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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.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nashville students protested during a walk-out Monday, one week to the day after six people were killed in a shooting at the Covenant School in Green Hills last week.
Organizers called for students to walk out of their classes Monday at 10:13 a.m. and head to the Capitol for action on gun violence in Tennessee.
March for Our Lives, a nonprofit group advocating for action on gun violence formed after the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, called for Nashville students to walk out of their classrooms to “demand gun safety” of their legislators.
After the walk out, students, parents, and other supporters gathered at the Tennessee Capitol to protest.
Students carried signs and read a list of the names of those killed in The Covenant School shooting one week ago.
Speakers addressed the crowd from a podium before it moved into the Capitol building.
The crowd is expected to remain at Legislative Plaza until the session begins at 5 p.m.
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STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings in Northern California was arrested before dawn Saturday as he drove through the streets of Stockton, armed with a handgun and possibly searching for another victim, police said.
Investigators began watching the suspect after receiving tips and stopped him in a car at about 2 a.m. in the Central Valley city, where five of the shootings took place, Police Chief Stanley McFadden said at a news conference.
Wesley Brownlee, 43, of Stockton, was dressed in black, had a mask around his neck, had a gun and “was out hunting," McFadden alleged.
“We are sure we stopped another killing," he added.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Brownlee had an attorney to speak on his behalf. He was expected to be arraigned Tuesday on murder charges.
A police photo showed the black-and-gray weapon allegedly carried by the suspect. It appeared to be a semi-automatic handgun containing some nonmetallic materials.
Police had been searching for a man clad in black who was caught on video at several of the crime scenes in Stockton, where five men were ambushed and shot to death between July 8 and Sept. 27. Four were walking, and one was in a parked car.
Police believe the same person was responsible for killing a man 70 miles away in Oakland in April 2021 and wounding a homeless woman in Stockton a week later.
Investigators have said ballistics tests and video evidence linked the crimes.
At the news conference, a moment of silence was held for the victims.
Juan Vasquez Serrano, 39, was killed in Oakland on April 10, 2021, and Natasha LaTour, 46, was shot in Stockton on April 16 of that year but survived. The five men killed in Stockton this year were Paul Yaw, 35, who died July 8; Salvador Debudey Jr., 43, who died Aug. 11; Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, 21, who died Aug. 30; Juan Cruz, 52, who died Sept. 21; and Lawrence Lopez Sr., 54, who died Sept. 27.
Police said Brownlee has a criminal history and is believed to have also lived in several cities near Stockton, but they did not give further details.
Authorities said they received hundreds of tips after announcing the manhunt, and investigators located and watched the place where Brownlee was living.
“Based on tips coming into the department and Stockton Crime Stoppers, we were able to zero in on a possible suspect,” McFadden said. “Our surveillance team followed this person while he was driving. We watched his patterns and determined early this morning, he was on a mission to kill.”
McFadden added that Brownlee was detained after engaging in what appeared to be threatening behavior, including going to parks and dark places, stopping and looking around before driving on.
Investigators were trying to identify a motive for the attacks. Police said some victims were homeless, but not all. None were beaten or robbed, and the woman who survived said her attacker didn’t say anything.
The police chief thanked various local, state and federal agencies that took part in the investigation, including the FBI, U.S. Marshals and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Local investigators had also worked with police in Chicago to determine whether the killings might be linked to two 2018 murders in that city's Rogers Park neighborhood. Authorities said videos of suspects showed a man in black with a distinctive walk.
However, Chicago police said Friday that there didn't appear to be any link.
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LANSING, MI – A player in Michigan was one number away from winning the grand prize, but there was no winner of the $168 million Powerball jackpot for the drawing held on Saturday, May 20.
That means the drawing on Monday, May 22 will be worth $179 million with a cash option of $92 million.
The Powerball Numbers (white) for May 20: 17-23-32-38-63
The Red Powerball Power Number: 23
The Power Play Number: 2
Double Play Numbers: 19-32-54-55-68
Double Play Powerball Number: 24
Powerball winners for May 20:
· While there was no grand prize winner, one player matched all five white numbers drawn to win $1 million. That ticket was sold in Kansas.
· That player also played the Power Play option which increased their winnings to $2 million.
· In Michigan, one ticket sold matched four white balls and the Powerball to win $50,000 in the drawing. That was the largest prize won in the state.
· There were 545,511 tickets sold that won at least $4 in the drawing. In Michigan, 17,572 tickets sold won at least $4 in the drawing.
Powerball is offered in 44 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Players select five white numbers from (1 to 69) and one red ball (1 to 26). Tickets cost $2 each.
In other Michigan Lottery news:
· The next Mega Millions drawing is Tuesday, May 23 with an estimated jackpot of $150 million and a cash option of $77.2 million.
· The next Lotto 47 drawing is Wednesday, May 24 at 7:29 p.m. with a jackpot of $2.3 million. Deadline is 7:08 p.m. that day.
· Sunday’s Fantasy 5 jackpot is worth an estimated $105,000. The drawing is at 7:29 p.m. Deadline is 7:08 p.m.
For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site, which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games.
The last players from Michigan to win a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot is the Wolverine FLL lottery club which claimed a $1.05 billion jackpot in March 2021. With their winnings, the group plans to give back to the community.
And while they were lucky winners, it’s smart for players to check their tickets immediately as a winner worth $1 million sold in Warren in 2021 went unclaimed. The money instead went to the state’s School Aid Fund.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
20-21-24-25-35
(twenty, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $1,050,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
20-21-24-25-35
(twenty, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-five)
Estimated jackpot: $1,050,000
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California man who pleaded guilty to plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party’s headquarters and other buildings in Northern California after the defeat of former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge.
Ian Benjamin Rogers, of Napa, pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to destroy the building in Sacramento by fire or explosives, possessing an explosive device and possessing a machine gun as part of an agreement that could bring him seven to nine years in federal prison.
“Mr. Rogers feels awful for letting anybody down. He’s been in custody for a year and a half. He’s never been in trouble before. Every single day he expresses regret and remorse for any involvement he’s had in anything and all he’s asking for now is for people to give him a chance to prove that he has redemptive qualities,” Rogers’ attorney, Colin Cooper, said before the sentencing.
U.S. prosecutors in San Francisco charged Rogers and Jarrod Copeland with conspiring to attack targets they associated with Democrats after Trump’s defeat in the November 2020 presidential election.
Prosecutors say Rogers, 51, used an encrypted messaging application to tell Copeland he would “hit the enemy in the mouth” by using Molotov cocktails and gasoline to attack targets including the Democratic Party headquarters, the Governor’s Mansion and buildings for social media companies Facebook and Twitter.
“I want to blow up a democrat building bad,” Rogers wrote in one of the messaging apps he used to communicate with Copeland, according to the indictment. In a different message, he said that after Democratic President Joe Biden was inaugurated, “we go to war.”
The pair “hoped their attacks would prompt a movement,” prosecutors said when they announced the charges last July.
Napa County Sheriff’s Office deputies secured search warrants after receiving an anonymous tip that Rogers possessed illegal guns and, after searching his home and auto repair shop in January 2021, seized nearly 50 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and five pipe bombs, prosecutors said.
Agents also seized a “white privilege card” that looks like a credit card. “Trumps Everything” it says beneath the label, with the number 0045 repeated as a credit card number signaling the 45th U.S. president. “Scott Free” is listed as the cardholder, a member from “birth” through “death.”
Investigators also pointed to the “Three Percenters” bumper sticker on Rogers’s vehicle, signaling support for an anti-government movement named after the belief that just 3% of American colonists defeated the British during the American Revolution.
Prosecutors say that in late December 2020, Copeland told Rogers he contacted an anti-government militia group to gather support for their movement. After Rogers’s arrest in January 2021, they say Copeland communicated with a leader of a militia group who advised Copeland to delete his old messages and switch to a new communication platform.
Copeland previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and destruction of records. His sentencing has not yet been scheduled.
Rogers also faces possession of illegal firearms and bombs charges in Napa County. Under a universal agreement, the federal sentence will be served concurrently with a state sentence on similar Napa County charges of possessing fully automatic weapons and explosive devices. His next court hearing on the Napa County charges is scheduled for Oct. 4, his attorney said.
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
In the third quarter of 2022, highlights include:
- Net income of $26.9 million (diluted EPS of $0.60) and Adjusted EBITDA of $50.7 million were 282% and 185% respectively above the prior highest third quarter on record. Net income was negatively affected by $3.9 million (diluted EPS of $0.09) from idle costs at our Berwind mine related to the July ignition event. Adjusted EBITDA was similarly negatively affected by $5.0 million. Based on continuing logistical and related issues we built 56,000 tons of inventory, bringing the year-to-date inventory build to 235,000 tons.
- The Company is now fully sold out for 2022 at an average price of $210 per short ton FOB mine1. In addition, 1.8 million tons have now been committed for delivery in 2023. 1.4 million tons are sold at an average fixed price of $201 per short ton FOB mine, and 0.4 million tons are index-linked. Over half of our anticipated 2023 volume remains open to be sold into export thermal, metallurgical or industrial markets, where pricing remains above our 2023 fixed price levels for high-vol A quality coal. We expect over 60% of our 2023 production will be sold into export markets.
- Work is nearing completion of the refurbishment and upgrade of the Berwind Preparation Plant. While not in full commercial operation, the first tons of coal have been processed and we anticipate shipping our first clean coal from this complex in the coming days. We anticipate this new efficient processing plant will materially lower our cash costs from the Berwind Complex due to the avoidance of millions of dollars of annual trucking costs. Similarly, these upgrades are expected to reduce our logistical challenges at both our Berwind and Knox Creek operations by eliminating the truck haul of more than 25 miles from the Berwind mines to our Knox Creek preparation plant.
- The Company is now providing an initial framework for its proposed 2023 shareholder return program. Management intends to address this with its Board of Directors at its upcoming Board meeting in December. Specifically, it remains our intention in 2023 to progressively annually increase the base cash dividend on all classes of shares. Once the Company is in a cash position in excess of roughly $100 million above requirements for normal operations, debt repayments and capital expenditures, the Company anticipates instituting a program of share repurchase. The program will be ratably tied to the cumulative dividends paid on all then outstanding classes of shares and is anticipated to commence in 2023.
Ramaco Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ: METC) ("Ramaco" or the "Company") today reported quarterly net income for the three months ended September 30, 2022, of $26.9 million, or $0.60 per diluted share. This was over 280% higher than net income for the three months ended September 30, 2021, of $7.0 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, largely on the back of higher realized pricing. For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2022, net income was $101.7 million or $2.27 per diluted share.
The Company's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, certain non-operating expenses, and equity-based compensation ("Adjusted EBITDA") was $50.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2022. This was 185% higher than $17.8 million of Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended September 30, 2021. Third quarter 2022 Adjusted EBITDA was negatively affected by $5.0 million from idle costs at our Berwind mine related to the July ignition event. For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2022, Adjusted EBITDA was $172.6 million. (See "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measure" below.)
Key operational and financial metrics are presented below:
Third Quarter 2022 Summary
In the following paragraphs, all references to "quarterly" periods or to "the quarter" refer to the third quarter of 2022, unless specified otherwise.
Year over Year Quarterly Comparison
Overall production in the quarter was 658,000 tons, up 19% from the same period of 2021. The Elk Creek complex produced 511,000 tons. Production from the Berwind and Knox Creek Mining complexes increased from 43,000 tons in the third quarter of 2021 to 147,000 tons this quarter. Overall total sales were 608,000 tons, down from 644,000 tons in the third quarter of 2021. The decline was largely attributable to continued rail related challenges. We have built 56,000 tons of inventory, largely based on continued logistical rail loading issues, bringing the year-to-date inventory build to 235,000 tons. We anticipate the bulk of this inventory buildup to unwind in 2023 as logistical challenges hopefully ease and the previously discussed preparation plant upgrade is completed at our Elk Creek complex.
Cash margins on Company produced coal were $104 per ton during the quarter, up over 200% from the same period of 2021. Quarterly pricing was $202 per ton of Company produced coal sold, which was over 90% higher compared to the third quarter of 2021. Company produced cash mine costs were $98 per ton. Quarterly cash mine costs per ton were 38% higher than for the same period of 2021. This increase in costs is principally attributed to higher sales-related costs, as well as inflationary impacts on overall costs. Cash mine costs at Elk Creek were $93 per ton during the quarter.
Sequential Quarter Comparison
Overall production of 658,000 tons in the quarter was down 8,000 tons compared with the second quarter. This limited drop was despite the Berwind mine being closed for almost the entire third quarter due to the early July ignition event. Total sales volume of 608,000 tons was up modestly from the second quarter 2022 level of 584,000 tons.
Cash margins on Company produced coal were $104 per ton compared to $109 per ton in the second quarter. The decline in margin was mainly due to lower realized pricing, with revenue per ton of $202 on company produced coal in the third quarter compared to $215 per ton in the second quarter of 2022. Metallurgical coal indices, although lower in the third quarter compared to first half 2022 levels, still remain historically elevated mainly attributable to continued supply tightness.
Despite current inflationary cost pressures, we continue to see a decline in key raw material costs such as the price of diesel fuel and steel for roof bolts. Our Elk Creek cash mine costs declined 7% to $93 per ton versus the second quarter of 2022. As our Berwind and Knox Creek complexes ramp up production over the coming quarters, we anticipate that their costs will fall meaningfully from current levels.
Additional Financial Results
As of September 30, 2022, the Company had liquidity of $69.2 million, consisting of $46.6 million of cash on hand plus $22.6 million of availability under our revolving credit facility. Compared to December 31, 2021, accounts receivable and inventory increased meaningfully to $90.4 million from $60.2 million. The bulk of the increase was due to higher inventory levels, resulting from yearlong logistical challenges. We anticipate that the fourth quarter of 2022 will be the Company's strongest quarter on record in terms of both sales and earnings excluding Berwind idle costs, based on being fully sold out for full-year 2022 at an average price of $210 per short ton FOB mine.
Third quarter capital expenditures totaled $37.6 million. This was an increase of 10% versus $34.1 million for the second quarter of 2022. The increase was attributable to the continued development of two new mines and the preparation plant renovation at the Berwind complex, and the ongoing plant expansion at the Elk Creek complex. Over 75% of the Company's year-to date capital expenditures of $91.4 million relates to its ongoing growth projects.
The Company's effective quarterly tax rate was 20%, excluding discrete items. For the third quarter of 2022, we recognized income tax expense of $6.6 million, as compared with $9.8 million in the second quarter of 2022.
The following summarizes key sales, production and financial metrics for the periods noted:
Outlook and Comment
Randall Atkins, Ramaco Resources' Chairman and Chief Executive Officer commented, "Despite macro headwinds in the overall economic climate, the third quarter was another record quarter for us. With that said, results are below what we would have hoped given the combination of the unfortunate Berwind ignition event in early July, declines in seaborne coal pricing, continued macro pressure on worldwide steel demand and ongoing logistical rail challenges. Despite these issues, we are well positioned for a record fourth quarter in 2022 and are also poised for 2023 to be a transformational positive year for Ramaco.
There are a number of positive quarterly accomplishments to highlight. First, we recently processed our first tons of coal at our Berwind preparation plant. We anticipate the plant will materially lower our cash costs from the Berwind Complex by avoiding millions of dollars of annual trucking costs. It will similarly reduce logistical challenges by elimination of a 25-mile truck haul to our Knox Creek preparation plant. Indeed, our overall mine costs across all operations came down around 8% this quarter and have again positioned us as a peer cost leader in the Central Appalachian markets.
Second, the Company is now fully sold out for calendar 2022 at an average price of $210 per short ton FOB mine1, with roughly 90% of that business being based on a fixed price. Third, in July we successfully placed roughly 0.3 million tons of coal into the European thermal markets for delivery mostly in the fourth quarter of 2022 at prices which exceeded met coal pricing. Lastly, in late September, we closed on the accretive Maben low vol reserve acquisition, which we anticipate being a meaningful earnings contributor in 2023.
Looking ahead to 2023, despite substantial macro uncertainty, we are confident that the year will prove to be much stronger for us than 2022. To begin with, we anticipate almost doubling 2023 production to roughly 4 million tons compared to production levels last year in 2021. At the same time, 1.8 million tons of that production has now been sold for 2023. 1.4 million tons were sold at a fixed average price of $201 per short ton FOB mine, and 0.4 million tons have been sold at index-linked pricing. Our fixed price sales business is a combination of both domestic steel and industrial sales as well as seaborne thermal coal sales.
We previously communicated that we would tailor our 2023 sales strategy to place tons into whatever markets would yield the best netback pricing. Indeed, we have executed on that strategy by committing a lower than usual amount of coal to traditional domestic steel mills in 2023. We expect to place over 60% of our coal into the export markets next year for the first time in our history and only 20% to traditional North American steel customers. Furthermore, over half of our anticipated 2023 volumes remain open to be sold into export markets at what we expect will be index-based business, where pricing currently remains above our 2023 fixed price levels for high-vol A quality coal.
The on-going events in Ukraine have created an unusual market dynamic where historical pricing between world thermal and met coal inverted this summer. While this relationship has recently moderated, we still anticipate an upward move in European thermal coal pricing in early 2023. We further expect that Europe's energy crisis will be a multi-year problem, which may present continued opportunities for crossover sales to traditional European thermal customers. Near-term, we believe many countries in Europe remain meaningfully short of coal for 2023, despite having purchased sufficient supply through year-end 2022.
In addition, the Company is providing an initial framework for its planned 2023 approach to a shareholder return program. We will be discussing this with our Board of Directors at our Board meeting next month when we typically address dividend policy for the coming year. First, in-line with what we have previously told our investors, it remains our intention to progressively increase the annual base cash dividend on all classes of stock each year, including in 2023.
As we add additional shareholder return in the form of dividends, we also want to construct a straightforward policy as it relates to other forms of shareholder return, specifically share repurchases. Next year, we expect to return to a net cash position. Over the past twelve months we made three accretive reserve, royalty and infrastructure acquisitions. At this point, we do not anticipate the need to make further acquisitions to reach our optimal level of production over the next few years.
We anticipate generating sufficient cash flow later in 2023 that we will be able to meet all capital requirements for normal maintenance and planned production growth, as well as make a complete repayment of all outstanding debt. We then hope to generate and maintain a cash cushion of roughly $100 million. Beyond that liquidity level we would anticipate allocating cash flow to shareholder returns in the form of both cash dividends and share repurchases. Specifically, we would propose taking the sum of the cash dividends paid on all outstanding classes of stock and in addition to the dividends we would invest a ratable amount toward share repurchases as would be approved by our Board of Directors.
Clearly, at today's stock price, we regard buybacks of our stock as an attractive investment proposition, especially considering the muted earnings multiples across the entire public coal space. Our basic investment goal is to organically increase our production in a lower capex cost manner to meet what we feel will be a continuing future demand for high quality met coal against a constrained growth in supply and to increase our overall free cash flow generation capability. At the same time, we will provide continued shareholder returns as described above.
In closing, we remain on track to have our most profitable and record year in 2022. This is despite a lingering list of macro challenges this year such as labor tightness, inflationary mine and wage cost pressure, logistical constraints, and the Berwind ignition event. We expect 2023 to be even more profitable. As a result, in the coming year we hope to continue our dual objectives of meaningful production growth and combine that with a return of increasing amounts of cash to our shareholders."
2022 Guidance
(In thousands, except per ton amounts and percentages)
Committed 2022 Sales Volume(a)
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About Ramaco Resources, Inc.
Ramaco Resources, Inc. is an operator and developer of high-quality, low-cost metallurgical coal in southern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. Its executive offices are in Lexington, Kentucky, with operational offices in Charleston, West Virginia and Sheridan, Wyoming. The Company currently has three active mining complexes in Central Appalachia and one mine not yet in production near Sheridan, Wyoming. Contiguous to the Wyoming mine it operates a research and pilot facility related to the production of advanced carbon products and materials from coal. In connection with these activities, it holds a body of roughly 50 intellectual property patents, pending applications, exclusive licensing agreements and various trademarks. News and additional information about Ramaco Resources, including filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, are available at http://www.ramacoresources.com. For more information, contact investor relations at (859) 244-7455.
Earnings Conference Call
Ramaco Resources will hold its quarterly conference call and webcast at 9:00 AM Eastern Time (ET) on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. An accompanying slide deck will be available at https://www.ramacoresources.com/investors-center/events-calendar/ immediately before the conference call.
To participate in the live teleconference on November 8, 2022:
Domestic Live: (844) 826-3033
International Live: (412) 317-5185
Conference ID: 10172357
Web link: Click Here
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements contained in this news release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements represent Ramaco Resources' expectations or beliefs concerning guidance, future events, anticipated revenue, future demand and production levels, macroeconomic trends, the development of ongoing projects, costs and expectations regarding operating results, and it is possible that the results described in this news release will not be achieved. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside of Ramaco Resources' control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, without limitation, risks related to the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic, unexpected delays in our current mine development activities, failure of our sales commitment counterparties to perform, increased government regulation of coal in the United States or internationally, the further decline of demand for coal in export markets and underperformance of the railroads, the expected benefits of the Ramaco Coal and Maben acquisitions to the Company's shareholders, and the anticipated benefits and impacts of the Ramaco Coal and Maben acquisitions. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as required by law, Ramaco Resources does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for Ramaco Resources to predict all such factors. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements found in Ramaco Resources' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. The risk factors and other factors noted in Ramaco Resources' SEC filings could cause its actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement.
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA is used as a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure by management and external users of our financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies. We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful because it allows us to more effectively evaluate our operating performance.
We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income plus net interest expense, equity-based compensation, depreciation and amortization expenses, certain non-operating expenses, and any transaction related costs. Its most comparable GAAP measure is net income. A reconciliation of net income to Adjusted EBITDA is included below. Adjusted EBITDA is not intended to serve as an alternative to GAAP measures of performance and may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies.
Non-GAAP revenue and cash cost per ton
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FAYETTEVILLE -- What has been assumed for weeks was made official Sunday evening: the college baseball postseason is returning to Baum-Walker Stadium.
Arkansas will be one of 16 host sites for NCAA regionals that begin Friday across the U.S. The Razorbacks will learn which three teams will be sent to their regional during the tournament selection show at 11 a.m. Monday on ESPN2.
Arkansas is one of eight SEC teams that will host a regional, along with Florida, LSU, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Auburn, Alabama and South Carolina. No conference has ever hosted so many regionals.
"If people are paying attention to the whole season in baseball....we should have eight hosts," SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said Saturday on SEC Network. "I think that's actually good for college baseball. You look at what you experience...at our stadiums -- they're full, it's exciting, they're passionate. Win or lose, I think teams want to play in those environments."
Seven SEC teams rank in the top 11 of the NCAA's Ratings Performance Index, which is a key metric used for seeding by the tournament selection committee. Nine SEC teams are in the RPI top 20.
"Either the RPI means something or it doesn't," Sankey said. "Just tell us. Either the whole season means something or it doesn't. This isn't about the first half [of the season] or the second half. This is about how teams have done to schedule to play and perform, and this is the hardest league with the best pitching in the country every week."
Four ACC teams -- Wake Forest, Clemson, Virginia and Miami -- will host regionals. Other host sites will be at Stanford, Coastal Carolina, Oklahoma State and Indiana State.
Unlike last year, Arkansas (41-16) did not sweat the regional site announcement. The Razorbacks are ranked fourth in the USA Today Baseball Coaches Poll, rank third in RPI and have the nation's fourth-best strength of schedule.
Arkansas is expected to be a top-eight national seed for the NCAA Tournament, which would ensure home-field advantage for games in the regional and super regional rounds.
The Razorbacks are 30-4 at home this season. Only Tennessee (33) and Virginia (32) have more victories on their home fields.
Arkansas will host a regional for the 10th time since the NCAA adopted its 64-team tournament format in 1999. The Razorbacks did not leave Baum-Walker Stadium during the regionals or super regionals between 2017-21.
Arkansas won its last three home regionals and won home super regionals in 2018 and 2019. The Razorbacks lost to North Carolina State at home in the super regional round two years ago.
"Playing at Baum-Walker Stadium in the postseason, there may be some great places, and I'm sure there might be a couple that are just as good or close, but I don't see how," Arkansas Coach Dave Van Horn told SEC Network last week. "It's unbelievable, the atmosphere."
With one of the highest win totals in college baseball, Arkansas was in contention to host a regional last season, but was hurt by an RPI that ranked 41st. The Razorbacks won a regional at Oklahoma State and a super regional at North Carolina -- teams that hosted with worse win percentages than Arkansas -- en route to a national semifinalist finish at the College World Series.
The Razorbacks hardened their nonconference schedule this year to include more teams that were expected to contend for their conference championships. In the process, Arkansas reduced the number of games scheduled against in-state teams.
It worked in the team's favor.
The Razorbacks' nonconference schedule strength ranks 37th (it was 157th last year) and they played four teams that won their regular-season conference titles -- Oklahoma State (Big 12), Army (Patriot League), Wright State (Horizon League) and Lipscomb (ASUN). Arkansas played three other teams that finished second in their conference standings.
At least seven of the Razorbacks' 16 nonconference opponents are expected to be included in the NCAA field. Army, Wright State, Lipscomb and Eastern Illinois (Ohio Valley) earned their conference's automatic bids; Oklahoma State and TCU are playing in the championship game of the Big 12 Tournament on Sunday night; and Texas is expected to earn an at-large bid.
Arkansas played series against seven of the other nine SEC teams that are expected to be in the tournament field. In addition to the regional hosts, the SEC is expected to be represented in the tournament by Texas A&M and Tennessee.
The Razorbacks have a 25-10 record against teams expected to be in the tournament field.
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Families across Louisiana will have the opportunity to once again gather in person for story-sharing, family discussion and shared meals as part of Prime Time’s high-quality family literacy and engagement programs this fall.
More than 50 Prime Time Family Reading and Prime Time Preschool Reading programs will take place in 21 parishes across the state, and nearly all will return to in-person programs for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Prime Time programs are about connections – with each other, our families and our communities,” said Miranda Restovic, president and executive director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Prime Time, Inc. “When these discussions take place in person those connections are deepened, as are the conversations that take place around the important humanities themes found in the books that are part of Prime Time programs.”
A program of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH), Prime Time programs involve story-sharing around an award-winning children’s book during a weekly session that takes place for six weeks at libraries, schools, churches, community centers and other local sites. Prime Time Family Reading, for ages 6-10, and Prime Time Preschool Reading, for ages 3-5, encourage families to personally connect with literature and each other and think beyond surface considerations of who, what, when, and where – by using open-ended questioning that spurs and encourages rich discussion across generations. For Preschool Reading, hands-on activities are incorporated to keep younger children engaged.
Prime Time programs are free for families and the partner organizations throughout the state that host them. Families also get to keep the books from the sessions to help build their home libraries. Prime Time’s fall reading programs are sponsored by the Beaird Family Foundation, BHP, Entergy Charitable Foundation, Grayson Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Shell USA and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
In addition to Louisiana sites, Prime Time reading programs are hosted by state humanities councils throughout the United States. This fall, 10 states will host Prime Time reading programs.
“Fall is always an important season in the lives of children and families. Back to school means that the calendar begins again and with it the excitement of possibilities, connection with new and old friends, and exploring new learning challenges,” said Shelly Stocker, LEH vice president of education programs. “This fall, we are deeply grateful to be able to again ensure that family engagement around amazing literature is an easily accessible component of the lives of Louisiana families and beyond.”
You can find a fall Prime Time program near you, along with contact information and dates, by visiting https://primetimefamily.org/prime-time-reading-families/#map.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
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¶ Ticket-holders with all three winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers.
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Did Khloe Kardashian's daughter True Thompson just reveal the name of Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott's baby boy?
That what TikToker Marissa Spagnoli thinks. In a Sept. 22 video, the content creator shared a theory about whether True accidentally dropped the moniker during the season two premiere of "The Kardashians."
The social media user pointed to a clip from the episode where Khloe FaceTimes True after welcoming her son via surrogate in July. Upon seeing her new sibling, the 4-year-old greets him by saying, "Hi, Snowy!" And while Khloe makes it clear to True "his name is not Snowy," Spagnoli wondered if it could be the name of Kylie's son, saying it would go with the name of her daughter Stormi Webster.
"Snowy? Snowy and Stormi!" Spagnoli said. "Snowy baby! It has a ring."
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But this wasn't the only part of the episode that caught the TikToker's attention. Spagnoli also recalled a scene before the birth where Khloe -- who had been keeping the baby news private amid the discovery that Tristan Thompson was having a child with a woman named Maralee Nichols -- informed her BFF Malika Haqq that she told True the newest member of the Kardashian family was on the way.
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When asked if True understood what getting a brother means, Khloe said she thought she did, noting that True sees Stormi with her brother (who was born in February). And it seemed like True couldn't wait to share the news.
"She just, like, tells people," Khloe said. "Like, when she sees the baby, she'll say, 'I'm going to have a brother, too.' And I'm like, 'Haha, no you're not.' 'Cause she'll just tell random people."
Spagnoli thought this was similar to how Khloe brushed off the name Snowy in the hospital scene.
"I could be completely off," the vlogger said. "It could be Sunny. But I don't know, I'm kind of feeling Snowy."
Some followers seemed to agree with the theory. "Snow & Stormi make sense," one commenter wrote. Together they are their own little snowstorm." Added another, "Snow 'snow' makes so much [sense] to me...starting with the letter S like Stormi."
Others, however, weren't convinced. "Ngl I think True just wanted his name to be snow," a social media user wrote. Chimed in another, "It's def not Snowy."
Of course, Kylie and Travis are the ones who know the name for sure. However, the makeup mogul and the rapper have been keeping the moniker a secret ever since they revealed in March that they were changing it from his original name Wolf. Although, Kylie recently shared they haven't legally changed the name yet.
"We're just not ready to share yet," she said on an episode of "The Late Late Show" earlier this month. "You know, Travis... one day he'll be like 'Ooh, this seems kind of cool' and change it again. So, we're just not officially probably going to change it until maybe..."
The answer remains a mystery. Another name fans want to know? The name of Khloe and Tristan's baby boy. However, the Good American founder did reveal a clue on the season two premiere of The Kardashians.
"It is going to start with a T," she said. "I mean, that's really the only names I've been looking at."
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — As Elizabeth Holmes prepares to report to prison next week, the criminal case that laid bare the blood-testing scam at the heart of her Theranos startup is entering its final phase.
The 11-year sentence represents a comeuppance for the wide-eyed woman who broke through “tech bro” culture to become one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated entrepreneurs, only to be exposed as a fraud. Along the way, Holmes became a symbol of the shameless hyperbole that often saturates startup culture.
But questions still linger about her true intentions — so many that even the federal judge who presided over her trial seemed mystified. And Holmes’ defenders continue to ask whether the punishment fits the crime.
At 39, she seems most likely to be remembered as Silicon Valley’s Icarus — a high-flying entrepreneur burning with reckless ambition whose odyssey culminated in convictions for fraud and conspiracy.
Her motives are still somewhat mysterious, and some supporters say federal prosecutors targeted her unfairly in their zeal to bring down one of the most prominent practitioners of fake-it-til-you-make-it — the tech sector’s brand of self-promotion that sometimes veers into exaggeration and blatant lies to raise money.
Holmes will begin to pay the price for her deceit on May 30 when she is scheduled begin the sentence that will separate her from her two children — a son whose July 2021 birth delayed the start of her trial and a 3-month-old daughter conceived after her conviction.
She is expected to be incarcerated in Bryan, Texas, about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of her hometown of Houston. The prison was recommended by the judge who sentenced Holmes, but authorities have not publicly disclosed where she will be held.
Her many detractors contend she deserves to be in prison for peddling a technology that she repeatedly boasted would quickly scan for hundreds of diseases and other health problems with a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick.
The technology never worked as promised. Instead, Theranos tests produced wildly unreliable results that could have endangered patients’ lives — one of the most frequently cited reasons why she deserved to be prosecuted.
