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NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman in a gas mask and construction vest set off a smoke grenade and fired a barrage of at least 33 bullets in a rush-hour subway train, shooting at least 10 people Tuesday, authorities said. Police were scouring the city for the shooter and trying to track down the renter of a van possibly connected to the violence.
A scene of horror unfolded as frightened commuters ran from the train as others limped out of it. At least one rider collapsed on the platform.
“My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,” eyewitness Sam Carcamo told radio station 1010 WINS. Smoke poured out of the train car as the door opened, he added.
Five people were in critical condition but expected to survive. At least 29 in all were treated at hospitals for gunshot wounds, smoke inhalation and other conditions, according to hospitals.
The gunfire erupted on a train that pulled into a station in the Sunset Park neighborhood, about a 15-minute ride from Manhattan and predominantly home to Hispanic and Asian communities.
Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the attack was not being investigated as terrorism, but that she was “not ruling out anything.” The shooter’s motive was unknown.
Authorities found a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun at the scene, along with extended magazines, a hatchet, both detonated and undetonated smoke grenades, a black garbage can, a rolling cart, gasoline and key to a U-Haul van, Chief of Detectives James Essig said.
He said the key led investigators to the van renter, who they said has addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin. Authorities were looking for him, but Essig stressed that it wasn’t yet clear whether the man was linked to the shooting.
Investigators believe the weapon jammed, preventing the suspect from continuing to fire, the officials said. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has completed an urgent trace to identify the gun’s manufacturer, seller and initial owner.
The officials said authorities zeroed in on a person of interest after the credit card used to rent the van was found at the shooting scene.
The attack unnerved a city on guard about a rise in gun violenceand the ever-present threat of terrorism. It left some New Yorkers jittery about riding the nation’s busiest subway system and prompted officials to increase policing at transportation hubs from Philadelphia to Connecticut.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced last fall that it had put security cameras in all 472 subway stations citywide, saying they would put criminals on an “express track to justice.” But at the station where the train arrived, the cameras apparently weren’t working.
MTA system chief Janno Lieber told TV interviewers he didn’t know why the cameras malfunctioned. But he said police had “a lot of different options” from cameras elsewhere on the subway line to get a glimpse of the shooter.
One rider’s video, shot through a closed door between subway cars, shows a person in a hooded sweatshirt raising an arm and pointing at something as five bangs sound. In another video, smoke and people pour out of a subway car, some limping.
“Someone call 911!” a person shouts.
Other video and photos from the scene show people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the platform — some amid what appear to be small puddles of blood — and another person on the floor of a subway car.
Rider Juliana Fonda, a broadcast engineer at WNYC-FM, told its news site Gothamist that passengers from the car behind hers started banging on the connecting door.
“There was a lot of loud pops, and there was smoke in the other car,” she said. “And people were trying to get in and they couldn’t, they were pounding on the door to get into our car.”
As police searched for the shooter, Gov. Kathy Hochul warned New Yorkers to be vigilant.
“This individual is still on the loose. This person is dangerous,” the Democrat said at a news conference just after noon. “This is an active shooter situation right now in the city of New York.”
Fire and police officials had responded to reports of an explosion, but Sewell said at the press conference that there were no known explosive devices. Multiple smoke devices were found on the scene, mayoral spokesperson Fabien Levy said.
After people streamed out of the train, quick-thinking transit workers ushered passengers to another train across the platform for safety, Lieber, the MTA chairman, noted.
High school student John Butsikaris was riding the other train when he saw a conductor urging everyone to get in. He thought it might be a mundane problem until the next stop, when he heard screams for medical attention and his train was evacuated.
“I’m definitely shook,” the 15-year-old told The Associated Press. “Even though I didn’t see what happened, I’m still scared, because it was like a few feet away from me, what happened.”
No transit workers were physically hurt, according to their union.
In Menlo, Iowa, President Joe Biden praised “the first responders who jumped in action, including civilians, civilians, who didn’t hesitate to help their fellow passengers and tried to shield them.”
Adams, who is isolating following a positive COVID-19 test on Sunday, said in a video statement that the city “will not allow New Yorkers to be terrorized, even by a single individual.”
New York City has faced a spate of shootings and high-profile bloodshed in recent months, including on the city’s subways. One of the most shocking was in January, when a woman was pushed to her death in front of a train by a stranger.
Adams, a Democrat a little over 100 days into his term, has made cracking down on crime — especially on the subways — a focus of his early administration, pledging to send more police officers into stations and platforms for regular patrols. It wasn’t immediately clear whether officers were already inside the station when the shootings occurred.
Danny Mastrogiorgio of Brooklyn had just dropped his son off at school when he saw a crush of panicked passengers, some wounded, running up the stairway at the 25th Street station. At least two had visible leg injuries, he said.
“It was insane,” he told the AP. “No one knew exactly what was going on.”
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Balsamo reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Karen Matthews, Julie Walker, Deepti Hajela, Michelle L. Price and David Porter in New York contributed to this report.
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BOLIDEN, Sweden, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Annual General Meeting in Boliden on April 28, 2022 resolved on an automatic share redemption procedure including a split of Boliden's shares, a so-called share split 2:1, whereby one existing share was divided into two shares. As previously communicated the number of shares and votes in Boliden therefore increased during May 2022 by 273,511,169 to 547,022,338.
The 273,511,169 redemption shares issued through the share split were redeemed during June 2022 as part of the redemption procedure. As of June 30, 2022, the number of shares and votes in Boliden therefore again totals 273,511,169.
For more information about the redemption procedure, please see Boliden's website www.boliden.com.
This information is information that Boliden AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 08.00 CET on June 30, 2022.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday received a call from Israel's caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, the first such conversation between Abbas and an Israeli premier in years.
The call came amid a rare flurry of high-level Israeli-Palestinian contacts ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank next week. The talks focused on calming tensions and coordinating security ahead of the visit.
A statement from Lapid’s office said he spoke with Abbas about “the continuation of cooperation and the need to ensure quiet and calm.” Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Abbas aide, said Lapid congratulated Abbas on Eid al-Adha, a Muslim holiday starting Saturday, and “discussed the latest situation briefly,” without elaborating.
Abbas received Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz at his headquarters in the occupied West Bank town of Ramallah on Thursday and also spoke to Israeli President Isaac Herzog by phone.
The peace process collapsed more than a decade ago. High-level meetings between Israeli and Palestinian leaders are rare and tend to focus on day-to-day economic and security coordination.
Gantz met with Abbas a couple of times last year and announced measures to improve economic conditions in the occupied West Bank.
Lapid and Gantz, both centrists, are serving in a caretaker capacity ahead of elections planned for Nov. 1, in which religious and nationalist parties that take a hard line toward the Palestinians are expected to retain their majority in the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
Abbas heads the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank under interim peace agreements reached in the 1990s. He is deeply unpopular among Palestinians, in large part because of his close security coordination with Israel.
Biden is expected to meet with top Israeli and Palestinian leaders next week.
The Palestinians seek a state in the occupied West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, territories Israel captured in the 1967 war.
Israel annexed east Jerusalem in a move not recognized internationally and views the entire city as its capital. It withdrew soldiers and settlers from Gaza in 2005 but imposed a crippling blockade when the Islamic militant group Hamas seized power from Abbas’ forces two years later, limiting his authority to parts of the West Bank.
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DALLAS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simmons Bank, as Trustee of the Sabine Royalty Trust (NYSE: SBR), today declared a cash distribution to the holders of its units of beneficial interest of $0.829410 per unit, payable on August 29, 2022, to unit holders of record on August 15, 2022. Sabine's cash distribution history, current and prior year financial reports and tax information booklets, a link to filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission and more can be found on its website at http://www.sbr-sabine.com/. Additionally, printed reports can be requested and are mailed free of charge.
This distribution reflects primarily the oil production for May 2022 and the gas production for April 2022. Preliminary production volumes are approximately 56,325 barrels of oil and 1,258,547 Mcf of gas. Preliminary prices are approximately $103.82 per barrel of oil and $5.95 per Mcf of gas.
This month's distribution is higher than the previous month's due to increased production of oil and gas, primarily due to the timing of receipts through the end of the previous month.
The production from the new horizontal gas wells in Panola County, Texas, has contributed approximately $860,000 reflecting April production. They were averaging about 716 Mcf per well, per day during April totaling over 172,000 Mcf with an average pricing of $5.37 per Mcf. In addition to these proceeds, the additional 8 new wells which were paid upon for the month of April, contributing approximately $220,000, reflecting an average of 196 Mcf per well, per day.
Additionally, another 3 new horizontal wells, also in Panola County, were paid on by another operator for the month of production for April 2022 and May 2022, respectively, with production of 1,486 and 1,414 Mcf per well, per day with the respective pricing of $5.37 and $6.98 per Mcf resulting in approximately $670,000 and $860,000 being received by the Trust in July.
As more regular monthly receipts are made in the months to come, additional information will be made available.
The table below compares this month's production and prices to the previous month's:
Revenues are only distributed after they are received, verified, and posted. Most energy companies normally issue payment of royalties on or about the 25th of every month, and depending on mail delivery, a varying amount of royalties are not received until after the revenue posting on the last business day of the month. The revenues received after that date will be posted within 30 days of receipt.
Due to the timing of the end of the month of July, approximately $2,532,000 of revenue received will be posted in the following month of August in addition to normal receipts during August. Since the close of business in July and prior to this press release, $5,108,000 in revenue has been received.
The 2021 Annual Report with Form 10-K and the January 1, 2022 Reserve Summary has been posted on the Sabine website at http://www.sbr-sabine.com/.
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Summer temperatures reaching the upper 90s are being felt across the Tampa Bay area and the team at ZooTampa at Lowry Park is finding ways to keep its animals cool amid the surging heat.
The Zoo’s animal care professionals have added cooling activities to the animals’ daily behavioral-based enrichment program. As essential to the well-being of the Zoo’s residents as proper nutrition and veterinary care, enrichment stimulates each animal physically and mentally, yielding the opportunity to engage in species-appropriate behavior within a dynamic environment.
Throughout the year, guests can observe various species interacting with numerous enrichment items ranging from barrels and boxes to boomer balls and puzzle feeders. Sometimes enrichment encourages animals to traverse their habitats in new ways, perhaps exploring newly added logs or branches.
Food enrichment is always popular and is also a tool the Zoo’s care team uses to keep the animals cool during these sweltering summer months. From water playtime for orangutans to buckets of ice for the otters, the Zoo's Nutrition Center is constantly busy creating frozen treats and activities that provide ZooTampa's animals with welcome refreshment. Other summer enrichment items include sprinklers, pools, and mud wallows. Daytime access to air-conditioned night houses also ensures the animals have the option to chill out behind -the-scenes.
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Summer lunches in Campbell County total tens of thousands since end of May
GILLETTE (WNE) -- The Campbell County School District continues to feed a large number of its students through its summer meal program, with top numbers in June totaling about 2,700 pickup meals a day, said Bryan Young, director of nutrition services.
To put that number into perspective, Young said the district typically serves about 4,500 meals per day to students during the regular school year. The free meals, which include breakfast and lunch in a pre-made sack, were given out at nine locations starting May 26.
He had about 20 people working the different locations until July and now there are about eight that help pass out the lunches and put them together. Young said the meals include fruits and vegetables, milk, and things like hot or cold sandwiches — meals that are easy to heat up or simply eat cold.
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The meals are provided with federal COVID-19 relief money, which was set to end in late June. But Young said he was notified a few weeks ago that the money was extended to last through the end of the summer.
Without COVID relief waivers next year, Young said the lunches will transition back to being paid for through traditional eligibility and federal reimbursements.
“We’ve always had free meals but schools normally have to qualify through area eligibility or more than half (of the students at a school) that qualify for free and reduced meals,” he said. He added that there are some schools in the district who always qualify.
In the upcoming school year, the free lunches to all students provided with federal COVID money will also come to an end, so Young expects more free and reduced applications to start coming in again.
Grand Teton National Park warns of possible rabid bat
JACKSON (WNE) — Beware of bats behaving oddly.
Grand Teton National Park said a group of hikers came across one last weekend that might have been infected with rabies, a viral disease that will kill people if they aren’t treated before symptoms arise.
The hikers were on the Cascade Canyon Trail when they encountered a bat doing something unusual: flying at them in the middle of the day along a trail.
Bats are an important part of the ecosystem, and fewer than 1% of them have rabies, the park said. But those “that act strangely or contact humans are up to 10 times more likely to have rabies.”
Rabies is spread through saliva during a bite, scratch or mucus membrane contact with an infected animal.
“Because bat bites and scratches can be small, any physical contact with a bat is considered a potential exposure,” the park said. “Rabies is very preventable in humans with proper medical care given shortly after an exposure to the rabies virus, but it’s almost always fatal if untreated before symptoms develop.”
Bats are the leading cause of rabies deaths in people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Grand Teton National Park said visitors who have had physical contact with a bat should clean the site of contact with soap and water and seek medical attention for potential exposure as soon as possible. They should also notify the NPS Office of Public Health by emailing a publichealthprogram@nps.gov.
Visitors who see a bat acting strangely or find a dead bat should not approach or touch the bat and should notify a ranger.
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New Jersey is expected to receive some much-needed rain on Monday and again on Wednesday, forecasters say.
A cloudy start to the day in the state is likely to give way to showers and possible thunderstorms, which move in from west to east and result in up to half-inch of rain across a large swath of New Jersey, the National Weather Service.
While poor drainage and localized urban flooding is possible, flash flooding is not expected. There’s a marginal risk of excessive rainfall in northern parts of the state. AccuWeather.com mentions that a tornado can not be ruled out but the weather service makes no mention of a tornado in any forecast.
Rain will push out around midnight.
The National Weather Service is calling for winds of 10 to 15 mph with gusts of up to 20 mph and highs in the upper 70s to lows 80s on Monday. Overnight temperatures will fall into the 50s.
A pair of wild fires that broke out in Burlington County over the weekend were 90% contained as of the most recent update on Sunday, the state forest fire service said.
Most of the western half of the state is considered “abnormally dry,” according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. A portion of Gloucester and Salem counties are experiencing minor drought conditions.
Tuesday should be rain free with sunny skies and highs in the upper 80s before another round of rain moves on Wednesday. Rain is more likely in northern New Jersey on Wednesday and again, thunderstorms are possible.
“Precipitation probabilities increase through the day with potential of showers and possible thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening,” the weather service said of Wednesday in its morning forecast discussion. Small hail also can’t be ruled out. Highs will be in the 70s.
Dry, sunny weather returns on Thursday and Friday with highs in the low 80s.
Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com.
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Samuel Rose says he was raised by a devoted single mom who warned all her seven children to avoid drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. But when his high school friend urged him to try making vapor rings with a Juul e-cigarette five years ago, Rose figured there was no danger — vaping was billed as a healthier alternative to smoking.
"I never picked up a cigarette, but I picked up a vape just fine because I was like, 'OK, I can still get the buzz of nicotine but not get cancer from it — it's not dangerous,' " Rose says. Plus, he says, every living soul his age in Gaffney, S.C, seemed to think the same thing back then.
But soon, daily vaping made his lungs feel too small to power him down the football field. He worked 30 hours a week after school, largely to fund his habit. Though a minor, he was able to buy replacement e-cigarette cartridges and pods from young adults at his church who could buy them legally. The small device and the vapor clouds it emitted were easy enough to hide, he says. Still, the escalating addiction scared him, and he didn't like who he was becoming.
To cover the habit and avoid lying about it, he was distancing himself from his mother. "I really didn't like lying to my mom," says Rose. "She's been to hell and back for me, and it really hurt our relationship because I was hiding this."
Rose, now 21, is among a generation of nicotine users who got hooked on vaping at a time when the technology was new and marketed virally to young people over social media. The advent of vaping transformed youth nicotine use in the U.S., reviving its popularity and reversing a dramatic decline in smoking over the prior decade. Today, 14.1% of high school students say they vape — but despite the rapid rise in nicotine use, the regulatory response has been slow.
FDA got 8 million applications
In 2020 the Food and Drug Administration initiated a requirement that all e-cigarette products apply for and receive regulatory approval in order to remain on the market. A bit of a time lag for enforcement was permitted as the FDA worked through applications; the FDA said a product could continue to be sold until its application was evaluated.
What happened next may help explain why teen vaping hasn't yet slowed. The agency was overwhelmed with nearly 8 million applications for various e-cigarette products, says Brian King, the director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products. Each review must be done carefully, he says, because "everything the FDA does, particularly the Center for Tobacco Products, gets litigated." So, he says, "on the front end it's really critical that we ensure that everything we're doing is both scientifically defensible and legally defensible — and that takes time."
An FDA crackdown could be coming soon
King says the agency is very near the end of its review process. While he did not discuss the results of the reviews that have not been made public, experts expect the FDA to step up its removals of various vaping products from the market over the next few months.
"I think we will see a relatively rapid removal from the market of the products that have been the primary cause of the youth e-cigarette epidemic," says Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Myers and others point to a few recent actions by the agency as the signs a crackdown is coming. This month, the FDA denied e-cigarette maker Logic's application for its menthol e-cigarettes; they were pulled from the market. That marked the first time the FDA denied a menthol product — something it has long treated as being in a separate category from other flavors. In June the agency tried to pull other e-cigarette products made by Juul, the company widely credited with popularizing vaping. (That decision hasn't taken effect, as Juul pursues its appeals.)
