with our suppliers, including the failure of our suppliers to supply us with the necessary volume and type of products; the impact of cost-saving measures; our inability to generate sufficient cash to service all of our indebtedness or our ability to access additional capital; our inability to complete our expected credit financings; changes to our credit rating or the terms on which vendors or others will provide us credit; the impact of strategic changes, including the reaction of customers to such changes; a challenging overall macroeconomic environment and a highly competitive retailing environment; risks associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the governmental responses to it, including its impacts across our businesses on demand and operations, as well as on the operations of our suppliers and other business partners, and the effectiveness of our and governmental actions taken in response to these risks; changing consumer preferences, spending habits and demographics; demographics and other macroeconomic factors that may impact the level of spending for the types of merchandise sold by us; challenges in executing our omni-channel and transformation strategy, including our ability to establish and profitably maintain the appropriate mix of digital and physical presence in the markets we serve; our ability to successfully execute our store fleet optimization strategies, including our ability to achieve anticipated cost savings and to not exceed anticipated costs; our ability to execute on any additional strategic transactions and realize the benefits of any acquisitions, partnerships, investments or divestitures; disruptions to our information technology systems, including but not limited to security breaches of systems protecting consumer and employee information or other types of cybercrimes or cybersecurity attacks; damage to our reputation in any aspect of our operations; the cost of labor, merchandise, logistical costs and other costs and expenses; potential supply chain disruption due to trade restrictions or otherwise, and other factors such as natural disasters, pandemics, political instability, labor disturbances, product recalls, financial or operational instability of suppliers or carriers, and other items; inflation and the related increases in costs of materials, labor and other costs; inefficient management of relationships and dependencies on third-party service providers; our ability to attract and retain qualified employees in all areas of the organization; unusual weather patterns and natural disasters, including the impact of climate change; uncertainty and disruptions in financial markets; volatility in the price of our common stock and its effect, and the effect of other factors on our capital allocation strategy; changes to statutory, regulatory and other legal requirements or deemed noncompliance with such requirements; changes to accounting rules, regulations and tax laws, or new interpretations of existing accounting standards or tax laws; new, or developments in existing, litigation, claims or assessments; and a failure of our business partners to adhere to appropriate laws, regulations or standards. Except as required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to update our forward-looking statements. These statements are based on our management's beliefs and assumptions, which in turn are based on currently available information. These assumptions could prove inaccurate.
Any forward-looking statement we make in this press release or elsewhere speaks only as of the date on which we make it. The risks identified above are not exhaustive, and you should be aware that there may be other risks that could adversely affect our business and financial performance. New risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and it is impossible for us to predict these events or how they may affect us. In any event, these and other important factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by our forward-looking statements. We have no duty, and do not intend, to update or revise the forward-looking statements we make in this press release or elsewhere, except as may be required by law. In light of these risks and uncertainties, you should keep in mind that the future events or circumstances described in any forward-looking statement we make in this press release or elsewhere might not occur.
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Rebel Wilson is opening up about meeting Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for the first time, and it wasn't exactly great.
The Pitch Perfect star recalled the experience during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live, where they had been talking about the royal family during a commercial break and briefly continued on the subject when they got back from break. Wilson said when she met the couple in Santa Barbara, Markle was a bit standoffish while Harry, on the other hand, was "lovely."
"Meghan was not as cool. She wasn't as naturally warm," said Wilson, who revealed they share a mutual friend, a polo player.
That being said, the actress conceded that the not-so-warm encounter with Markle may have had a lot to do with her mother, Sue Bownds, being a bit intrusive and asking "slightly rude" questions like, "Where are your kids?"
"And I'm like, 'Mom, don't ask her that," Wilson said. "Maybe that's why she was like, 'Who are these annoying convicts from Australia?"
As for Harry, Wilson said he "could not have been nicer."
The royal revelation came on the same week Wilson revealed she was banned from Disneyland after a huge no-no at the theme park.
"I did get banned from Disneyland for 30 days because I took a photo inside a secret bathroom, which is illegal, at Disneyland," Wilson shared on The Daily Show with a laugh, and without elaborating on what she meant by "secret bathroom."
"I got officially banned for 30 days. They called me up and said, 'Rebel what 30 days did you not want to come to Disneyland because you’re away filming a movie or something?' And I was like, 'Oh, well, June would be fine.'"
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democrats in the South Carolina Senate turned debate about a bill to set guidelines for history curriculum on subjects like slavery and segregation into discussion about why the body can’t take a vote on a hate crimes bill.
South Carolina and Wyoming are the only states in the U.S. without a law allowing extra punishment for hate crimes — which a judge or jury determines were motivated by hate over someone’s race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or physical or mental ability.
For the past three years, a hate crimes bill has made it through the South Carolina House and to the Senate floor, only to stop there. The outlook for the bill this year is grim. The Republican-dominated chamber has not held any debate or brought the proposal up for a vote despite the support of survivors of a racist attack that killed nine at a Charleston church, in addition to business leaders.