Before those lies were uncovered in a series of explosive articles in The Wall Street Journal beginning in October 2015, Holmes raised nearly $1 billion from a list of savvy investors including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and media mogul Rupert Murdoch. It was the duping of those investors that led to her prison sentence and a $452 million restitution bill.
Holmes’ stake in Theranos at one point catapulted her paper wealth to $4.5 billion. She never sold any of her stock in the company, though trial evidence left no doubt she reveled in the trappings of fame and fortune — so much so that she and the father of her children, William “Billy” Evans, lived on a palatial Silicon Valley estate during the trial.
The theory that Holmes was running an elaborate scam was buttressed by trial evidence documenting her efforts to prevent the Journal’s investigation from being published. That campaign compelled John Carreyrou — the reporter responsible for those bombshell stories — to attend court and position himself in Holmes’ line of vision when she took the witness stand.
Holmes also signed off on surveillance aimed at intimidating Theranos employees who helped uncover the flaws with the blood-testing technology. The whistleblowers included Tyler Shultz, the grandson of former Secretary of State George Shultz, whom Holmes befriended and persuaded to join the Theranos board.
Tyler Shultz became so unnerved by Holmes’ efforts to shut him up that he began sleeping with a knife under his pillow, according to a wrenching statement delivered by his father, Alex, at her sentencing.
Holmes’ supporters still contend she always had good intentions and was unfairly scapegoated by the Justice Department. They insist she simply deployed the same over-the-top promotion tactics as many other tech executives, including Elon Musk, who has repeatedly made misleading statements about the capabilities of Tesla’s self-driving cars.
According to those supporters, Holmes was singled out because she was a woman who briefly eclipsed the men who customarily bask in Silicon Valley’s spotlight, and the trial turned her into a latter-day version of Hester Prynne — the protagonist in the 1850 novel “The Scarlet Letter.”
Holmes steadfastly maintained her innocence during seven often-riveting days of testimony in her own defense — a spectacle that caused people to line up shortly after midnight to secure one of the few dozen seats available in the San Jose courtroom.
On one memorable day, Holmes recounted how she had never gotten over the trauma of being raped while enrolled at Stanford University. She then described being subjected to a long-running pattern of emotional and sexual abuse by her former lover and Theranos conspirator, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, and suggested his stifling control blurred her thinking.
Balwani’s lawyer, Jeffrey Coopersmith, denied those allegations during the trial. In Balwani’s subsequent trial, Coopersmith unsuccessfully tried to depict his client as Holmes’ pawn.
Balwani, 57, is now serving a nearly 13-year prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy.
When it came time to sentence the then-pregnant Holmes in November, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila seemed as puzzled as anyone about why she did what she did.
”This is a fraud case where an exciting venture went forward with great expectations and hope, only to be dashed by untruth, misrepresentations, hubris and plain lies,” Davila lamented while Holmes stood before him. “I suppose we step back and we look at this, and we think what is the pathology of fraud?”
The judge also hearkened back to the days that Silicon Valley consisted mostly of orchards farmed by immigrants. That was before the land was ceded to the tech boom beginning in 1939 when William Hewlett and David Packard founded a company bearing their surnames in a one-car garage in Palo Alto — the same city where Theranos was based.
“You’ll recall the wonderful innovation of those two individuals in that small garage,” Davila reminded everyone in the rapt courtroom. “No exotic automobiles or lavish lifestyle, just a desire to create for society’s benefit through honest hard work. And that, I would hope, would be the continuing story, the legacy and practice of Silicon Valley.”
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Michael Liedtke has been covering Silicon Valley for The Associated Press for 23 years.
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President Joe Biden took a defensive tone in the run-up to his visit to Saudi Arabia on Friday. “I have never been quiet about talking about human rights,” he said at a news conference in Israel on Thursday. But his reason for going to Saudi Arabia, he said, was much broader: to promote U.S. interests and reassert our influence in the Middle East. And anyway, Biden added, he was “going to be meeting with nine other heads of state. It’s not just — it happens to be in Saudi Arabia.”
That’s a shorter version of the argument the president has made for weeks since his first official Middle East visit was announced with a tour stop in Riyadh. As a 2020 candidate, Biden pledged to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” state for the regime’s murder of U.S. journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Criticism casts this trip as a betrayal of Biden’s promises and ideals motivated by a desperation for oil.
There’s merit to that charge. The Saudi state’s human rights record is gruesome, and the visit is unquestionably a reversal for Biden. But most criticism of the trip is wrongly aimed: Diplomacy is not what’s wrong in Washington’s handling of Riyadh; it’s the long-term U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia and ongoing U.S. support for the Saudi military, including its brutality in Yemen.
Confusion around the purpose of diplomacy is a regular and unfortunate feature of American foreign policy debates. Diplomacy is not just for friendly countries. Yes, sometimes our diplomatic conversation partners are friendly countries with ideals and styles of government similar to our own. But diplomacy also includes far more difficult discussions with far less savory states.
It may be possible for some small and distant states to avoid diplomacy with a reprehensible but strategically important and resource-rich regime like that of Saudi Arabia. It is not possible for a global superpower to do the same.
The objectionable thing here, then, is not Biden’s choice to personally pursue diplomacy. The diplomacy is both inevitable and good. The same cannot be said of other aspects of the U.S.-Saudi relationship, particularly the stationing of nearly 3,000 U.S. troops on Saudi soil, where they operate “in coordination with the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” per an administration report to Congress last month, and “provide air and missile defense capabilities,” though the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are not, and never have been, treaty allies.
The Biden administration partially reversed its predecessors’ expansion of the U.S. military footprint in Saudi Arabia, and ending U.S. support for the Saudi coalition’s “offensive operations” in the Yemeni civil war was Biden’s first major foreign policy move in 2021. But U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia continue on the scale of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth annually, and Washington has also facilitated other sales of U.S.-made weapons from third parties to Riyadh. Meanwhile, though Yemen’s monthslong truce continues to hold, raising hopes for a durable peace, recent reporting has revealed U.S. extrication was much less complete than Biden implied.
In his op-ed in the Post, Biden wrote of his commitment to furthering diplomacy, advancing U.S. interests and keeping the U.S. out of combat missions in the Middle East. Those are all strong reasons for him to visit Saudi Arabia.
But they’re also strong reasons to rethink U.S.-Saudi relations, draw down U.S. military support for Riyadh and bring U.S. forces home from Saudi lands.
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Kyle Farmer Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Braves - June 28
Published: Jun. 28, 2023 at 9:23 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Kyle Farmer -- with an on-base percentage of .241 in his past 10 games, 70 points lower than his season-long percentage -- will be in action for the Minnesota Twins versus the Atlanta Braves, with Kolby Allard on the mound, on June 28 at 12:20 PM ET.
In his most recent game he had a hitless performance (0-for-3) against the Braves.
Kyle Farmer Game Info & Props vs. the Braves
- Game Day: Wednesday, June 28, 2023
- Game Time: 12:20 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Braves Starter: Kolby Allard
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -208)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +135)
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Kyle Farmer At The Plate
- Farmer has five doubles, four home runs and 10 walks while hitting .250.
- Farmer has picked up a hit in 26 of 49 games this year, with multiple hits nine times.
- Looking at the 49 games he has played this season, he's hit a home run in four of them (8.2%), and in 2.4% of his trips to the plate.
- In 22.4% of his games this year, Farmer has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 6.1% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored at least once 21 times this year (42.9%), including three games with multiple runs (6.1%).
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Braves Pitching Rankings
- The Braves pitching staff ranks second in MLB with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Braves have a 3.81 team ERA that ranks eighth among all league pitching staffs.
- Braves pitchers combine to give up 87 total home runs at a clip of 1.1 per game (to rank 15th in the league).
- Allard will start for the Braves, his first this season.
- When he last appeared on Wednesday, Oct. 5, the 25-year-old lefty pitched in relief and went four innings against the New York Yankees.
- Last season he finished with a 7.29 ERA and a 1.286 WHIP over his 10 games, putting together a 1-2 record.
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DENVER — Early this month, a mother who was delivering two twin baby girls had a sweet coincidence with two labor and delivery nurses.
Lauren Meehan had a little surprise while delivering her twin girls at Rose Medical Center this month.
Meehan said her twins decided to make an early and quick arrival in the middle of the night at the beginning of October. She said because of the high risk of delivering twins that two teams of doctors and nurses were needed.
Right as the team of doctors and nurses were about to deliver the twins they asked Meehan if she had names picked out for the babies. Meehan said she loved the names, Emma and Julia. The group of nurses and doctors exploded in laughter.
It turns out that the two nurses that would be taking care of the two babies were also named Emma and Julia.
"At that moment, in all the chaos, we were able to stop for a second and enjoy that moment knowing that those names were meant to be. Those two nurses will always be special to us and the entire team that took care of us that day with hold a special place in our hearts. It will be a funny story to tell our girls," Meehan said.
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — European nations, including England, are pushing FIFA for “concrete answers” on issues relating to migrant workers ahead of the World Cup.
The 10 nations speaking Sunday include eight with World Cup-bound teams that have committed to captains wearing One Love armbands in breach of FIFA-written rules.
UEFA Working Group on Human and Labour Rights is pressing for a definitive response regarding a compensation fund for workers and the concept of a migrant workers center in Doha.
In a joint statement it welcomed assurances from the Qatari Government and FIFA regarding the safety of fans at the World Cup, including LGBTQ+ supporters.
But it underlined its ongoing commitment to migrant workers ahead of the tournament.
“FIFA has repeatedly committed to deliver concrete answers on these issues — the compensation fund for migrant workers, and the concept of a migrant workers centre to be created in Doha — and we will continue to press for these to be delivered,” read the statement. “We believe in the power of football to make further positive and credible contributions to progressive sustainable change in the world.”
The working group is made up of 10 nations: England, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales.
In its statement it said it acknowledged “significant progress” has been made with regards to the rights of migrant workers.
“We also recognise that every country has issues and challenges and we agree with FIFA that diversity is a strength,” it added. “However, embracing diversity and tolerance also means supporting human rights. Human rights are universal and they apply everywhere.”
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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Growth in Services to Support Children & Families
Prompts Increased Hiring Statewide
GREENSBORO, N.C., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Built on a foundation of growth to best promote the well-being of our community's children and families, Children's Home Society of NC (CHS) is further expanding the breadth and depth of its innovative services and is seeking qualified professionals to be a part of its impact.
Working for CHS means being a member of a family of co-workers who share a dedication to helping families stay together and build resilience to navigate difficult life circumstances.
As part of CHS' recently launched five-year plan outlining a better future for North Carolina children and families, CHS will experience significant growth across the state in several key program areas. Positions being added to support this expansion include:
- Licensed Clinicians who work with young children and their families to help with healing from the damaging effects of stress and trauma.
- Placement Specialists who provide comprehensive services throughout the Foster Care and Adoption pre- and post-placement journey.
- Child-Focused Recruiters who strive to place the longest-waiting youth in foster care, who are most at risk of aging out of the system, with their forever families.
"Those who serve in these positions will play a critical role in achieving our goals to keep children safely with their families whenever possible and help children in care achieve positive outcomes," said Carli Guanciale, CHS Vice President, Human Resources and Employee Experience. "They will join teammates who hold a shared belief that family is the number one determinant of child well-being and success."
Children's Home Society was recently recognized by insurance consulting firm Gallagher as a Best-in-Class employer for providing innovative solutions for creating organizational structures, workplace policies, and total rewards, as well as inclusively engaging and motivating its employees.
"CHS is committed to our people and invested in their well-being. When we create space for their wellness and personal development, we allow our people to show up as the best version of themselves to better serve children and families," Guanciale added.
Last year CHS served more than 15,000 North Carolina children and families providing over 4,800 families with parent education and support services and creating a safe family placement for nearly 1,100 children who are in foster care. Children's Home Society has celebrated more than 16,000 adoptions since its founding in 1902, remaining steadfast in its mission to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
For more information about career opportunities at Children's Home Society, please call 1-800-632-1400 or visit chsnc.org/about/careers.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina is an equal opportunity employer. Children's Home Society of North Carolina prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to ancestry, race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Children's Home Society offers a network of services and support throughout North Carolina to help establish and sustain healthy, loving relationships in every family. For 120 years, Children's Home Society has provided a broad spectrum of programs and services including adoption, foster care, parenting education, family preservation, and youth responsibility. Children's Home Society believes in the importance of family, not only in the life of a child, but also in the foundation of a community.
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As the NBA and NHL postseasons near their conclusion — and with the Eagles winding down their offseason program until training camp late next month — the Phillies are really the only show in town. And what a show they’ve been.
Since Rob Thomson has taken over for Joe Girardi, the Phillies have looked like an entirely different team, and their record tells you all you need to know about the change in play following the managerial shake-up.
Beyond the red-hot Phils and the end of Eagles OTAs this week, there was also the beginning of The Inquirer’s monthlong project looking at Title IX, which was signed into law 50 years ago. There’s also a new Philly sports movie out — Adam Sandler’s Hustle — that stars several members of the Sixers. Plus a Flyers coaching search that hasn’t shown any sign of ending soon.
As always, we’ve got you covered with a roundup of some of our best content of the week in case you missed it the first time around. We’ll start with a Phillies column from David Murphy …
Given that the Phillies have been playing at a 162-win pace since making the switch to Thomson, it might be time to revisit a question that many raised when they announced Joe Girardi’s firing on Friday.
How often does a midseason managerial change actually work? ...
Since 1996, the first full post-strike season and the first year in our arbitrary sample, there have been 40 instances of teams that had multiple managers finish the year with at least 40 games at the helm. Of those 40 teams, only three ended up in the divisional round of the playoffs.
The 1996 Dodgers, who were 41-35 when Tommy Lasorda stepped down due to health concerns.
The 2009 Rockies, who fired Clint Hurdle at 18-28 and went on to finish with 92 wins under Jim Tracy.
The 2004 Astros, who fired Jimy Williams at 44-44 and then went 48-26 under Phil Garner.
Another way to read that is that only once since 1996 has a team with a losing record fired a manager at midseason and gone on to make the playoffs. — David Murphy
You can read the rest of his column, here.
What you need to know
These are some of the most important stories from the last week or so that you might’ve missed.
We continue with some more on the Phillies, because they’re the story of the week in Philadelphia. Former manager Charlie Manuel — the last to win a World Series in Philly — compared the Phillies’ change at manager to the Bobby Abreu trade that sparked his team in 2006. We also had stories on unlikely TV pitchman Matt Vierling and the recent return of Didi Gregorius.
The Eagles were back out on the practice field this week and we were there to break it all down, including a stellar final day from Jalen Hurts. Jeff McLane also took a closer look at the recent changes in the Eagles front office, while David Murphy wondered why everyone is so caught up on who will be calling the plays. And finally, Marcus Hayes took a game-by-game look at how he thinks the Eagles will do this season.
The Flyers coaching search continues, as Giana Han broke down the top candidates for the job. Meanwhile the team continues to prepare for the upcoming NHL draft, where they could land a prized prospect at No. 5 overall.
The Sixers, meanwhile, are still kicking themselves for drafting Markelle Fultz over Jayson Tatum, while watching Tatum star for the Celtics in the NBA Finals. To add insult to injury, Al Horford is playing a staring role for Boston while his family takes shots at Philly fans.
As previously mentioned, we kicked off our Title IX 50th anniversary coverage this week with a long read by women’s hoops historian and longtime Inquirer writer Mel Greenberg. Some other stories included the tale of St. Joe’s first women’s basketball team, a look at West Chester’s prominent role in women’s sports even before Title IX, and a look at what exactly Title IX is and why it’s important.
The USMNT is preparing for the 2022 World Cup with a trio of friendly matches. Jonathan Tannenwald caught up with Hershey native and Chelsea star Christian Pulisic not long after another local product, Brendan Aaronson, signed a deal with Leeds United.
If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend, we recommend Hustle, Adam Sandler’s new Netflix movie in which he plays a down-and-out Sixers scout. The film not only got good reviews, but was also overwhelmingly shot in Philly, features cameos from a ton of NBA players (including several Sixers), was directed by a Philly native, and features a soundtrack loaded with local artists.
All of those Hustle stories are great, but the best of the bunch might be Matt Breen’s piece on Jonathan Loughran, a Philly native who has become a mainstay of Sandler movies — not to mention the star’s best friend.
Worth the time
We’ll stick with “Hustle” for one more story, since you might be wondering if it’s just a regular sports movie or if it’s one that you can watch with people who aren’t necessarily sports fans. On that front, we have some good news. We asked entertainment columnist Elizabeth Wellington to sit down with yours truly and discuss the Philly-based flick, and whether we thought the love story or the basketball story was better.
Turns out, they’re both pretty good. Here’s more from our discussion (which looks a lot prettier if you view it in its original format).
Matt Mullin, digital editor, Sports: I thought the story was pretty good, but the basketball was exceptional. There were a lot of jokes in there about Juancho Hernangomez’s character, Bo, ordering porn in his hotel room, and I kept laughing because this movie was like porn for basketball fans. It’s hard to make sports look realistic in a movie — and this one was as good as I can remember. And beyond the actual basketball, there were so many references and cameos.
Elizabeth Wellington, entertainment columnist: The basketball was exceptional because the director, Jeremiah Zagar, took special care in how he shot the basketball scenes. It also helped that everyone who picked up a ball in the movie was an actual basketball player. The actors acted and the players played.
MM: It reminded me of He Got Game with then-Bucks star and future Hall of Fame sharpshooter Ray Allen, which helped the basketball scenes in that movie, especially the practice scenes in the park, look more realistic. I actually think that’s more important than having those roles be filled by people who can act.
On a related note, what did you think of the acting from the athletes in the movie? I’ve got to say it was better than I expected.
EW: Honestly, I don’t think they really acted. I think they were just being themselves. And that’s what made it so realistic. They were just doing what they do. As far as Bo’s acting. I think he was really good. He and the rest of the players who were playing roles like Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves, who played Kermit, used an acting coach. It really came through.
MM: There was a scene toward the end in which Bo cried — that’s impressive for an NBA player. And there were times he even had me laughing. That’s Steph Curry-esque range there.
You can read the rest of our convo, here.
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(The Hill) — Twitter has officially traded its iconic blue bird logo for a black-and-white “X,” marking the latest change to the social media platform since Elon Musk purchased it last year.
Musk announced the rebranding on Sunday, changing his profile to the X and posting promotional videos of the new logo. He also posted a photo Monday of the new logo being projected onto Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.
“[S]oon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk tweeted Sunday.
The X began to appear on the desktop version of Twitter Monday, but the bird remained the prominent logo on the mobile version.
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino also promoted the new logo on Monday, tweeting that “X is here! Let’s do this.”
She also said the new logo represents “the future state of unlimited interactivity — centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking — creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities.”
Graphic designer Martin Grasser, who was part of the team that designed Twitter’s widely recognized logo, posted a series of tweets Sunday explaining how the blue bird came to be. He said his instructions were that “it should be as good as” the Apple and Nike logos.
“Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird,” he tweeted. “This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself…The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase ‘e’.”
“Sometime in March we had an approved bird and it launched in May of 2012,” he added. “This little blue bird did so much over the last 11 years.”
The latest update is likely just the first step in Musk fully rebranding Twitter to X, a move that experts say will probably confuse existing users. Musk said that the X.com web domain now redirects users to Twitter.com and that tweets will be called Xs in the future.
Musk is also the CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., which is commonly known as SpaceX. And he calls his son “X” as a nickname as his son’s actual name is a series of letters and symbols.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Anker, the world's #1 mobile charging brand, today announced an updated line of hubs and docking stations designed for business professionals looking to add future-proof productivity tools using the latest USB4 and Thunderbolt 4 technologies. At the forefront of this announcement, the Anker 568 USB-C Docking Station (11-in-1, USB4) and the Anker 778 Thunderbolt Docking Station (12-in-1, Thunderbolt 4) offer business professionals connectivity options for the most intensive tasks.
The Anker 568 and 778 docking stations were designed to provide business professionals with the most cutting-edge connectivity tools for enhanced productivity with graphic design, video editing and drafting including CAD modeling. Both docking stations are equipped with a multitude of ports, including USB-C Power Delivery, HDMI, Ethernet, and multiple USB-A and USB-C data ports. The 568 also features two DisplayPort connections, while the 778 offers a Thunderbolt down-stream port for even more connectivity options. This allows users to connect to a wide range of devices including monitors, keyboards, mice, and external hard drives.
Future Proof
For business professionals or professional content creators in need of a powerful docking station, the Anker 568 and 778 can easily upgrade a user's workspace with new connectivity including USB4 (568) and Thunderbolt 4 (778) capable ports. These new connectivity options ensure a user's needs will be met as they upgrade to USB4 and Thunderbolt 4 capable devices but also ensure backwards compatibility with those laptops and peripheral devices with previous generations of USB and Thunderbolt.
This is also ideal for enterprise organizations beginning to upgrade hardware from older users within the company while ensuring backwards compatibility.
By supporting the Thunderbolt 4 connection standard, the new Anker 778 docking station adds the ability to transfer data at a maximum of 40Gb/s, making it ideal for organizing and moving large audio and video files back and forth.
Additionally, with office workers becoming accustomed to using multiple devices both at the office as well as at home, both docking stations support high-speed charging for laptops and other devices up to 100W as well as offering dual 30W charging ports so users can charge their other mobile devices and peripherals while using the other functions of the hub.
High Quality Output Resolution
The Anker 568 and Anker 778 offer the ability to simultaneously output to multiple displays, so users can enjoy stunning visuals on up to three or four displays at once, respectively.
The Anker 568 USB-C Docking Station offers triple display connectivity, outputting media to one monitor at 8K@30Hz via either of the two DisplayPort connections, or up to three displays at 4K@30Hz, when connecting using the HDMI port for a third monitor.
The Anker 778 offers quadruple monitor connectivity, allowing users to output media to a single display at 8K@30Hz or 4K@60Hz using the Thunderbolt 4 port or up to three additional displays at 4K@30Hz while utilizing the HDMI and dual DisplayPort ports.
Innovative Remote Management
The Anker 568 and 778 both offer enterprise users access to the Anker Dock Manager, remote management software. Using the Anker Dock Manager allows enterprise IT departments to easily deploy, manage and remotely upgrade hardware more efficiently as well as access user manuals, guides and FAQs for issues and diagnosis. If an issue needs to be advanced to customer support, the Anker Dock Manager offers a direct connection to the Anker support team with a guaranteed response within 24 business hours.
Five Additional Models In Updated Dock and Hub Series
Joining the Anker 568 and 778 Docking Stations are five additional models including the 2023 CES Honoree Award winning Anker 675, 12-in-1 USB-C Hybrid Monitor Stand Docking Station, designed for the home office to aid in desktop space management.
Others in the series include the Anker 556, 552, 364, and 332 USB-C Hubs that were designed to address diverse needs from office desktops to mobile working or business travels.
Additionally, there are peripherals including both 8K USB-C to DisplayPort and HDMI adapters, hub mounts, and cable selections designed for enterprise infrastructure in the office space such as meeting rooms.
Price and availability
The Anker 568 USB-C Docking Station (11-in-1, USB4) is slated to be available for purchase beginning on February 1 for $299.99 in the US and £299.99 in the UK.
The Anker 778 Thunderbolt Docking Station (12-in-1, Thunderbolt 4) is slated to be available for purchase beginning in late Q1 for $379.99 in the US and £379.99 in the UK.
Business users interested in purchasing the Anker 568 or Anker 778 can register on Anker.com beginning today at: https://www.anker.com/hub-and-docking-station-for-business in the US and https://www.anker.com/uk/hub-and-docking-station-for-business in the UK for 20% off (conditions apply). Both docking stations are slated to become available in additional markets in the near future.
Anker is the world's #1 mobile charging brand and a developer of charging technologies for the home, car, and on the go. Anker kick-started the GaN (Gallium Nitride) revolution in 2018 by introducing the first commercially available GaN-powered fast charger. Today, Anker has continued to innovate in the charging space by introducing new charging accessories for virtually all mobile devices. This includes wall plugs, solar and wireless chargers, car chargers, power banks, and high-capacity portable power stations. Find out more about Anker at www.anker.com.
About Anker Innovations Anker Innovations is a global leader in charging technology and a developer of unique, consumer electronic products that support premium audio, mobile entertainment, and the emerging smart home space. This innovation is being led by its six key brands: Anker, AnkerWork, eufy, Nebula, soundcore and AnkerMake. More information on Anker Innovations and its various brands can be found at anker.com.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP)Jordan Johnson scored 26 points and Jamond Vincent added a double-double to propel New Orleans to an 88-82 victory over Nicholls on Thursday night.
Johnson was 9-of(equals)19 shooting, including 5 for 10 from distance, and went 3 for 3 from the line for the Privateers (9-18, 6-10 Southland Conference). Vincent scored 20 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. Kmani Doughty added 12 points.
The Colonels (14-14, 9-7) were led by Marek Nelson with 20 points and 12 rebounds. Caleb Huffman and Lance Amir-Paul both scored 14.
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Both teams next play Saturday. New Orleans visits Lamar, while Nicholls hosts Houston Christian.
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SEOUL, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AUTOMATE 2023, renowned as the largest automation trade show in North America, was held from May 22nd to 25th in Detroit, Michigan. According to A3, organizer of AUTOMATE 2023, the show featured more than 750 exhibits, covering more than 300,000 square feet, with 25,000 registrants from all over the world.
Korea Pavilion organized by Korea Association of Robot Industry(KAR) participated in this show, and received an overwhelmingly positive response; 9 companies in Korea Pavilion made their successful debuts at the show by presenting their flagship products and cutting-edge technologies.
DOGU Co., Ltd., is a company specializing in autonomous mobile robots. The company demonstrated "Patrover", its outdoor patrol robot designed to detect obstacles to avoid collision and drive well regardless of road conditions. It also introduced "Iroi", its indoor guide robot designed to serve various purposes – providing guidance and delivery services during the day and patrolling at night. The company held a meeting with 'MGM', a global resort and casino company which expressed a significant interest in adopting "Iroi" that can be utilized for not only guidance but also advertising and disinfection. They both agreed to continue discussion on mutual cooperation after the show.
HCNC Co., Ltd., with more than 20 years of expertise in manufacturing IT and facility automation, has supported manufacturers to improve their productivity and strengthen their competitiveness. The company introduced its soft gripper and Hyundai Robotics' small handing robot at the exhibition. The gripper and the robot displayed by HCNC Co., Ltd., captured attention of major companies such as 'Amazon', 'Effecto', 'Ford', 'General Motors', 'Schmalz' and 'Universal Robots'. Its soft gripper specially developed to handle random objects and delicate products impressed show attendees, and the company is now reviewing the agreement with 'Schmalz', a leading automation company in Germany and 'Effecto', a leading end-effector company in Italy.
Neuromeka Co., Ltd., one of the leading cobot manufacturers in Korea, introduced its own robot model, the "Indy" series and collaborative robot-centered welding automation solutions. The company had numerous meetings with System Integrators on site, and 'Onyx Engineering(Windsor, Canada)' expressed strong interests in the laser cutting solution using a 3D vision camera that can be easily applied to welding wire extraction. Neuromeka Co., Ltd. had in-depth discussions with 'AP COM', a retailer based in Chicago. AP COM had a strong interest in Neuromeka Co. Ltd.'s frying solution and bubble tea solution, and also suggested signing a lease agreement for franchise stores in North America.
Rainbow Robotics Inc., is a company which develops a wide variety of robots, including cobots, autonomous mobile robots, humanoid robots and 4-legged mobile robots. The company introduced five different models of 'RB Cobot Series' at Automate 2023 and made its maximum efforts to recruit distributors in North America. The company had meetings with more than 30 companies including System Integrators(S.I.) during the exhibition and will continue to proceed agency contracts through continuous communication. Some of the meetings have already been proven successful : the company will sign a NDA(Non-Disclosure Agreement) with a U.S. System Integrator, 'P'(the company name not disclosed as agreed) and sign the agency contract later.
RS Automation Co., Ltd., as a specialist in the automation industry, has been providing smart factory solution, PLC, Motion controller and other automation products to over 500 customers for 30 years. At the show, the company introduced "MMC-EtherCAT", a real-time motion controller based on network which supports various motion profile and functions. It is able to control up to 64 axes of Servo drives and 5,440 points of I/Os at every 1 msec in position loop. The company conducted 14 successful consultations and the managing director stated "Due to COVID-19, global supply chain has collapsed and manufacturers are still having hard time getting the components as required. In this case, our products can be an ideal alternative because we can provide products that show high performance at reasonable price and deliver them in a timely manner." He added, "We are willing to provide samples and actively engage in technical support and training for customers in North America."
Taeha Co., Ltd., a manufacturer specializing in liquid dispensing systems and facilities to various industries such as electronics, automotive, pharmaceuticals, machinery, semiconductor in the world. The company featured various pneumatic dispensing valves and "PRO CAN PUMP" facilities that boast accuracy and precision and essential accessories for the facility such as cartridges, barrels and needles. Taeha Co., Ltd. was one of the companies that received the most attention from the visitors on site. The manager from Taeha Co., Ltd. stated "We had 40 meaningful meetings at the show, and we expect to have sales worth $700,000. In addition to this, we have already accomplished one of our main goals of participating in AUTOMATE 2023 : to enter Mexican market. We met 'ERAT', Mexican manufacturer of automation equipment, and discussed technology exchange and cooperation for mutual benefit."
Twinny Co., Ltd., is a company which develops and supplies autonomous mobile robots for warehouse order picking and factory automation. At AUTOMATE 2023, the company introduced "Nargo Order picking", an autonomous mobile robot that performs advanced autonomous driving technology to resolve the strenuous labor of searching for goods. Twinny's advanced technology enables autonomous driving in broad indoor and outdoor environments such as factories and distribution centers without additional infrastructure and structural change. It is also possible fto interconnect any WMS(warehouse management system) . According to the sales manager from the company, it had meetings with 10 companies including logistics service providers in North America and computer manufacturers in Taiwan, and the consultations taken place on site are worth approximately $700,000.
UND Co., Ltd. is a venture company that was awarded as 'Robot Company of the Year' in Korea in 2022 and as a 'Super Gap Start-up 1000+' by Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups. It is also well-known for commercializing "Magbot", the world's first fully wireless robot automatic tool changer which received UR+ certification from 'Universal Robots'. The company's robot automatic tool changer and the ultra-power-saving robot magnetic gripper successfully captured the attention of many leading companies from all over the world : it had meetings with 'Ford', 'General Motor', 'Utec', 'Thyssenkrupp', 'Yushin America', 'Kawassaki USA', 'Gimatic', 'Effecto', 'Mindman', 'Techman Robot', etc., to count a few. The CEO, Chul-Soo Lee, stated that the company will proceed 15 PoC(Proof of Concept)s in the second half of 2023, and is expected to achieve sales worth more than $1 million in 2024 and $5 million in 2025.
Throughout the exhibition, the Korea Pavilion along with 9 Korean companies witnessed an impressive outcome. 181 successful consultations worth $5 million took place at AUTOMATE 2023. An official from the Korea Association of Robot Industry(KAR) expressed enthusiasm about the huge response received from North American buyers who demonstrated keen interests in Korean robot companies. The official viewed Korean companies' participation in AUTOMATE 2023 as a significant milestone towards successful entry into the North American market. Furthermore, KAR pledged to continue supporting Korean robot companies in their pursuit of opportunities in North America, with plans to expand participation at renowned exhibitions as well as to host export promotion activities in the coming days.
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DELPHI, Ind. — The family of Liberty German is speaking out after the announcement of Richard M. Allen being charged in the Delphi killings.
Allen is facing two counts of murder in the killings of German and Abigail Williams in February 2017.
When asked if he had anything to say to Allen, German's grandfather, Mike Patty, had a short response.
"No, I'll save that for when I see him face to face," Mike Patty said.
Patty mentioned that law enforcement had always said the killer could be living among the people of Delphi.
Patty said their attention now turns to the trial.