"Prevention of e-cigarette use among kids remains a top priority," King says.
Meanwhile, some states — most recently California — are taking their own steps, banning all flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, and menthol. Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. have similar bans; other states have limited bans on flavors.
Other countries are increasing regulation, too. China recently banned fruit-flavored e-cigarette products, and the European Union is considering a similar broad ban on flavors. Many other countries in Asia and the Middle East completely ban vaping.
In the U.S., cracking down on the devices themselves would be the most effective form of prevention, say many experts like Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. "The greatest immediate effect will come from cutting off the spigot."
That might sound simple, but Dr. Robert Jackler says regulators have always played a cat-and-mouse game with the tobacco industry. "By the time [regulators] implement something, the industry's already figured 10 ways around it," says Jackler, a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and a prominent researcher of tobacco marketing.
Jackler notes, by way of recent example, how the FDA's 2020 ban on flavored cartridges had no impact on youth vaping rates because it left plenty of alternative technologies — such as disposable devices and refillable pods — on the market. "It left an eight-lane highway of escape," he says, because very similar alternatives were readily available using another unregulated device.
That's precisely how Sam Rose, the vaper from South Carolina, remembers what happened in 2020. When the FDA cut off access to their favorite mango-flavored vaping cartridges, Rose and his teenage friends just shifted to a different flavor.
"Pretty much everybody that was doing it was addicted, so they just moved over to the menthol flavors" or disposable vaping devices, Rose says.
That's the kind of work-around that drives parents like Meredith Berkman crazy. The co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes says until this month, the FDA seemed reluctant to regulate or ban menthol for reasons she couldn't understand.
"It makes the poison goes down easier," says Berkman, "and until those flavored products are taken off the market, we really can't make a dent in the youth vaping epidemic and we really can't prevent young kids from starting."
Stanford researcher Jackler agrees, and says regulators need to act on the three primary things that make vaping attractive to youth: "One is flavors, two is nicotine, and three is price."
$20 gets a teen the nicotine equivalent of 800 cigarettes
Companies have steadily increased the concentration of nicotine in their e-cigarette fluids — from about 1% to about 6% or higher, Jackler says. That makes vaping more potently addictive, and a very cheap source of nicotine, in comparison to tobacco products. For $20, a teenager can buy the nicotine-equivalent of several cartons of cigarettes — roughly the equivalent of 40 packs, or 800 cigarettes.
To combat that, Jackler argues states and cities should tax e-cigarettes at the same high rates that have made cigarettes largely unaffordable for most young people.
In less than four years he spent more than $10,000 on his vaping habit
Cost was, in fact, a big a factor in making Sam Rose want to quit. He estimates that, over three-and-a-half years of vaping a cartridge and a half a day, he spent more than $10,000 on vaping. "Every time I think of that number I almost gag," he says.
Yet his early attempts to quit failed, until he and his younger brother came clean with their mom. "She was surprised, but her attitude was: 'Let's move forward,' " he says. "That was 100% game changer," Rose says, because feeling accountable to his family helped him fight the nicotine cravings until they subsided, a few weeks after he quit.
Rose, now a college sophomore, is an ambassador for the Truth Initiative, an anti-smoking group. He's also a manager at a fast-food restaurant, where he works alongside his siblings and his mom. He mentors a mostly teenage staff — discouraging them from vaping, and taking them to play sports on the weekends.
"It's awesome to be in that role and give them a safe place to come and know that they don't have to worry about somebody bullying them for not vaping or something like that," says Rose. He says he sees far fewer people vaping these days in his community. And, he says, he feels closer than ever to his mom "because I know how much I don't deserve her, and how much she did for us."
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PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine.
Carter was not misquoted. But he was certainly misunderstood, as his thoughts in the wide-ranging interview were reduced in the popular imagination to utterances about “lust” and “adultery.”
Nearly a half-century later, as the 98-year-old Carter receives hospice care in the same south-Georgia home where he once spoke with Playboy journalists, interviewer Robert Scheer still believes Carter was treated unfairly. He recalls the former president as a “real” and “serious” figure whose intent was smothered by the intensity of a campaign’s closing stretch.
“Jimmy Carter was a thoughtful guy,” Scheer, now 87, told The Associated Press. “But that got lost here. I’ve never seen a story like it. It was worldwide. … It just never went away.”
Political disaster ensued. Rosalynn Carter was suddenly being asked whether she trusted her husband. The fallout, in Carter’s words, “nearly cost me the election.”
Carter spent five-plus hours with Playboy across several months — “more time with you than with Time, Newsweek and all the others combined,” the nominee told Scheer.
The resulting Q&A spanned 12,000 words, and Scheer added thousands more in an accompanying story. Carter discussed military and foreign policy, racism and civil rights, political journalism and his reputation as a “vague” candidate.
“They weren’t interested in sensationalized stuff,” Scheer said of Playboy.
Hugh Hefner’s iconic publication reached an estimated 20 million-plus readers each month with its pictorials of nude women. But the magazine chronicled American culture as well, with its branded “Playboy Interview” featuring such power players as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, Malcom X and leading newsman Walter Cronkite.
Carter, unafraid of nuance, proved he belonged among them, Scheer said.
The nominee’s most-remembered comments came at the end of their final session. Standing outside Carter’s front door, Golson pressed Carter on whether his piety would make him a “rigid, unbending president” unable to represent all Americans.
The Baptist deacon responded with an 823-word soliloquy on human imperfection, pride and God’s forgiveness. He said he believed in “absolute and total separation of church and state” and explained his faith as rooted in humility, not judgment of others.
Quoting Matthew 5:27-28, Carter explained that Jesus Christ considered an offending thought equivalent to consummated adultery, and by that standard, he was in no position to judge a man who “shacks up” and “screws lots of women,” because he had “looked on many women with lust” and, thus, “committed adultery many times in my heart.”
Scheer called it a “sensible statement,” reflecting Carter’s Baptist tradition: “He was saying, look, I’m not going to be some fanatic. … I’m not this perfect guy.”
Playboy realized Carter provided explosive material — and not just about sex. Citing President Lyndon Johnson’s handling of Vietnam, Carter included the last Democratic president alongside disgraced Republican Richard Nixon as guilty of “lying, cheating and distorting the truth.”
The magazine decided to send the full Q&A text to about 1,000 media outlets in late September, ahead of the usual October publication date for the November edition.
The idea, Scheer explained, was to allow time for fair coverage rather than drop bombshells days before the election.
Headline writers, satirists and late-night television pounced anyway, labeling it Carter’s “lust in my heart” interview. “Saturday Night Live,” then a fledgling NBC sketch comedy show, had a field day. One political cartoonist depicted Carter lusting after the Statue of Liberty.
He lamented to NPR in 1993 that the Playboy interview morphed into “the No. 1 story of the entire 1976 campaign.”
“I was explaining Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount,” Carter wrote wistfully in a 2015 memoir.
As a candidate, Carter’s faith had endeared him to many fellow white evangelicals and cultural conservatives. That made him a difficult foil for Republicans, who wanted to cast Democrats as out-of-step with most of America. The flip side, Scheer noted, was the many young voters and urban liberals — key Democratic constituencies — who “wondered if he was this Southern square.”
“Hamilton Jordan (Carter’s campaign manager) had always called Carter’s faith ‘the weirdo factor,’” said media historian Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor who has written extensively on Carter. “Talking to Playboy was their way to prove he wasn’t some kind of prude.”
Scheer, who was with Carter as part of his traveling press corps, said Playboy’s early text release sparked a frenzy.
“Reporters were scrambling, asking me, ‘Bob, what is this?” he recalled.
Traveling press focused initially on Carter’s criticism of Johnson, who had died in 1973. It was a juicy detail because Carter was headed Texas to campaign with Johnson’s widow.
Carter initially told reporters he was taken out of context. Scheer “ran back to the plane to get the tapes,” and effectively caught the nominee violating his pledge never to make a “misleading statement.”
Lady Bird Johnson skipped Carter’s Texas events, Scheer said. Carter apologized to her by telephone.
When his commentary on adultery ballooned, Carter insisted the exchange had been off-the-record, throwaway banter as Scheer and Golson prepared to leave.
“He was still wearing the mic!” Scheer told AP.
The way the story morphed “ended up making Carter seem like a creep,” Roessner said.
Rosalynn Carter fashioned a pat response: “Jimmy talks too much, but at least people know he’s honest and doesn’t mind answering questions.” And, no, she never worried about his fidelity.
“The only lust I worried about was that of the press,” she wrote in 1984, recounting how her discipline finally cracked when a reporter asked whether she ever committed adultery.
“If I had,” she replied, “I wouldn’t tell you.”
Ford, who had been gaining on Carter but still trailed badly, leveraged the story. The Republican president was an Episcopalian, soft-spoken about religion, but he invited leading evangelical pastors to the White House the day after the interview’s release, including the Rev. W.S. Criswell of Dallas First Baptist Church.
Criswell later declared from his pulpit that he had asked Ford: “Mr. President, if Playboy magazine were to ask you for an interview, what would you do?” Ford’s reply, according to Criswell: “I was asked by Playboy magazine for an interview — and I declined with an emphatic ‘No’!”
Thousands of his parishioners roared.
The Rev. Billy Graham, the nation’s top evangelist, and the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the rising leader of the so-called Religious Right, also blitzed Carter. National media, including The AP, highlighted criticism from Christian pastors from around the country.
Roessner, the daughter of a Protestant pastor, said Carter’s Playboy comments were clumsy, “but if anyone should have understood the context … it should have been the ministers.”
She recalled Carter’s resentment during a 2014 interview she conducted with him. Decades of global humanitarian work had by that time afforded the former president a profile above politics, yet “almost 40 years later, it was clearly something he held on to,” she said. He was “still incredibly frustrated by what he felt was unfair coverage and response.”
The 1976 campaign was the first after Nixon’s resignation, driven by reporting from The Washington Post, and many journalists were demonstrating a new level of distrust of politicians, especially one Scheer described as “wearing his religion on his sleeve.”
Those same news organizations largely ignored what the soon-to-be president said about them, Roessner noted.
“The traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it’s a matter of making a mistake,” Carter told Playboy. “There’s nobody in the back of this plane who would ask an issue question unless he thought he could trick me into some crazy statement.”
Scheer, at least, asked plenty of policy questions, and, looking back, he pointed to Carter’s narrow victory just weeks later.
“Whatever they said, I think it did exactly what they wanted to accomplish,” Scheer said. “That doesn’t mean they weren’t nervous.”
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Michael Heller, Venture Partner at Oak HC FT, and Gordon Watson, CEO of AXA Asia and Africa, have joined Markaaz's outstanding advisory board.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Markaaz, the fintech that enables small businesses to verify and improve their essential business data to build a better business, has added Michael Heller and Gordon Watson to its exceptional group of advisors.
Michael Heller co-founded data and analytics company Argus Information and Advisory Services, which Verisk Analytics acquired in 2012, and has led global information and insights company FactorTrust (acquired by TransUnion in 2017). Gordon Watson is the current CEO of AXA Asia and Africa, whose successful international career across the USA, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia provides a unique global perspective on how Markaaz can help enterprise customers with faster onboarding, and saving operational costs. He is also a passionate advocate for creating shared value and employee wellbeing, chairing the Founding Corporate Council that is establishing a globally standardized Mental Health at Work Index.
The two-and-a-half-year-old company already counts Bobby Mehta, current Chairman of JLL and former CEO and Vice Chairman of HSBC North America, and CEO of TransUnion, and Emanuele 'Manny' Conti, current Operating Partner at Welsh Carson, and former President of D&B North America and International as trusted company luminaries.
Bobby and Manny are long-time thought partners of Markaaz founder and CEO, Hany Fam. They have previously supported the build of Mastercard Track, connecting 268 million buyers and sellers and reducing the number of touchpoints needed to make a payment from 33 to 1.
Markaaz Advisor Emanuele 'Manny' Conti says, "It's time to rethink how we keep small business data current and accurate. Markaaz has a unique approach that has the potential to become the new standard."
Michael Fraccaro, current Chief People Officer at technology payments company Mastercard, and Ross Fubini, Founder of XYZ Capital, have been advising Markaaz since 2021. The company announced Sandy Watkins, Founder and former Chairman of OpenLending, as an investor and director of the board in 2021, and co-founder in 2022, alongside founder, Hany Fam and co-founder, Fabi Hubschmid.
Markaaz is creating the most up-to-date small business data record featuring user-verified and updated data. Through its Dashboard, small businesses can control their public and private company profile and access the services they need to manage and grow their business, and soon transact. Its members can also opt into consent-based monitoring for better rates on products and services from Markaaz partners.
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NEW YORK — Robert Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and Robert Caro's "The Power Broker," has died at age 92.
Gottlieb died Wednesday of natural causes at a New York hospital, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced. Caro, who had worked for decades with Gottlieb on his Lyndon Johnson biographies and was featured with him last year in the documentary "Turn Every Page," said in a statement that he had never worked with an editor so attuned to the writing process.
"From the day 52 years ago that we first looked at my pages together, Bob understood what I was trying to do and made it possible for me to take the time, and do the work, I needed to do," Caro said in a statement. "People talk to me about some of the triumphant moments Bob and I shared, but today I remember other moments, tough ones, and I remember how Bob was always, always, for half a century, there for me. He was a great friend, and today I mourn my friend with all my heart."
Tall and assured, with wavy dark hair and dark-rimmed glasses, Gottlieb had one of the greatest runs of any editor after World War II and helped shape the modern publishing canon. His credits included fiction by future Nobel laureates Morrison, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul; spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron, science thrillers by Michael Crichton and Caro's nonfiction epics.
He also edited memoirs by Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, whose "Personal History" won a Pulitzer. Gottlieb so impressed Bill Clinton that the former president signed with Alfred A. Knopf in part for the chance to work with Gottlieb on his memoir "My Life."
Uniquely well-read and unstuffy, he was the rare soul who would claim to have finished "War and Peace" in a single weekend (some reports narrowed it to a single day) and also collected plastic handbags that filled shelves above his bed. Gottlieb was as open to "Miss Piggy's Guide to Life" as he was to the works of Chaim Potok. On his desk for decades was a bronze paperweight, given to him when he started in publishing, etched with the words "GIVE THE READER A BREAK."
Gottlieb's reputation was made during his time as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster and later Alfred A. Knopf, where in recent years he worked as an editor-at-large. But he also edited The New Yorker for five years before departing over "conceptual differences" with publisher S.I. Newhouse and was himself an accomplished prose stylist. He wrote dance criticism for The New York Observer and book reviews for The New York Times. He wrote a short biography of George Balanchine, co-authored "A Certain Style: The Art of the Plastic Handbag, 1949-59," and edited well-regarded anthologies of jazz criticism and 20th century song lyrics. His memoir, "Avid Reader," came out in 2016.
He was married twice, the second time to actor Maria Tucci, and had three children. He was otherwise so absorbed in work — he was looking over early proofs of a Cynthia Ozick book while counting contractions for his pregnant wife — that the author Thomas Mallon summed up his life as a "busman's holiday without any brakes."
In "Turn Every Page," a joint biography of Caro and Gottlieb directed by the editor's daughter, Lizzie Gottlieb, Robert Gottlieb referred to editing as "a service job." He would remind himself that the books he pored over were not his own, while also maintaining the ideal editor-writer relationship was "an equivalence of strength," in which each shared the best of their talents.
"I am not egoless," he acknowledged to his daughter.
Caro is still writing his fifth and presumed final volume of the Johnson biographies, a series begun nearly 50 years ago. A Knopf Doubleday spokesperson would not comment on who might serve as its editor.
Gottlieb considered himself 'a better reader than anyone else'
Born and raised in Manhattan, Gottlieb would say he was born with "extra drive." He was a lifelong bookworm who recalled taking out up to four novels a day from his local public library. As a teenager, he would visit the library at Columbia University, looking up old copies of Publishers Weekly and studying the bestseller lists.
He eventually attended Columbia, from which he graduated in 1952. After studying two years in England, at Cambridge University, and working briefly in theater, Gottlieb joined Simon & Schuster in 1955 as an editorial assistant, an upstart claiming he took the job to support his wife and child but also so confident that — even then — he regarded himself as "a better reader than anybody else," he recalled in the documentary.
In the memoir "Another Life," fellow Simon & Schuster editor Michael Korda would describe the young Gottlieb as resembling "one of those penniless perpetual students in Russian novels," his glasses so smeared that Korda was amazed he could see. Through the unwiped lenses, Korda noticed eyes that "were shrewd and intense, but with a certain kindly humorous sparkle."
Within two years, he had taken on a former World War II pilot named Joseph Heller and his partially written novel about the war titled "Catch-18." As Heller later recalled, he wanted an open mind to handle his shocking satire and had been told by his agent that Gottlieb was known for being "receptive to innovation." Gottlieb convinced skeptical executives at Simon & Schuster to give the novel a chance.
"The funny parts are wildly funny, the serious parts are excellent," he told the editorial board.
