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Money approved for states to build car-charging network
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it has approved ambitious plans by 34 states and Puerto Rico to create a national electric vehicle charging network as the U.S. begins in earnest its transition away from gas-powered transportation.
The plans’ approval means $900 million can begin to flow to the states, which are tasked with using money from President Joe Biden’s huge infrastructure law to form the network of chargers across the nation. Building out a reliable and convenient network is critical to spur more adoption of the technology, which is itself key to reducing greenhouse emissions that cause global warming.
The announcement came on the same day that Biden toured the North American International Auto Show in Detroit to tout the new law that includes tax incentives to purchase electric vehicles.
In practical terms, it means residents in some of those states could see charging stations start popping up along major travel corridors as early as next spring. Biden has a goal of ultimately installing 500,000 chargers across America and building a network of fast-charging stations across 53,000 miles of freeways from coast to coast.
“Unlocking this type of funding is an enormous step in getting the charging network out, which is something we absolutely need if we’re going to get full-scale deployment and adoption” of electric vehicles, said Nico Larco, director of Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. “We don’t have the capacity now to power anywhere near the fleet that we need.”
Federal officials said they will continue to review the plans not approved in this round with the goal of approving all the states’ EV roadmaps by Sept. 30.
Biden’s infrastructure law provides $5 billion over five years for the electric vehicle charging network.
The funding announced Wednesday is specifically for installing the most powerful chargers along “alternative fuel corridors” — major freeways that connect states — with the goal of eliminating the “range anxiety” that keeps many people from purchasing electric vehicles or using them on long road trips. Under proposed guidelines, states would be required to install at least one four-port fast-charging station every 50 miles on these corridors and ensure they are within one mile of an off-ramp.
Some states received exemptions in rural areas for the 50-mile requirement, according to the approval letters.
An additional $2.5 billion in discretionary grants is also available to fund electric vehicle charging infrastructure in economically disadvantaged communities, rural areas and urban cores. And Biden’s recently passed Inflation Reduction Act includes $3 billion to spur electric vehicle adoption and charging accessibility in disadvantaged communities.
Some rural states have raised serious concerns about the proposed federal requirements that accompany the money, including the every 50-mile requirement.
State transportation officials in Wyoming joined with their counterparts in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota last month to urge the Biden administration to ease the qualification requirements.
The proposal to install a minimum of a four-port charging station, for example, would needlessly drive up costs in areas with few people and so far little demand for chargers, according to Wyoming Department of Transportation Director K. Luke Reiner.
EVs account for 0.1% of vehicle registrations in Wyoming and it would be “irresponsible and illogical” for rural sates to spend now on a four port requirement, Reiner wrote in an August letter to the U.S. Transportation Department.
“It would take more than two decades before a significant enough increase in statewide EV adoption would result in long queues of EVs waiting for charging at four-port stations,” he wrote.
Wyoming’s plan is still pending, while Montana’s plan was among the 35 approved.
The Federal Highway Administration will review those concerns and determine the final guidelines now that the public comment period has closed. Federal officials are also considering a waiver of the “Buy America” provision of the infrastructure deal.
Officials in Nevada, for example, have expressed concern that they would not be able to acquire charging stations that meet the American-made provisions and thus would be unable to start building out their piece of the network.
Experts who have followed the evolution of electric vehicle adoption in the U.S. say having charging stations everywhere is important.
“It’s like the U.S. Postal Service. You need to be able to send mail everywhere, including places that are rural,” said Jeremy Michalek, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the university’s Vehicle Electrification Group.
“Even if that charger that’s in that rural area isn’t used as much every day, we still need the infrastructure to supply them.. We have gas stations that are used less in rural areas than they would be in a big city, but we need them for the demand.”
Electric vehicle owners hailed the news and said they currently must take extra steps and precautions if they want to take their EVs on a long trip.
Bob Palrud of Spokane, Washington, says the small number of chargers in some rural areas of the West means he must carefully plot his travel routes to avoid running out of power. Palrud journeys three times yearly with his wife, Judy, to their cabin in Sheridan, Wyoming, and twice they’ve gotten so low on electricity coming through southeastern Montana that his vehicle automatically shut down some functions to conserve power.
“The thing people worry most about is range,” said Palrud, a semi-retired house painter who was at a charging center just off Interstate-90 in Montana on Wednesday on his way back to Spokane. “I sit there and do mental calculations on what kind of range I’m going to get.”
When he travels to see family in Minnesota, Palrud said he goes hundreds of miles out of his way to avoid northern Montana, where there is no major interstate and charging options are few.
“It would be better to have more but it’s not a deal killer,” he said. “I could chop a couple hundred miles off and that would be great.”
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Brown reported from Billings, Montana.
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Jrue Holiday Player Prop Bets: Bucks vs. Magic - March 7
The Milwaukee Bucks, Jrue Holiday included, face the Orlando Magic on Tuesday at 7:00 PM ET.
With prop bets available for Holiday, let's break down some stats and trends to assist you in making good picks.
Jrue Holiday Prop Bets vs. the Magic
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Jrue Holiday Insights vs. the Magic
- This season, Jrue Holiday has made 7.5 field goals per game, which adds up to 14.8% of his team's total makes.
- He's made 2.5 threes per game, or 13.8% of his team's makes from beyond the arc this season.
- The Bucks rank 25th in possessions per game with 101.9. His opponents, the Magic, have a middling offensive tempo, ranking 18th with 101.7 possessions per contest.
- On defense, the Magic have allowed 113.7 points per game, which is 17th-best in the league.
- On the boards, the Magic are seventh in the league, allowing 42.1 rebounds per contest.
- In terms of assists, the Magic have allowed 25.8 per contest, 19th in the league.
- The Magic give up 13 made 3-pointers per game, 26th-ranked in the NBA.
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Updated November 13, 2022 at 4:24 PM ET
ISTANBUL, Turkey — At least six people were killed and 81 others injured in an explosion on Istanbul's best-known commercial street, according to officials in Turkey.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described Sunday's blast on Istiklal Avenue as an attack and vowed to identify those responsible for it.
"Our people should be assured that the perpetrators of the incident on Istiklal Avenue will be punished as they deserve," he said. "The relevant units of our state continue to work to uncover the perpetrators of this treacherous attack and the groups behind it."
There was no immediate explanation or claim of responsibility.
Shop owner Hasan Ozsut, who believes he was up to 500 yards from the blast, said he saw about four people lying on the ground and many others running.
"God knows who's going to hold the responsibility this time," he said.
Ozsut also expressed concern about how the explosion would affect end-of-year tourism to Turkey.
Istanbul has been the scene of attacks before. On New Year's Day in 2017, a gunman shot and killed 39 people at a nightclub. Almost 80 others were also injured. In 2003, a series of suicide bombings was carried out using trucks at four locations in the city.
The U.S. condemned the explosion, describing it as an act of violence in a statement issued by the White House press secretary.
"We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our NATO Ally," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in the news release.
Five prosecutors were assigned to investigate the explosion, state-run Anadolu news agency said.
Videos online show bodies lying on the road. Turkey's media watchdog imposed a temporary ban on reporting on the explosion — a move that prevents broadcasters from showing videos of the moment of the blast or its aftermath. The Supreme Council of Radio and Television has imposed similar bans in the past, following attacks and accidents.
Material from the Associated Press was included in this report.
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This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan in March 2023.
This selection shows scenes from across the region, including images of continued violence in the occupied West Bank, political upheaval in Israel, social protests in Lebanon, and coinciding Ramadan, Easter and Passover holidays across the region.
The gallery was curated by Oded Balilty, AP chief photographer for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and Dusan Vranic, deputy news director for photography for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. —-
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U.S., Dutch and Japanese officials are close to an agreement to limit China’s access to technology used to make computer chips, a Dutch semiconductor supply company confirmed Sunday.
ASML, a leading maker of semiconductor production equipment based in Veldhoven, Netherlands, said it was possible an agreement had already been reached but that it didn’t know any details about the deal or how it would affect ASML’s business.
ASML is the world’s only producer of machines that use extreme ultraviolet lithography to make advanced semiconductor chips. The Dutch government has prohibited ASML from exporting that equipment to China since 2019, but the company had still been shipping lower-quality lithography systems to China.
The Biden administration in October imposed export controls to limit China’s ability to access advanced chips, which it says can be used to make weapons, commit human rights abuses and improve the speed and accuracy of its military logistics. It has urged allies like Japan and the Netherlands to follow suit.
China has responded angrily, saying trade curbs will disrupt supply chains and the global economic recovery.
“We hope the relevant countries will do the right thing and work together to uphold the multilateral trade regime and safeguard the stability of the global industrial and supply chains,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said this month. “This will also serve to protect their own long-term interests.”
ASML has research and manufacturing centers in Beijing and Shenzhen, China, as well as a regional headquarters in Hong Kong.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Friday that Dutch and Japanese officials were in Washington for talks led by President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, that covered the “safety and security of emerging technologies,” efforts to aid Ukraine and other issues.
“We’re grateful that they were able to come to D.C. and to have these talks,” Kirby said.
Kirby declined to say whether the U.S. was nearing a deal on tightening export controls on semiconductor technology. Biden earlier this month met separately with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to push for tighter export controls.
In a press conference last week, Rutte was asked about the talks but said they involve “such sensitive material … high-quality technology that the Dutch government chooses to communicate about it very carefully and that means in a very limited way.”
U.S. officials say China is spending heavily to develop its fledgling semiconductor producers but so far cannot make the high-end chips used in the most advanced smartphones and other devices.
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Rebrand represents the company's evolution and strength as a top agency to B2B brands across North America
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WebEnertia, an industry-leading digital agency that drives results through impactful web and brand experiences for the world's top B2B brands, has relaunched as Clear Digital. The rebrand is a testament to the growth, innovation, and evolution of the company and its clients since its inception.
Founded in 1999 as WebEnertia by Steve Ohanians and Valod Amirkhanian, the company has become the go-to Silicon Valley digital agency for brands looking to expand their reach and awareness among sophisticated B2B buyers. Over the past two decades, the agency has worked with some of the world's top B2B brands, including Cisco Systems, McAfee, and Splunk.
WebEnertia has experienced significant growth over the past 24 years, both internally and externally. This expansion warrants an equally progressive, forward-thinking rebrand rooted in the company's core mission of confidently navigating change by building impactful B2B digital brand experiences. The rebrand to Clear Digital aligns internally with corporate culture and represents the complete portfolio of services offered by the company. The sophisticated, modern name is designed to grow the client and employee footprint and position the company among the most well-known agencies.
"WebEnertia was built on a passion for building and designing websites," said Steve Ohanians, co-founder and CEO of Clear Digital. "And although we are extremely proud of where we began, there has been a significant shift in our company as we continue to build influence, authority, and leadership in the B2B space. As our clients have grown in size and stature, so have we. The rebrand supports the evolution and breadth of our offerings and elevates us to better compete with global agencies for new business and talent acquisition. We are incredibly excited about our direction in the months and years ahead. We believe it is the right time to rebrand and capitalize on our market position."
The name, Clear Digital, represents an intelligent and genuine agency dedicated to bringing clarity and confidence in navigating the path to improved B2B digital experiences. Ones that drive results and take enterprises to the next level. More than just great-looking design, compelling copy, and skillful programming, Clear Digital's connected solutions deliver results and foster strong relationships. The circle in the logo represents the completeness of offerings, collaboration focus, and transformation of businesses.
"What started as a niche web design agency has now evolved into a full-service Silicon Valley digital agency providing solutions for the world's most recognizable B2B brands," said Valod Amirkhanian, co-founder and Director of Technology at Clear Digital. "We pride ourselves as leaders in providing creative solutions for innovative clients. Our new name represents that vision more clearly."
While Clear Digital's business principles remain the same, it connects all of its capabilities to foster solid and lasting relationships that help B2B businesses navigate change confidently. The company employs 90+ individuals across the globe who support the company's digital strategy, brand strategy, user experience design, creative services, and development and technology functions.
Clear Digital has earned a net promoter score (NPS) of 81, is considered excellent among B2B service providers, and has a client retention rate of 94%. The company has been listed on the Inc. 5000 List for Fastest Growing Private Companies (2021), received numerous awards from the American Advertising Federation (AAF), and boasts an internal culture that results in 90% retention.
About Clear Digital
Clear Digital is a full-service Silicon Valley digital brand experience agency headquartered in San Jose. With 20+ years of experience in delivering award-winning results for its clients, Clear Digital specializes in building strategic digital brand and web experiences for B2B organizations. Clients include Cisco Systems, McAfee, and Splunk.
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By DAVID McHUGH
AP Business Writer
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, made a small trim in their supplies to the global economy Monday, underlining their unhappiness as recession fears help drive down crude prices — along with the cost of gasoline, to drivers’ delight.
The decision for October rolls back a mostly symbolic increase of 100,000 barrels per day in September. It follows a statement last month from Saudi Arabia’s energy minister that the OPEC+ coalition could reduce output at any time.
Oil producers such as Saudi Arabia have resisted calls from U.S. President Joe Biden to pump more oil to lower gasoline prices and the burden on consumers. OPEC+ has stuck with only cautious increases to make up for deep cuts made during the COVID-19 pandemic, which were finally restored in August.
Since then, growing worries about slumping future demand have helped send oil prices down from June peaks of over $120 per barrel, cutting into the windfall for OPEC+ countries’ coffers but proving a blessing for drivers in the U.S. as pump prices have eased.
The supply cut for October is only a small fraction of the 43.8 million barrels per day under OPEC+ production goals, but wrong-footed several analysts’ predictions of no change in output. Oil prices jumped after the announcement.
U.S. crude rose 3.3%, to $89.79 per barrel, while international benchmark Brent was up 3.7%, to $96.50, after the decision.
The amount of oil per day “may seem negligible, but the message from today’s cut is clear: OPEC+ thinks they’ve fallen enough,” Columbia University energy policy expert Jason Bordoff tweeted.
Oil prices have gyrated in recent months: Recession fears have pushed them down, while worries of a loss of Russian oil because of sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine pushed them up.
Recently, recession fears have taken the upper hand. Economists in Europe are penciling in a recession at the end of this year due to skyrocketing inflation fed by energy costs, while China’s severe restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus have sapped growth in that major world economy.
Those falling oil prices have been a boon to U.S. drivers, sending gasoline prices down to $3.82 per gallon from record highs of over $5 in June and offering a potential boost to Biden as his Democratic Party heads into midterm elections.
“The President has been clear that energy supply should meet demand to support economic growth and lower prices for American consumers and consumers around the world,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “President Biden is determined to continue to take every step necessary to shore up energy supplies and lower energy prices.”
In June, fears that U.S. and European sanctions would take Russian oil off the market helped push Brent to over $123. Prices have fallen sharply in recent weeks as it became clear that Russia is still managing to sell significant amounts of oil in Asia, albeit at sharply discounted prices.
But concerns about the loss of Russian supply are still out there because European sanctions aimed at blocking most Russian oil imports won’t take effect until the end of the year.
Other factors are lurking that could influence the price of oil. For one, the Group of Seven wealthy democracies plan to impose a price cap on Russian oil aimed at battling high energy prices and reducing oil profits that Russia can use for its war in Ukraine.
That’s if the cap works as intended. Russia could refuse to supply oil to countries and companies observing the cap, which would take barrels off the market. The price cap has not been set, and its influence on the global price remains unclear.
Meanwhile, a deal between Western countries and Iran to limit Tehran’s nuclear program could ease sanctions and see more than 1 million barrels per day of Iranian oil return to the market in coming months. However, tensions between the U.S. and Iran appear to have risen in recent days: Iran seized two U.S. naval drones in the Red Sea, and U.S., Kuwaiti and Saudi warplanes flew over the Middle East on Sunday in a show of force.
OPEC+ countries’ energy ministers said their September increase of 100,000 barrels a day was only for that month and that the group could meet again at any time to address market developments.
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Associated Press writer Will Weissert in Milwaukee contributed.
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Unilever PLC (NYSE: UL), if they purchased the Company's American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") between September 2, 2020 and July 21, 2021, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Shareholders have until August 15, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that California's ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under age 21 is unconstitutional.
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday that the law violates the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
The court in a 2-1 ruling says a San Diego judge should have blocked what it called "an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles” for young adults.
"America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army. Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the right of young adults to keep and bear arms," said Judge Ryan Nelson.
The Firearms Policy Coalition, which brought the case, says the ruling makes it optimistic other age-based gun bans will be overturned.
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After a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the National Rifle Association (NRA), a gun rights advocacy group, has faced increased criticism.
Call to Activism, a group with more than one million total followers on Facebook and Twitter, has launched an online petition calling for the IRS to revoke the NRA’s tax exempt status in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. The petition has almost met its goal of 20,000 signatures as of May 31.
Viewer Kimberly also emailed the VERIFY team to ask whether the NRA is tax-exempt, which means it wouldn’t have to pay federal income taxes.
THE QUESTION
Does the NRA have tax-exempt status?
THE SOURCES
- National Rifle Association (NRA)
- Form 990 filed by the NRA for tax year 2018
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Ballotpedia, a digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections
THE ANSWER
Yes, the NRA has tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
WHAT WE FOUND
An income tax return filed by the NRA for tax year 2018 shows that the group filed as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. That means the NRA is considered a “social welfare organization” by the IRS. That’s a different classification than organizations recognized by the IRS as “charities,” which file as a 501(c)(3).
The NRA, which was founded in 1871, calls itself a “nonprofit organization” on its website, which is consistent with its tax filings. The group says it has “informed its members about firearm related bills since 1934, and has directly lobbied for and against legislation since 1975.”
According to the IRS, social welfare organizations, or 501(c)(4)s, “must not be organized for profit and must be operated exclusively to promote social welfare.”
These organizations can advocate for legislation related to their mission, the IRS says. That means lobbying won’t jeopardize an organization’s tax-exempt status. They can also participate in political activities that include “donations to political committees that support or oppose ballot measures,” though this can’t be their main activity, according to Ballotpedia.
Unlike social welfare organizations, traditional charities classified as 501(c)(3) nonprofits are banned from participating in partisan political campaign activity and have restrictions on lobbying.
There are other differences between 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits, too. Donations to a social welfare organization are not tax-deductible for donors like those that are made to a traditional 501(c)(3) charity, according to Ballotpedia.
On its donation page, the NRA also explains that contributions are not considered charitable donations.
The NRA isn’t the only major advocacy group that is tax-exempt. AARP, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood are also classified as 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations.
While the NRA is not a 501(c)(3) itself, there are 501(c)(3) charities owned by or affiliated with the group, including the NRA Foundation, the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund, and the NRA Freedom Action Foundation.
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Quarterback Kaleb Annett and his father pose with Boise State coaches during his unofficial visit to Boise in June. Annett, a three-star recruit from California, announced his commitment to the Broncos on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, 247Sports called three-star quarterback recruit Kaleb Annett a “somewhat under the radar signal caller” who was poised to have a breakout senior season at Newport Harbor (Calif.) Corona Del Mar High.
He impressed Andy Avalos and the Boise State football team enough to jump at him before the potential breakout season. Annett announced his commitment to Boise State via Twitter on Tuesday, giving the Broncos their quarterback for the 2024 recruiting class.
According to 247Sports, Annett took an unofficial visit to Boise in June and loved his experiences both on campus and around town. He received an offer from the Broncos during the visit.
He expects to make an official visit to the campus in September but wanted to lock in his commitment this week.
“I love the staff and have developed an incredible relationship with (offensive coordinator Bush) Hamdan and coach Avalos,” he told 247Sports on Tuesday following his commitment. “I was the only quarterback they offered, so I knew I was a priority for them and it feels great to be a part of the program.”
Annett also held an offer from Princeton and was getting looks at schools like Baylor and Oregon State.
He will get a chance to start for Corona Del Mar this fall after backing up David Rasor, who is now at UC Davis, last season. Despite playing in the backup role, he still saw some playing time, putting up 1,412 yards on 113 of 192 passing with 11 touchdowns, according to 247Sports. | https://www.idahopress.com/blueturfsports/football/boise-state-lands-somewhat-under-the-radar-qb-kaleb-annett/article_e435dafe-2be6-11ee-b22b-8bb3b37e342a.html | 2023-07-26 23:31:01 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/blueturfsports/football/boise-state-lands-somewhat-under-the-radar-qb-kaleb-annett/article_e435dafe-2be6-11ee-b22b-8bb3b37e342a.html |
Peptides for specific use in oral mucositis treatment adds to existing composition of matter claims
PRINCETON, N.J., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Soligenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need, announced today that the European Patent Office has granted a patent entitled "Novel Peptides and Analogs for Use in the Treatment of Oral Mucositis". This granted patent builds on similar intellectual property issued in the United States (U.S.), New Zealand, Japan, Australia and Singapore, as well as many pending patent applications in other jurisdictions worldwide. The granted claims will cover therapeutic uses of dusquetide (active ingredient in SGX942) and related innate defense regulator (IDR) analogs, and adds to composition of matter claims for dusquetide and related analogs that have been issued in the U.S. and worldwide.
"Soligenix continues to pursue broad patent coverage for its dusquetide technology, first with composition of matter claims followed by therapeutic use claims in oral mucositis," stated Christopher J. Schaber, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Soligenix. "Having successfully pursued composition of matter claims in jurisdictions worldwide, we continue to pursue therapeutic use claims like those issued in the U.S. previously and in Europe with this most recent patent. The therapeutic use claims are expected to be generally valid until 2034, which provides significant patent protection and life to dusquetide and our other IDR analogs."
About Oral Mucositis
Mucositis is the clinical term for damage done to the mucosa by anticancer therapies. It can occur in any mucosal region, but is most commonly associated with the mouth, followed by the small intestine. It is estimated, based upon review of historic published studies and reports and an interpolation of data on the incidence of mucositis, that mucositis affects approximately 500,000 people in the U.S. per year and occurs in 40% of patients receiving chemotherapy. Mucositis can be severely debilitating and can lead to infection, sepsis, the need for parenteral nutrition and narcotic analgesia. The gastrointestinal damage causes severe diarrhea. These symptoms can limit the doses and duration of cancer treatment, leading to sub-optimal treatment outcomes.
The mechanisms of mucositis have been extensively studied and have been recently linked to the interaction of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy with the innate defense system. Bacterial infection of the ulcerative lesions is now regarded as a secondary consequence of dysregulated local inflammation triggered by therapy-induced cell death, rather than as the primary cause of the lesions.
It is estimated, based upon review of historic published studies and reports and an interpolation of data on the incidence of oral mucositis, that oral mucositis in HNC is a subpopulation of approximately 90,000 patients in the U.S., with a comparable number in Europe. Oral mucositis almost always occurs in patients with HNC treated with CRT and is severe, causing inability to eat and/or drink, in >80% of patients. It is common (40-100% incidence) in patients undergoing high dose chemotherapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation, where the incidence and severity of oral mucositis depends greatly on the nature of the conditioning regimen used for myeloablation.
In the pediatric population, head and neck cancer is a rarer occurrence and is caused by different underlying pathologies. The major types of HNC in children are lymphoma, sarcomas (including rhabdomyosarcomas), and neuroblastoma rather than squamous cell carcinoma, the major type of adult HNC cancers. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), especially allogeneic transplantation with higher risk of oral mucositis, is more frequently used in the pediatric population than in adults when treating a number of primary tumor types, as seen in leukemia and lymphoma. Both treatment of HNC and HSCT are associated with high risk of oral mucositis in the pediatric population.
Oral mucositis remains an area of unmet medical need where there are currently no approved drug therapies in the context of any solid tissue tumors.
About Dusquetide
Dusquetide (the active ingredient in SGX942) is an innate defense regulator (IDR), a new class of short, synthetic peptides. It has a novel mechanism of action whereby it modulates the body's reaction to both injury and infection towards an anti-inflammatory, anti-infective and tissue healing response. IDRs have no direct antibiotic activity but, by modulating the host's innate immune system responses, increase survival after infections caused by a broad range of bacterial Gram-negative and Gram-positive pathogens. It also accelerates resolution of tissue damage following exposure to a variety of agents including bacterial pathogens, trauma and chemo- and/or radiation therapy. Preclinical efficacy and safety has been demonstrated in numerous animal disease models including mucositis, colitis, macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) as well as bacterial infections, including melioidosis. Potential anti-tumor activity has been demonstrated in in vitro and in vivo xenograft studies.
SGX942 has demonstrated safety and tolerability in a Phase 1 clinical study in 84 healthy human volunteers. Positive efficacy results were demonstrated in an exploratory Phase 2 clinical study in 111 patients with oral mucositis due to CRT for HNC, including potential long-term ancillary benefits. The Phase 3 multinational, placebo-controlled, randomized study evaluated the impact of dusquetide on the duration of SOM in 268 subjects with squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity and oropharynx, receiving CRT. While the Phase 3 clinical study did not achieve the required level of statistical significance (p≤0.05) in its primary endpoint of median duration of SOM, a clinically meaningful reduction was observed, including a statistically significant reduction in the duration of SOM in the per-protocol population (p=0.049), consistent with the findings in the Phase 2 trial.
SGX942 has received Fast Track Designation from the FDA for the treatment of oral mucositis as a result of radiation and/or chemotherapy treatment in HNC patients, as well as Promising Innovative Medicine designation in the United Kingdom by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for the treatment of severe oral mucositis in HNC patients receiving CRT. In addition, products containing the same active ingredient, dusquetide, have been granted Fast Track Designation as an adjunctive therapy with other antibacterial drugs, for the treatment of melioidosis and Orphan Drug Designations in the treatment of MAS and the treatment of acute radiation syndrome.
Soligenix has a strong intellectual property position in the IDR technology platform, including composition of matter for dusquetide and related analogs. Dusquetide was developed pursuant to discoveries made by Professors B. Brett Finlay, PhD and Robert Hancock, PhD of the University of British Columbia, Canada. Soligenix has received partial funding from NIH for its oral mucositis clinical studies. The Phase 2 study was supported with a Phase I SBIR grant (#R43DE024032) award, with the Phase 3 study being supported by a Phase II SBIR grant (#R44DE024032) award.
In addition, a high level review of the IDR technology platform is available here.
About Soligenix, Inc.
Soligenix is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need. Our Specialized BioTherapeutics business segment is developing and moving toward potential commercialization of HyBryte™ (SGX301 or synthetic hypericin sodium) as a novel photodynamic therapy utilizing safe visible light for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). With a successful Phase 3 study completed, regulatory approval is being sought and commercialization activities for this product candidate are being advanced initially in the U.S. Development programs in this business segment also include expansion of synthetic hypericin (SGX302) into psoriasis, our first-in-class innate defense regulator (IDR) technology, dusquetide (SGX942) for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including oral mucositis in head and neck cancer, and proprietary formulations of oral beclomethasone 17,21-dipropionate (BDP) for the prevention/treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders characterized by severe inflammation including pediatric Crohn's disease (SGX203).
Our Public Health Solutions business segment includes active development programs for RiVax®, our ricin toxin vaccine candidate, as well as our vaccine programs targeting filoviruses (such as Marburg and Ebola) and CiVax™, our vaccine candidate for the prevention of COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2). The development of our vaccine programs incorporates the use of our proprietary heat stabilization platform technology, known as ThermoVax®. To date, this business segment has been supported with government grant and contract funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
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HONG KONG (AP) — Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter who had a highly successful career in Asia, has died by suicide, her siblings said Wednesday. She was 48.
The star had been suffering from depression for several years, Lee’s elder sisters Carol and Nancy Lee said in a statement posted on Facebook and Instagram, with her condition deteriorating drastically over the last few months.
“Although CoCo sought professional help and did her best to fight depression, sadly that demon inside of her took the better of her,” the statement read.
Lee attempted suicide at home over the weekend and she was rushed to a hospital, her sister said. They said that she was in a coma and died on Wednesday.
Lee, who was born in Hong Kong but later moved to the U.S. where she attended middle and high school, had a highly successful career in Asia as a pop singer in the 1990s and 2000s, where she was known for her powerful voice and live performances.
Lee, who was initially a Mandopop singer, branched out to release albums in Cantonese and English over her nearly 30-year career.
She was the voice of heroine Fa Mulan in the Mandarin version of Disney’s “Mulan,” and also sang the Mandarin version of the movie’s theme song “Reflection.”
In 2011, Lee married Bruce Rockowitz, a Canadian businessman who is the former CEO of Hong Kong supply chain company Li & Fung. While she had two stepdaughters from her marriage with Rockowitz, Lee didn’t have children of her own.
“CoCo is also known to have worked tirelessly to open up a new world for Chinese singers in the international music scene, and she went all out to shine for the Chinese,” her sisters said in their post.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday found that Georgia election practices challenged by a group associated with Democrat Stacey Abrams do not violate the constitutional rights of voters, ruling in favor of the state on all remaining issues in a lawsuit filed nearly four years ago.
“Although Georgia’s election system is not perfect, the challenged practices violate neither the constitution nor the VRA,” U.S. District Judge Steve Jones in Atlanta wrote, referring to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He detailed his reasoning in a 288-page order.