"It was kinda bittersweet. I just know that there's another job, another hill for us to climb ahead of us. But we're up for the challenge, and we're gonna keep after it. We're not gonna stop," Patty said.
The family said Allen actually processed some of the photos for the family of the crime scene. The family said Allen did not charge them for the photos when they went in to the CVS to collect them.
Allen was taken to the White County Jail and is being held without bond.
Allen's pretrial conference is scheduled for Jan. 13 and his trial is initially set for March 20. He has pleaded not guilty.
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Joe Palca is a science correspondent for NPR. Since joining NPR in 1992, Palca has covered a range of science topics — everything from biomedical research to astronomy. He is currently focused on the eponymous series, "Joe's Big Idea." Stories in the series explore the minds and motivations of scientists and inventors. Palca is also the founder of NPR Scicommers – A science communication collective.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Dad’s Old Fashioned Lemonade Stand has been an Iowa State Fair staple for 70 years. But they may have served their last cold beverage.
A letter sent to the vendor cites contract violations as the reason for the termination. Following an audit from the Iowa Department of Revenue, the stand was accused of underreporting sales—an allegation that the owner denies.
"We have a lot of friends that come, we have a lot of employees. The fruit guys, the ice people...we give a lot away. I don't know if that was included or how that happened," Owner Diane Perry said.
The letter from fair officials says that "Although the discrepancies discovered by the Iowa Department of Revenue have been addressed for 2022, the Iowa State Fair cannot in good faith offer a continuation of previous one-year contracts."
Perry feels that the explanation doesn't tell the whole story.
"We don't have those great big concession trailers, and it's just a family-run business, and I don't think we made enough money for them," she said.
Dad's Old-Fashioned Lemonade has no plans to change the fair's mind. For now, they're more focused on remembering all the fair visitors who made their 70 years so special.
"They're going to miss us and I'm going to miss them. We've made lifelong friends out there," Perry said.
The Iowa State Fair said in a statement:
"The Iowa Department of Revenue made the Fair aware of fraud taking place during the 2022 Iowa State Fair by concessions operators and in response will not be offering them a future contract to do business."
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NEW YORK, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest research from PA Consulting (PA), the global company bringing ingenuity to life, highlights tensions around Artificial Intelligence (AI). The first of PA's "Taking the Pulse" survey series – which explores the impact of disruptive technologies on life in the United States – found that 64% of US respondents believe AI will create new problems for the world, while nearly half (46%) of Americans said that AI will make their life easier.
Highlights include:
Two in three people within the US (69%) are scared by AI, and 72% expressed that they don't know enough about AI to trust the technology, leading to far reaching consequences for society.
- US respondents do not trust companies (58%) or the US government (58%) with data that might be used for AI, and are concerned that it might make them more prone to being monitored (65%) or hacked (54%).
- Seven in ten people (71%) agree that AI needs to be better regulated. Most said that they would trust information from an independent US regulator (73%).
Consumers place the blame on the industry for holding back information for their lack of trust in AI.
- Half of the respondents (54%) said the language around AI is too complex to understand.
- Six in 10 (65%) said that companies care more about protecting the AI and holding back information on how the tech works than being transparent with customers.
- As a result, only 35% of respondents were willing to share their data with businesses developing AI.
Yet despite fears and apprehension, consumers are willing to use AI across different parts of their life if the benefits are clear (55%). Companies creating and utilizing AI technology must be better at explaining the benefits of their product or service to potential users. For instance:
- US consumers are open to using AI for their personal health if it provides them with more accurate diagnoses (61%) or personalized treatment plans (52%).
- Respondents said they would be open to AI if it improved access to goods/services globally (50%), made products cheaper than hand-made goods (47%), or provided them with personalized financial advice (43%).
- Half of US consumers would be happy for AI to take over the parts of the job they don't enjoy (50%) and feel it can help them focus on more meaningful parts areas of their role (48%).
- Technology (39%) and healthcare (34%) companies are the most trusted industries to develop AI that consumers would use, so partnering with them on new innovations would improve perceptions.
The research leads to three main takeaways for US leaders:
- The use of AI by companies will become increasingly inevitable as AI provides a means to gain competitive advantage and increased value creation through higher productivity, efficiency, and the ability to generate new insights and curated experiences. As companies make the move to increase adoption of AI, businesses need to ensure that the ability to provide transparent, ethical, and bias-fee AI solutions become integrated with the purpose and values of a company. We need to treat the provision of transparent and trusted AI as a core capability, just like we do with financial and operational discipline. Our survey illustrates consumers will demand this.
- Governments face a significant challenge in developing regulations that promote fair use of AI without impeding creativity and innovation. As a result, widespread adoption of regulations may take some time. In the interim, businesses must adopt mechanisms that demonstrate fair use of their data and provide transparency about when and how AI is being utilized. Similar to current ESG and sustainability reporting, companies will need AI-type reporting mechanisms that can offer assurance that supports the purpose and values of a business. By providing this transparency, enterprises can build trust with customers, investors, and stakeholders, which can ultimately lead to improved business outcomes.
- Businesses should continuously monitor and improve AI implementations. They should evaluate their AI systems to ensure they are operating as intended and not producing unintended consequences or biases. They should also be open to feedback from customers and incorporate that feedback into future AI development and improvement. Companies should foster a culture of AI accountability for the ethical use of AI, with clear ownership and responsibility for ensuring that AI is used fairly, transparently, and responsibly – this will reinforce the use of AI in the purpose and values of a business, leading to increased customer loyalty and trust.
Scott Schlesinger, US Data and Analytics Lead at PA Consulting, said: "Our US AI survey respondents said they were more likely to accept AI as a positive, helpful tool if companies made it clear how AI is being adopted within their businesses and how their data is being used to support this. Once lost, consumer trust is extremely hard to restore. US companies using AI must make efforts to protect, sustain, and implement ethical behavioral governance, and enhance trust in AI as a critical corporate asset. Leaders must design AI solutions that are easy to understand and implement for the average US consumer, with increased focus on transparency and trust."
Methodology
This "Taking the Pulse" research was conducted by PA Consulting as part of an online survey. The study was conducted in the US between March 3, 2023 – March 14, 2023, and surveyed 2,000 nationally representative respondents according to age, gender, region, ethnicity, and employment status. Respondents who took part were specifically signed up to the panel to take part in research projects like this.
About PA Consulting
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As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defense and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
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CHICAGO, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
SUMMARY NOTICE OF (I) PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND
PROPOSED SETTLEMENT; (II) SETTLEMENT FAIRNESS HEARING;
AND (III) MOTION FOR AN AWARD OF ATTORNEYS' FEES
AND REIMBURSEMENT OF LITIGATION EXPENSES
TO: All persons and entities who, during the period from February 22, 2017, through April 30, 2019, inclusive, purchased or otherwise acquired Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc. ("Atlas") common stock, and/or Atlas 6.625% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2022, and/or publicly traded call options on Atlas common stock, and/or wrote publicly traded put options on Atlas common stock, and were damaged thereby (the "Settlement Class"):
PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT PENDING IN THIS COURT.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and an Order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, that the above-captioned litigation (the "Action") has been certified as a class action on behalf of the Settlement Class, except for certain persons and entities who are excluded from the Settlement Class by definition as set forth in the full printed Notice of (I) Pendency of Class Action, Certification of Settlement Class, and Proposed Settlement; (II) Settlement Fairness Hearing; and (III) Motion for an Award of Attorneys' Fees and Reimbursement of Litigation Expenses (the "Notice").
YOU ARE ALSO NOTIFIED that Lead Plaintiffs in the Action have reached a proposed settlement of the Action for $5,000,000 in cash (the "Settlement"), that, if approved, will resolve all claims in the Action.
A telephonic hearing will be held on September 6, 2023 at 10:00 a.m., before the Honorable Franklin U. Valderrama, District Court Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, to determine (i) whether the proposed Settlement should be approved as fair, reasonable, and adequate; (ii) whether the Action should be dismissed with prejudice, and the Releases specified and described in the Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement dated November 28, 2022 (and in the Notice) should be granted; (iii) whether the proposed Plan of Allocation should be approved as fair and reasonable; and (iv) whether Lead Counsel's application for an award of attorneys' fees and reimbursement of expenses should be approved. The call-in number is (888) 808-6929, and the access code is 5348076. Persons granted remote access to proceedings are reminded of the general prohibition against photographing, recording, and rebroadcasting of court proceedings. Violation of these prohibitions may result in sanctions, including removal of court-issued media credentials, restricted entry to future hearings, denial of entry to future hearings, or any other sanctions deemed necessary by the Court.
If you are a member of the Settlement Class, your rights may be affected by the pending Action and the Settlement, and you may be entitled to share in the Settlement Fund. If you have not yet received the Notice and Claim Form, you may obtain copies of these documents by contacting the Claims Administrator at Atlas Financial Securities Settlement, c/o Epiq, P.O. Box 5386, Portland, OR 97228-5386, 1-855-891-4364. Copies of the Notice and Claim Form can also be downloaded from the website maintained by the Claims Administrator, www.AtlasFinancialSecuritiesSettlement.com.
If you are a member of the Settlement Class, in order to be eligible to receive a payment under the proposed Settlement, you must submit a Claim Form postmarked no later than October 10, 2023. If you are a Settlement Class Member and do not submit a proper Claim Form, you will not be eligible to share in the distribution of the net proceeds of the Settlement, but you will nevertheless be bound by any judgments or orders entered by the Court in the Action.
If you are a member of the Settlement Class and wish to exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you must submit a request for exclusion such that it is received no later than August 16, 2023, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Notice. If you properly exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you will not be bound by any judgments or orders entered by the Court in the Action and you will not be eligible to share in the proceeds of the Settlement.
Any objections to the proposed Settlement, the proposed Plan of Allocation, or Lead Counsel's motion for attorneys' fees and reimbursement of expenses, must be filed with the Court and delivered to Lead Counsel and Defendants' Counsel such that they are received no later than August 16, 2023, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Notice.
Please do not contact the Court, the Clerk's office, Atlas, or its counsel regarding this notice. All questions about this notice, the proposed Settlement, or your eligibility to participate in the Settlement should be directed to Lead Counsel or the Claims Administrator.
Requests for the Notice and Claim Form should be made to:
Atlas Financial Securities Settlement
c/o Epiq
P.O. Box 5386
Portland, OR 97228-5386
855-891-4364
www.AtlasFinancialSecuritiesSettlement.com
Inquiries, other than requests for the Notice and Claim Form, should be made to Lead Counsel:
GLANCY PRONGAY & MURRAY LLP
Kara M. Wolke, Esq.
1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100
Los Angeles, CA 90067
(888) 773-9224
settlements@glancylaw.com
By Order of the Court
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Which dining chair is best?
Whether it’s for everyday dining or elaborate special occasion meals, sitting in your dining room should be a pleasure. While the company around the table is most important, the dining chairs they sit in matter, too.
For an elegant look in a very comfortable chair, try the Agastya Tufted Parsons Chair. This set of two chairs adds a classic touch with tufted backs and gracefully curved tops.
What to know before you buy a dining chair
How many chairs do you need?
Most people buy dining chairs based on the number of people they have, but it’s important to think about the available space around the table, too. For a comfortable dining experience, plan on 24-30 inches of space per person when seated.
This translates into:
- Four chairs for a 48-inch round or square table
- Six chairs for a round or square 60-inch table or 72-inch rectangular or oval table
- Eight chairs for a 72-inch round or square table or a 96-inch rectangular or oval table
- 10 chairs for a 120-inch rectangular or oval table
Chair type
Whether your style is fun and funky or clean and classic, the type of dining chair you select should reflect that. Consider the following styles.
- Armchairs: Armchairs are formal options that are usually placed at the ends of the table. These are also good for people who struggle to stand up when seated.
- Side chairs: Side chairs are more casual and compact. For this reason, they are often on the sides of the table and work better in dining rooms with less space.
- Parsons chairs: This type of chair resembles a side chair but is slightly more formal. They’re often tailored and upholstered with a curving back.
- Benches: Benches are a great option for seating more people than individual chairs would allow. They are casual and appropriate in less formal dining rooms.
Material
Further customize the look of your dining room by considering which chair material you’d like.
- Wood: Wood is a common and durable material that can be simple or intricate. These may also come with an upholstered cushion or accents on the back of the chair.
- Metal: For an industrial look at home, choose metal. These are easy to store and often stack, plus they are lightweight and easy to keep clean.
- Wicker: Natural materials are woven together to create a chair that works well in bohemian or rustic dining rooms.
- Fabric upholstery: Upholstered chairs are a good choice for formal dining rooms in households without children. They are more able to be personalized than other options, but they are harder to keep clean.
- Plastic: Plastic chairs come in a wide variety of styles and colors. They are lightweight and easy to clean and store. This is the best option for homes with small children.
What to look for in a quality dining chair
Floor protection
Simple rubber stoppers on the bottom of each chair leg protect your floors from scratches and damage. These also prevent the chairs from skidding.
Easy-care fabric and materials
Even upholstered chairs are available in easy-care fabrics that are treated for stain resistance. This is important if you like the look of a fabric chair but don’t want to spend a lot of time maintaining them.
Easy storage
If you purchase extra chairs for large gatherings, they must be easy to store when the party’s over. Stackable chairs are perfect for compact spaces.
Slipcovers
Slipcovers let you change the look of your dining room in a flash. The best slipcovers are machine washable and offer protection for the fabric underneath. Some slipcovers are also available for metal, wood and plastic chairs.
How much you can expect to spend on a dining chair
The price varies dramatically depending on the number of chairs you purchase, the materials used and the overall quality. Expect to spend $35-$300 per chair.
Dining chair FAQ
What are some tips for selecting dining room chairs that match the decor?
A. The most important factor when selecting dining room chairs is to make sure you have room for them. Measure your dining room and dining room table first.
To find the best dining room chairs for your decor:
- Coordinate the shape of the chair with the shape of the table. Square or rectangular tables look great when surrounded by chairs with square or rectangular backs.
- Customize your cushions to match the colors of your walls and table accessories.
- Change the look of your dining room with slipcovers.
- Consider neutral colors if you prefer that your tablescape gets all of the attention.
Do you have to buy a matching set of table and chairs?
A. No. If your decorating style is more eclectic, choosing different chairs and coordinating the color of the chair or the pattern of the cushion can pull the look together.
What’s the best dining chair to buy?
Top dining chair
What you need to know: These chairs bring an elegant, comfortable touch to the dining room.
What you’ll love: The rolled tops and tufted buttons are graceful and fit a variety of decorating styles. They come in a set of two and are available in one additional color. The legs have plastic glides to prevent scratching the floor, and they easily assemble. These hold up to 260 pounds.
What you should consider: These cannot be stacked, and they are only able to be spot-cleaned.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Top dining chair for the money
FDW Store Tolix Side Metal Kitchen Trattoria Chairs
What you need to know: The clean lines of these chairs are modernist and classic.
What you’ll love: If you prefer the clean lines of a stool, the backs are removable. They are steel, stackable and sturdy. These sets of four chairs come in nine colors. Nonslip rubber feet keep them in place and protect your floors.
What you should consider: You’ll need to add cushions if you want a more comfortable seat.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: They have the mid-century modern style and look of leather in an easy-care faux material.
What you’ll love: Assembly is easy. The legs are paintable and can be customized to your decor. Nonslip rubber leg pads protect floors. They hold up to 250 pounds. They come in sets of two or four chairs.
What you should consider: Because the chairs are not actual leather, they wear more quickly and puncture easily.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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OSSEO, Wis., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- North American Specialty Laminations ("NASL") announces new brand logo and corporate positioning of, Source Cut Industries and SourceCut West (formerly Haida Industries), and all future acquisitions, as NASL to the building materials marketplace.
"In support of our vision as the North American leader in differentiated lamination solutions to the building products industry, our new brand mark and tagline "We've got you covered", helps to convey our mission to consistently challenge the status quo, in the development of value-added products and business solutions to meet the evolving needs of our customers," states Doug Rende, CEO, NASL. We are pleased to be working with Ganton in our repositioning efforts, as their extensive industry branding and market knowledge has already delivered significant impact. "The NASL brand mark's essence, it's look and feel, represented by complex shapes, facets and metallic colorways suggests their vast capability to handle virtually any lamination challenge." Brian Ganton, Jr., Principal.
In what has historically been a highly fragmented industry segment, NASL is committed to being the single source solution to their customers lamination and fabrication needs. The NASL brand promise is supported by continuing acquisition and greenfield investments expanding our manufacturing footprint, with unique lamination capabilities enabled by over twenty years' experience in serving the door, window, cabinets, case goods and furniture markets, said Zach Wiedenhoeft, COO NASL. These factors, coupled with the breadth of color and design options applied to vinyl, wood, composites, and aluminum substrates, delivers enhanced margin opportunities for our customers, while creating significant efficiencies in inventory management, transportation, and labor. In addition, the NASL Equity Appreciation Program creates an ownership focus for all team members in the delivery of quality and timely service to our customers.
North American Specialty Laminations ("NASL") is a profile wrapping, and specialty manufacturing company serving the Window, Door, Cabinet, Furniture and Architectural Millwork industries. With headquarters in Osseo, WI and production locations serving all U.S. and Canadian regions, NASL is a portfolio company of the Boston based private equity investment firm Building Industry Partners ("BIP").
Building Industry Partners ("BIP") is the leading private equity investment firm focused on the U.S. building industry. Founded by Matt Ogden in 2008, BIP is headquartered in Boston, with partners across the U.S. The firm is led by Matt and Partners Pat Mascia, Pete Robinson, and Stu Kliman and supported by the firm's Operating Partners. BIP invests its Partners' own capital, as well as that of a number of strategic, like-minded investors, including business leaders and family offices affiliated with the U.S. building industry.
In 2020, BIP redefined its purpose: Build exceptional and enduring businesses, generate world class investment returns, and contribute to elevating the building industry and its workforce through people-focused investment & business principles. Accordingly, BIP is committed to elevating the employee value proposition at its portfolio companies. This will include introducing broad-based employee ownership and supporting programs across future BIP investments in order to better align the interests of shareholders, management, and the broader workforce, to help elevate workforce prosperity and accelerate collective performance and equity value creation. Further, in 2021, BIP established its Center of Excellence, which will support BIP portfolio companies in developing and implementing best practices, foremost in Human Capital Management, in support of the firm's redefined purpose.
BIP remains firmly grounded in its core fundamental investment principles: Unwavering integrity, a people-first approach to business, alignment of long-term interests with partners, respect for the advantages of local, independent, entrepreneurial businesses, deep sector focus, the power of relationships, and a prudent approach to macro, business, and financial risk.
Over the past decade, BIP is proud to have been part of building some of the fastest-growing and most dynamic businesses in the middle-market U.S. building industry: U.S. LBM Holdings, Kodiak Building Partners, United Cabinet Holdings, Rugby Architectural Building Products, Homewood Holdings, and U.S. Fence Solutions Co / Binford Supply. BIP continues to seek opportunities to sponsor the building industry's greatest talent in building exceptional businesses and realizing their entrepreneurial visions.
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IRVINE, Calif., March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Motor Corporation (Alpha) announced today that the company is set for global introduction of its California-based Move Humanity® brand by debuting its new Wolf Plus (4-Seater) pure electric truck at this year's Seoul Mobility Show, the largest mobility exhibition in Korea.
Alpha will be live streaming its world premiere at the Seoul Mobility Show on March 29, 2023 beginning 8:30pm Pacific Standard Time at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuUUnIMlErI.
Visitors to the Seoul Mobility Show are welcome to Alpha's exhibition at the KINTEX Exhibition Center 1, Hall 4.
"Around 331,000 electric vehicles are projected to sell in Korea by 2027, which is nearly 24% of total new car sales last year. The Carbon Neutrality Bill to reduce 40 percent of Korea's greenhouse gas by 2050 went into effect on March 25, 2022. Korea is a world leader in innovation for ESG and an ally in Alpha's vision to Move Humanity® towards a greener economy. It is our pleasure to take part in the 2023 Seoul Mobility Show and present Alpha's mobility solutions including the highly anticipated Wolf and Wolf Plus electric trucks," said Alpha Motor Corporation.
Alpha will also have on display its CAMP, cross-industry collaborations which envision a sustainable mobility lifestyle that has never been seen before – until now. The CAMP features CAKE, HEIMPLANET, Free & Easy, DMOS Collective, Recaro Automotive, Equipt Expedition Outfitters, Kc Lights, Black Rhino Wheels, KMC Wheels, Onyx Coffee Lab, Shawmut Corporation, Spinneybeck, And Rolling Stone Korea.
About Wolf Plus Electric Truck
The Alpha Wolf Plus puts an additional emphasis on utility, while preserving the persona of Alpha's revolutionary Wolf Plus electric truck. The multipurpose Wolf Plus is built for utility and adventure. It has an extended cabin that accommodates four passengers, with access provided through two full-size doors for the driver and front passenger, and two three-quarter size doors that hinge backwards for open rear seat occupancy.
Wolf Plus vehicle dimensions measure approximately 5,287mm (208in) in length, 1900mm (75in) in width, and 1765mm (69in) in height. The truck bed measures approximately 1652mm (65in) in length, 1490mm (59in) in width, and 450mm (18in) in depth for a total of 40 cubic feet of truck bed storage.
About Alpha Motor Corporation
Alpha Motor Corporation (Alpha) is an award-winning American automobile company focused on manufacturing mobility solutions that Move Humanity®. We innovate sustainable transportation for the wellness of people and our environment by implementing advanced automotive technologies and disruptive industrial practices. Based in Irvine, California, Alpha is committed to creating the kinds of electric vehicles we believe the world has always wanted to see but that have not existed – until now.
About Seoul Mobility Show
The Seoul Mobility Show is a biannual international event and is the only automobile exhibition in Korea accredited by the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers. The first show was held in 1995.
Please contact pr@alphamotorinc.com for more information.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) —
Officials from Poland and the European Union on Monday discussed artillery munitions manufacturing as part of a new, 2 billion euro ($2.2 billion) program to supply Ukraine in its war against invading Russian forces and to replenish Europe’s dwindling stocks.
EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton visited DEZAMET S.A. munition plant in Nowa Deba, in southeast Poland, accompanied by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.
The visit came just days after Brussels announced a program to reimburse countries offering artillery ammunition to Ukraine from a 1 billion euro ($1.1 billion) fund. The program also aims to spend an equal amount on increasing production in 11 countries with such manufacturing capacity.
Breton said the EU is “determined” to quickly do what is needed in light of a conflict that’s expected to drag on. He also encouraged other EU countries to transfer ammunition to Ukraine as soon as possible.
Morawiecki said munitions are what’s most urgent needed by Ukraine’s armed forces with Kyiv slated to receive a million rounds later this year.
He said Ukraine uses up to 6,000 artillery shells daily as opposed to Russian forces which use 50,000 rounds of various types of ammunition per day.
The officials said Europe needs to urgently increase its ammunition output and urged EU member states to transfer their existing stocks to Ukraine.
The visit came as Russian forces continued to shell areas in Ukraine’s partially occupied eastern Donetsk region, killing and injuring civilians.
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New York-based CX company, Horatio is honored as "Company of the Year - Business or Professional Services - Medium-size" in this year's prestigious International Business Awards®
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Horatio, the customer service outsourcing company behind viral e-commerce, fintech, and celebrity-backed brands, has been named one of 2022's silver STEVIE® award winners. The cutting-edge CX firm has been honored as the International Business Award® winner in the "Company of the Year - Business or Professional Services - Medium Size" category.
The International Business Awards are the world's premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small - are eligible to submit nominations. The 2022 IBAs received entries from organizations in 67 nations and territories. More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including the category, Company of the Year, in which Horatio won.
"It is rewarding to be among such a distinguished group and to be recognized as Company of the Year for this year's International Business Awards®," said Horatio CEO Jose Herrera. "We have always prided ourselves in building the best CX teams for our clients, and we are so proud that every member of Horatio has helped us to get to this point in our journey."
Horatio's Chief Financial Officer, Jared Karson noted "Congratulations to all the fellow winners in this year's STEVIE® Awards. This award is a culmination of the incredible work that our talented staff does to support our clients. We are honored to be included in such an esteemed list and thankful that the International Business Awards® has recognized this exciting time in Customer Experience."
Horatio was founded in 2018 by three former Columbia Business School classmates, CEO Jose Herrera, COO Alex Ross and CFO Jared Karson. Horatio's business has grown fourfold from 2021 to 2022. In 2021, they opened a new office in the Dominican Republic and expanded their offices in New York City Horatio serves next-generation digitally native clients in a variety of sectors including ecommerce, healthtech, technology, hospitality, fintech, and cryptocurrency.
Horatio and the rest of the 2022 International Business Award® winners will be celebrated during a gala banquet at the InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel, in London, England, on Saturday October 15th, 2022. This will be the first live IBA awards ceremony since 2019.
For more information please visit www.hirehoratio.com or follow @HireHoratio or @HireHoratiord.
About Horatio:
Horatio is the trusted partner for some of the fastest-growing startups and enterprises in the world. Their on-brand customer support teams help them leverage CX as a revenue generator through personalized customer experience support. As seen on INC, Forbes, and Bloomberg, and the recipient of the 2022 Customer Contact Week Next Generation Leaders Award. Horatio is headquartered in New York City with main offshore offices located in Santo Domingo and Santiago, Dominican Republic. For more information please visit www.hirehoratio.com.
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carly@wildflowerpr.co
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street.
The 62-year-old rapper, born Nathaniel Glover, was found guilty of manslaughter last month for the death of John Jolly, who was stabbed twice in the chest with a steak knife in midtown Manhattan in August 2017.
Prosecutors accused Glover of stabbing Jolly after becoming enraged because he thought Jolly was gay and was hitting on him. After stabbing Jolly, who was 55, Glover headed to his workplace nearby, changed his clothes and washed the knife, prosecutors said. Glover was arrested the following day.
“Mr. Jolly’s death was devastating to his family and those who knew him,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a news release after the sentencing. “Every life we lose to violent crime ripples throughout our entire city, and we will continue to ensure everyone in our borough can live their lives with the sense of safety and security they deserve.”
The New York Times reportsthat Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Michele Rodney appeared to take issue with arguments made by Glover’s lawyer, Scottie Celestin, who said during the trial that Glover had felt threatened in part because Jolly was homeless.
“A life is a life is a life,” Rodney said, adding as she sentenced Glover that the killing was not “somehow justified because the person is homeless.”
Celestin said he would appeal the conviction.
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five formed in the late 1970s in the Bronx. The group’s best-known song is “The Message” from 1982. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, the first rap group to be included.
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TORONTO (AP) — Days after being blindsided by the PGA Tour’s partnership with Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund, Rory McIlroy put himself in position for a run at a third straight Canadian Open title.
McIlroy, the strongest voice against Saudi-funded LIV Golf who said Wednesday he feels like a “sacrificial lamb,” shot a 6-under 66 on Saturday at tree-lined Oakdale, leaving him two strokes behind leader C.T. Pan.
The four-time major champion from Northern Ireland won in 2019 in at Hamilton, then — after the event was canceled for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic — won last year in Toronto at St. George’s amid a flurry of LIV Golf controversy. He was asked if it meant a bit more again — with the news Tuesday.
“Look, I would love to win the Canadian Open for the third time. I’ve never won a tournament three times in a row,” McIlroy said. “I felt like last year the win wasn’t just for me it was for a few other things. But this one, this year, if I were able to get over the line, will be solely for me.”
Pan, from Taiwan, birdied the final two holes for a 66 to get to 14-under 202. The 31-year-old former University of Washington player won the 2019 RBC Heritage for his lone PGA Tour title.
“It’s always cool to see my name on the top of the leaderboard,” Pan said. “Not just leaderboards, just to be in contention. That’s all I want to do before the tournament started. Finished birdie-birdie. That put me in a good spot. But I still got a lot of work to do.”
Ranked third, McIlroy is chasing his 32nd worldwide victory a week before the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club.
“For whatever reason I seem to play better when there’s a little bit of noise going in the world of golf,” McIlroy said. “It’s really nice to get inside the ropes and just concentrate on my job at the end of the day, which is trying to get the ball around the golf course.”
McIlroy birdied Nos. 11, 12 and 13, then parred the last five.
“The putter went a little cold on me over those last five holes,” McIlroy said. “But overall, it’s great to put myself in with a shot tomorrow. There’s a lot of people up there around the lead, so it’s going to be a fun day.”
Englishmen Tommy Fleetwood (64) and Justin Rose (66) — McIlroy’s European Ryder Cup teammates — also were two strokes back at 12 under along with Mark Hubbard (66), Harry Higgs (67) and Andrew Novak (67).
Nick Taylor was the top Canadian, shooting a course-record 63 on the composite layout at the historic 27-hole facility to get to 11 under. He’s trying to become the first Canadian winner since Pat Fletcher in 1954.
Aaron Rai also was 11 under after a 69. Canadian Corey Conners was another stroke back after a 70.
Second-round leader Carl Yuan of China had a 74 to drop into a tie for 16th at 7 under.
Former top-ranked amateur Ludvig Aberg, the Swede who starred at Texas Tech, was tied for 33rd at 4 under after a 71 in his pro debut.
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The Navy has issued letters of censure to three Marine and two Navy officers in connection with the sinking of an amphibious assault vehicle off the Southern California coast in 2020.
The mishap killed eight Marines and a sailor. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro faults the officers for what he calls "inadequate leadership and execution of their oversight duties."
Censure letters are put in service members' personnel files and are often career-ending for military officers, usually preventing them from further promotion or other progress. A Marine Corps investigation cited inadequate training, shabby maintenance and poor judgment by leaders.
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RAMPAL, Bangladesh (AP) — Fish, rice, mangrove trees and the lush delta wetlands where the massive Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers drain into the Bay of Bengal.
It’s not luxury. But for the farmers and fishermen who live by the world’s largest mangrove forest, it’s more than enough. Now, the environment is at risk.
A power plant will start burning coal near the Sundarbans this year as part of Bangladesh’s plan to meet its energy needs and improve living standards, officials say. Home to 168 million people, Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Once the power plant begins functioning at its full capacity, it will generate 1,320 megawatts of power, as much as Bangladesh’s largest coal power plant generates now.
The developing world needs its people to live better. But fossil fuel-powered economic growth can create environmental problems and make lives worse.
Popularly called the Rampal coal power plant, the Maitree Super Thermal Power Project will burn some 4.7 million tons of coal annually, emitting about 15 million tons of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases. Plus, some 12,000 tons of coal will be shipped by boat through the Sundarbans each day, prompting fears of water pollution.
Low-lying Bangladesh is already hit by tropical cyclones and rising seas and millions are at risk of being displaced by flooding and other extreme weather. Just two weeks ago, 24 people died, 20,000 people were marooned, 10,000 people lost their homes and 15,000 acres of crops were destroyed by the tropical cyclone Sitrang.
“If it turns out bad, we will have to sell our properties and migrate,” farmer Luftar Rahman said.
Top scientists say there can be no new fossil fuel projects if the world is going to limit warming to the 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) temperature goal set in the Paris Agreement. Even though it is among the lowest-emitting nations in the world, Bangladesh has pledged to reduce its overall emissions by 22% by 2030. The building of this coal spewing power plant is likely to hinder the nation’s efforts to reduce its emissions.
But in October, around 80% of the country suffered a blackout for seven hours as a result of the country’s power grid collapsing. Such blackouts and long power cuts, sometimes for as long as 10 hours a day, affect businesses including the garment industry, which accounts for 80% of exports. Bangladesh is the world’s second-largest garment exporter, after China.
“We are desperately waiting to start generating power at Rampal. This plant will definitely help ease our energy woes,”said Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, an energy advisor to the Bangladesh Prime Minister.
Bangladesh wants poor nations to receive funds to help adapt to the devastating effects of a warmer world. Until May of this year, Bangladesh was the chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a partnership of countries highly vulnerable to warming. With much of its land at or just below sea level, the country has already suffered heavy flooding and erratic rainfall. A World Bank report estimated that Bangladesh could suffer $570 million in damage annually from climate change-related extreme weather events.