Gottlieb paid $1,500 for the novel, $750 upon signing Heller, $750 after publication. He also made some "broad suggestions," including changing the title to "Catch-22," to avoid confusion with Leon Uris' "Mila 18." Released in 1961 to an initially mild response, the book caught on after another Gottlieb author, humorist S.J. Perelman, recommended it to a New York Herald Tribune critic. "Catch-22" eventually became a blockbuster and counterculture touchstone, and Gottlieb became a literary celebrity "most closely associated" with Heller's novel "among the kind of people who think about such things," Gottlieb wrote in his memoir.
"But in the years that followed its publication, I more or less put it out of my mind," he added. "I certainly never re-read it. I was afraid I wouldn't love it as much as I once had."
His career was (mostly) marked by wild success
Success only accelerated his drive. He signed up such rising authors as Edna O'Brien, Mordecai Richler and Len Deighton and was hip enough to acquire John Lennon's collection of verse, vignettes and drawings, "In His Own Write." He later worked with Bob Dylan on a book of his lyrics and was amazed to find that "this genius rebel and superstar was almost childlike — you felt he barely knew how to tie his shoes, let alone write a check."
Gottlieb had some letdowns, rejecting Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" and struggling with John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces." Toole submitted the novel in the early 1960s to a positive response from Gottlieb, who also suggested numerous revisions. For two years, Toole kept making changes and Gottlieb kept asking for more, telling the author that "there must be a point to everything in the book, a real point, not just amusingness that's forced to figure itself out."
Gottlieb finally gave up, and Toole eventually killed himself, in 1969. A decade later, his mother helped get "Confederacy" published by Louisiana State University to public acclaim, the Pulitzer Prize and lasting affection, the kind of fate Gottlieb's other authors often enjoyed.
Gottlieb's other successes — he had so many — included Charles Portis' "True Grit," Potok's "The Chosen" and a Pulitzer Prize-winning anthology of John Cheever's short stories, compiled by Gottlieb over the author's misgivings. At The New Yorker, which he edited from 1987-1992, Gottlieb published short fiction by Denis Johnson that later became the acclaimed "Jesus' Son."
He was otherwise known for introducing a more informal style to the venerable magazine — including a willingness to let the occasional four-letter word appear in print.
An acknowledged workaholic, Gottlieb was also the most personal of editors. When Ephron's marriage to Carl Bernstein broke up, she and her children stayed for a few months with Gottlieb. He not only called male writers "dear boy," but eyed every line of such marathons as "The Power Broker," for which Gottlieb and Caro spent several contentious weeks — side by side — cutting some 300,000 words from a manuscript that originally topped 1 million and still ended up at more than 1,200 pages. They might argue fiercely over the usage of semicolons (Caro favored them; Gottlieb did not) but agreed on Caro's ambition to write a definitive account of the imperious municipal builder Robert Moses.
"You don't take on books with which you do not have a sympathy," Gottlieb told The Guardian in 2016. "Only trouble can arise if instead of wanting to make a book that you like even better than it is, you want to change it into something that it isn't."
Gottlieb was equally exacting after signing up a young medical student named Michael Crichton and his novel, "The Andromeda Strain." He loved Crichton's story of a deadly virus, but wanted more plot and factual details and less character development.
"He would call me up and say, 'Dear boy! I have read your manuscript, and here is what you have to do,'" Crichton told The Paris Review in 1994. "And he was not above saying, 'I don't know if you can do it this way, I don't know if you're up to it, which of course would drive me into a fury of effort.' It was very effective."
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, September 7, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service New York NY
1123 AM EDT Wed Sep 7 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by prolonged
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast New York, including the following
county, Orange.
* WHEN...Until 230 PM EDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1120 AM EDT, Doppler radar indicated moderate rain. This
will cause urban and small stream flooding. Between 1 and 2
inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Middletown, Port Jervis, Walden, Howells, Montgomery,
Cuddebackville, Otisville, Huguenot, Unionville, Scotchtown,
Deerpark, Mechanicstown, Westtown, Slate Hill, Pine Bush,
Circleville, Bullville and New Hampton.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has refused to dismiss lawsuits alleging Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts illegally discriminate against Black voters.
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled Monday that he could only decide disputes over the facts of the cases and the credibility of the witnesses after a full trial, which he set for September.
“Additionally, given the gravity and importance of the right to an equal vote for all American citizens, the court will engage in a thorough and sifting review of the evidence that the parties will present in this case at a trial,” Jones wrote.
The orders apply to three cases, one challenging the lines of Georgia’s 14 congressional districts and two challenging the lines of the 56 state Senate and 180 state House districts. All three lawsuits allege that the maps violate the federal voting rights act by weakening the growing electoral strength of Black voters.
Plaintiffs want Jones to order one more congressional district be drawn where Black voters will be able to elect their chosen candidate. That could give Democrats one more congressional district. Republicans hold nine districts and Democrats hold five, after legislative Republicans redrew maps to improve their position from an 8-6 majority in 2020.
The cases had been on hold while Alabama had challenged the Voting Rights Act. The U.S. Supreme Court last month stood behind its interpretation of the law, which says that district lines can’t result in discriminatory effects, rejecting Alabama’s attempt to change the rules. That cleared the way for the Georgia cases to move ahead.
Jones has already said that it’s likely that some parts of Georgia’s redistricting plans violate federal law. However, last year, he allowed the new congressional and state legislative maps to be used for 2022’s elections, finding changes close to elections would have been too disruptive.
In the state legislative cases, the challengers argue a map could include three additional majority Black state Senate districts and five additional majority-Black state House districts. Those changes, if approved, would be unlikely to cost Republicans partisan control of either legislative chamber.
Jones has scheduled a joint trial for all three lawsuits starting Sept. 5, which means districts could be redrawn before the 2024 congressional and state legislative elections.
The judge said one key argument advanced by the state to defend the maps — that divisions between Black and white voters are caused by partisanship and not race — didn’t apply at this stage of the case, saying only the effects of those divisions mattered now. He also rejected efforts by plaintiffs to win a ruling without a trial, saying he couldn’t rule “without making factual determinations, weighing evidence, and assessing the credibility of the experts.”
At least two other cases were also filed challenging Georgia’s new maps.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Webb Space Telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death.
NASA released the picture Tuesday at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.
The observation was among the first made by Webb following its launch in late 2021. Its infrared eyes observed all the gas and dust flung into space by a huge, hot star 15,000 light-years away. A light-year is about 5.8 trillion miles.
Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the cast-off material once comprised the star's outer layer. The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a shot of the same transitioning star a few decades ago, but it appeared more like a fireball without the delicate details.
Such a transformation occurs only with some stars and normally is the last step before they explode, going supernova, according to scientists.
“We’ve never seen it like that before. It’s really exciting,” said Macarena Garcia Marin, a European Space Agency scientist who is part of the project.
This star in the constellation Sagittarius, officially known as WR 124, is 30 times as massive as our sun and already has shed enough material to account for 10 suns, according to NASA.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Mark your calendars because it's going to be a busy week in the Valley leading up to the Big Game!
ESPN has announced it's hosting the Historic Old Town ESPN Main Street Tailgate event in Scottsdale leading up to Super Bowl LVII in Glendale.
The tailgating event is said to be a five-day Old West-style football pre-game party.
WHEN:
The festivities will kick off on Wednesday, February 8, through Sunday, February 12. It'll be going strong all day long — from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. —
WHERE:
Main Street between Scottsdale Road and Brown Avenue in Old Town, Scottsdale.
The event will serve as a backdrop for much of the network's pre-game coverage of Super Bowl LVII, which will be played at State Farm Stadium.
Multiple television programs will be live from Historic Old Town ESPN, such as NFL Live and Sunday NFL Countdown.
“Scottsdale will be the stage for ESPN’s broadcasts during one of the busiest sports weeks of the year,” says Mayor David D. Ortega. “Historic Old Town is the ideal showcase — the perfect blend of historic southwestern charm and modern appeal. Residents and visitors alike will love the ESPN experience located on Main St. surrounded by our vibrant arts and world-class shopping and dining.”
Throughout the event, guests can enjoy games and live performances from local favorites including The Singing Cowboy Gary Sprague and his trusty steed Dusty.
Some of the area’s most popular and delicious dining destinations will have food available for purchase to fuel the festivities as well as plenty of swag and giveaway items. Attendees will also have multiple photo opportunities (including ESPN talent spotting!) — and the chance to make a cameo on live TV.
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NANJING, China, Oct. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Made-in-China.com, China's leading comprehensive third-party B2B e-commerce platform, will be holding its annual largest ever virtual sourcing expo from October 15 to October 31, 2022 via its website and mobile app. With over 5,000 suppliers registered as participants for the online event, the Sourcing Expo will bring global buyers a fantastic online sourcing experience and help seek new business opportunities.
With travel to China still remaining largely impractical, Made-in-China.com is working hard to ensure business continuity for global buyers.
This year's Sourcing Expo can be seen as an online carnival for the buyers, as four distinctive halls are arranged, "New Product Launch", "Select Factories", "Online Trading Center", and "One-Stop Shopping", which can bring fabulous sourcing experience to the buyers.
In the "New Product Launch" hall, the brand new products with latest design, technology and trend will be gathered there and showed in the live streaming. Selected great suppliers from 16 categories will gather in the live show rooms, do their new products launch, factories guide tour, and chat lively with buyers about purchasing demands.
If you would like to know about some superior Chinese suppliers in advance, you can visit Made-in-China.com Facebook official account to get their introduction and sharing videos.
While in the "One-Stop Shopping" hall, a tremendous sourcing experience can be expected. Made-in-China.com creates hotel, gym, home decoration material, auto parts and office these 5 common sourcing scenarios with advanced technology. Buyers can source in these scenarios with the smart guidance, enjoy the one-stop superior service of Made-in-China.com, shorten the sourcing period and raise the efficiency.
In the online trading center, buyers are able to place instant orders on a range of light industrial products. Great coupons are offered by Made-in-China.com and buyers can use once meets the demands. The whole trade process is under secured as Made-in-China.com offers STS guarantee service to protect money and products quality. The logistics process can be fully visualized if the products are shipped via Made-in-China.com's logistics services.
The Sourcing Expo starts from today to October 31. If you would like more information about this event, please call +86-25-6667 7777, or email buyerservice@made-in-china.com, or click https://expo.made-in-china.com/expo/register/2022-Sourcing-Expo?uim_source=mic&uim_medium=open_s&uim_campaign=2022SourcingExpoRegister
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Indianapolis Registered Investment Advisory Firm
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sheaff Brock announced the firm has been included in the 2022 CNBC Financial Advisor 100, making the list for its third consecutive year. Started in 2019, the list annually recognizes its ranking of top financial advisory firms in the U.S. that "best help clients navigate their financial lives," as determined by CNBC.
Acknowledging the significant role advisors can play in helping clients navigating their financial lives, the CNBC FA 100 list ranked U.S. advisory firms for their comprehensive planning and financial services that help clients grow and protect their wealth. CNBC stressed that working with an advisor can be extremely beneficial for individuals who wish to accomplish long-term financial objectives, and its FA 100 list is designed to be a starting point for individual investors who may be seeking a financial advisor.
Sheaff Brock is an independent, fee-only, registered investment advisory firm focused on innovative investment strategies that strive to enhance the portfolios of growth- and income-oriented investors. The firm's money management approach emphasizes growing portfolio values through ownership of equities while considering volatility and risk—in an effort to build and preserve client wealth over the long-term.
Sheaff Brock Managing Director Dave Gilreath said, "It's rewarding to be acknowledged again for our commitment and experience in working with investors through the years. And it's due to the exceptional dedication of our entire team in serving our clients every day."
Sheaff Brock is an SEC-registered, fee-only independent investment firm striving to enhance portfolios of growth- and income-oriented investors, managing $959.9 million in assets nationwide as of 9/30/2022. Sheaff Brock principal David Gilreath contributes investment commentary to CNBC.com, Think Advisor, and Financial Advisor magazine. Visit Sheaff Brock YouTube for information.
CNBC enlisted data provider AccuPoint Solutions to assist with the ranking of registered investment advisors for the CNBC FA 100 list. The analysis started with 39,818 RIA firms for 2022 from the Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory database. AccuPoint screened the list down to 904 RIAs for 2022 who were required to complete a survey to be in consideration for the CNBC FA 100 list. Neither the registered investment advisor nor their employees pay a fee for the listing. Data points used by AccuPoint for the ranking included regulatory/compliance record, number of years in the business, number of certified financial planners, number of employees, number of investment advisors registered with the firm, ratio of investment advisors to total number of employees, total assets under management, percentage of discretionary assets under management, total accounts under management, number of states where the RIA is registered, and country of domicile.
Third-party rankings and recognition from rating services or publications are no guarantee of future investment success and working with a highly rated advisor does not ensure that a client or prospective client will experience a higher level of performance or results. The ranking may not reflect a client or prospective client's experience with the registered investment advisor. Past performance does not guarantee or indicate future results.
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FLUSHING, Mich. (WJRT) - A committee studying emergency medical services improvements for the Flushing area recommended an option of launching a first response unit for the city.
The option was one of three that an ad-hoc committee was considering to improve long response times for medical first responders to Flushing.
The committee looked at staffing a new rescue unit at the Flushing Fire Department with EMTs or paramedics, along with launching a new full-service transport ambulance through the fire department.
The committee opted for a first response until staffed around the clock with two paramedics. The recommendation now goes to the Flushing City Council, which will make the final decision.
Flushing Mayor Joe Karlichek said the city council likely will host a public meeting sometime in April to solicit feedback from residents before voting on the measure.
Genesee County has a shortage of ambulances, leading to long response times for the most serious calls when no units are available or the closest unit is coming from a long distance away. Karlichek said ambulance response times in Flushing exceed nine minutes for two-thirds of the most serious calls.
Flushing has been working on ways to improve medical responses since last summer, when the Flushing Police Department received approval to respond to medical emergencies.
But Flushing Police Chief Steve Colosky said officers only can provide limited help in a medical emergency because they lack specialized training for serious cases.
The proposal to add a medical first response unit to the Flushing fire station is expected to cost about $400,000 to $420,000 per year. Karlichek has not said where the money would come from to fund the new medical response service.
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(CNN) — Banks collect billions of dollars each year from credit card late fees that often range around $40 per delinquent incident. Those often-costly fees could drop to $8 later this year if the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalizes a proposed rule that would curb how much issuers can charge.
Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day.
1. NATO
NATO leaders are meeting at a key summit in Lithuania today as Russia’s war in Ukraine remains a top agenda item, along with discussing a future pathway for the war-torn country to join the alliance. While the issue has prompted some division among leaders, the White House said the alliance will “send a united, positive signal” on Ukraine’s path to NATO membership — but declined to give a specific timetable. This comes a day after Turkey’s lifting of its blockade on Sweden’s entry into the alliance. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has voiced frustration that “uncertainty” over Ukraine’s NATO membership is motivation for Russia to “continue its terror.” All eyes are now turning to several highly-anticipated meetings that Zelensky is scheduled to have with President Joe Biden and NATO leaders scheduled for today and Wednesday.
2. Floods
More than 3 million people are under flood alerts across the Northeast today after multiple rounds of intense rainstorms forced water rescues and evacuations across the region Monday. Parts of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are expecting more showers today, with the highest risk of excessive rainfall covering much of Vermont. “We have not seen rainfall like this since [Hurricane] Irene, and in some places, it will surpass even that,” Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said. Hurricane Irene brought destructive flooding to the state in 2011, leaving entire communities under water. In New York, where six counties are similarly under a state of emergency, at least one person died after being swept away by floodwaters as she tried to evacuate, officials said.
3. Twitter
Twitter’s traffic tanked following the launch of Meta’s rival app Threads, which topped more than 100 million users within five days after it launched, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday. Its successful debut marked a staggering feat for any social network and one that puts it on pace to rapidly pass Twitter’s audience size. Twitter traffic had already been trending downward for months, but the pace of its decline accelerated in recent days, likely reflecting a mass migration from the platform owned by Elon Musk to the one run by Zuckerberg. In addition to countless celebrities that have joined Threads, more than 100 US lawmakers have signed up as well — though few world leaders appear to be on the platform at the moment.
4. Volcano eruption
A volcanic eruption in Iceland is sending plumes of smoke across a region known for its sweeping lava fields and geothermal activity. The eruption occurring south of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik began Monday, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office, and so far no disruption has been reported at the country’s Keflavik Airport. Since the eruption took place in an uninhabited area, there were also no “immediate risks” to communities or infrastructure, the IMO said — but it warned people not to venture near the area, saying there will be an accumulation of “dangerously high levels of volcanic gases.” Scientists had warned of possible eruptions after hundreds of minor earthquakes were detected in recent weeks.
5. Wimbledon
A year after tennis players from Russia and Belarus were banned from playing at Wimbledon following the invasion of Ukraine, organizers of the 2023 tournament accepted entries from players from the two countries if they compete as neutral athletes and follow “appropriate conditions.” Still, the war remains a touchy subject at Wimbledon on and off the court. Belarusian tennis player Victoria Azarenka said “it wasn’t fair” that the crowd booed at the end of her fourth-round match Monday against Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, who ended up winning the tight contest. Separately, tennis star Novak Djokovic has called for earlier start times at Wimbledon amid a curfew controversy that is halting matches earlier than most players —and fans — would like.
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IN MEMORIAM
Hawaiian pro surfer Mikala Jones died in a surfing accident in Indonesia over the weekend, according to social media posts from his daughter and other professional surfers. He was 44. Jones was well known throughout the surfing world for the mesmerizing photos and videos he took while riding inside massive breaking waves.