The lawsuit was filed in November 2018, just weeks after Abrams narrowly lost the governor’s race to Republican Brian Kemp. Throughout that contest, Abrams had accused Kemp, then secretary of state, of using his position as the state’s top elections official to promote voter suppression. Kemp vehemently denied the allegations.
Kemp on Friday applauded the ruling, calling it a loss for Abrams.
“Judge Jones’ ruling exposes this legal effort for what it really is: a tool wielded by a politician hoping to wrongfully weaponize the legal system to further her own political goals,” Kemp said in a statement.
Abrams and Fair Fight expressed disappointment in the decision but said the lawsuit helped bring about positive change in Georgia.
“While the Court’s actions are not the preferred outcome, the conduct of this trial and preceding cases and legislative actions represent a hard-won victory for voters who endured long lines, burdensome date of birth requirements and exact match laws that disproportionately impact Black and Brown voters,” Abrams said in a statement.
The trial began in mid-April, unfolding while Georgia’s primary elections were underway. Those contests set the stage for a rematch between Kemp and Abrams, who captured their parties’ gubernatorial nominations for November’s general election.
Nearly five dozen witnesses were called over the course of 21 trial days that stretched across more than two months. It was a bench trial, meaning there was no jury and the verdict was up to Jones alone.
Abrams’ Fair Fight Action organization filed the lawsuit along with Care in Action, a nonprofit that advocates for domestic workers. Several churches later joined as plaintiffs. It was originally extremely broad and called for a significant overhaul of Georgia’s election system. By the time it got to trial, the scope had narrowed significantly after some allegations were resolved by changes in state law and others were dismissed by the court.
“This is a voting rights case that resulted in wins and losses for all parties over the course of the litigation and culminated in what is believed to have been the longest voting rights bench trial in the history of the Northern District of Georgia,” Jones wrote.
The issues that remained and which were discussed at length during the trial had to do with the “exact match” policy, the statewide voter registration list and the process for in-person cancellation of absentee ballots. Fair Fight alleged that the negative effects of these policies are disproportionately felt by people of color and new citizens and amount to violations of the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Georgia officials have created a landscape where it’s “harder to register, harder to stay registered and ultimately harder to vote,” Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, an attorney for Fair Fight and the other plaintiffs, said during her closing argument in late June. The barriers to voting aren’t caused by inevitable human errors but instead result from “choices designed to keep certain people from voting,” she said.
She highlighted testimony from voters who had trouble registering or casting their ballots, voters who shared their stories because they wanted the court to understand what they faced.
Josh Belinfante, a lawyer for state election officials, said in his closing that Georgia’s elections are constitutional and don’t violate the Voting Rights Act. Georgia’s automatic voter registration policy and significant recent increases in African American voter registration are not the signs of a state that is suppressing voters, he argued.
While Fair Fight collected stories from more than 3,000 voters, they found very few who were unable to cast a ballot and none during the 2020 election, Belinfante noted. Instead, he said, the evidence showed problems were generally resolved quickly once state officials were contacted.
Fair Fight’s goal was to get Democrats elected and to make Georgia a blue state, and the organization used a false narrative of voter suppression to motivate people to turn out for its cause, Belinfante said.
“You have to decide has the case matched the rhetoric,” Belinfante told Jones. “The answer is no.”
The plaintiffs argued state officials provided inadequate training for county election officials on canceling absentee ballots, causing significant problems for voters who tried to vote in person after having requested an absentee ballot.
The plaintiffs also challenged two aspects of the state’s “exact match” policy for voter registration applications. Plaintiffs say problems arise for voters if the information on their applications doesn’t exactly match that in driver’s license or Social Security databases or if new U.S. citizens’ information hasn’t been updated in the driver’s license database.
Finally, the plaintiffs said state officials mismanaged the voter registration database. They cited alleged problems with three list-maintenance processes: the cancelation of registration if a person is convicted of a felony, the merger of records believed to be duplicates, and the cancelation of voters believed to be dead.
Jones noted that while the plaintiffs called witnesses who testified about struggles to cast their ballots because of the practices at issue, most were able to vote in the end. | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/election/ap-judge-rules-against-abrams-group-in-voting-rights-lawsuit/ | 2022-10-01 10:27:19 | 1 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/election/ap-judge-rules-against-abrams-group-in-voting-rights-lawsuit/ |
UNM student pleads not guilty to role in campus attack
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A UNM student was arraigned Monday for his alleged role in an attack on a former New Mexico State athlete.
Eli-Sha Upshaw waived a formal reading of his charges and entered a not guilty plea Monday. Upshaw is currently out of jail on conditions of release, granted to him because of his clean record. However, his conditions specify he lives with his mother in Maryland.
Investigators say Upshaw and three other UNM students lured NMSU men’s basketball player Mike Peake to campus and attacked him. Prosecutors say Upshaw was seen on surveillance video holding a bat and hitting Peake with it.
Prosecutors say the motive was revenge for a fight at an NMSU football game. Upshaw allegedly admitted to being involved in that fight.
“I saw Brandon being kicked so, me being me, I helped my friend fight and I, liked, messed up my hand here,” Eli-Sha Upshaw said.
At some point during the retaliatory attack, there was a shootout between Peake and 19-year-old UNM student Brandon Travis, who died at the scene.
In an interview with police, Upshaw denied being there in the attack. Investigators also accuse him of trying to destroy evidence.
Under Upshaw’s conditions of release, he will also have to abide by a curfew and maintain his schooling. | https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/unm-student-pleads-not-guilty-to-role-in-campus-attack/ | 2023-01-10 01:03:38 | 1 | https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/unm-student-pleads-not-guilty-to-role-in-campus-attack/ |
Fans of the Eurovision Song Contest who live outside of participating countries will be able to vote for their favorite acts next year, for the first time in the competition's nearly seven-decade history.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organizes the contest, announced the set of major changes on Wednesday. They effectively put more power in the hands of the voters while broadening the global electorate.
"Throughout its 67-year history the Eurovision Song Contest has constantly evolved to remain relevant and exciting," Martin Österdahl, the Eurovision Song Contest's executive supervisor, said in a statement. "These changes acknowledge the immense popularity of the show by giving more power to the audience of the world's largest live music event."
Starting in 2023, only viewers will decide which acts qualify for the final (as opposed to a combination of jury and public vote, which had been the case for many years). Juries — composed of music industry professionals — will still cast votes for the final, which will be combined with the result of the public vote to determine the total overall score.
And, for the first time ever, viewers who live outside of the several dozen participating countries can vote online using what organizers call a "secure online platform using a credit card from their country." Their votes will be added up and converted to points that carry the same weight as one participating country in both semi-finals and the grand final.
Eurovision representatives told NPR over email that a full list of eligible countries will be published at a later date, but confirmed that the U.S. is likely to be on it.
"It's foreseen that U.S. audiences will be able to vote online," they wrote.
Contest organizers say they are making these changes now in part because of "the unprecedented nature of the voting irregularities" seen in last year's contest.
Days after the most recent competition wrapped in May, the EBU announced it had identified "irregular voting patterns" in the jury votes of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and San Marino. Montenegro, Romania and Poland have all pushed back on that accusation.
An EBU working group made this recommendation after exploring ways to protect the integrity of the event. Organizers do not expect the new changes to drastically affect which countries qualify for the grand final: They say in an FAQ that they determined which countries would have qualified from the semi-finals between 2017 and 2022 using only the result from the general public.
"We saw that, in nearly all cases, when removing the Jury results from the calculation, 9 of the 10 qualifying countries from each Semi-Final stayed the same," they said.
The song that qualified for the grand final under the previous system — which "would have missed out if only public votes had been counted" — went on to finish at the lower end of the final scoreboard in most cases, they added.
Organizers stress that many elements of the beloved event (which drew 161 million TV viewers earlier this year) will remain the same.
"By also involving juries of music professionals in deciding the final result, all the songs in the Grand Final can be assessed on the broadest possible criteria," Österdahl said. "We can also maintain the tradition of traveling around Europe and Australia to collect points and ensure a thrilling voting sequence with the winner only revealed at the very end of the show."
Thirty-seven countries will compete in next year's contest, organizers say. Its semi-finals and grand final are set to take place in May 2023 in Liverpool, which placed second this year after Ukraine.
While it is customary for the winning country to host the next contest, the EBU concluded earlier this year that Ukraine could not meet the "security and operational guarantees" required to put on the event due to its war with Russia (which organizers banned from competing after it invaded Ukraine in February).
Kalush Orchestra, the Ukrainian folk-rap group that currently holds the Eurovision title, initially pushed back on the determination that it was unfit, but has since given the British city its blessing.
"Playing in the same place that The Beatles started out will be a moment we'll never forget!" the band said, according to the Associated Press. "Although we are sad that next year's competition cannot take place in our homeland, we know that the people of Liverpool will be warm hosts and the organizers will be able to add a real Ukrainian flavor to Eurovision 2023 in this city."
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BATON ROUGE - Highland Baptist freshman Tyler Blissett added to his growing list of achievements in Thursday's Class 1A LHSAA State Track Meet at LSU.
Blissett began his performance with a victorious 4:39.12 time in the 1600 meters.
He suffered a narrow setback in the 800 meters, clocking a 2:00.29 time behind winner Kalen Bigwood of Hamilton Christian's 1:59.54.
After a rest, Blissett bounced back with a 9:59.95 in the 3200 to complete an impressive 28-point distance evening.
Neil Mason was fourth in the 800, 1600 and 3200 as the pair led Highland’s Bears to a fourth place 42 points - just ahead of Hanson's 40.5.
Ouachita Christian won the meet with 99 points, followed by Kentwood's
(65.5) and Southern Lab (58)
Topping the women's meet was McGehee with 74 points, followed by Ouachita Christian (51) Westminster (48), Highland Baptist (44) and Kentwood (36).
Westminster got wins from Aalyiah Arvie in the 400 with a 59.13, Bethany Casey in the high jump (5-0), and the 4x100 relay (49.80).
Highland Baptist winners included Maegan Champagne in the pole vault at 11-0.25 and Ella Blake in the 3200 with a 12:36.06.
Kiara Comeaux was third in the long jump at 16-5, second in the 400 at 59.43 and third in the 100 with a 12.55.
St. Edmund claimed a 1-2 finish in the javelin from Eliana Manuel (133-4) and Aubree Lejeune (120-10).
On the boys side, Westminster's Owen Melancon was second in the 1600 with a time of 4:43.25 and third in the 3200 with a 10:37.61. | https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/sports/high_schools/westminster-girls-third-highland-boys-fourth-at-1a-state/article_718ed77c-eb6c-11ed-a491-2b1f6287a90c.html | 2023-05-05 19:37:36 | 0 | https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/sports/high_schools/westminster-girls-third-highland-boys-fourth-at-1a-state/article_718ed77c-eb6c-11ed-a491-2b1f6287a90c.html |
Spurred by regulators, 3M to phase out “forever chemicals”
WASHINGTON (AP) — 3M will phase out the manufacturing of so-called “forever chemicals” and try to get them out of all their products within two years, the chemical and consumer products maker said Tuesday.
The decision announced Tuesday arrives after U.S. environmental regulators designated the chemicals — used in nonstick frying pans, water-repellent sports gear, stain-resistant rugs, cosmetics and countless other consumer products since the 1940s - as hazardous substances under the Superfund law.
While the designation is not an outright ban, polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, require a report to federal, state or tribal officials if the amount released into soil or water meet or exceed a certain level. The Environmental Protection Agency could then require cleanups to protect public health and recover cleanup costs.
PFAS have been voluntarily phased out by U.S. manufacturers but are still in limited use and remain in the environment because they do not degrade over time.
3M said its decision was based on multiple factors, including “accelerating regulatory trends focused on reducing or eliminating the presence” of the chemicals in the environment.
The chemicals can accumulate and persist in the human body for long periods of time, and evidence from animal and human studies indicates that exposure to PFAS may lead to cancer or other health problems, including damage to organs including the liver, kidneys and thyroid gland.
3M, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, said it will exit all PFAS manufacturing and “work to discontinue use of PFAS” in all its products by the end of 2025.
3M makes a broad range of consumer products, including Post-it notes, Scotch Brite cleaning supplies, adhesives and personal protective equipment.
Chemical and other industrial companies have been sued frequently in recent years for downplaying the dangers of the chemicals.
In a November lawsuit, the state of California accused 3M, Dupont and 16 smaller companies of covering up the harm caused to the environment and the public from chemicals manufactured by the firms that have over decades found their way into waterways and human bloodstreams.
Last year, the Biden administration launched a broad strategy to regulate the toxic industrial compounds that the EPA said are increasingly turning up in public drinking water systems, private wells and even food.
The Defense Department, Food and Drug Administration and Agriculture Department were all tapped to join the effort intended to restrict PFAS from being released into the environment and accelerate cleanup.
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VIENNA — Austria has come under heavy criticism for granting visas that will allow sanctioned Russian lawmakers to attend a Vienna meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Austria hosts several U.N. agencies and international organizations such as the OSCE, which was established during the Cold War as a forum for dialogue between East and West. Russia is one of the 57 nations in North America, Europe and Asia that participate in the Vienna-based organization.
Moscow plans to send delegates to the Feb. 23-24 meeting of the OSCE’s parliamentary assembly, including 15 Russian lawmakers who are under European Union sanctions. Among them are Deputy Duma Chairman Pyotr Tolstoy and fellow parliament member Leonid Slutsky.
In a letter to Austria’s chancellor, foreign minister and other officials, 81 OSCE delegates from 20 countries, including France, Canada, Britain, Poland and Ukraine, called upon the Austrian government to prohibit the participation of the sanctioned Russians.
“It is important to remember that Russian parliamentarians are an integral part of the power system and complicit in the crimes Russia commits every day in Ukraine,” read the letter, which was seen by The Associated Press. “They have no place in an institution tasked with promoting sincere dialogue and opposition to the war.”
The U.S. delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly were not among the letter’s signatories. U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter told reporters Friday that the Russian delegates “are not people who deserve to be able to travel to Western countries.” However, Carpenter added that it was “up to the Austrian government to determine whether they are going to grant visas or not.”
Austrian officials haven’t commented on the letter. On Feb. 5, Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg defended Austria’s decision to allow the sanctioned Russians to enter the country, arguing it was important to keep channels of communication with Moscow open despite the “brutal Russian attack against Ukraine.”
The Austrian Foreign Ministry also insisted that as host to the OSCE headquarters in Vienna, it is legally obliged to grant visas to representatives of participating nations who want to take part in meetings there.
Austria, which became a European Union member in 1995, has criticized Moscow and joined the sanctions the EU imposed against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. But unlike Finland and Sweden, which decided to abandon their neutral stances in May by applying to join NATO, Austria remains committed to the military neutrality it adopted in 1955.
The Austrian government has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine but no weapons. Chancellor Karl Nehammer became the first and so far only EU leader to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin face-to-face after the war started. Nehammer traveled to Moscow in April 2022 in a fruitless attempt to persuade the Russian leader to end the invasion.
Support remains strong for Austrian neutrality among the public and political establishment.
“I believe that Austrian neutrality can still play a positive role today,” saysid Ralph Janik, an expert in international law and researcher at the Sigmund Freud private university in Vienna. “The alternative would be to join NATO, but every single Austrian politician is very well aware that this is not supported by the majority of the Austrian public.”
Austria, which was annexed by Nazi Germany in the run-up to World War II, declared neutrality after the war under pressure from Western allies and the Soviet Union. It sought a role as a mediator between East and West and developed ties with Moscow during and after the Cold War.
In 1968, Austria became the first Western European country to import gas from the Soviet Union, and its dependence on Russian energy increased in the following decades. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 80% of Austria’s natural gas came from Russia. It has since reduced the share to just over 20% by turning to Norwegian gas, according to Austria’s regulator for electricity and gas.
The Austrian banking system is also closely connected to Russia. Austria’s second-largest bank, the Raiffeisenbank International, earned more than half of its profits in 2022 from Russia. The bank has come under intense pressure for continuing its business in Russia despite Moscow’s war against Ukraine, and is currently evaluating strategic options, including an exit from Russia.
Vienna is also known to be a playground for spies, including from Russia, due to its lenient espionage laws. Despite its initial reluctance, Austria has expelled eight Russian diplomats who are believed to have been engaged in spying since the start of the Russian war against Ukraine.
While there are no signs of a shift away from Austrian neutrality, some have called for the policy to be reassessed following the Ukraine war.
Werner Fasslabend, a former Austrian defense minister from the conservative People’s Party, is among the few prominent voices arguing in favor of the country renouncing neutrality and joining NATO. With the end of Cold War and Austria’s accession to the EU, Austrian neutrality has “lost its function,” said Fasslabend, the director of the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy.
As a NATO member, Austria would “be in a better position to shape European security policy and will gain greater security,” he added, admitting that it was unlikely to happen given it would require changing the constitution by a two-thirds majority in the Austrian parliament.
“This majority is not within sight,” Fasslabend said.
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WASHINGTON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) priced Connecticut Avenue Securities® (CAS) Series 2022-R06, an approximately $754 million note offering that represents Fannie Mae's sixth CAS REMIC® transaction of the year. CAS is Fannie Mae's benchmark issuance program designed to share credit risk on its single-family conventional guaranty book of business.
The reference pool for CAS Series 2022-R06 consists of approximately 83,000 single-family mortgage loans with an outstanding unpaid principal balance of approximately $25.0 billion. The reference pool includes collateral with loan-to-value ratios of 60.01 percent to 80.00 percent, which were acquired between June 2021 and July 2021. The loans included in this transaction are fixed-rate, generally 30-year term, fully amortizing mortgages and were underwritten using rigorous credit standards and enhanced risk controls.
Fannie Mae will retain a portion of the 1M-1, 1M-2, 1B-1, and 1B-2 tranches and will retain the full 1B-3H first-loss tranche.
BofA Securities, Inc. ("BofA") is the lead structuring manager and joint bookrunner. Nomura Securities International Inc. ("Nomura") is the co-lead manager and joint bookrunner. Co-managers are Amherst Pierpoint Securities LLC ("Amherst"), Barclays Capital Inc. ("Barclays"), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. ("Citigroup"), and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC ("Credit Suisse"). Selling group members are service-disabled veteran-owned Academy Securities Inc. and African-American-owned CastleOak Securities LP.
With the completion of this transaction, Fannie Mae will have brought 50 CAS deals to market, issued nearly $57 billion in notes, and transferred a portion of the credit risk to private investors on over $1.8 trillion in single-family mortgage loans, measured at the time of the transaction.
To promote transparency and to help credit investors evaluate our securities and the CAS program, Fannie Mae provides ongoing, robust disclosure data, as well as access to news, resources, and analytics through its credit risk transfer webpages. This includes our innovative Data Dynamics® tool that enables market participants to interact with and analyze CAS deals that are currently outstanding in the market and Fannie Mae's historical loan dataset. In addition, our EU Resources and UK Resources webpages help European Union and UK institutional investors, as well as those managing funds subject to EU/UK regulations comply with EU/UK securitization regulations.
In addition to our flagship CAS program, Fannie Mae continues to transfer mortgage credit risk through its Credit Insurance Risk Transfer™ (CIRT™) reinsurance program.
CAS REMIC notes are issued by a bankruptcy-remote trust. The amount of periodic principal and ultimate principal paid by Fannie Mae is determined by the performance of a large and diverse reference pool. For more information on individual CAS transactions, visit our credit risk transfer webpage.
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(The Hill) — Netflix removed the LGBTQ tag from its new true crime show “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” after receiving backlash over the categorization.
The Netflix show about Jeffrey Dahmer, a gay man who murdered 17 men from 1978 to 1991, is no longer filed under the tag on the streaming service.
The genres and tags for “Dahmer,” which was released on Sept. 21, now include “Crime TV Shows,” “Social Issue TV Dramas,” and “TV Horror,” as well as “ominous” and “dark.”
The LGBTQ tag is generally applied to educational media and more positive topics for the LGBTQ+ community, such as “Sex Education” and “Heartstopper.”
The move to include “Monster” in the category drew backlash across social media, with users pointing out the brutality of Dahmer’s murders included the rape, dismemberment and cannibalism of his male victims.
“Slapping the LGBTQ tag on Dahmer like ‘Looking for LGBTQ content??'” one user wrote. “Well boy do we have the show for you! Where every episode another LGBTQ person gets massacred & eaten! It’s like saying ‘Schindler’s List’ is a family flick for Jewish people.”
One user noted LGBTQ was the main tag on the show when the app opened to preview new series.
“Dahmer” is from popular television writer and director Ryan Murphy, who worked on popular shows including “Glee” and “American Horror Story.”
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OSLO, Norway, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Saga Pure ASA (Saga Pure) (OSE: SAGA) today announces the intention to establish a new industrial investment company focused on distressed assets, with the ambition of a separate listing on Euronext Growth in the first quarter of 2023. The new company will have NOK 500 million in equity in form of cash.
Highlights
- Saga Pure ASA has since its inception in the fourth quarter of 2020 realized net gains of NOK 490 million, contributing to a cash position of NOK 780 million as per primo November 2022.
- The Board of Directors considers the company to be overcapitalized and proposes to the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to establish a new investment company to invest in distressed assets.
- The new company is expected to list on Euronext Growth in the first quarter of 2023 and will have NOK 500 million in equity in form of cash.
- Saga Pure ASA will, in addition to its current investments, retain NOK 280 million in cash as per primo November 2022 and is well capitalized. Saga Pure's strategy will remain unchanged.
Saga Pure has since its inception in the fourth quarter of 2020 realized net gains of NOK 490 million, contributing to a cash position of NOK 780 million as per primo November 2022. The Board of Directors considers the company to be overcapitalized and proposes to the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to establish a new investment company. The new company will invest in distressed assets and will be led by Håkon R. Fure.
"Saga Pure has built a strong track-record of investing in green technologies, leveraging on the competence of our Board and investment team, access to deal flow, and capital discipline. We have during the past year also seen increasingly volatile capital markets, which we expect to continue, and see several investment opportunities within distressed assets. To capitalize on these opportunities, the Board of Directors has proposed to establish a new investment company with a broader investment mandate," says Bjørn Simonsen, Chief Executive Officer of Saga Pure.
The new company is expected to list on Euronext Growth in the first quarter of 2023. The new company will have NOK 500 million in equity in form of cash from Saga Pure. Following the demerger, Saga Pure will retain NOK 280 million in cash, in addition to its current key ownership positions in Heimdall Power, Horisont Energi, Hyon and IC Technology. Saga Pure will remain well capitalized and will continue to look for investments within green technologies.
"The strategy of Saga Pure remains unchanged. We have a portfolio of companies with great potential, a solid balance sheet and will continue to develop current and future investments. The demerger exemplifies our disciplined capital allocation, our focus on return on equity and will provide our investors with access to a broader investment universe," Simonsen concludes.
All shareholders in Saga Pure will pro rata receive shares in the new company, which will be tradable following the listing on Euronext Growth, expected in the first quarter of 2023. The transaction is subject to approvals by the EGM of Saga Pure, to be summoned in the near future.
The new company will be led by Håkon R. Fure. Fure brings experience from DNB Markets Equity Research and Magni Partners, as well as from the boards of Avida Finans, Mybank, Storebrand and Yara International.
Saga Pure will host a company update on 10 November at 12:00 CET, where the above-mentioned demerger will be outlined. The presentation of the financial results for the third quarter 2022 and the Board of Directors' report will be published on 10 November at 07:00 CET.
For additional information, please contact:
Bjørn Simonsen, CEO, +47 971 79 821
Espen Lundaas, CFO, +47 924 31 417
About Saga Pure | www.sagapure.com
Saga Pure ASA is an investment company focusing on opportunities within renewable energy, hydrogen, circular economy and CO2-reduction.
This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act. This stock exchange announcement was published by Espen Lundaas, CFO, Saga Pure ASA, on 9 November 2022 at 12.40CET.
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Local investors paid $1.75 million for 39 acres at the northwest corner of Baldwin County 8 and Ala. 59 in Gulf Shores, according to Stacey Ryals of Ryals Realty, who represented the buyers. The sellers were represented by Frank Malone of Bellator Real Estate & Development. The buyers have no immediate plans for the property which has frontage on Highway 59, Baldwin County 8 and Grund Lane.
Rainbow Shops has leased 12,000 square feet of space in Westgate Plaza at 5440 U.S. 90 West in Mobile according to Leigh Dale Younce of SRS Real Estate Partners, who represented the landlord. The space is adjacent to the Winn-Dixie supermarket. Rainbow USA Inc., is a moderate price american retail apparel chain with more than 1,300 locations and this will be the store’s fourth location in Mobile. Waterstone Properties handled the lease transaction for Rainbow Shops.
Developers are seeking rezoning approval to build an 80-lot residential subdivision, Timberland Trace, on almost 30 acres on the north side of U.S. 98 and east of Baldwin County 91 near Lillian, according to the Baldwin County Planning Commision.
Mariner Finance has leased 1,355 square feet of office space in Springdale at 3250 Airport Blvd., in Mobile, according to Leigh Dale Younce of SRS Real Estate Partners, who represented the tenant. JLL worked for the landlord.
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There were some familiar faces in new places Tuesday as teams picked up the pace on the second day of spring training.
Justin Verlander threw his first bullpen session for the New York Mets in Port St. Lucie, Florida, six days before he turns 40. Verlander helped Houston win the World Series for the second time in six seasons and won his third AL Cy Young Award before signing an $86.7 million, two-year contract with the free-spending Mets.
In Peoria, Arizona, suspended San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. went through outfield drills alongside Juan Soto. Manager Bob Melvin said Soto will move from right field to left field, where he started his career with Washington in 2018. That presumably means Tatis, an All-Star at shortstop in 2021, will play right field when his 80-game drug suspension ends April 20, although the Padres haven't committed to that.
Verlander agreed to a free agent deal with the Mets in December, replacing Jacob deGrom and reuniting with his former Detroit Tigers teammate and fellow three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer.
Scherzer or Verlander figure to start the March 30 opener at Miami, when baseball gets its first official look at the team that has baseball buzzing after owner Steve Cohen's record spending spree. Verlander and Scherzer were teammates with Detroit from 2010-14, when they each won one Cy Young Award. Scherzer won two NL Cy Youngs with Washington while Verlander went on to win two AL Cy Youngs with Houston.
“Just like all pitchers, regardless of their background and their success, you’re trying to serve their needs and create an atmosphere that they can be as good as they can be,” manager Buck Showalter said a day ahead of the team's reporting date.
Verlander was 18-4 with a 1.75 ERA and 185 strikeouts in 2022 and helped the Astros beat Philadelphia in the World Series.
The Mets are hoping for a deeper postseason run than last year when, after winning 101 games and finishing behind Atlanta in the NL East, they were eliminated by San Diego in a three-game Wild Card Series.
Now they'll carry the heavy expectations that come with a record payroll projected at $370 million.
“Is our season a failure if we win 90 — whatever number you want to come up with?” Showalter said. “It’s about the endgame.”
Showalter doesn't need to remind his team about last year's disappointment.
“You don’t talk about it,” Showalter said. “It’s kind of those looks, without saying anything. They know, believe me. Like, who in here likes talking about unpleasant times?”
LARGE PEPPERONI TO GO
Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora put MLB’s new, larger bases in perspective.
“The bases, they’re the bases. Wait ’til you see them -- they look like a pizza box, to be honest with you,” Cora said in Fort Myers, Florida.
MLB is increasing the bases from 15 square inches to 18 square inches in the interest of safety and more stolen base attempts.
PADRES OUTFIELD
Soto, who came over from Washington in an Aug. 2 trade, will be moving back to left field after playing right field the last three seasons.
“Left is what we’re going to work on with him, and we’re going to try to keep him in that one spot,” Melvin said. The Padres haven't committed to Tatis in right, but that makes the most sense since he has a strong arm and center fielder Trent Grisham is coming off his second Gold Glove Award in three seasons.
The Padres don't need to rush into a decision on Tatis since he won't be active until April 20. He's a full participant in spring training after surgery on his troublesome left shoulder in early September, not quite a month after being suspended following a positive test for a performance-enhancing drug. Tatis made 16 starts in right field and seven starts in center field in 2021, when the Padres temporarily moved him from shortstop after he injured his shoulder.
Tatis missed all of 2022. He was on the cusp of returning from left wrist surgery when he was suspended.
“From where he's come from, he just wants to play and contribute and get out on the field," Melvin said. "He does a lot of his damage with the bat in his hand.”
Xander Bogaerts will play shortstop after signing a $280 million, 11-year deal in December. That pushes Kim Ha-seong to second base and Jake Cronenworth to first.
PADRES ADDING WACHA
Right-hander Michael Wacha has agreed in principle to a contract with the Padres, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. The people spoke with The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the deal is still being finalized and pending Wacha passing a physical. The addition of the 31-year-old Wacha will allow the Padres to start the season with a six-man rotation.
CARDS EXTEND MOZELIAK
The St. Louis Cardinals extended the contract of president of baseball operations John Mozeliak through the 2025 season. Mozeliak is the longest tenured head of baseball operations in the National League. Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. had said last month that he was pleased with Mozeliak and wanted to retain him. The Cardinals won the NL Central last year and matched a franchise record with their 15th consecutive winning season.