In June, Bangladesh stopped running diesel power plants because of rising fuel prices. Bangladesh has two active coal-powered plants, and some experts say another isn’t needed.
“We need to be investing in power transmission and distribution systems. That would be much more beneficial for the country at this moment,” said Khondaker Golam Moazzem of the Dhaka-based economic think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue
The country also has cleaner resources at home.
“Bangladesh has huge potential for natural gas. Onshore and offshore exploration and production of gas resources can be a better option compared to coal,” said Dhaka-based economist and environmental activist Anu Mohammad.
And renewable energy already powers millions of Bangladeshi homes.
“Bangladesh has actually got one of the fastest growing solar home systems,” said Saleemul Huq, director of the Dhaka-based International Centre for Climate Change and Development. “Another option is offshore wind power. With the latest technologies available, it is conceivable that wind power generated in the Bay of Bengal can provide for the needs of not only Bangladesh but also for regions in neighbouring India as well as Myanmar.”
The Rampal coal mine will be funded by the governments of Bangladesh and India. The Sundarbans was chosen because of available water and navigation facilities, officials said. The coal for the power plant will come from India as well.
The Sundarbans, “beautiful forest” in Bengali, evolved over millennia out of the Indian subcontinent’s mighty rivers. The Ganga, Brahmaputra, and Meghna dump rich sediments that they collect over thousands of miles from the Himalayas to the Indian ocean.
“The mangrove forests are a natural barrier to the ill effects of climate change and if they are affected, then the 10 million people who live in this coastal delta region will also suffer,” Mohammad, the Dhaka-based economist and environmental activist, said. “There are many alternatives to power generation. But there is no alternative to the Sundarbans.”
Mangrove forests are more effective than terrestrial forests at sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
“During my grandfather’s time, all the rice we needed was harvested from our land. There was enough rice and fish for everyone,” said 60-year-old Abul Kalam, who has lived his entire life in the Sundarbans. “If this power plant comes up, there will be no fish in our region. How can we grow crops when they dump toxic wastewater here?”
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Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat as hajj reaches apex
Mount Arafat, Saudi Arabia — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Friday, an intense day of worship considered to be the climax of the annual hajj.
Multitudes stood shoulder to shoulder, feet to feet, for the emotional day of supplication in the desert valley where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad delivered his final sermon, calling for equality and unity among Muslims.
The experience sent many pilgrims to tears. Muslims believe prayer on this day at Mount Arafat, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the holy city of Mecca, is their best chance at salvation and spiritual renewal. The pilgrims set out for Arafat before dawn, chanting as they trekked. They remained until nightfall in deep contemplation and worship.
“I feel I am so close to God,” said Zakaria Mohammad, an Egyptian pilgrim praying as the sky brightened over the hilltop. “He gave me such joy. This is my feeling now — joy, great joy.”
Men wore unstitched sheets of white cloth resembling a shroud, while women wore conservative dress and headscarves, their faces exposed.
The hajj is a once-in-a-lifetime duty for all Muslims physically and financially able to make the journey, which takes the faithful along a path traversed by the Prophet Muhammad some 1,400 years ago.
“God brought me here,” said Khadije Isaac, who traveled to Mount Arafat from Nigeria, her voice clipped with emotion. “I cannot describe the happiness that I have.”
Strict pandemic limits had upended the event for the past two years, effectively canceling one of the world’s biggest and most diverse gatherings and devastating many pious Muslims who had waited a lifetime to make the journey. This year's pilgrimage marks the largest since the virus struck, although the attendance by 1 million worshippers remains less than half of the pre-pandemic influx.
All pilgrims selected to perform the hajj this year are under age 65 and have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Pilgrims spend five days carrying out a set of rituals associated with the Prophet Muhammad and the prophets Ibrahim and Ismail, or Abraham and Ishmael in the Bible, before him. The rituals began on Thursday with the circling of the Kaaba, the black cube in the center of Mecca’s Grand Mosque, which Muslims around the world face during their daily prayers wherever they are in the world.
Around sunset on Friday, the pilgrims marched or were bused 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) west to the rocky desert of Muzdalifa, where they combed the area for pebbles to carry out the symbolic stoning of the devil. That rite will take place on Saturday in the small village of Mina, where Muslims believe the devil tried to talk Ibrahim out of submitting to God’s will. Pilgrims stone the devil to signify overcoming temptation.
The ritual is a notorious chokepoint for surging crowds. In 2016, thousands of pilgrims were crushed to death in a gruesome stampede. Saudi authorities never offered a final death toll.
In their most noticeable effort to improve access, the Saudis have built a high-speed rail link to ferry masses between holy sites. Pilgrims enter through special electronic gates. Tens of thousands of police officers are out in force to protect the areas and control crowds.
With so many people from so many places crammed together, public health is a major concern. Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry urged pilgrims to consider wearing masks to curb the spread of coronavirus, although the government lifted a mask mandate and other virus precautions last month.
Infections have increased steadily in the kingdom in recent months. There were no signs of social distancing in Friday's mass procession.
With the hajj a major source of prestige and tourism for Saudi Arabia, the government is keen to do away with pandemic restrictions. Saudi Health Minister Fahad al-Jalajel told state-owned Al-Arabiya TV that authorities had not recorded an “outbreak” of the virus at the hajj, without elaborating on individual cases. He said he expected authorities to expand quotas for pilgrims next year.
The ministry also advised pilgrims to drink water and be aware of the signs of heat stroke in the desert, where temperatures can exceed 40 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit).
Once the hajj is over, men are expected to shave their heads, and women to snip a lock of hair in a sign of renewal.
Around the world, Muslims will mark the end of the pilgrimage with Eid al-Adha, or Festival of Sacrifice. The holiday commemorates the prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail at God’s request. Muslims traditionally slaughter sheep and cattle, dividing the meat among the needy, friends and relatives.
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Illegal fishing is the planet's 6th largest crime and poses incredible risks to the preservation and health of ocean ecosystems
LISBON, Portugal and BRAMPTON, ON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - MDA Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, announced today at the 2022 UN Ocean Conference a major new contribution to international efforts to monitor, track and intercept illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities using satellite technology.
MDA is providing Global Fishing Watch (GFW) – an international non-governmental organization committed to advancing the sustainability of our oceans through increased transparency – with access to the company's RADARSAT-2 satellite radar archive. The RADARSAT-2 archive represents a 14-year historical record of the Earth and includes more than 970,000 images, including over 26 billion square kilometers of oceanic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. GFW intends to utilize the archive to map IUU fishing patterns using science-based analytics that will be used by international policymakers, conservationists and researchers to more effectively fight these illegal practices.
According to the United Nations, IUU fishing is the planet's 6th largest crime, with 20% of the over 90 million tonnes of fish caught globally each year being captured illegally – at an estimated cost of US$23.5 billion annually.
"MDA believes in using space-based technology to make life better on Earth, and we're proud to play a leading role in helping Global Fishing Watch and nations around the world stop the unacceptable level of illegal fishing activities that take place every single day and put our ocean ecosystems and economies at serious risk," said Mike Greenley, Chief Executive Officer of MDA. "Seeing is believing, and our RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery, combined with MDA's expertise in maritime domain awareness and analytics, creates a powerful, complete and compelling visual record backed by scientific insight of what is happening on the world's oceans."
"Global Fishing Watch is revealing human activity in the ocean and making it freely available to the world. MDA's RADARSAT-2 satellite imagery, combined with our AI and datasets, has the potential to revolutionize understanding of the marine environment by shining a light on hidden and suspicious fishing activity," said Tony Long, Chief Executive Officer of Global Fishing Watch. "We applaud MDA's ground-breaking contribution to ocean management and are excited to harness their imagery to help rein in the outlaw ocean and bring greater transparency to what happens at sea."
MDA is active every day in the fight against IUU, providing near real-time monitoring of fishing activity to nations through the MDA Maritime Insights platform. The company has worked with Canadian and international fisheries agencies for years to provide actionable maritime intelligence data that addresses dark vessel detection and supports maritime enforcement initiatives.
Canada has the longest coastline in the world, and strategic investments by the federal government have enabled Canada, working with MDA, to become an early leader in using space-based technology to survey and support the health of the ocean ecosystems. These capabilities are being fully harnessed today through the utilization of our RADARSAT-2 satellite – which can image more than 250,000 km2 of the ocean in less than a minute, regardless of weather conditions and the time of day or night – and through associated products like MDA's Maritime Insights platform, which is helping nations around the world better understand what is happening on their coastlines.
Serving the world from its Canadian home and global offices, MDA (TSX: MDA) is an international space mission partner and a robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. With over 2,400 staff across Canada, the US and the UK, MDA is leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more. With a track record of making space ambitions come true, MDA enables highly skilled people to continually push boundaries, tackle big challenges, and imagine solutions that inspire and endure to change the world for the better, on the ground and in the stars.
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Can’t Get There From Here: Closed Highways, Roads Shut in Casper
- Casper Police declared a snow day.
- Common sense would tell you to stay put.
- That 5-foot snowdrift in front of you garage would tell you to stay put, too.
- Schools, government offices and most businesses and non-profits are shut down.
- Natrona County Sheriff's Office, in partnership with local and state authorities, just issued a "no travel necessary" advisory for the entire county.
"With the current weather conditions, most local roads are impassable both in town and in the county," the Sheriff's Office says.
Monday, April 3, in the Year of Our Lord 2023, in Casper set the record for the biggest one-day snowfall with 26.7 inches, breaking the record 24.3 Inches on Dec. 24, 1982.
And there's more to come today, according to the Riverton office of the National Weather Service, which forecasts another 3 inches to 5 inches, coupled with widespread blowing snow, a high near 22, and an east northeast wind of 17 mph to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 32 mph.
None of that matters in a practical way because every road in and out of Casper is shut down, according to the the Wyoming Department of Transportation:
Interstate 25, which overlaps with U.S. Highway 87, is closed from Cheyenne through Casper to Buffalo.
U.S. Highway 20, which overlaps with U.S. Highway 26 and further south to I-25, is closed from Cody through Thermopolis to Shoshoni through Casper through Douglas to Lusk. (Okay, part of the highway from Cody to Thermopolis is open, but WYDOT warns of falling rock, like that's gonna give anyone any comfort.)
Wyoming Highway 220 -- which starts in Casper as CY Avenue -- is closed west from Casper through Alcova to Muddy Gap.
Wyoming Highway 251 -- also known as Casper Mountain Road -- is closed from Wyoming Boulevard South south to where it ends on the mountain.
That doesn't matter anyway, because Wyoming Boulevard -- also know as Outer Drive/Wyoming Highway 258 -- is closed from Mills to Evansville.
So stay put, because you don't have a choice.
Well, maybe you think you do, but you still won't get very far.
And please stay safe, because our first responders already have enough on their hands.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST) between December 13, 2019 and November 14, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important February 10, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Twist securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Twist class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10241 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 10, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts, about Twist's business and operations. Specifically, as alleged in the November 15, 2022 Scorpion Capital report, defendants overstated the commercial viability of Twist's synthetic DNA manufacturing technology while engaging in accounting fraud and using unsustainable pricing to inflate the company's true financial condition and prospects. As a result of defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the significant decline in the market value of Twist's common stock, members of the Class have suffered significant damages.
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LONDON (AP) — King Charles III rode on horseback Saturday to take part in his first Trooping the Color ceremony as U.K. monarch, inspecting hundreds of soldiers and horses in a spectacular annual military display at central London’s Horse Guards Parade.
Charles, 74, the colonel in chief, received the royal salute and watched as the most prestigious regiments in the U.K. army paraded to mark his official birthday.
It was the first time in more than 30 years that a U.K. monarch has taken part in the pomp-filled ceremony on horseback.
Earlier, Charles’ eldest son, Prince William, and the king’s siblings, Prince Edward and Princess Anne, also rode on horseback in procession from Buckingham Palace. All the royals were dressed in red and gold tunics and tall black bearskin hats, matching the uniforms worn by many of the 1,400 soldiers taking part.
Others in the royal family, including Queen Camilla, Kate, the Princess of Wales, and her three young children, rode in horse-drawn carriages as thousands of people thronged the Mall, the grand avenue outside Buckingham Palace, to watch the pageantry.
Here are some things to know about the colorful spectacle:
Trooping the Color is essentially a grand birthday parade to honor the reigning monarch. The annual ceremony is a tradition that dates back more than 260 years.
Huge crowds turn out each June to watch the display, which begins with a procession involving horses, musicians and hundreds of soldiers in ceremonial uniform from Buckingham Palace. The monarch then inspects their troops, including both foot guards and horse guards. Gun salutes and a crowd-pleasing military flyby over the palace typically round out the celebrations.
Charles’ actual birthday is Nov. 14, 1948. But U.K. monarchs have traditionally celebrate two birthdays — their real one and an official one — to ensure that public celebrations can take place in warm summer weather.
Charles’ late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, always held the Trooping the Color birthday parade in June, while she celebrated her actual April birthday privately with family.
The central part of the parade features a battle flag — or the “Color” — being displayed and marched past troops and the monarch.
This is a ceremonial reenactment of the way regimental flags were once displayed for soldiers on the battlefield to provide a crucial rallying point if they became disoriented or separated from their unit.
The flags were traditionally described as “Colors” because they displayed the uniform colors and insignia worn by soldiers of different units.
A different flag is trooped each year. This year the “Color” was the King’s Color of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards.
Saturday was the first time a monarch has ridden on horseback at the event since Elizabeth did so in 1986.
The queen rode her favorite horse, called Burmese, to 18 Trooping the Color ceremonies until the black mare retired in 1986. After that she decided to use a carriage for the event instead.
Charles also rode on horseback for the spectacle last year, when as heir to the throne he inspected the troops on behalf of his mother. Elizabeth died last September at the age of 96.
The birthday parade typically reaches its climax when, at the end of the military procession, the royal family lines up on Buckingham Palace’s balcony to watch a spectacular flyby.
The Royal Air Force’s aerobatic team, the Red Arrows, usually wows the crowds as they fly in formation leaving plumes of red, white and blue vapor trails.
This year, the flyby was even more impressive, because a similar display on Charles’ coronation day in May had to be scaled back because of bad weather. Around 70 aircraft took part Saturday, including Spitfire and Hurricane fighters from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
Eighteen Typhoon fighter jets flying in precise formation spelt out “CR” — “Charles Rex” — in the sky as the royal family and thousands of spectators cheered.
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SOUTH JORDAN, Utah and VEENENDAAL, Netherlands, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Experlogix, a leading provider of Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) and Document Automation software, announced today an expansion of its sales team: Mark Conway joined the company as Vice President of Sales for EMEA, and Angie Cox has come on board as Vice President of Sales for North America.
Conway brings to Experlogix over two decades of global experience in the software/IT services industry, managing clients across the US, UK, Europe and Asia. Before joining Experlogix, Conway was Executive Director EMEA at Flintfox since 2019 where he defined and led their sales, marketing, service level management and technical support teams. He has built successful business development teams within the industry with a focus on all things digital and disruptive technology. He has successfully collaborated with C- level client stakeholders on many strategic businesses and IT digital and data transformation deals that have brought forward immense value to client organizations.
"I am honoured and elated to join Experlogix which has built a robust foundation and culture over the years, to deliver a world class CPQ experience to their clients globally," said Conway. "I look forward to collaborating with the leadership team to leverage their rich knowledge coupled with its winning software to drive further value of our clients' digital journey."
Cox brings more than 20 years of sales leadership experience, with an extensive background in building and developing successful business units and teams. She is an expert in building top producing sales teams through strategic account planning, product development, critical partnerships, and tactical coaching. Before joining Experlogix, Cox led the acquisition of a B2B software solution to one of the world's largest software companies.
"I am excited for the opportunity to lead the North America Sales Team as we develop and win new business by continuing to deliver best-in-class CPQ, Document Generation and Document Automation solutions." Cox said. "I look forward to building on the company's strong track record of success."
"The addition of Angie and Mark to our team positions us well for even stronger growth", says Beth Thornton, CRO of Experlogix. "Their depth of combined global experience will accelerate our results and our existing and future talent will be poised for even greater levels of success. I am very pleased with what I am seeing so far."
Experlogix has expanded teams across multiple regions and departments over the last year, resulting in more than 100 new hires from 2021 to 2022 to support an increasingly global customer base. Worldwide, more than 600 organizations leverage Experlogix CPQ and Document Automation software with more than 100,000+ users.
Experlogix solutions simplify and humanize the most complex products and processes to unlock workflow velocity and create a better customer experience. Experlogix CPQ makes configuration and other processes faster than you ever thought possible and simpler than you dared to imagine. Experlogix Document Automation simplifies and optimizes even the most complex document processes for companies worldwide, in any industry. Experlogix — simplifying the complex.
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Bob Henson is a meteorologist and journalist based in Boulder, Colorado. A contributor to Yale Climate Connections, he has written on weather and climate for the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Weather Underground and many freelance venues.
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The tallgrass prairie is an astonishing place to run — rolling hills, bison herds, wildflowers and birds moving along the creeks. We take a run in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas.
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Creighton vs. Princeton: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits - Sweet 16
The No. 6 seed Creighton Bluejays (23-12) and the No. 15 seed Princeton Tigers (23-8) play in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 with a place in the Elite Eight of the South Region bracket up for grabs on Friday at KFC Yum! Center, beginning at 9:00 PM. Creighton is a 10-point favorite in the contest, which airs on TBS. The over/under in the matchup is set at 140.
Creighton vs. Princeton Odds & Info
- Date: Friday, March 24, 2023
- Time: 9:00 PM ET
- TV: TBS
- Where: Louisville, Kentucky
- Venue: KFC Yum! Center
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Creighton vs Princeton Betting Records & Stats
- The Bluejays are 18-17-0 ATS this season.
- This season, Creighton has won 10 of its 12 games, or 83.3%, when favored by at least -524 on the moneyline.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 84% chance of a victory for the Bluejays.
- Princeton has a 17-12-0 record against the spread this year.
- The Tigers have played as an underdog of +400 or more just one time this year and came away with a win in that game.
- Princeton has an implied victory probability of 20% according to the moneyline set by sportsbooks for this matchup.
Creighton vs. Princeton Over/Under Stats
Additional Creighton vs Princeton Insights & Trends
- Creighton has a 6-4 record against the spread while going 6-4 overall in its last 10 contests.
- In their past 10 games, the Bluejays have hit the over six times.
- Princeton has an 8-2 record against the spread while going 8-2 overall over its past 10 contests.
- The Tigers have gone over the total in five of their past 10 outings.
- The Bluejays put up 8.8 more points per game (76.7) than the Tigers give up (67.9).
- Creighton is 13-8 against the spread and 17-6 overall when scoring more than 67.9 points.
- The Tigers score an average of 75.5 points per game, seven more points than the 68.5 the Bluejays give up.
- When it scores more than 68.5 points, Princeton is 9-10 against the spread and 15-6 overall.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When Buffalo Bills trainers Nate Breske and Denny Kellington rushed onto the field following Damar Hamlin’s collapse in January, they stuck to the plan — right down to positioning Hamlin’s teammates to shield the television cameras.
Their quick actions saved Hamlin’s life. Now they’re trying save others.
On Thursday, Breske and Kellington told an athletic trainers convention in Indianapolis that pre-planning and regular practices helped prepare them for a worst-case scenario and they’re urging schools and youth leagues to start creating their own emergency action plans.
“First up, I don’t think anything can prepare you for what we went through in that moment,” Breske said. “It was the first time we had seen it on a live human, but we had practiced it. We had done chest compressions before, we had done things with our paramedics and the other physicians, so we were ready, and everyone knew their role and what needed to happen in that moment.”
The story of what happened has been retold many times over the past six months.
Hamlin, the former University of Pittsburgh star, went from sixth-round draft pick in 2021 to starter last season when veteran Micah Hyde suffered a neck injury in Week 3 and became a household name when he went into cardiac arrest after making a routine tackle during an NFL game at Cincinnati on Jan. 2.
Breske and Kellington helped resuscitate Hamlin with CPR and an automated external defibrillator before an ambulance took Hamlin to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. One week later, he flew home to western New York.
Hamlin was cleared to resume full practices May 31 and is now using his charity, the Chasing M’s Foundation, to distribute AEDs while amplifying the significance of CPR training.
In April, Hamlin’s doctors concluded a hit to the chest caused his heart to stop because of a rare condition — commotio cordis, which occurs when a severe blow to the chest causes the heart to quiver and stop pumping blood efficiently.
He was fortunate because NFL teams invest heavily in medical equipment and staffing.
But in recreation and youth leagues and even high school and middle schools, employing trainers or buying machines such as AEDs can prove unaffordable.
According to the National Athletic Trainers Association, only 37% of America’s public high schools have full access to athletic trainers despite statistics showing 93.4% of sports-related deaths in children are caused by sudden cardiac arrest, exertional heat stroke or exertional sickling, which can occur in people who carry the sickle cell trait.
Breske, Kellington, Hamlin and others want to change those numbers.
“There needs to be trainers out there,” Kellington said. “I know cost is one thing and communities don’t have the money to do it, but what’s the cost of a life? How can you not have somebody there? If that’s your child and something happens and there’s nobody there to help, how upset would you be just for lack of funding or lack of knowledge?”
State lawmakers also are getting involved.
In 2022, the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation reported 40 states required CPR training for all students before graduation while only 20 states and the District of Columbia required AEDs to be in schools. California also mandates schools with sports teams must have AEDs on school grounds.
Hamlin’s experience put a spotlight on the issue.
Since then, a coalition of the NFL, NBA, NCAA NHL, MLS, Major League Baseball NATA, the American Heart Association and American Red Cross are lobbying to make emergency action plans, CPR and AED education for coaches and clearly marked defibrillators mandatory in all 50 states.
Last week, the Ohio House of Representatives approved legislation that would require AEDs to be available at nearly every school or sports and recreation venue in the state.
And to help defray the costs, the NFL Foundation has pledged $1 million in grant money.
“Teachers have tended to be taught CPR and how to use an AED in 10 minutes,” Breske said. “You don’t have to be certified to do it. It’s awareness of what’s going on, it’s a 9-1-1 call, doing chest compressions and getting the AED in place.”
Without those tools and the trainers’ actions, Hamlin’s return to the playing field might not have been possible, and Breske and Kellington know it.
So they’re mission now is to use their platform to inform, educate and push for changes to make the sports world safer at all levels of competition.
“Throughout these last few months, people ask ‘Don’t you have to be certified to do CPR or to use an AED? That’s not the case,” Kellington said.
“Bystander CPR is a great way to save somebody’s life. And, as I said earlier, the machine tells you what to do. The lack of not doing something is what puts kids in jeopardy. I think we all should take a look around and see what we’re all doing.”
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Arkansas men's basketball Coach Eric Musselman landed the verbal commitment of Cincinnati guard/forward transfer Jeremiah Davenport on Thursday.
He averaged 9.1 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game this season. Davenport, who hasn't visited Fayetteville, entered the transfer portal April 6.
Davenport started 15 of 36 games, averaged 25.6 minutes as a senior and scored in double figures 13 times.
He shot 35.1% from the field, 33% beyond the three-point line and 83% at the free-throw line.
Davenport, 6-7 and 215 pounds, finished with 1,060 points in his Cincinnati career and ranks 49th in school history in scoring. He started all 32 games as a junior and was received All-American Athletic Conference recognition prior to the 2021-22 season.
He was second on the team in scoring at 13.4 points per game, and he led the team in rebounding (5.5) and three-point percentage (35.9%).
His 83 three-pointers were the most by a Bearcat since All-America guard Sean Kilpatrick in 2014. He had career highs of 24 points against Temple and Tulsa as a junior.
Davenport shot 34.7% on three-point attempts and started 61 of 109 games in four seasons as a Bearcat.
A Cincinnati native, he averaged 16.5 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.1 steals while shooting 42% from three-point range at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia before signing with Cincinnati.
He signed with Wright State out of Moeller High School in Cincinnati, but asked for a release from his national letter of intent to attend prep school.
Davenport, who has one year of eligibility left, is the fourth transfer to commit to Arkansas. Washington guard Kenyon Menifield, Houston wing Tramon Mark and Temple guard Khalif Battle have also pledged to the Razorbacks.
On3.com rates Battle as the No. 10 player in the NCAA transfer portal. It also has Menifield at No. 31, Mark at No. 49 and Davenport at No. 128.
The recruiting service rates Arkansas' transfer class No. 1 nationally.
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Takeoff, a member of the rap trio Migos, was fatally shot early Tuesday at a Houston bowling alley, according to reports.
TMZ was first to report the news and Rolling Stone later confirmed. Police have not officially confirmed the victim's identity.
Takeoff, whose legal name is Kirshnik Khari Ball, was 28 years old.
Houston Police said that one person was fatally shot near a bowling alley. That person, police said, was dead when police arrived. Two others were wounded and taken to the hospital in private vehicles.
TMZ reported that fellow Migos member Quavo was with Takeoff playing dice when the shooting occurred. Quavo reportedly asked for someone to get help as he stayed next to Takeoff. Quavo is Takeoff's uncle.
Police told KHOU-TV that a party attended by Quavo and Takeoff had ended at 1 a.m., but continued past 2 a.m. The outlet reported that security guards were on hand and heard the gunshots, but did not see who fired the shots.
Photos from the incident were widely circulated throughout the internet on Tuesday, causing anger among fans.
Migos won several major awards, including a 2018 BET Award for Best Duo/Group. The group has released four studio albums, including two that were platinum and topped the charts.
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LOS ANGELES, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Valhalla Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, today announced its debut $66M flagship fund to invest in audacious innovators challenging the status quo across deeptech and gaming. The firm is committed to supporting entrepreneurs who are unafraid to question consensus views and push the boundaries of science and engineering.
Valhalla Ventures prides itself on being a daring early-stage investor, focusing on technologies and ideas years before they enter the mainstream. Valhalla's inaugural $66M fund will primarily focus on investments in seed-stage companies across deeptech (areas of interest include materials science, biology, energy generation/storage, and space technology) and gaming (targeting novel and underfunded gaming mediums with an emphasis on social experiences).
"Capital is scarce right now, especially for first time funds like us, so we're honored to be backed by some of the world's best founders, family offices, executives, and corporations," says Devan Malhotra, general partner, who leads Valhalla's gaming practice. "We want to bring venture back to its original promise, when Georges Doriot and the early investors in Silicon Valley worked hand-in-hand with the world's boldest and zaniest entrepreneurs to solve the world's hardest problems. The VC industry has lost its way. Too many funds spray and pray into 'tier 1' led deals while spending more time tweeting and fundraising than working with portfolio companies. We want to tack left, building a concentrated portfolio across non-traditional areas – gaming and deeptech – and working boots on the ground with the engineers, creatives, and scientists that are building a brighter future."
Valhalla's Fund I has been actively deploying since early 2022 taking 15 core positions to date, and will continue to make new investments until early 2025. On the deeptech side, Terran Biosciences and Avery Digital are each in their own way redefining what it means to be a biotechnology company, while Irradiant Technologies is revolutionizing the field of nanofabrication. In the realm of gaming, Incredible Dream is using board games to build the next billion-dollar IP franchise, while 1v1Me is building a platform for gamers to compete and bet on their favorite streamers.
"At Valhalla Ventures, we back relentless entrepreneurs tackling obvious problems with non-obvious solutions that challenge the bounds of science and engineering," says Rohan Pujara, general partner, who leads Valhalla's deeptech investments. "If you look at the biggest problems we face today, they are not solved by incrementally better software, but rather by breakthroughs in physical technology. We're looking for businesses built around critical technology with captive markets, hinging on best-in-class engineering, execution, and scale-up."
The Valhalla team is closely tracking the booming ecosystem of deeptech companies forming around SpaceX. "SpaceX has created a new generation of engineers that approach problems in a very unique way, with emphasis on questioning assumptions, simplifying processes, rapid execution, and automation. SpaceX is constantly working on things that have never been done before, and this has made it a breeding ground for technical entrepreneurs that want to solve impossible problems," says Pujara, who recently led Valhalla's investments in two companies founded by ex-SpaceX engineers, K2 Space, which is building high-powered satellite platforms for the next generation of space development, and Starpath Robotics, which aims to refuel vehicles like SpaceX's Starship on the lunar surface.
"Bunch welcomed Valhalla Ventures to our team during our latest round. They quickly became one of our most insightful and helpful partners, making valuable connections to strategic partners and key players in the media and entertainment industry. They carry a strong conviction and demonstrate a deep understanding of our market. Any founder would be lucky to have them in their corner," says Selcuk Atli, founder of Bunch, which is building a mobile digital world where gamers talk, share, and play together.
Valhalla Ventures was founded in 2020 by Devan Malhotra, Matthew King, and Rohan Pujara. Prior to raising Fund I, Valhalla invested $27M via SPVs in eight companies across deeptech, gaming, and blockchain.
About Valhalla Ventures
Valhalla Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests across deeptech and gaming. Founded in 2020, the firm is dedicated to supporting heretics who are audacious enough to challenge consensus and redefine the frontiers of science and engineering. Follow Valhalla Ventures at @hello_valhalla. For more information, please visit valhalla.ventures.
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In an attempt to solve the opioid crisis, New Jersey officials are going after fentanyl manufacturers and distributors.
State lawmakers are one step closer to enacting harsher penalties for fentanyl-related crimes after the state Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that opponents have compared to “tough on crime bills,” which historically have led to the disproportionate arrests of low-income residents and people of color.
Currently, it’s a second-degree crime in New Jersey to manufacture, distribute, give out, or possess more than an ounce of fentanyl with intent to give out or sell. It’s a third-degree crime if the offense involves less than an ounce.
The legislation lowers the threshold for a second-degree crime from an ounce to five to 10 grams of fentanyl. A second-degree offense is punishable by up to five to ten years in prison and a fine of up to $150,000.
“Current law does not reflect the danger that fentanyl and fentanyl mixtures pose to our communities. This legislation would lower the threshold amounts of those substances it takes to establish a crime from the ounce-level to the gram-level,” Sen. Paul Lagana, D-Bergen, said in a statement after Tuesday’s Senate session.
Lagana is one of the bill’s primary sponsors in the Senate.
Harm reduction advocates oppose the move saying it will unfairly target drug users who they say need treatment, not incarceration.
“There are evidence-based public health proposals that can better ensure that we’re reducing overdose deaths and keeping people safe,” said Ami Kachalia, a campaign strategist for the ACLU-NJ. “That’s things like harm reduction and access to health care and housing and other opportunities and not more criminalization.”
The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 32-0. Eight Democrats did not vote on the measure, including Sen. Nellie Pou, D-Passaic, who voted against the measure when it came before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February.
“I’m not easy on crime. That’s what everybody might want to say, but I’m not ready to lock the key on someone that ought to be given the opportunity to get the help they need,” Pou said at the time.
Committee hearings over the issue were at times tense and marked by impassioned testimony from harm reduction advocates.
“Lawmakers can say that this bill will not harm people struggling with their drug use, but the bill language says otherwise,” Jenna Mellor, executive director of the New Jersey Harm Reduction Coalition, said in a statement. “The proposal is so broad sweeping that, if we were talking about alcohol, someone carrying a six-pack could be arrested and charged as if they operated a brewery. The bill not only doubles down on punishments that we know are ineffective, but it’s based on assumptions that are out of step with the realities of the drug supply and experiences of people who use drugs. “
The bill also makes an offense involving more than 10 grams of fentanyl a first-degree crime, punishable by up to 10 to 20 years in prison. A third-degree crime, which is already punishable by up to three to five years in prison, could also land someone a fine of up to $75,000 under the legislation.
The General Assembly will still need to pass the measure before it can head to Governor Murphy’s desk for enactment.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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HIGH WIND WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
118 PM CST Mon Nov 28 2022
...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/
TUESDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 40 to 50 mph with gusts up to 65 mph today.
West winds 50 to 60 mph with gusts up to 85 mph Tuesday.