TODAY’S NUMBER
1,000
That’s around how many major companies pledged to leave Russia after President Vladimir Putin launched his war in Ukraine — but several are continuing their operations, according to Yale research. The companies allegedly “breaking their promises” to scale back their presence in the country include Heineken, Unilever, Philip Morris and Oreo maker Mondelez, according to the research.
TODAY’S QUOTE
“Never stop dreaming of being your ultimate and confident you.”
— Beauty queen Rikkie Kollé, sharing words of affirmation after becoming the first transgender pageant contestant to win the title of Miss Netherlands. She will go on to represent her country in Miss Universe later this year.
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The labor market continues to defy Federal Reserve attempts to cool hiring, with U.S. applications for unemployment benefits down again last week and remaining at historically low levels.
Jobless claims in the U.S. for the week ending March 18 fell by 1,000 to 191,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The four-week moving average of claims, which flattens out some of week-to-week volatility, fell by 250 to 196,250, remaining below the 200,000 threshold for the ninth straight week.
Applications for unemployment benefits are seen as a barometer for layoffs in the U.S.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve extended its year-long fight against high inflation by raising its key interest rate by a quarter-point, despite concerns that higher borrowing rates could worsen the turmoil that has gripped the banking system.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell stressed that the central bank remains focused on fighting high inflation, which could require additional rate hikes.
Yet he also signaled that the Fed might not need to impose a lengthy string of increases if more banks were to reduce their lending to conserve cash. This could slow the economy, hiring and inflation, Powell said.
The Fed’s rate increases are meant to cool the economy, labor market and wages, thereby suppressing prices. But so far, those things have not happened to the degree that the central bank had hoped.
Inflation remains more than double the Fed’s 2% target, and the economy is growing and adding jobs at a healthy clip.
Last month, the government reported that employers added a substantial 311,000 jobs in February, fewer than January’s huge gain but enough to keep pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates aggressively to fight inflation. The unemployment rate rose to 3.6%, from a 53-year low of 3.4%.
In its latest quarterly projections, the Fed predicts that the unemployment rate will rise from its current 3.6% to 4.5% by year’s end, a sizable increase historically associated with recessions.
Though the U.S. labor market remains strong, layoffs have been mounting in the technology sector, where many companies hired aggressively during the pandemic. IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Twitter and DoorDash have all announced layoffs in recent months.
Amazon said this week that it would cut another 9,000 positions, adding to the 18,000 employees the tech giant said it would lay off in January.
Last week, Facebook parent Meta said it was slashing another 10,000 jobs in addition to the 11,000 culled in November.
The real estate sector has taken the biggest hit from the Fed’s interest rate hikes. Higher mortgage rates — which have risen closer to 7% again in recent weeks — had slowed home sales for 12 straight months before February’s 14.5% improvement.
About 1.69 million people were receiving jobless aid the week that ended March 11, an increase of 14,000 from the week before. That number is close to pre-pandemic levels.
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MAPLE GROVE, Minn., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC (Upsher-Smith) today announced it has expanded its ophthalmic portfolio with the launch of Brimonidine Tartrate and Timolol Maleate Ophthalmic Solution, 0.2%/0.5%, an AB-rated generic equivalent to the branded product Combigan®.*
This product launch is a result of Upsher-Smith's strategic partnership with RAFARM UK that includes the development and distribution of six ophthalmic and otic ANDA products.
The brimonidine tartrate and timolol maleate ophthalmic solution market had U.S. sales of approximately $392 million for the 12 months ending February 2023 according to IQVIA.
Product Information
For questions about ordering, please call Upsher-Smith at 1-800-654-2299.
Please refer to full Prescribing Information for Brimonidine Tartrate and Timolol Maleate Ophthalmic Solution here. You can also call 1-888-650-3789 to obtain a copy of the full Prescribing Information. You are encouraged to report suspected adverse reactions to Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC at 1-855-899-9180 or to the FDA by visiting http://www.fda.gov/medwatch.
About Upsher-Smith
Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC is a trusted U.S. pharmaceutical company that strives to improve the health and lives of patients through an unwavering commitment to high-quality products and sustainable growth. The company brings brands and generics to a wide array of customers, always backed by its attentive level of service, strong industry relationships, and dedication to uninterrupted supply. For more information, visit www.upsher-smith.com.
About RAFARM
RAFARM is an innovation-driven, dynamically growing pharmaceutical company and a well-established European manufacturer with an outward-looking orientation that invests 13% of net turnover in Research and Development. At RAFARM, we expand our exports worldwide and we open new markets. We constantly enhance our expertise in complex pharmaceutical products and invest in high-tech platforms for the development and production of ophthalmics and injectables. We introduce high technology in our state-of-the-art sterile manufacturing plant and create new production lines with cutting-edge technology and robotic equipment.
At RAFARM, we evolve beyond the obvious and make a positive impact on people's lives. www.rafarm.gr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rafarm-s.a/
*Combigan is a registered trademark of Allergan, Inc.
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Lakers vs. Warriors: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - Western Conference Semifinals Game 6
In Game 6 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs, the Los Angeles Lakers will be eyeing a win against Golden State Warriors.
You can check out odds, spreads, over/unders and more across multiple sportsbooks for the Lakers vs. Warriors matchup in this article.
Lakers vs. Warriors Game Info
- Date: Friday, May 12, 2023
- Time: 10:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Venue: Crypto.com Arena
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Lakers vs. Warriors Odds, Spread, Over/Under
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Lakers vs Warriors Additional Info
Lakers vs. Warriors Betting Trends
- The Lakers average 117.2 points per game (sixth in the league) while allowing 116.6 per contest (20th in the NBA). They have a +47 scoring differential overall.
- The Warriors have a +148 scoring differential, topping opponents by 1.8 points per game. They're putting up 118.9 points per game, second in the league, and are allowing 117.1 per outing to rank 21st in the NBA.
- The two teams average 236.1 points per game combined, 16.1 more points than this game's total.
- These teams allow a combined 233.7 points per game, 13.7 more points than this matchup's over/under.
- Los Angeles has compiled a 40-39-3 ATS record so far this year.
- Golden State has compiled a 38-42-2 ATS record so far this year.
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Sri Lanka waits in confusion, anger for president to resign
By KRUTIKA PATHI
Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans woke up to confusion on Thursday, still waiting for their embattled president to resign after he fled the country, as the island nation fumes over an economic meltdown that has sparked political chaos.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife fled to the Maldives on Wednesday aboard an air force jet. He made the prime minister acting president in his absence — a move that further roiled passions among a public that blames Rajapaksa for an economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of food and fuel.
Rajapaksa had promised to resign by Wednesday night, and since Sri Lankan presidents are protected from arrest while in power it’s likely he planned his escape while he still had constitutional immunity and access to a military jet. It was unclear exactly where he was in the Maldives, an archipelago of hundreds of islands famed for luxury tourist resorts, and where he planned to travel next.
On Wednesday, protesters, undeterred by multiple rounds of tear gas, scaled the walls to enter the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the crowd outside cheered in support and tossed water bottles to them.
Protesters took turns posing at the prime minister’s desk or stood on a rooftop terrace waving the Sri Lankan flag after the latest in a series of takeovers of government buildings by the demonstrators — who see the political maneuvers as delaying their goal of a new government.
Late on Wednesday night, crowds also gathered outside the Parliament. Demonstrators clashed with security officers who fired tear gas into the air.
Wickremesinghe’s office declared a nationwide curfew and imposed a state of emergency giving broader powers to the military and police. The curfew was lifted early Thursday.
Over the weekend, the two leaders both said they would resign after protesters stormed Rajapaksa’s and Wickremesinghe’s official residences in a dramatic escalation of months of protests. Some set fire to Wickremesinghe’s private residence, and his whereabouts were unknown.
The protesters blame Rajapaksa and his powerful, dynastic family for leading the country into an economic abyss, but they are also furious with Wickremesinghe, whom they accuse of protecting the president. Many believe that his appointment in May alleviated pressure on Rajapaksa to resign.
“We need both … to go home,” said Supun Eranga, a 28-year-old civil servant in the crowd on Wednesday. “Ranil couldn’t deliver what he promised during his two months, so he should quit. All Ranil did was try to protect the Rajapaksas.”
But Wickremesinghe has said he will not leave until a new government is in place. He has urged the speak of Parliament to find a new prime minister agreeable to both the ruling and opposition parties.
It’s unclear when that might happen since the opposition is deeply fractured. But assuming that Rajapaksa resigns as planned, Sri Lankan lawmakers have agreed to elect a new president on July 20 who will serve the remainder of Rajapaksa’s term, which ends in 2024. That person could potentially appoint a new prime minister, who would then have to be approved by Parliament.
The political impasse threatens to worsen the bankrupt nation’s economic collapse since the absence of an alternative government could delay a hoped-for bailout from the International Monetary Fund. In the meantime, the country is relying on aid from neighboring India and from China.
With the country in disarray, Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Shavendra Silva called for calm and for cooperation with security forces. Similar comments have rankled opposition lawmakers, who insisted that civilian leaders would be the ones to find a solution.
Protesters accuse the president and his relatives of siphoning money from government coffers for years and Rajapaksa’s administration of hastening the country’s collapse by mismanaging the economy.
The family has denied the corruption allegations, but Rajapaksa acknowledged some of his policies contributed to the meltdown, which has left the island nation laden with debt and unable to pay for imports of basic necessities.
The shortages have sown despair among Sri Lanka’s 22 million people. The country’s rapid decline was all the more shocking because, before the recent crisis, the economy had been expanding, with a growing, comfortable middle class.
“Gotabaya resigning is one problem solved — but there are so many more,” said Bhasura Wickremesinghe, a 24-year-old student of maritime electrical engineering, who is not related to the prime minister.
He complained that Sri Lankan politics have been dominated for years by “old politicians” who all need to go. “Politics needs to be treated like a job — you need to have qualifications that get you hired, not because of what your last name is,” he said, referring to the Rajapaksa family.
After the president fled to the Maldives the whereabouts of other Rajapaksa family members who had served in the government were unclear.
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Associated Press writers Krishan Francis and Bharatha Mallawarachi contributed to this report.
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Woman accused of sex trafficking child for drugs and money accepts plea deal
CAMERON, Wis. (WEAU/Gray News) - A Wisconsin woman accused of offering a child to a man for him to have sex with in exchange for drugs and money has accepted a plea deal.
WEAU obtained court documents stating 35-year-old Amanda Eyman of Cameron pleaded guilty to an amended charge of child neglect in Barron County Circuit Court.
According to the criminal complaint filed with the original charge in 2021, Eyman is accused of offering a child to a man, 35-year-old Paul Osterman of Rhinelander, for him to have sex with in exchange for drugs and money. This attempted exchange took place through social media app MeetMe and is part of a larger investigation into Osterman.
The two are accused of sending messages in December 2019. Osterman used the alias “Jake George” to ask Eyman if she knew of a “real young girl.”
Investigators said Osterman and Eyman messaged back and forth until Eyman agreed to let Osterman have sex with a child in exchange for money and drugs, with Eyman saying, “Bring me a bag of spin and a little cash so I can get some smokes, we’ll go over the details later.”
Eyman was charged in January 2021 with trafficking of a child as a party to a crime, and the original charge would have carried a maximum prison sentence of 40 years and a maximum fine of $100,000. The amended charge in the plea agreement carries a maximum sentence of three and a half years in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation used data from Osterman’s phone and MeetMe, and detectives said Osterman used the app to offer money in exchange for sex with young girls on multiple occasions.
Osterman has yet to be charged in the case involving Eyman, but he is facing charges in other jurisdictions. He has also pleaded guilty to a federal charge of sex trafficking of children in April, and he will be sentenced in July.
Eyman’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 28.
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A Florida judge ordered rapper Kodak Black to drug rehab for 30 days on Tuesday after he allegedly tested positive for fentanyl while awaiting trial on a drug trafficking charge.
Broward County Judge Barbara Duffy allowed the performer to remain free until March 7 so he could perform at the Rolling Loud concert near Los Angeles over the weekend, The Miami Herald reported.
Duffy had earlier issued a warrant for his arrest. The 25-year-old performer had missed a court-ordered drug test on Feb. 3 and then tested positive on Feb. 8. He is awaiting trial from a July arrest on a charge of trafficking oxycodone. He has pleaded not guilty.
“You better get it together,” Duffy told the 25-year-old performer, whose real name is Bill Kapri.
During the hour-long hearing, the singer's lawyer, Bradford Cohen, suggested that a star-struck drug lab technician may have mixed up the sample or paperwork. The tech who took the sample admitted that is possible.
But when Duffy suggested the singer have his hair tested, the defense declined. A hair test could detect drug use back 90 days compared to the few days urine and blood tests typically capture.
In January 2020, then-President Donald Trump commuted a three-year federal prison sentence the rapper had for falsifying documents used to buy weapons. Black had served about half his sentence.
Black is nominated for the iHeartRadio Music Awards’ hip-hop artist of the year and has sold more than 30 million singles, with massive hits such as “Super Gremlin,” which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 last year.
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The queen's coffin will lie in state for four days in Westminster Hall: What to know about the tradition
LONDON (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to London’s medieval Westminster Hall from Wednesday to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II, whose coffin will lie in state for four days until her funeral on Monday.
Here's a look at what to expect for the occasion, including its traditions, the waiting route and what mourners will see:
HOW LONG WILL THE QUEEN LIE IN STATE?
People who want to view the queen’s coffin can do so 24 hours a day from 5 p.m. local time (1600GMT) Wednesday until 6:30 a.m. on Monday, the day of the state funeral.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SEE?
The closed coffin is draped with the Royal Standard, a flag representing the sovereign and the U.K. It is adorned with royal regalia including the orb, the sceptre and the bejewelled Imperial State Crown — the same one the queen wore for her 1953 coronation.
The coffin is placed on a catafalque, or a raised platform, in the center of Westminster Hall. Royal guards in plumed hats and ceremonial uniform will stand 24 hours a day at each corner of the platform.
When the coffin was in Scotland earlier this week, it was topped with the Crown of Scotland and a wreath of white flowers.
LEAD-LINED COFFIN
The queen’s coffin is constructed out of English oak, lined with lead and was made decades ago, experts say.
Sarah Hayes, manager for the Coffin Works museum in Birmingham, England, says former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the queen’s husband Prince Philip and Princess Diana had such coffins made for them, she said.
"It’s to preserve the body for as long as possible, it’s really about slowing down the process of decomposition," she said. This is especially important for the queen because her coffin will be eventually placed in a church, not buried in the ground, she added.
The coffin is made of oak from the royal family’s Sandringham Estate according to royal tradition, Hayes said.
THE QUEUE
British officials have published two waiting routes along the River Thames that the public need to join before they can enter Westminster Hall. The main queue begins on the Albert Embankment and stretches east for miles past the London Eye, the Tate Modern and Tower Bridge. There is a separate, accessible route that people who need it can join from the Tate Britain museum.
Mourners have been warned about long waits, possibly overnight. Hundreds of extra toilets and water fountains will be placed along the route, and some venues along the way, including Shakespeare’s Globe, will open around the clock to provide refreshments and rest breaks. Airport-style security checks are in place near the front of the line before people can enter Parliament.
WESTMINSTER HALL
The lying in state takes place at Westminster Hall, a 900-year-old building with an impressive timber roof. Built in 1097, it's the oldest surviving building of the Palace of Westminster.
The medieval hall has been at the heart of British history for a millennium: It was where numerous kings and queens hosted lavish coronation banquets, and where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried in the 17th century. More recently, ceremonial addresses were presented in the hall to Elizabeth during her silver, golden and diamond jubilees.
WHO GETS TO LIE IN STATE?
In the U.K., lying in state is reserved for the sovereign, queen consorts, and sometimes prime ministers.
Queen Mary, King George VI and King George V were among royals who lay in state at Westminster Hall. Winston Churchill was the only British prime minister to have a lying-in-state ceremony in the 20th century.
LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 14: King Charles III, salutes as the bearer party carry the coffin of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, into Westminster Hall, London, where it will lie in state ahead of her funeral on Monday, on September 14, 2022 in Londo
The last person to lie in state in Britain was Elizabeth’s mother, known as the Queen Mother. Some 200,000 people paid their respects to her over three days when she died in 2002.
WHEN DID THE TRADITION START?
The tradition of lying in state stretches back to the 17th century when Stuart monarchs lay in state for a number of days.
Edward VII set the modern tradition of royal lying in state in Westminster Hall. He lay in state in 1910.
WHERE IS THE QUEEN'S FINAL RESTING PLACE?
After the state funeral, the coffin will be taken to Windsor, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of London. The queen will be laid to rest in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, within St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, where her mother and father were interred and her sister Princess Margaret's ashes were placed.
Prince Philip’s coffin, which is currently in St. George's Chapel's Royal Vault, is expected to be moved to the memorial chapel to join the queen’s.
St. George's is where many of Britain’s royals were baptized, married and buried throughout history. It has long been the resting place for the royals, and 10 former sovereigns were buried there.
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NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Yext, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of YEXT during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: March 4, 2021 to March 8, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, among other things, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (ii) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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The White House is defending its decision to cancel President Biden's plans to visit the tiny Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea and key ally Australia — stops that were aimed at demonstrating U.S. leadership in countering China.