JUDGE CHANGES GLOVE
Could Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge provide first base depth behind starter Anthony Rizzo?
Judge worked out at the positiion Tuesday during a pre-spring training workout at the Yankees minor league complex in Tampa, Florida.
Ace Gerrit Cole arrived and shagged batting practice in right field.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — “Super” Paul Mullin is injured.
It’s the latest drama with Wrexham AFC, the Welsh soccer club made famous by its celebrity owners, actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.
Wrexham had been enjoying a mini tour of the United States until Mullin, its star striker, suffered a punctured lung and was hospitalized Tuesday night after a brutal collision with Manchester United goalkeeper Nathan Bishop.
Mullin tweeted Wednesday afternoon that he had been discharged. He thanked the hospital and added: “Will keep everyone updated but rest and recover is the 1st step!” with praying hands and smiley face emojis.
The team that’s been introduced to the world via the docuseries “Welcome to Wrexham” won 3-1 in the friendly against Man U’s under-21 team in front of a record crowd of 34,248 at San Diego State’s Snapdragon Stadium. But the regular season starts in less than two weeks and losing Mullin for any length of time will be a big setback for the club that last season earned a long-sought promotion to English soccer’s fourth tier.
Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson said the team didn’t immediately know how long Mullin will be out, but a punctured lung can take six to eight weeks to heal.
“We’ll give Paul every bit of support we can to get him back as soon as possible,” Parkinson said. “One thing about Mulls is, he’s tough.
“Obviously it’s a massive blow for us,” Parkinson said. “Injuries are part and parcel of football and you’ve got to deal with them as a group and we will do it and we will come out stronger.”
Mullin was attempting a header when Bishop challenged him just outside the box in the 11th minute and the two went down. Mullin was in obvious pain and was down for about seven minutes. A stretcher and a cart were sent out and Mullin was surrounded by medical personnel. He eventually got up and slowly walked off the pitch with assistance while wearing an oxygen mask.
Bishop was not injured and was booed every time he touched the ball. Many fans didn’t notice that Bishop was subbed out at halftime and they continued to boo every time his replacement, Radek Vitek, touched the ball.
“I’m fuming,” Parkinson said. “It was a clumsy, reckless challenge, preseason game. I’m not happy with it at all.”
Reynolds, who wasn’t at the match, tweeted that “Paul Mullin puts his last drop of blood into everything he does” and that the entire Wrexham community was pulling for a speedy recovery. McElhenney was at the match.
The second season of “Welcome to Wrexham” premieres Sept. 12 on FX.
It became clear in the docuseries’ first season that Mullin is Reynolds’ and McElhenney’s favorite player. Wrexham supporters who pack Racecourse Ground — the world’s oldest international soccer stadium — often serenade their team’s best player with the song “Super Paul Mullin.”
Parkinson had hoped his team would stay healthy through the tour, which ends Saturday night against Philadelphia Union II. Mullin had hoped to relax on a beach Wednesday while some of the other lads, as Parkinson calls his footballers, went to a San Diego Padres baseball game.
“To be honest, this wasn’t a holiday for us, it’s work,” Mullin said at a news conference on Monday. “We’ve come here to work as hard as we can and obviously fulfill any duties we had off the pitch, too. Now and again when we have a couple of moments to go and see the city, we’ve done that.”
“Welcome to Wrexham” is making an impact on this side of the pond. Mullin said he was recognized while walking on a street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where the tour opened a week ago with a 5-0 loss to Chelsea in front of 50,596 fans.
“A car window goes down and it’s: ‘Super Paul Mullin.’ That was the moment, ‘Ah, maybe what Rob and Ryan and everyone else has been telling us is true,'” Mullin said. “That was the first moment I thought, ‘Maybe they do know who we are around here then.'”
Mullin’s injury no doubt will be a topic of conversation at The Turf, a pub attached to the Racecourse Ground.
Three hours before Tuesday night’s match, fans lined up to buy $18 gin drinks from a pop-up bar modeled after The Turf while the pub’s real owner, Wayne Jones, was standing nearby, greeting fans and posing for pictures.
“Just having a few gins, meeting some fans. I’m having a ball, loving it,” said Jones, who added that team sponsor Aviation Gin — which Reynolds has an ownership stake in — arranged the pop-up bar for the tour.
“It’s crazy, right?” Jones said about the impact of the docuseries. “It’s a wonderful town, it’s a wonderful place, the people are incredible. The world is just getting to see what we’ve always known as locals. The world just seems to have taken to it. Long may it continue.”
Fans wearing Manchester United shirts outnumbered those wearing Wrexham kit, but Wrexham was loudly cheered when it scored twice in seven minutes to a take a 2-0 lead.
Man U fan Greg Mills, 38, of Escondido, California, who was wearing an old Wayne Rooney shirt, was surprised at the number of Wrexham fans.
He said “Welcome to Wrexham” is a “great show. It brings it more to America. … Wrexham wouldn’t even be here if it wasn’t for that show. No one had heard of Wrexham before the show.”
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PHOENIX, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emissions transportation and energy infrastructure solutions, displayed their zero-emissions Class 8 battery-electric vehicle (BEV) and fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) today in Washington D.C. Together, with key federal government representatives, industry organizations and strategic stakeholder partners, Nikola provided visibility to the importance of congressional efforts in advancing clean energy and climate incentives that will enable market growth of zero-emissions technologies and a national clean hydrogen economy.
Today's event featured several speakers in support of furthering clean transportation and energy, including Representative Greg Stanton (AZ-District 9); Antoine Thompson, Executive Director, Greater Washington Clean Cities Coalition; Jessica Olson, Vice President of Policy, CALSTART; Connor Dolan, Vice President of External Affairs, Fuel Cell Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA) and Shannon Angielski, President of the Clean Hydrogen Future Coalition (CHFC). Arizona Senator Mark Kelly also took a drive in the Nikola Tre FCEV in the afternoon.
"Nikola plans to build a complete hydrogen ecosystem of production, distribution and dispensing and site-specific use case consultation on BEV charging solutions that will support zero-emissions commercial vehicles across the country," said Pablo Koziner, President of Nikola Energy. "Decarbonizing heavy-duty trucking and port operations is likely to be achieved more quickly by our fleet customers with the leadership and support of our federal representatives in Washington who can work with us to grow this new industry."
"I'm grateful that leaders here in Washington have the opportunity to see first-hand the work a great Arizona company, Nikola, is doing to address the challenges of climate change--and see how cutting greenhouse gas emissions can also create great jobs. Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and our work to make clean vehicles more competitive, this great technology will soon be on roadways nationwide," said Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona.
"Today's event reminds us that the transition to clean transportation is not mainly a technology challenge - that the solutions are here today. What we need now are strong market signals from the government that zero-emission technologies will have the support they need to scale and compete with older, dirtier technologies," said Jessica Olson, Vice President of Policy, CALSTART.
Nikola's Tre BEV qualifies for both the California and New York Voucher Incentive Programs. These programs provide vouchers, or discounts, to fleets that purchase or lease medium- and heavy-duty zero-emissions BEVs. With this approval, purchasers of the Nikola Tre BEV qualify for an incentive valued at up to $150,000 in California and up to $185,000 per truck in New York, with a scrappage requirement.
The Nikola Tre BEV's range is up to 350 miles, one of the longest of the battery electric zero-emission Class 8 tractors. The Tre's cabover design is ideal for metro-regional applications because it has improved visibility and maneuverability, along with a smooth and quiet ride free of the smell of diesel emissions.
ABOUT NIKOLA CORPORATION
Nikola Corporation is globally transforming the transportation industry. As a designer and manufacturer of zero-emission battery-electric and hydrogen-electric vehicles, electric vehicle drivetrains, vehicle components, energy storage systems, and hydrogen station infrastructure, Nikola is driven to revolutionize the economic and environmental impact of commerce as we know it today. Founded in 2015, Nikola Corporation is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, visit www.nikolamotor.com or Twitter @nikolamotor.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) today announced that its board of directors has declared a $0.2125 per share cash dividend on its common stock. The dividend is payable on December 30, 2022, to stockholders of record as of December 15, 2022.
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Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2021 revenues of approximately $8 billion. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our four distinct business divisions. For more information about Huntsman, please visit the company's website at www.huntsman.com.
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A three-day weekend looms along with 70-degree afternoons across the Bay Area, and thanks to another startup in the rental economy, there’s an opportunity to borrow a stranger’s pool to cool off with a swim.
Swimply is a service that connects swimming pool owners with the swimming pool deprived. It’s an inherently odd service, but as SFGATE's Grant Marek discovered a couple of summers ago, the bizarre nature of it all washes away after a few cannonballs.
Pools and hot tubs are rented by the hour or half hour, and the Bay Area features dozens of listings.
The most expensive pool currently available is the “Larkspur Oasis” in Marin County, which features a solar-heated dip in a secluded home that abuts the Corte Madera Creek. An hour in this oasis runs you $120.
On the shallow end of the fiscal spectrum, you can rent a hot tub in Oakland for $15 an hour or a casual, suburban pool in San Leandro for $30.
Collected below are five of the best swimming pools that span the region and are available to rent this holiday weekend.
A Campbell splash
Not every swimming pool comes with its own Instagram handle, but this one does, and even has more followers than the mayor of Campbell himself. The saltwater pool is 25 feet long (with a hot tub attached) and has internal lights that can change colors at night. A blue glass fire pit is off to the side, and there’s an accessory bathroom.
Cost: $55/hour
Family-friendly cannonballs
The first thing to know about this pool is that for an extra $50, you can rent a bounce house to go along with the pool time. Located in South Bay outpost Newark, this pool is children- and infant-friendly and has a small kiddie pool. The 36-foot pool can fit up to 25 guests and there should be enough pool floats and noodles to go around.
Cost: $50/hour
Natant in Novato
Elevated on a suburban hillside, this swimming pool is shaped like a 30-foot amoeba. There's a large, wooden gazebo for shade and a recently remodeled bathroom. The host offers some amenities for extra change — including a $7 birthday sign for the lawn or access to the barbecue grill — and the most peculiar is the offer to hire her 16-year-old daughter for babysitting or general aide.
Cost: $68/hour
Floating on in Hayward
Nicknamed the Sands Hotel, this appears to be the most relaxed and easygoing pool for hire in the Bay Area. The host asks for no parties to disrupt the tranquil setting, where there’s a gas grill or charcoal depending on preferences.
Cost: $30/hour
Wading in wine country
This might be the best option for an uproarious pool party. The backyard of this Santa Rosa home not only features a professionally maintained modern pool, but a large green grass lawn for further activities. Up to 15 guests are welcome, and they can relax in the poolside pavilion or inside where there’s access to a full kitchen.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Many Arkansans are spending their days at the pool cooling off during this extreme heat, but one local doctor is encouraging you to be extra mindful of the risks at hand when you are in the sun.
Dr. Henry Wong is a dermatologist at UAMS in Little Rock who is speaking up about the risks of skin cancer this summer, but he is not alone. A local Little Rock woman, Alisha Curtis, has experienced skin cancer personally and is also sharing her story.
Curtis said it all began when her step-mom encouraged her to go to the dermatologist one year and four months ago. As a result of that visit, she had seven moles removed.
“The next day I got a call from her directly, and all seven of them were cancerous,” Curtis said.
Curtis also found out she had melanoma on her arm.
Dr. Wong with UAMS said there are several different types of skin cancers, with the most serious being melanoma.
“We basically had to do surgery somewhat immediately within the next couple of days,” she said.
The surgery resulted in a scar on her arm that Curtis said she is often asked about today.
Over the last year and four months, Curtis has gone in for about 10 outpatient surgeries for removals. She said her entire life she has had tons of freckles and spent plenty of time in the sun, but never thought much of it.
“Being outside, we are subjected to ultraviolet rays from the sun and that will induce damage to the skin,” Dr. Wong said.
Those UV rays that many want for a good sun tan cause extreme damage, according to Dr. Wong.
For non-melanoma cancers, Dr. Wong said there is a lower risk of it growing and spreading unless you let it go untreated for years.
For melanoma, he said some warning signs would be dark spots that you notice growing, changing in color in some parts, and itching or burning.
Dr. Wong said our chances of getting skin cancer today are actually much higher than they were years and years ago because our time in the sun is much more sporadic than it was for our ancestors.
Curtis said, based on personal experience, it is better to get any concerning freckles or moles checked out sooner rather than later.
“I do think about what would have happened if I hadn’t listened to my step-mom, you know, because the longer they sit around the more damage they cause,” Curtis said. “I’m very thankful to have had that voice in my ear.”
Dr. Wong said some of the main ways to try and avoid sun damage are wearing sunscreen, covering your body- specifically your arms and neck, and avoiding being in the sun from 10-4 if possible. | https://www.kark.com/news/health/little-rock-woman-doctor-speak-up-about-skin-cancer-risks-during-the-summer/ | 2022-07-19 23:26:19 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/health/little-rock-woman-doctor-speak-up-about-skin-cancer-risks-during-the-summer/ |
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From left, Fourth Alternates Caroline Boatwright and Jon Grey Morrisson, Second Alternates Alana Martin and C. J. Shirley, Most Beautiful Ella Kate Taylor and Most Handsome Greer Manning, First Alternates Josie Conlee and Daniel Conlee and Third Alternates Sydney Sanders and Cole Morris Willard.
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From left, Fourth Alternates Allie Brooke Martin and Jaxon Herod, Second Alternates Kelsey Coffey and Jake Foreman, Jr. High Most Beautiful Hannah Greer and Jr. High Most Handsome Carson Conlee, First Alternates Cara Browning and Walker Conlee and Third Alternates Chloe Rea and Jack Rutherford.
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DALLAS — The suspect wanted in the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl that triggered a June AMBER Alert was arrested earlier this month.
Leonard Lamar Neal is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting the young girl. Police say Neal also abducted her brother.
Neal was added to the Texas Department of Public Safety's Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List before he was arrested.
Briana and Kenyatta Jordan told WFAA they spotted Neal getting on a DART bus and immediately called 911.
"I knew if it was him, he needed to get off the streets," Kenyatta Jordan said.
The bus, the couple said, drove away, so they followed until police could catch up and take Neal into custody.
"It was honestly something out of a movie," Briana Jordan told WFAA.
The Jordans said they didn't know there was a reward for information leading to Neal’s arrest. But when friends told them, the parents of six, gearing up for an expensive school year, got excited.
"When we found out there was gonna be a reward, I thought, 'We’ll get the kids' school stuff!'" Briana Jordan said.
"Every dime I get goes towards my babies. Every dime," Kenyatta Jordan added.
But the couple told WFAA Crimestoppers told them they weren't eligible for any of the money because they called 911 first instead of the Crimestoppers hotline.
"If I knew about calling Crimestoppers, I still would’ve called 911 first!" Kenyatta said.
Word of the Jordans' story spread quickly, and soon reached a handful of small business owners who wanted to help.
The owners of Riddell Plumbing, Complete Fire Protection and CC Carpet, plus organizers with non-profit Texas First Responders, pooled together their money and sent the Jordans a $5,000 check.
"These people were heroes," Scott Riddell of Riddell Plumbing said. "A lot of people just stick their head in the sand and ignore things, and what they did was a great deed."
"Somebody has to step up to take care of this family," Cameron Morrison with Complete Fire Protection added.
The gesture brought the Jordans to tears.
"Because [the business owners] had no obligation, whatsoever. They weren’t the ones that said 'We’ll pay you,'" Briana Jordan said.
"I appreciate everything. I appreciate them," Kenyatta Jordan added.
WFAA reached out to Crimestoppers for a statement but as of writing have not heard back. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/dallas-couple-werent-eligible-for-reward-despite-turning-in-fugitive-local-business-owners-paid-them/287-be0b0232-025e-4499-a63a-38fe5a1850d0 | 2023-07-22 20:17:58 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/dallas-couple-werent-eligible-for-reward-despite-turning-in-fugitive-local-business-owners-paid-them/287-be0b0232-025e-4499-a63a-38fe5a1850d0 |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi college celebrated “Will Smith Day” with none other than Will Smith.
The actor and entertainer visited Tougaloo College, a historically Black college, on Jan. 31 to speak with mass communication and performing arts students, WAPT-TV reported.
The station reported that his visit was a favor to Tougaloo graduate Aunjanue Ellis, his co-star in the film “King Richard.”
“Today was Will Smith Day at Tougaloo College," Tougaloo President Carmen Walters said.
“Our students were able to interact with Mr. Smith in a private setting,” Walters said. "This is the first visit of many producers who are assisting us with launching our new program in Film Making and Film Production.” | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/will-smith-is-star-attraction-at-college-s-will-17757640.php | 2023-02-01 22:52:26 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/will-smith-is-star-attraction-at-college-s-will-17757640.php |
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The S&P 500 is now in what Wall Street refers to as a bull market, meaning the index has risen 20% or more from its most recent low.
Here are some answers to questions about bull and bear markets:
WHY IT IS CALLED A BULL MARKET?
Wall Street’s nickname for a surging stock market is a bull market because bulls charge, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. In contrast, bears hibernate, so bears represent a market that’s retreating.
WHEN DID THE NEW BULL MARKET BEGIN?
This latest bull market is considered to have begun on Oct. 13, 2022, a day after the S&P 500 closed at its most recent low of 3,577.03.
WHY HAS THE MARKET RALLIED?
Largely because the economy has defied predictions by not falling into a recession, at least not yet.
Markets tumbled last year on fears about how the worst inflation in decades would ravage the economy. More precisely, Wall Street got spooked by the aggressive measures the Federal Reserve took to combat high inflation.
The Fed has yanked interest rates to their highest level since 2007, up from virtually zero early last year. The aim was to drive down inflation by slowing the economy and dragging down prices for stocks, bonds and other investments. That left many investors bracing for a recession for months, but a remarkably resilient job market has kept the economy afloat.
Inflation, meanwhile, has eased off since hitting a peak last summer. That has Wall Street hoping for the Fed to soon stop hiking interest rates.
Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq are already in bull markets, having entered them in November and May, respectively.
SO EVERYTHING’S FINE?
Hardly. The Fed is likely still not done hiking interest rates. Even if it hold rates steady at its next meeting, which would be the first time that’s happened in more than a year, the expectation among traders is for the Fed to resume hiking in July. The hope is that will ultimately be the last rate hike, but persistent inflation could upend that.
That keeps up the pressure on the overall economy and particularly on the banking and manufacturing industries, which have already shown some cracks.
Most of the gains for the S&P 500 this year have come from just a small group of stocks, which critics say is unsustainable. Apple (+30%), Microsoft (+44%) and Alphabet (+25%), the companies with the highest market values in the S&P 500, all outpaced the index. Their huge size gives their movements extra weight on the index, while nearly half the stocks in the index have dropped so far in 2023.
HOW LONG DO BULL MARKETS TYPICALLY LAST?
Since 1932, bull markets have lasted an average of nearly 5 years and the S&P 500 sees a gain of 177.8%. The longest bull market started in March 2009, near the end of the Great Recession, and roamed Wall Street for almost 11 years.
WHEN WAS THE PREVIOUS BULL MARKET?
The previous bull market started on March 23, 2020, as the market recovered from a lightning-fast bear market caused by the onset of the global pandemic. That bull market was the shortest dating back to 1932, lasting about 21 months, according to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices. Still, the S&P 500 more than doubled (up 114.4%).
WEREN’T WE JUST IN A BEAR MARKET?
By entering a bull market, the S&P 500 effectively put an end to the bear market that began on Jan. 3, 2022. Officially, the bear market is considered to have ended on Oct. 12, 2022.
Declaring the end of a bear market may seem arbitrary, and different market watchers use different definitions, but it offers a useful marker for investors.
HOW MEAN WAS THAT BEAR?
The now-deceased bear market lasted about nine months and saw a drop of 25.4%. It was rather tame as far as bear markets go. Since 1950, the average bear market has lasted 13 months and the S&P 500 fell 34.2%. Since 1929, the average bear market has lasted 19.6 months and the S&P 500 has dropped 39.4% | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/08/the-sp-500-is-in-a-bull-market-heres-what-that-means-and-how-long-the-bull-might-run/ | 2023-06-08 23:34:38 | 0 | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/08/the-sp-500-is-in-a-bull-market-heres-what-that-means-and-how-long-the-bull-might-run/ |
The “America’s Got Talent” judges were moved to a standing ovation for an 18-year-old contestant who survived a Michigan school shooting last November.
On Tuesday’s episode of the competition series, Ava Swiss, an Oxford High School senior, explained to Simon Cowell that her audition song “Remember” by Lauren Daigle was inspired by her harrowing experience.
“I chose this song because back on November 30, my brother and I were a part of the Oxford school shooting,” Swiss explained. “We lost four of our students, and seven others were injured, one of which was a teacher.”
She would later tell People that she had been close with one of the victims, 17-year-old Justin Shilling. Three other students, Madisyn Baldwin, 17, Tate Myre, 16, and Hana St. Juliana, 14, also died in the incident, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, while seven others were wounded.
Asked by Cowell how she is coping in the aftermath of the experience, Swiss explained the path to healing has been difficult.
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“It’s been hard,” she admitted. “I remember my brother and I, we were talking to each other, and we said, ‘There’s no way we’re ever stepping foot back in the school.’ But we’ve actually been in person in the school for about two months now, so things are getting better.”
After delivering a powerful performance, Swiss was met with a standing ovation from the audience and all four judges.
“In life, it’s tough to show up, especially after going through incredible trauma,” Howie Mandel, one of the show’s judges, said once things had settled down. “The fact that you can break through that, and shine the way you did today, is so inspirational for every human being.”
Fellow judge Heidi Klum praised the teen for her “incredible,” and Sofía Vergara expressed that she felt as if Swiss wasn’t just singing. She was demonstrating her feelings.
“It gave me goosebumps,” the former “Modern Family” star admitted.
“I think you are gutsy,” Cowell concluded. “For me, this is one of those auditions I’ll never forget. I really have so much respect for you, and on top of that, you’ve got a great voice. You’re really somebody who I’m so happy to have met.”
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CHICAGO — As soon as the Chicago Bears landed the top pick in the 2023 NFL draft, speculation that the team would look to deal either the pick, or incumbent quarterback Justin Fields, ran rampant.
It's unsurprising, considering the number of quarterback needy teams on the market, as well as the appeal of quarterbacks in this draft class - like Alabama phenom Bryce Young, Ohio State's CJ Stroud, and Florida's Anthony Richardson.
The latest reports indicate the team is focusing their effort on moving the number one pick and acquiring more assets to build around the 23-year-old Fields, who finished ninth in MVP voting last season despite Chicago's 3-12 record.
Locked on Bears podcast host Lorin Cox believes the timing of this announcement is key, as Chicago is looking to acquire a big haul of picks similar to the Sam Darnold and Trey Lance trades in previous years.
"The Bears put this out at a very specific time," Cox told Peter Bukowski of the Locked on Sports Today podcast. "They just arrived in Indianapolis at the NFL scouting combine. That's really when this kind of conversation picks up."
The Bears are no doubt hoping these quarterbacks put on a show at the combine, driving up interest by opposing teams and therefore creating a bidding war which could net the Bears a significant haul of draft picks to build around Fields.
Cox doesn't think it matters which quarterback dominates at the combine, as long as interest remains high it will drive up the value of the pick - and the return for Chicago.
"It doesn't really matter which quarterback becomes the consensus top guy among the group, as long as one of them does," Cox continued. "Or as long as multiple teams are interested in multiple quarterbacks. They just need to drum up as much of the hype as possible."
The NFL draft begins on Thursday, April 27, although a trade for the top pick is likely to happen a month or so before that - giving the acquiring team plenty of time to evaluate their options ahead of the big day.
For more on what a trade package might look like, check out the Locked on Bears podcast. | https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/today-podcast/nfl-draft-2023-what-would-it-take-to-get-the-no-1-pick-from-the-bears/535-32ea355e-65a9-4737-a3ea-2d385ac0a087 | 2023-03-03 19:32:31 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/locked-on/lo-national/today-podcast/nfl-draft-2023-what-would-it-take-to-get-the-no-1-pick-from-the-bears/535-32ea355e-65a9-4737-a3ea-2d385ac0a087 |
SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two people are in the hospital with life-threatening injuries following a crash in Selma.
California Highway Patrol officers were called to Dinuba Avenue and Fancher Street for a report of a crash just after 4 am. Sunday.
Investigators say a car was traveling down Dinuba Avenue at high speeds when the driver crashed into a parked car and then hit a house.
The two people inside the car -- a man and a 23-year-old woman -- were both ejected.
They were taken to the hospital with major injuries.
No one else was injured but the house was damaged in the crash.
It's unknown if alcohol or drugs were factors in the crash. | https://abc30.com/two-hospitalized-selma-home-ejection-crash-sunday/13311737/ | 2023-05-28 17:03:52 | 0 | https://abc30.com/two-hospitalized-selma-home-ejection-crash-sunday/13311737/ |
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Trey Lance took the practice field this week for the San Francisco 49ers in a far different state than his rookie campaign.
The nagging finger injury that limited him all last season has healed, his knowledge of the offense has grown and he has emerged as a leader now that he is set to take over for Jimmy Garoppolo as starting quarterback in San Francisco.
“Last year I was swimming a little bit,” Lance said Tuesday following his second practice during this portion of the offseason for the Niners. "It was hard to not be, being drafted and then 10 days later, rookie minicamp. So just trying to keep up, keep up with the other guys in the room. But yeah, I feel very different this year, for sure.”
After starting just two games as a rookie, Lance is set to take over the role he has been groomed for since San Francisco traded three first-round picks to draft him last year.
Garoppolo is rehabilitating from shoulder surgery and coach Kyle Shanahan said the plan remains to trade him after he recovers before the start of training camp.
That means the offense will be Lance's to run, and teammates see a big difference after a year learning under Garoppolo and Nate Sudfeld.
“I definitely think he’s taking ownership,” tight end George Kittle said. “You can kind of tell that. Even in meetings and stuff, he’ll talk. He’s assuming responsibility. ... I think Trey’s learned a lot from them and he’s taken things from them and he’s continually doing them and just trying to better himself every single day.”
Lance looked in control during practice Tuesday, although most of his passes were of the shorter variety as he had few chances to show off the strong arm and running ability that led the Niners to invest so heavily in him a year ago.
But Shanahan has been pleased with what he has seen so far this offseason.
“He’s been great,” Shanahan said. "He went away for a while, along with almost everyone else. You can tell he got healthy while he was gone and he’s come back and he has gotten in four good weeks of work.”
Lance's rookie season was impacted by a finger injury in the final exhibition game against the Raiders that didn't fully heal until the offseason.
He was used in a situational role a few times early in the season and made two starts when Garoppolo was hurt, struggling at times in a Week 5 loss at Arizona and showing some improvement in a Week 17 win over Houston.
For the season, he completed 41 of 71 passes for 603 yards, five TDs and two interceptions, while also running for 168 yards and a score.
“I felt like towards the end of the season, I wasn’t the best version of myself, overall,” Lance said. "It was a long season, long pre-draft process with me not being in school. Everyone says it’s going to be, but you don’t really realize it until it happens. I think the finger for me was the biggest thing just as far as throwing the ball. ... But now, I feel like I’m in a great spot health-wise and throwing the ball well and I feel really good.”
That has carried over to Lance being more comfortable in public settings and more assertive in team meetings and organizing offseason throwing sessions with teammates.
“Just continuing to find my role," Lance said. “Last year was definitely different. For me, I want to keep getting better. That’s my focus right now. The leadership stuff is, that’s just being a good guy in the locker room, but that’s stuff that’s earned. That’s not really anything I can say to be a leader. I’m just trying to be a good guy, be a good teammate, have my teammates back at the end of the day.”
NOTES: Samuel was one of several key players not taking part in practice. All-Pro LT Trent Williams and star edge rusher Nick Bosa are working out on their own and not expected back until later this spring. ... Kittle and LB Fred Warner are being held out of practice with what Shanahan called “lower half” injuries. ... LB Azeez Al-Shaair (shoulder, knee), RT Mike McGlinchey (quadriceps) and DT Javon Kinlaw (knee) are rehabbing and not expected back until training camp. ... The Niners are also still without starting C Alex Mack, who hasn't decided whether he will retire or play another season.
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Man accused in Harvard bomb threat, extortion plan
BOSTON (AP) — A man is accused of phoning in bomb threats to Harvard University and demanding a large amount of Bitcoin in return, federal prosecutors said.
William Giordani, of Nashua, New Hampshire, was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting extortionate threats. He has a detention hearing scheduled in federal court in Boston on Friday. It wasn’t immediately known if he had an attorney.
Harvard University’s police department received six calls regarding bombs and demand for payment on April 13, according to a campus police officer’s affidavit. The caller gave a location and a description of a device, which police found and destroyed. Police, who evacuated the area, said they found no other devices.