* WHERE...Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains.
* WHEN...Until 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile
vehicles. Severe turbulence near the mountains will be
hazardous for low flying light aircraft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People should avoid being outside in forested areas and around
trees and branches. If possible, remain in the lower levels of
your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Use caution if
you must drive.
...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 7 PM CST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 35 to 45 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Davis Mountains above 5500 feet.
* WHEN...From 9 AM to 7 PM CST Tuesday.
vehicles.
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM CST /8 AM MST/ TO 7 PM CST
/6 PM MST/ TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
* WHERE...In New Mexico, Eddy County Plains. In Texas, Eastern
Culberson County, and Davis Mountains Foothills.
* WHEN...From 9 AM CST /8 AM MST/ to 7 PM CST /6 PM MST/ Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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SINGAPORE, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading global derivatives exchange - Bitget, today announced the appointment of Gracy Chen as Managing Director, who will lead Bitget's growth strategies as the platform accelerates its global expansion plan. She will also be elevating Bitget's voice and presence in the broader crypto ecosystem and assisting the brand to further flourish under her leadership.
With presence in over 50 countries around the world, Bitget has been growing at an unprecedented pace. Earlier this year, Bitget announced its derivatives trading volume reached an all-time high of $8.69 billion, representing a 300% growth when compared to the previous year.
Commenting on Chen's appointment, CEO of Bitget, Sandra Lou said, "We are extremely pleased to have a seasoned professional like Gracy to join us, and look forward to leveraging her expertise in the space to further strengthen our growth strategies across international markets."
Having witnessed the tremendous growth at Bitget since its launch in 2018, and most recently ranking top five globally by CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko for derivatives trading by volume, Chen was inspired to rejoin the Fin-tech industry and devote her full attention to the crypto space. Chen joins Bitget having held executive roles at XRSPACE, a VR technology company headquartered in Taipei. Gracy oversaw and led the marketing and business development functions, as well as government and public relations in the region.
"It is an exciting time to join a crypto platform that is leading the growth in global derivatives trading. I have always been an avid investor in crypto and related ventures. I am elated to be joining an organisation full of driven and intelligent individuals, and to guide Bitget to chart even higher growths as the portal that transcends Web2 and Web3, connecting CeFi and DeFi, resulting in an expansive bridge to the vast web of crypto." said, Gracy Chen.
Chen was named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum in 2015. A graduate of the National University of Singapore, Chen will also be pursuing an MBA degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
About Bitget
Established in 2018, Bitget is currently serving over two million users in more than 50 countries around the world, Bitget accelerated its mission to promote decentralised finance in 2021 with a 500-strong workforce spanning over 20 countries.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SK Growth Opportunities Corporation (NASDAQ: SKGRU) (the "Company") today announced that, commencing August 15, 2022, holders of the units sold in the Company's initial public offering of units (the "Units"), completed on June 28, 2022, may elect to separately trade the Class A ordinary shares and warrants comprising the Units. Those Units not separated will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Global Market (the "Nasdaq") under the symbol "SKGRU," and the Class A ordinary shares and warrants that are separated will trade on the Nasdaq under the symbols "SKGR" and "SKGRW," respectively. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the Units and only whole warrants will trade. Holders of Units will need to have their brokers contact Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the Company's transfer agent, in order to separate the Units into Class A ordinary shares and warrants.
The Units were initially offered by the Company in an underwritten offering. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. acted as sole book-running manager for the offering. A registration statement relating to the Units and the underlying securities was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on June 23, 2022.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities of the Company, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
The offering was made only by means of a prospectus, copies of which may be obtained for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies of the prospectus may be obtained for free from Deutsche Bank Securities Inc, Attn: Prospectus Department, One Columbus Circle, New York, New York 10019, telephone: 800-503-4611
About SK Growth Opportunities Corporation
SK Growth Opportunities Corporation is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. SK Growth Opportunities Corporation may pursue an initial business combination opportunity in any industry or geographical location.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may include "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this press release are forward-looking statements. When used in this press release, words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend" and similar expressions, as they relate to us or our management team, identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of management, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, the Company's management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors detailed in the Company's filings with the SEC. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are qualified in their entirety by this paragraph. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of the Company's registration statement and prospectus relating to the Company's initial public offering filed with the SEC. Copies are available on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as required by law.
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The phenomenon of Stranger Things
In the summer of 2016, the world turned upside down. On July 15, Netflix released a peculiar little show starring a cast of unknown kids and a couple of celebrities who got their start in the ‘80s. The show was called “Stranger Things,” and it was set in 1983.
With a predominantly younger cast and a plethora of nostalgic touchstones, the series immediately appealed to a broad range of demographics. The intriguing story, infused with equal parts sci-fi, horror and heart, quickly made “Stranger Things” a global phenomenon.
The most recent season debuted on Netflix over Memorial Day weekend. Nearly six full years since the first season, the show is more popular than ever, affecting fans’ taste in everything from music to fashion.
How film and TV affect fashion
The stories told in film and television have always depicted characters the audiences have always related to. Some characters represent potential, while others represent a reminder. Fans often emulate the characters they love as a way to empower their own life. The easiest way to step into the role of someone you admire is to adopt their fashion choices. Countless films, including “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Saturday Night Fever,” “Flashdance,” “Beetlejuice,” “Clueless” and more, have inspired fashion trends. Now, “Stranger Things” is in the spotlight as it nostalgizes the ‘80s and encourages fans to bring the fashions of yesterday to the forefront.
Key character fashions from Stranger Things
The ‘80s had a lot of different types of fashion. While everyone in the series wore their nostalgia well, these four characters had iconic ensembles that captured the decade flawlessly.
Karen Wheeler
While the third season had Mike’s mom hanging out at the pool wearing large plastic baubles and colorful one-piece bathing suits, in season four, she sported the classic ‘80s fit look with a tracksuit and headband.
Eddie Munson
The new addition to the team this season has been a long-haired, scene-stealing Dungeon Master named Eddie Munson. He’s got that classic “bad boy” look from the ‘80s: denim jacket, T-shirt and pants with ripped knees.
Dustin Henderson
If there’s a trademark accessory for Dustin, it’s his baseball cap. Beyond that, he represents a casual side of Hawkins. Throughout the series, Dustin wears comfortable outfits that revolve around t-shirts, shorts and knee-high socks. He often looks like he just stepped off the bus from summer camp in the ‘80s.
Nancy Wheeler
Nancy puts her own spin on intelligent fashion. She’s preppy, but in a subdued way, with softer colors and a style that reveals her maturity. She always seems to dress a little older than her years. Nancy takes the ‘80s concept of pretty and gives it a backbone of authority and respect with her classic, sensible outfits.
Popular ‘80s fashion pieces
Motique Neon Green Scrunchie (Two-Pack)
If you like Max Mayfield’s taste in clothing from the third season, you need a scrunchie. This neon green offering is a perfect match. The soft and stretchy material is gentle on your hair. If neon green isn’t your favorite, there are 37 other color options from which to choose. Sold by Amazon
ISMV Two-Piece Retro Workout Outfit
Karen Wheeler was always one step away from a workout in season four. This two-piece outfit lets you get into her groove. It includes high-waist running shorts and a seamless yoga sports bra. The retro styling will make you feel like it’s the ‘80s all over again. Sold by Amazon
QiShang Moisture Wicking Workout Headband
You might not work out hard enough to sweat, but at least you’ll look great doing it. These soft, elastic headbands come in five colors and won’t slip or cause irritation while wearing. Sold by Amazon
It’s impossible to have a complete ‘80s workout experience if you don’t include leg warmers. This pair from Satinior is made from elastic fibers and comes in an eye-catching neon rainbow color. The versatile design lets you pull the leg warmers up to your thigh or gather them below your knee. If you prefer, you can also get these in green, pink or black. Sold by Amazon
Yisfri Women’s Two-Piece Tracksuit Set
In the ‘80s, polyester tracksuits weren’t for working out but were for casual fashion. This brightly colored, pink and blue outfit will let you fit right in at the skating rink. It features a short-sleeve, zippered jacket with an elastic gathered waistband and side pockets. Sold by Amazon
Levi’s Men’s Denim Trucker Jacket
There’s a fantasy role-playing campaign tonight and an open spot for you to join, but only if you have the right outfit. Granted, you may have to rip the sleeves off to make Eddie Munson happy, but for any other occasion, this denim jacket is perfect as is. Sold by Amazon
Satinior Women’s Stretchy Belts
If you want to hang with Nancy, you need the right belt. But why stop at one. This collection of five vintage cinch belts comes in red, black, camel, blue and beige, so you have one for every outfit. The retro chunky buckle will draw attention to your waist, and the elastic fit means you will always be comfortable and stylish. Sold by Amazon
Lunnte Silicone Shoulder Pads for Women’s Clothing
Don’t have any retro clothing in your closet? All you really need is a pair of shoulder pads. These anti-slip shoulder push-up pads will instantly transport any top back to the ‘80s. There are two sets of pads in this offering, transparent and skin tone, so you can wear them with a wide variety of tops. These silicone pads conform to the shoulder so they won’t fall off. After wearing, just toss them in the wash so you can use them again. Sold by Amazon
In the third season of “Stranger Things,” El rocked those bright blue suspenders. And she was unstoppable. Wearing brightly colored suspenders might not actually give you superpowers, but they will make you look like a superhero. These suspenders have a strong adjustable clip and a “Y” design. They look stylish, feel comfortable and come in 52 colors so that you can find the perfect match for your inner El. Sold by Amazon
Deckra Men’s Varsity Letterman Jackets
Jocks were big in the ‘80s. Sometimes they were heroes, other times, they were villains. However, no matter what role they played, they always dressed the same. This varsity letterman jacket is made with genuine cowhide leather and features a button closure. The polyester quilted lining will keep you warm all season long. Sold by Amazon
CX.Azul Hawkins Middle School AV Club Pullover
If you want to be where all the cool kids are, join the AV Club. Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will and Max were all members of the Hawkins Middle School AV Club. With this loose-fitting pullover, you can proudly proclaim your affiliation as well. This comfortable hoodie is available in a variety of colors and sizes. Sold by Amazon
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Online Course Highlights Eight Main Competencies For Success
ARLINGTON, Texas, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ancora Training is now offering Soft Skills For Success, a professional development course to help individuals develop skills essential to positive workplace interactions. The course is housed in a Learning Management System and its content, curriculum, examples, and materials use simulations and exercises from real-world scenarios that employees may encounter in their career.
"Leaders leverage soft skills to motivate and inspire teams, driving company growth. We adopt a holistic approach when evaluating individuals, recognizing that while technical expertise is crucial, excellent communication and management abilities can distinguish one from others," said Andrea Snow, Senior Vice President of Academics & Career Services at Ancora Education. "This course is designed to bridge the gap and enhance these vital skills to foster empowerment and productivity."
According to Indeed, an individual who masters soft skills is most likely able to maintain relationships, grow their personal network, display confidence, develop leadership skills, and have an established professional reputation.
"Soft skills are foundational to any successful work environment, whether in the office, on the warehouse floor, or on the road," said Natalie Williams, Vice President of Client Operations at Ancora Training. "Ancora's course teaches the techniques that build and strengthen working relationships, regardless of the setting. Our client partners are very excited about this offering, and more than a dozen are already leveraging the course to provide professional development opportunities for their workforce."
The Soft Skills For Success program emphasizes eight main competencies, which include:
- Teamwork & Collaboration - Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively with others in a team setting through shared responsibility, empathy, and respect.
- Problem solving - Exercise sound reasoning to analyze issues, synthesize information, make decisions, and solve problems.
- Organizational skills - The ability to take initiative and maintain effective work habits.
- Communication - Articulate thoughts and express ideas effectively using oral, written, visual, and non-verbal communication skills.
- Digital Savvy - Maximize new and emerging technologies in order to work, learn and live in a digital society.
- Dependability - How to demonstrate integrity, resilience, accountability, and ethical behavior.
- Stress Management - The ability to manage emotions and have integrity in difficult situations
About Ancora Training
Ancora Training™, a division of Ancora®, offers CDL and other customizable training solutions for corporate, community college, and government agency partners. Ancora Training provides solutions that include courses in transportation, technology, skilled and professional trades, and allied health. Ancora Training is proud to work with partners like Amazon, Tarrant County, Texas, and more than 30 community colleges across the country. Learn more on how Ancora Training is driving careers forward at www.ancora.com.
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(NewsNation) — Over the past several weeks, multiple inmates have escaped across the country.
In Florence, Alabama, a jailhouse romance triggered a nationwide manhunt starting April 29 for escaped inmate Casey White and the corrections officer who helped break the capital murder suspect out of jail, Vicky White. U.S. marshals later tracked down the couple, finding them in Indiana. Casey White was captured, and Vicky White died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
On May 12, Gonzalo Lopez, an inmate with ties to the Mexican mafia, escaped a prison transport bus in Texas after stabbing a guard. While on the run, Lopez would go on to kill five members of the same family before eventually being shot and killed by police.
Now, an inmate out of Ohio remains on the run. Investigators say he and four others broke out of the STAR Community Justice Center in Franklin Furnace, Ohio, on Saturday. The sheriff said the inmates escaped by cutting a whole in the fence using a bolt cutter, most likely thrown over a fence by one of the inmate’s fiances. Four of the inmates have been captured. Authorities are still searching for Thomas Charles Comberger. Anyone who spots him is urged to call 911.
How do the escapes keep happening, and what can be done to prevent them? One sheriff says the answer is simple: Hire more guards and make sure they follow the rules.
Lauderdale County, Alabama Sheriff Rick Singleton’s jail was at the center of the nationwide manhunt for escaped inmate Casey White and corrections Officer Vicky White. He joined NewsNation Prime to comment on the jailbreak in Ohio and doesn’t think the escapee has gone far in this case.
“I think it’s [escapes have] always been happening. In our case, the fact that we had an inmate who was awaiting trial for capital murder made it somewhat unique. The escape in Ohio with low-level drug offenders, based on my experience, they are probably there somewhere close. They’re not going to skip out across the country like ours did,” Singleton said.
Singleton said since the Casey White escape, changes have been made at the Lauderdale County Detention Center.
“We put too much responsibility and authority in one person. Vicky White was the assistant director of operations. She coordinated transport from the facility from A to Z. She was the only link in the chain. We have since changed that,” Singleton said.
“We’ve reviewed our policy. We had a good policy. We had a good protocol. They just weren’t followed. That’s because we put too much authority and responsibility in a single person. We’ve now incorporated better checks and balances.”
How do inmates persaude people to help them escape? Singleton says they have a lot of time to think about different persuasive techniques.
“They’re sitting there all day and they’ve got all day to think of ways to persuade people to help them. Including developing a romantic relationship, that happened in our case,” Singleton said.
According to Singleton, the Lauderdale County Detention Center has 12 openings.
“This is a tough job. They’re underpaid, they’re overworked. It’s not a job that anyone can do. It’s not a job that just anyone wants to stay with. We had a resignation today … Our local fast food restaurants now pay about what we pay an entry level corrections officer — $14.92 an hour,” Singleton said.
“It’s a challenge. It always comes down to funding. It’s always a fight to get your share of the budget that you need.”
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Libra Group subsidiary acquires 1.4 GW pipeline of solar and energy storage projects and adds team of seasoned Canadian developers, increasing GSI's presence to 12 U.S. states and Canada
NEW YORK, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure (GSI), the North American renewable energy subsidiary of Libra Group, has announced the strategic acquisition of the solar and battery development portfolios of Saturn Power, including its team of seasoned developers and an approximate 1.4-gigawatt (GW) pipeline of early to late-stage solar and energy storage projects in five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.
Harnessing the expertise of Saturn Power, a leading developer and operator of renewable energy projects and leader in the emerging battery storage market, the deal allows GSI to substantially bolster its development capabilities, building on over a decade of experience investing, developing, and overseeing the operations of clean energy projects. It also expands GSI's footprint from seven to 12 U.S. states, which will now include New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, as well as Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada.
"We are delighted to welcome members of Saturn Power's expert team to help us develop a stronger renewable energy business capable of transforming communities at pace and at scale," said Chief Executive Officer of GSI Mazen Turk. "With this acquisition, the integration of both management teams will dramatically increase our capabilities in developing efficient, effective, and essential renewable energy projects nationwide. This also represents the next step in our strategic goal to grow our pipeline to the 5 GW mark of clean power by 2029."
The acquired pipeline includes 72 solar projects, 90% community solar projects, and six battery storage projects. The deal also adds skilled energy developers, engineers, and senior leaders, bringing GSI's total headcount to more than 50 employees. GSI plans to direct $200 million of capital investment to bolster its North American operations, including building the acquired pipeline in the coming years.
Community solar projects are designed to democratize the availability of solar power generating capacity among individuals and businesses that have had restricted access to solar energy sources. In 2022, the U.S. Administration announced an initiative to bring community solar to the U.S. as part of the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. GSI's expertise in managing diverse solar projects in different settings will be put to good use with the new community solar portfolio.
"When we founded Saturn Power 16 years ago, our mission was to build an organization that focused on developing a sustainable environment for future generations through the advancement of clean, renewable energy," said Doug Wagner, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Saturn Power. "I am immensely proud of what we have accomplished and am both honored and excited that Saturn will be joining GSI, where we can leverage the experience and expertise of our dedicated team, helping to scale the business to provide more communities with access to renewable energy. By merging our respective teams, we will enhance our development, engineering and construction capabilities, providing a platform for further growth in the years ahead."
GSI is one of four renewable energy subsidiaries of Libra Group, which include a presence in North America, Central America, and Europe. This acquisition takes the overall renewable energy portfolio of Libra Group to 3 GW of projects owned, developed, or pending development in eight countries.
Manos Kouligkas, Chief Executive Officer of Libra Group, stated, "This acquisition is significant, not just for its scale, but for the signal it sends that renewable energy projects continue to be sound financial investments with strong returns and multiple economic, social, and environmental benefits." He continued, "The opportunities provided by community solar projects will not only help the U.S. to achieve its carbon reduction commitments, but will create essential new jobs to serve the green economy. With assets and a pipeline of projects, GSI is positioned to be one of the leading privately owned renewable platforms in the United States."
About Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure
Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure (GSI) (www.greenwoodinfra.com) is one of the renewable energy subsidiaries of Libra Group. GSI is focused on the development, construction and operation of distributed generation and utility-scale solar energy and battery storage projects in North America. As of March 2023, the company developed approximately 178 MW across 43 renewable energy projects, many of which are still owned or operated by GSI, and has an additional project pipeline of approximately 1.6 GW. GSI's seasoned team also has a proven track-record investing in power assets and partnering with multiple top-tiered investors.
About Libra Group
Libra Group is a privately owned, global business group that encompasses 30 operating entities: 20 businesses predominately focused on aviation, renewable energy, maritime, real estate, hospitality, and diversified investments, as well as 10 independently-run social initiatives. With assets and operations in nearly 60 countries, the Group applies the strength of its global network and capabilities to deliver cross-sector insights and growth at scale. Libra's social responsibility programs, housed under Libra Philanthropies, include 10 social initiatives created to address unmet needs and grantmaking that helps people worldwide. For more information, visit www.libra.com.
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Ben@renewpr.com
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PROVO, Utah (AP) — BYU survived another slow start to avoid a potentially damaging loss to an instate rival.
Jaren Hall threw for 273 yards and three touchdowns to help the No. 19 Cougars to a 38-26 victory over Utah State on Thursday night.
Hall, who favored his right shoulder after a late hit near the end of the third quarter, has thrown for at least 250 yards in nine consecutive games. Kody Epps finished with 86 yards and a touchdown on five catches. Christopher Brooks ran for 90 yards and a score on 11 carries.
BYU (4-1) beat Utah State (1-4) for the third straight time in the Battle for the Old Wagon Wheel. It wasn’t an easy task. The Cougars were blindsided early by energetic play by the Aggies on both sides of the ball.
“They were more physical than us. They had more energy than us,” BYU receiver Gunner Romney said. “It seems like they were more motivated to play. But luckily we went back and made some good adjustments at halftime and came out with a little more fire and we were able to get the job done.”
Cooper Legas threw for 188 yards and two touchdowns while adding 54 yards and another score on the ground to lead the Aggies. Legas, who filled in for injured starter Logan Bonner, also threw a pair of interceptions. Calvin Tyler, Jr. added 104 yards on 18 carries.
Bonner is sidelined with a season-ending foot injury, so Legas will be Utah State’s starting quarterback going forward after making his first career start against BYU.
“He’s waited for his opportunity and when it showed up, he did a phenomenal job,” Aggies coach Blake Anderson said. “I’m sure like any quarterback, there’s a couple of plays he’d love to have back. But, man, he gave us a chance to win.”
The Aggies lost their fourth straight game and fell to 6-65 against Top 25 teams.
Utah State took a 7-0 lead after Legas capped the Aggies’ opening drive with a 7-yard run. Things were on the verge of unraveling for Utah State after that early score.
BYU covered 65 yards in two plays — a 34 yard catch by Romney and 31-yard catch-and-run by Keanu Hill — to even the score. Then, Max Tooley reeled in a tipped pass from Legas and returned it 32 yards to give the Cougars their first lead at 14-7.
Utah State bounced back and shut down BYU’s offense after its initial drive. The Cougars went three-and-out on three consecutive possessions, opening the door for the Aggies to retake a 17-14 lead on a 14-yard catch by Brian Cobbs. BYU lost a total of nine yards on those three drives.
The Cougars found some life on offense again in the third quarter. Ethan Erickson snagged a high pass for a go-ahead 14-yard score to cap off BYU’s opening second-half drive. Then, on the Cougars’ next drive, Kody Epps caught three straight passes — culminating in an 8-yard score that extended BYU’s lead to 31-20.
BYU averaged 9.0 yards on 22 third quarter plays after totaling only 107 yards on 19 plays during the first half.
“We just came out with intent to keep the energy up and come out full speed, taking shots and trying to move the ball, get things rolling for our offense and help our defense,” Epps said. “When we make plays on offense, it helps our defense. Everything starts to mesh and fall together. That was the biggest thing.”
The Cougars finally got their running game going in the fourth quarter. Brooks scored on an 18-yard run to cap off six straight running plays and give BYU a 38-20 lead.
THE TAKEAWAY
Utah State: Turnovers continued to be a problem for the Aggies. An interception return gave BYU its first lead early in the first quarter while a red zone fumble only a few seconds into the second quarter killed a potential scoring drive.
BYU: The Cougars’ running game woes resurfaced in the first half. BYU did not gain positive yardage on a running play until late in the second quarter and tallied minus-21 rushing yards before halftime. It was the fewest rushing yards in a half for BYU since tallying minus-28 rushing yards against Marshall in the second half of the 1999 Motor City Bowl.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
BYU could move up in the AP Top 25 after winning its second straight game.
UP NEXT
Utah State: Hosts Air Force on Oct. 8.
BYU: Plays Notre Dame in Las Vegas on Oct. 8.
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So far, IU basketball's offense is fun to watch. When was the last time we could say that?
In its 90-51 win over Jackson State on Friday, IU showed offensive potency in a variety of ways. The Hoosiers shot 10-of-22 (45.5%) from deep. They shot 12-of-16 (75%) from the free-throw line. Plus: 44 points in the paint, 11 second chance points and 24 fast-break points.
Early this season, IU (6-0) has flashed offensive firepower. The Hoosiers' scoring average is up from 77.5 to 88.8 points per game compared to last season's first six games.
Yes, it is still early in the season. And yes, IU hasn’t gotten into the meat of its schedule yet. But even on the road against Xavier, IU’s highest-level opponent to date, the Hoosiers put up 81 points. Early returns suggest this IU team has the chance to be much better offensively than it was last season. Not only that but — as Friday showed —- IU can pound its opponents in different ways offensively.
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This has been, for IU fans, a nice change of pace. This program has mostly been hanging for its dear life offensively in recent seasons. Free-throw and 3-point struggles haunted IU during Archie Miller's tenure. After Mike Woodson took over as coach, early time was mainly devoted to defense.
That was evident last season. IU’s defense was a big reason the Hoosiers won games. The offense struggled at times and was clearly behind the defensive’s development. It felt like if IU could marginally improve its offense, it’d go a long way given its defensive prowess.
Last season, the Hoosiers shot just 33.3% from 3 and 70% from the free-throw line. Compare that to thus far this season: 38.3% from deep and 71.9% from the charity stripe.
IU also seems to have better flow offensively. Seemingly more times than in the recent past, IU’s offense is enjoyable to watch.
“We kind of understand the offense more now because when we first put it in last year, it was kind of just us trying to figure it out like during the season,” sophomore guard Tamar Bates said. “But the fact that we went through last season and we had a whole offseason of just executing coach's offense and what he likes for us to do, we kind of just were able to flow in everything and just execute at a higher level.”
Part of the improvement, too, is the summation of internal improvement and external additions.
Khristian Lander, Rob Phinisee, Parker Stewart and Michael Durr were all part of last season’s roster. Lander rarely played. Phinisee, Stewart and Durr each contributed at varying levels but were relatively one-dimensional offensively. Stewart could hit 3s but was limited elsewhere. Durr didn’t have the dexterity to produce regularly. Phinisee made plays but was inconsistent.
Each of those four transferred out. IU brought in a four-man freshman class of Jalen Hood-Schifino, Malik Reneau, CJ Gunn and Kaleb Banks. Hood-Schifino and Reneau have made the biggest impact thus far. Hood-Schifino has struggled to shoot the ball, but adds another dynamic layer of ball-handling and facilitating to IU’s offense. Reneau has been the reliable third big man IU has lacked the past two seasons. He has great hands, feathery touch and a versatile skill set. Gunn has been a pleasant surprise. He has flashed shot-making ability, plus passing and finishing at the rim.
The pieces IU brought in have proven to be much more versatile offensively than those that departed.
It’s not only the newcomers, but the development of those who stayed. Among the offensive concerns entering this season was who could produce from beyond the arc. Miller Kopp and Xavier Johnson have answered the call.
Kopp shot 36.1% from deep last season. This season he has been playing like the shooter IU needs him to be, currently holding an eye-opening 52% from deep. Though Johnson shot 38.3% from 3 last season, he probably wasn't atop most lists of those presumed to fill the 3-point shooting need. But he has proven to be a dead-eye shooter thus far, shooting 66.7% (8-of-12) from deep. Adding that aspect to his dynamic game, which already includes creating shots for himself and others, makes him nearly unguardable.
“I can't ask for much more than that than what he has done,” Woodson said of Johnson. “So he just has to keep it going. We need him as a senior to run our team and get us where we need to go.”
It still feels like we're still learning who IU can count on to make shots from deep outside of Kopp and Johnson. Bates (7-of-18) is capable but has been inconsistent on a game-to-game basis thus far. Gunn (1-of-7) has the potential to. So does Jordan Geronimo (2-of-6), though he hasn’t taken a high volume of shots from deep. Trey Galloway (2-of-4) has shown flashes as well, but he has been snake-bitten and has been sidelined some. IU has time to figure that out.
Even though it has been against mostly lower-level competition, the current state of its offense is encouraging. It can beat you in a handful of ways. If it’s not from deep, it could be in transition. If it’s not in transition it could be pounding the ball inside to Trayce Jackson-Davis, who has been dominant. IU could reach a pick-your-poison level, where defenses have to decide whether to double-team Jackson-Davis and pay for it from the outside or go single coverage on the talented big man.
Perhaps for the first time in the past few seasons, it feels like IU has an offense it can count on. The more pressing question now becomes whether it can be sustained.
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Homestead boys tennis beat No. 21 Culver Academies 3-2 on Friday afternoon at Culver to advance to the state semifinals. The No. 10 Spartans will play No. 1 West Lafayette Harrison at 10 a.m. today.
It is the first time Homestead has reached the state semifinals since 2006, when the Spartans lost to Park Tudor in the championship final.
The Spartans won at No. 2 and No. 3 singles: Freshman Ben Garrean beat Culver's Fredrik Morsches 6-1, 6-0, and freshman Eric Ji beat Culver's Peter Billicic 6-3, 6-1. The decisive match came at No. 1 doubles, where Homestead junior Alex Graber and senior Max Holliday beat Dominic Hayden and Samuel Meares 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-5.
Homestead junior Stephen Meier fell to Culver's No. 1 singles player Tyler Li, 6-1, 6-2, and the Spartans No. 2 doubles team of juniors James Cowan and Matthew Otten fell to John Allen and William Tullis, 6-1, 6-2.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Kyrie Irving returned to the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday and apologized to anyone who felt threatened or hurt when he posted a link to a documentary with antisemitic material.
Irving was suspended by the team on Nov. 3, hours after he refused to say he had no antisemitic beliefs when meeting with reporters at the Nets’ practice facility.
Back at the building for the team’s morning shootaround, Irving said he should have handled that interview differently.
“I don’t stand for anything close to hate speech or antisemitism or anything that is going against the human race,” Irving said. “I feel like we all should have an opportunity to speak for ourselves when things are assumed about us and I feel it was necessary for me to stand in this place and take accountability for my actions, because there was a way I should have handled all this and as I look back and reflect when I had the opportunity to offer my deep regrets to anyone that felt threatened or felt hurt by what I posted, that wasn’t my intent at all.”
Irving has missed eight games during the suspension, which the Nets said would be for a minimum of five games without pay. The team said he is available to play in its home game Sunday night against Memphis.
Irving said he was initially searching for more information about his heritage when he posted the link to “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” on his Twitter page. When first asked about it, he was defiant about his right to post material that interested him. Then, he refused to apologize or clarify his religious beliefs during another interview a few days later, leading to his suspension.
“I was rightfully defensive that there was an assumption that I could be antisemitic, or that I meant to post a documentary to stand side by side with all the views in the documentary,” Irving said, adding, “How can you call someone an antisemite if you don’t know them?”
But his tone was more reflective while speaking for about 12 minutes Sunday, thanking family and friends for their support. Some, including officials from the National Basketball Players Association and Nets general manager Sean Marks, were in the room as he spoke.
“I meant no harm to any person, to any group of people and yeah, this is a big moment for me because I’m able to learn throughout this process that the power of my voice is very strong, the influence that I have within my community is very strong, and I want to be responsible for that,” Irving said. “In order to do that, you have to admit when you’re wrong and in instances where you hurt people and it impacts them.”
Nike suspended its relationship with Irving and the fallout seemed to further strain the relationship between Irving and the Nets, who declined to give him a contract extension last summer. He missed most of their home games last season when he refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19, as was mandated at the time in New York City.
The organization said he was “unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets” when it suspended him. But the Nets praised Irving on Sunday for the steps he has since taken.
“Kyrie took ownership of this journey and had conversations with several members of the Jewish community,” the team said in a statement. “We are pleased that he is going about the process in a meaningful way.”
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From reimagining enterprise search, to future programs that will transform patient care and research, Google Cloud is putting this new category of artificial intelligence to work for healthcare
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud today announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to transform healthcare with generative AI, starting with Enterprise Search in Generative AI App Builder (Gen App Builder), to improve the efficiency of clinical workflows, make it easier for clinicians and researchers to find the information they need, and ultimately to help improve patient outcomes. In addition, Google Cloud announced today that its Enterprise Search on Gen App Builder is now ready to support HIPAA compliance.
Healthcare professionals use information from various sources, including medical records, research papers, and clinical guidelines to help them with everything from definitions of conditions to diagnoses and treatment options. However, healthcare data is often stored in many different formats and locations, which can make it difficult to find the information clinicians need when they need it. Enterprise Search in Gen App Builder unifies data across dispersed documents, databases, and intranets, making it easier to search, analyze, and identify the most relevant results.
"Generative AI has the potential to transform healthcare by enhancing human interactions and automating operations like never before," said Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud CEO. "Mayo Clinic is a world leader in leveraging AI for good, and they are a critical partner as we identify responsible ways to bring this transformative technology to healthcare."
To continue developing all of these capabilities in a clinical setting, Google Cloud is collaborating with Mayo Clinic and several healthcare organizations.