Biden is still traveling to Japan to talk to G-7 leaders about the war in Ukraine and strengthening the global economy. But he's cutting short the rest of the trip because he said needs to get back to Washington to finish talks with congressional leaders on a deal to raise the debt ceiling.
The United States could run out of money to pay its bills as early as June 1. Defaulting on its debts would throw the economy into recession, and Biden has said his top priority was to make sure that doesn't happen.
Papua New Guinea had declared a national holiday in honor of Biden's visit — which would have been the first ever visit from a sitting U.S. president. China's President Xi Jinping has been there, and China has invested a lot of money in projects for island nations.
Biden's top national security aide was pressed on whether the decision undercut its message in the region. But Jake Sullivan said concerns were overwrought.
"The final stretch of negotiations over the debt limit or over the budget cannot be done at a later date and that default can't be postponed. But the trip can be postponed," he said, noting Biden has already invited Australia's prime minister for a state visit and would also host Pacific Island leaders at the White House later this year.
Sullivan cited a long list of Indo-Pacific leaders who Biden has recently met with as a demonstration on the U.S. commitment to the region — and the defense pact the United Kingdom and Australia to provide Australia nuclear powered submarines.
"I think there is a degree of fairly dramatic over-cranking in saying that pushing off a visit to Australia and PNG speaks to the fundamentals of American diplomacy at this time," Sullivan said.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard.
Maine created one of the toughest rules in the nation for internet service providers in 2020 when it began enforcing an “opt-in” web privacy standard. The law stops the service providers from using, disclosing, selling or providing access to customers’ personal information without permission.
Industry associations swiftly sued with a claim that the new law violated their First Amendment rights. A federal judge rejected that challenge, but legal wrangling continued.
The groups, which include the country’s biggest telecommunications providers, filed to dismiss the lawsuit on Sept. 2, said Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey. Frey said the state’s privacy law held up despite the efforts of an “army of industry lawyers organized against us,” and now other states can follow Maine’s lead.
“Maine’s Legislature wisely sought to protect Maine residents by restricting the disclosure and use of their most private and personal information,” Frey said.
The Maine Legislature passed the bill, proposed by former Democratic state Sen. Shenna Bellows, who is now Maine’s secretary of state, in 2019. Internet service providers then sued in February 2020, and attorneys for Maine have been in court defending the law since. The proposal stemmed from a Maine effort to bring back rules implemented during President Barack Obama’s tenure that were repealed by Congress during President Donald Trump’s term.
Industry plaintiffs agreed to reimburse Maine for more than $55,000 in costs incurred defending the law, Frey said.
Supporters of Maine’s law include the ACLU of Maine, which filed court papers in the case in favor of keeping the law on the books. The ACLU said in court papers that the law was “narrowly drawn to directly advance Maine’s substantial interests in protecting consumers’ privacy, freedom of expression, and security.”
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has also defended the law as “common sense.”
Maine is also the home of another privacy law that regulates the use of facial recognition technology. That law, which came on the books last year, has also been cited as the strictest of its kind in the U.S.
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The Welsh international crashed home a volley from outside the box for the decisive goal after just 14 minutes.
But Keylor Navas was just as much a hero on his Forest debut at the other end to snatch a vital three points for Steve Cooper's men.
The former Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper stood tall to deny Luke Ayling and Wilfried Gnonto an equaliser.
Luis Sinisterra also blazed a glorious chance over for the visitors.
But Leeds remain without a league win since November and only sit outside the relegation zone on goal difference.
The arrival of Navas on loan from PSG, alongside Jonjo Shelvey, Felipe and Andre Ayew this week took Forest's total of new signings this season to a remarkable 30.
However, it is a player born and raised in Nottingham that is edging the two-time European champions towards survival on their first season back in the top flight since 1998/99.
Johnson scored twice in the 2-0 win over Leicester in Forest's previous Premier League game at the City Ground.
And his thunderous strike was worthy of winning any game after Leeds only partially cleared a free-kick.
Jesse Marsch's men went onto control the remainder of the first half, but could not find a way past an inspired Navas.
Leeds then lost their way after the break as Forest comfortably held out to remain unbeaten at home in the league since September.
Forest move up to 13th, while Leeds remain perilously placed in 17th.
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WICHITA, Kan. (WJW) — CAUTION: This video shows the tear-jerking moment a momma chimpanzee was reunited with her baby.
Baby Kucheza was born to Mahale on Tuesday via C-section at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, according to a Facebook post.
The little guy wasn’t breathing well on his own so he stayed in the hospital until the medical team reunited him with his mother.
After two days without her baby, Mahale is seen leaping to her baby, then scooping him up in her arms to snuggle him.
The two don’t seem to have a hard time bonding. The zoo also caught a sweet moment while he nursed shortly after the reunion.
The zoo is recognized for its support of field conservation programs and the successful breeding of rare and endangered species. It’s home to over 3,000 animals of more than 400 different species.
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One man who has frequented Club Q for decades was just opening up a tab at the bar when he was shot in the back. Another man was about to leave the club with his group when he heard a “pop, pop, pop” and took a bullet to his arm — then watched his boyfriend and sister fall to the floor.
They are among the 17 people wounded by gunfire Saturday when a 22-year-old man went on a shooting rampage at Club Q, a well-known club for the LGBTQ community in Colorado Springs. On Tuesday, they shared the horror of seeing their loved ones shot down in front of them, as well as the hope they felt as people helped each other amid the chaos.
Ed Sanders, 63, said he had been waiting in line at the bar, had made his way up to the front and given the bartender his credit card when he was hit in the back — right between the shoulder blades. Surprised, he turned to look at the gunman, only to be hit again in the thigh as another volley of shots were fired.
“I fell. And everybody fell,” Sanders said in video statements released Tuesday by UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central. “It was very traumatic. I shielded another woman with my coat … there was a lot of chaos.”
James Slaugh said he, his boyfriend and his sister were getting ready to leave the club when, “all of a sudden we just hear, ‘pop, pop, pop.’ As I turn, I took a bullet in my arm from the back.”
Slaugh, who spoke to The Associated Press from his hospital bed, said he watched others around him fall — including his boyfriend, who was shot in the leg, and his sister, who had bullet wounds in 13 places. He quickly called the police, heard several more shots, then nothing. The scariest part of the shooting, he said, was not knowing whether the gunman would fire again.
Five people were killed in the shooting, which stopped after the gunman was disarmed by patrons.
The motive for the attack is still being investigated and the man has not been formally charged. Police say he was armed with multiple firearms, including an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, and possible hate crimes are being considered.
“I want to be resilient. I’m a survivor,” Sanders said. “I’m not going to be taken out by some sick person.”
Sanders has been a patron of Club Q for 20 years and even went to the club’s opening night decades ago. He wore a hospital gown and had an oxygen tube in his nose in the video recorded by the hospital.
He said that after the 2016 Pulse gay nightclub shooting in Florida, which killed 49 people, Sanders thought about what he would do if something similar happened at Club Q — but he never dreamed it would become reality.
“I’m smiling now because I am happy to be alive,” Sanders said. “I dodged a major event in my life and came through it, and that’s part of who I am as a survivor.”
Sanders knew many of the victims, including the “door lady” and two bartenders who died. Sanders said that after the shooting, people who weren’t hit were helping each other “just like a family would do.”
Sanders said the shot to his back missed vital organs but broke a rib. He said he now has a concave wound in his back and will need skin grafts. Sanders was also shot in the thigh, and said “that was the most blood.”
“I think this incident underlines the fact that LGBT people need to be loved,” Sanders said.
For Slaugh, Club Q was a place where he felt safe after coming out as gay at age 24. It was where he met his partner, Jancarlos Del Valle, eight months ago, and it was where they took his sister, Charlene, on Saturday night to cheer her up after a recent breakup, as well as the death of their mother from COVID-19 a year ago.
Slaugh said that after the gunman was subdued, the club instantly became a community again. Patrons grabbed paper towels to try to stop bleeding wounds. One man told Slaugh he would be OK and kissed him on the forehead.
“That was such a reassurance to me,” he said. “That hope stayed there.”
Del Valle and James were rushed to one hospital and Charlene, who had more extensive injuries, was taken to another. James said he did not find out what happened to his sister until the next day. A community of support has formed around the Slaughs, including a GoFundMe campaign to pay for medical bills. Messages have poured in from around the world.
“Being shot, being a victim of this whole thing — it left me with a sense of more hope than anything else, especially with everyone coming together,” he said. “This is not a time to be afraid. This is not a time to let in one awful person. This is a time to come together.”
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This story has been updated to correct the name of the hospital treating Sanders to UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central, instead of UCHealth Memorial Hospital Center.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate sent reverberations across the country, even before court papers were unsealed Friday showing agents recovered documents labeled “top secret” as they investigated potential violations of three laws, including one that governs defense information under the Espionage Act.
Trump has said the documents seized by agents were “all declassified,” and argued that he would have turned them over to the Justice Department if asked. It was unclear, however, whether the documents had been declassified or whether he had the power to do so. Trump also had kept possession of the documents despite multiple requests to turn them over in accordance with federal law.
Here’s a look at how the monthslong investigation unfolded and the rapid drumbeat of what’s happened since:
Mid-January 2022: Fifteen boxes of presidential records are retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in a transfer arranged by the National Archives and Records Administration. The transfer came after a Trump representative told the agency in December 2021 there were records in Florida nearly a year after he left office. The agency says that under federal law, all records have to be preserved, a process that is “critical to our democracy.”
Trump calls the discussions “collaborative and respectful” and says it was a “great honor” to work with the National Archives. His representatives told the agency they would keep looking for more presidential records.
Jan. 31, 2022: The agency says in a statement that some paper records from Trump’s time in office had been torn up by Trump. During his tenure in office, White House records management officials had recovered and taped together some of the torn-up presidential records and turned them over to the archives as he left office, along with other torn-up records that had not been reconstructed.
Feb. 18, 2022: C lassified information was found in the 15 boxes of White House records that had been stored at Mar-a-Lago, the National Archives and Records Administration says. The revelation came in a letter responding to a congressional oversight committee. It also confirmed that the matter had been sent to the Justice Department.
Federal law bars removing classified documents to unauthorized locations, though Trump could argue that as president he was the ultimate authority on whether documents were classified.
Trump, for his part, says the National Archives were given the requested presidential records “in an ordinary and routine process.”
Feb. 25: The House Committee on Oversight and Reform seeks additional documents from the National Archives as part of its investigation into Trump’s handling of White House records.
The committee chaired by Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York laid out a series of documents it needed to determine if the former president violated federal records laws when he took the boxes to Florida.
Spring 2022: Investigators from the Justice Department and FBI visit Mar-a-Lago to get more information about classified materials taken to Florida, according to a source familiar with the matter. Federal officials also served a subpoena for some documents believed to be at the estate.
Aug. 5: U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart in South Florida approves an application for a search warrant, finding the FBI had probable cause to search Mar-a-Lago. The search warrant is sealed, as is typical for any pending investigation. Attorney General Merrick Garland later says he personally approved the decision to seek the search warrant.
Aug 8: The FBI executes the search at Mar-a-Lago in an unprecedented escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of the former president. Trump wasn’t at the estate at the time, which was shuttered for the season, but disclosed the search in a fiery public statement. He asserted agents had opened up a safe at his home in what he called an “unannounced raid” that he likened to “prosecutorial misconduct.”
Trump and his allies cast the search as a weaponization of the criminal justice system aimed at keeping him from potentially winning another term if he formally decides to run for president in 2024. President Joe Biden’s White House said it had no prior knowledge of the search, and the current FBI director was originally appointed by Trump.
Aug. 10: The director of the FBI speaks out against a proliferation of threats and calls to arms in corners of the internet favored by right-wing extremists in the wake of the search. Speaking during a previously scheduled visit to the FBI field office in in Omaha, Nebraska, Christopher Wray says the rhetoric targeting federal agents and the Justice Department is “deplorable and dangerous” and “violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you’re upset with.”
Aug. 11: After days of public silence, Garland holds a brief news conference where he drops a major announcement: He will ask the court to unseal the search warrant, a striking and unusual step for a pending investigation. Garland said the public was entitled to know what prompted the extraordinary search at a former president’s home.
Trump responds with a statement calling for “immediate” release of the warrant. His lawyers do not immediately make public records they have that the government sought to unseal.
Meanwhile, in Ohio, an armed man wearing body armor tries to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office. He fled and was later killed following a standoff with police. A law enforcement official briefed on the matter identified him as Ricky Shiffer and said he is believed to have been in Washington just before the attack on the Capitol and may have been there on Jan. 6.
Aug. 12: Judge Reinhart unseals the warrant that authorized the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago, along with court papers showing that agents recovered documents labeled “top secret” among 11 sets of classified records. The court papers did not provide specific details about the documents or what information they might contain.
The warrant details that federal agents were investigating potential violations of three federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act.
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Josh Okogie thinking 'long-term' in returning to Phoenix Suns
LAS VEGAS — Josh Okogie has made an investment in his future when deciding to return to the Phoenix Suns on a one-year deal.
“Just for me, looking at all the teams, I felt like my decision to come to Phoenix was more of a long-term rather than the short-term, make the money,” he said. “I was looking at a team that loves me just as much as I love them. Know that I have a role here, a home here and I have a chance to compete for a championship. You can’t ask for that at too many organizations.”
The versatile wing averaged 7.2 points on 39.1% shooting in his first year with the Suns last season.
“I took the deal looking at the long-term,” Okogie continued. “Just in terms of being able to build, not only this year, but just my career. I’ve had a lot of success here, kind of revamped my career here last year, and they were able to give me a chance and be gracious on how they move in this organization. So I decided to take a chance on them again."
Connecting on 33.5% of his 3s, Okogie started with Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Chris Paul and Deandre Ayton after the Suns acquired Durant in a blockbuster trade right before the Feb. 9 trade deadline.
The Suns moved Paul in the offseason as part of a blockbuster trade to acquire Bradley Beal from Washington. Now Okogie is part of team looking to seriously compete for a championship. “I like the group a lot,” Okogie said.
“I feel like we’re talented in so many different aspects and so many different ways. I just like what we can do defensively. That’s my main goal, my main focus. I still want to be that Swiss Army knife for the team. Wherever the holes are that need to be filled up, that’s what I want to do. Plug in the holes and make sure we’re as complete as possible.”
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Internalization of IoT-telematics technology will drive Carrot to further expand applications of IoT across new insurance business opportunities
IoT technology will accelerate transformation of insurance as it will empower preemptive detection of risks and real-time communication with customers
SEOUL, South Korea, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carrot ("Carrot" or the "Company") and Luxrobo announced today the establishment of a Joint Venture (JV) that brings together two premier tech companies from the field of digital insurance and IoT-technology. Together they operate as Lucky Box Solutions Inc. to deliver the most optimized IoT systems and telematics devices while positioning itself as the leader of InsurTech, industry that has become the noise of the town in recent years. Both companies have established proven track records of providing innovation in emerging sectors and are poised to offer cutting-edge solutions in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Interoperability, Analytics and Processing, and Internet of Things while providing risk prevention and insurance protection services.
Carrot has made a name for itself over the past few years by providing modernized insurance service to the consumers of South Korea with its customer-centered design of Pay-Per-Mile auto insurance product. As seen with its top-tier customer retention, customers are highly praising for its fair and transparent pricing, month-end payment term, IoT-driven emergency and other value-added services, and cash incentive program that rewards customers based on their safe-driving scores.
The insurance landscape has been transforming over the years through the adoption of technologies and tech-embracing insurers are disrupting the legacy industry with changes across vectors of customer experience, distribution experience and product and pricing innovation. For an instant, IoT-infused insurance data analytics may monitor health or behavioral data, predictively calculate risk, and provide preventive measures before incidents are accounted. Whereas, legacy insurance has only been relying on the past insurance records and statistical data, which are far limited and inaccurate in terms of risk prediction.
Through the recent JV formation, Carrot plans to absorb and internalize IoT technology, and expand the scope of IoT application across other insurance business opportunities, such as pet and mobility, while deploying exceptional quality control and fulfillment of supply chain of Carrot's IoT-telematics devices.
About Carrot General Insurance Corp.
Based in Seoul Korea the company was established through a JV partnership with some of the big-name investors, including Hanwha, SK Telecom, Hyundai Motor Group, Altos Ventures, and Stic Investments. Being the nation's first fully-licensed 100% digital insurance carrier, Carrot has been disrupting the market with innovative products and has outpaced its global peers in terms of the speed of acquiring customers to its usage-based insurance program. The company's successful footprint owes itself to strong customer value propositions, including easy and accessible insurance, transparent premiums, AI automated accident registration and prompt dispatch of help services all made possible via proprietary technology. The company is also pursuing business in Pay-As-How-You-Drive auto insurance, which assesses the premiums as per customer's driving patterns and behavior through sensor data analytics. In line with the company's open innovation strategy, Carrot has 100+ national & international partnerships, including South Korean government unit that oversees national highways and traffic controls.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. says upcoming race will bring back some great memories
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) – Dale Earnhardt Jr. will race Wednesday night at the historic North Wilkesboro Motor Speedway driving a car painted in the throwback bright green Sun Drop paint scheme.
“I came to North Wilkesboro so many times as a kid,” Earnhardt said in a press release obtained by WBTV. “It’s a special place. I never thought I’d get a chance to race around here again.”