The device had a metal locking safe, a package of wire, a quantity of fireworks inside the safe, and a small rectangular box with wires attached to it, police said. It also had a yellow Home Depot sticker and another man’s name. A Home Depot store said someone by that name had allegedly placed an order for some of the supplies found in the device.
Police said Giordani was allegedly seen on camera picking up the order at the store and on surveillance video near where the device was found.
Giordani later told police that “all he did” was respond to a Craigslist ad and “just put some fireworks in a safe and put them at Harvard,” according to the affidavit.
He also said he spoke the person who placed the ad, who said he would be calling police to make a bomb threat to get money and would pay him, the affidavit said.
Police allege that Giordani placed a Craigslist ad posing as a parent of a Harvard student saying they needed someone to drop off supplies for their son. A contact number was the same one that Giordani allegedly used later, authorities said. He also allegedly left a receipt with the parent’s name inside the bag that police recovered.
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EDMONTON, AB, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Aurora Cannabis Inc. ("Aurora" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ACB) (TSX: ACB), the Canadian company defining the future of cannabinoids worldwide, today has announced today that it has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters led by Canaccord Genuity and BMO Capital Markets, under which the underwriters have agreed to buy on bought deal basis 51.1 million units of the Company (the "Units"), at a price of US$2.45 per Unit for gross proceeds of approximately US$125.2 million (the "Offering"). Each Unit will be comprised of one common share of the Company (a "Common Share") and one common share purchase warrant of the Company (a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will be exercisable to acquire one common share of the Company (a "Warrant Share") for a period of 36 months following the closing date of the Offering at an exercise price of US$3.20 per Warrant Share, subject to adjustment in certain events.
The Company has granted the Underwriters an option, exercisable at the offering price for a period of 30 days following the closing of the Offering, to purchase up to an additional 15% of the Offering to cover over-allotments, if any. This option may be exercised by the Underwriters for additional Units, Common Shares, Warrants or any combination of such securities.
The net proceeds of the offering will be used for general corporate purposes.
The closing of the Offering is expected to take place on or about June 1, 2022 and will be subject to customary conditions, including approvals of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
A prospectus supplement (the "Prospectus Supplement") to the Company's short form base shelf prospectus dated March 29, 2021 (the "Base Shelf Prospectus") will be filed with the securities commissions or securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada, except Quebec, and with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") as part of the Company's registration statement on Form F-10 (the "Registration Statement") under the U.S./Canada Multijurisdictional Disclosure System. The Prospectus Supplement, the Base Shelf Prospectus and the Registration Statement contain important detailed information about the Company and the proposed Offering. Prospective investors should read the Prospectus Supplement, the Base Shelf Prospectus and the Registration Statement and the other documents the Company has filed for more complete information about the Company and this Offering before making an investment decision.
Copies of the Prospectus Supplement, following filing thereof, and the Base Shelf Prospectus will be available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and copies of the Prospectus Supplement and the Registration Statement will be available on EDGAR at www.sec.gov. Copies of the Prospectus Supplement, following filing thereof, the Base Shelf Prospectus and the Registration Statement may also be obtained from the Company or, in Canada from Canaccord Genuity Corp., 161 Bay Street, Suite 3000, Toronto, ON M5J 2S1 and in the United States from Canaccord Genuity LLC, 99 High Street, Suite 1200, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, Attn: Syndicate Department, by telephone at (617) 371-3900, or by email at prospectus@canaccordgenuity.com.
No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved of the contents of this press release. This press release is for information purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, 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.
Aurora is a global leader in the cannabis industry, serving both the medical and consumer markets. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Aurora is a pioneer in global cannabis, dedicated to helping people improve their lives. The Company's adult-use brand portfolio includes Aurora Drift, San Rafael '71, Daily Special, Whistler, Being and Greybeard, as well as CBD brands, Reliva and KG7. Medical cannabis brands include MedReleaf, CanniMed, Aurora and Whistler Medical Marijuana Co. Driven by science and innovation, and with a focus on high-quality cannabis products, Aurora's brands continue to break through as industry leaders in the medical, performance, wellness and adult recreational markets wherever they are launched.
Aurora's common shares trade on the NASDAQ and TSX under the symbol "ACB" and is a constituent of the S&P/TSX Composite Index.
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These forward-looking statements are only predictions. Forward looking information or statements contained in this news release have been developed based on assumptions management considers to be reasonable. Material factors or assumptions involved in developing forward-looking statements include, without limitation, publicly available information from governmental sources as well as from market research and industry analysis and on assumptions based on data and knowledge of this industry which the Company believes to be reasonable. Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors that management believes to be relevant and reasonable in the circumstances could cause actual events, results, level of activity, performance, prospects, opportunities or achievements to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to, the ability to retain key personnel, the ability to continue investing in infrastructure to support growth, the ability to obtain financing on acceptable terms, the continued quality of our products, customer experience and retention, the development of third party government and non-government consumer sales channels, management's estimates of consumer demand in Canada and in jurisdictions where the Company exports, expectations of future results and expenses, the risk of successful integration of acquired business and operations, management's estimation that SG&A will grow only in proportion of revenue growth, the ability to expand and maintain distribution capabilities, the impact of competition, the general impact of financial market conditions, the yield from cannabis growing operations, product demand, changes in prices of required commodities, competition, and the possibility for changes in laws, rules, and regulations in the industry, epidemics, pandemics or other public health crises, including the current outbreak of COVID-19, and other risks, uncertainties and factors set out under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's annual information form dated September 27, 2021 (the "AIF") and filed with Canadian securities regulators available on the Company's issuer profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and filed with and available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Company cautions that the list of risks, uncertainties and other factors described in the AIF is not exhaustive and other factors could also adversely affect its results. Readers are urged to consider the risks, uncertainties and assumptions carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information. The Company is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable securities law.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities launched a new nationwide anti-polio drive on Monday amid a spike in new cases among children, health officials said. It is the sixth such campaign this year and will last for five days, aiming to inoculate children under the age of 5 in high-risk areas.
The newest drive was aimed at Islamabad and in the high-risk districts in eastern Punjab and southwestern Baluchistan province. A similar campaign will be launched in the northwest in the first week of December.
Pakistan regularly launches polio campaigns despite attacks on workers and police assigned to inoculation drives. Militants falsely claim the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children. Since April, Pakistan has registered 20 new polio cases and the outbreak has been seen as a blow to the efforts to eradicate the disease, which can cause severe paralysis in children.
Pakistan came close to eradicating polio last year, when only one case was reported.
Since then, the new cases have been reported in the northwest, forcing the government to launch anti-polio drives at small intervals in high-risk areas across the country. The last such campaign was launched earlier this month.
Pakistan’s anti-polio campaigns are also supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which last month pledged $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide. The money will be used for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s strategy through 2026. The initiative is aimed at ending the polio virus in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last two endemic countries, the foundation said last month. | https://www.timesleader.com/wire/nation-world/1588570/pakistan-launches-new-anti-polio-drive-amid-spike-in-cases | 2022-11-28 10:06:03 | 0 | https://www.timesleader.com/wire/nation-world/1588570/pakistan-launches-new-anti-polio-drive-amid-spike-in-cases |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee’s prime-time hearing Thursday will offer the most compelling evidence yet of then-President Donald Trump’s “dereliction of duty” on the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection, with new witnesses detailing his failure to stem an angry mob storming the Capitol, committee members said Sunday.
“This is going to open people’s eyes in a big way,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a member of the House committee investigating the riot who will help lead Thursday’s session with Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va. ”The president didn’t do anything.”
After a year-long investigation, the House Jan. 6 panel is seeking to wrap up what may be its last hearing, even as its probe continues to heat up.
The committee says it continues to receive fresh evidence each day and isn’t ruling out additional hearings or interviews with a bevy of additional people close to the president. One such figure is Steve Bannon, whose trial begins this week on criminal contempt of Congress charges for refusing to comply with the House committee’s subpoena.
The committee also issued an extraordinary subpoena last week to the Secret Service to produce texts by Tuesday from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, following conflicting reports about whether they were deleted.
But panel members say Thursday’s hearing will be the most specific to date in laying out and weaving together previously known details on how Trump’s actions were at odds with his constitutional legal duty to stop the Jan. 6 riot. Unlike members of the public who generally have no duty to take action to prevent a crime, the Constitution requires a president to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
“The commander in chief is the only person in the Constitution whose duty is explicitly laid out to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed,” Luria said. “I look at it as a dereliction of duty. (Trump) didn’t act. He had a duty to act.”
Thursday’s hearing will be the first in the prime-time slot since the June 9 debut that was viewed by an estimated 20 million people.
Luria said the hearing will highlight additional testimony from White House counsel Pat Cipollone and other witnesses, not yet seen before, “who will add a lot of value and information to the events of that critical time on January 6.” She cited Trump’s inaction that day for more than three hours, along with a tweet that afternoon criticizing Vice President Mike Pence for lacking courage to contest Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election that may have served to egg on the mob.
“We will go through pretty much minute by minute during that time frame, from the time he left the stage at the Ellipse, came back to the White House, and really sat in the White House, in the dining room, with his advisers urging him continuously to take action, to take more action,” Luria said.
The hearing comes at a critical juncture point for the panel, which is racing to wrap up findings for a final report this fall. The committee had originally expected at this point to be concluding much of its investigation with a final hearing but is now considering possible options for additional interviews and hearings, panel members said.
“This investigation is very much ongoing,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. “The fact that a series of hearings is going to be concluded this Thursday doesn’t mean that our investigation is over. It’s very active, new witnesses are coming forward, additional information is coming forward.”
For instance, the committee took a rare step last week in issuing a subpoena to the Secret Service, an executive branch department. That came after it received a closed briefing from the Homeland Security Department watchdog that the Secret Service had deleted texts from around Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The finding raised the startling prospect of lost evidence that could shed further light on Trump’s actions during the insurrection, particularly after earlier testimony about his confrontation with security as he tried to join supporters at the Capitol.
“That’s what we have to get to the bottom of,” said Luria, regarding possibly missing texts. “Where are these text messages? Can they be recovered? And we have subpoenaed them because they’re legal records that we need to see for the committee.”
Luria spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Lofgren was on ABC’s “This Week,” and Kinzinger appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jaxson Robinson and Gideon George scored 15 points each and BYU made a program-record 19 3-pointers in beating Westminster (Utah) 100-70 on Tuesday night.
The Cougars (5-3) made 19 of 37 3-point attempts, led by Robinson, who was 5 of 8 from the arc. BYU was 13 of 18 from distance in the first half when the Cougars took a 63-26 lead.
Rudi Robinson added 14 points, Noah Waterman 13 and Tanner Toolson 10 for BYU.
Taylor Miller scored 16 points and Pierce Sterling 14 for Westminster.
The game was played at Vivint Arena, home of the Utah Jazz.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Unity Software Inc. ("Unity") (NYSE: U) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between March 5, 2021 and May 10, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Unity, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Unity includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (ii) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (iii) accordingly, Unity had overstated the Company's commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; (iv) as a result, the Company was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: September 6, 2022
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) _ Agree Realty Corp. (ADC) on Tuesday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter. The results beat Wall Street expectations.
The real estate investment trust, based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, said it had funds from operations of $74.5 million, or 98 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 96 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $34.1 million, or 45 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $104.9 million in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $103 million.
The company's shares have risen 9% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $77.88, an increase of 4% in the last 12 months.
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Attendees flock to booth to learn about the company and its expanded portfolio of disposable vape brands
CHICAGO, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Squid Distribution, a premier authorized distributor of vape products, wrapped up a successful three-day run at the CHAMPS Chicago Trade Show held June 7-9 in the Windy CIty.
The show follows on Squid Distribution's recent announcement that it has expanded its portfolio of vape products. which allows the company to better serve its retail customers across the U.S.
Squid Distribution's team has been active in the vape business for several years, providing customers with the knowledge and experience to expand their businesses. With its expanded offerings, the vape specialist company now distributes more than 10 of the leading disposable vape brands, including Fume, Whiff, Food God, and more.
"As vape enthusiasts, we always look forward to coming to the CHAMPS trade shows, and this year's Chicago show exceeded our expectations as a company," said Hai Vachnon, CEO of Squid Distribution. "We were very happy with the quality of the conversations we had at the show, and we look forward to fulfilling the vape supply needs of the attendees who came by the booth over the last three days."
Attendees were particularly wowed by Squid Distribution's always-in-stock products and same-day shipping to many markets to help vape shops keep product on hand for their customers.
In an industry where counterfeit and unsafe vapes and e-liquids are far too common, Squid Distribution ensures vape users' safety by carrying only authorized products. Resellers who purchase their products from Squid can be sure that they are getting the highest-quality devices that have been tested for safety. Additionally, Squid Distribution is one of very few vape distributors that offer nicotine-free products for those who want the experience without the nicotine hit.
Squid Distribution is America's premier authorized vape distributor backed by years of experience and knowledge to deliver any retailer the highest-quality products to help increase sales. With over 10 of the most popular vape brands always in stock and a national sales team from coast-to-coast, Squid Distribution guarantees excellence and expertise unmatched in the business. For more about America's number one vape specialists and distributors, visit www.SquidDistribution.com.
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One of the coolest things about sports is that it is the rare institution in our society in which tribalism is a healthy force. Nowadays, so much of the public discourse and so many of our social interactions are framed in us-vs.-them terms, with zero-sum stakes. You see it and feel it in our politics, at school-board meetings, in Facebook and Twitter threads, at our Sunday dinner tables. What do you think? How do you identify? Whose side are you on? Tension and tempers rise and lines are drawn because we believe the topics and outcomes matter so much.
Sports is different. Your allegiances to your team cut across all those divisive opinions and demographic categories, render them less relevant and reduce them to their proper proportions in our lives, turn hate into the best kind of bonding agent. Who cares who you voted for? Are you wearing red this weekend to support the Phillies? … All right, enough complaining about cable news. It’s time to turn the game on and complain about the Knicks. … You’re Black. I’m white. We root for Michigan. We can’t stand Ohio State. Let’s have a beer. Go Blue.
There’s a great scene in the film Major League in which an average-joe Cleveland Indians fan and a spiky-hair heavy-metal dude, strangers standing at a bar, celebrate a miraculous victory by hugging each other. They stop. They look at one another, puzzled and uncertain. Then they resume hugging. That’s what I mean. That’s cool.
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All of this is to say, of course, that the Dallas Cowboys are one of the uncoolest things in sports.
‘Polar opposites’
Ahead of Sunday night’s big game at Lincoln Financial Field — the 4-1 Cowboys against the 5-0 Eagles — there has been some chirping out of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area, some of it good-natured, some of it less so.
When former Eagles tackle Jason Peters called the team’s fans “[expletive] idiots,” for instance, he wasn’t being malicious or insulting; he was praising them for their passion. But when defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence said of Jalen Hurts, “All you all need to write is he hasn’t played the Cowboys yet, so we don’t know how good is he,” he was engaging in the kind of chest-puffing and edgy trash-talking that makes a rivalry game like this one fun.
Usually, though, these games are more fun, and mean more, to one side of this rivalry. It’s a cliche in these parts that the Eagles could win two games all season, and if those two victories came against Dallas, their fans would still be happy. But it’s a cliche because it’s true, and it reflects the key difference between the identities of these franchises and their fan bases, a difference that Eagles center Jason Kelce explained well in an interview Thursday on WIP-FM (94.1).
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“What I realized the more I’ve come to be a Philadelphian and the more I’ve played here and played the Cowboys is that it really is just such a dichotomy,” Kelce said. “They’re like two polar opposites that have been in the same division and played so many meaningful games of football together.
“You have the Philadelphia fan base, which is this extremely localized, die-hard fan base that is authentic to all of them growing up together in this community, in this environment that breeds authenticity. And you have the Cowboys fan base. They have that [environment] in Dallas, but the majority of that fan base is built on commercialism and all of this pop-culture, Lakers-Yankees-type fandom that, I think, is the complete opposite of what the Philadelphia Eagles’ fan base stands for. Then you have the North and the South going into it. You have so many factors and different things that it’s almost led to it being a game of cultures and values that I certainly feel and love to represent.”
» READ MORE: Protect Tom Brady? Prevent CTE? Ahead of the big Cowboys game, the Eagles worry the NFL is going soft.
Take geography out of the discussion. That’s a factor, sure, but there’s a bigger one: the teams’ histories, each one’s status in the NFL over time. The Cowboys were great from the mid-1960s through the 1970s — just as pro football was overtaking baseball as the true national pastime — then had a mini-dynasty in the early 1990s. They were Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman and gorgeous cheerleaders and gleaming Texas Stadium. They were fixtures on NFL Films and Monday Night Football. As Kelce noted, they had and still have fans in every region of the country.
The Eagles, aside from a brief period under Dick Vermeil, were small-time. They had a grimy home field in Veterans Stadium. They were often inept. They couldn’t compare.
“Everybody resented the fact that the Cowboys became ‘America’s Team,’ ” Merrill Reese, the Eagles’ radio play-by-play voice since 1977, once said in a phone interview. “They were the glamour franchise, and for years and years and years, they battered this team characteristically and constantly. They just did it over and over again. They beat them so many times, and they beat them so badly.”
» READ MORE: How Micah Parsons’ dominance off the edge, Jordan Mailata’s status impact the Eagles vs. the Dallas Cowboys
Cool isn’t cool
Those images of the two teams remain relatively unchanged, even though, over the last 25-30 years, the Eagles have been closer to a premier franchise, at least on the field, than the Cowboys have. Dallas last reached, and won, a Super Bowl in January 1996. Since then, the Cowboys have had 13 winning seasons and made the playoffs 11 times. Over that same period, the Eagles have had 16 winning seasons, made the playoffs 15 times, and won a Super Bowl.
» READ MORE: Which Philly teams should you be backing this weekend?
No matter. Dallas is still the most powerful prime-time draw in the league. Dallas has the drama and the owner, Jerry Jones, who loves to stoke it. Dallas has the stadium that looks like it belongs in a Steven Spielberg sci-fi blockbuster. Dallas is soulless, superficial glitz. Dallas isn’t fandom by local tradition or birthright. Dallas is fandom by trendiness and accessibility, the empty-calorie popularity of a boy band or a Marvel movie. Dallas is everything that the Philadelphia region — provincial, parochial, loyal, repelled by haughtiness and snobbery — dislikes.
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“It’s always been my feeling, based on what I’ve seen, that your readers have a pretty deep-seated hatred of everything that’s about Dallas, and they always will,” Brad Sham, the Cowboys’ radio play-by-play voice since 1984, once said in a phone interview. “Here, they don’t care very much about any of that, and I don’t think they ever have. They just care about winning and looking good. You don’t even want to win ugly. You’ve got to win and look good.”
What Sham was saying, really, is that the Dallas Cowboys and their fans want to be cool. But in sports, cool isn’t cool. The Cowboys are America’s Team. Big deal. The Eagles are Philadelphia’s Team. That’s sports at its best and its coolest. And around here, that means everything.
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Walgreens, Florida settle opioid costs lawsuit for $683M
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Walgreens pharmacy chain has reached a $683 million settlement with the state of Florida in a lawsuit accusing the company of improperly dispensing millions of painkillers that contributed to the opioid crisis, state officials said Thursday.
State Attorney General Ashley Moody said the deal was struck after four weeks of government evidence was presented at trial. Walgreens was the 12th and final defendant to settle with Florida, which will bring in more than $3 billion for the state to tackle opioid addiction and overdoses.
“We now go into battle armed and ready to fight back hard against this manmade crisis,” Moody said at a news conference in Tampa. “I am glad that we have been able to end this monumental litigation and move past the courtroom.”
Walgreens, based in Deerfield, Illinois, said in a statement the company did not admit wrongdoing in the deal, during which $620 million will be paid to the state over 18 years and a one-time sum of $63 million for attorney fees. Walgreens operates more than 9,000 stores in all 50 states, according to the company website. About 820 of those locations are in Florida.
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has a tentative nationwide deal that includes $6 billion in cash from members of the Sackler family who own the company. In all, settlements, civil and criminal penalties around the country since 2007 have totaled over $45 billion, according to an Associated Press tally.
The Florida case hinged on accusations that as Walgreens dispensed more than 4.3 billion total opioid pills in Florida from May 2006 to June 2021, more than half contained one or more easily recognized red flags for abuse, fraud and addiction that the company should have noticed and acted upon.
The opioid epidemic has been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. over the past two decades, counting those from prescription painkillers such as OxyContin and generic oxycodone as well as illicit drugs such as heroin and illegally produced fentanyl.
In the same case, CVS Health Corp. and CVS Pharmacy Inc. agreed to pay the state $484 million. Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. agreed to pay $195 million and Allergan PLC more than $134 million.
Florida has previously obtained millions of dollars in opioid settlements involving McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc., Johnson & Johnson Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Corp.
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Madison Brengle 2023 Wimbledon Odds
Madison Brengle, off a defeat in the round of 32 of Viking International Eastbourne (to Caroline Garcia) in her last tournament, will begin Wimbledon against Sara Errani in the round of 128. Brengle currently is +50000 to win it all at AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground.
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Brengle at 2023 Wimbledon
- Next Round: Round of 128
- Tournament Dates: June 25 - July 16
- Venue: AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground
- Court Surface: Grass
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Brengle's Next Match
Brengle will play Errani in the round of 128 of Wimbledon on Tuesday, July 4 at 6:00 AM ET.
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Madison Brengle Grand Slam Odds
- Wimbeldon odds to win: +50000
- Wimbledon odds to win: +50000
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Brengle Stats
- In her most recent match, Brengle came up short 1-6, 5-7 versus Garcia in the Round of 32 of Viking International Eastbourne.
- In 20 tournaments over the past 12 months, Brengle has yet to win a title, and her record is 13-20.
- Brengle is 2-3 on grass over the past year.
- In her 33 matches over the past year, across all court surfaces, Brengle has averaged 21.5 games.
- On grass, Brengle has played five matches over the past 12 months, and she has totaled 24 games per match while winning 47.5% of games.
- When it comes to serve/return winning percentages over the past year, Brengle has won 50.6% of her games on serve, and 34.7% on return.
- Over the past 12 months, in terms of serve/return winning percentages on grass, Brengle has won 45% of her games on serve and 25% on return.
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No federal gun control measure has passed since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook a decade ago.
The now largely forgotten assault weapons ban ended in 2004. It was passed in the wake of another school shooting.
Here & Now host Peter O’Dowd talks to Robert Spitzer, professor emeritus at the State University of New York Cortland and the author of “The Politics of Gun Control.”
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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ISO 9001 is World's Most Widely-Recognized Quality Management Standard
DALLAS, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading home healthcare technology provider Axxess has been recognized for its operational excellence in receiving ISO 9001 certification. ISO 9001 is the world's most widely-recognized quality management standard, developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It focuses on evidence-based decision-making and accountability across an organization to improve communication, operating efficiency, customer focus and employee engagement.
"It is gratifying to receive the ISO 9001 certification so soon after becoming the first home healthcare technology vendor to be CHAP-verified," said Andrew Olowu, Axxess Chief Technology Officer. "We work every day with a commitment to the highest standards of excellence to meet our clients' needs, and these kinds of recognition affirm we have world-class operations in place. It is only possible because of the team of experts we have assembled across the company and their dedication to performing at the highest levels."
Axxess developed a quality management process to better satisfy the needs of its clients and continually improve the overall management and success of the company.
The Axxess quality management system is committed to:
- Always providing clients with the best products available;
- Adhering to all client requirements, as well as those defined in the International Standard; and
- Continually improving the quality management system and services provided to clients.
About Axxess
Axxess is the leading technology innovator for healthcare at home, focused on solving the most complex industry challenges. Trusted by more than 9,000 organizations that serve more than 3 million patients worldwide, Axxess offers a complete suite of easy-to-use software solutions that empower home health, home care, hospice, and palliative providers to make healthcare in the home human again. The company's collaborative culture focused on innovation and excellence is recognized nationally as a "Best Place to Work."
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(202) 215-6767
dpetroskey@axxess.com
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The Porsche Taycan already ranks as one of the best-performing EVs you can buy. With an upgrade, it can also be one of the fastest-charging EVs at home.
Porsche earlier this week announced that U.S. Taycan models going back to the 2020 model year will be eligible for an extra-cost upgrade that isn’t usually offered retroactively for EVs: a new onboard charger with double the power—19.2 kw—versus what most U.S. Taycans originally received.
With the Taycan’s 93.4-kwh Performance Battery Plus that means a full charge from 0-100% in just 5.3 hours; and with the smaller 79.2-kw Performance Battery, a full charge takes just 4.8 hours.
But it’s not for everyone. In order to take advantage of the full capability enabled by the onboard charger, you’ll need to dedicate a 100-amp circuit to the mission, plus you’ll need high-power home hardware capable of delivering that power level—Porsche’s 19.2-kw Wall Charger Connect, for instance.
That’s an upgrade that those with ubiquitous American 200-amp residential service might not be able to make the space for—and it’s certainly not for those with old houses with lower-amp service, or those with condos or apartments.
As Porsche points out, those ordering a new Taycan can already add the more powerful onboard charger to their build by adding the KB4 option—a $1,680 premium. It’s been offered as a factory option on the Taycan since early 2022, for model-year 2022 vehicles.
The upgrade has one other extra benefit for those with 2020 Taycan models, according to Porsche: with its replacement of associated wiring, it also enables Plug and Charge, a feature that allows owners to pay for public charging by simply plugging the vehicle in. Taycans from 2021 and later are already compatible with this.
Increasingly, there may be urban 240-volt chargers capable of delivering the higher power to take advantage of outside the home. GM, for instance, is having its dealerships install 19.2-kw Level 2 chargers in their communities.
The onboard charger costs quite a bit more to add to existing vehicles. The kit costs $1,850, but that’s the smaller piece of the expense. This pretty significant surgery on the car takes an expected 12 labor hours. Figure on about $250 per hour of labor, plus other incidentals, and that means a total of around $5,000.
That doesn’t take into account the current $1,269 price of the Porsche Wall Charger Connect home unit, or its installation, which Porsche says must be done by a professional electrician. The total cost to have this combo for the fastest-charging Taycan could end up around $7,000 or more—but then you’ll also have a home unit that can charge other models with this rating, like the Cadillac Lyriq, GMC Hummer EV, or Lucid Air, at the fastest rate possible.
Is that worth it? As we know from various polls and studies, most EV owners charge at home 80% of the time or more. For busy executive types, the convenience of leaving in the morning with a full charge, no matter how late you’re out at night, may well bring a lot more peace of mind.
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Asia's richest man to relaunch iconic 1970s Indian soda that once rivaled Coca-Cola
Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, has announced plans to relaunch an iconic 1970s soda brand that once rivaled Coca-Cola and Pepsi, prompting a wave of nostalgia on social media among the millions of Indians who grew up drinking the beverage.
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Ambani's Reliance Group said this week it would reintroduce Campa Cola to India's multibillion-dollar non-alcoholic drinks market this summer in three flavors: cola, lemon, and orange, CNN affiliate CNN News-18 reported.
The brand filled a void in the South Asian country at a time when its more famous American rival Coca-Cola was not available, and the news of its return has prompted a flurry of interest from middle-aged Indians who remember drinking it in their youth.
Shailesh Desai, 60, from Mumbai, told CNN he remembered how drinking Campa Cola "would drown the apprehension" when he needed to tell his father about a bad grade on his report card, and provide a boost of confidence when he wanted to ask a girl on a date.
Sukant Khurana wrote on Twitter that he could remember pestering his grandfather to buy him the drink.
"So many childhood memories ... If it tastes anything like it did, Campa Cola will sell on nostalgia," he wrote.
Meanwhile Atul Mohan tweeted that "some brands remain timeless ... people still ask, 'will you drink Campa?'"
While Coca-Cola was introduced in India in the 1950s it withdrew from the market just over two decades later when the Indian government introduced a regulation that would have required it to reveal its formula.
In its absence, the Indian alternative Campa Cola became immensely popular and soon grew to lead the country's soft drink market.
Like its American rival its popularity was fueled by catchy advertising campaigns that appealed to Indian youth. Bollywood actor Salman Khan appeared in one of its more famous television campaigns while its print advertisements were known for their pop-art illustrations and bold colors.
It also had a punchy tag line, with a hint of an appeal to patriotism: "The Great Indian Taste."
However, its popularity began to fizzle during the 1990s when India's then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao and his Finance Minister Manmohan Singh opened the country to foreign investment.
Foreign cola brands made a comeback, with Coca-Cola returning in 1993 and Pepsi and Fanta also becoming popular. Campa Cola gradually disappeared from stalls and shelves across the country.
With its new acquisition, Reliance appears to be hoping to appeal both to those Indians nostalgic for the brand and to introduce the cola to a younger crowd who might not remember its previous incarnation.
"By presenting Campa in its new avatar, we hope to inspire consumers across generations to embrace this truly iconic brand and trigger a new excitement in the beverage segment," a company spokesperson said, according to CNN News-18. | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/relaunch-of-iconic-1970s-indian-soda-campa-cola/43277707 | 2023-03-11 12:42:06 | 0 | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/relaunch-of-iconic-1970s-indian-soda-campa-cola/43277707 |
In the early 2000s, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman had just started to find his voice. He was making thoughtful, funny, romantic indie pop, weaving personal, sharply observed stories into a technicolor patchwork of samples that burst at the seams.