"Our prioritization of patient safety, privacy, and ethical considerations, means that generative AI can have a significant and positive impact on how we work and deliver healthcare," said Cris Ross, Mayo Clinic's Chief Information Officer. "Google Cloud's tools have the potential to unlock sources of information that typically aren't searchable in a conventional manner, or are difficult to access or interpret, from a patient's complex medical history to their imaging, genomics, and labs. Accessing insights more quickly and easily could drive more cures, create more connections with patients, and transform healthcare."
Google Cloud's generative AI offerings build on years of research and proven applications in AI and will give healthcare organizations new capabilities to generate real-time, personalized, and unique interactions that weren't possible before. Previously, AI scanned lots of data to identify patterns to enable greater efficiencies to improve existing work. Now with generative AI, data can be reviewed in more sophisticated ways, information can be condensed and digested, and new images can be created, among other uses.
Google Cloud's generative AI tools, like Gen App Builder and Generative AI support in Vertex AI, can help healthcare organizations optimize workforce productivity, streamline administrative processes, and leverage technology to automate repetitive tasks, allowing caregivers to focus on higher-value patient interactions.
Mayo Clinic is an early adopter of Google Cloud's Enterprise Search in Gen App Builder and is exploring how the combination of Google-quality search with generative AI can bring important information to doctors, clinicians, and other employees, in a fast, seamless, and conversational way.
Today's news builds on previous work with Google Cloud on Mayo Clinic's digital transformation, including programs that leverage analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions.
Google Cloud's approach to data governance and privacy policies ensures its customers retain control over their data. In healthcare settings, access and use of patient data is appropriately protected through the implementation of Google Cloud's reliable infrastructure and secure data storage that support HIPAA compliance, along with each customer's security, privacy controls, and processes. Google Cloud's responsible approach to generative AI also means customers have access to tools to directly tune large language models and to review model responses for biased or unvalidated content, teaching the model to avoid inappropriate outputs.
For more information, check out the Google Cloud blog on A responsible path to generative AI in healthcare, and Helping businesses with generative AI.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Breanna Stewart had 25 points and nine rebounds, Gabby Williams added 21 points and seven assists, and the Seattle Storm set a WNBA record with 37 assists in a 111-100 victory over the Chicago Sky on Tuesday night.
Seattle also set a franchise record for scoring in any half with 66 first-half points, but the Storm only led by 11 points after Chicago closed on a 13-4 run. The 121 combined first-half points were the most in a first half this season in the WNBA.
Despite the loss, Chicago (25-9) is still in the driver’s seat to earn the No. 1 seed in the playoffs, sitting 1 1/2 games ahead of second-place Las Vegas, which played later Tuesday night. Seattle (21-13) moved a game in front of Washington for the No. 4 seed, and the Storm hold the tiebreaker with the Mystics for homecourt in the first round.
Seattle led by as many as 22 points in the second half and hit the century mark with 4:50 left in the fourth.
Jewell Loyd added 18 points for Seattle. Tina Charles had 14 points, Ezi Magbegor added 13 points, and Sue Bird had 10 points and eight assists.
Seattle made nine of its first 11 field goals and shot 76.2% in the first quarter to build a 38-26 lead. The Storm reached the 50-point mark with 5:56 left before halftime on Stephanie Talbot’s 3-pointer for a 17-point lead. Seattle finished the half 28-for-42 shooting (66.7%) with 24 assists.
Courtney Vandersloot led Chicago with 28 points, going 10 of 15 from the field and 7 of 10 at the stripe, and she added seven assists. Kahleah Copper scored 17 points, Candace Parker had 14 points and Azura Stevens added 12.
Seattle was without head coach Noelle Quinn after she tested positive for COVID-19 and was in the league’s health and safety protocols.
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NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuberger Berman Next Generation Connectivity Fund Inc. (NYSE: NBXG) (the "Fund") has announced a conference call with Fund Portfolio Manager Hari Ramanan and members of his team, to be held on Monday, July 25, 2022 at 4:00 PM (Eastern). During the call, members of the Portfolio Management team will review the Fund's investment process and provide an update and perspective on the rapidly evolving next generation connectivity investment opportunity.
Questions may be submitted in advance to the following email address: nbxg@nb.com. The deadline for email submission of questions is Friday, July 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM (Eastern). Details for the call, including the Zoom link and the dial-in information, will also be posted to the Neuberger Berman website, www.nb.com, in advance of the call.
A replay of the call will be available on nb.com.
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Participant Dial-In: (646) 558 8656
Meeting ID: 952 5719 4412
Passcode: 07252022
About The Fund
The Fund, which is advised by Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC, has an investment objective to provide capital appreciation and income. The Fund is a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. No assurance can be given that the Fund's investment objectives will be achieved. Shares of closed-end funds frequently trade at a discount of their net asset value. The investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that the shares may be worth more or less than their original cost.
About Neuberger Berman
Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors and individual investors globally. With offices in 25 countries, Neuberger Berman's diverse team has over 2,500 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). In 2020, the PRI named Neuberger Berman a Leader, a designation awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The PRI also awarded Neuberger Berman an A+ in every eligible category for our approach to ESG integration across asset classes. The firm manages $447 billion in client assets as of March 31, 2022. For more information, please visit our website at www.nb.com.
Statements made in this release that look forward in time involve risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the adverse effect from a decline in the securities markets or a decline in the Fund's performance, a general downturn in the economy, competition from other closed end investment companies, changes in government policy or regulation, inability of the Fund's investment adviser to attract or retain key employees, inability of the Fund to implement its investment strategy, inability of the Fund to manage rapid expansion and unforeseen costs and other effects related to legal proceedings or investigations of governmental and self-regulatory organizations.
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Officers who fatally shot Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio, have been reinstated, chief says
By Amanda Musa and Tina Burnside, CNN
The eight Ohio police officers under investigation for the fatal shooting this year of 25-year-old Black man Jayland Walker have been reinstated and are back at work, though not in uniform or responding to service calls, the Akron Police Department said.
The officers, whose names have not been released, returned to work October 10, Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett told CNN affiliate WEWS, noting he made the decision due to “staffing issues.”
“I recognize that this decision will have an impact and there may be some community concern,” Mylett said last month.
Walker was unarmed when he was shot and killed June 27 as he fled from a traffic stop, and an autopsy revealed he suffered 46 gunshot wounds or graze injuries. Like the deaths of other Black men at the hands of police, the case led to days of protests in the city.
The eight officers “directly involved in the shooting” all had been put on paid administrative leave, per department policy, Mylett said soon after the encounter. Seven are White, and one is Black, according to information released by the city.
Walker’s family, its legal team and Akron community members sent a letter October 21 to Mylett expressing their disappointment in the department’s decision to reinstate the eight officers.
“Chief Mylett’s justification of his decision that a department staffing shortage makes their reinstatement necessary is disrespectful to the community and the Walker family,” the letter reads.
The investigation into the shooting by the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation “remains active and ongoing,” Attorney General David Yost’s spokesperson Steven Irwin told CNN in an email Thursday.
The officers’ reinstatement “does not impact the investigation,” Mylett added. “The investigation will continue.”
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AUSTIN (KXAN) – Some mushrooms are good on salads, while some can make you feel kind of funny. Still others apparently hiss.
The latter mushroom, whose scientific name is Chorioactis Geaster and is commonly known as both the Devil’s Cigar and Texas star, is the official State Mushroom of Texas.
Legislation designating it as such was filed in 2021 by former House Rep. Ben Leman and later signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott.
“[The mushroom] is a poignant reminder of the natural diversity that surrounds us,” Leman wrote in his resolution. “The Texas star mushroom is as uncommon and striking as the state that serves as its home, and it is indeed deserving of special recognition.”
The Texas Star is quite unique. The fungus appears during winter and grows only on decomposing cedar elm tree stumps and roots in the U.S. The rare mushroom has been found only in Texas and, over 6,000 miles away, in Japan, where it grows on decaying oak trees.
It hisses?
The Texas star emerges from the ground as a 3- to 4-inch cylindrical pod, resembling a cigar – hence its other name. If the conditions are right, the fungus will undergo a process called dehiscence – meaning the structure will split apart.
“It will open up into a three- to eight-pointed star,” said Angel Schatz, a member of the Central Texas Mycological Society.
Dehiscence is the process of a mature plant splitting to release its seeds. Schatz said in the case of the Texas star, instead of emitting seeds, it spreads its spores, making a sometimes audible hissing noise.
“It is a very cool mushroom to have as our state mushroom,” she continued.
And at the moment, Texas is one of only three states with an official state mushroom – joined by Oregon’s Pacific golden chanterelle and Minnesota’s honeycomb morel.
Though the Texas star is rare, Schatz thinks it likely could be found elsewhere but is just difficult to spot. In fact, she said a group of mycologists recently discovered the noisy fungus in Taiwan.
“[Cedar elms] stretch all the way into Florida…[the mushroom is] just really hard to see,” she said. “They just blend in with the environment. So you really kind of have to look for the stump.”
The Central Texas Mycological Society advocated for the state to recognize the fungus. Schatz said she was surprised the legislative process went so smoothly and that it was able to get through.
“We love all mushrooms. We think they’re all magical, especially this one,” Schatz said.
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BERLIN (AP) – Climate activists in Austria on Tuesday attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid and one then glued himself to glass protecting the painting’s frame.
Members of the group Last Generation Austria tweeted they had targeted the 1915 painting “Death and Life” at the Leopold Museum in Vienna to protest their government’s use of fossil energies.
After throwing the liquid on the painting, which wasn’t damaged, one activist was pushed away by a museum guard while another glued his hand to the glass over the painting’s frame.
The group defended the protest, saying in a tweet that they were protesting “oil and gas drilling,” which they called “a death sentence to society.”
In a video of the incident, which the group posted online, one of the activists can be heard shouting that “we have known about the problem for 50 years — we must finally act, otherwise the planet will be broken.”
“Stop the fossil fuel destruction. We are racing into a climate hell,” he added.
After the attack, police arrived at the museum and the black liquid was quickly cleaned off the glass protecting the painting, Austria Press Agency reported.
Despite thorough controls at the museum’s entrance, the activists succeeded in bringing the liquid inside by hiding it in a hot water bottle under their clothes, the agency reported.
The museum’s restoration team said later that while the painting itself hadn’t been harmed, the damage to the glass and security framing, as well as to the wall and floor, was “evident and significant,” APA reported.
Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the director of the Leopold Museum, told APA that the concerns of the climate activists were justified, “but attacking works of art is definitely the wrong way to implement the targeted goal of preventing the predicted climate collapse.”
He appealed to the group to find other ways to make their concerns known.
Austria’s culture minister also expressed understanding for “the concerns and also the desperation” of the activists, but criticized their form of protest.
“I do not believe that actions like these are purposeful, because the question arises whether they do not rather lead to more lack of understanding than to more awareness of the climate catastrophe,” Andrea Mayer said.
“From my point of view, accepting the risk of irrevocable damage to works of art is the wrong way to go,” the minister added. “Art and culture are allies in the fight against climate catastrophe, not adversaries.”
The Klimt work is an oil on canvas painting in the Art Nouveau style depicting death on the left side and a group of partially naked, hugging people on the right side. It’s one of the latest pieces of art to be targeted by climate activists to draw attention to global warming.
Different activist groups have staged numerous demonstrations in recent months, including blocking streets and throwing mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in Germany.
The British group Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery last month.
Just Stop Oil activists also glued themselves to the frame of an early copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, and to John Constable’s “The Hay Wain” in the National Gallery.
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CRANSTON, R.I. — It’s election season and the television hanging over the bar at Twin Oaks Restaurant is overrun with attack ads.
Most of them, on this Thursday afternoon, are aimed at Allan Fung, the Republican candidate for Rhode Island’s Second Congressional District.
“Too dangerous, too extreme,” one announcer warns. Fung, another says, remained “extremely loyal to Trump” even after the president put “kids in cages” at the border and incited the violence of Jan. 6, 2021.
But the spots, however strident, seem to bounce off the wood-paneled walls and settle into the plates of veal parmesan and breaded chicken cutlets without much effect.
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The patrons of Twin Oaks Restaurant, an old-school Rhode Island icon, don’t recognize the extremist depicted on the television screen. They’ve been watching Fung since his days as mayor of Cranston, the largest city in the district. And he’s always seemed reasonable.
“I’ve known him for years,” says Scott Nunes, a salesman who has crossed paths with the former mayor at “I can’t tell you how many” restaurants and community events. “He’s a genuine person.”
Tony Rainone, a retiree who works as a part-time driver for a dental lab, feels the same way. He’s voting for the Democrat in the governor’s race, but it’s Fung for Congress. “He comes to my gun club,” Rainone says. “Always been good.”
Fung, the son of immigrants, has done all he can to reinforce the image of the relatable Republican. He shot one of his first campaign commercials right here at Twin Oaks — an upbeat, slightly goofy ad with a focus on bread-and-butter issues like lowering gas prices and bringing down home heating bills. The candidate has staked out a moderate position on abortion. And he has rejected former president Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
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Put it all together and he has a real shot at winning a district Joe Biden carried by almost 14 points.
In a poll conducted for Rhode Island television station WPRI in late September and early October, Fung led his Democratic opponent, state treasurer Seth Magaziner, by six points. A Boston Globe poll released shortly thereafter had him up by eight.
Democrats, citing internal surveys, insist the race has tightened since then. But Fung’s strong showing has made the campaign an object of national attention.
Super PACs aligned with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, and Kevin McCarthy, the Republican in line to take the speaker’s chair if the GOP wins a majority, have poured millions into the race. And in the press, Fung has become a symbol of what looks like a cresting GOP wave in the House — Republicans are so strong this cycle, they’re even winning in Rhode Island.
But Fung’s candidacy isn’t just about nudging the GOP into the majority in the next Congress. It’s about something bigger. It’s about the fate of the moderate Republican project — both as political force and as governing philosophy.
Fung is pitching his campaign as a bid to revive a temperate New England conservatism that has been reduced to near insignificance by the GOP’s Trumpist turn. And if he can win — and become a model for the Republican Party in parts of the country that seem to be slipping out of its grasp — then his campaign could have long-term implications for the balance of power in Congress.
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If he loses, or turns out to be a one-off — a lonely success in a region that remains almost entirely shut off to Republicans seeking national office — then the Fung electoral phenomenon doesn’t seem nearly as consequential.
Whatever his significance as campaigner, Fung could still matter as a legislator.
In Congress, he’s pledged to stand with a small, besieged band of GOP moderates. And these centrists will have outsize responsibility for proving that a party increasingly bent on sabotage can actually govern when handed a majority.
Succeed and they keep a creaking American democracy functional. Fail and the breakdown only accelerates. And the very purpose of moderate Republicanism — tempering the extreme elements of our politics — comes into question.
Powerful or invisible?
It’s a clever bit of politics. A practiced aside. A way for Fung to signal that he’s the sort of Republican who will break with his party if it’s in Rhode Island’s interest.
If he’d been in Congress last year, he likes to say in media interviews, he would have voted for President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure law.
Why does he mention this legislation in particular?
The measure, aimed at fixing roads, improving ports, and replacing old lead pipes, is popular. It plays into his broader message of improving the economy.
And Fung can legitimately claim that support for the infrastructure package puts him in rare company: Only 13 House Republicans crossed party lines to vote for it.
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But this is where his argument for electing a moderate Republican gets a little tricky.
It’s unclear how effective someone like Fung could be in Congress when the dealmaking, democracy-protecting GOP contingent he promises to join is so small — and getting smaller.
Of the 13 House Republicans who voted for the infrastructure legislation, at least seven won’t be in Congress next year.
One died. One announced he wouldn’t seek office again amid allegations that he groped a lobbyist. Another lost in a Republican primary to a Trump-backed candidate who blasted him for the infrastructure vote. And four of the lawmakers — all of whom also voted to impeach Trump — opted not to run for reelection in a party with a vanishing tolerance for dissent.
Representative John Katko of New York is among them. He says that if Republicans win a House majority on Tuesday as expected, GOP moderates will immediately face off with a larger conservative wing of the party eager to establish its dominance.
“There’s going to be titanic fights within the party,” he says. “When to fund the government, how to fund the government, the debt ceiling . . . . There’s going to be tremendous pressure [on moderates] to do things they don’t believe in.”
Government shutdowns could be in play. Cuts to bedrock programs. A further splintering of a splintered country.
But if the handful of moderates who carry over from the current Congress and potential newcomers like Fung can stand firm, Katko argues, they can develop real sway.
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“I think in the majority, the moderates have more power than people can fathom, because the leadership will rely on them to get things done — as opposed to the most extreme elements of the party, who will do nothing but tear things down,” he says.
The current Congress, controlled by Democrats, offers a lesson in the influence of a well-positioned centrist.
Threatening to break with the party if he didn’t get his way, Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat and self-styled deficit hawk, was able to dramatically pare down the infrastructure bill and what became the Inflation Reduction Act, the climate-and-health policy measure at the heart of the Biden agenda.
Manchin only had that kind of power, though, because he was operating in a narrowly divided Senate and Democratic leadership needed his vote to get anything done.
A Congressman Fung and the small group of Republican moderates he would join won’t be able to have the same kind of impact in the House next year unless the GOP margin is similarly slight.
“If it’s a big, Republican red wave, you’re just a lonely voice,” says former senator Lincoln Chafee, the last Republican to represent Rhode Island in Congress. “Who cares how you vote?”
In this scenario, the moderate Republican — however familiar and likable — is little more than an enabler for the conservative mainstream of the party.
That’s the argument Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse successfully used against Chafee in the 2006 election. And Magaziner, Fung’s Democratic rival in this year’s House race, is reprising it.
In a recent televised debate at the Providence Performing Arts Center, he said Fung’s professed support for abortion rights rings hollow when he has vowed to support a GOP leadership that opposes those rights. And he made a similar argument about Fung’s pledges to protect Social Security.
“He has committed himself, repeatedly, to voting for a Republican leadership team that has said that cutting Social Security and Medicare is one of their top priorities,” Magaziner said.
Whether the GOP would actually move forward on such a politically risky venture is unclear.
But the party may be forced to address another weighty matter that some rank-and-file Republican lawmakers wish would just go away — the Trumpian assault on democracy.
Trump seems to be preparing for another presidential run in 2024. And he’s doing all he can to keep bogus claims about widespread election fraud at the center of American politics.
Fung is clear about where he stands on those claims. “I’m not an election denier,” he said in a recent interview with the Globe editorial board.
But Trump is clearly an uncomfortable topic. Asked if he would have voted to impeach the former president after the Jan. 6 insurrection, Fung demurred. “I wasn’t there, wasn’t part of the hearing,” he said. “My focus isn’t on going backwards to relitigate what the former president did.”
Fung says he’d like to see a “fresh face” for the party in the next presidential election.
But even a fresh face may have to play to the base’s fears of voter fraud to win the nomination. And that could lead to a crisis like the one that unfolded after the 2020 election.
If that happens, no one will be under as much pressure as Republican moderates — conservatives urging them to toe the party line and everyone else insisting they protect democracy.
Model or unicorn?
GOP politicians who have broken with the party on major issues haven’t fared well of late. They’ve been battered in the conservative press and chased off the job by Trumpist challengers.
That would no doubt linger in the back of a Congressman Fung’s mind as he weighed how to vote and what to say in Washington. But he might have a little more leeway than some of his Republican colleagues.
Until now, at least, the right in Rhode Island hasn’t given him too much trouble.
A more conservative candidate for the Second District seat, former state representative Robert Lancia, struggled to get traction and was urged to drop out by party officials. He ended his campaign in June.
And the Trump network in Rhode Island, such as it is, doesn’t seem all that perturbed by Fung’s digs at the former president.
Both state cochairs of Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, former state representative Doreen Costa and developer Jerry Zarrella, have donated to the Fung campaign. Both spoke highly of him in interviews with Ideas.
“Allan is like an adopted son,” Zarrella said. “I’ve known him since he got out of college. He and my son Michael were the best of friends, and they would always be over the house.”
Rhode Island is small. That’s been good for Fung. But it’s one of a number of factors that could make him difficult for New England Republicans to replicate.
He twice ran for Rhode Island governor; that boosted his name recognition ahead of the congressional run. And most important, he was the longtime mayor of a blue city.
A moderate message is one thing, “but having a record — a very long record — to back up that approach is something entirely different,” says state House minority leader Michael Chippendale. “And that’s where Allan, I think, is unique.”
If Fung manages to win he may not be the only New England Republican to succeed on Tuesday. Former state senator George Logan of Connecticut — like Fung, the rare Republican of color to hold office in a left-leaning patch of New England — is neck and neck with Democratic Representative Jahana Hayes.
But other moderate Republican House candidates in New England face longer odds — including former naval officer Mike France in Connecticut and former congressman Bruce Poliquin in Maine.
If Fung winds up being the sole New England Republican in the House, or one of two, he will no doubt be heralded by national Republicans as a breakthrough.
But if the GOP can’t produce another Fung in these parts in two or four or six years, he may be seen, in time, as an anomaly in a country hopelessly divided.
That would be disappointing coda to a fascinating race. It would be a worrisome sign for American democracy, too.
David Scharfenberg can be reached at david.scharfenberg@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @dscharfGlobe.
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Mets vs. Yankees Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 25
Tuesday's contest that pits the New York Yankees (53-47) against the New York Mets (46-53) at Yankee Stadium should be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 5-4 in favor of the Yankees. First pitch is at 7:05 PM ET on July 25.
The Mets will give the ball to Justin Verlander (4-5, 3.47 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 5 on the season, and the Yankees will counter with Domingo German (5-6, 4.52 ERA).
Mets vs. Yankees Game Info & Odds
- When: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 7:05 PM ET
- Where: Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York
- How to Watch on TV: TBS
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Mets vs. Yankees Score Prediction
Our prediction for this game is Yankees 5, Mets 4.
Total Prediction for Mets vs. Yankees
- Total Prediction: Over 8.5 runs
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Mets Performance Insights
- The Mets have played as the favorite in five of their past 10 games and won three of those contests.
- In their last 10 games with a total, the Mets and their opponents have failed to hit the over eight times.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Mets' last 10 games.
- This season, the Mets have won 33 out of the 61 games, or 54.1%, in which they've been favored.
- The Mets have a record of 33-28, a 54.1% win rate, when they're favored by -115 or more by bookmakers this season.
- The sportsbooks' moneyline implies a 53.5% chance of a victory for the Mets.
- The Mets rank 20th in the league with 438 total runs scored this season.
- The Mets' 4.41 team ERA ranks 18th across all MLB pitching staffs.
Yankees Performance Insights
- The Yankees have been the underdog just one time in the past 10 contests and lost that game.
- In their previous 10 matchups with a total posted by oddsmakers, the Yankees and their opponents are 5-5-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The Yankees have fallen short of covering the runline in the one of their past 10 contests that had a set runline.
- The Yankees have come away with 12 wins in the 29 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This year, the Yankees have won 12 of 27 games when listed as at least -105 or better on the moneyline.
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Yankees have a 51.2% chance of pulling out a win.
- The Yankees score the 19th-most runs in baseball (440 total, 4.4 per game).
- Yankees pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.88 ERA this year, eighth-best in baseball.
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DEAR HELOISE: I recently saw a hint that someone had sent in regarding the elderly taking their showers and being unprotected should they fall. The person said that what she does is take her phone in the bathroom with her. When I thought of this, my only concern was that if I have fallen, I will not be able to reach my phone on the sink counter. So, what I have started to do is put my phone on the floor next to the door! If I were to fall, I would most likely be able to scoot toward the phone.
-- M.B., via email
Two helpful hints
DEAR HELOISE: As useful as the idea about keeping a tissue box on the dryer is, I wanted to offer another idea instead.
Empty tissue boxes stuffed with lint can make for a great fire-starter. So, if there's any stray hair, that can just go outside; birds delight in that for their nest-making. Dryer sheets are not healthy for you, and you should use dryer balls instead. Plus, if you use dryer sheets on towels, it makes them less absorbent.
Another hint: Finding hair and other things in drains can be very preventable with the wire mesh drain catchers. I use them everywhere -- kitchen, laundry, bathtub and bathroom sink. It sure helps and beats having to unclog the pipes with chemicals or having to call a plumber.
-- Sister Yaskiw, in Canada
Saving a soap-filled scouring pad
DEAR HELOISE: I keep my soap-filled scouring pad from getting rusty simply by wrapping it tightly in aluminum foil. I used it yesterday, and after one year, it still had soap in it -- and not a speck of rust!
I read your column every day in the San Antonio Express-News.
-- Marge Moore, Bulverde, Texas
Parchment paper
DEAR HELOISE: When freezing homemade bread or other items, I slice them in sections, and then put parchment paper between the sections. That way, I am able to easily remove each section. They come right out, with no sticking.
PS: I enjoy your columns.
-- Martha S., Rutland, Vermont
Organizing coupons
DEAR READERS: If you have lots of coupons that you want to use, to make it easier on yourself, organize them beforehand in one of these three ways: by expiration date; by categories, such as dairy, canned goods or cereals; or by store aisles. This will help to make your shopping trip easier and faster.
-- Heloise
Get bread crumbs fast
DEAR READERS: If you discover you need bread crumbs for a recipe, and you don't have any, you can use these substitutes: Take commercially packaged croutons, corn flakes or non-sugared breakfast cereal, and crush them for your recipe.
-- Heloise
Send hints to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001 or email Heloise@Heloise.com.
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This is an American Idol reunion.
For the Sept. 12 premiere episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show, the former Idol contestant will welcome Simon Cowell for their first sit-down conversation since she appeared on season three of the singing competition series in 2004.
Jennifer's seventh-place finish on Idol came as a surprise, placing behind contestants like John Stevens and George Huff.
In the time since, however, she's become an EGOT winner, which was cemented with her Tony win in June. So, we'd say things have worked out just fine.
The premiere episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show also marks Jennifer's 41st birthday, which the show promises will bring "celebratory moments and fun surprises." Maybe Paula Abdul will pop out of a cake!
"The series will feature celebrity interviews, topical stories, community heroes, viral sensations, and music," the show teased. "Hudson will use her powerful voice in a new way, bringing fun, uplifting conversations to the forefront, shining a light on extraordinary stories, talents, and passions."
The Jennifer Hudson Show is executive produced by former Ellen DeGeneres Show producers Mary Connelly, Andy Lassner and Corey Palent.
Ellen, of course, said goodbye to her storied daytime talk show on May 26 after 19 seasons on the air.
In the first promo for the talk show in July, Jennifer promised, "You're going to get quality, you're going to get honesty, you're going to get all of my heart and don't forget the fun—we're going to have a lot of fun."
We love fun!
The Jennifer Hudson Show premieres Sept. 12 in syndication across the country.
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Few know what Victor Wembanyama is facing as projected No. 1 NBA draft pick; Greg Oden does
INDIANAPOLIS -- Greg Oden's high school basketball games at Lawrence North were televised on ESPN. It seemed so strange at the time, at 16 years old, to have people Oden didn't know but had seen him on TV, asking for autographs.
More than strange, Oden said, it was "embarrassing." He was, after all, just a kid who fell in love with basketball in the fourth grade, was 5-10 in the fifth grade and 6-6 in sixth grade. But he was a kid the sports world couldn't get enough of who, by high school, was a 7-0, 245-pound teenage beast with agility that doesn't usually come with that sort of towering height.
The pressure was intense, Oden said. As he played out his senior season of high school, not only did he have the student cheer block watching his every move, he had the nation watching and the pundits making predictions.
"Experts say he'll be the first selection in the NBA draft in 2006, which would mean he would skip college," the Indianapolis Star reported after Oden's sophomore season. "He's been called the next Shaquille O'Neal."
Oden remembers that time all too well. It was a high, realizing a childhood dream of being great, and it was a low. There was no way to really navigate going from an awkward, gangly kid to a guy people were certain was headed to the NBA.
And so, Oden knows. He knows what 18-year-old French basketball phenom Victor Wembanyama, who is widely projected to be the first overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, is battling.
All 92 games of Wembanyama's season with the Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans will be aired on the NBA app. He will have, and already has, faced the onslaught of people asking for autographs, the pundits making predictions.
At 7-2, and with the same athleticism and agility Oden had and the ability to hit 3-pointers, Wembanyama was recently called out by LeBron James as "a generational talent."
As Oden sat inside Hinkle Fieldhouse embarking on his first season as Butler's director of basketball operations, he talked about the connection he feels to Wembanyama.
"I know he's got a lot of people giving him advice. I just know it's a little crazy time for him, people coming up to him like, 'You're going to be the No. 1 draft pick already.'" Oden said. "What should you do? It's tough to really answer that."
Oden feels for him. Oden knows what that is like, to have the weight of the basketball world on your shoulders when you're 18 or 19 years old. And he has advice for Wembanyama.
"Still try to be a kid in some way," Oden said. "That's the only advice I would give him because it's maturing you a lot quicker than you think and now you don't want to do kid things because everybody knows who you are and you feel like you've got to be more mature."
But if Wembanyama likes to play video games, Oden said, keep playing video games. If he likes to hang out with his friends or go on a date, do that. If he wants time alone, to meditate or shut out the social media frenzy, do that.
"Try to find a little bit of you," Oden said. "Because throughout this process, it's going to be about basketball and what you can do for so many more people other than yourself."
'Pressure to live up to all this'
The agents, the media and the scouts, they started calling. They found out about Oden at the start of his freshman year when several well-known recruiting analysts named him the No. 1 player in the Class of 2006. Oden was 14 and 6-11 at the time. He became the first freshman starter for Lawrence North, and the first points in his first game came on a dunk.
Superstar was written all over Oden and his future.
As a sophomore, he averaged 14 points and 10 rebounds, shot 70% and led Lawrence North to the Class 4A state championship. Along the way, he added an inch and bulked up to 245 pounds, making him taller and heavier than then-Pacers star Jermaine O'Neal.
"People are putting a little pressure on him to live up to all this, and I certainly believe he will. But he has to go through the process," Jack Keefer, Oden's high school coach, told IndyStar in 2004. "He's just trying to grow up and have fun with his buddies." That wasn't always easy.
After his sophomore season the other talk began, the talk about Oden being the No. 1 NBA Draft pick in 2006, out of high school. The Indianapolis Star ran a front page article on Oden with the headline "Shadowed by Fame."
"Defense is Oden's strong suit. With his shot-blocking and rebounding he has drawn comparisons to NBA great Bill Russell," the newspaper reported.
"He's the best prospect in high school basketball right now beyond a shadow of a doubt, and he's got room to grow," recruiting analyst Dave Telep told IndyStar. "It'd be a huge upset if he's not the top pick in the 2006 draft."
Oden wasn't the top pick in 2006 -- but that was his choice. After leading his high school team to two more state championship titles as a junior and senior, Oden decided to play at Ohio State for then-coach Thad Matta.
"You know that recruiting time is a little strained and, for a lot of guys, it's coaches selling their programs, selling themselves," Oden said. But for some reason it didn't feel that way with Matta. "He was just genuine."
In a single season at Ohio State, Oden led the team to a Big Ten title and the championship game of the NCAA tournament in 2007, where Ohio State lost to Florida 84-75.
Two months later, Oden was picked No. 1 in the NBA draft by the Portland Trailblazers, ahead of Kevin Durant. The basketball world was sure Oden was the next superstar. Matta declared Oden "would be one of the greatest to every play in the NBA."
Oden's NBA career didn't play out as he had hoped or as people had expected. After a career plagued with injuries, playing just 82 games in four seasons with the Trailblazers, another season at Miami and then a season with the Jiangsu Dragons of the Chinese Basketball Association, Oden retired from basketball.
Oden looks back on that kid in 2007 in New York City beaming as the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft, a kid who had the world at his feet, but who also had so much pressure to be what people thought he should be.
He remembers that kid and he thinks of Wembanyama. And he thinks of how he should just try to enjoy life right now because the pressure is only going to rise.
"Find something that you enjoy doing and stay with that and always keep that a part of you," is Oden's advice to Wembanyama. "Because this journey is going to mature you a lot faster than everybody else."