“You look at the news all day long, I think we can agree, hate is all around us. Hate exists. So why is this bill more important than the hate crime legislation?” Democratic Sen. Kevin Johnson asked.
“This bill actually has the potential to address hate,” said Republican Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, about allowing students to come to their own conclusions based on facts about the history of slavery and segregation. “That bill doesn’t. That bill isn’t going to change how people act.”
The bill would allow a judge to add an additional five years in prison to an offender’s sentence — if they are indicted and convicted for a violent crime that is proven to be motivated by hate toward the victim’s race, religion or other backgrounds.
It is named the “ Clementa C. Pinckney Hate Crimes Act ” after the Black South Carolina senator and pastor who was killed in June 2015, along with eight of his church members in a racist attack at a Charleston church. The shooter was convicted of federal hate crimes and sentenced to death.
Supporters have brought in the survivors of the attack to urge lawmakers to pass the bill. They have gathered dozens of business leader s to say the lack of a hate crimes bill makes South Carolina look backward and less business-friendly.
So far, Massey, who in his role as chair of the Senate Rules Committee and as the party leader in the chamber, is the public face against the proposal. He has said before that he doesn’t think it will solve the problem of hate.
Democratic Sen. Darrell Jackson said uncertainty over a bill’s impact hasn’t stopped the Senate from voting for meaures before that even if they don’t have a huge impact, say something about what the state thinks is important or believes in.
“Why chose hate crimes as the one bill you are going to put the flag down on?” Jackson asked. “The one bill that we are going to say that is when we are putting an end to the feel-good stuff?”
Massey said he thinks it would further division.
“There are a number of people who think that not only is it feel-good legislation, it is bad legislation,” Massey said.
Debate on the education bill will continue Wednesday. Supporters said it will allow teachers to teach lessons about the history of racism and slavery in the U.S.
It also sets up an appeal process for lessons or books that a parent thinks are inappropriate for a child starting at the principal, then moving to the superintendent, local school board and state school board. Appeals would be limited to parents and guardians.
Despite the diversion Tuesday, there is no indication the hate crimes bill has a chance in the final five days of the 2023 session.
Democrats, who only have 16 of the chamber’s 46 seats, can’t get past objections by a handful of Republican senators that have prevented the hate bill from coming up for debate.
Republicans meanwhile can use special legislative maneuvers to get past Democratic objections to bills like Tuesday’s education proposal and have done so repeatedly since gaining three seats in the 2020 elections.
The side debate on hate crimes between Jackson and Massey was at times contentious. Jackson suggested Massey knows he doesn’t have the votes to defeat the bill, so he is thwarting the will of the people by not even letting it come up.
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By The Associated Press
Ukraine rejected as baseless and false the accusations made by Serbia’s president that Ukraine’s secret service is behind a series of hoax bomb threats against Air Serbia flights to Russia.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has claimed that the foreign intelligence services of Ukraine and an unidentified European Union nation are responsible.
The pro-Russian Serbian leader did not provide evidence for his claim. Other Serbian officials alleged that the threats were being sent from Ukraine or Poland. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nilolenko on Monday called the allegations false.
The Serbian national carrier is the only European airline besides Turkish air companies that has not joined EU flight sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— ‘No surrender’: Ukrainians fight on in Mariupol steel plant
— Russia renews strikes on Ukraine capital, hits other cities
— Syrian fighters ready to join next phase of Ukraine war
— Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice
— Mother, grandmother weep over 15-year-old killed in Kharkiv
Follow all AP stories on Russia’s war on Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine.
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top diplomat condemned Russia’s “indiscriminate and illegal” attacks on Ukraine on Monday as the country experienced the most intense missile strikes in weeks.
Josep Borrell, the high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, said in a statement that the EU supports the work of the International Criminal Court and other efforts to ensure accountability for human rights violations.
“There can be no impunity for war crimes,” said Borrell, who called for Russia to immediately cease hostilities and withdraw forces from Ukraine.
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says Russia has added artillery, ground combat forces and other capabilities in recent days ahead of a new ground offensive in the Donbas region in Ukraine.
A senior U.S. defense official said the number of combat units known as battalion tactical groups in eastern and southern Ukraine has grown to 76 from 65 last week. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal U.S. military assessments of the war.
It’s difficult to know at this stage of the war, but that could add up to 50,000 to 60,000 Russian troops, depending on how developed the groups are.
The official said that if Russian forces succeed in fully controlling the southern port of Mariupol it could free up nearly a dozen battalion tactical groups for use elsewhere in the Donbas region.
The official also said that four U.S. cargo flights arrived in Europe on Sunday with weapons and other materials, part of $800 million in assistance announced last week.
The official said training of Ukrainian personnel on U.S. Army and Marine Corps 155mm howitzers is set to begin at an undisclosed location outside of Ukraine in the next several days. The U.S. pledged 18 howitzers to bolster Ukrainian forces in the Donbas fight, and these trainees can in turn train more soldiers inside Ukraine.