"The way I learned to make music was by making collages with samples from records that I found at flea markets and other places," says Lekman. "Hundreds and thousands of tiny little snippets of audio from this place and that place."
Fans and critics around the world couldn't get enough, and Lekman soon released two of his most acclaimed and successful albums: In 2005, "Oh You're So Silent Jens," and in 2007, "Night Falls Over Kortedala."
But then, as in every Jens Lekman story, there came a twist.
In that era of file-sharing and free love, some artists – including Lekman – were less than careful about getting permission to use samples, which can be a difficult, expensive process. But over the next 15 years, the bill came due.
As the legal pressure mounted, Lekman was unable to clear all of the samples on "Oh You're So Silent" and "Night Falls." And as a result, Lekman's label Secretly Canadian had to stop pressing the records and pull them from streaming services.
First, "Oh You're So Silent" disappeared in 2011.
"It was like the record never had existed in the first place," says Lekman. "There was not even a gap at Spotify. It was just gone."
Then, "Night Falls" followed in March of 2022 (with a funeral service on YouTube to boot).
But unbeknownst to grieving fans, Lekman had a surprise up his sleeve: During the COVID-19 pandemic, he had secretly started re-recording some of his old songs to get around the uncleared samples.
"This was something that I had entertained in my mind many times," says Lekman. "And every time I even thought about it, I just thought, 'No, I can't do that. It would just be sacrilege. It would just be offensive.'"
And yet, Lekman eventually admitted to himself that "there's always something in the forbidden that [is] kind of intriguing."
In the spring of 2022, Lekman delivered the fruits of his forbidden labor: A new version of "Oh You're So Silent" called "The Cherry Trees Are Still in Blossom" and a new version "Night Falls" called "The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom."
They're more than just reissues, but they aren't full remakes.
"I wanted these records to be like portals or tombstones for the original records," says Lekman.
In the new releases, a number of the original recordings are untouched, and all of the lyrics are still the same.
But some familiar things are missing, or tweaked, or reimagined – like the outro to "Kanske Är Jag Kär I Dig."
"I originally had a sample in there that broke the whole song off," says Lekman. "And in this case, I found this live recording of me playing the song at a New Year's show, and ... instead of playing the melody, we had this saxophone player who was just improvising at that part."
Lekman replaced the sample at the end of "Kanske Är Jag Kär I Dig" ... with a bootleg recording of himself playing the song live.
"I'm actually quite a big fan of bootlegs of my own shows," Lekman tells his fans. "Keep sending them."
Other changes on "Cherry Trees" and "Linden Trees" are more wholesale, like with two of Lekman's biggest early hits.
"'Maple Leaves' and 'Black Cab' are completely new, mostly because those songs consisted of basically all samples," says Lekman.
In the course of remaking these albums, Lekman faced more than just tricky songwriting problems. There was also something deeper he had to contend with – some baggage around his old persona.
My music is so tied to who I am, so when I don't like myself very much, I don't like my music very much.
"I remember doing an interview with a Belgian journalist when 'Night Falls Over Kortedala' came out," says Lekman. "He was just like, 'So this is just another collection of, you know, clumsy, lovestruck man-child songs. ... I hate it.'"
"And I realized I wanted to move on from that," adds Lekman.
In the years following the release of "Night Falls," Lekman had gotten tired of his younger self. As sweet and smart as his early writing could be, even he would admit that it could come off as sappy – or even cringe.
"I'm a very self-critical person. From time to time, I don't like myself very much," says Lekman. "And my music is so tied to who I am, so when I don't like myself very much, I don't like my music very much."
But for this project, Lekman had to dive deep into the songs he'd written back then — like one of his first big hits, "Maple Leaves."
"Maple Leaves" has all of the hallmarks of an early Jens Lekman hit: Doomed romance, big emotions, and a bit of wordplay at its core.
"It's all about the misunderstandings of love," says Lekman. "'She said it was all make-believe, but I thought she said maple leaves.'"
But back then, when it came to love, 21-year-old Lekman didn't really know what he was talking about.
"I actually kind of used my songs, in a way, to push myself to go talk to girls," admits Lekman. "So a lot of those songs were like trying out different costumes."
In the 20 years since, Lekman has actually experienced real romance, real heartbreak. And the more he learns about love, the more you'd think he'd cringe at an old song like "Maple Leaves."
But when he picked it up again for this project:
"Looking back on Maple Leaves, I think I nailed it in that song," says Lekman.
This time, he saw something new in it.
"It's like I've been going around in circles, and then I came back to that, and I was like, 'Oh wait, hang on. This is such a perfect portrait of love or heartbreak,'" says Lekman. "These things that we think that we're going to understand as we get older, but as we get older, we realize that there's nothing to understand."
For self-critical Lekman, remaking these two albums became something unexpected: A labor of self-love.
"Working on these songs became like a dialogue between my 41-year-old self and my 21-year-old self," says Lekman. "A very compassionate dialogue."
"Now when I look back on it, I just see a 21-year-old, you know, dealing with these emotions for the first time ... and then it feels sweeter," adds Lekman.
"It was just a moment to see myself from the outside and like what I saw and be proud of what I saw."
As Lekman starts work on two brand-new albums, he's energized by what he's re-discovered in his early work.
"After a while, you have to struggle more to find new directions and something that's interesting," says Lekman. "But back then, I was just, you know, an unwritten sheet of paper, and I could do whatever I wanted."
"I lost my job around that time, and I was on the dole, and I just remember thinking, 'I'm going to really make the most of this,'" adds Lekman. "And I just got up at six in the morning every day, and I just sat by my computer and just recorded songs all day."
Working on these songs became like a dialogue between my 41-year-old self and my 21-year-old self.
Lekman says that he's been inspired "remembering how I wrote songs back then, how simple it was – that you don't have to complicate things so much and you can just write songs from the joy of it."
In two new music videos promoting the remakes, present-day Lekman watches footage of himself from the past – from the early 2000s.
So after this whole experience, what does Lekman see now, literally, when he looks back at that younger Lekman from forever ago?
"I'm thinking you should get rid of those sideburns," Lekman chuckles.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (Nexstar) — A giant Mega Millions jackpot grew larger Wednesday to an estimated $640 million after another drawing without a winner.
No one won the lottery game’s top prize Tuesday night, making it 21 straight drawings without anyone matching all six numbers. The next drawing will be Friday night.
The huge jackpot comes less than two months after the largest lottery prize ever, a $2.04 billion Powerball prize that was won on Nov. 8 in California. So far, that big winner hasn’t stepped forward to claim the prize.
The reason for all the big prizes is simple — long odds ensure there are few winners and the long streaks of lottery futility allow jackpots to grow ever larger week after week.
The odds of winning a Mega Millions jackpot is one in 302.6 million.
The advertised jackpot of $640 million is for a winner who opts to be paid with an annuity, doled out through annual payments over 29 years. Nearly all winners take the cash option, with for Friday’s drawing will be an estimated $328.3 million.
Here are the 10 largest Mega Millions jackpots to date:
- $1.537 billion: Oct. 23, 2018 (SC)
- $1.337 billion: July 29, 2022 (IL)
- $1.050 billion: Jan. 22, 2021 (MI)
- $656 million: Mar. 30, 2012 (IL, KS, MD)
- $648 million: Dec. 17, 2013 (CA, GA)
- $565 million (est)
- $543 million: July 24, 2018 (CA)
- $536 million: July 8, 2016 (IN)
- $533 million: Mar. 30, 2018 (NJ)
- $522 million: June 7, 2019 (CA)
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Hurricane Fiona dumped so much rain on Puerto Rico that its network of rivers flooded, causing catastrophic damage in many communities. It was worsened by poor past planning and development choices.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Hurricane Fiona dumped so much rain on Puerto Rico that its network of rivers flooded, causing catastrophic damage in many communities. It was worsened by poor past planning and development choices.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
13-16-19-43-44, Cash Ball: 3
(thirteen, sixteen, nineteen, forty-three, forty-four; Cash Ball: three)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the "Cash4Life" game were:
13-16-19-43-44, Cash Ball: 3
(thirteen, sixteen, nineteen, forty-three, forty-four; Cash Ball: three) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash4Life-game-17714811.php | 2023-01-13 03:51:38 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash4Life-game-17714811.php |
Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis appear to be on good terms.
The exes were spotted sharing a hug on Jan. 27 in Los Angeles, as seen in photos published by TMZ. Per the outlet, Wilde and Sudeikis, who split after a roughly ten-year relationship, embraced after they attended a meeting together.
For the occasion, both parties kept it casual with Sudeikis sporting a baseball cap and a hoodie. Meanwhile, Wilde wore a sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers.
Wilde and Sudeikis' hug comes after the pair, who share kids Otis, 8, and Daisy, 6, endured a rough year together in 2022.
Back in November 2020, news of Wilde and Sudeikis' split came to light. At the time, Wilde was working on her film Don't Worry Darling with her eventual-boyfriend Harry Styles. Styles and Wilde, who were first romantically linked in January 2021, ended their relationship in November of 2022.
Almost two years after news of Wilde and Sudeikis' breakup was announced, the pair faced allegations from their children's former nanny, who claimed the former couple had a bumpy relationship that involved disputes about Styles.
The nanny alleged that Sudeikis found text messages between Wilde and Styles on an Apple Watch Olivia left at their house, which left Sudeikis beside himself in an interview published by the Daily Mail October 2022. The nanny also alleged that Sudeikis once laid under Wilde's car to prevent her from leaving their home to bring a salad to Styles. Elsewhere in the piece, the nanny claimed that they had fired her from her job without severance pay.
In response to the accusations, Sudeikis and Wilde told E! News in a joint statement that same day: "As parents, it is incredibly upsetting to learn that a former nanny of our two young children would choose to make such false and scurrilous accusations about us publicly."
On the topic of Wilde and Styles' romantic timeline, the actress also addressed rumors the month before the nanny's public allegations.
"The complete horses--t idea that I left Jason for Harry is completely inaccurate," Wilde told Vanity Fair in a cover story published Sept. 8. "Our relationship was over long before I met Harry." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1363050/olivia-wilde-and-ex-jason-sudeikis-hug-it-out-months-after-nanny-drama?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories | 2023-01-29 01:23:32 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1363050/olivia-wilde-and-ex-jason-sudeikis-hug-it-out-months-after-nanny-drama?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories |
New Independent Director, Sara Mathew, brings operational and financial expertise and experience driving transformative growth
Sir John Parker to step down from Carnival Corporation & plc's Boards of Directors
MIAMI, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), the world's largest cruise company, announced that Sara Mathew, retired Chair, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Dun & Bradstreet Corp. (DNB), was appointed on November 14, 2022 to Carnival Corporation & plc's Boards of Directors, effective immediately.
Mathew has leveraged her significant strategic and operational expertise to drive transformative growth at large international companies throughout her career. During her over 12-year tenure with Dun & Bradstreet, she served as Chair and CEO from 2010 to 2013, following prior roles as President and Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Dun & Bradstreet, Mathew held various roles over her 18 years at The Proctor & Gamble Co., within finance, accounting, brand management and investor relations. At Carnival Corporation & plc Mathew will serve in a non-executive capacity as a Board member and will also serve on the Audit Committees.
"As the company continues on its path towards delivering durable top and bottom-line growth, we are excited to have Sara join the Boards as an experienced leader and strategic operator with expertise in technology and innovation, finance, and global consumer-facing brands," said Micky Arison, Chair of the Boards of Directors of Carnival Corporation & plc. "Sara's unique perspective will be a valuable addition to the boardroom as we advance our long-term growth priorities."
Mathew has received numerous accolades reflecting her successful career, including Top Value Creator in the S&P 500 by Chief Executive magazine in 2013, National Association of Corporate Directors New Jersey Chapter (NACD NJ) Director of the Year in 2018, and a recipient of Proctor & Gamble's John G. Smale Award for outstanding alumni in 2020. Mathew earned a Master of Business Administration from Xavier University, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Madras in India. Mathew is currently a member of the boards of directors at Dropbox, State Street Corporation and Freddie Mac Corporation. Mathew was previously a member of the board of directors of XOS, Reckitt Benckiser, Shire, Campbell Soup and Avon.
Carnival Corporation & plc also announced that Sir John Parker has decided not to seek re-election to the Boards of Directors at the 2023 Annual Meetings of Shareholders, now that the company is back on a recovery course, and will retire from the Boards with effect from the conclusion of the 2023 Annual Meetings of Shareholders.
"We want to thank Sir John for his invaluable service to the company," said Arison. "Throughout his tenure as a director of both Carnival plc since 2000 and of Carnival Corporation since 2003, Sir John has provided extensive insight and guidance to the Boards and to our global management team. As founding Chairman and continued member of the Health, Environment, Safety & Security (HESS) Committees, a long-standing member of the Nominating & Governance Committees, and a previous member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees, Sir John has supported the Boards in overseeing policies, programs, and initiatives relevant to these important areas, which are essential aspects of the Boards' oversight over the years."
"As Chair of the UK Government's Parker Review of ethnic diversity on UK boards and Chair of six FTSE 100 listed companies, Sir John has provided knowledgeable and unique perspectives of UK corporate governance policies and practices, including the importance of diverse representation. Sir John has also deepened the Boards' industry knowledge as the former head of a major shipbuilding company and in additional prior roles in the industry including former President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects and President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. We appreciate Sir John's thought leadership throughout his tenure and his invaluable contributions to broaden our Boards' expertise in these key areas."
The Boards of Directors regularly evaluate the composition of the Boards to ensure the appropriate mix of skills, experiences, and diversity of perspectives to effectively oversee the strategic direction of Carnival Corporation & plc. With these changes as well as the recently announced retirement of long-time Board member and former President and CEO Arnold Donald, Carnival Corporation & plc's Boards will be comprised of twelve members as of April 2023, ten of whom are independent directors, four of whom are female and one of whom is ethnically diverse.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival Corporation & plc is one of the world's largest leisure travel companies with a portfolio of nine of the world's leading cruise lines. With operations in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia, its portfolio features Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
Additional information can be found on www.carnivalcorp.com, www.carnival.com, www.princess.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.seabourn.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.costacruise.com, www.aida.de, www.pocruises.com and www.cunard.com.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Evening" game were:
09-15-22-25-31
(nine, fifteen, twenty-two, twenty-five, thirty-one)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Evening" game were:
09-15-22-25-31
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Physical fitness assessments are a cornerstone of military life. The new branch Space Force is switching to more high-tech fitness trackers. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 22, 2022.)
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SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR) announced that Jack Willome has been elected to the board. He has joined three board committees: Corporate Governance and Nominating; Compensation and Benefits; and Risk.
"Jack may be a new addition to the board, but he isn't new to Frost," said Phil Green, Cullen/Frost Chairman and CEO. "He has worked with our teams as a consultant for many years, and he was instrumental in helping Frost produce its Frost Philosophy in written form, known as the blue book. Having literally written our philosophy, he is a great match for the board."
Willome is retired from Ellison Industries, a leading homebuilder in San Antonio. Willome joined Ellison in 1972, served as the company's chief financial officer from 1975-78 and was president from 1979 until the company's sale in 1996. Following his retirement, Willome became a business consultant and facilitator, helping numerous organizations, families and individuals develop their strategic focus.
Willome also is a director at James Avery Craftsman Inc. and has served on numerous other company and nonprofit boards of directors, including Texas Commerce Bank-San Antonio, Guaranty Federal Bank, GPM Life Insurance and the University of Texas Health Science Center's Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas with a Bachelor in Business Administration degree.
About Frost:
Frost is the banking, investments and insurance subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR), a financial holding company with $52.9 billion in assets at Sept. 30, 2022. One of the 50 largest U.S. banks by asset size, Frost provides a full range of banking, investments and insurance services to businesses and individuals in the Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Permian Basin, Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio regions. Founded in 1868, Frost has helped Texans with their financial needs during three centuries. For more information, visit www.frostbank.com.
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Company shares details about 2022-23 season pass access to the resort
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) has closed on its purchase of a majority stake in Andermatt-Sedrun Sport AG, a renowned destination ski resort in Central Switzerland that controls and operates the resort's mountain and ski-related assets including all lifts, most of the restaurants and a ski school operation.
The acquisition represents Vail Resorts' first strategic investment in, and opportunity to operate, a ski resort in Europe. Andermatt-Sedrun, one of the most ambitious resort development opportunities in Europe, is located less than 90 minutes from three of Switzerland's major metropolitan areas (Zurich, Lucerne and Lugano) and approximately two hours from Milan, Italy.
Vail Resorts acquired a 55-percent ownership of the resort operations from Andermatt Swiss Alps AG ("ASA"), which retains a 40-percent ownership stake, with a group of existing shareholders comprising the remaining 5-percent ownership. Vail Resorts' final purchase price of CHF 149 million will be fully reinvested into the resort, with CHF 110 million allocated for use in capital investments to enhance the guest experience on the mountain and CHF 39 million paid to ASA and reinvested into the real estate developments in the base area.
Mike Goar, former vice president and chief operating officer of the United States' largest resort, Park City Mountain in Utah, has been named the vice president, chief operating officer, and managing director of Andermatt-Sedrun Sport AG. Goar's 46-year career in the ski industry includes leadership roles at several of the country's most well-regarded resorts. Goar joined Vail Resorts in 2013 when the company acquired The Canyons Resort in Utah where he was serving as vice president and general manager. Goar also ran Keystone Resort in Colorado and oversaw the operations of the company's three resorts in Lake Tahoe (Heavenly Ski Resort, Kirkwood Mountain Resort and Northstar California) before returning to Park City Mountain from 2019 to 2022.
"I look forward to working with – and learning from – the incredible team at Andermatt-Sedrun and the dedicated community and government partners," said Goar. "I am excited to support the important investments being made into the resort as we work together to continue Andermatt-Sedrun's development as a premier alpine destination in Europe. We are proud to add this special resort to the Vail Resorts network and I am personally committed to operational excellence and collaboration."
Today, Vail Resorts also announced 2022-23 season pass access details through both Epic Pass products on sale now, as well as the local Andermatt-Sedrun-Disentis Annual Pass (ASDA) that will remain available for the 2022-23 ski and ride season.
For the 2022-23 season, Epic Pass Holders will receive unlimited and unrestricted access to Andermatt-Sedrun (without Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn access). Epic Local Pass Holders receive 5 days at the resort, and Epic Day Pass Holders with All Resorts Access will be able to visit using any of their days. View passes and prices, on sale now.
The Epic Pass also provides European access to partner resorts including five days at Verbier4Vallées in Switzerland, seven days at Les 3 Vallées in France, seven days at Skirama Dolomiti in Italy and three days at Ski Arlberg in Austria, with specific details available at www.epicpass.com.
About Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN)
Vail Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the leading global mountain resort operator. Vail Resorts' subsidiaries currently operate 41 destination mountain resorts and regional ski areas, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Crested Butte in Colorado; Park City in Utah; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia, Canada; Perisher, Falls Creek and Hotham in Australia; Andermatt-Sedrun in Switzerland; Stowe, Mount Snow, Okemo in Vermont; Hunter Mountain in New York; Mount Sunapee, Attitash, Wildcat and Crotched in New Hampshire; Stevens Pass in Washington; Seven Springs, Hidden Valley, Laurel Mountain, Liberty, Roundtop, Whitetail, Jack Frost and Big Boulder in Pennsylvania; Alpine Valley, Boston Mills, Brandywine and Mad River in Ohio; Hidden Valley and Snow Creek in Missouri; Wilmot in Wisconsin; Afton Alps in Minnesota; Mt. Brighton in Michigan; and Paoli Peaks in Indiana. Vail Resorts owns and/or manages a collection of casually elegant hotels under the Rock Resorts brand, as well as the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Vail Resorts Development Company is the real estate planning and development subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MTN). The Vail Resorts company website is www.vailresorts.com and consumer website is www.snow.com.
Andermatt Swiss Alps
Andermatt Swiss Alps AG, with registered office in Andermatt, plans, builds, and develops the year-round destination of Andermatt. In 2009 Andermatt Reuss came into being, with apartment buildings, hotels, and chalets. The Andermatt Swiss Alps Group also owns Andermatt-Sedrun Sport AG with its cableways, the catering brand Mountain Food, the Swiss Snowsports School Andermatt, an 18-hole, par-72 championship golf course, and the Andermatt Concert Hall. With the hotels, the sports infrastructure, the wide range of events on offer, and the properties, Andermatt Swiss Alps is pursuing the vision of becoming the prime Alpine destination. In doing so, it is committed to an intact environment and a sustainable future that will enable coming generations to have an extraordinary home. During high season, the Andermatt Swiss Alps Group has more than 1,000 employees working at the locations in Altdorf, Andermatt and Sedrun. andermatt-swissalps.ch / andermatt-facts.ch / andermatt-responsible.ch
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US added 428,000 jobs in April despite surging inflation
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added 428,000 jobs in April, extending a streak of solid hiring that has defied punishing inflation, chronic supply shortages, the Russian war against Ukraine and much higher borrowing costs.
Friday’s jobs report from the Labor Department showed that last month’s hiring kept the unemployment rate at 3.6%, just above the lowest level in a half-century.
The economy’s hiring gains have been remarkably consistent in the face of the worst inflation in four decades. Employers have added at least 400,000 jobs for 12 straight months.
Yet it’s unclear how long the jobs boom will continue. The Federal Reserve this week raised its key rate by a half-percentage point — its most aggressive move since 2000 — and signaled further large rate hikes to come. As the Fed’s rate hikes take effect, they will make it increasingly expensive for consumers and businesses to borrow, spend and hire.
In addition, the vast economic aid that the government had been supplying to households has expired. And Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has helped accelerate inflation and clouded the economic outlook. Some economists warn of a growing risk of recession.
For now, the resilience of the job market is particularly striking when set against the backdrop of galloping price increases and rising borrowing costs. This week, the Labor Department provided further evidence that the job market is still booming. It reported that only 1.38 million Americans were collecting traditional unemployment benefits, the fewest since 1970. And it said that employers posted a record-high 11.5 million job openings in March and that layoffs remained well below pre-pandemic levels.
What’s more, the economy now has, on average, two available jobs for every unemployed person. That’s the highest such proportion on record.
And in yet another sign that workers are enjoying unusual leverage in the job market, a record 4.5 million people quit their jobs in March, evidently confident that they could find a better opportunity elsewhere.
Chronic shortages of goods, supplies and workers have contributed to skyrocketing price increases — the highest inflation rate in 40 years. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February dramatically worsened the financial landscape, sending global oil and gas prices skyward and severely clouding the national and global economic picture.
In the meantime, with many industries slowed by worker shortages, companies have been jacking up pay to try to attract job applicants and retain their existing employees. Even so, pay raises haven’t kept pace with the spike in consumer prices.
That’s why the Fed, which most economists say was much too slow to recognize the inflation threat, is now raising rates aggressively. Its goal is a notoriously difficult one: a so-called soft landing.
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Judge throws out Trump-era rollbacks on protections for endangered species
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a host of actions by the Trump administration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species, a year after the Biden administration said it was moving to strengthen species protections weakened under former President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Northern California eliminated the Trump-era rules even as two wildlife agencies under President Joe Biden are reviewing or rescinding the Trump-era regulations. The decision restores a range of protections under the Endangered Species Act — including some that date to the 1970s — while the reviews are completed.
Environmental groups hailed the decision, which they said sped up needed protections and critical habitat designations for threatened species, including salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
Tigar’s ruling “spoke for species desperately in need of comprehensive federal protections without compromise,” said Kristen Boyles, an attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice. “Threatened and endangered species do not have the luxury of waiting under rules that do not protect them.”
The court ruling comes as two federal agencies — the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service — review five Endangered Species Act regulations finalized by the Trump administration, including critical habitat designations and rules requiring federal agencies to consult with other agencies before taking action on threatened or endangered species.
Fish and Wildlife also said it will reinstate the decades-old “blanket rule,” which mandates additional protections for species that are newly classified as threatened. Those protections were removed under Trump.
Critical habitat designations for threatened or endangered species can result in limitations on energy development such as mining or oil drilling that could disturb a vulnerable species, while the consultation rule, and a separate rule on the scope of proposed federal actions, helps determine how far the government may go to protect imperiled species.
Under Trump, officials rolled back protections for the northern spotted owl, gray wolves and other species, actions that Biden has vowed to review. The Biden administration previously moved to reverse Trump’s decision to weaken enforcement of the century-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which made it harder to prosecute bird deaths caused by the energy industry.
The decision on the bird law was among more than 100 business-friendly actions on the environment that Trump took and Biden wants to reconsider, revise or scrap.
A spokesman for the Interior Department, which oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the agency is reviewing the decision.
Fish and Wildlife, along with the marine fisheries service, announced in June 2021 that it was reviewing the Trump-era actions. The reviews could take months or years to complete, officials said.
Industry groups and Republicans in Congress have long viewed the Endangered Species Act as an impediment to economic development, and under Trump they successfully lobbied to weaken the law’s regulations. Environmental groups and Democratic-controlled states battled the moves in court, but many of those cases remained unresolved.
Ryan Shannon, a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, another environmental group, said he was “incredibly relieved” that “terrible” Trump-era rules on endangered species were thrown out by the Oakland, California-based Tigar, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Barack Obama.
“I hope the Biden administration takes this opportunity to strengthen this crucial law, rather than weaken it, in the face of the ongoing extinction crisis,’’ Shannon said Tuesday.
Rebecca Riley of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the court ruling “ensures that the previous administration’s ‘extinction package’ will be rolled back.’’
She and other advocates called on the Biden administration to ensure the Endangered Species Act “can do its job: preventing the extinction of vulnerable species.”
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Spaces, a subsidiary of IWG, the world's largest workspace network, will open a coworking concept in Downtown Memphis at 107 S. Main, currently under renovation by development company 18 Main.
Founded in Amsterdam with over 450 locations of offices, coworking spaces and meeting rooms, Spaces designs dynamic, collaborative environments for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and hybrid employees to achieve their business goals and connect in the process.
Spaces will occupy 18,500 square feet of the historic building on Downtown's Main Street Mall.
"Improving Downtown's commercial vibrancy is critical, particularly post-COVID," said developer Tom Intrator. "We've been looking for a partner in the co-working space for quite some time, and Spaces' model was a natural fit. We look forward to its presence supporting the growing residential footprint of the neighborhood while also serving the new wave of hybrid office workers."
The 30,000-square-foot building, which dates back to 1900, sat vacant and blighted for over two decades before 18 Main purchased the property in 2019 with a plan for complete renovation.
"The renovation and activation of this building is a point of pride for Downtown considering its tumultuous history," said Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC) President & CEO Paul Young.
107 S. Main had been a top priority of the Downtown Memphis Commission's anti-blight focus for over a decade. Under previous ownership, its spot on the "Dirty Dozen" of most-wanted blighted buildings led to a 2015 emergency hearing by the Shelby County Environmental Court and accompanying lawsuit due to the building's structural risk.
18 Main's restoration and construction on the building commenced for a majority of 2022, including historic preservation and future reuse of the DMC's public art that temporarily adorned 107 S. Main's facade.
In addition to 107 S. Main, 18 Main's South Main retail spaces have also welcomed YogaSix, a national yoga studio brand opening this month, as well as Memphis Spine & Sport and Civil Axe Throwing.
Spaces projects a grand opening in 107 S. Main this summer.
Learn more about Spaces at spacesworks.com.
ABOUT 18 MAIN. The core model of 18 Main is rooted in long-term, multi-strategy real estate investment, coupled with lifestyle operating business acquisitions centered around hospitality, food & beverage, and experiential retail. Learn more at 18main.com.
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WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) — Hard of hearing, Thomas Edison found a unique way to appreciate piano music. As someone played, the great inventor would lean in close to the instrument, right above the keys, and he’d bite the piano.
Pressing his teeth into the wood of phonographs and pianos helped Edison experience the vibrations in his skull. Or in his own words, it allowed him to “hear through my teeth.”
Robert Friedman recently showed off marks on a Steinway grand piano once owned by Edison — a cluster of shallow indentations roughing up the black lacquer above the keyboard. Friedman, who buys and sells Steinways, purchased the piano last year and says he was surprised by the toothy signatures left by the inventor of the phonograph. He’s now looking for the right home for the novel historical artifact.
“I believe that it belongs somewhere where many, many, many people can see it,” Friedman said.
Edison bought the Model “B” Ebony from Steinway & Sons in 1890 for $725. Paperwork with the sale includes the handwritten notation “office furniture,” indicating it was sent to his lab in New Jersey. The piano “for some reason unknown to me it gives better results than any so far tried,” Edison wrote the company. “Please send bill with lowest price.”
Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. When he bought the piano 13 years later, he was experimenting with sound recording. Edison owned the instrument for decades, so it’s possible it was used in early recordings.
So did Edison’s teeth make those marks?