Follow IndyStar sports reporter Dana Benbow on Twitter: @DanaBenbow. Reach her via email: dbenbow@indystar.com.
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2 charged after more than 100 animals removed from West Virginia rescue
GRAFTON, W.Va (WDTV/Gray News) - Two West Virginia women have been charged after police reported deplorable, unsanitary and unsafe living conditions at an animal rescue.
An investigation into The Spirit of Animals Rescue Corporation in Grafton, West Virginia, began in December after authorities received a complaint from another animal rescuer who described it as “the worst case of animal cruelty” she had ever witnessed, according to a criminal complaint.
She told police there were 30 to 40 dogs on the property that were severely malnourished, dirty and injured, in addition to a woman living on the property with no electricity, water, plumbing or bathrooms.
The woman living there moved in with her daughters, 34-year-old Kelly Rhoads and 46-year-old Nicole McLaughlin, both of Grafton, after having her leg amputated, according to the complaint.
The report says officers went to the home after home health workers said there were 65 cats and 15 dogs in the home, many of which were in poor health, and that the home was filthy and had a “putrid” smell that made it hard to breathe. One health care worker reportedly told police she fell through the front porch when she stepped on it.
When workers asked about the smell, which was a strong odor of ammonia from cat urine, they allegedly said the smell “was from them painting a room.”
Investigators then learned that The Spirit of Animals Rescue Corporation had its 501(c)3 nonprofit status revoked in August by the IRS, and a December Facebook post by the organization referred to the home as “The Cat Castle,” the criminal complaint says.
Deputies and other officials executed a search warrant at two homes in Grafton on Jan. 16, and court documents say the search “revealed uninhabitable conditions for humans and animals, alike.” One of the homes had four adults, 16 dogs and five cats living there.
A vet tech on scene during the search warrant checked out the animals present and, according to the complaint, said the home had inhumane and unsanitary conditions, with large amounts of feces and urine present.
When officers searched the second home, pictured below, they found one dog, six puppies and over 100 cats, with urine and feces covering the floor in each room and “stacked up in corners and closets.” None of the cats had food, water or clean litter, and many of them were being kept in cages, the complaint alleges. It also says a majority of the cats had matted eyes. The vet tech was unable to check out the cats due to so many being inside the home, officers said.
Authorities said both homes were condemned due to contamination, and the mother was taken to the hospital for health screenings.
Investigators returned Jan. 23 with a hazmat specialist to do air quality samples in the homes. The report says results showed greatly reduced air quality in both homes, with carbon monoxide readings being between -3 to -4.
The ammonia levels in both homes were largely similar, being between 1,500-2,000 parts per million. Where the mother was staying, however, officers said the ammonia levels measured at 2,500 parts per million, which is reportedly a deadly level over an eight-hour exposure period.
Following the air quality samples, investigators said the homes were to remain condemned and no one was allowed to enter the home without proper protective equipment, including a hazmat suit and respirator.
When the homes were condemned, authorities said, over 100 cats and 20 dogs in total were removed from them. A number of cats were hiding within the walls, preventing animal control officers from removing them.
Both Rhoads and McLaughlin have been charged with 128 counts of animal neglect and one count of neglect of an incapacitated adult. They are both out on bond.
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In June, median home prices slipped -0.9% year over year as new listings of homes for sale dipped 25.7% annually and fell below their previous pandemic lows
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. median home listing price slipped -0.9% annually in June, posting the first yearly decline since 2017, the start of Realtor.com®'s trends data, according to its June Monthly Housing Trends Report released today. At the same time, while home shoppers had more homes to choose from this month, improvement stalled as the active inventory growth rate slowed for the fourth month in a row (+7.1%) and came in well below May's +21.5% rate.
"While home asking prices grew seasonally, price gains have been weakening since last summer as rising mortgage rates have added to ongoing affordability challenges and further cooled buyer demand, so the first year-over-year decline in median list prices this month wasn't unexpected. While this could feel like a welcome relief for buyers, our revised 2023 outlook expects only a modest drop in home prices of 0.6% for the year. This may not be enough to noticeably bring down costs until the end of the year as inflation and rates start to fall too," said Danielle Hale, Chief Economist for Realtor.com®. "Fewer potential sellers opting to list their home because of the mortgage rate lock-in effect continues to be a drag on the market. Fortunately, for those willing to make a move, falling prices won't erase the substantial price gains seen the past few years, and most will likely have enough equity to come out ahead."
What it means for homebuyers, sellers, and the housing market
Affordability has evolved into an increasingly important factor in home purchase decisions, and a drop in home listing prices creates potential opportunities for buyers, especially with some creativity.
"If buyers see homes sitting on the market for a while that haven't received many good offers, there may be some opportunities for further negotiations. It never hurts to ask a seller if they would be willing to reduce their price a little, contribute to closing costs, or even buy down their mortgage rate," said Realtor.com® Executive News Editor Clare Trapasso. "While this likely won't work for the well-located, move-in ready homes oozing curb appeal, buyers may want to take another look at homes that may need a little work. Sometimes a coat of paint and minor work can make a big difference."
June 2023 Housing Metrics – National
Home asking prices see first annual decline as high borrowing costs create barriers
Recent near-record high mortgage rates and still-high listing prices continue to create affordability challenges for homebuyers, which is putting downward pressure on home list prices, which slipped annually in June for the first time since 2017. Despite high borrowing costs and a low inventory of homes to choose from in the market, homebuying sentiment continues to improve in recent months, and a new survey from Realtor.com® and Censuswide found that the vast majority of respondents, nearly 9 in 10 of those shopping, still hope to make a home purchase happen this year.
- In June, the U.S. median list price grew to $445,000, up from $441,000 in May but down slightly (-0.9%) from June 2022's record high of $449,000.
- Northeastern metros had the highest growth rate in active listing prices, with an average increase of 11.7% over the past year. Prices in Cincinnati, Ohio (+20.0%), Rochester, N.Y. (+19.6%), and Los Angeles (+17.7%) saw the biggest increases among large metros. However, in each of these metros the mix of inventory changed and larger, more expensive homes were listed for sale in June compared to the previous year.
- Among the 50 largest U.S. metros, 15 out of the largest 50 markets saw their median list price decline. The greatest price declines were seen in Texas metros: Austin (-6.8% year over year), Houston (-5.1%), and Raleigh, N.C. (-4.2%).
- Nationally, the share of homes with price reductions was mostly flat in June, decreasing slightly from 14.7% last June to 14.1% this year.
- Among the largest metros, the largest increases in the percentage of homes with price reductions compared to last year were in San Antonio, Texas (+8.3 percentage points), Memphis, Tenn. (+6.3 pp) and Jacksonville, Fla. (+4.7 pp).
Buyers short on options as active inventory declines in many areas
There continues to be an ongoing lack of homes for sale as potential sellers with near-record equity take a wait-and-see approach and buyers compete over the remaining available homes for sale. In June, the growth in the number of active homes for sale slowed for the fourth month in a row, and growth stalled completely in the final week of June, with the number of active homes for sale slipping below (-0.3%) year ago levels for the first time in a year (59 weeks). New listings to the market have been scarce this year too – the pace of new listings year-to-date is even lower (-16.4%) than in the first half of 2020, when the real estate market was still contending with pandemic-era closures, restrictions, and uncertainties – highlighting just how short on options buyers are in today's market.
- Nationally, active inventory grew 7.1% year over year in June, but slowed for the fourth month in a row, registering less than half of May's 21.5% rate. On average, active inventory in June was 50.6% below pre-pandemic 2017–2019 levels.
- Both pending listings (-16.7%), or homes under contract, and newly listed homes (-25.7%) declined year over year. The number of homes newly-listed for sale declined at a faster rate in June than May's 22.7% decrease.
- Among the 50 largest metros, inventory growth is being driven almost exclusively by the South, which saw the most growth (+24.1%) in homes for sale compared to last June, led by San Antonio (+65.7%), Nashville, Tenn. (63.3%) and New Orleans (60.0%). All other regions saw declining annual growth in active inventory in June.
- Active inventory decreased in 28 out of 50 of the largest metros compared to last year. Western markets reported the largest yearly declines, with the top three in California metros: San Jose, (-44.1%), San Diego (-35.9%), and Sacramento (-33.4%).
- In June, none of the 50 largest metro areas saw new listings increase over last year.
Homes continue to linger longer on the market, giving buyers more time to search
Despite a significant slowing from the frenzied pace of the past couple years, in most areas of the country, the housing market continues to move quicker than it did in the pre-pandemic era, with homes today selling more than a week faster on average than in pre-pandemic June 2017-2019.
- The typical home spent 43 days on market in June, 14 days longer than this time last year, but 10 fewer days than they typically did in the average June 2017–2019.
- Across the 50 largest U.S. metros, in June the typical home spent 44 days on the market, 13 days more than the previous June. This trend was seen across all regions, with larger metros in the South seeing the greatest increase (+15 days), followed by the West (+9 days), Northeast (+7 days) and Midwest (+6 days). Homes in Western metros were also spending one more day on the market than pre-pandemic times, but in all other regions homes were still selling more quickly.
- All of the 50 largest metros saw an increase in time on market compared to the previous year. Time on market increased the most in Raleigh, N.C. (+26 days), Austin, Texas (+25 days), and Miami (+25 days).
June 2023 Housing Overview by Top 50 Largest Metros
Methodology
Realtor.com® housing data as of June 2023. Listings include the active inventory of existing single-family homes and condos/townhomes/rowhomes/co-ops for the given level of geography on Realtor.com®; new construction is excluded unless listed via an MLS that provides listing data to Realtor.com®. Realtor.com® data history goes back to July 2016. 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas as defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
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Realtor.com® is an open real estate marketplace built for everyone. Realtor.com® pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago. Today, through its website and mobile apps, Realtor.com® is a trusted guide for consumers, empowering more people to find their way home by breaking down barriers, helping them make the right connections, and creating confidence through expert insights and guidance. For professionals, Realtor.com® is a trusted partner for business growth, offering consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world. Realtor.com® is operated by News Corp [Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move, Inc. For more information, visit Realtor.com®.
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Partnership provides property owners with secure guest authentication, while supporting memorable guest engagements
NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veriff, a global identity verification provider, today announced a partnership with the guest messaging platform Akia. By partnering with Veriff, Akia can take the safety and security of property owners to a new level through verifying guests' identities within seconds while offering a seamless customer experience.
Akia's platform specializes in offering thoughtful guest experiences through automating the entire communication lifecycle. It is easy to use and property owners are able to build guest journeys without the need for developers and designers, making it a viable solution for property owners of any size. While Akia works like a powerful app for owners, automated communications are sent through a text, ensuring guests aren't bothered by the hassle of another app download.
"By integrating with Veriff, we're enabling hosts to automate peace of mind. Hoteliers and hosts are searching for ways to improve operational flow and create an outstanding experience while maintaining confidence in the security of their guests and properties," said Ryan Kanoknukulchai, Akia Chief Operating Officer. "While Akia digitizes the guest journeys and workflows, Veriff secures the check-in process and escalates bad actors by flagging suspicious guests."
Veriff's AI-powered identity verification solution provides fast conversions of customers, as well as identity fraud prevention. With Veriff, owners are provided with the knowledge that they are renting to verified visitors and not scam artists or identity thieves. Veriff enables users to take a selfie and snap a photo of an ID for identity verification in seconds, making their solution not only essential to hosts and property owners, but also easy to use for customers, aligning with Akia's mission of creating memorable guest experiences.
"This partnership with Akia opens up an exciting new market for Veriff. Expanding into the hospitality space is an approach that makes Veriff incredibly tangible. Hosts invite guests into their space, and - regardless of its size - it's important to ensure safety and security. This begins with the first online guest interaction, and with Veriff, hosts can ensure their guests are who they say they are," said Manuel Solis III, Head of Global Partnerships & Alliances at Veriff. "It's an incredible honor to provide this service to the hospitality community, and reinforces our mission of being a force for good."
Recently Veriff launched their new R.E.V. Partner Program (Revenue Expansion with Veriff) to provide a clear path to support Veriff's growing ecosystem of partners. The program is designed to support partners in sales and marketing along with providing partners with Veriff's premium IDV platform to help meet the demands of end customers desiring to combat identity theft and fraud. The program can be tailored to meet the needs of a specific partner type based on their own business, offering flexibility to support the partner as their business scales.
About Akia
Akia is an AI-powered 2-way communication platform designed to help enhance guest engagement and property reputation. Akia's process automation streamlines operation, increases staff efficiency, and drives more revenue. Akia's integration with numerous other technologies like property management systems and digital keys enables companies to have robust tech stack. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company was co-founded in 2018 by a team of ex-Meta engineers with a mission to change how people engage with businesses around them. To learn more, visit www.akia.com
About Veriff
Veriff is the industry leader in online identity verification, helping businesses achieve greater levels of trust and making the internet a better place for everyone. Our intelligent decision engine analyzes thousands of technological and behavioral variables linked to government IDs from over 190 countries. Founded in 2015, Veriff serves a global portfolio of organizations across the fintech, crypto, and mobility sectors. Veriff's investors include Tiger Capital and Alkeon. Veriff's latest $100 million investment round brings its total funding to $200 million and its valuation to $1.5 billion. With offices in the United States, United Kingdom Spain, and Estonia, and 550 people from 60 different nationalities, every day we're dedicated to helping businesses and individuals build a more secure world. To learn more, visit www.veriff.com
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A Trenton Central High School security guard needed minor medical care after being knocked down during another student fight.
A widely circulated video showed several security personnel attempting to break up numerous fights as school ended on Thursday afternoon.
Footage shows the security guard off her feet after being caught in the middle of one fight. She found herself under at least one fallen student, plus, a metal detector apparatus.
The incident occurred inside a main entrance on the Chambers St. side of Trenton High. While several social media platforms restrict videos about school fights, here’s a blow-by-blow account of this latest incident.
One felled male student ensured the worst beating as an assailant kicked him several times in the head while an accomplice attempted several body blows. Security guards engaged two males and while distracted, another male approached. He missed with a vicious right hook but gathered himself to land a thunderous left hook to the young man’s head.
Security guards engaged in hands-on individual fights. They were overmatched in a scene that looked more like a prison outbreak than school activity. Meanwhile, other students corralled as they waited for a break in action before escaping from the building.
What an embarrassment. With frequent fights, school officials should add an extracurricular activity of ‘Fight Club’ for students who engage regularly in these disturbing antics. Recovery from violence requires similar strategies for escape from addiction, including an initial admission of this serious problem.
Trenton schools face a violence epidemic with myriad incidents being reported and unreported dating back to a turbulent 2021-2022 school year. This school session includes several high-visibility fights and other events at Trenton Ninth Grade Academy.
Incredibly, school officials, including Superintendent James Earle, plus, Mayor Reed Gusciora show a reluctance to publicly engage this issue.
One parent, whose daughter suffered a past attack, challenged that someone will have to endure serious injury before officials take action.
“Nothing’s going to be done until somebody gets killed in that school,” Yarissa Roldan warned, after a classmate sucker-punched her daughter. The blow rendered the teen unconscious. The early December incident sent two female students to Capital Health Regional Medical Center.
“My daughter had her face punched and head slammed into the floor. Her face is swollen and they checked for a concussion. Her friend had parts of hair pulled out of her head.”
Roldan testified during a Trenton Board of Education meeting in December. She expressed fear in sending her daughter back to Trenton High. Meanwhile, security personnel seem overwhelmed as they attempt to maintain order.
This latest fight video underscores physical disadvantages of security staff members. In this incident, female security guards were overmatched as male students broke free of their restraints.
Bottom line, these behaviors rate as unacceptable on numerous levels. Trenton needs a zero tolerance agenda on violence before someone does face serious injury. Just one punch or kick could plunge Trenton into extreme conditions.
Finally, remaining silent and inactive will not resolve our city’s issues with violence. Officials must create a plan ten enact those measures to stop the scourge of violence in our schools.
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East Carolina outlasts Memphis in 4OT homecoming victory
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — C.J. Johnson caught a two-point conversion pass from Holton Ahlers in the fourth overtime and East Carolina outlasted Memphis 47-45 for a wild homecoming victory. Memphis failed to score in the fourth overtime. Excluding East Carolina’s 19-second possession at the end of the fourth quarter, nine of the last 10 possessions ended with the offense in the end zone. East Carolina trailed for much of regulation but got a big boost from safety Julius Wood, whose 47-yard interception return in the third quarter tied the game for the first time at 20-all. Wood also had 11 tackles, six solo.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The son of a Russian businessman close to President Vladimir Putin denied any wrongdoing Tuesday at the start of his trial in northern Norway, where he is accused of violating a law that bars Russians from flying drones.
Andrey Yakunin who holds both a Russian and a British passport, was arrested in Hammerfest, in Arctic Norway, on Oct. 17, after he had sailed around the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and along the coast of Norway. The archipelago sits more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of the Norwegian mainland.
Police seized “drones and electronic devices” when raiding his sailing boat. The 47-year-old Yakunin had been filming with the drone while mountaineering, glacier walking and sailing, according to his lawyer John Christian Elden, who has said that Yakunin should be considered a British citizen, rather than Russian.
Norwegian news agency NTB said that Yakunin is charged with flying drones several times on Svalbard, where he was between Aug. 3 and Sept. 6.
Yakunin is the son of Russian businessman Vladimir Yakunin, a longtime acquaintance of Putin, who was placed on the U.S. State Department’s sanctions list of Russian officials and businessmen following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Yakunin remains in custody. His trial is expected to run until Friday.
Numerous drone sightings have been reported near offshore oil and gas platforms belonging to NATO member Norway, a major oil and gas producer. Several Russian citizens have been detained for flying drones or taking photographs of sensitive sites in Norway.
Also Tuesday, a 50-year-old Russian man who was stopped at Norway’s border with Russia in the Arctic north carrying two drones and cameras and other media equipment was sentenced to 120 days in prison, Norwegian media reported.
No evidence was found by the Oslo District Court that the man was engaged in espionage, Norwegian broadcaster TV2 said.
But by flying his drone a total of 47 times from late August until early October he was found guilty by the court of violating drone regulations relating to Russian citizens.
It was not clear from the court’s decision what precisely the man is suspected of having filmed.
Last week, a 34-year-old Russian was sentenced to 90 days in prison for flying a drone. The man, who was not identified, was also not suspected of espionage. He admitted to flying the drone in southern Norway to photograph nature, claiming to be unaware that this was banned.
Under Norwegian law, it is prohibited for aircraft operated by Russian companies or citizens “to land on, take off from or fly over Norwegian territory.” Norway is not a member of the European Union but mirrors its moves and decided on the ban earlier this year after the invasion of Ukraine.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Carson Beck closed Georgia’s spring practice as the leader, but not yet the winner, of the quarterback competition.
Beck is at the front of the line to replace Stetson Bennett, who led Georgia to back-to-back national championships for the first time in school history. Beck opened Saturday’s G-Day scrimmage with the first-team offense, closing the Bulldogs’ spring practice schedule as the favorite — but not yet the starter.
“I’d say I’m content with the way I attacked and performed through the spring and approached the competition side of it,” Beck said.
Brock Vandagriff also had snaps with the No. 1 offense Saturday and throughout the spring. Gunner Stockton is the third contender.
Coach Kirby Smart said he’d have to review tape from the scrimmage before evaluating the performances. Smart said Beck, a junior, earned the first opportunity with the starters on Saturday because “he’s had the most practice reps.”
Beck was Bennett’s backup the last two seasons. He showed good accuracy, completing 15 of 22 passes for 231 yards and one touchdown, in the scrimmage. Vandagriff passed for two touchdowns and had a 23-yard run.
“I think I put together a pretty good spring,” Vandagriff said. “… It’s a good, healthy competition between us two. You want to see the other guy do well.”
Beck acknowledged it hasn’t been easy to spend most of his time on the sideline the last three years, including a redshirt season, waiting for this opportunity. Georgia’s runaway wins during its undefeated 2022 season provided opportunities for Beck (6-foot-4, 215 pounds) to play behind Bennett in seven games and complete 26 of 35 passes for 310 yards and four touchdowns.
“Obviously it’s really difficult and I think it’s difficult for anybody when you come out of high school,” Beck said last week. “Really everybody who has come here has had to sit. We’re all four-star and five-star guys here and we’ve had a ton of them, but there have been a lot of guys who have had to sit and I’m sure every one of them would agree with me that it’s very difficult.”
Vandagriff (6-3, 205) was a hometown recruit from Prince Avenue Christian School in Athens. He said he considers himself to be a drop-back quarterback, even though he was rated among the top dual-threat players in his high school class.
Bennett recently showed off his arm strength by firing a fastball when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Atlanta Braves’ home opener. He was a former walk-on at Georgia who had an unusual wait, having to transfer before returning to play on the scout team and finally capitalizing on his chance.
Bennett again hopes to surprise experts who project he will be a late-round pick in the NFL draft, which begins on April 27. Bennett and other 2022 seniors posed with their national championship rings on the field during the scrimmage.
Georgia’s changes on offense this spring have included what Smart described as “an easy transition” to Mike Bobo as offensive coordinator after Todd Monken was hired to lead the Baltimore Ravens’ offense.
NOTES: DL Bear Alexander, a sophomore, entered the transfer portal. He had two tackles for losses and a sack in the national championship win over TCU. “That’s the way of the world,” said Smart of players who are “looking for greener pastures. … More power to them.” … Georgia unveiled its new mascot in its long line of solid white English bulldogs. Que, who was Uga X, is retiring with a 91-18 record. The 10-month-old Boom was introduced as Uga XI. … Georgia took a deliberate delay of game penalty before the first play to honor former offensive lineman Devin Willock and Chandler LeCroy, a 24-year-old recruiting staffer, who were killed in a car wreck on Jan. 15, hours after a parade and national championship celebration.
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LOS ANGELES, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, BIG3 announced a partnership with VYRE Network to stream games for its fifth season, which tips off on June 18 at Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago, Il. VYRE, a Black-Owned streaming platform with worldwide reach through apps on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire Stick, Android, iPhone, Samsung Smart TVs and on the web, will also give fans and users the chance to rewatch every BIG3 game from the league's first four seasons on demand.
Key Features of the Partnership Include:
- 29 Hours of Live Season 5 games to air across the USA and its worldwide platform
- 25 Hours of Live Season 5 games to air in international markets (outside the USA and its territories)
- Development of Original Content
- Behind-the-scenes access for VYRE viewers
- On Court Signage
- Rights to the full catalog of the league's first four years
"We are so excited to have VYRE join the BIG3 family," said BIG3 CEO, Chris Hannan. "We are thrilled to be partnering with a platform that offers a free to download and watch frictionless platform. With VYRE cofounders David and Lamar, we found a like-minded partner with a growing business that shares our vision for reaching diverse audiences."
"You have to take what you love and make it your career. Ice Cube did it with Hip Hop and now basketball. We are honored to have VYRE Network added to the BIG3 journey," said VYRE President and Co-Founder, David Hill."
"This partnership hits home on so many levels because I've always been a fan of Ice Cube and his ventures outside of music. VYRE Sports and the BIG3 are the perfect match for the next generation of sports enthusiasts and fanatics," said VYRE COO and Co-Founder, Lamar Seay.
Sports fans and new users can stream free live games and exclusive Pay Per View combat sports events through the VYRE App or vyresports.com.
Known as a ground-breaking league that focuses on innovation, the BIG3 has already sold multiple $25,000 Fire-Tier NFTs to renowned Crypto leaders and communities, including DeGods, Bill Lee and MyDoge/DogeCoin, Snoop Dogg and Ken Howery, Gary Vaynerchuk of VeeFriends, Krause House DAO, Sunny Madra, Kevin Rose and MOONBIRDS, King of Midtown, along with a team led by Wave Financial and their Bored Ape. The league has implemented several key rule changes for the 2021 season including doubling the number of open tryouts, lowering the minimum player age, and creating the 'Bring the Fire' rule allowing teams one challenge per half determined by an in-game one-on-one.
Full broadcast schedule with CBS, VYRE and additional partners will be announced next week.
To learn more about the BIG3, go to BIG3.com and follow @thebig3 on twitter and instagram.
ABOUT BIG3:
BIG3 (BIG3.com) is who we are, FIREBALL3 is what we play. It's not your grandfather's 3-on-3. The premier global BIG3 league features many of the greatest, most popular and skilled professional athletes of all time. Founded by producer, actor and music legend Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, the BIG3 combines highly competitive, physical, fast game experiences and incredible fan experiences.
VYRE Network:
VYRE Network (OTC Pink: CAPV) (a wholly-owned Cabo Verde Capital company, "VYRE" or the "Company") is a publicly traded, TV, movie, and live event streaming platform that licenses, broadcasts, and produces a vast catalog of exclusive and non-exclusive content to a global audience. Through apps on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire Stick, Android, iPhone, Samsung Smart TVs and on the web.
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Oscar Health, Inc. (NYSE: OSCR) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with the Company's March 2021 initial public offering ("IPO" or the "Offering"), of the important July 11, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Oscar securities pursuant and/or traceable to the Registration Statement you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Oscar class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6200 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 11, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the Registration Statement was materially false and misleading and omitted to state that: (1) Oscar was experiencing growing COVID-19 testing and treatment costs; (2) Oscar was experiencing growing net COVID-19 costs; (3) Oscar would be negatively impacted by an unfavorable prior year Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) result relating to 2019 and 2020; (4) Oscar was on track to be negatively impacted by significant Special Enrollment Period (SEP) membership growth; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about Oscar's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Oscar class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6200 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – According to the most recent census, 17.8% of Louisianians live in poverty.
Inflation continues to hold the nation in its grip, a fact illustrated by the rising costs of food, housing, and other basic life necessities.
Many locals are attempting to adapt to the current economical climate by scaling back on large purchases and changing their budgets.
Listed below are five financial habits that, when applied, may result in saving as much as $200 monthly:
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Pause Paid Streaming Services
It may save you $40-$50 monthly to temporarily cancel your paid streaming services and watch your favorite shows using free streaming options like Peacock.
#2
Save Money on Groceries
Before writing your shopping list, set a budget and stick to it. Make sure your list includes plenty of breakfast foods and generic brands as these are typically very inexpensive.
Instead of buying ready-made packs of fresh fruit and/or vegetables that have already been cut and peeled, purchase the more affordable raw fruits and veggies that you have to peel and cut yourself.
Make good use of coupons by downloading them virtually or using the offers that come in the mail from time to time.
After writing your shopping list, select a grocery store that offers the best value. And avoid impulse buys by eating something before you go shopping. This will prevent a hungry stomach from manipulating you into last-minute purchases that exceed your budget.
#3
Stop Eating Out and Dine In
For the time being, prepare all of your own meals instead of eating out at a restaurant or grabbing something quick from a fast food joint. Not only is this typically better for your health, but it’s also easier on the wallet.
According to one source, if you eat lunch out Monday through Friday and spend $10 for a meal, that’s a total of $200 monthly. That number is in sharp contrast to a monthly expense of $80, which is the estimated cost of eating lunches that you’ve prepared at home Monday through Friday. This is because the average meal prepared at home costs approximately $4 to make.
#4
Replace a gym membership with home workouts
While gym memberships can help you stay fit, they can also leave your wallet a little too skinny. One article states that the average person with a gym membership wastes $40 per month because they don’t use it.
Instead of paying a fee to use a gym, check out free workout apps or workout programs on YouTube and exercise at home. The same principle applies to other memberships you pay for but do not use. Instead of continuing to pay monthly fees, cancel the memberships.
#5
Replace Coffee Shop Stops With Home Brewed Goodness
According to CNBC, “The average American spends $1,100 every year (or $3 per day) on coffee, according to a 2017 “Money that Matters” report from Acorns. Even if you take the inexpensive route and swap the $3 latte for a $1.50 cup of joe, your daily caffeine run will still cost you about $540 annually.”
With a little creativity and a dash of self-control, it’s possible to save hundreds of dollars monthly.
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Temple University is withholding tuition and health care benefits for more than 100 working graduate students who are on strike for better pay.
Some research and teaching assistants at the public school in Philadelphia received an email notice on Wednesday that their tuition remission had been revoked for the spring semester, "as a result of your participation in the [Temple University Graduate Students' Association union] strike." Tuition remission, a benefit offered by many schools to help finance employees' tuition costs, covers $20,000 a year at Temple, according to the university.
Temple is now requiring the graduate students to pay their tuition balance by March 9 to stay enrolled in classes, or else accrue a $100 late fee.
Lol “for my convenience” pic.twitter.com/bc6GjMtbDS
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"This is needlessly cruel," Matthew Ford, a lead negotiator for TUGSA, told The Washington Post. "It has definitely angered and energized a lot of people." Since the graduate benefits were cut off, Ford said, more people have joined the strike.
Graduate students took to the picket lines on Jan. 31, after over a year of stalled negotiations between Temple and the graduate student union. The union is accusing the school of paying wages that fail to cover Philadelphia's cost of living. TUGSA has not responded to NPR's emails and direct messages.
Temple said in a statement on Thursday that students were warned that taking part in the strike and not showing up to work would cause them to lose their full compensation package, which includes tuition assistance and free health care insurance. Pennsylvania law prohibits workers who refuse to work from receiving compensation and work-related benefits, the university said.
More than 80% of union-affiliated graduate students continue to work and receive full pay, health benefits and tuition remission, Temple said.
The union, which represents about 750 TAs and RAs, is proposing an annual base wage of $32,800, up from the current $19,500 average salary graduate students receive. Temple's proposal raises the base salary for graduate employees to $22,500 by 2026, according to TUGSA.
Union members are also calling for expanded parental leave, beyond the current five days allotted, as well as affordable family health care, which they say can cost up to 86% of their salaries.
Temple said that students who return to work can get their benefits restored immediately.
"Returning to work does not mean individuals cannot picket or voice their concerns," university Communications Director Stephen Orbanek said in a statement to NPR. "It just means they must work to earn compensation and benefits, like anyone else."
Critics are calling the move a brazen union-busting tactic.
"This retaliation tactic by Temple is unacceptable," Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said in a tweet. "The right to organize—and to strike—is foundational in a democracy."
Philadelphia's city council on Thursday passed a resolution in support of TUGSA's demands.
The workers at Temple are the latest in a recent wave of labor protests by grad students who have gone on strike for better pay and working conditions, including at Harvard and University of California campuses.
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Hanover's Zach Tracy is congratulated by teammates Andrew McGuire, left, and Jack McGrath after scoring a goal during Thursday's Division I game against Memorial in Hanover.
Hanover’s Zach Tracy (7) celebrates with teammates, from left, Jack Gardner, Ryder Hayes, Jack McGrath and Andrew McGuire after scoring the game’s only goal on Thursday against visiting Manchester Memorial. For more photos, visit UnionLeader.com. JOSH GIBNEY/
Hanover's Zach Tracy is congratulated by teammates Andrew McGuire, left, and Jack McGrath after scoring a goal during Thursday's Division I game against Memorial in Hanover.
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Memorial's Nawras Mostafa settles the ball in front of Hanover's Zach Tracy during Thursday's Division I game in Hanover.
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Memorial's Tyler Telge works his way around Hanover's Hayes Ryder during Thursday's Division I game in Hanover.
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Hanover's Ian Smith collides with Memorial's Dollby St. Louis during Thursday's Division I game in Hanover.
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Dollby St. Louis fights through Hanover's Ian Press, left, and Andrew McGuire during Thursday's Division I game in Hanover.
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Memorial's Vianny Irumva defends Hanover's Carter Guerin during Thursday's Division I game in Hanover.
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Hanover's Carter Guerin and Memorial's Vianny Irumva battle for possession during Thursday's Division I game in Hanover.
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Hanover's Andrew McGuire battles with Memorial's Charlie Forbush during Thursday's Division I game in Hanover.
The Hanover High School boys soccer team ended Manchester Memorial’s undefeated start to the season with a late first-half, set-piece goal on Thursday.