— AP Military Writer Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this report.
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KVIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has formally submitted Ukraine’s answers to a questionnaire from the European Union, the first step in his campaign to obtain accelerated EU membership.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said when presenting the questions to Zelenskyy in early April that a preliminary decision on Ukraine’s candidacy could come in weeks.
Ukraine’s drive to join the bloc has been a provocative issue with Russia for years.
“The people of Ukraine are united by this goal — to feel they are an equal part of Europe,” Zelenskyy said Monday as he handed two thick binders of Ukrainian responses to Matti Maasikas, the EU’s envoy for Ukraine.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia — Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s war 30 years ago say the victims of human rights abuses in Ukraine can learn from their experience, which was lengthy and painful.
It took decades to arrest and try the wartime Bosnian Serb leaders, and more than 7,000 people still remain unaccounted-for. But the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia eventually convicted 83 high-ranking political and military officials and transferred a mountain of evidence against lower-ranking suspects to their home countries for prosecution.
The guilty were collectively sentenced to over 700 years in prison.
Munira Subasic helped create Mothers of Srebrenica to demand that bodies be identified and those responsible brought to justice. To date, almost 90 percent of those reported missing from the fall of Srebrenica have been accounted for.
“Russia’s denials of massacres its soldiers are now obviously committing in Ukraine sound to me the same as Srebrenica genocide denial,” Subasic said. “But if survivors are persistent, the truth will prevail.”
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BEIRUT — Kremlin officials boasted early in their war on Ukraine that thousands of experienced fighters from the Middle East would join Russian forces. Military analysts say only a small number appears to have arrived in Russia for training before being deployed to the front lines, but they say that could change as Russia prepares for a full-scale offensive.
U.S. officials and activists monitoring Syria say the Russians have been actively recruiting. Rami Abdurrahman leads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. He reported that about 40,000 people have registered so far with the Russian military and with Wagner Group, which is a Russian private contractor.
Rayan Maarouf of Suwayda24, an activist collective that covers IS activities in the Syrian desert, said fighters were promised no less than $600 a month. That’s a huge sum of money amid widespread unemployment in Syria.
Analysts say fighters from Syria are more likely to be deployed in coming weeks, especially after Gen. Alexander Dvornikov was named war commander. Dvornikov is well acquainted with the paramilitary forces Russia trained in Syria. Though some question how effective Syrian fighters would be in Ukraine, they could be brought in if more forces are needed to besiege cities or to make up for rising casualties.
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MOSCOW — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says that the barrage of Western sanctions against Russia has failed.
Putin said Monday that the West “expected to quickly upset the financial-economic situation, provoke panic in the markets, the collapse of the banking system and shortages in stores.” He added that “the strategy of the economic blitz has failed.”
The Russian leader spoke in televised remarks during a video call with top economic officials.
Putin noted that “Russia has withstood the unprecedented pressure,” arguing that the ruble has strengthened and the country has recorded a historic high trade surplus of $58 billion in the first quarter of the year.
Instead, he contended that the sanctions backfired against the U.S. and its European allies, speeding up inflation and leading to a drop in living standards.
Putin acknowledged a sharp hike in consumer prices in Russia, saying they rose by 17.5% as of April on a year-to-year basis and directing the government to index wages and other payments to alleviate the impact of inflation on people’s incomes.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said Russia can be prosecuted for war crimes over its refusal to allow humanitarian corridors for civilians trapped in the city of Mariupol.
Earlier on Monday, Iryna Vereshchuk had said no evacuations were possible for the second day in a row because of Russian attacks on civilian convoys.
“Your refusal to open these humanitarian corridors will in the future be a reason to prosecute all involved for war crimes,” she wrote on her Telegram and Facebook channels.
Vereshchuk called again on Russia to allow safe evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, especially the Azovstal steel mill, which covers more than 11 square kilometers (4 square miles) and is laced with tunnels.
According to Vereshchuk, the government had been negotiating passage from Mariupol and Berdyansk, among other towns, as well as from the Luhansk region. The Luhansk government said four civilians trying to flee the region were shot to death by Russian forces.
The Russians, in their turn, have accused the “neo-Nazi nationalists” in Mariupol of hampering the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s state security service has posted a video of a Ukrainian politician held on a treason charge offering himself in exchange for the evacuation of Mariupol’s trapped civilians, while two British men who surrendered to Russian forces in Mariupol appeared on Russian media asking to be part of an exchange.
The video of Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party with personal ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was posted Monday. In it, he appeals to Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by name to consider the exchange.
Medvedchuk was detained last Tuesday in a special operation carried out by Ukraine’s state security service, or the SBU. The 67-year-old oligarch had escaped from house arrest several days before the hostilities broke out Feb. 24 in Ukraine. He is facing 15 years to life in prison on charges of treason and aiding and abetting a terrorist organization for mediating coal purchases for the separatist Russia-backed Donetsk republic in eastern Ukraine.