There’s no known old black-and-white photo of Edison chomping this piano to prove it. But he was known to bite into phonographs and pianos to help him experience music as his hearing faded. His daughter once recalled a guest weeping at the sight of Edison clamped on to a piano as someone played it.
“I hear through my teeth, and through my skull,” said Edison, as quoted in Edmund Morris’ 2019 biography. ”I bite my teeth into the wood and then I get it good and strong.”
The formulation is simple for Friedman: Those are tooth marks, and who else would have bit the piano?
“I’ve probably had my hands on a few thousand Steinways in the last 50 years,” Friedman said. “I’ve never seen that anywhere.”
Friedman bought the piano for about $45,000, sight unseen, in early January 2021 as part of an estate sale on Long Island. Friedman didn’t notice the marks at first.
His friend Charles Frommer, a musician and recording history enthusiast, came to Friedman’s house in New York’s Hudson Valley to tune the piano, noticed the indentations and told him “those are Edison’s bite marks.”
Friedman, who calls himself the Steinway hunter, finds and buys the high-end pianos from people and then sells them, usually to dealers or rebuilders. But this one is more complicated.
Given this piano’s historic association, he doesn’t want it to go back into private hands. He has yet to find an appropriate historic site that would buy the piano, which he is offering for what it cost him to purchase, ship and recondition it.
The Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey, passed up a chance to buy the piano from its previous owner in 2020 for several reasons, including limited space, cost and the fact that some original interior parts were replaced since Edison owned it, museum curator Jerry Fabris said in an email.
Friedman is undeterred and still looking for a home. A documentary also is possible, or having the piano recorded for a virtual instrument sample library. In the meantime, the piano has been featured at fundraisers for the Ulster County Jewish Federation at the home of friends in Woodstock who housed the instrument until recently.
And, yes Edison’s listening technique has been tested on the piano. Not wanting to mark up the instrument any further, Frommer said they tried it with wooden shims placed on the piano.
“We were able to replicate the effect,” Frommer said. “And yeah, you do hear it in your skull.” | https://www.wivb.com/entertainment-news/ap-tunes-with-teeth-edison-might-have-left-his-mark-on-piano/ | 2022-11-01 19:51:39 | 1 | https://www.wivb.com/entertainment-news/ap-tunes-with-teeth-edison-might-have-left-his-mark-on-piano/ |
The College Football Playoff will include 12 teams, starting with the 2024 season.
An expansion plan that was crafted for two years and haggled over for another 18 months finally cleared all the obstacles needed to go from idea to reality.
The CFP announced Thursday that the current four-team system would be tripling in size.
There are still a few more details to work out, like exact dates of some of the games, but college football is two years away from another dramatic change to its postseason.
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
The 10 conferences that play major college football also run the College Football Playoff. Essentially, the conferences agreed to add eight more teams to the system that has been used to determine a champion since 2014.
There were plenty of delays and disagreements — some downright petty — on the way to consensus.
Flipping the format to 12 with a couple years still left on the original 12-year media rights contract with ESPN that expires after the 2025-26 season required rescheduling of games and unspooling of bowl contracts.
But now it’s done.
WOW! WHO GETS RICH?
The conferences and schools that share the hundreds of millions of dollars of annual revenue generated currently by the playoff will now be making even more.
Expanding two years before the end of the current contract with ESPN is expected to bring in an estimated $450 million in additional gross revenue.
“ESPN has the opportunity to broadcast these games,” CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock said. “And we’re just into this today, of course, and so we don’t know yet whether they will exercise their rights. We’re just going to have to wait and see.”
That’s unlikely to be a problem.
Hancock said the current revenue distribution plan will “philosophically” remain the same.
Last year, each Power Five conference received $74 million. The other five Bowl Subdivision conferences shared $95 million. Notre Dame received $3.55 million, and the other six FBS independents shared $1.88 million.
Currently, conferences of teams that make the CFP earn a $6 million bonus.
All of those figures will go up.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE CURRENT CONTRACT EXPIRES
Everybody involved with the College Football Playoff has expressed a desire to explore having multiple television partners in the next deal, not just ESPN.
ESPN will no doubt still want in. Expect Fox to also bid, and maybe others like NBC, which just added the Big Ten to its lineup that includes Notre Dame.
One projection had the next CFP media rights deal reaching $2 billion annually.
WHERE AND WHEN ARE THE GAMES?
The first round of the playoff in 2024 will take place on campus sites matching teams seeded 5-12 the week ending Saturday, Dec. 21. Exact dates are still to be determined.
The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played in the bowls that have been rotating as hosts of the semifinals in the current format: Rose, Sugar, Orange, Peach, Cotton and Fiesta.
The championship game for the 2024 season will be played Jan. 20, 2025, in Atlanta.
A similar schedule will be used for the 2025 season, with a title game to be played Jan. 19, 2026, in Miami Gardens, Florida.
WHAT TEAMS GET IN?
The model is referred to as six and six. The six highest ranked conference champions get a spot, with the four highest ranked champs earning first-round byes.
A selection committee will also pick the six best at-large teams, chosen regardless of conference.
To get an idea of what it would look like, using the latest CFP rankings and assuming the current conference leaders win out, Georgia, Michigan, TCU and USC would be the top-four seeds.
Clemson and Tulane would also make it as champions of their conferences.
The at-large selections would be Ohio State, Alabama, Tennessee, Penn State, Kansas State and Utah.
First-round matchups would be Tulane at Ohio State; Utah at Alabama; Kansas State at Tennessee and Clemson at Penn State.
WILL THE CFP EXPAND EVEN MORE?
Hancock was jokingly asked when the playoff would expand to 16. He laughed off the question, but he did make an important point.
The first two seasons of the 12-team format in 2024 and ’25 will be like a test drive. Thing could look different when new contracts are set for 2026 and beyond. Maybe more games will be played on campus and fewer in neutral site bowl games.
But Hancock said university presidents and chancellors who oversee the playoff and have final say in what it will look like are firmly behind the number of teams and the composition of the field.
“Every one is solid on 12, six, six and there hasn’t been any conversation about changing that,” Hancock said. “I would be stunned if that were changed.”
It would also be stunning if the next playoff contract extends as far out as the last one, so figure the next round of expansion talk is at least six years away.
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GRAPHIC: Human skulls found in box at Mexico airport bound for US
QUERETARO, Mexico (WCSC/Gray News) - The Mexican National Guard said it discovered four skulls, apparently of human origin, that were scheduled to be sent to South Carolina.
The package was registered to a courier and parcel company and guardsmen made the discovery inside the Querétaro Intercontinental Airport, where they are authorized to carry out random searches for narcotics, firearms and currency, a news release from the Mexican Government stated.
Guard members said X-rays of the cardboard box detected “abnormal organic material,” which required further inspection. When authorities opened the box, they found four skulls of different sizes wrapped in transparent plastic and aluminum foil.
The remains were apparently sent from the municipality of Apatzingán, Michoacán, and addressed to Manning, South Carolina.
Authorities said the package did not have the required documentation to support its shipment and the Mexican attorney general is investigating the discovery.
No details on the people involved or reason for the shipment were included in the news release.
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BEIJING (AP) — A sudden rainstorm in western China triggered a landslide that diverted a river and caused flash flooding in populated areas, killing at least 16 people and leaving 18 others missing, Chinese state media said Thursday.
Rescuers, who earlier reported 36 people missing, had found 18 of them by early afternoon, state broadcaster CCTV said in an online update. The Wednesday night disaster affected more than 6,000 people in six villages in Qinghai province, CCTV said.
China is facing both heavy rains and flooding in some parts of the country this summer and extreme heat and drought in other regions. State media have described the prolonged heat and drought as the worst since record keeping started 60 years ago.
Emergency authorities described the flash flooding in Qinghai’s Datong county as a “mountain torrent.” Such torrents generally result from heavy squalls in mountainous areas. Water running down the mountain can turn gullies or streams into raging rivers, catching people by surprise.
Video posted by the Beijing News website showed muddy water rushing down a wide street at night and debris-strewn areas with uprooted trees, partially washed-away roads and overturned cars after the waters had receded.
Seven people died last weekend from a mountain torrent in southwestern China’s Sichuan province.
Elsewhere in Sichuan and other provinces, crops are wilting and factories have been shut down as a drought cut hydropower supplies and high temperatures raised demand for electricity to run air conditioners.
Tesla Ltd. and SAIC, one of China’s biggest state-owned automakers, suspended production at factories in Shanghai due to a lack of components from 16 suppliers in Sichuan that shut down, the Shanghai Economic and Information Industry Committee said in a letter released Thursday.
The Shanghai committee appealed to its counterpart in Sichuan to make sure auto components factories have adequate power during daytime working hours to avoid supply disruptions.
Authorities in three provinces shot rockets into the sky in recent days to “seed” clouds with agents to try to induce them to produce more rain, according to Chinese media and government reports. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/16-dead-18-missing-in-flash-flood-in-western-china/ | 2022-08-18 22:56:32 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/16-dead-18-missing-in-flash-flood-in-western-china/ |
CHICAGO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernest R. Gelb, DO, FACOFP, an AOA board-certified osteopathic family medicine specialist and geriatrician from Lewes, Delaware, has been installed as the 126th president of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). The inauguration took place during the AOA's Annual House of Delegates Meeting, which gathers approximately 500 physician and medical student delegates each July for policymaking and election of leadership officers.
Dr. Gelb takes office during a time of tremendous growth and expansion for the osteopathic medical profession, which includes more than 178,000 osteopathic physicians (DOs) and osteopathic medical students. "Today, more than ever before, patients are seeking our osteopathic approach to medicine, with its focus on whole person care for the body, mind and spirit," said Dr. Gelb.
The osteopathic medical profession added more than 7,300 DOs to the physician workforce in 2022 and is poised to continue exponential growth with more than one in four U.S. medical students choosing to practice osteopathic medicine. "This is such an exciting time to celebrate the distinctiveness of the osteopathic profession," said Dr. Gelb. "As AOA President, I will work every day to honor our profession and collaborate with our osteopathic physicians and medical students across the country for the betterment of our patients."
During the coming year, Dr. Gelb plans to focus the AOA's efforts on strengthening opportunities for AOA Board Certification and increasing the availability of osteopathic graduate medical education options for DO graduates. "Although we are seeing record placements for our students in the NRMP Match, topping out over 99%, I would love to see us achieve a 100% residency placement rate for our students" he said. Additional areas of focus will include addressing physician wellness, advocating against inappropriate scope of practice expansion and increasing levels of diversity across the profession.
Dr. Gelb, who aspired from an early age to become a country doctor, was drawn to the osteopathic profession, in part, because of its strong roots in primary care and focus on caring for underserved populations. After earning his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), Dr. Gelb completed postgraduate training at Beaumont Hospital (formerly Botsford Hospital) in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In addition, he served in the military as a member of the U.S. Public Health Service
Following his education and training, Dr. Gelb spent nearly 40 years caring for patients in rural Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. "I've considered it a great privilege throughout my career to serve rural communities that may not otherwise have access to healthcare," he said.
Dr. Gelb's road to leadership began early in his career. Work to advance parity in scope of practice and credentialing at the local level soon led Dr. Gelb to become more involved in advocacy at the state and federal levels. He is a past president of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association (POMA) and has received multiple awards, including the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Family Physicians Society Family Physician of the Year and the POMA Distinguished Service Award.
In addition to his organizational leadership, Dr. Gelb served for more than a decade as an assistant professor of family medicine at PCOM and spent several years mentoring young physicians as a faculty member at the Tidelands Health MUSC Family Medicine Residency Program. "The incoming generation of DO residents and students has the collective potential to make a major positive impact on our society," he said. "From board rooms to operating rooms, we will continue working to advance and celebrate our osteopathic distinctiveness in communities across the nation."
The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) represents more than 178,000 osteopathic physicians (DOs) and osteopathic medical students; promotes public health; encourages and funds scientific research; serves as the primary certifying body for DOs; and is the accrediting agency for colleges of osteopathic medicine. To learn more about DOs and the osteopathic philosophy of medicine, visit www.osteopathic.org.
The AOA's House of Delegates, comprised of approximately 500 delegates representing osteopathic state medical associations, specialty societies, residents, fellows, and students from throughout the country, meets annually in July to set organizational policies for the AOA and elect its Board of Trustees and officers.
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The Arkansas Senate on Wednesday narrowly approved a bill that would require that social media companies verify users' age before giving them access to their site.
With five senators not voting and 11 senators voting present, the Senate voted 18-1 to send Senate Bill 396 by Sen. Tyler Dees, R-Siloam Springs, to the House for further consideration. Eighteen votes are required for approval of the bill in the 35-member Senate.
If enacted into law, the bill would be known as "The Social Media Safety Act." But several senators questioned whether the legislation is a proper role for government.
Dees said "this [bill] is not for involvement for government's sake."
"This is involvement for parents' sake and kids' sake," he said.
Under SB396, social media users younger than 18 would have to seek parental permission to have an account.
The bill would apply to social media companies, which would mean "an online forum that a company makes available for an account holder" in order to create a public profile, establish an account or register as a user for the purpose of interacting socially with other profiles and accounts; upload or create posts of content; view posts or content of other account holders; and to interact with other account holders or users, including establishing mutual connections through request and guidance.
SB396 would require a social media company to use a third party vendor to perform reasonable age verification before allowing access to the company's social media platform. Reasonable age verification methods under the bill include a digitized identification card, government-issued identification or any commercially reasonable age verification method.
A social media platform would be a public or semi-public internet-based service or application that has users in Arkansas and on which a substantial function of the service or application is to connect users to interact socially with each other within the service or application under the bill. A service or application that provides email or direct messaging would not be considered to meet that criteria on the basis of that function alone under the bill.
Under SB396, a social media platform would not include an online service, a website or an application if the predominant or exclusive function is, among others, email, direct messaging consisting of certain messages, photos or videos that are sent between devices by electronic means, and certain streaming services.
A social media platform would not include under the bill companies that are "controlled by a business entity" that has generated less than $100 million in annual gross revenue.
During the news conference announcing her support for the bill March 9, Gov. Sarah Sanders said social media have shown to have a negative effect on children's mental health, singling out Meta, the parent company that owns Facebook and Instagram, in particular.
"While social media can be a great tool and a good resource for a number of things, many kids are simply not prepared for the negative aspects of it," she said.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Tim Griffin and Sanders announced the state has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. and two lawsuits against TikTok Inc. and its parent company, ByteDance, alleging violations of the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
The head of safety at Meta said Tuesday in a written statement that the company has developed more than 30 tools to support teens and their families, including tools that allow parents to decide when, and for how long, their teens use Instagram; age verification technology, automatically setting accounts belonging to those younger than 16 to private when they join Instagram; and sending notifications encouraging teens to take regular breaks.
In other action Wednesday, the Senate voted to send the governor a bill that aims to require pornography website operators to verify that users in Arkansas are at least 18 years old before allowing access to their site.
The Senate voted 34-1 to give final approval to Senate Bill 66 by Dees after concurring with a House amendment to the bill.
The bill would require commercial entities to use a reasonable age verification method before allowing users to access a website where more than a third of the material is deemed "harmful to minors."
Verification methods allowed under SB66 include digitized ID cards, a government-issued ID or any commercially reasonable age verification method "that holds an Identity Assurance Level 2."
The bill contains a section that would bar commercial entities or third-party vendors from retaining any identifying information used to verify the age of the user.
Under SB66, material that is harmful to minors is defined as any "material that the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to, or is designed to pander to, prurient interest."
The legislation specifically points to "descriptions of actual, simulated, or animated displays or depictions of ... nipple of the female breast, pubic hair, anus, vulva, or genitals; touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, the anus, or genitals; or sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions, exhibitions of sexual act, or any other sexual act."
SB66 also would apply to material that as a whole lacks serious "literary, artistic, political, and scientific value for minors."
Information for this article was contributed by Will Langhorne of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/30/arkansas-senate-oks-bill-requiring-social-media/ | 2023-03-30 09:45:47 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/30/arkansas-senate-oks-bill-requiring-social-media/ |
MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, jumping into the crowded race just days after GOP front-runner Donald Trump appeared in court on federal charges in Suarez’s city.
The 45-year-old mayor, the only Hispanic candidate in the race, declared his candidacy in paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday. He had previously teased an announcement, noting that he would be making a “big speech” on Thursday at the Reagan Library in California.
Announcing his run on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday, Suarez repeatedly tried to avoid answering questions about Trump’s behavior and the charges in his indictment, saying he didn’t know “all the details about how he handled classified information.”
When reminded that he was running against Trump, Suarez replied, “You see, that’s where you’re wrong. I’m running to be the president of the United States, and I’m running against Joe Biden’s America — an America where the poor get poorer, an America where America gets weaker, an America where if things don’t change China will be the lone superpower. That’s what I’m running for.”
Suarez, the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is the son of Miami’s first Cuban-born mayor. He has gained national attention in recent years for his efforts to lure companies to Miami, with an eye toward turning the city into a crypto hub and the next Silicon Valley.
Suarez,is vying to become the first sitting mayor elected president, joining a GOP primary fight that includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Despite having a candidate field in the double digits, the race is largely seen as a two-person contest between Trump and DeSantis.
But the other competitors are hoping for an opening, which Trump has provided with his myriad legal vulnerabilities — none more serious than his federal indictment on charges of mishandling sensitive documents and refusing to give them back. He pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in Miami federal court to 37 felony counts.
Before Trump arrived at the Miami courthouse on Tuesday, Suarez toured the media encampment wearing a T-shirt with a police logo, as his city’s police force had jurisdiction over the downtown area.
Suarez has said he didn’t support Trump in the 2016 or 2020 presidential elections, instead writing in the names of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and then-Vice President Pence. In 2018, Suarez publicly condemned Trump after reports came out that he had questioned why the United States would accept more immigrants from Haiti and Africa, which Trump described using a vulgar epithet.
But times have changed, with Trump advisers now praising Suarez’s work and helping him promote what he calls “the Miami success story.” Trump’s former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has even floated Suarez’s name as a possible vice presidential pick.
Suarez, who is married with two young children, is a corporate and real estate attorney who previously served as a city of Miami commissioner. He has also positioned himself as someone who can help the party further connect with Hispanics. In recent months, he has made visits to early GOP voting states as he weighed a possible 2024 campaign.
He is more moderate than DeSantis and Trump but has threaded the needle carefully on cultural issues that have become popular among GOP politicians.
Suarez has been critical of DeSantis, dismissing some of the state laws he has signed on immigration as “headline grabbers” lacking in substance. He has said immigration is an issue that “screams for a national solution” at a time when many Republicans back hard-line policies.
The two-term mayor previously expressed support for a Florida law championed by DeSantis and dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” that bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, but he has not specified whether he supported the expansion of the policy to all grades. Like other Republicans, Suarez has criticized DeSantis’ feud with Disney over the same law, saying it looks like a “personal vendetta.”
Further ingratiating himself with the Trump team, Suarez has echoed Trump’s attacks on DeSantis’ demeanor, saying the governor doesn’t make eye contact and struggles with personal relationships with other politicians.
In 2020, the mayor made a play to attract tech companies to Florida after the state relaxed its COVID-19 restrictions. He met with Big Tech players and investors such as PayPal founder Peter Thiel and tech magnate Marcelo Claure, began appearing on national television and was profiled by magazines.
Suarez, who has said he takes his salary in Bitcoin, has also hosted Bitcoin conferences and started heavily promoting a cryptocurrency project named Miami Coin, created by a group called City Coins.
But the hype dissipated as coronavirus restrictions eased elsewhere, eliminating Miami’s advantage on the COVID-19 front. Suarez’s vision also hit roadblocks with the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which was set to move its U.S. headquarters to Miami’s financial district before its founder and CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, was arrested in the Bahamas last December.
The only cryptocurrency exchange that traded Miami Coin suspended its trading, citing liquidity problems, not living up to its promise to generate enough money to eliminate city taxes.
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BAY CITY, MI — A total of 222 graduates received diplomas as Bay City Central High School celebrated the Class of 2022 on Sunday afternoon, June 5.
And it wasn’t just any graduating class.
This was the 100th commencement ceremony in school history.
“100 years of such an amazing school, a place like no other. A beautiful building filled with incredible people. A place that has helped shape us into who we are today,” said Jenna Ciesla, co-valedictorian of the Class of 2022. “This place has become a second home. The place we came to learn, grow and find ourselves. The place we found our friends who became our second family. The place we spent most of our days between school, sports and everything in between.
“While it’s tough to say goodbye to this last chapter in our lives, we look forward to an exciting new one — one filled with endless opportunities. As we all go on in our own directions, we will always remember the memories we made, the friendships we built and the lessons we learned. In the blink of an eye, four years have passed. ... Cherish every moment. Don’t take anything for granted. Live in each moment because the moment will never come again.”
Senior Class President Aubrey Garcia gave a welcoming speech.
Ciesla and Beth Light each spoke on behalf of their class.
Gene Rademacher, a Bay City Board of Education member, commended the Class of 2022 on their accomplishment.
Principal Tim Marciniak delivered a speech as well, before presenting diplomas to the graduates.
“We have all worked very hard to be here today,” Light said. “I’m happy we’re all hear today to celebrate our graduation. ... Congratulations to all of my classmates, and go Wolves!”
Senior class officers included President Aubrey Garcia, Vice President Katie VanWormer, Treasurer Zoe Young and Secretary Molly Pitcher.
Student Council officers included President Easton Anderson, Vice President Beth Light, Treasurer Alexus Yorch and Secretary Jenna Morse.
Faculty sponsors included Senior Class Adviser Matt Young, Student Council Adviser Allison Sobczak and commencement readers Michael Vincent and Penny Hildinger.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Canditech, the Israeli startup helping companies accurately assess job candidates with the world's first online job-simulation platform, today announced that it has raised $9 million in seed funding led by global software investor Insight Partners and StageOne Ventures. The funding will fuel Canditech's expansion into new markets and help more companies streamline their hiring processes in a bias-free manner.
Co-founded by Guy Barel, Knaan Braz and Nir Dovrat, Tel Aviv-based Canditech helps companies hire better people, faster, while giving every candidate a fair chance to showcase their skills. Using work-sample tests that are tailor-made to simulate any position within the company, candidates can get a glimpse of the company and their future role, which allows them to experience day-to-day work scenarios such as writing code, analyzing data in Excel, writing emails to clients, optimizing a marketing campaign and pitching customers, all while providing an amazing can ]didate experience.
Since its founding less than two years ago, Canditech has helped companies across a variety of industries and sizes around the globe hire the right people—not the right CV—for the job.
"Anyone can write a CV that looks great for a certain role, but only a handful will actually excel in the job," said Barel, CEO and Dovrat, President and CTO. "Relying primarily on CVs in the initial screening processes, rather than on the candidate's qualities and potential, causes organizations to overlook excellent candidates and fall short on recruitment and diversity goals. We believe that an individual's true skills and their potential to succeed at the role should be prioritized rather than what's listed on their CV."
Canditech's solution presents a win-win situation for both the company and its candidates. The platform allows hiring managers to tailor simulations to their specific roles and invest their precious time on the candidates with the highest chance of excelling in the role, using advanced technology that reviews tests objectively and automatically. At the same time, candidates are given the opportunity to "sample" the positions at an early stage in the process, which dramatically reduces the chances for poor hiring decisions and turn-over.
"When we're searching for people to join our team, we're looking to attract and engage with top talent so that we can really make an impact together. Working with Canditech, we're able to find and recruit candidates quickly and provide them with the space to easily showcase their skills and experience, while using work-sample tests to provide a glimpse of what their future position at monday.com would look like," said by Shelly Albeck, Head of Talent Acquisition at monday.com.
"As a firm who prides itself in being a leader in innovation, it was a clear choice for us to incorporate Canditech into our recruitment and candidate-evaluation process. Canditech helps multiple teams within our firm streamline their hiring processes by allowing them to learn about candidates' skills and potential early on, thus saving significant time and resources. We are very happy to be collaborating with Canditech and their very professional and accommodating team," said by Galia Aloni, Partner & Talent Leader at EY.
The seed funding represents an exciting step in Canditech's journey towards making the hiring process and overall job experience better for candidates and recruiters. With Insight Partners and StageOne Ventures on board, the company will expand their platform into new markets, reaching more customers looking to streamline the hiring process.
"In today's world, hiring is not only a challenge faced by the HR team, but also by every manager within the company," said Liad Agmon, Managing Director at Insight Partners. "In a very short time, Canditech has managed to become a game-changing solution in the world of hiring by helping managers achieve their hiring goals through seeing how candidates will do the job, before they get the job. Insight is excited to partner with Canditech's team on this thrilling next step in the company's growth journey."
Industry leading companies are using Canditech to expand their pool of candidates and hire the best professionals faster using tailor-made job simulation tests - the best predictor of future job performance. Our bias-free tests empower recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate both technical abilities (code, SQL, Excel, etc.) and soft skills (using video responses and email communication scenarios), all while providing an amazing candidate experience.
For more information about Canditech, visit https://www.canditech.io/
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of February 24, 2022, the closing of the firm's recent fundraise, Fund XII, brings Insight Partners' regulatory assets under management to over $90B. Insight Partners has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Insight Partners meets great software leaders where they are in their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.
StageOne Ventures provides financing and professional guidance to early-stage companies to help build exceptional enterprises. StageOne leads investments in Israel-related early-stage start-ups focused on solving large enterprise challenges utilizing transformative deep technologies. The fund is committed to providing its portfolio companies with top value creation through the technological and financial strength of its team, by building powerful partnerships that propel seed-stage entrepreneurs forward, from the initial innovation concept through additional quality rounds of funding to market leadership and impact. For more information: www.stageonevc.com.
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LENEXA, Kan., Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eurofins Viracor, a leader in infectious disease and immunology testing, launches EBV inSIGHT™, a functional T Cell test to measure CD4 and CD8 Epstein-Barr virus-specific T cell immune response. The test joins the innovative inSIGHT diagnostic portfolio of virus-specific cell mediated immunity tests offered by Viracor.
EBV is a common risk factor for post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) in patients following solid organ transplant (SOT) or hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). PTLD can arise due to immunosuppression and the loss of T cells that typically control EBV reactivation.
The test targets EBV cell lysate, BZLF1 (lytic phase), and EBNA3 (latent phase) antigens; reporting Interferon-γ (IFN-gamma), as well as polyfunctional CD4 and CD8 T cells. The presence of virus specific polyfunctional T cells has been found to be an indicator of highly functional T cell response. Research has shown patients with PTLD have shown impaired function and a low proportion of polyfunctional T Cells.1 Additionally, in the case of EBV induced PTLD, research has also found that highly functional EBV Specific CD8 T Cells are required to control an infection.2
Quantitative EBV DNA PCR can also be used to monitor the course of the disease, aid in the early diagnosis of PTLD, and monitor response to treatment.
To learn more, please visit: https://www.eurofins-viracor.com/clinical/test-menu/33217-ebv-insight-t-cell-immunity/
Eurofins Viracor has over 30 years of diagnostic expertise in infectious disease, immunology and allergy testing for immunocompromised and critical patients. Eurofins Viracor is a subsidiary of Eurofins Scientific (EUFI.PA), a global leader in bio-analytical testing, and one of the world leaders in genomic services. For more information, please visit https://www.eurofins.com/ and https://www.eurofins-viracor.com/clinical
Eurofins is Testing for Life. With 61,000 staff across a network of 940 laboratories in 59 countries, Eurofins' companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods.
Eurofins Shares are listed on Euronext Paris Stock Exchange.
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Rain chances continue Tuesday
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - For your Tuesday, we will have a high of 88 with partly cloudy skies and another 20% chance of rain. Tuesday night, we will have a low of 70 with mostly clear skies. Wednesday, we will have a high of 87 with partly cloudy skies. Wednesday night, we will have a low of 68 with mostly clear skies. Thursday, we will have a high of 88 with mostly sunny skies. Thursday night, we will have a low of 67 with mostly clear skies. Friday, we will have a high of 89 with mostly sunny skies. Friday night, we will have a low of 69 degrees with mostly clear skies. Saturday, for the HHH we will have a high of 92 with a 20% chance of showers and storms. Saturday night, we will have a low of 72 with mostly clear skies. Sunday, we will have a high of 93 with a 20% chance of showers and storms. Sunday night, we will have a low of 74 with thunderstorms. Monday, we will have a high of 92 with a 30% chance of storms.
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How to Watch the Texas vs. Louisville Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the NCAA Tournament Second Round
Published: Mar. 20, 2023 at 1:12 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The No. 4 seed Texas Longhorns (26-9) take to the court against the No. 5 seed Louisville Cardinals (24-11) with a Sweet 16 spot in the N/A Region of the bracket on the line on Monday at Moody Center.
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- When: Monday, March 20, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
- Where: Moody Center in Austin, Texas
- TV: ESPN
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Texas vs. Louisville Scoring Comparison
- The Cardinals' 73.1 points per game are 16.1 more points than the 57 the Longhorns give up.
- When it scores more than 57 points, Louisville is 21-5.
- Texas' record is 23-6 when it allows fewer than 73.1 points.