Zach Tracy scored the game’s lone goal on a Hanover corner kick with 28 seconds left before halftime in the Bears’ 1-0 Division I home win over Memorial.
Tracy received the ball after a Carter Guerin corner kick and a header flick pass from Ryder Hayes.
The Bears (3-1) then controlled possession and had six of their seven corner kicks in the second half to secure the victory.
“What a back breaker to score in the last minute,” Hanover coach Rob Grabill said of Tracy’s goal. “But the play was set up by a great offensive play — a nice combination at the end that resulted in a corner kick. You get an opportunity, you take advantage of it.”
The Crusaders (3-1) did not register a shot on goal and finished with three corner kick opportunities. Arguably their best scoring chance came on an Artur Moura header inside the 18-yard box that went wide of the goal in the 61st minute.
Yousif Hikmat made four saves for Memorial. Ty Nolon earned the clean sheet in goal for Hanover.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
206 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...South to west winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
expected.
* WHERE...Eastern Sierra Slopes, Owens Valley, White Mountains
of Inyo County, Death Valley National Park and Western Mojave
Desert.
* WHEN...From noon to 9 PM PDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Areas of blowing dust or sand resulting in briefly lowered
visibilities.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Locally stronger winds up to 55 mph
possible near and below canyon openings along the slopes of the
southern Sierra in Inyo County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING
THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations 3 to 8
inches above 5000 feet with 10 to 18 inches above 7500 feet.
Winds could gust as high as 45 mph.
* WHERE...Western Plumas County/Lassen Park.
* WHEN...From Tuesday morning through Wednesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Be prepared for significant reductions in
visibility.
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING...
inches above 5000 feet with 9 to 14 inches above 7500 feet.
Winds could gust as high as 55 mph.
* WHERE...West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada.
* WHEN...From Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday evening.
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MLM owners and hearing industry veterans Amir Hadar and Jonathan Weizman add to their approximately 30 Beltone Canada locations as the first and only Beltone independent owners operating across North America
CHICAGO, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Beltone, named America's #1 Hearing Care Retailer & Best in Customer Service by Newsweek, is pleased to announce the expansion of MLM Hearing, LLC (MLM) Beltone locations into the United States. MLM currently operates 29 Beltone Canada locations and has now acquired 59 Beltone locations in the U.S. making them the first and only Beltone independent distributors to operate in both the U.S. and Canada.
Hearing industry veterans and MLM owners, Amir Hadar and Jonathan Weizman, joined Beltone Canada over a year ago. Since then, they have acquired and successfully expanded Beltone's footprint in various provinces across Canada and were named Beltone Canada Dispensers of the Year for 2022. With the acquisition of their U.S. locations, MLM now owns and operates 88 Beltone offices throughout North America and is poised to be one of the largest Beltone independent owners within the next couple of years.
"As long-time professionals in our industry, we are thrilled about what this merger means to our rapidly expanding organization. With Beltone, we are now able to leverage a household name that has not only been around for over 80 years but has further undergone a massive revamping in recent history", said Amir Hadar, CEO of MLM Hearing, LLC. "While employing strategies which have helped propel us to incredible industry heights over the past 15 years, we plan to fully justify the trust which has now been placed in us by Beltone to exceed and excel, while maintaining our 'Patient First' and 'Employee First' methodologies."
"MLM's merger with Wolverine Hearing will lead to tremendous opportunities for all involved and we are happy to be working closely with Beltone as our brand of choice. Beltone has been a market leader for many decades, and we share an expansive vision for the future. Working with Beltone in Canada for the last 18 months has provided us with an opportunity to strengthen what is certain to be a mutually beneficial and growing relationship for many years to come", said Jonathan Weizman, President of MLM Hearing, LLC. "With the experienced team of professionals and industry veterans we have on board, there is virtually no limit to what can be achieved. Together, we will reach new heights to the benefit of the hearing healthcare industry and the patients we steadfastly serve."
"Having industry veterans like Amir and Jonathan as part of the Beltone family exemplifies our purpose of bringing people closer. With their proven track record in Canada, we look forward to seeing all the great things that Beltone and MLM will do together for years to come," says David Molella, President of Beltone North America.
For those who own hearing aid practices in the U.S. or Canada and are ready to make a change and hand over the reins, give MLM a call as they are eager to continue to expand their Beltone location presence across North America.
For more information, please contact ahadar@ml-mgt.com or jweizman@ml-mgt.com, or call 973-794-6767.
About Beltone
For more than 80 years, Beltone has been one of the nation's most trusted and leading hearing care provider. In addition to providing some of the most reliable, affordable, and advanced hearing aids, we also pride ourselves on serving as a partner to our patients every step of the way during their hearing health journey. With approximately 1,500 Beltone locations nationwide, each office is a local business part of the community it serves and the hearing care professional and staff at your local Beltone will get to know you to provide a personalized experience during your journey to better hearing. And with a nationwide network, you can expect this level of personalized service wherever you go. Our Beltone hearing care professionals receive extensive training and education, so they are always equipped with the latest knowledge to bring you the best care. Proudly part of the GN Group, Beltone continues to focus on the needs of our patients through the research and development of innovative new hearing technologies to allow you to hear what truly matters the most. To learn more, please visit us at www.beltone.com and on LinkedIn.
About MLM Hearing, LLC:
In partnership with Beltone, MLM Hearing, LLC ("MLM") was formed in 2021 to acquire audiology and dispensing clinics throughout Canada. Its recent merger with the Wolverine Hearing Group now affords MLM the opportunity to enter the US Market in impressive fashion. Our plans for swift and ongoing expansion in both countries are already very much in motion. The combination of scalability, the contribution of MLM's leadership, expertise, and prior industry successes, will all help provide our employees and patients with best-in-class hearing healthcare, a warm-hearted company culture, and the utmost professionalism and care. Our ever-expanding business relationship with Beltone will surely result in greater efficiencies and serve to significantly increase the group's US and Canadian market share.
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Winter Storm Warning issued November 27 at 1:00PM MST until November 29 at 11:00AM MST by NWS Pocatello ID
* WHAT…Heavy snow. Additional snow accumulations of 2 to 8
inches, except 2 to 11 inches on ridge tops and elevations
above passes. Winds gusting as high as 40 mph.
* WHERE…The eastern and southeaster highlands, from the Montana
border to north of Bear Lake Basin. This includes the towns of Wayan,
Swan Valley, Victor, Ashton, Tetonia, Driggs, Island Park, and
Kilgore.
* WHEN…Until 11 AM MST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS…Plan on slippery road conditions. Blowing and
drifting snow could make travel difficult.
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
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FARMER, Ophelia Elizabeth "Taffy"
Age 99 of Beavercreek, OH, formerly of Louisville, passed away on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. She is survived by her son Barry (Sharon) Farmer, their daughters Robin (Jason) Hissam and Karen (Greg) Roth, and great-grandchildren Dylan Hissam, Harper Hissam, and Etta Roth, and by her son Robert (Karen) Farmer and their daughter Isabelle. When she lived in Louisville, Ophelia was an active member of Melbourne Heights Baptist Church. She attributed her long life to her love of walking. While in Beavercreek she enjoyed many activities with friends at her apartment. Graveside services will be held at the convenience of the family at Farmer Cemetery, Tyner, KY. www.tobiasfuneralhome.com.
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Acquisition makes BMO a leader in carbon credit development, emissions measurement capabilities, and the environmental commodity market
TORONTO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BMO Financial Group (NYSE: BMO) (TSX: BMO) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Radicle Group Inc., a Calgary-based leader in sustainability advisory services and solutions, and technology-driven emissions measurement and management.
The transaction is subject to receipt of required regulatory approvals and other customary conditions. It is expected to close by the end of calendar 2022. Terms were not disclosed.
Founded in 2008, Radicle has established a reputation as a leading developer of carbon offsets and for helping organizations measure and reduce emissions. Radicle has 130 employees and over 4,000 clients globally.
"The acquisition of Radicle supports BMO's Climate Ambition to be our clients' lead partner in the transition to a net-zero world, and the progress we're making for a thriving economy, a sustainable future, and an inclusive society," said Dan Barclay, CEO, BMO Capital Markets. "Radicle's leading expertise and innovative solutions make BMO a leader in carbon credit development capabilities and the environmental commodity market. These capabilities enhance our commitment to help our clients understand and manage the risks and opportunities of energy transition."
Upon closing, the Radicle management team and employees will become part of BMO Capital Markets' Global Markets group.
"We are very excited to join BMO Capital Markets," said Saj Shapiro, CEO, Radicle. "Radicle's mission is to enable planet-positive solutions by balancing economic interests with ecological impact. By joining BMO, Radicle will be able to continue serving its existing customers, accelerate its emissions reduction efforts, scale its activities across BMO's client network, develop additional sustainability services, and enter new markets."
Carbon markets play an important part in curbing the effects of climate change and enabling a sustainable future. Carbon markets have grown substantially around the globe in recent years as organizations and individuals manage risk and help scale the technologies needed to reach net zero.
In connection with the transaction, BMO Capital Markets acted as financial advisor and Torys LLP acted as legal counsel to BMO. Citi acted as financial advisor and Borden Ladner Gervais LLP acted as legal counsel to Radicle.
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $1.04 trillion as of April 30, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
Radicle helps guide today's progressive companies towards tomorrow's sustainable future. From early beginnings in Calgary, Canada, when Radicle developed an advanced software platform to measure, qualify, and aggregate greenhouse gas emissions, the company has taken root internationally to leverage data, insights, and technology to safeguard our shared tomorrow. Radicle works to enable planet-positive solutions by increasing efficiency while lowering costs and emissions, based on the belief that financial and environmental sustainability are two sides of the same coin: balance between the two is possible. For more information, please visit radiclebalance.com to learn more.
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements. All such statements are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of, and are intended to be forward-looking statements under, the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and any applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking statements in this document may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the expected closing of the proposed transaction, plans for the integration of Radicle Group Inc., our strategies or future actions, our targets and commitments, the regulatory environment in which we operate, the results of, or outlook for, our operations, and include statements made by our management. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "will", "would", "should", "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "project", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "goal", "commit", "target", "may", "might", "schedule", "forecast" and "could" or negative or grammatical variations thereof.
By their nature, forward-looking statements require us to make assumptions and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific in nature. There is significant risk that predictions, forecasts, conclusions or projections will not prove to be accurate, that our assumptions may not be correct, and that actual results may differ materially from such predictions, forecasts, conclusions or projections. The uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened this risk, given the increased challenge in making assumptions, predictions, forecasts, conclusions or projections. We caution readers of this document not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements, as a number of factors – many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict – could cause actual future results, conditions, actions or events to differ materially from the targets, expectations, estimates or intentions expressed in the forward-looking statements.
The future outcomes that relate to forward-looking statements may be influenced by many factors, including, but not limited to: the possibility that the proposed transaction does not close when expected or at all because required regulatory approvals and other conditions to closing are not received or satisfied on a timely basis or at all or are received subject to adverse conditions or requirements; the anticipated benefits from the proposed transaction are not realized in the time frame anticipated or at all as a result of changes in general economic and market conditions, laws and regulations and their enforcement, and the degree of competition in the business areas in which Radicle Group Inc. operates; the business of Radicle Group Inc. may not perform as expected or in a manner consistent with historical performance; the ability to promptly and effectively integrate Radicle Group Inc.; diversion of management time on transaction-related issues; the evolution of our lending portfolios over time, the need for active and continued participation of stakeholders (including enterprises, financial institutions and governmental and non-governmental organizations), the development and deployment of new technologies and industry-specific solutions, international cooperation, the development of regulations internationally, our ability to successfully implement various initiatives under expected time frames and the compliance of various third parties with our policies and procedures and legal requirements; and those other factors discussed in the Risks That May Affect Future Results section, and the sections related to credit and counterparty, market, insurance, liquidity and funding, operational non-financial, legal and regulatory, strategic, environmental and social, and reputation risk, in the Enterprise-Wide Risk Management section of BMO's 2021 Annual Report, and the Risk Management section in BMO's Second Quarter 2022 MD&A, all of which outline certain key factors and risks that may affect our future results and our ability to anticipate and effectively manage risks arising from all of the foregoing factors. We caution that the foregoing list is not exhaustive of all possible factors. Other factors and risks could adversely affect our results. Investors and others should carefully consider these factors and risks, as well as other uncertainties and potential events, and the inherent uncertainty of forward-looking statements.
We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time by the organization or on its behalf, except as required by law. The forward-looking information contained in this document is presented for the purpose of assisting shareholders and analysts in understanding the proposed transaction and may not be appropriate for other purposes.
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Hunter Biden's email to Burisma business partner infers 'direct access' to classified information: Cruz
Lawyers in the Biden doc scandal allege he donated 1,850 boxes of material, 415 gigabytes of digital records to the University of Delaware
Sen. Ted Cruz sounded off on an email Hunter Biden sent to a Burisma colleague, alleging the correspondence indicates he had access to classified material as new information is revealed regarding the magnitude of Biden's latest scandal.
Cruz joined "Sunday Morning Futures" to discuss why the email was "unusual" and how it infers that he had "direct access" to the information that could be tied to Biden's alleged mishandling of thousands of records.
"Hunter Biden didn't write that," Cruz told Maria Bartiromo. "Hunter Biden is not an expert on Ukraine. He's not an expert on Eastern Europe. He's not an expert on Russia, but that email did help get him on the board of Burisma. It did help get him paid $83,000 a month because it showed a level of expertise not coming from him, but he was getting it from somewhere. That's clearly from some sort of briefing. We don't know whether it was a classified briefing or not, but that is the sort of analysis that is often within a classified briefing."
WHITE HOUSE STONEWALLS FOX NEWS' PETER DOOCY ON BIDEN CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: ‘WHY DID HE DO IT?'
"And this email is unusual in the Hunter Biden emails, there's a level of scholarship and erudition that if it magically appeared, somehow it doesn't appear in the other emails he's sending," he continued. "The obvious question is what was he cutting and pasting from? What was his source? And it raises the natural inference that Hunter Biden had direct access to these classified documents."
The email in question was from 2014 - Hunter Biden sent the correspondence to Devon Archer, who was also on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company.
Lawmakers have been quick to note the content of the email implies a level of energy expertise Hunter did not have, alleging he could have had access to classified information - which, in turn, could be tied to the several discoveries of classified documents tied to his father, found in various unsecured locations.
Bartiromo said lawyers involved in the scandal revealed Biden donated 1,850 boxes of material and 415 gigabytes of digital records to the University of Delaware.
But questions regarding who had access to the material remain unanswered.
"Hunter Biden, at times, declared his residence to be those very same places," Cruz said. "And so I believe the natural next step that is necessary is for the FBI to examine the 1850 plus boxes of documents from Joe Biden's Senate tenure that's at the University of Delaware, and I also believe it is critical for the FBI to search Hunter Biden's homes, home and office residences to make sure there are no classified documents there, given all the evidence that's piling up. We need to ascertain who's had access to what and when."
But yet another scathing question in the scandal also remains unanswered: who funded the archival of the records?
The University of Delaware has yet to release information on who was financially responsible for maintaining the records, which Cruz deemed "unacceptable."
Bartiromo asked if it's possible China could have funded the venture directly.
"That's certainly a reasonable inference, it seems," Cruz responded. "Certainly when Joe Biden went to Penn, communist China paid millions of dollars to fund what he was doing. Communist China, we also know, paid Hunter Biden and the Biden family millions of dollars, and so there's a long history of communist China writing checks."
"The fact that the University of Delaware has tried to keep these documents secret - in fact, it said it's not going to release any of them until two years after Biden leaves public office - I think that's unacceptable," he continued.
The latest development comes as Republican lawmakers have grown frustrated with their investigation into the matter, accusing the White House of stifling the effort to answer lingering questions.
They have also accused the National Archives of ignoring their quest for clarity; House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., requested the Archives' communications with the Biden team over the matter.
The deadline for the documents passed days ago without any response.
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Nonetheless, an official from the National Archives is expected to answer questions, on the record, before the committee on Tuesday in a bid to gain clarity on the controversy.
"There's an entirely different level that we need to know, which is whether any of these classified documents that Joe Biden had illegally, in multiple locations, involved his own family's business activities and potential corruption, whether they involve Burisma and Ukraine, whether they involve communist China and the entities that were paying the Biden family millions of dollars," Cruz said.
"If he, in fact, had classified documents that implicate his own financial well-being, that raises the potential of very serious criminal liability," he continued.
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Troopers rescue bunny along Minnesota highway
Published: Apr. 6, 2023 at 11:53 AM CDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC/Gray News) - A pair of Minnesota state troopers found an unusual suspect on the side of a highway in Minnesota.
Troopers Andy Kutz and Chelsea Yeager found a bunny along U.S. Highway 169 about two miles north of Mankato on Monday.
The troopers took the bunny to the Blue Earth-Nicollet County Humane Society where he was taken care of overnight Monday. He was then taken to a nearby bunny rescue.
The bunny has since earned the nickname Mr. Trooper.
Mr. Trooper is believed to have been a pet rabbit that was dropped off along the highway.
If the owners aren’t found, the animal rescue will work on finding Mr. Trooper a good home.
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INDY Week: What does the 2022 congressional redistricting in North Carolina mean for the election?
Asher Hildebrand: Well, the current [North Carolina] congressional delegation includes 13 members, eight Republicans and five Democrats. North Carolina, because of its population growth, received a 14th seat after the reapportionment.
Through a long saga of map drawing and legal challenges … [we got] a map drawn not by the General Assembly but by a bipartisan panel of so-called “special masters” appointed by a state court. [The map] is very likely to produce seven Republican seats, six Democratic seats, and one true toss-up in the 13th District.
Now, in terms of partisan fairness, this is probably the fairest map we’ve had in the history of the state. The court took great pains to make sure that the balance of districts reflected the overall balance of political preferences in the state. That came a bit at the expense of competitiveness in that you really see only the one district [the 13th District] … that’s up for grabs. That’s where Wiley Nickel and Bo Hines are running against each other in the south Raleigh suburbs and exurbs.
What do you think will happen in the 13th District?
I think Wiley [Nickel] has a very good chance at the seat. He’s been a candidate who is far more in touch with the needs of the district. After all, he actually lives there, as opposed to Bo Hines, who has picked up and moved there.
On the other hand, it’s such a narrowly divided district that I think a lot will depend on the national environment, on the outcome of the U.S. Senate race in North Carolina. Wiley Nickel could potentially overperform the national ticket, so to speak, because of his fit with the district and because of Bo Hines’s kind of uniquely extreme character.
Bo Hines is being backed by former president Donald Trump. Will that work to his advantage?
This race is a microcosm of what you see happening around the country. Democrats nominate a candidate who is progressive but very much in the mainstream Democratic tradition. Whereas Republicans, despite there being more moderate candidates in the primary field, nominate someone who is very extreme ideologically and very much aligned with the kind of aggressive, anti-Democratic, pro-Trump wing of the party. Whether that’s an effective strategy or not, well, 2022 will be a big test of that.
It’s in part a test of how supportive Republican voters are of that kind of extremism. But it’s also kind of a test of just how far polarization has advanced. Have we come to the point where voters … whatever doubts they might have about someone like Bo Hines, would still rather elect him than stick their nose out and vote for a Democrat? If we’ve gotten to the point where the qualities of the candidate don’t matter all that much, and all that matters is the letter next to their name on the ballot, then I think that’s a pretty ominous sign for the future.
How important are the North Carolina seats in the overall struggle for control over the U.S. House?
The short answer is that every seat matters, given how narrow the margin is. Republicans are still favored overall to win the House for the simple reason that they don’t have to win a single Democratic district to do that. All they have to do is win the districts that Donald Trump carried in 2020.
But insofar as Democrats are able to buck the trend, to win swing districts, to continue to carry at least some of those seats that Donald Trump carried, that starts to really put the focus on seats like that 13th District in North Carolina that could swing the majority. So there’s a reason a lot of national leaders have been focused on that seat.
Even not including that seat, North Carolina will have one more likely Democratic seat in the new Congress relative to how it was before, because we moved from five likely Democratic seats to six [with the redistricting]. That sixth one is down in Charlotte and parts west, where Jeff Jackson is running. It’s not a shoo-in for Jeff, but I’d be very surprised if he doesn’t win it.
It’s refreshing to hear that the redistricting has made the election more balanced. Usually it goes to one extreme or another.
Well, let me depress you for a second. Because of the way it turned out, this is an interim map that will only be in existence for this election. The courts have been clear that the General Assembly will have to redraw the congressional map for the next election. And Republicans in the General Assembly, who are just irate at how the courts handled this … they’ve been pretty clear that they’re going to take every opportunity to exact revenge and draw a map that highly favors Republicans.
Plus, the Supreme Court is now hearing the Moore v. Harper case, which, if they rule in favor of Moore, will take the state courts out of the business of policing redistricting altogether. [It] will essentially be an invitation for every legislature to pursue extreme redistricting. So, the current map is maybe the fairest in history, but it’s also not long for this world.
What are some of the big issues voters are paying attention to in North Carolina?
Well, the two that rise to the top are the economy, which this year has included inflation and rising prices, and abortion rights.
Abortion rights are much more clearly defined, because the impact of the Dobbs decision for everybody, especially women and birth parents, is very present. In North Carolina, even though it’s not directly on the ballot in the form of a constitutional amendment or a referendum, it is indirectly on the ballot, because if Republicans win a supermajority in the General Assembly, they’ve been pretty clear about their intentions to enact additional restrictions.
That said, there’s been a lot of really interesting polls that are showing voters are concerned about issues of American democracy to a greater extent than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. In fact, [they are] sometimes ranking it as their number one issue of concern at the polls, which is just striking.
The January 6 hearings and other criminal investigations around Trump, as well as just the broader debate we’re having about voting rights and election integrity, are contributing to that. Voters very strongly see Democrats as more committed to democracy, although that breaks down on partisan lines.
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CHICAGO (AP) _ Byline Bancorp Inc. (BY) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $20.3 million.
The Chicago-based bank said it had earnings of 54 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $80.7 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $75.8 million, which did not meet Street forecasts.
Byline Bancorp shares have fallen roughly 8% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $25.19, a climb of almost 10% in the last 12 months.
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Golden Knights vs. Stars Stanley Cup Semifinals Game 1: Odds, total, moneyline and other Vegas lines
The Vegas Golden Knights host the Dallas Stars in the first game of the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Friday, May 19, starting at 8:30 PM ET on ESPN and ESPN+. The Golden Knights have -125 odds on the moneyline against the Stars (+105).
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Golden Knights vs. Stars Game Info
- When: Friday, May 19, 2023 at 8:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN and ESPN+
- Where: T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada
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- In 54 of 93 matches this season, Vegas and its opponent have combined to finish above 5.5 goals.
- The Golden Knights are 11-4 when favored on the moneyline this season.
- The Stars have been the underdog seven times this season, and upset their opponent in four of those games.
- When it has played with moneyline odds of -125 or shorter, Vegas is 11-4 (winning 73.3% of the time).
- Dallas is 2-3 when it is underdogs of +105 or longer on the moneyline.
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Migrants near US border face cold wait for key asylum ruling
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Hairdresser Grisel Garcés survived a harrowing, four-month journey from her native Venezuela through tropical jungles, migrant detention centers in southern Mexico and then jolting railcar rides north toward the U.S. border.
Now on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande across from El Paso, Texas, she’s anxiously awaiting a pending U.S. Supreme Court decision on asylum restrictions expected to affect her and thousands of other migrants at crossings along some 1,900 miles (3,100 kilometers) of border from Texas to California. And she’s doing so while living outside as winter temperatures plunge over much of the U.S. and across the border.
She told of fleeing economic hardship only to find more hardship, such as now having to shiver through temperatures colder than any she’s ever experienced.
“Riding the train was bad. Here the situation is even worse. You just turn yourself over to God’s mercy,” said Garcés, who left a school-aged daughter behind, hoping to reach the U.S. with her husband.
Their savings exhausted, some days they don’t eat. And on Thursday, Garcés waited and watched as hundreds of migrants formed a line to gradually pass through a gate in the border fence for processing by U.S. immigration officials. She fears immediate deportation under current asylum restrictions and doesn’t dare cross the shallow waters of the Rio Grande within view.
Dozens of migrants have been spending their nights on the concrete banks of the river, awaiting word of possible changes to the asylum restrictions put in place in March 2020. In El Paso, sidewalks are serving as living quarters outside a bus station and a church for some migrants who can’t find space immediately at an expanding network of shelters underwritten by the city and religious groups.
That Trump administration-era ban on asylum — Title 42 — was granted a brief extension by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday. It’s not clear when the Supreme Court’s definitive decision will come. The Biden administration asked the court to lift the restrictions, but not before Christmas.
Under Title 42, authorities have expelled asylum-seekers inside the United States 2.5 million times, and turned away most people who requested asylum at the border, on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Title 42 applies to all nationalities but has most affected people from countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and, more recently, Venezuela.
Immigration advocates have sued to end the use of Title 42. They say the policy goes against American and international obligations to people fleeing persecution and is outdated now that coronavirus treatments have improved.
Conservative-leaning states appealed to the Supreme Court, warning an increase in migration would take a toll on public services and cause an “unprecedented calamity” with which they fear the federal government has no plan to deal.
In El Paso, Texas National Guard members have taken up positions at the behest of the state, while volunteers and law enforcement officers worried some migrants could succumb to the cold. Nighttime temperatures have been in the 30s (below 3.8 degrees Celsius) and will be even colder in coming days.
Elsewhere, hundreds of migrants fashioned a makeshift encampment — with black plastic bags for crude tents — in a park in Matamoros, Mexico, near Brownsville, Texas.
Shivering in the cold after his recent expulsion from the U.S., a former Venezuelan navy military policeman, Carlos Hernandez, spoke about how he, his wife and their 3-year-old daughter recently struggled through the cold river, only to be turned back after reaching the other side.
Hernandez said he had a falling out with superiors in Venezuela for refusing orders to take action against government opponents in the navy. He said he hoped to cross again and eventually reach Canada.
“It was very cold,” he said of the river crossing.
In Tijuana, Mexico, across from San Diego, an estimated 5,000 migrants were staying in more than 30 shelters and many more renting rooms and apartments. Razor-topped walls rising 30 feet (9 meters) along the border with San Diego make illegal crossing daunting.
Francisco Palacios waited hours with his wife and 3-year-old daughter at a Tijuana-area border crossing at midweek before going to a hotel to nap. He said the family from the western Mexican city of Morelia awaits the court decision on whether and when to lift the pandemic-era restrictions that have prevented many from seeking asylum.
“We don’t have a choice,” Palacios said Wednesday, explaining his family arrived in Tijuana two weeks earlier to escape violence and gangs that for years extorted a chunk of their income selling fruit from a street cart.
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Spagat reported from Tijuana, Mexico. Associated Press writer Fabiola Sanchez contributed to this report from Matamoros, Mexico.
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NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX).
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Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 5, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Netflix, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Netflix was exhibiting slower acquisition growth due to, among other things, account sharing by customers and increased competition from other streaming services; (2) the Company was experiencing difficulties retaining customers; (3) as a result of the foregoing, the Company was losing subscribers on a net basis (4) as a result, the Company's financial results were being adversely affected; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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Strategic acquisition of conventional oil and gas assets from Hibernia Resources III, LLC supports Lodestone's long-term goal | Acquisition funded using local West Texas partners
MIDLAND, Texas, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lodestone Energy Partners II, LP ("Lodestone Energy" or the "Company") today announced it has acquired assets from Hibernia Resources III, LLC ("Hibernia") to be operated by BCP Resources, LLC ("BCP Resources").
Lodestone Energy is a vertically integrated fund focused on opportunities in the conventional oil and gas space. These assets are considered an ideal acquisition for the Company due to an excellent financial profile and top-tier performance in the Midland Basin. The assets span Reagan and Upton Counties, Texas, with 85 conventional and 21 legacy horizontal wellbores comprising over 2,000 MBOE of net PDP reserves with 63% liquids.
"The Hibernia assets are an excellent fit with our strategic objective to expand our footprint of operated conventional assets in the Permian Basin," stated Barry Portman, Lodestone's Managing Partner and BCP Resources CEO. "We're privileged that Hibernia has placed their trust in us and we're thrilled to continue the high-quality operation and expansion of these assets alongside Hibernia as they continue their growth strategy as a leading oil producer in the Midland Basin."
The acquisition was funded by partners local to West Texas, combining private equity placement with a senior energy debt facility. AggieTech Capital ("ATC") based in Midland and Masked Rider Capital ("MRC") based in Lubbock anchored the equity placement and the debt facility was provided by Community National Bank ("CNB") of Midland.
Embry Canterbury, CEO of Hibernia, stated, "The disposition of our legacy assets supports the development of Hibernia's high-quality acreage position, and we were very pleased and impressed by BCP Resources' operational expertise to pursue and close this transaction."
Mark Bales, CEO of AggieTech, stated, "We are delighted to partner with BCP Resources and Lodestone Energy as they have deep roots and experience in the Permian Basin, as well as a talented staff of employees. We are confident this transaction will generate significant returns and future growth to our fund."
Trey Thomason, Chief Investment Officer for Masked Rider Capital, stated, "MRC is excited to be affiliated with both the BCP Resources operating team and the Lodestone Energy Partners. We are certain that both teams value relationships with their partners and, combined with their solid and unique experience, they can pursue substantial growth in this sector."
"Investing in our customers and the local community is our passion." stated Amber Prieto, Vice President of Commercial Lending at Community National Bank. "A local oil and gas operator with significant experience in the area, partnered with West Texas equity sources, is an excellent fit, and we are pleased to support this project and look forward to their future growth."
"This is just the beginning for us, and we are honored to work together with great local partners such as Aggie Tech Capital, Masked Rider Capital, and Community National Bank" added Portman, "Industry trends favor conventional asset roll-ups. Thousands of highly attractive conventional wells are available for the right operator when they can no longer scale with major oil and gas portfolio growth. We are excited about this acquisition and look forward to continuing to aggressively pursue similar opportunities to create value and invest in the local economy."
Red Oaks Energy Advisors represented Hibernia's sale of the assets. Field, Manning, Stone, Hawthorne & Aycock, P.C. and Nixon Legal Group PLLC represented Lodestone Energy and BCP Resources and Mani Little & Wortmann, PLLC served as legal counsel to Hibernia.
Lodestone is dedicated to acquiring and developing Permian Basin conventional oil and gas assets to unlock value for its investors. BCP Resources is Lodestone's dedicated oilfield operator. These two entities offer over 100 years of combined experience in conventional oil and gas development and production. For more information, please visit www.lodestone-energy.com and www.bcpresourcesllc.com.
AggieTech Energy Services ("ATES") was founded 2008 and became the largest privately owned pumping unit service company in the Permian Basin using a variety of fleet equipment, state of the art machine shop, and highly trained and experienced personnel. Utilizing similar top tier industry experience, ATES quickly expanded to include AggieTech Wellhead, and during the growth of these businesses, an energy capital fund was launched to invest in industry projects, AggieTech Capital. For more information, please visit www.aggietechcompanies.com.
Masked Rider Capital, LLC ("Masked Rider Capital" or "MRC") is a multi-family office founded in 2012 focused on acquiring and investing in private companies. Masked Rider Capital proudly serves lower and middle market businesses in West Texas communities and the surrounding areas through innovative capital solutions. MRC provides capital in the form of control and non-control equity, debt and hybrid securities. The firm is industry agnostic and participates in real estate development opportunities. MRC is headquartered in Lubbock, TX. For more information, please visit www.maskedrider.com.
Community National Bank, established in 1984, continues to expand upon their original mission to provide a strong, locally owned, independent financial institution. The employees, officers and directors respect the traditional responsibility of a local bank to foster the development of its customers and thereby the community. Their focus on training, technology and service has helped to grow from their original location in south Midland to eleven locations throughout the market area. For more information, please visit www.cnbtx.bank.
Hibernia is an acquisition and development company focused on the exploration, growth and production of oil and natural gas assets. It is a portfolio company of NGP.
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