The British men identified themselves as Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin. In one video, Pinner asked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to be exchanged. Pinner had deep circles beneath his eyes and appeared exhausted, but said he and Aslin had been treated appropriately.
Ukrainian officials have said Kyiv wants try Medvedchuk and ultimately exchange him for Ukrainian prisoners.
The circumstances of the videos were unclear. The two videos were released within an hour of each other.
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ROME — Italian officials will go ahead with an energy-deal trip to Africa this week as part of Premier Mario Draghi’s efforts to quickly reduce the country’s heavy reliance of Russian gas, but he won’t be going because he has tested positive for COVID-19.
The premier’s office, announcing the infection, said on Monday that Draghi has no symptoms. The mission to Angola and Congo, set for Wednesday and Thursday, will instead see the government represented by its ministers of foreign affairs and of ecological transition.
Italy buys almost 40% of its gas from Russia. Draghi is determined to drastically reduce that reliance in the next two or three years, in large part by sealing deals with other energy producing countries. Draghi recently traveled to Algeria to make such an agreement as part of the strategy.
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MADRID — Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says Spain will reopen its embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in a few days.
Following similar decisions by several European neighbors, Sánchez said the reopening will “show again the commitment of the Spanish government and Spanish people with the Ukrainian people.”
“Spain is with Ukraine and we are against (Russian President Vladimir) Putin,” Sánchez said in an interview on Spain’s Antena 3 television. “This is a war by Putin against what the European Union stands for.”
Spain closed the embassy within hours of the Russian invasion on Feb. 24.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said seven people were killed and another 11, including a child, were wounded by Russian strikes in the western Ukrainian city.
Plumes of thick black smoke were seen by Associated Press journalists in Lviv, rising over the city amid multiple explosions believed to be caused by missiles strikes.
Lviv Regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyy said there were four Russian missile strikes, three of which hit military infrastructure facilities and one struck a tire shop. He said emergency teams were putting out the fires.
Oleksandr Kamyshin, the chairman of the Ukrainian rail service, said the strikes hit near railway facilities. He said train traffic has resumed with some delays, and he vowed to restore the damaged network.
Lviv and the rest of western Ukraine has been less affected by the fighting than other parts of the country, and is considered to be a relatively safe haven.
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MOSCOW — The Russian military says it has struck over 20 Ukrainian military targets with missiles.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Monday that precision-guided air-launched missiles destroyed 16 military facilities, including five command headquarters, a fuel depot, three ammunition depots and concentrations of Ukrainian military vehicles and personnel in the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro regions.
Konashenkov said the military also fired Iskander land-based missiles to destroy four ammunition depots and three groups of Ukrainian troops near Popasna and Kramatorsk in the east and Yampil in central Ukraine.
He said that the military used artillery to hit 315 Ukrainian targets, and Russian warplanes performed 108 strikes targeting Ukrainian troops and military equipment.
Konashenkov’s claims couldn’t be independently verified.
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LONDON — Britain’s defense ministry says the continuing siege of Mariupol is tying up Russian forces and slowing its advance ahead of a planned major offensive in eastern Ukraine.
In a daily intelligence update, Britain’s military says “concerted Ukrainian resistance has severely tested Russian forces and diverted men and materiel, slowing Russia’s advance elsewhere.”
The Sea of Azov port city has been devastated in weeks of Russian pummeling. Britain says “large areas of infrastructure have been destroyed” and there are “significant” civilian casualties.
Britain accuses Russia of using tactics of all-out war on civilian areas similar to its attacks in Chechnya and Syria, despite Russian claims at the start of its invasion “that Russia would neither strike cities nor threaten the Ukrainian population.”
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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian troops in southern Ukraine have been carrying out torture and kidnappings, and he called on the world Sunday to respond.
“Torture chambers are built there,” Zelenskyy said in an evening address to the nation. “They abduct representatives of local governments and anyone deemed visible to local communities.”
Zelenskyy said humanitarian aid has been stolen, creating famine.
In occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, he said, the Russians are creating separatist states and introducing Russian currency, the ruble. Intensified Russian shelling of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, has killed 18 people and wounded 106 in the last four days alone, Zelenskyy said.
“This is nothing but deliberate terror. Mortars, artillery against ordinary residential neighborhoods, against ordinary civilians,” he said.
He said a planned Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine “will begin in the near future.”
Zelensky again called for increased sanctions against Russia targeting its entire banking sector and oil industry.
“Everyone in Europe and America already sees Russia openly using energy to destabilize Western societies,” Zelenskyy said. “All of this requires greater speed from Western countries in preparing a new, powerful package of sanctions.”
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Bitcoin rebounded Monday after a weekend sell-off but still struggled to remain above $20,000 as investors looked for solid ground.
Bitcoin has been in a prolonged slide since peaking above $68,000 in November 2021 — a retrenchment of more than 70 percent. The turmoil follows a spate of negative headlines in the crypto sphere, as well as intense stock market volatility as inflation and recession worries weigh on investors.