- The 73.5 points per game the Longhorns record are 9.8 more points than the Cardinals give up (63.7).
- When Texas scores more than 63.7 points, it is 22-4.
- Louisville is 19-6 when allowing fewer than 73.5 points.
- This season the Longhorns are shooting 44.3% from the field, 4.2% higher than the Cardinals concede.
- The Cardinals shoot 45% from the field, just 7.9% higher than the Longhorns concede.
Texas Schedule
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"Results for the second quarter were strong, reflecting continued high demand for our services and elevated levels of fleet utilization," said Stephen Scherr, Chair and CEO of Hertz. "Our focus on asset returns continues to yield tangible results, enabling us to advance the growth of our rideshare business and the revitalization of the Dollar brand, in addition to facilitating ongoing investments in technology and electrification. Through the hard work and dedication of Hertz employees, we are positioned well to serve our customers through the busy summer season."
ESTERO, Fla., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTZ) ("Hertz", "Hertz Global" or the "Company") today reported results for its second quarter 2023.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Total revenues of $2.4 billion
- GAAP net income of $139 million, a 6% margin, or $0.44 per diluted share
- Adjusted Net Income of $227 million, or $0.72 per adjusted diluted share
- Adjusted Corporate EBITDA of $347 million, a 14% margin
- Operating cash flow of $497 million, adjusted operating cash flow of $91 million
- Adjusted free cash outflow of $423 million
- Corporate liquidity of $1.4 billion at June 30, including $682 million in unrestricted cash
- Company utilized $100 million to repurchase 6.3 million common shares during the quarter
SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
Second quarter revenue of $2.4 billion was characterized by continued strength in demand. Volume increased 12% year over year while average fleet was up 9%. Monthly revenue per unit in the quarter of $1,516 benefited from utilization of 82%, an increase of 230 bps relative to Q2 2022. Fleet depreciation was $329 million, reflecting a year over year increase of $223 million attributable to a reduction in vehicle disposition gains which were at elevated levels in 2022.
Adjusted Corporate EBITDA was $347 million in the quarter, reflecting a healthy 14% margin.
Adjusted free cash outflow of $423 million in the quarter reflected an investment in fleet to meet spring and summer demand.
The Company's liquidity position was $1.4 billion at June 30, 2023, of which $682 million was unrestricted cash.
SUMMARY RESULTS
EARNINGS WEBCAST INFORMATION
Hertz Global's live webcast and conference call to discuss its second quarter 2023 results will be held on July 27, 2023, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call will be broadcast live in listen-only mode on the Company's investor relations website at IR.Hertz.com. If you would like to access the call by phone and ask a question, please go to https://register.vevent.com/register/BI2102718ea246452781a1fcfa0f708a95, and you will be provided with dial in details. Investors are encouraged to dial-in approximately 15 minutes prior to the call. A web replay will remain available on the website for approximately one year. The earnings release and related supplemental schedules containing the reconciliations of non-GAAP measures will be available on the Hertz website, IR.Hertz.com.
UNAUDITED FINANCIAL DATA, SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULES, NON-GAAP MEASURES AND DEFINITIONS
Following is selected financial data of Hertz Global. Also included are Supplemental Schedules, which are provided to present segment results, and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to their most comparable GAAP measures. Following the Supplemental Schedules, the Company provides definitions for terminology used throughout the earnings release and its view of the usefulness of non-GAAP measures to investors and management.
ABOUT HERTZ
The Hertz Corporation, a subsidiary of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., operates the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty vehicle rental brands throughout North America, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized globally. Additionally, The Hertz Corporation owns and operates the Firefly vehicle rental brand and Hertz 24/7 car sharing business in international markets and sells vehicles through Hertz Car Sales. For more information about The Hertz Corporation, visit www.hertz.com.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements contained or incorporated by reference in this release, and in related comments by the Company's management, include "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements include information concerning the Company's liquidity and its possible or assumed future results of operations, including descriptions of its business strategies. These statements often include words such as "believe," "expect," "project," "potential," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate," "seek," "will," "may," "would," "should," "could," "forecasts," "guidance" or similar expressions. These statements are based on certain assumptions that the Company has made in light of its experience in the industry as well as its perceptions of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate in these circumstances. The Company believes these judgments are reasonable, but you should understand that these statements are not guarantees of performance or results, and that the Company's actual results could differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements due to a variety of important factors, both positive and negative, that may be revised or supplemented in subsequent reports on Form 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filed or furnished to the SEC.
Important factors that could affect the Company's actual results and cause them to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements include, among other things:
- the Company's ability to purchase adequate supplies of competitively priced vehicles at a reasonable cost in order to efficiently service rental demand, including as a result of disruptions in the global supply chain;
- the Company's ability to attract and retain effective frontline employees, senior management and other key employees;
- levels of travel demand, particularly business and leisure travel in the U.S. and in global markets;
- significant changes in the competitive environment and the effect of competition in the Company's markets on rental volume and pricing;
- occurrences that disrupt rental activity during the Company's peak periods particularly in critical geographies;
- the Company's ability to accurately estimate future levels of rental activity and adjust the number and mix of vehicles used in its rental operations accordingly;
- the Company's ability to implement its business strategy or strategic transactions, including its ability to implement plans to support a large-scale electric vehicle fleet, execute its rideshare strategy and to play a central role in the modern mobility ecosystem;
- the Company's ability to adequately respond to changes in technology impacting the mobility industry;
- the mix of vehicles in the Company's fleet, including but not limited to program and non-program vehicles, which can lead to increased exposure to residual risk upon disposition;
- increases in vehicle holding periods, which may result in additional maintenance costs and lower customer satisfaction;
- financial instability of the manufacturers of the Company's vehicles, which could impact their ability to fulfill obligations under repurchase or guaranteed depreciation programs;
- increases in the level of recall activity by the manufacturers of the Company's vehicles, which may increase the Company's costs and can disrupt its rental activity;
- the Company's access to third-party distribution channels and related prices, commission structures and transaction volumes associated with those channels;
- the Company's ability to offer an excellent customer experience, retain and increase customer loyalty and increase market share;
- the Company's ability to maintain its network of leases and vehicle rental concessions at airports and other key locations in the U.S. and internationally;
- the Company's ability to maintain favorable brand recognition and a coordinated branding and portfolio strategy;
- the Company's ability to effectively manage its union relations and labor agreement negotiations;
- the Company's ability, and that of its key third-party partners, to prevent the misuse or theft of information the Company possesses, including as a result of cyber security breaches and other security threats, as well as to comply with privacy regulations across the globe;
- a major disruption in the Company's communication or centralized information networks or a failure to maintain, upgrade and consolidate its information technology systems;
- risks associated with operating in many different countries, including the risk of a violation or alleged violation of applicable anti-corruption or anti-bribery laws and the Company's ability to repatriate cash from non-U.S. affiliates without adverse tax consequences;
- risks relating to tax laws, including those that affect the Company's ability to offset future tax on fleet dispositions, as well as any adverse determinations or rulings by tax authorities;
- the Company's ability to utilize its net operating loss carryforwards;
- the Company's exposure to uninsured liabilities relating to personal injury, death and property damage, or otherwise;
- changes in laws, regulations, policies or other activities of governments, agencies and similar organizations, including those related to accounting principles, that affect the Company's operations, its costs or applicable tax rates;
- the recoverability of the Company's goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets when performing impairment analysis;
- costs and risks associated with potential litigation and investigations, compliance with and changes in laws and regulations and potential exposures under environmental laws and regulations;
- the Company's ability to comply with ESG regulations, meet increasing ESG expectations of stakeholders, and otherwise achieve ESG goals;
- the availability of additional or continued sources of financing at acceptable rates for the Company's revenue earning vehicles and to refinance its existing indebtedness;
- volatility in the Company's stock price and certain provisions of its charter documents which could negatively affect the market price of the Company's common stock;
- the Company's ability to effectively maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting; and
- the Company's ability to implement an effective business continuity plan to protect the business in exigent circumstances.
Additional information concerning these and other factors can be found in the Company's filings with the SEC, including its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K.
You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. All such statements speak only as of the date of this release, and, except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
NON-GAAP MEASURES AND KEY METRICS
The term "GAAP" refers to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Adjusted EBITDA is the Company's segment measure of profitability and complies with GAAP when used in that context.
NON-GAAP MEASURES
Non-GAAP measures are not recognized measurements under GAAP. When evaluating the Company's operating performance or liquidity, investors should not consider non-GAAP measures in isolation of, superior to, or as a substitute for measures of the Company's financial performance as determined in accordance with GAAP.
Adjusted Net Income (Loss) and Adjusted Diluted Earnings (Loss) Per Share ("Adjusted EPS")
Adjusted Net Income (Loss) represents income or loss attributable to the Company as adjusted to eliminate the impact of GAAP income tax; vehicle and non-vehicle debt-related charges; restructuring and restructuring related charges; acquisition accounting-related depreciation and amortization; change in fair value of Public Warrants; unrealized (gains) losses on financial instruments, gain on sale of non-vehicle capital assets and certain other miscellaneous items on a pre-tax basis. Adjusted Net Income (Loss) includes a provision (benefit) for income taxes derived utilizing a combined statutory rate. The combined statutory rate is management's estimate of the Company's long-term tax rate. Its most comparable GAAP measure is net income (loss) attributable to the Company.
Adjusted EPS represents Adjusted Net Income (Loss) on a per diluted share basis using the weighted-average number of diluted shares outstanding for the period. Its most comparable GAAP measure is diluted earnings (loss) per share.
Adjusted Net Income (Loss) and Adjusted EPS are important operating metrics because they allow management and investors to assess operational performance of the Company's business, exclusive of the items mentioned above that are not operational in nature or comparable to those of the Company's competitors.
Adjusted Corporate EBITDA and Adjusted Corporate EBITDA Margin
Adjusted Corporate EBITDA represents income or loss attributable to the Company as adjusted to eliminate the impact of GAAP income tax; non-vehicle depreciation and amortization; non-vehicle debt interest, net; vehicle debt-related charges; restructuring and restructuring related charges; change in fair value of Public Warrants; unrealized (gains) losses on financial instruments; gain on sale of non-vehicle capital assets and certain other miscellaneous items.
Adjusted Corporate EBITDA Margin is calculated as the ratio of Adjusted Corporate EBITDA to total revenues.
Management uses these measures as operating performance metrics for internal monitoring and planning purposes, including the preparation of the Company's annual operating budget and monthly operating reviews, and analysis of investment decisions, profitability and performance trends. These measures enable management and investors to isolate the effects on profitability of operating metrics most meaningful to the business of renting and leasing vehicles. They also allow management and investors to assess the performance of the entire business on the same basis as its reportable segments. Adjusted Corporate EBITDA is also utilized in the determination of certain executive compensation. Its most comparable GAAP measure is net income (loss) attributable to the Company.
Adjusted operating cash flow and adjusted free cash flow
Adjusted operating cash flow represents net cash provided by operating activities net of the non-cash add back for vehicle depreciation and reserves, and exclusive of bankruptcy related payments made post emergence. Adjusted operating cash flow is important to management and investors as it provides useful information about the amount of cash generated from operations when fully burdened by fleet costs.
Adjusted free cash flow represents adjusted operating cash flow plus the impact of net non-vehicle capital expenditures and net fleet growth after financing. Adjusted free cash flow is important to management and investors as it provides useful information about the amount of cash available for, but not limited to, the reduction of non-vehicle debt, share repurchase and acquisition.
The most comparable GAAP measure for adjusted operating cash flow and adjusted free cash flow is net cash provided by (used in) operating activities.
KEY METRICS
Available Rental Car Days
Available Rental Car Days represents Average Rentable Vehicles multiplied by the number of days in a given period.
Average Vehicles ("Fleet Capacity" or "Capacity")
Average Vehicles is determined using a simple average of the number of vehicles in the fleet whether owned or leased by the Company at the beginning and end of a given period.
Average Rentable Vehicles
Average Rentable Vehicles reflects Average Vehicles excluding vehicles for sale on the Company's retail lots or actively in the process of being sold through other disposition channels.
Depreciation Per Unit Per Month ("Depreciation Per Unit" or "DPU")
Depreciation Per Unit Per Month represents the amount of average depreciation expense and lease charges per vehicle per month, exclusive of the impacts of foreign currency exchange rates so as not to affect the comparability of underlying trends. This metric is important to management and investors as it reflects how effectively the Company is managing the costs of its vehicles and facilitates comparisons with other participants in the vehicle rental industry.
Total Revenue Per Transaction Day ("Total RPD"or "RPD"; also referred to as "pricing")
Total RPD represents revenue generated per transaction day, excluding the impact of foreign currency exchange rates so as not to affect the comparability of underlying trends. This metric is important to management and investors as it represents a measure of changes in the underlying pricing in the vehicle rental business and encompasses the elements in vehicle rental pricing that management has the ability to control.
Total Revenue Per Unit Per Month ("Total RPU", "RPU" or "Total RPU Per Month")
Total RPU Per Month represents the amount of revenue generated per vehicle in the rental fleet each month, excluding the impact of foreign currency exchange rates so as not to affect the comparability of underlying trends. This metric is important to management and investors as it provides a measure of revenue productivity relative to the number of vehicles in our rental fleet whether owned or leased, or asset efficiency.
Transaction Days ("Days"; also referred to as "volume")
Transaction Days represents the total number of 24-hour periods, with any partial period counted as one Transaction Day, that vehicles were on rent (the period between when a rental contract is opened and closed) in a given period. Thus, it is possible for a vehicle to attain more than one Transaction Day in a 24-hour period. This metric is important to management and investors as it represents the number of revenue-generating days.
Vehicle Utilization ("Utilization")
Vehicle Utilization represents the ratio of Transaction Days to Available Rental Car Days. This metric is important to management and investors as it is the measurement of the proportion of vehicles that are being used to generate revenues relative to rentable fleet capacity.
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April 26, 1980 - April 17, 1998
IN LOVING MEMORY OF ERIC J. REED
On His 43rd Birthday
"BELOVED"
Love, Mom, Paul, Andi, Jordanne and Family
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF ERIC J. REED
On His 43rd Birthday
"BELOVED"
Love, Mom, Paul, Andi, Jordanne and Family
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Texas Southern vs. Hampton at Las Vegas, 4:30 p.m.
Notre Dame vs. Georgia at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.
W. Michigan at Iowa St., 1 p.m.
Albany (NY) at Loyola Chicago, 2 p.m.
Elon at Valparaiso, 2 p.m.
Northeastern at Ill.-Chicago, 2 p.m.
Detroit at E. Michigan, 3 p.m.
Illinois Tech at SIU-Edwardsville, 4 p.m.
Concord at Kent St., 5 p.m.
Cent. Michigan at Missouri St., 6 p.m.
Stanford vs. Texas at Dallas, 1 p.m.
Bethune-Cookman at UTSA, 4 p.m.
MVSU at TCU, 6 p.m.
Washington St. vs. Baylor at Dallas, 10 p.m.
Green Bay at Oregon St., 3 p.m.
Tarleton St. at Air Force, 3:30 p.m.
Oakland at Boise St., 4 p.m.
California at Santa Clara, 5 p.m.
Cleveland St. at Loyola Marymount, 5 p.m.
N. Colorado at Colorado, 5 p.m.
Auburn at Southern Cal, 5:30 p.m.
Alcorn St. at Seattle, 6 p.m.
Northern New Mexico at New Mexico St., 6 p.m.
Iona at New Mexico, 6:30 p.m.
Houston Christian at Texas Rio Grande Valley, 7 p.m.
San Diego at Arizona St., 7 p.m.
Colorado St. at Saint Mary's (Cal.), 8 p.m.
Sonoma St. at Cal Baptist, 10 p.m.
Delaware at Rider, 7 p.m.
Glenville St. at Marshall, 7 p.m.
Holy Cross at New Hampshire, 7 p.m.
Manhattan at Marist, 7 p.m.
Sacred Heart at Saint Joseph's, 7 p.m.
St. Bonaventure at Siena, 7 p.m.
Bob Jones at Gardner-Webb, 11 a.m.
Allen at Presbyterian, 7 p.m.
Anderson (SC) at Furman, 7 p.m.
Crowley's Ridge at UT Martin, 7 p.m.
Davis & Elkins at North Florida, 7 p.m.
Grambling St. at Liberty, 7 p.m.
Hofstra at South Florida, 7 p.m.
Trinity Baptist at Nicholls, 7 p.m.
Coll. of Charleston at Coastal Carolina, 7:30 p.m.
Dillard at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Spring Hill at South Alabama, 8 p.m.
Fairmont St. at Bowling Green, 11 a.m.
IUPUI vs. S. Indiana at Indianapolis, 4 p.m.
Maine at Akron, 7 p.m.
N. Dakota St. at W. Illinois, 7 p.m.
Texas A&M Commerce at Fort Wayne, 7 p.m.
Chicago St. at Illinois St., 8 p.m.
North Dakota at St. Thomas (MN), 8 p.m.
S. Dakota St. at Oral Roberts, 8 p.m.
Stonehill at Bradley, 8 p.m.
Denver at Omaha, 8:05 p.m.
North American at Stephen F. Austin, 7:30 p.m.
Alabama St. at Arkansas St., 8 p.m.
Jarvis Christian at Rice, 8 p.m.
Cal State-LA at Pepperdine, 4 p.m.
South Dakota at UMKC, 8 p.m.
Weber St. at Utah St., 9 p.m.
Westmont at Utah Tech, 9 p.m.
Idaho at CS Northridge, 10 p.m.
Life Pacific at Long Beach St., 10 p.m.
San Diego Christian at Cal St.-Fullerton, 10 p.m.
Texas-Arlington at San Francisco, 10 p.m.
Toledo at Vermont, 2 p.m.
Lehigh at Cornell, 5 p.m.
Wagner at Delaware St., 6 p.m.
Georgetown at UConn, 6:30 p.m.
Army at CCSU, 7 p.m.
Dartmouth at UMass, 7 p.m.
Marquette at Providence, 7 p.m.
Md.-Eastern Shore at Temple, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Syracuse, 9 p.m.
Jacksonville at Louisiana-Monroe, 12:30 p.m.
SC State at Longwood, 2 p.m.
Toccoa Falls at W. Carolina, 2 p.m.
Brescia at Tennessee St., 3 p.m.
North Alabama at Mississippi, 3 p.m.
Lipscomb at Louisville, 6 p.m.
Duke at Wake Forest, 6:30 p.m.
Jackson St. at Alabama, 7 p.m.
Kentucky Christian at Tennessee Tech, 7 p.m.
SC-Upstate at Kennesaw St., 7 p.m.
The Citadel at NC Central, 7 p.m.
Virginia at Miami, 8:30 p.m.
Oklahoma vs. Florida at Charlotte, N.C., 9:30 p.m.
Albany (NY) at N. Illinois, 2 p.m.
Texas A&M Commerce vs. IUPUI at Indianapolis, 4 p.m.
Mississippi St. vs. Drake at Lincoln, Neb., 5 p.m.
Alcorn St. at Dayton, 7 p.m.
Elon at Indiana, 7 p.m.
S. Indiana at Fort Wayne, 7 p.m.
Queens (NC) at Nebraska, 7:30 p.m.
Seton Hall at Xavier, 8:30 p.m.
Ill.-Chicago at Northwestern, 9 p.m.
Wofford at Texas A&M, 2 p.m.
Texas A&M-CC at Oklahoma St., 3 p.m.
Arlington Baptist at Sam Houston St., 5:30 p.m.
Cent. Arkansas at UALR, 7:30 p.m.
Northwestern St. at Baylor, 8 p.m.
Pacific at Lamar, 8 p.m.
Northwest Indian at E. Washington, 6:30 p.m.
Air Force at N. Colorado, 8 p.m.
Idaho St. at Grand Canyon, 8 p.m.
Montana St. at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.
Lindenwood (Mo.) at BYU, 9 p.m.
Montana at Gonzaga, 9 p.m.
Prairie View at New Mexico, 9 p.m.
Cal Poly at San Jose St., 10 p.m.
Fresno St. at CS Bakersfield, 10 p.m.
Harvard at UC Irvine, 10 p.m.
San Diego at UC Riverside, 10 p.m.
UC San Diego at San Diego St., 10:30 p.m.
Utah Valley St. at Oregon, 10:30 p.m.
James Madison at Coppin St., 11 a.m.
Lafayette at La Salle, 2 p.m.
Mount St. Mary's at Howard, 2 p.m.
Winthrop at Duquesne, 2 p.m.
Boston U. at Mass.-Lowell, 4 p.m.
SUNY-Canton at Buffalo, 6 p.m.
St. John's at Villanova, 6:30 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Boston College, 6:30 p.m.
Binghamton at Niagara, 7 p.m.
New Hampshire at Brown, 7 p.m.
Ohio at Delaware, 7 p.m.
St. Francis (Pa.) at Robert Morris, 7 p.m.
Alice Lloyd at Morehead St., Noon
Mid-Atlantic Christian at Liberty, Noon
Toccoa Falls at Georgia St., Noon
Jarvis Christian at Louisiana Tech, 1 p.m.
Northeastern at Davidson, 1 p.m.
Jacksonville St. at South Alabama, 2 p.m.
Randolph at William & Mary, 2 p.m.
UNC-Wilmington at Campbell, 2 p.m.
Chattanooga at Georgia, 3 p.m.
George Mason at Old Dominion, 4 p.m.
Austin Peay at Tennessee, 6 p.m.
High Point at East Carolina, 6 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara vs. Appalachian St. at Phoenix, 6 p.m.
Bucknell at Richmond, 7 p.m.
Canisius at Florida Gulf Coast, 7 p.m.
Florida A&M at Kentucky, 7 p.m.
Incarnate Word at FIU, 7 p.m.
Mercer at Troy, 7 p.m.
Michigan vs. North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C., 7 p.m.
Murray St. at Middle Tennessee, 7 p.m.
N. Kentucky at FAU, 7 p.m.
Navy at VCU, 7 p.m.
Stetson at UCF, 7 p.m.
Clemson at Georgia Tech, 7:30 p.m.
Samford at Belmont, 7:30 p.m.
Alabama St. at Memphis, 8 p.m.
ETSU at LSU, 8 p.m.
MVSU at Tulane, 8 p.m.
Southern U. at SE Louisiana, 8 p.m.
Notre Dame at Florida St., 8:30 p.m.
Siena Heights at W. Michigan, 1 p.m.
Stonehill at Valparaiso, 1 p.m.
Radford at Kansas St., 2:30 p.m.
Oakland at Michigan St., 6:30 p.m.
Detroit at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.
Georgia Southern at Ball St., 7 p.m.
Mount St. Joseph at Cleveland St., 7 p.m.
North Dakota at W. Illinois, 7 p.m.
Omaha at Iowa St., 7 p.m.
Youngstown St. at Cent. Michigan, 7 p.m.
S. Illinois at SE Missouri, 7:30 p.m.
Bellarmine at Evansville, 8 p.m.
E. Illinois at Iowa, 8 p.m.
N. Dakota St. at St. Thomas (MN), 8 p.m.
SIU-Edwardsville at Saint Louis, 8 p.m.
South Dakota at Oral Roberts, 8 p.m.
Maine at Ohio St., 8:30 p.m.
New Orleans at Purdue, 9 p.m.
Houston Christian at Texas Tech, 2 p.m.
Science and Arts at Texas St., 3 p.m.
Howard Payne at Abilene Christian, 7 p.m.
Kent St. vs. New Mexico St. at El Paso, Texas, 7:30 p.m.
Huston at Tarleton St., 8 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at Texas, 8 p.m.
McNeese St. at Houston, 8 p.m.
UNC-Asheville at Arkansas, 9 p.m.
NC A&T at UTEP, 9:30 p.m.
Norfolk St. at Nevada, 5 p.m.
UC Davis at UCLA, 5 p.m.
S. Utah at Colorado, 7 p.m.
Texas-Arlington at California, 7 p.m.
S. Dakota St. at UMKC, 8 p.m.
Saint Mary's (Cal.) vs. Wyoming at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m.
Auburn at Washington, 9 p.m.
Sacramento St. at Cal St.-Fullerton, 9 p.m.
TCU at Utah, 9 p.m.
Arizona St. at San Francisco, 10 p.m.
Denver at Oregon St., 10 p.m.
Idaho at Long Beach St., 10 p.m.
Tulsa at Loyola Marymount, 10 p.m.
Southern Cal vs. Colorado St. at Phoenix, 11 p.m.
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A woman who spent eight months in Mexico after being kidnapped is back home in the U.S.
The FBI revealed on Saturday that Monica de Leon Barba was released by her captors.
"No arrests have been made, and an investigation into the identity of her captors remains ongoing," the FBI said in a statement.
De Leon Barba was kidnapped on Nov. 29, 2022. She was reportedly walking home from work with her dog when she was abducted in Tepatitlán, Jalisco.
The FBI released surveillance video of De Leon Barba being surrounded by several vehicles before being forced into one of the cars. He dog is seen wandering away as the cars drove off.
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The FBI stated in April that the dog was eventually located by a family member.
"The FBI investigation is far from over, but we can now work this case knowing an innocent victim is reunited with her family," said Special Agent in Charge Robert Tripp of the FBI San Francisco Field Office.
De Leon Barba's brother shared a picture of himself and his sister on Facebook as they were on their way back to the U.S.
"I need to thank every single person that helped my family and I through this entire ordeal," Gustavo De Leon said in the post's caption. "We can all finally close this chapter in our lives and work on the long road of healing we have ahead."
De Leon Barba's 20-year-old cousin, who was kidnapped on the same day, was also freed.
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Kristijan Loncar posted a hat trick to lead Jefferson to a 5-1 win over Wallkill Valley, in Oak Ridge.
Sam Merkin scored twice for Jefferson (1-3).
Dante Torres scored for Wallkill Valley (1-2).
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NEW YORK (AP) — It’s taken just three days to seat a jury of 12 people in the tax fraud trial of Donald Trump’s company — surprising even some people involved in the case who thought it would take at least a week to find an impartial panel in heavily Democratic New York City.
Five of the jurors were sworn in Thursday, joining seven who were picked Tuesday. Six alternates still need to be seated. That process is beginning anew Thursday and Friday with a second pool of potential jurors, but lawyers say they’re on track for opening statements on Monday.
The four men and eight women selected so far emerged from an exacting process, including a 32-part questionnaire and one-on-one questioning, designed to sift out candidates with immutable opinions about the Republican former president and his company, the Trump Organization.
The selected jurors were among the least vocal about Trump. Some admitted that they had opinions about him and his leadership, but vowed to set aside any personal thoughts and consider only evidence presented during the trial, which is taking place in state court in Manhattan.
Judge Juan Manuel Merchan has said the case — involving allegations that the Trump Organization helped some top executives avoid income taxes on compensation they got in addition to their salaries — will likely take about six weeks, meaning it could end in December.
Trump himself isn’t on trial and he isn’t expected to testify, but his name is sure to come up a lot.
Trump signed some checks at issue in the case. His name appears on memos and other evidence. Another company lawyer, Alan Futerfas, said he expected some witnesses will testify about conversations they’ve had with Trump.
Trump Organization lawyer William J. Brennan referred to the absent Trump as the “mist in the room.”
Prosecutors have said they do not need to prove Trump knew about the compensation scheme to get a conviction.
They argue the Trump Organization is liable in part because former finance chief Allen Weisselberg, who has pleaded guilty to taking $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, was a “high managerial agent” entrusted to act on the company's behalf.
Weisselberg, whose perks included apartment rent, luxury cars and school tuition for his grandchildren, has agreed to testify as part of a plea deal that also includes several months in jail.
“This case is not about Donald Trump,” lead prosecutor Susan Hoffinger said.
As swift as jury selection has been, the process has also underscored just how tough it is to find anyone without at least something to say about Trump — especially in Manhattan, where 87% of voters in the 2020 election went with his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.
The challenge for defense lawyers, prosecutors and Merchan has been in figuring out which opinions are innocuous, which are disqualifying, and where to draw the line.
One juror made the cut after saying he thought Trump had been “acting a little crazy” and narcissistic as president.
Merchan reasoned that the man’s negative opinions of Trump were limited to his presidency and did not involve issues relevant to the case, such as his work as a businessman and his company. He denied a defense’s request to strike the man for cause, and the defense elected not use one of its limited number of peremptory challenges.
Other decisions were more clear cut.
A woman who said “Trump continues to lie to the American people that he won the 2020 election” and another woman who gave glowing endorsements of Trump and his company were both removed from consideration.
Then there was Noah Passer, a worker’s compensation lawyer, whose brutal honesty in revealing how he views Trump led to quick agreement amongst prosecutors and Trump Organization lawyers that he wasn't right for the jury.
“I absolutely hate him. I think he’s a liar and a scam artist and a bully. He’s a danger to our democracy, international stability and potentially humanity with his environmental policies,” Passer said during questioning in open court. “I think his university was a scam. His charity was a scam. He has problems with the truth.”