The NASCAR driver said Sun Drop was one of his first sponsors and were with his dad for years.
Earnhardt Jr. will enter the Window World 125 CARS Tour event at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
The race will mark the NASCAR Hall of Famer’s first late-model stock car start since 1997 and his first race at North Wilkesboro since 1995.
The car will bear a very close resemblance to the car Earnhardt Jr., ran in the early 1990s, including at North Wilkesboro in 1993. Dale Earnhardt Sr. won five NASCAR Cup Series races at the track.
“To put this program together with Sun Drop, who sponsored my late model in ‘93, I wouldn’t want it any other way,” Earnhardt said. “Seeing the Sun Drop Chevy at Wilkesboro again will bring back some great memories for me.”
The event on Wednesday begins with a concert at 5:45 p.m. featuring Dirty Grass Soul. Driver introductions are set to begin at 7 p.m., and the race will begin at 7:30 p.m.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — As foreign governments airlifted hundreds of their diplomats and other citizens from Sudan, Sudanese on Monday desperately sought ways to escape the chaos amid fears the country’s two rival generals could escalate their all-out battle for power once evacuations were completed.
Many Sudanese, along with Egyptians and other foreigners who could not get on flights, risked the long and dangerous drive to the northern border into Egypt.
“We traveled 15 hours on land at our own risk,” Suliman al-Kouni, an Egyptian student, said at the Arqin border crossing with Egypt. Buses lined up at the remote desert crossing carrying hundreds of people, he said. Al-Kouni was among dozens of Egyptian students making the trek. “But many of our friends are still trapped in Sudan,” he said.
Prominent Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abual-Ala wrote on Facebook that his mother, siblings and nephews “are on the road from Sudan to Cairo through Aswan,” referring to Egypt’s southernmost city.
Fighting raged in Omdurman, a city across the Nile River from Khartoum, residents said, despite a hoped-for cease-fire to coincide with the three-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
“We did not see such a truce,” Amin al-Tayed said from his home near state TV headquarters in Omdurman, adding that heavy gunfire and thundering explosions rocked the city.
Over 420 people, including 264 civilians, have been killed and over 3,700 wounded in nine days of fighting between the Sudanese armed forces and the powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces.
The RSF said the armed forces unleashed airstrikes on the upscale neighborhood of Kafouri, north of Khartoum. There was no immediate army comment. The ongoing violence has affected operations at the main international airport, destroying civilian planes and damaging at least one runway, and thick, black smoke rose above it. Other airports also have been knocked out of operation.
Still, the two sides have eased fighting enough for the stream of international military aircraft to land in the Khartoum area and extract foreign citizens since Sunday.
The exodus began with American special operations forces swooping in and out of Khartoum in helicopters early Sunday to evacuate U.S. Embassy personnel.
France brought out nearly 400 people, including citizens from 28 countries, on four flights to the nearby Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, two of them overnight. A Dutch air force C-130 Hercules flew out of Sudan to Jordan in the early hours Monday carrying evacuees of various nationalities, including Dutch, on board. Germany has so far conducted three flights out of Sudan, bringing more than 300 people out to Jordan.
Italy, Spain, Jordan and Greece also brought out a total of several hundred more people, including their own citizens of those of other countries.
Evacuations appeared likely to continue if conditions of fighting allow. Although American officials said it was too dangerous for a government-coordinated evacuation of thousands of private U.S. citizens, other countries scrambled to remove their citizens who wanted to leave.
Japanese nationals are being transported by land to an eastern town to be picked up by Japanese aircraft positioned in Djibouti, Japanese media said. France and Germany each said they were prepared to do more flights if possible.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tweeted that U.K. armed forces evacuated British diplomatic staff and dependents. But Britain’s Middle East Minister, Andrew Mitchell, said about 2,000 U.K. citizens still in Sudan have registered with the embassy for potential evacuation. Many Britons in the country have complained about a lack of information from the government and say they are in the dark about any evacuation plans.
Mitchell told the BBC that the government was doing “intense planning” for “a series of possible evacuations.”
Egypt, which said it had over 10,000 citizens in Sudan, urged those in cities other than Khartoum to head to consular offices in Port Sudan and Wadi Halfa in the north for evacuation, the state-run MENA news agency reported.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters in Luxembourg on Monday that the evacuation operation has been successful, with more than 1,000 brought out by EU members.
“We have to continue pushing for a political settlement. We cannot afford that Sudan, which is a very populated country, implodes because it will be sending shock waves around the whole (of) Africa,” he said. He earlier tweeted that he had spoken with the rival commanders urging a cease-fire.
The army chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the RSF leader Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, however, have so far appeared determined to fight to the end. Thousands of Sudanese have fled fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere, U.N. agencies said, but millions are sheltering in their homes amid explosions, gunfire and looting without adequate electricity, food or water.
Hospitals have struggled as violence rages. Many wounded are stranded by the fighting, according to the Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate that monitors casualties, suggesting the death toll is probably higher than what is known.
The rival generals came to power after a pro-democracy uprising led to the 2019 ouster of former strongman Omar al-Bashir. In 2021, the generals joined forces to seize power in a coup.
The current violence came after Burhan and Dagalo fell out over a recent internationally brokered deal with democracy activists that was meant to incorporate the RSF into the military and eventually lead to civilian rule.
Khalid Omar, a spokesman for the pro-democracy bloc that seeks to restore civilian rule, urged both generals to resolve their differences. “There is an opportunity to stop this war and put the county on the right path,” he wrote on Facebook. “This is a war fueled by groups from the deposed regime who want it to continue.”
In other fighting, a senior military official said it repelled an RSF attack on Kober Prison in Khartoum where al-Bashir and former officials in his movement are held. A number of prisoners fled and some were killed or wounded, but al-Bashir and other high-profile inmates were in a “highly secure” area, the official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Sudan experienced a “near-total collapse” of internet and phone service Sunday, according to the monitoring service NetBlocks.
“This will have a major effect on residents’ ability to stay safe and will impact the evacuation programs that are ongoing," said Netblocks director Alp Toker. ___ Associated Press writers Isabel DeBre in Jerusalem, Samy Magdy in Cairo, Michael Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, Angela Charlton in Paris, Frances D’Emilio in Rome and Fay Abuelgasim in Beirut contributed to this report.
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CHICAGO, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GoHealth, Inc. (GoHealth) (NASDAQ: GOCO), a leading health insurance marketplace and Medicare-focused digital health company, announced the company will present at the 2023 Bank of America Healthcare Conference in Las Vegas, NV, on Thursday, May 11, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (1:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
A live webcast of the presentation may be accessed through a link that will be posted on GoHealth's Investor Relations website, https://investors.gohealth.com/. A replay will be available through the same link following the conference.
About GoHealth, Inc.:
GoHealth is a leading health insurance marketplace and Medicare-focused digital health company. Enrolling in a health insurance plan can be confusing for customers, and the seemingly small differences between plans can lead to significant out-of-pocket costs or lack of access to critical medicines and even providers. GoHealth combines cutting-edge technology, data science and deep industry expertise to match customers with the healthcare policy and carrier that is right for them. Since its inception, GoHealth has enrolled millions of people in Medicare plans and individual and family plans. For more information, visit https://www.gohealth.com.
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Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by a security flaw that was exposed on TikTok and other social media sites.
Data from seven U.S. cities gathered by The Associated Press shows that the number of Hyundai and Kia thefts is still growing despite the companies’ efforts to fix the glitch, which makes 8.3 million vehicles relatively easy targets for thieves.
From Minneapolis, Cleveland and St. Louis to New York, Seattle, Atlanta and Grand Rapids, Michigan, police have reported substantial year-over-year increases in Hyundai and Kia theft reports through April. An eighth city, Denver, which was hit early by the theft outbreak, reported a 23% decline from 2022 levels but still endured a high number of thefts.
So far this year, Minneapolis police have received 1,899 Kia and Hyundai theft reports, nearly 18 times the number for the same period in 2022.
“The scope of the problem is only expanding and is exponentially worse than it has been in the past,” Brian O’Hara, the police chief of Minneapolis, said in an email. “We have some weeks where nearly as many Kias and Hyundais are stolen in a week as had previously been stolen in a year.”
The most recent nationwide numbers on Hyundai and Kia thefts aren’t yet publicly available. The figures for early 2023, as calculated by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, will be released until later this year. (Hyundai and Kia are part of the same South Korean corporate family.)
Some U.S. cities have reported that 60% or more of their auto theft reports now involve Hyundais or Kias. Videos on TikTok and other sites that illustrate how to start and steal Kia and Hyundai models — using only a screwdriver and a USB cable — have allowed the thefts to spread across the nation since late 2021.
In New York, the Hyundai-Kia theft problem has grown so worrisome that the city held a news conference last last month to offer owners devices that can track their vehicles if they’re stolen. Police there reported 966 Hyundai and Kia thefts as of April 30 — nearly seven times the number in the same period of 2022.
The disturbing theft rate, which authorities nationally have linked to other crimes including at least 14 reported crashes and eight fatalities, has persisted despite the automakers’ unveiling of their anti-theft software campaign in mid-February.
“GLA is driving our crime,” New York Mayor Eric Adams said, using an acronym for grand larceny of autos. “Kia and Hyundai are driving the GLAs.”
Hyundai and Kia have said they’re accelerating their distribution of the software, with Hyundai saying it’s reached 6,000 installations a day. The company says it’s using direct mail, phone calls, digital advertising and social media to try to reach the affected owners.
Ira Gabriel, a spokesman for Hyundai, said the company has tried to remove from social media the instructional videos that show how to steal the cars.
“But as new ones surface,” he said, “there have been additional waves of thefts.”
Kia said in a statement that it began developing and testing the security software last year.
“The process occurred at an accelerated pace and allowed us to begin rolling out the enhanced security software earlier this year in phases,” the company said.
Safety authorities say the companies’ software rollout has been far too slow. Of the 4.5 million Kia vehicles that are eligible for the fix, the automaker says it’s installed the software on about 210,000 — nearly 5%. Kia says it has sent notifications to about 2.8 million of the affected owners and expects to have notified all of them by the end of this month.
For Hyundai, the figure is about 225,000 out of 3.8 million vehicles — roughly 6%. Hyundai said he expects to have contacted all the affected vehicle owners by May 18.
The companies’ affected cars, many of them lower-cost models from the 2011 to early 2022 model years, were not equipped with a theft immobilizer. Such a device contains a computer chip in the key that must be recognized by another chip in the steering column before the engines will start.
Though most automakers have had the chips for years, Hyundai and Kia have lagged behind the industry as a whole in installing them on many models, thereby allowing thieves to exploit the security gap. In the 2015 model year, immobilizers were standard on 96% of other manufacturers’ models but on only 26% of Hyundai and Kia models, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said.
The automakers’ service campaign to install the software should have been more aggressively pursued, said Michael Brooks, executive director of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety.
Brooks suggested that if the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had managed a recall of the affected vehicles, it would have stood a better chance of alerting owners to the danger and need to seek a repair.
“Unless people are really following the news,” he said, “they might not know about theft issues.”
Shakira Ellis, a music instructor from Long Beach, California, is among those who hadn’t heard about the thefts — until her 2019 Hyundai Tucson was stolen in front of her home around 4 a.m. on April 25. The car, which contained some of her musical instruments, hasn’t turned up.
Ellis, 26, said her Tucson lacked the immobilizer, and she hadn’t been informed of Hyundai’s campaign to distribute the software fix. If she had, Ellis said, she would have immediately taken it in to be fixed. She feels Hyundai should provide her with a new car to replace her stolen vehicle,
“I feel like I should be compensated,” she said. “It’s been ruined because it’s defective. And people know. It’s a target.”
Even with a recall, not everyone takes an affected car to a dealer to be fixed. Recall completion rates, Brooks said, average only around 60% of owners.
Some of the vehicles, about 15% in Hyundai’s case, can’t be fixed with software. But both Hyundai and Kia say they’ll pay for anti-theft devices for those owners.
In Minneapolis and other cities, police say teenagers, some of them too young to have a driver’s license, have exploited the vulnerability. Often they crash or are involved in other crimes. The Minneapolis police recorded 209 cases of Hyundais or Kias being involved in hit-and-run injury crashes, and they’re investigating 169 reports that Kias or Hyundais were used in other crimes.
Multiple cities, including St. Louis, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Seattle, have sued the automakers, accusing them of failing to install industry-standard anti-theft devices and placing an undue burden on city services.
“Kia and Hyundai prioritized profit over people by not installing engine immobilizers in these vehicles,” Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb said in announcing his city’s lawsuit.
O’Hara, the Minneapolis police chief, said the thefts are a “public safety crisis” that is overwhelming communities.
“Juveniles are joyriding in these stolen models, and when they are caught by police, he said, they’re rarely held accountable for their behavior” by the courts and youth corrections systems.
That can lead to more serious crimes, he said, “until they get very seriously injured or killed themselves.”
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METEN-MEER-ZORG, Guyana (AP) — The judges leaned in, hands clasped behind their backs.
Everyone grew quiet as they stared at the two tiny black birds flitting before them, wondering which one would break the silence.
“One. Two,” a judge called out softly as the bird on the right erupted into tinkly chirps. It then abruptly stopped as the bird in the cage next to it darted about before bursting into song, only to be surpassed seconds later by his foe, which spread its wings and tail in anticipated triumph.
These are Guyana’s speed-singing contests — a centuries-old tradition where male finches are placed in cages next to each other as judges count the number of chirps they emit in the span of five minutes. It’s a hobby and business that rakes in thousands of dollars and is expected to grow into an even bigger gambling operation given the recent massive oil discovery off the coast of this small South American country, whose economy is expected to grow by an average annual rate of 25% in upcoming years.
The races are held every Sunday across the country, with men gathering along roadsides at dawn with their caged birds and local beer to celebrate or mourn afterward.
“God. Family. Birds. That’s my life,” said Olwayn Lynch, a 46-year-old transportation business owner.
The races are closely scrutinized given the money involved, so people record them for replay in case someone feels a judge counted too many or too little chirps and demands a recount.
There’s also big money in selling these finches: Average singers go for around $75, while winners can cost up to $10,000. The demand for these birds is so high that they are often smuggled to places like New York, where the Guyanese diaspora also organizes races. Smugglers have tucked finches into hair curlers, toilet paper rolls, pantyhose and other items. Some even wear special pants to carry them through airport security.
Demand in Guyana has grown even higher since oil production began in 2019, with more people competing, said Ben Winston, 59, who sells bundles of wild grass seeds at the events.
“More people, more bets, more fun,” he said, adding that he has seen his business grow about 2% and hopes it will become even more profitable as the oil wealth flows, creating more jobs and expendable income.
In the weeks leading up to a race, owners care for their birds like professional athletes, giving them vitamins, calcium and wild seeds mixed with honey. If they are molting, the birds don’t compete because their energy levels plummet when shedding feathers. The races also are not for birds that are easily excitable or get shy in front of a crowd. The winning bird has poise, bravado and grit. They don’t sing for pleasure or because they’re happy: they sing to defend their territory or attract mates.
Sunday’s race attracted a smaller crowd than usual given the heavy skies and recent rains. Among those attending but not competing was Ryan Boodhoo, a 42-year-old importer and contractor, who felt the birds present were not as competitive as he would like.
Boodhoo estimates he has won more than 1,000 races since he began participating 25 years ago: “For me, it’s not just competing. It’s like my therapy.”
He recalled how at 6 years old, he stole someone’s bird from the roadside, mesmerized by its song. Hours later, his aunt forced him to return it and punished him by rubbing a spicy ointment in his eyes, but his love for birds remained. He now has more than 40 distributed between his home and those of friends.
“The tone that the bird makes is sweet. It’s very comforting to my ears,” he said.
When the birds are not competing against each other on Sundays, they accompany owners in their daily lives: perched in street market stalls, nestled in the passenger seat of taxi cabs or hung in wooden boats that cross the long Demerara River just west of the capital of Georgetown.
“I like the whistling. It keeps me company,” said Trevor Fort, 55, who sells face masks and do-rags at Georgetown’s bustling Stabroek Market, where his bird recently chirped above the cacophony of car horns, reggae music and vendors hawking their wares like auctioneers as the sweet smell of ganja wafted into the heady air.
Fort was gifted his first bird at 8 years old and caught his first one at age 13 after spending up to three hours “in the bushes just hiding and waiting until we see the bird done come.”
Like many, he mixed sugar with a bit of sticky tree sap and placed it on a stick to lure the bird. Others use nets, breed them in captivity or buy from street market vendors who purchase them from Amerindians who catch the birds in Guyana’s remote interior or people who smuggle them in from neighboring Venezuela.
By age 15, Fort was entering competitions. He has since dropped out of races to attend church on Sundays, but he cares for his 10 birds as if they were still in competition mode.
Like other owners, he’ll play them downloaded recordings of other birds singing for up to four hours a day, making sure to first cover their cages with a light cotton material so they can focus on the melody without distractions.
“It’s like training a baby. It’s going to listen to what you say,” he said.
The best singer is the large-billed seed finch, Sporophila crassirostris, known locally as a “twa-twa” and considered expensive and rare. The second-best singer is the chestnut-bellied seed finch, Sporophila angolensis, or “towa-towa.” There’s also the plumbeous seedeater, Sporophila plumbea, or “mountain canary,” which is cheaper and as a result, more available, according to a December 2018 bird trafficking report by Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network. For local birders, the premier chirp is the one that sounds like “pee-peeow.”