But investors might be in for more pain, according to Naeem Aslam, an analyst at trading firm AvaTrade, who believes bitcoin could move closer to $13,000.
Experts said that Monday’s bounce was unsurprising because bitcoin was “oversold.” Still, pessimism remains, Aslam wrote.
In recent weeks, TerraUSD and its sister cryptocurrency Luna both dropped to nearly zero in value. Last Monday, the crypto bank Celsius, which manages close to $12 billion in assets, announced it would pause withdrawals. In a memo to its 1.7 million customers over the weekend, it said that the process to stabilize its liquidity and operations would “take time,” underscoring investors’ worries about its financial health. Last Tuesday, crypto-exchange giant Coinbase said it would cut 18 percent of its workforce, or roughly 1,100 of its approximately 6,100 employees.
There were also domino effects. Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital — which bought hundreds of millions of luna — said that it suffered heavy losses.
Other cryptocurrencies also got dragged down alongside bitcoin. Ether, the native token of ethereum, briefly rallied by 9 percent after falling to its 18-month low at $880 on Saturday.
“This weekend’s collapse is a telltale sign that investors are selling crypto regardless of the price,” said Daniel Ives, an analyst at Wedbush. Investors were panicked over the debacles in the market as well as the broader stock market downturn, pushing the market toward a risk-off behavior where all risky assets are sold.
The crypto market is a barometer of the risk-off assets in the stock market, which on Friday closed out its worst week since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The Federal Reserve’s aggressive push to tame inflation — and the danger of sparking a recession — began to settle in last week after central bankers raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point.
The Dow Jones industrial average, which last week closed below 30,000 for the first time since January 2021, has lost nearly 18 percent of its value in 2022. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq have fallen into bear markets — defined as a 20 percent fall from a recent high — and are down nearly 23 percent and 32 percent, respectively, year to date.
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Fedor Emelianenko aims to go out as champion and give Bellator a boost vs. UFC
Fedor Emelianenko was hungry.
It was Thursday afternoon and Emelianenko, the consensus greatest heavyweight mixed martial arts fighter ever, had a half hour to find lunch before the final pre-fight news conference of his career down the street from LAX. He walked through the hotel lobby with his interpreter and an associate wearing a hoodie and a blue pair of Asics. His face was plastered on walls, but nobody recognized him.
MMA has erupted in the United States over the last decade, on the shoulders of Emelianenko and other pioneers, but Emelianenko isn’t a household name around these parts.
His career peak came more than a decade ago. He became a superstar fighting in Japan when the first round was 10 minutes long and the sport was considered too gruesome for the American mainstream. He once went 27 fights without a loss over nearly a decade. He pummeled the world’s best until he was unequivocally the best — and ultimately the best never to fight in the UFC.
On Saturday, the 46-year-old Russian will fight for the final time, challenging Ryan Bader for the Bellator heavyweight title at the Kia Forum on American network television (CBS).
“I wanted to finish my career fighting the champion,” the stoic Emelianenko said through his interpreter.
It’s a rematch three years after Bader caught Emelianenko with a left hook to win the title in 35 seconds. This time, there will be the added layer of Emelianenko’s impending retirement. Bellator president Scott Coker said MMA “dignitaries” will attend to honor Emelianenko. Bader is the American on his home turf. He isn’t expecting the usual treatment.
“I know people will be rooting for him,” Bader said. “My job is to spoil that party.”
Emelianenko retired once before, after a win in 2012, but returned for more three years later. This time, he emphasized it’s for good. No more competitive fights. No money-grabbing exhibition bouts. Nearly 23 years after his debut and 16 years after he realized his prime was over, this is the end. Even Tom Brady, 45, called it quits before Emelianenko.
“My family has been waiting for me for way too long,” Emelianenko said.
LeBron James finishes with 26 points to move to within 63 of the all-time scoring record in the Lakers’ 112-111 comeback victory over the Indiana Pacers.
They almost had to wait a little longer. Emelianenko arrived at the airport in Moscow last week without a visa. He said a friend had to fly to Armenia to pick up his visa and back to Moscow to give it to him at his terminal before boarding the flight. A few days later, according to Emelianenko, and the fight would’ve been canceled.
The travel challenge hints at the subject Emelianenko declined to address Thursday: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting political climate between his home country and the country hosting his last fight.
Emelianenko has publicly supported Russia President Vladimir Putin over the years. His younger brother reportedly volunteered to serve in the Russian military. In November, Emelianenko argued Russian athletes were being held as “hostages of socio-political problems between states” after they were temporarily banned by some sporting bodies around the world.
He’ll be celebrated — far from banned — Saturday on what Bellator president Scott Coker described as a “monumental” night for his company.
The UFC remains undoubtedly the top MMA organization in the world — miles ahead of the competition — but Bellator sits comfortably in the No. 2 spot. Recent cracks in the UFC’s foundation — heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou left the UFC (or was released, depending on whom you ask) citing unfair one-sided power dynamics — and the television deal with CBS have Coker believing Bellator could eat into the market share.