Brennan, the Trump Organization lawyer, was so amped to send Passer home that he mixed up his notes and started arguing against him when a different juror was still being considered. By the time they got to Passer, the sides had agreed on the 12 jurors who were seated, meaning he was up for consideration as first alternate.
Brennan called Passer the “most seething, openly hostile prospective juror" in the pool and said that it was a "no brainer” that he be removed.
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BERLIN (AP) — Police in Berlin said Friday that they have opened an investigation of Roger Waters on suspicion of incitement over a costume the Pink Floyd co-founder wore when he performed in the German capital last week.
Images on social media showed Waters firing an imitation machine gun while dressed in a long black coat with a red armband. Police confirmed that an investigation was opened over suspicions that the context of the costume could constitute a glorification, justification or approval of Nazi rule and therefore a disturbance of the public peace.
Once the police investigation is concluded, the case will be handed to Berlin prosecutors, who would decide whether to pursue any charges.
Waters has drawn ire for his support of the BDS movement, which calls for boycotts and sanctions against Israel. He has rejected accusations of antisemitism.
Authorities in Frankfurt tried to prevent a concert there scheduled for May 28, but Waters challenged that move successfully in a local court. In Munich, the city council said it had explored possibilities of banning a concert but concluded that it wasn’t legally possible to cancel a contract with the organizer. His appearance there on Sunday was accompanied by a protest attended by the local Jewish community’s leader.
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Jury picked, evidence next in 2nd trial in Gov. Whitmer plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are set to begin building their case against two men described as leaders of a 2020 scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, their second chance to get convictions after a jury couldn’t deliver a unanimous verdict last spring.
Opening statements are planned for Wednesday in federal court in Grand Rapids, in western Michigan. A jury was selected Tuesday. Some people were dismissed for health reasons or for political beliefs they couldn’t set aside.
“It’s not disqualifying to have views one way or the other,” U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker told the jury pool. “It’s disqualifying if the views become more important than what the law or the evidence is.”
Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. are charged with agreeing to kidnap Whitmer, a Democrat, as part of a plot to shock the country into chaos in the final days of the 2020 presidential election. They’re also charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. Croft faces a third charge.
Two co-defendants were acquitted in April and two more pleaded guilty.
Fox, 39, lived in the Grand Rapids area and Croft, 46, is from Bear, Delaware. They regularly communicated with other anti-government extremists who were angry with Whitmer and various public officials over COVID-19 restrictions.
The jury will hear secretly recorded conversations and see text messages and social media posts favoring violence. At the same time, defense attorneys will attack the credibility of undercover FBI agents and informants who fooled the group into thinking they were allies.
The plot to kidnap Whitmer followed training in Wisconsin and Michigan and two trips to scout her second home in northern Michigan, according to evidence at the first trial.
Lawyers for Fox and Croft will argue they were shielded by the First Amendment and entrapped by the government at every turn.
Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta were found not guilty in April. Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks pleaded guilty and will testify again for prosecutors.
Garbin told jurors at the first trial that the goal was to cause national chaos with a kidnapping close to the election between Joe Biden and then-President Donald Trump.
Whitmer, who will not be called as a trial witness, disclosed Monday night that she tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time and was experiencing mild symptoms.
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White reported from Detroit. Cappelletti is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 2, 2022
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COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
825 PM CDT Tue Nov 1 2022
...COASTAL FLOOD STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the Coastal Flood Statement, isolated minor coastal
flooding. For the High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip
currents.
* WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island
Counties.
* WHEN...Until 7 AM CDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Wave run-up may approach the dunes along narrow
beaches. Beach equipment, such as umbrellas and chairs, could
be moved by waves. Vehicles driving along narrow beaches may
experience higher water levels. Elevated water levels may also
occur across the Laguna Madre and South Bay, and along State
Highway 4 west of Boca Chica State Park. Rip currents can
sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...High tide at the South Padre Island Jetties
is at 1:49 AM Wednesday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Do not drive through flooded roadways.
Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and
float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a
direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the
shore and call or wave for help.
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Spain’s prime minister warned lawmakers Wednesday that the acute drought afflicting the southern European country has become one of its leading long-term concerns.
"The government of Spain and I are aware that the debate surrounding drought is going to be one of the central political and territorial debates of our country over the coming years," Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told the Madrid-based Parliament.
The territorial tensions between regions over water that Sánchez referred to are already being seen in protests over the rerouting of water and disputes between farmers and ecologists.
Three years of scant rainfall and high temperatures put Spain officially into long-term drought last month.
The national weather service said 2022 was the hottest year ever recorded, when average daily temperatures rose above 59 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time since records started in 1961. The country has warmed 34 F since the 1960s, a warming that is noticeable all year round, but especially in summer when average temperatures have risen by 1.6 degrees.
SPANISH FARMERS WARN OF 'IRREVERSIBLE' CROP LOSSES DUE TO DROUGHT
The Mediterranean region as a whole is warming faster than the global average because of climate change caused by the release of greenhouse gases, experts and authorities say.
And there is no sign of the situation in Spain improving over the coming weeks.
That has led to water restrictions in the driest areas. Regional authorities in northeast Catalonia said this week that Barcelona and a wide surrounding area that's home to around 6 million people could enter a drought "emergency" by September unless forecasts prove wrong.
The reservoirs that provide northern Catalonia with water have shrunk to 27% of capacity. Only the reservoirs connected to the Guadalquivir river basin in southern Andalusia are worse off, at 26% of capacity.
SPANISH LAWMAKERS CONSIDER PLAN TO INCREASE IRRIGATION IN ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST PRIZED WETLANDS
Andalusia and other agricultural areas are bearing the brunt of the drought as farmers lose crops.
Spain’s agriculture ministry met with farming associations and local authorities charged with irrigation management in Madrid on Wednesday. Agriculture Minister Luis Planas committed to asking the European Union to temporarily relax common agricultural regulations for Spanish farmers to help speed up financial help for the sector.
Andrés Góngora, representative of the COAG farmers and breeders association, said that his group urged the ministry to take emergency measures.
"(The government must) issue an emergency decree so it can adopt measures to address the catastrophic situation that many farmers and breeders are facing," he said. "This year, unfortunately, there won’t be any green shoots, but instead a lot of red numbers."
Spain’s forests are also suffering as firefighters battle blazes that are normally not seen until the hottest summer months.
Sánchez, a Socialist leader who faces a general election in December, said that a priority of his government is to invest heavily to "help recover our rivers, improve our water purification and cleaning systems and the reuse of water, and digitalize our water management."
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Sayin throws late TD; Penn edges Princeton 20-19
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Aidan Sayin threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Trey Flowers with five seconds remaining and Pennsylvania edged Princeton 20-19. Penn (8-2, 5-2) and Princeton (8-2, 5-2) each entered trailing Yale (8-2, 6-1), which beat Harvard on Saturday for the Ivy League title. Sayin’s game-winning throw capped a 17-play, 72-yard drive. Sayin also ended a long drive with a 2-yard scoring toss to Julien Stokes that pulled the Quakers to 19-14 with 10:37 to play. Sayin was 38-of-47 passing for 261 yards. Blake Stenstrom threw for 252 yards and a touchdown for Princeton. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/19/sayin-throws-late-td-penn-edges-princeton-20-19/ | 2022-11-19 23:58:22 | 0 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/19/sayin-throws-late-td-penn-edges-princeton-20-19/ |
No. 7 LSU holds on to beat Arkansas, remains in first place in the SEC West
The Tigers won a game they couldn’t afford to lose and kept their College Football Playoff aspirations alive
The seventh-ranked LSU Tigers looked like a different team this week against the unranked Arkansas Razorbacks. LSU was coming off an overtime upset win over Alabama and was looking to avoid a letdown in Fayetteville.
The Tigers' defense forced a turnover late in the fourth quarter to seal a 13-10 victory Saturday.
The two-loss Tigers could not afford to lose the game if they wanted to keep any hope of making it to the SEC Championship game or the College Football Playoff alive.
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Freshman linebacker Harold Perkins Jr., who had the flu prior to the game, had a game to remember. He finished the night with two forced fumbles and four sacks.
Arkansas entered the game without starting quarterback KJ Jefferson, who sat out as he continues to deal with a shoulder and clavicle injury. He was limited in practice during the week leading up to the game.
By game’s end, the Razorbacks were down to their third-string quarterback when Malik Hornsby was benched in favor of Cade Fortin in the third quarter.
Fortin threw a 40-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter to cut Arkansas' deficit to three points.
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LSU's offense did just enough by gaining 284 yards on the day, although that is well below the team's season average. Running back Josh Williams rushed for 122 yards and scored the Tigers' sole touchdown on the day.
"We are far from a finished product," LSU coach Brian Kelly said. "I don’t think anybody in that locker room thinks we have arrived."
Arkansas sacked LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels seven times, limiting the SEC’s top rusher at the position to 10 yards on 19 carries. Daniels completed 8 of 15 passes for 86 yards and an interception.
"I think the defense played so well that that gave us a chance. They kept us in it," Arkansas coach Sam Pittman said. "I thought when Landers got the long one that we were going to rally around that, and it seemed like it was the same story. Just didn’t seem to find a way to be consistent."
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Arkansas' Hornsby completed 3 of 9 passing attempts for 24 yards. Fortin finished 8 of 13 for 92 yards and a lost a fumble.
If LSU wins against Texas A&M Nov. 26, the Tigers will advance to the SEC Championship game in Atlanta.
"We’ve got a lot of work to do this journey, but we’re still finding ways to win football games," Kelly said.
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Next Saturday, LSU returns home to play UAB, and Arkansas plays its final home game of the year against No. 11 Ole Miss.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
11-13-15-34-37
(eleven, thirteen, fifteen, thirty-four, thirty-seven)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
11-13-15-34-37
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Top Player Prop Bets for Marlins vs. Cardinals on July 6, 2023
Published: Jul. 6, 2023 at 9:50 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Player prop betting options for Luis Arraez, Paul Goldschmidt and others are available in the Miami Marlins-St. Louis Cardinals matchup at LoanDepot park on Thursday, starting at 6:40 PM ET.
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Marlins vs. Cardinals Game Info
- When: Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 6:40 PM ET
- Where: LoanDepot park in Miami, Florida
- How to Watch on TV: Fox Sports 1
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MLB Props Today: Miami Marlins
Luis Arraez Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +145)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +110)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +210)
Arraez Stats
- Arraez has 121 hits with 18 doubles, a triple, three home runs and 27 walks. He has driven in 41 runs with one stolen base.
- He's slashing .384/.437/.476 on the season.
- Arraez has recorded a base hit in six games in a row. In his last 10 games he is batting .268 with three doubles, three walks and four RBI.
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Jorge Soler Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -169)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +190)
Soler Stats
- Jorge Soler has 77 hits with 18 doubles, 22 home runs, 42 walks and 49 RBI. He's also stolen one base.
- He has a .252/.348/.526 slash line on the year.
- Soler brings a three-game streak with at least one hit into this matchup. In his last five games he is hitting .350 with five doubles, two walks and two RBI.
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Paul Goldschmidt Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -238)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +100)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +150)
Goldschmidt Stats
- Goldschmidt has recorded 93 hits with 20 doubles, 15 home runs and 44 walks. He has driven in 46 runs with eight stolen bases.
- He's slashing .284/.370/.482 on the season.
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Nolan Arenado Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -233)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +125)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +140)
Arenado Stats
- Nolan Arenado has 17 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs, 23 walks and 57 RBI (89 total hits). He's also swiped two bases.
- He's slashed .280/.326/.497 so far this season.
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Warnock, Walker advance to runoff for Senate seat in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will meet in a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia after neither reached the general election majority required under state law.
That sets up a four-week blitz that again will test whether voters are more concerned about inflation under Democratic control of Washington or the Republican candidate’s rocky past.
The runoff campaign will be a four-week blitz that, depending on the outcomes in other Senate contests, could reprise the 2020 election cycle, when two Senate runoffs in Georgia doubled as a national winner-take-all battle for Senate control. Victories from Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., left the chamber divided 50-50 between the two major parties, with Vice President Kamala Harris giving Democrats the tie-breaking vote.
It will mean another month of Warnock hammering Walker, who is making his first bid for public office, as unqualified and Walker assailing Warnock as a rubber-stamp for the White House.
“Raphael Warnock votes with Joe Biden 96% of the time,” Walker has told voters again and again. “He’s forgotten about the people of Georgia.”
Warnock, who is also the senior minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, answers that Walker is “not ready” and “not fit” for high office. That’s an allusion to the celebrity athlete’s rocky past, from allegations of violence against his ex-wife to accusations by two women Walker once dated that he encouraged and paid for their abortions despite his public opposition to abortion rights.
Both approaches highlight the candidates’ most glaring liabilities.
Amid generationally high inflation and with Biden’s popularity lagging in Georgia, Warnock wants voters to make a localized choice, not a national referendum on Democrats as a whole. Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator, Warnock pitches himself as a pragmatist who cuts deals with Republicans when they’re willing and pushes Democratic-backed cost-cutting measures when they’re not. Among the top accomplishments Warnock touts: capping the cost of insulin and other drugs for Medicare recipients.
“I’ll work with anybody to get things done for the people of Georgia,” Warnock said.
Walker, meanwhile, denies that he’s ever paid for an abortion. And glossing over a cascade of other stories — documented exaggerations of his business record, academic achievements and philanthropic activities; publicly acknowledging three additional children during the campaign only after media reports on their existence — Walker touts his Christian faith and says his life is a story of “redemption.”
Through the scrutiny he calls “foolishness,” the Republican nominee has campaigned as a cultural and fiscal conservative. Walker, who is also Black, pledges to “bring people together” while framing Warnock as a divisive figure on matters of race and equality. Walker justifies his attack using snippets of Warnock’s sermons in which the pastor-senator discusses institutional racism.
Republicans used similar tactics against Warnock ahead of his runoff victory on Jan. 5, 2021. Warnock won that contest by about 95,000 votes out of 4.5 million cast.
Runoff dynamics this year would vary widely depending on the Senate makeup. If the Senate majority already has been settled, it could make it easier for Warnock to frame the race as a localized choice between himself and Walker. But if the Georgia outcome determines which party will hold a majority and set the agenda, Walker could have the upper-hand in his effort to tie Warnock to Biden and national Democrats.
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The Advanced Clean Energy Storage hub in Utah will convert excess wind and solar energy to green hydrogen for seasonal storage at a utility scale.
SALT LAKE CITY, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - WSP USA, a leading engineering, environment, and professional services consultancy, has successfully completed drilling operation and mechanical integrity tests for two new cavern wells for the Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES) I project in Utah — part of the first phase for the ACES Delta hydrogen hub.
The Advanced Clean Energy Storage I project will convert renewable energy into green hydrogen that can be stored in utility-scale solution mined domal salt caverns. The ACES Delta hydrogen hub controls the only known "Gulf Coast"-style domal-quality salt formation in the western U.S., which contains five existing salt caverns already being used for storing liquid fuels.
Advanced Clean Energy Storage I is a wholly owned subsidiary of ACES Delta, LLC. ACES Delta is a joint venture between Magnum Development and Mitsubishi Power Americas.
WSP was contracted for the designing, drilling and completion of both cavern wells. Beside the drilling operation, WSP was responsible for designing procuring and managing the construction process of the project's solution mining surface facility to provide water and power to the well sites and will manage the solution mining process until final completion of both caverns.
"Hydrogen underground storage is a key component of the hydrogen economy, which is critical in the effort to decarbonize U.S. power generation," said Scyller Borglum, underground storage leader for WSP USA. "These underground salt dome caverns will provide a huge reservoir of renewable fuel for power generation, supporting levels of utility scale renewable energy storage that have not been previously possible."
The drilling operation for each cavern well was completed ahead of schedule, and both cavern wells have successfully passed the mechanical integrity test designated to ensure well integrity prior to the start of the solution mining process.
Upon completion of the solution mining process, the total cavern volume of 9MM barrels-equivalent will be able to store around 300 gigawatt hours of clean and reliable energy in the form of hydrogen.
These will be the fourth and fifth hydrogen-compatible caverns in the U.S., and the salt cavern storage capacity will make it possible to store excess renewable energy produced in the spring when energy demand is low and use it to generate energy in the summer when demand is high.
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering, environment and professional services firms. Recognized on Fast Company's Brands that Matter List for 2022 as a top Community-Minded Business, WSP USA brings together engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals who are dedicated to collaborate in the best interests of serving local communities. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,500 employees in 300 offices across the U.S., WSP partners with its clients to help communities prosper. wsp.com
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The ASUW Senate drowsily kicked off their first meeting of spring quarter on March 28, with two of three pieces of legislation getting pushed back to later in the quarter.
The breakdown:
After a debate over the wording of R-29-9, a resolution that will add a student wellness day to forthcoming spring quarters, the legislation passed out of senate.
R-29-6, the hotly contested resolution seeking to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was struck down by the ASUW Board of Directors (BOD).
A joint resolution looking to establish an on-campus sharps disposal system, JR-29-1, was pushed back to the senate’s next meeting.
Off to board
The senate spent a majority of its meeting nitpicking the phrasing of its legislation seeking to add a student wellness day; ultimately, the resolution passed 49-9, officially moving on to seek approval from the ASUW Board.
R-29-9 was introduced by senator Aliyah Cleveland in the middle of last quarter. Cleveland had pointed out a general decline in student mental health and the positive impacts a day dedicated to students’ wellbeing could bring.
Cleveland shared that, since then, the Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS) and the Faculty Senate & Governance Student Affairs Council (FCSA) have been introduced to the resolution, and both want to see it succeed.
“Most of the concerns that we’ve heard so far is that 2024 might be a little optimistic in establishing this day for spring quarter,” Cleveland said. “[The GPSS and FCSA] want to look at spring 2025.”
For now, the future of the resolution lies at the hands of the BOD.
Back to senate
R-29-6, a resolution that looked to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the war reached its one year anniversary, barely advanced during the senate’s last meeting of winter quarter in a vote of 23-15, with 18 senators abstaining. The BOD, however, struck down the resolution, bringing it back to the senate for additional amendments.
“Some members were not comfortable with the military aid portion [of the resolution],” vice speaker Mario Falit-Baiamonte said. “People believed that that was not the right way to go about this.”
A further concern brought up by the BOD was that the resolution discussed divesting from Russian companies, which they believed would also hurt the Russian people in the process.
Additionally, the BOD pointed out that the vote for the resolution was a close one, reflecting the fact that the senate, as a whole, feels divided about the resolution.
Citing a lack of time and energy, the senate voted to adjourn early — both R-29-6, and JR-29-1, the joint resolution seeking to add a sharps disposal system to campus, were pushed to the top of the agenda for the senate's next meeting.
The ASUW Senate meets every Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. in Miller 301 and over Zoom. The link to their meetings can be found on their website.
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Supreme Court rejects COVID-19 shot mandate case from New York
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons.
The court’s action follows a decision in December in which the justices declined an emergency request to halt the requirement. At the time, doctors, nurses and other medical workers who said they were being forced to choose between their jobs and religious beliefs.
Three conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — dissented earlier and did so again Thursday.
New York is one of three states, along with Maine and Rhode Island, that do not accommodate health care workers who object to the vaccine on religious grounds.
The court had previously turned away health care workers in Maine, who filed a similar challenge, with the same three justices in dissent.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A now-former San Antonio police officer was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated assault by a peace officer for shooting and gravely wounding a teen eating a hamburger in his car in a McDonald’s parking lot. The teen had begun driving away when the officer opened fire.
James Brennand, 25, was charged in the Oct. 2 shooting of Erik Cantu, 17, according to a police statement. He turned himself in to police Tuesday night and remained in custody, said Police Chief William McManus.
Cantu is still unconscious and on life support, his family said Tuesday.
“There is no improvement in his condition,” the family said in a statement delivered by their lawyer, Brian Powers. “The last two days have been difficult, and we expect more difficulty ahead, but we remain hopeful.”
Brennand, a rookie officer, reported the vehicle Cantu was sitting in had evaded him the night before during an attempted traffic stop. Brennand said he suspected the vehicle was stolen.
In body camera footage released by police, Brennand opens the car door and tells Cantu to get out. The car drives backward with the door open, and the officer fires multiple times into the vehicle. He continues to shoot as the car drives away.
Investigators quickly determined that the use of deadly force was unwarranted, and Brennand was fired. Charges against Cantu of aggravated assault and evading arrest were dropped.
A police spokesperson did not immediately respond to an inquiry about whether the vehicle was actually stolen.
Brennand is charged with two counts of assault because there was a passenger in the car. The passenger was unharmed.
In a press conference Tuesday evening, the police chief defended the department’s training and said the failures were those of the individual officer.
In an appearance on CNN earlier Tuesday, McManus said he expected aggravated assault charges would be filed, and murder charges in the event Cantu dies.
McManus said Brennand’s body camera video was “horrific.”
“There is no question in anybody’s mind looking at that video that the shooting is not justified,” McManus said.
Police officials and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press. Brennand has no published telephone number and could not be reached for comment.
Cantu’s condition, as related in his family’s statement, is in stark contrast to what police officials said in the wake of the shooting: that Cantu was hospitalized in stable condition.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley tried to force a Senate vote Wednesday on legislation that would ban TikTok from operating in the United States, but he was blocked by a fellow Republican as lawmakers in both chambers are still trying to figure out what action, if any, is appropriate against the social media app.
In trying to force a vote — a move that rarely works in the Senate, since one senator’s objection can block it — Hawley called TikTok “digital fentanyl” and argued it could give the Chinese government access to data from 150 million American users. His bill would block and prohibit U.S. transactions with TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., within 30 days.
The bill “sends the message to Communist China that you cannot buy us,” Hawley said.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky objected to Hawley’s motion, arguing that trying to ban an app would violate the Constitution and anger the millions of voters who use it. “Speech is protected whether you like it or not,” Paul said.
Hawley’s effort to bring attention to the issue comes a week after a combative House hearing in which lawmakers from both parties grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew over his company’s ties to China’s communist government, data security and harmful content on the app. Chew attempted to assure lawmakers that the hugely popular video-sharing app prioritizes user safety and should not be banned due to its Chinese connections. But the tense standoff gave new momentum to Hawley and other lawmakers who say it should be banned or limited.
The Missouri senator said Congress “should act decisively to ban TikTok directly.” Other lawmakers have considered broader approaches, though there is no widespread consensus on any piece of legislation.
There is broad Senate support for bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., and South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican, that does not specifically call out TikTok but would give the Commerce Department power to review and potentially restrict foreign threats to technology platforms. The White House has backed that bill, but it is unclear if it will be brought up in the Senate or if it could gather much support among House Republicans.
Another bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida would, like Hawley’s bill, ban U.S. economic transactions with TikTok, but would also create a new framework for the executive branch to block any foreign apps deemed hostile. His bill is cosponsored by Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., and Mike Gallagher, R-Wis.
Those pushing new legislation point to agreement on a bill passed in December that banned TikTok from most government devices. But despite the bipartisan desires, the varying proposals underscore how difficult it could be to find agreement on an unprecedented effort to ban or scale back an app that is used by millions of Americans.
Paul said trying to ban an app like TikTok is a slippery slope. He’s had videos censored by YouTube, he said, but he still believes the company has a right to exist.
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BHOKTENI, Nepal — Shambhu Chaudhary accepts the cellphone and takes a long look at the man in the photograph. He is dressed in a dark suit and standing in bright sunshine at the center of what appears to be a giant construction project. At first, Chaudhary does not recognize the man. But he recognizes the place immediately.
“Lusail,” Chaudhary says, naming the gleaming $1 billion facility that is the centerpiece of Qatar’s World Cup. “I built that stadium.”
Chaudhary, 44, probably will not watch the World Cup matches that will be played this month and the next at Lusail, when the stadium he helped build will attract star players, global celebrities, heads of state and a television audience of more than a billion people for the final on Dec. 18. None of it would have been possible, though, without hundreds of thousands of men like him: the migrant workers who fuel the ruthlessly capitalist business of supply and demand that does much of the daily and dangerous work in the searing heat of the Persian Gulf, and who were indispensable to the $220 billion nation-building project that will culminate in the first World Cup in the Arab world.
Qatar’s preparations for the tournament have shined a spotlight on that army of workers who have done nothing less than redraw the country over the past decade, as well as on the system that exploits their labor and their desperation, and has cost thousands of them their lives.
The workforce is so large and drawn from so many places that its numbers seem impossible to count. It is a group so anonymous that, to this day, no one is able to agree on how many of its members died to get the World Cup across the finish line.
Human rights organizations have put the death toll in the thousands. The official count by Qatari organizers — which they carefully limit to deaths on projects directly linked to the tournament — is 37, and only three if just workplace accidents are counted. Each life, though, has a story.
Chaudhary takes another look at the photo.
“I’ve seen his face before — he’s very high, very important,” Chaudhary says, raising his hands above his head. He then finally recognizes Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, the governing body of world soccer.
Infantino made headlines in May when he said that those who had constructed the World Cup stadiums should feel “dignity and pride” in their work.
Chaudhary shrugged. To him, the stadium was just another building, just another job.
“For me,” he says, “work and money is more important than football.”
Crammed between the regional superpowers India and China, Nepal, a nation of little industry but of a large and eager workforce, may be the perfect setting to explain the meeting of ambition and necessity that built this year’s World Cup.
Nepal has struggled for decades to provide meaningful opportunities for large parts of its population, particularly for those who live in the countryside. Trapped between poverty, despair and necessity, hundreds of thousands of those citizens now look for work abroad every year instead.
Only India, an exponentially larger country, has sent more workers than Nepal to the work sites and construction jobs of Qatar in the past decade: 204,000 were granted labor permits in 2015 alone, near the height of the World Cup construction boom. The government estimates that they are part of an ongoing exodus that has seen more than 25% of Nepal’s population migrate to work overseas since records related to such work started being collected in 1994.
Nepal may have paid a higher price for its migrant labor than other nations. At least 2,100 Nepali workers have died in Qatar since 2010, the year it won the World Cup hosting rights, according to data collated by Nepal’s labor ministry. (Large numbers have died elsewhere, too: more than 3,500 in Malaysia; almost 3,000 in Saudi Arabia; at least 1,000 in the United Arab Emirates.)
These workers succumb to an array of ailments — premature heart attacks and unexplained heat-related health problems that one local official described as “environmental disadaptation” — that no one has committed to studying but will eventually kill thousands more of them. There have also been an alarming number of suicides over the past decade, with almost 200 recorded among Nepali migrant workers in Qatar.
Bishwa Raj Dawadi, a doctor on a committee that examines death certificates and migrant worker injuries for the labor ministry, has noticed another worrying trend: young laborers suffering from kidney failure after returning from the Persian Gulf. He said many return to their villages without getting the treatment required; many die within two years of returning home.
“I am depressed because they are all young men,” he said.
The dead are disproportionately men between 20 and 45, all of whom would have undergone government-ordered medical exams before being allowed to work abroad. “It really is a mysterious thing because they are medically fit from here,” said Anjali Shrestha, an official at the foreign employment board. “Yes, of course people in Nepal also die. But not like this.”
Hundreds of those who return in coffins are categorized as “natural deaths,” and no autopsies are ever carried out.
Migrant laborers sit at the bottom end of an employment chain that begins with a foreign company seeking workers, and leads to a recruitment firm engaged to source them and agents who beat the bushes for eager applicants. Before they can even get jobs overseas, though, families first must plunge themselves into far worse financial straits.
To get one of the coveted jobs, prospective migrants have to borrow thousands of dollars — at annual interest rates of 30% or more — to pay recruitment fees that are typically more than $2,000, about 25 times the amount recruiters can legally demand. That can represent several months of salary promised away even before a worker leaves Nepal.
Nepal has in recent years signed agreements with recruiting countries to limit such costs, but on the ground there is little sign of change, said Dwarika Upreti, the executive director of the foreign employment board. Recruitment companies, thanks to their financial heft and political connections, are able to evade most legal consequences, and the demand for labor in places like Qatar makes it worth the risk. Recruiting countries also rarely check if rules have been followed.
World Cup officials have for years bristled at criticism over the treatment of migrant workers, both in Qatar and in their home countries, calling the attacks unfair and noting they have made progress in improving conditions. That includes establishing a minimum wage ($275 per month) and the abolishment of a punitive system called kafala that allowed employers to hold their workers’ passports, making leaving the country or changing jobs effectively impossible for them without permission.
Critics point out that Qatar’s biggest changes only took place after much of the major construction was completed or were narrowly applied only to World Cup projects, and that enforcement remains patchy. But it hardly matters: Many migrants remain unaware of Qatar’s labor reforms or of its new protections for workers. Wage theft, according to outside groups, remains common.
“This event was entirely built on the backs of migrant workers, on a completely unequal balance of power,” said Michael Page, a deputy director in the Middle East and North Africa division at Human Rights Watch. “All these abuses have been entirely predictable.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times. | https://finance-commerce.com/2022/11/world-cup-construction-workers-endure-dangerous-working-conditions/ | 2022-11-18 21:06:17 | 1 | https://finance-commerce.com/2022/11/world-cup-construction-workers-endure-dangerous-working-conditions/ |
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