While Guyana’s Wildlife Division allows people to legally trade the three birds with an annual cap of 200 per species, local authorities “maintain a lenient acceptance of local bird markets,” the report stated, noting that bird races have generated an “unsustainable demand” for the best singers.
“Trapped almost to extinction in Guyana and Suriname, they go completely unnoticed in other Amazon countries,” the report said of the birds. “As the population that usually buys these birds is in the low-income sector, these species make for cheap presents and continue the customary practice of keeping of birds in homes and backyards.”
Some birds are sold at Stabroek Market, where Paul Lall, 72, sat in a dark corner stall reading a newspaper on a recent morning while birds in cages hovered above him and cockroaches scurried beneath his feet as he waited for customers. He has sold birds for more than 50 years, and said owners take good care of them because they’re considered pets.
And the better you treat them, the better they sing, Lall said, noting that people also take the birds on walks or hire people to do so.
The races and sales of birds are a boon for those struggling to get by in this country of some 800,000 people, of which an estimated one-third live in poverty. Orin Bradford, a 30-year-old minibus driver, said he sells his birds only if his bank account shrinks.
“Birds are business!” he said with a wide smile, showing a sliver of a gold tooth. “Sometimes when the funds are low, we use them to rise back up.”
While songbirds are hugely popular in Guyana, not everyone is a fan.
For years, Henry Ochore, 35, has tried to persuade his friends to release their finches to no avail until he convinced one last week.
“I don’t like them caged up,” he said. “It’s not good.”
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis International Airport has once again soared to the top of the continent’s quality airports: for the 11th year in the row, the Circle City’s airport has been named the Best Airport in North America by the Airports Council International.
The designation is based on survey inputs by passengers and includes more than 30 key performance indicators like check-in, cleanliness of facilities, ease of finding your way, and shopping and dining options.
“The Indy airport is more than just a place where aircraft take off and land – it’s very much like a city within a city,” said Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA) Executive Director Mario Rodriguez.
Airport officials credit employees for the winning streak. The airport is currently recruiting workers in several different departments including operations and public safety, terminal services, maintenance, and professional staffing.
According to IAA, employees receive benefits like up to $10,000 per year for child care reimbursement, paid tuition assistance up to $5,250 and a “generous medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefit package.”
The airport invites anyone interested in joining the team to visit IND.com/Careers.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WJW) — A rare raccoon was spotted in Cleveland Metroparks over the weekend. Olmsted Falls, Ohio, resident Tammy Stevens said she saw the critter, which appears to be an albino raccoon, on Mother’s Day.
According to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, only 1 in every 10-20,000 raccoons is born with albinism, an inherited genetic condition that lacks pigment in the hair, skin, and eyes.
While albino animals are certainly unusual to see, their presence in and around northeast Ohio has been documented across social media and by local news outlets. Particularly, albino deer.
Millcreek Metroparks in Youngstown has been home to several white deer over the years.
Just last year, WJW reported on three baby deer born just outside of Millcreek Metroparks, including one that was albino.
Other animals with the rare color pigment that have made news headlines include an albino porcupine in Maine, an albino swell shark in Mexico, and an albino turtle in Australia, just to name a few.
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This New Jersey Winter Village Is Changing The Game
Newark, New Jersey is getting really festive this holiday season!
I was just at a Devil’s game and while I was going up the escalators to my seat, I looked out the window and saw a huge ice rink with the craziest contraptions floating on it! I couldn’t tell exactly what was happening from far away, but then I was scrolling on Instagram later on and saw this!
What I didn’t know was that I was looking at Newark’s Winter Village which will be around until January.
They have these bumper cars you can ride on an ice rink that are seriously the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my life. Why didn’t these exist when I was a kid? Even though I’m fully an adult now, nobody is stopping me from getting in on the action at this winter village!
There are tents with different seating available and a bunch of local businesses makes their way out to get some exposure in the community!
As you walk through the village, you’ll see a bunch of heat-controlled igloos that are available for seating while you enjoy some of the festive goods that the local vendors have to offer! I feel like every single town should create its own winter village, because how wholesome is this?
Admission is completely free of charge, but if you want to get in on the ice bumper cars or ice skating, you’ll have to make a reservation. Newark’s Winter Village is located at 162 Mulberry Street, Newark, NJ! It’s directly across the street from the Prudential Center.
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WASHINGTON, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AACC has issued expert guidance on clinical testing for procalcitonin, a blood marker that helps detect serious bacterial infections and sepsis. By giving clinicians and laboratory professionals much-needed clarity on how to best use procalcitonin tests, the new guidelines could improve the treatment of critically ill patients and those with certain lower respiratory infections.
Read the guidance document here: https://www.aacc.org/science-and-research/aacc-academy-guidance/clinical-use-of-procalcitonin
Procalcitonin tests have been used for many years in Europe, but only became available in the United States in 2017, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved them as tools to help guide antibiotic treatment and predict which patients are most likely to die within 28 days of being diagnosed with sepsis (also known as 28-day mortality risk). Due to the newness of procalcitonin tests in the U.S., there is still confusion about when to use them, and they are often ordered in situations where they are not clinically appropriate. AACC's new guidance provides a rigorous examination of the research evaluating procalcitonin along with an analysis of its limitations, with the goal of facilitating better testing and treatment.
Specifically, the guidance document addresses key questions related to the use of procalcitonin to manage adult, pediatric, and newborn patients with suspected sepsis and/or bacterial infections, particularly lower respiratory tract infections. It also explores the evidence for using these tests to guide antimicrobial treatment decisions and predict patient outcomes.
Major conclusions from the guidance document are as follows:
- Compelling evidence supports the use of procalcitonin testing to help guide clinicians on when to stop antibiotic treatment in critically ill patients and patients with some lower respiratory tract infections. As such, procalcitonin testing should be incorporated into broad antimicrobial stewardship efforts that draw on the expertise of multidisciplinary teams.
- Some studies indicate that procalcitonin levels can also be used to determine when to discontinue antibiotics in newborn and pediatric patients with suspected sepsis who show signs of clinical improvement. However, the guidance authors felt these studies were not large enough to determine standard levels that could be applied across pediatric populations, since the reference intervals for procalcitonin were established in adults. Thus, if procalcitonin testing is used for these groups, the guidance document notes that it's important to establish pediatric reference intervals or define interpretive criteria.
- In spite of the fact that procalcitonin tests are FDA-approved to predict 28-day mortality risk in sepsis patients, the guidance does not recommend routinely using procalcitonin for this purpose. This is due to a lack of consistent procalcitonin cut-offs and clearance parameters, as well as insufficient evidence demonstrating a benefit to estimating 28-day mortality risk in patients with sepsis and lower respiratory tract infections.
"Improved outcomes from [procalcitonin] implementation are more likely to be realized when the test is used in conjunction with antimicrobial stewardship programs, institutional interpretive algorithms, and clinical decision support tools," said the guidance document authors Drs. Allison B. Chambliss, Khushbu Patel, Jessica M. Colón-Franco, Joshua Hayden, Sophie E. Katz, Emi Minejima, and Alison Woodworth. "Successful implementation of clinical [procalcitonin] requires a multidisciplinary effort among laboratorians, pharmacists, and infectious disease providers."
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NPR's Miles Parks speaks with PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT, Crystal Owens, about her scientific study, "On Oreology, the fracture and flow of 'milk's favorite cookie®.'"
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The site of a former movie theater in East Hartford will become home to more than 400 apartments.
The project will use millions in state funding to transform the site of the former Showcase Cinemas on Silver Lane. The theater, which closed in 2006, was demolished in 2020.
A minimum of 360 apartment units was established for the project, but the Town Council approved up to about 470 units. By the project’s completion, principal developer Brian Zelman anticipates the complex will have 430 apartments.
“We've been working for over three years to put this together. When fully built out, 400-plus units, modern, highly amenitized,” Zelman said. “Those folks are really going to be the catalyst to the rest of the redevelopment of the Silver Lane corridor.”
The complex will sit on a roughly 25-acre plot, with hundreds of apartments spread among about eight 3-to-4-story buildings, Zelman said.
In March, East Hartford finalized a deal with Zelman Real Estate and Jasko Development to sell the plot in Concourse Park.
Despite the apartments being entirely market rate, Zelman said the rent will be competitive.
“Based on the partnership and the assistance from the state in the town, these units, they will rent for less than comparable units in the surrounding suburbs,” Zelman said.
Several other projects are in the works for the Silver Lane corridor, including Lowe’s and Wayfair warehouses, bringing in 1,000 new jobs to the town.
While Connecticut is in particular need of affordable housing options, any new homes are welcome, State Representative Jason Rojas said.
“We need housing of all kinds and in particularly multifamily and high density, because the more housing we build, that actually helps bring down those costs. So we know that rents are high, but we need more housing,” Rojas said.
Municipalities with 10% or more of the housing stock considered affordable are exempt from certain programs aimed at increasing affordable housing options. In East Hartford, nearly 16% of housing is affordable, according to state data.
On Tuesday, Gov. Ned Lamont announced the appropriation of $7 million in state funding to support the site’s redevelopment.
The project is expected to be completed within two years and will cost upwards of $100 million dollars.
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(WHTM) – A quick look at the calendar shows the first day of spring, landing in mid-March, is right around the corner. But, did you know it also starts on March 1?
No, you didn’t read that wrong. There are two types of spring that start at two different times. There’s the astronomical spring and the meteorological spring.
A question many meteorologists get is why are there two and if is there a difference.
According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, the astronomical seasons have been used to make time for thousands of years. The rotation of the sun forms the basis of the astronomical calendar.
The Earth’s tilt and the sun’s alignment over the equator determine both the solstices and the equinoxes. Equinoxes mark the times when the sun passes directly over the equator of the northern hemisphere. The astronomical seasons are:
- Spring Equinox: Around March 21
- Summer Solstice: Around June 21
- Autumnal Equinox: Around September 22
- Winter Solstice: Around December 2
These seasons are reversed when it comes to the southern hemisphere.
NOAA states that the elliptical shape of Earth’s orbit around the sun causes the lengths of the astronomical seasons to vary between 89 and 93 days. These variations in season length and season start would make it very difficult to consistently compare climatological statistics for a particular season from one year to the next.
That’s when the meteorological seasons come into the picture.
The meteorological seasons allow meteorologists and climatologists to break the seasons up into four groups of three months based on the annual temperature cycle, as well as the calendar. The meteorological seasons do not change or vary by year. Those seasons are:
- Spring: March 1 to May 31
- Summer: June 1 to August 31
- Autumn: September 1 to November 30
- Winter: December 1 to February 28 (or Februar 29 during a leap year)
Observing and forecasting led to the creation of the meteorological seasons. They are also easier to remember, ranging from 90 days for winter of a non-leap year to 92 days for spring and summer.
This also makes it easier to figure out our seasonal statistics from the monthly statistics, both of which are very useful for agriculture, commerce, and a variety of other purposes.
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LAGO LACENO, Italy — Aurélien Paret-Peintre won the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Tuesday for his first Grand Tour stage victory, while Andreas Leknessund took the leader’s pink jersey from pre-race favorite Remco Evenepoel.
“It’s super special,” Leknessund said. “Obviously I went for the stage and also knew that pink was possible. I had one attack where I went all-in to drop him and I made it but he came back. And my legs were hurting so much, but it’s super special to be in the pink.
“That was the goal before the stage but as everyone knows it’s hard, cycling is not so easy and to actually make it is unbelievable.”
The 23-year-old Leknessund attacked from a breakaway at the end of the 175-kilometer (109-mile) route from Venosa to Lago Laceno, as the Giro hit the mountains in a stage with hardly any flat sections.
Paret-Peintre was the only one who could follow the Norwegian on the second-category climb up Colle Moella and, after catching him, the Frenchman crossed the summit slightly ahead of Leknessund.
They rode together toward the finish but Paret-Peintre launched his sprint with 150 meters remaining and had time to sit up and raise his arms over his head as he crossed the line two seconds ahead of Leknessund.
“My main objective this year was the Giro,” said Paret-Peintre, who rides for AG2R Citroën Team. “So I just trained a lot for today, for these three weeks. We knew today was a day for the breakaway so it was an important day for the team because we came here to take some stage victories and GC (general classification).”
Toms Skujins was third, 57 seconds behind Paret-Peintre.
Evenepoel finished safely in the peloton, 2 minutes, 1 second behind Paret-Peintre. He now trails Leknessund by 28 seconds in the overall standings, with Paret-Peintre two seconds further back.
Evenepoel had worn the pink jersey since storming to victory in the opening time trial on Saturday.
Wednesday’s fifth stage also has two categorized climbs in a 171-kilometer (106-mile) route from Atripalda before a flat finale to Salerno.
The Giro ends in Rome on May 28.
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MOORE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Moore County school board passed a policy known as the Parents' Bill of Rights at its meeting Monday evening.
The final vote was 6-1.
The new policy mandates that teachers ask a student's parents for permission before referring to students by their "preferred names and pronouns."
The policy says teachers can also inform child protective services instead if there are fears that informing the parents could put a student at risk.
Opponents of the policy contended that it violates student privacy and ignores how children choose to identify
"They are listening to these grownups more than the students that they are representing, and they are representing this community that only makes up 0.7% of the students and they shouldn't be antagonizing this group that is so small, and it's so not fair," said Norah Beamguard, a student.
But supporters said the school system needed to show it is partnering with parents in optimizing children's education and development.
"I think it's very important for us to lay down a policy which will say to our parents (that) we're partners," said Robert Levy, Chairman of the Moore County Board of Education. "And especially when it comes to the children, you are in the driver's seat."
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Man, woman drown off Maui coast while visiting Hawaii: ‘The waves were so big’
KEANAE, Maui (KHNL/KGMB/Gray News) - Two island visitors from California are dead in an apparent drowning.
KHNL/KGMB reports the incident started when a 40-year-old man fell into the water near Maui and Keanae Landing on Thursday afternoon. A 42-year-old woman then jumped into the water to rescue him.
However, officials said the man drowned, and the woman died after also struggling in the water.
The Maui Fire Department said a good Samaritan, Kupaa Luat-Hueu, rushed into the water to help the woman. Luat-TourHueu was able to pull her body from the water, but medical personnel declared the woman dead.
Authorities said the waves were up to 8 feet high at the time of the incident.
“The waves were so big, and the current was pulling me away from shore,” Luat-Hueu said. “I pulled her with my arm onto my board and then made our way back in.”
Firefighters said crews pulled the man’s body from the water a short time later, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to Luat-Hueu, more warning signs of the area’s potential dangers are needed for beachgoers.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to boost Russian morale Monday by driving a vehicle across a bridge to Crimea that a truck bomb had damaged in October.
Putin took the wheel to drive across the bridge that links Russia’s mainland with the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
While driving, he discussed the repairs of the Crimean Bridge with Marat Khusnulin, a deputy prime minister in charge of the project, an exchange that was broadcast by Russian television.
The president also spoke to workers involved in restoring the 19-kilometer (12-mile) bridge, which has been the main conduit for ferrying supplies to Crimea that has served as a key base for Russian military operations in Ukraine.
The Oct. 8 truck bomb attack disrupted travel on one of the two automobile lanes of the bridge. Russia blamed the attack on Ukrainian military intelligence and responded with several waves of strikes on Ukraine’s energy facilities and other key infrastructure, the latest of which was launched Monday.
In view of Ukrainian threats to launch new attacks on the bridge, Putin emphasized the need to build a highway along the Sea of Azov coast to link Crimea with regions in southern Russia, the Kremlin said.
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A train hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire in Minnesota early Thursday and nearby residents were ordered to evacuate their homes, authorities said.
The BNSF train derailed in the town of Raymond, roughly 100 miles (161 kilometers) west of Minneapolis, about 1 a.m., according to a statement from Kandiyohi County Sheriff Eric Tollefson.
The Associated Press left a message seeking comment from BNSF officials.
The train “had numerous rail cars derail” and several caught fire, Tollefson said. Homes in an area 1/2 mile (0.8 kilometers) around the site were evacuated, according to Tollefson, and residents were taken to a shelter in nearby Prinsburg.
Railroad safety has been in the spotlight nationally ever since last month’s fiery derailment of a Norfolk Southern train near East Palestine, Ohio. Roughly half of that town of about 5,000 people near the Pennsylvania border had to be evacuated after officials decided to release and burn toxic chemicals.
Federal regulators and members of Congress have proposed reforms they want railroads to make to prevent future derailments.
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ATLANTA — Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A has the slowest drive-thru lines of any fast-food restaurant, at least that's what a recent study claims.
Thankfully, Georgians don't seem to mind. For them, the chicken is worth the wait.
The 2022 QSR Drive Thru Report said the reason the chain is so slow is simply because it's so popular to begin with. In fact, further context detailed the chain actually fairs better when you take into account the number of cars going through the line and the speed at which they are served.
That explains the 93% satisfaction rating for speed from customers. The chain also came out on top when it came to friendliest service. In fact, if you are looking at the average total time by cars in line -- Chick-Fil-A lands in the top spot because the fast-food chain moves "massive lines in a hurry."