“This is the best fight roster we’ve ever had,” Coker said.
Emelianenko is, by far, the most accomplished of the group. In his prime, he was an athletic marvel and tactically advanced compared with his peers. He was light and limber for a heavyweight. He went 26-0 with a no contest from April 2001 until June 2010. He won by submission, he won by knockout.
He beat tall fighters, stocky fighters, strikers, and jiu-jitsu specialists. The summit, he believes, was defeating Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera in March 2003 in the first of their three fights.
WWE has survived and adapted to changing cultural trends because it embraced the audience’s feedback. Legacy on-air news shows need to do the same.
“There was a time when I didn’t feel any opponents,” Emelianenko said. “I was just going through them. I didn’t feel them at all.”
“It was easier then,” he added with a chuckle.
Emelianenko didn’t fight in the UFC, but there were multiple negotiations with UFC president Dana White starting in 2007 when his contract with Pride expired. One of the attempts included White flying to see Emelianenko on a private island.
A deal was never made. Instead, Emelianenko bounced from organization to organization as the UFC rose to unimaginable heights. Emelianenko didn’t seem too impressed. He dismissed today’s prevalent style of fighting as too defensive and condemned the constant trash talking permeating the sport.
“As a fighter,” Emelianenko said, “I want to be remembered as the fighter that earned my fans by fighting skills, not by talking trash.”
Those skills were first developed through judo and sambo before watching VHS tapes of MMA tournaments in the late 1990s and realizing he could compete with the best. That was more than two decades ago. He’s ready for the end.
“Thank God,” Emelianenko said, “it’s happening for the last time.”
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'Trailblazer': Barbara Walters mourned as broadcasting icon
Reaction poured in from the worlds of journalism, politics, sports and entertainment following the death of TV news pioneer and "The View" creator Barbara Walters. She died Friday at her home in New York at age 93. An intrepid interviewer, anchor and program host, she led the way as the first woman to become a TV news superstar.
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"Without Barbara Walters there wouldn't have been me — nor any other woman you see on evening, morning, and daily news. She was indeed a Trailblazer. I did my very first television audition with her in mind the whole time. Grateful that she was such a powerful and gracious role model. Grateful to have known her. Grateful to have followed in her Light." — Oprah Winfrey, television icon
"Barbara Walters was the OG of female broadcasters. She was just as comfortable interviewing world leaders as she was Oscar winners and she had to fight like hell for every interview. I deeply admired her and she was incredibly supportive through the years. ... As I wrote in my book, she liked to say we were similar in that neither of us was particularly glamorous. I never quite knew how to take that, although being in Barbara's mold was nothing but a compliment." — Katie Couric, journalist, former "Today" co-host and network news anchor.
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"Barbara was a true legend, a pioneer not just for women in journalism but for journalism itself. She was a one-of-a-kind reporter who landed many of the most important interviews of our time, from heads of state to the biggest celebrities and sports icons. I had the pleasure of calling Barbara a colleague for more than three decades, but more importantly, I was able to call her a dear friend. She will be missed by all of us at The Walt Disney Company, and we send our deepest condolences to her daughter, Jacqueline." — Bob Iger, chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company
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"I owe Barbara Walters more than I could ever repay. Rest well sister…mother…friend…colleague…mentor." — Star Jones, an original co-host on "The View"
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"The Legend. The Blueprint. The Greatest. Rest in Peace Barbara Walters." — Tamron Hall, broadcast journalist and television talk show host
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"I knew barbara for over half of my life. we met in the spring of 1998, in the midst of the starr investigation; i was 24. i remarked that this was the first time i'd ever been in serious trouble. i'd basically been a good kid — got good grades, didn't do drugs, never shoplifted etc. without missing a beat barbara said: monica, next time shoplift." — Monica Lewinsky, who was interviewed by Walters in 1999
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"Barbara Walters was a true trailblazer. Forever grateful for her stellar example and for her friendship. Sending condolences to her daughter and family." — Robin Roberts, "Good Morning America" anchor
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"The world of journalism has lost a pillar of professionalism, courage, and integrity. Barbara Walters was a trailblazer and a true pro. She outworked, out-thought, and out-hustled her competitors. She left the world the better for it. She will be deeply missed. RIP." — Dan Rather, former CBS anchor
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"Barbara Walters never flinched when questioning the world's most powerful people. She held them accountable. She cared about the truth and she made us care too. Fortunately, she inspired many other journalists to be just as unrelenting. We are all better off because of her." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA Hall of Famer
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"Pioneering TV news broadcaster Barbara Walters has died. A true trailblazer, she was the 1st woman anchor on the evening news. And I was privileged to know her. When she interviewed me, it was clear she did her homework. She was always prepared. May she rest in power." — Billie Jean King, tennis champion
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"So often we toss around the words icon, legend, trailblazer - but Barbara Walters was all of these. And perhaps, above all else, Barbara Walters was brave. She paved the way for so many — we learned from her — and remain in awe of her to this day. RIP, Barbara." — David Muir, anchor of "ABC World News Tonight"
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"Barbara Walters will always be known as a trail blazer. Her hard hitting questions & welcoming demeanor made her a household name and leader in American journalism. Her creation of 'The View' is something I will always be appreciative of. Rest in peace you will forever be an icon." — Meghan McCain, former co-host of "The View" | https://www.wmur.com/article/barbara-walters-mourned-as-broadcasting-icon/42372335 | 2022-12-31 13:17:29 | 1 | https://www.wmur.com/article/barbara-walters-mourned-as-broadcasting-icon/42372335 |
HERNDON, Va., May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Constellis, a leading provider of essential risk management and mission support services to government and commercial customers worldwide, is pleased to announce the appointment of Chief (ret.) Carla Provost as an advisor to the company. Ms. Provost served as Chief, U.S. Border Patrol from August 2018 to January 2020 and retired from federal service after 25 years in the U.S. Border Patrol. Her operational experience spans across multiple sectors inclusive of all four states that border Mexico.
"We are pleased to welcome Chief Provost to Constellis," said Terry Ryan, Chief Executive Officer of Constellis. "Chief Provost's vast experience and her deep understanding on the needs surrounding U.S. Border operations greatly enhances Constellis' North American Operations (NAO). The Constellis NAO team currently provides significant support to the U.S. Border Patrol in their mission to ensure the safety and security of our Nation's borders."
Prior to joining the U.S. Border Patrol, Chief Provost served for 2 1/2 years as a police officer with the Riley County Police Department in Manhattan, Kansas. She earned a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology/Criminal Justice from Kansas State University. She is also a 2018 Presidential Meritorious Rank Award Recipient.
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By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY
Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP) — The attack on a central avenue in Istanbul is a stark reminder of the bombings in Turkish cities between 2015 and 2017 that crushed the public’s sense of security and heralded a new phase in Turkey’s decades-long fight against outlawed Kurdish groups.
After Sunday’s explosion with a TNT-laden bomb that killed six people and wounded dozens of others, Turkish police said they apprehended a Syrian woman who is accused of planting the device after crossing illegally from Syria. Authorities said she confessed to carrying out the attack on behalf of Kurdish militants.
Here’s a look at the militant groups, the nearly four-decade conflict and its political implications.
TURKEY VS THE PKK
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has waged an armed insurgency against Turkey since 1984 with the aim of establishing a Kurdish state in southeast Turkey, which has since morphed into a campaign for autonomy.
The conflict between militants and state forces has killed tens of thousands of people. The PKK is considered to be a terror group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
A fragile peace process and a 2½-year cease-fire with the PKK collapsed in 2015 as the Islamic State group began bombings in Turkish cities. Kurdish militants also launched car bombings.
Street battles between Turkish forces and Kurdish fighters turned southeastern towns into conflict zones where rights groups also documented civilian deaths. The International Crisis Group says that 6,264 people, including Turkish forces and PKK fighters, have been killed in clashes or attacks since 2015.
The Turkish government is often very quick to blame the PKK for attacks, which have traditionally targeted Turkish military or police.
A 2016 car bombing, near a football stadium and close to the avenue where Sunday’s bomb exploded, killed 38 police officers and eight civilians. The government blamed the PKK.
Turkey says the PKK was behind the attack over the weekend. But the group denied any involvement, saying in a statement that it doesn’t target civilians. Its Syrian affiliate also said it had no links to the suspect or the attack.
The government has clamped down on pro-Kurdish politics in Turkey, jailing Kurdish lawmakers, including the former leaders of the second-largest opposition party in parliament. Thousands of activists and journalists also have been arrested. The judiciary has used Turkey’s broad anti-terror laws, including terror propaganda clauses, to accuse them of links to the PKK.
FIGHTING KURDISH MILITANTS ABROAD
Turkey launched its first cross-border operation into Syria in 2016 to clear the border area of IS militants and Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, which Ankara considers terrorists.
Turkey says the YPG is a direct affiliate of the PKK and the groups follow the same ideological leader, who has been imprisoned on a Turkish island since 1999. The YPG has also formed the backbone of American-led forces that fought IS in northeast Syria. U.S. support for the group, despite their links to the PKK, has infuriated Turkey, a NATO ally.
In two other incursions, Turkish and allied Syrian opposition forces took control of regions in northern Syria after pushing the YPG out. Turkey also regularly hits the militants there with artillery.
Turkey has also been bombing and fighting the PKK in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq, aiming to destroy PKK camps.
This summer, Ankara threatened to launch another incursion into Syria, saying the YPG’s presence wouldn’t be tolerated, and to resume Turkish efforts to create a 30-kilometer (19-mile) buffer zone in Syria.
TURKEY HEADS TO ELECTIONS
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is proud of his government’s anti-PKK campaigns in Turkey, Iraq and Syria and a majority of Turks are united in their enmity of the Kurdish militants after decades of conflict.
Erdogan has often used that sentiment to rally for votes and he’s likely to do so again ahead of the 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections.
That strategy worked before. When the bomb attacks started in 2015, Erdogan’s party had lost its majority in a parliamentary election but after failing to form a coalition government, his party won another election, campaigning on the need for a strong government to crack down on militant groups. The Syria operations also took place before the election and shored up nationalist votes.
But Erdogan’s grip on power for more than two decades could face its most serious challenge in the coming elections because the government’s unorthodox economic policies have led to skyrocketing inflation.
TURKISH PRESSURE ON WESTERN ALLIES
The Turkish government has repeatedly told the world that the Kurdish militants are security threats and Sunday’s attack could strengthen its hand.
Relations with Washington have been tense and continued American support for the Syrian Kurdish fighters is among the top reasons. Ankara has argued that weapons provided to the YPG by U.S. and some European countries would be turned on Turkish soil. On Monday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu snubbed a U.S. message of condolence for Sunday’s attack.
Turkey has also held up Sweden’s and Finland’s NATO membership bids for their perceived leniency towards the Kurdish groups. After Erdogan accused the two Nordic countries of turning a blind eye to terrorism, the three countries signed a joint memorandum in June where Sweden and Finland said they “confirm” the PKK is a terror organization and promised “to not provide support” to the YPG. They also lifted an arms embargo on Turkey that was imposed following the 2019 Syria operation against the YPG, while stating they’d address Turkey’s extradition requests for people Turkey deems terrorists.
Sunday’s attacks could renew Turkish threats of a military operation into Syria that would need a tacit green light from the U.S. and Russia. Turkish police said the suspect confessed to having received the go-ahead for the bombing from Kobani in northern Syria where the YPG is based.
The YPG said in a statement that Erdogan was trying to gather international support for his plans to launch a new incursion into northern Syria before next year’s elections.
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Suzan Fraser in Ankara, and Bassem Mroue in Beirut, contributed to this report.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian tennis player and Olympic bronze medalist Elina Svitolina pushed for a total ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Games in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Svitolina, who won her bronze medal in singles at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is visiting Ukraine for the first time since Russia invaded the country last year. She is the latest to call for a complete ban on athletes from Russia and Belarus because of the war.
“It’s going to be very sad, and the wrong message would be sent to the world if Olympics going to stay with the decision to put them (Russia and Belarus) under a neutral flag,” Svitolina said in the interview. “I don’t think this is the right decision.”
Svitolina, who had a baby with husband Gael Monfils in October, said sports and politics in Russia are inseparable.
“You can see that in Russia, sports are connected to the government,” Svitolina said.
On Friday, Ukraine’s sports minister renewed a threat to boycott the Paris Olympics if Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete and said Kyiv would lobby other nations to join.
A Ukrainian Olympic Committee meeting did not commit to a boycott but approved plans to try to persuade international sports officials in the next two months — including a discussion of a possible boycott. The leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania also urged the International Olympic Committee to ban Russia and said a boycott was a possibility.
Speakers at the Ukrainian Olympic Committee’s meeting raised concerns about Russia using the Paris Games for propaganda and noted the close ties between some athletes and the Russian military.
“Boycott would be one of the options because obviously what Russian army is doing to Ukrainian people, to Ukraine, it’s a horrible thing for us,” Svitolina said. “I cannot imagine going to the Olympics like nothing is happening to Ukraine.”
Svitolina said the decision to boycott should be discussed with the country’s Olympic committee with input from every Ukrainian athlete involved. She, however, didn’t hesitate to say what she thought was the right thing to do.
“Our men and women are at the front line right now fighting Russian soldiers and dying for our country and for our freedom as well,” Svitolina said. “And I’m very firm with my decision that boycotting is the right way to do it.”
After a month-long break, Svitolina said she is “actively preparing” to return to tennis in April. Her first visit to Ukraine marks the longest time she has been separated from her daughter.
“Of course, I want to be with her, but I have a bigger mission to do for free Ukrainian people,” said Svitolina, who came to the country as an ambassador of United 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s platform for collecting charitable donations.
During her brief stay, she also met Zelenskyy.
On Tuesday, Svitolina visited one of Kyiv’s maternity centers to donate a generator, needed to support the operation of the hospital. Hospitals in the country have often been disrupted by massive Russian missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
She said this week’s visit triggered the feelings she felt on the first days of the invasion.
“It was extremely stressful for me. I was still playing on the tour then, competing at some tournaments. I couldn’t focus. I couldn’t live my life normally. It was a horrible time for me,” she recalled. “Visiting the maternity center really reminded me what I was going through and how strong these women are.”
Originally from Odesa, which now suffers frequent power outages because of damaged electricity infrastructure, Svitolina said Feb. 24 — the date that will mark one year since the invasion started — will forever be a tragic day for every Ukrainian.
“This is something that you would never wish your enemy to face,” Svitolina said. “It’s a very sad day.”
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