So, who does have the quickest drive-thru time? According to the same study, that would be Taco Bell. Below is the order of the speed of service listed in the report, where Chick-fil-A came in last. The average service time is listed in seconds:
- Taco Bell (221.99 seconds)
- Dunkin' (238.16 seconds)
- KFC (239.02 seconds)
- Arby's (261.19 seconds)
- Burger King (266.68 seconds)
- Hardee's (272.10 seconds)
- Wendy's (275.84 seconds)
- Carl's Jr. (289.36 seconds)
- McDonald's (291.30 seconds)
- Chick-fil-A (325.47 seconds)
QSR said it surveyed more than 1,000 consumers who visited at least one drive-thru in the previous 30 days.
According to its website, QSR magazine and QSRmagazine.com provide information about the $350 billion limited-service restaurant industry. Its market includes fast-food, fast-casual dining, coffee, snacks, full-service takeaway, concessions, and more.
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SAN ANTONIO — Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he had cleared his campaign schedule after receiving treatment at a San Antonio hospital for an unspecified bacterial infection.
Intravenous antibiotic infusions improved his symptoms, O’Rourke said.
“While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations,” he said. “I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but (I) promise to be back on the road as soon as I am able.”
O’Rourke continues to trail Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in opinion polls before the Nov. 8 general elections.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) – Circle K is celebrating the unofficial holiday of “Fuel Day” by offering customers 40 cents off per gallon — if you time it right.
The 40-cent discount is only available between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday at Circle K-branded locations.
The discount will apply at over 5,000 Circle K and Holiday Stationstore locations across the U.S., the company says.
In addition to the 40-cent discount, most Circle K locations will also be handing out a limited number of fuel discount cards. Those will be redeemable for 10 cents off, per gallon, outside of the 3-hour window on Thursday.
“After an overwhelming response from customers, we are thrilled to bring back Circle K Fuel Day in a bigger way,” said Louise Warner Sr., vice president of global fuels for Circle K. “With summer right around the corner, we want to thank our customers for their loyalty by providing them an opportunity to fuel their adventures and enjoy some great savings.”
Customers can check with Circle K’s official Fuel Day webpage to see if nearby locations are participating.
Memorial Day weekend typically kicks off the peak summer travel season, but gas prices have already been rising over the past week. The national average was $3.56 per gallon on Wednesday, according to AAA.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For decades, Jackie Young had been searching.
Orphaned as an infant, he spent the first few years of his life in a Nazi internment camp in what is now the Czech Republic. After World War II he was taken to England, adopted and given a new name.
As an adult, he struggled to learn of his origins and his family. He had some scant information about his birth mother, who died in a concentration camp. But about his father? Nothing. Just a blank space on a birth certificate.
That changed earlier this year when genealogists were able to use a DNA sample to help find a name — and some relatives he never knew he had.
Having that answer to a lifelong question has been “amazing,” said Young, now 80 and living in London. It “opened the door that I thought would never get opened.”
Now there’s an effort underway to bring that possibility to other Holocaust survivors and their children.
The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching the DNA Reunion Project, offering DNA testing kits for free through an application on its website. For those who use the kits it is also offering a chance to get some guidance on next steps from the genealogists who worked with Young.
Those genealogists, Jennifer Mendelsohn and Adina Newman, have been doing this kind of work over the last several years, and run a Facebook group about Jewish DNA and genetic genealogy.
The advent of DNA technology has opened up a new world of possibilities in addition to the paper trails and archives that Holocaust survivors and their descendants have used to learn about family connections severed by genocide, Newman said.
“There are times when people are separated and they don’t even realize they’re separated. Maybe a name change occurred so they didn’t know to look for the other person,” she said. “There are cases that simply cannot be solved without DNA.”
While interest in genealogy and family trees is widespread, there’s a particular poignancy in doing this work in a community where so many family ties have been ripped apart because of the Holocaust, Mendelsohn said.
Her earliest effort in this arena was for her husband’s grandmother, who had lost her mother in a concentration camp. That effort led to aunts and cousins that no one in her husband’s family had known about.
Her husband’s uncle, she said, called afterwards and said, “You know, I’ve never seen a photograph of my grandmother. Now that I see photographs of her sisters, it’s so comforting to me. I can imagine what she look like.”
“How do you explain why that’s powerful? It just is. People had nothing. Their families were erased. And now we can bring them back a little bit,” Mendelsohn said.
She and Newman take pains to emphasize that there are no guarantees. Doing the testing or searching archives doesn’t mean a guarantee of finding living relatives or new information. But it offers a chance.
They and the center are encouraging people to take that chance, especially as time passes and the number of living survivors declines.
“It really is the last moment where these survivors can be given some modicum of justice,” said Gavriel Rosenfeld, president of the center.
“We feel the urgency of this,” Newman said. “I wanted to start yesterday, and that’s why it’s like, no time like the present.”
Rosenfeld said the center had allocated an initial $15,000 for the DNA kits in this initial pilot effort, which would cover about 500 of them. He said they would look to scale up further if they see enough interest.
Ken Engel thinks there will be. He leads a group in Minnesota for the children of Holocaust survivors and has already told his membership about the program.
“This is an important effort,” Engel said. “It may reveal and disclose wonderful information for them that they never knew about, may make them feel more settled or more connected to the past.”
Young definitely feels that way.
“I’ve been wanting to know all my life,” he said. “If I hadn’t known what I do know now, I think I would still felt that my left arm or my right arm wasn’t fully formed. Family is everything, it’s the major pillar of life in humanity.”
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XUZHOU,China, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- XCMG Machinery ("XCMG", SHE:000425) has ranked No. 3 among the world's original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the latest Yellow Table published by International Construction Magazine, a subsidiary of global construction media company KHL Group. XCMG has maintained the top three rankings for three consecutive years.
The Yellow Table ranks the world's top 50 OEMs by sales revenues in 2022. Despite the influences from the economic cycle as well as the construction machinery industry's close relation to the overall demands and fixed investments, XCMG reported a total revenue of 93.817 billion yuan (USD 13.20 billion), 27.838 billion yuan (USD 3.92 billion) of which were from overseas revenues, a 50.5 percent growth year-on-year and accounting for 30 percent of XCMG's total revenue, while its export income totaled 21.63 billion yuan (USD 3.04 billion), marking a 70.5 percent increase year-on-year.
Leveraging high-performance products and strong brand influence, multiple of XCMG's business units, including excavation, hoisting, earthmoving, and road machinery, have been growing exponentially with increased market shares and top rankings globally.
In 2022, XCMG has delivered large batches of products to high-end markets in Europe and North America, as well as countries along the "Belt and Road" Initiative. It has exported the 800-ton all-terrain crane to Singapore, 2,000-ton wind turbine crane to Bosnia and Herzegovina, setting a series of export records.
XCMG has achieved sales and successful delivery of the entire crane product portfolio in Europe, which makes it the only company to export complete sets of hoisting machinery in batches to the European market. XCMG's excavator equipment have received rave reviews in the U.S., while its new energy electric products were praised by the New Zealand Prime Minister and Minister of Transport. The GR5505 mining graders, which XCMG has developed in partnership with Rio Tinto, have been shipped off to work in mines in Australia.
Meanwhile XCMG has continually achieved breakthroughs in the R&D and manufacturing of green and new energy equipment products, further advancing the sustainable strategy for green, low-carbon, and intelligent new infrastructure.
"I think more and more people are realizing that electric vehicles can be a very important approach to decarbonization, and in the next five years there will be more and more new energy products, probably reaching the scale of 30 percent," said Liu Jiansen, vice president of XCMG.
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Most grazing animals spend their time in open pastures. But there is a movement to raise livestock in the forest to benefit animals and the environment.
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Most grazing animals spend their time in open pastures. But there is a movement to raise livestock in the forest to benefit animals and the environment.
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(KTLA) – Instagram and OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney has been arrested on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of her boyfriend.
Wednesday’s arrest comes four months after Clenney, 26, stabbed 27-year-old Christian “Toby” Obumseli in the couple’s Miami apartment.
Clenney is claiming self-defense.
Miami police had first responded on April 3 to a call of a domestic disturbance at a condo, where they said Clenney, who appears on OnlyFans under the name Courtney Tailor, stabbed Obumseli, NewsNation previously reported.
Video from the scene that was obtained by TMZ appeared to show Clenney handcuffed and covered in blood.
Obumseli was taken to a trauma center and pronounced dead from stab wounds.
No charges had been filed in the case as of mid-April, according to NewsNation. But police in Miami-Dade County eventually issued an arrest warrant for the offense of murder in the second degree with a deadly weapon, Nexstar’s KHON reported.
Clenney was arrested Wednesday “without incident at an undisclosed location” in Laupahoehoe, Hawaii, according to police. As of Thursday morning, Clenney was being held at the East Hawai’i Detention Center.
Clenney has over 2 million followers on social media.
Clenney’s lawyer, Frank Prieto, had previously claimed his client was defending herself from Obumseli.
“She was in fear for her life, and Mr. Obumseli was in the act of committing a forcible felony, to wit: a burglary with a battery,” Prieto said in a statement provided to NewsNation in April. “We expect the City of Miami Police Department and the State Attorney’s office to close their investigation in the near future.”
Clenney is scheduled to make her first court appearance in Hilo District Court on Aug. 11.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Nick Brown, who recently stepped down as U.S. attorney in Seattle, announced Wednesday he’s running to be Washington’s next attorney general, setting up a contest with state Sen. Manka Dhingra, a longtime prosecutor herself.
Brown, 46, served less than two years as the top federal prosecutor for western Washington before stepping down in June in anticipation of the campaign. He was the state’s first Black U.S. attorney.
The Democrat previously worked as general counsel to Gov. Jay Inslee, as a litigation partner at a prominent Seattle law firm and — in a less common qualification for the job — as a contestant on the second season of the reality show “Survivor,” which aired in 2001.
Dhingra, a Redmond Democrat who serves as deputy majority leader, is the only other candidate so far. She has been a senior deputy prosecutor in King County for the past 20 years and helped train police in crisis intervention.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who gained a national profile by challenging the travel ban and other policies of former President Donald Trump, kicked off an exploratory campaign for governor in May after Inslee said he wouldn’t seek a fourth term.
Dhingra and Brown each said they hope to build on Ferguson’s legacy and would work to crack down on gun violence, protect abortion access and stand up to corporations who take advantage of consumers.
“Under Bob Ferguson’s leadership, more and more people have realized the potential of this office and how it can positively impact people’s lives,” Dhingra said. “It’s important to have the next attorney general who is a fighter, who will stand up for people’s rights and ensure that we are protecting people and taking care of people.”
Brown, a former judge advocate general in the Army, served as Inslee’s general counsel from 2013-17 — a period when the state dealt with complex legal issues that included the governor’s moratorium on the death penalty and the establishment of a pioneering legal marijuana industry. The position gave him insight into the workings of the attorney general’s office, he said.
“What’s really important for this job is to be able to hit the ground running the very first day,” Brown said. “When I was a U.S. attorney, we had 150 employees and a $15 million budget — and I’ve been in charge and led there and led in the governor’s office and led in my time in the Army.”
Brown was an assistant U.S. attorney in Seattle for six years before going to the governor’s office.
Brown said that as U.S. attorney, he sought to combat cybercrime, the fentanyl crisis, gun violence and human trafficking, while also emphasizing civil rights. He has called criminal prosecution a “blunt instrument” and suggested that justice also requires more creative approaches.
Dhingra cited her work on helping to establish veterans and mental health courts; sponsoring laws to ban assault weapons and ghost guns; and working to create strong privacy protections for sensitive reproductive and health care data.
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Lakers vs. Grizzlies Injury Report Today - April 28
Check out the injury report for the Los Angeles Lakers (43-39), which currently includes three players listed, as the Lakers prepare for their NBA playoffs first round game 6 against the Memphis Grizzlies (51-31) at Crypto.com Arena on Friday, April 28 at 10:30 PM ET.
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The teams play again after the Grizzlies took down the Lakers 116-99 on Wednesday. Desmond Bane led the Grizzlies to the win with a team-high 33 points. Anthony Davis put up 31 points in the Lakers' loss.
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Lakers vs. Grizzlies Game Info
- When: Friday, April 28, 2023 at 10:30 PM ET
- Where: Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California
- TV: ESPN
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Lakers Season Insights
- The Lakers average only 4.2 more points per game (117.2) than the Grizzlies allow (113).
- When Los Angeles puts up more than 113 points, it is 34-16.
- The Lakers have seen an increase in scoring lately, racking up 118.4 points per game in their last 10 outings, 1.2 points more than the 117.2 they've scored this season.
- Los Angeles makes 10.8 three-pointers per game (24th in the league), 1.7 fewer than its opponents (12.5).
- The Lakers average 111.8 points per 100 possessions on offense (19th in the league), and allow 111.5 points per 100 possessions (14th in the NBA).
Grizzlies Season Insights
- The Grizzlies score an average of 116.9 points per game, only 0.3 more points than the 116.6 the Lakers give up.
- Memphis has put together a 34-7 record in games it scores more than 116.6 points.
- Over their last 10 games, the Grizzlies are scoring 113.7 points per contest, 3.2 fewer points than their season average (116.9).
- Memphis connects on 12 three-pointers per game (16th in the league), while its opponents have made 13 on average.
- The Grizzlies score 112.3 points per 100 possessions (14th in league), while allowing 108.3 points per 100 possessions (second in NBA).
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Ford unveiled the 2024 Mustang on Wednesday night during the media preview of the Detroit Auto Show, but the biggest news for its legendary pony car might be what hasn’t changed. The coupe and convertible will not be electrified and will instead carry over updated versions of Ford’s 2.3-liter turbo-4 and classic 5.0-liter V-8.
That V-8 could be alone in the atrophying muscle car world. Production of the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger will end at the end of 2023, and with it the many V-8 variants wrenched out of Dodge SRT’s mechanical wizardry. Dodge plans to ditch combustion engines altogether in favor of a new take on the electric car. The production-leaning Charger Daytona Concept flexes muscle car traits with a roaring exhaust sound and multi-speed transmission packaged in a drop-dead gorgeous design.
While we know the plans for Ford and Dodge muscle cars, Chevy remains inscrutable. Updates to the Camaro have been sparse the past couple of years, and rumors suggest production of the current sixth-generation Camaro will end in 2024 and it will be replaced by an electric performance sedan. With Chevy planning on selling full battery electric versions of the 2024 Chevy Equinox EV and 2024 Chevy Blazer EV alongside internal-combustion-engine versions of those popular crossovers, could Chevy carry two Camaros with different propulsion systems?
That seems unlikely. But it also seems unlikely that Chevy will leave Ford alone as the only builder and seller of a bona fide American icon, the V-8 muscle car. Which one is more unlikely?
Chevy has been playing follow the leader as it ramps up its Ultium battery propulsion system strategy. The Chevy Silverado EV followed the Ford F-150 Lightning to market, and the Blazer EV followed the Ford Mustang Mach-E to market in the booming electric crossover segment.
Does the market still support multiple ICE muscle cars? In 2021, Ford ceded its muscle car crown to the aging Dodge Challenger, which outsold the Mustang by about 1,900 units. Dodge sold roughly 54,300 Challengers to the Mustang’s 52,400. Camaro sales have been running at less than half of that. GM sold fewer than 22,000 Camaros in 2021 compared to around 50,000 in 2018 and 2019. When the sixth-gen Camaro launched for 2016, sales were above 70,000, as they had been for nearly the decade prior.
There’s no denying the Camaro slide, but would an automaker abandoned a segment it helped create that still accounted for 120,000 vehicles annually?
What is known for sure is the continuation of the Ford Mustang. Expected in dealerships early next summer, the 2024 Ford Mustang sports a more wind-swept style and hosts many technological upgrades. The seventh-generation pony car wears new body panels, according to Ford, and will have more downforce and a lower coefficient of drag from its predecessors. The low beltline, long nose, and short deck remain, but the rear haunches flex out in a more Camaro-like way, and Ford has updated its tri-bar lighting theme front and back.
Inside, every Mustang comes with a 12.4-inch digital instrument cluster configurable with five different themes. The most interesting theme is Fox Body that projects an analog look in homage to the third-generation Mustang that spanned the ’80s and courted a new generation of Mustang fans. It will be complemented by a 13.2-inch infotainment touchscreen, and on top models the screens will be housed under a single piece of glass.
A flat-bottomed steering wheel will be mixed with higher grade cabin materials with more soft-touch surfaces, contrast stitching, and a red upholstery option. An electronic drift brake presents a new take on an endangered feature, with a handle that turns 90 degrees instead of a pull-up hand brake. The key fob enables remote start and remote engine revving.
Underneath the whizz buzz bang, the Mustang remains mostly the same, riding on the same platform since the sixth-gen version launched for 2015. The lower control arms, rear suspension links, and other suspension components have been updated, and the steering system has been revised for a quicker steering ratio, Ford said.
Ford didn’t disclose specs, but the engines receive updates that should boost power and increase fuel efficiency on the turbo-4. The 2022 Ford Mustang has a 310-hp 2.3-liter turbo-4 that can be upgraded to 330 hp with a Performance Pack.
The 5.0-liter V-8 channels more air with the latest update, and Ford suggests the upgrades should improve output beyond the current 450-hp rating for the GT and 470-hp rating in the Mach 1. A 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse aims for an output of 500 hp, and spawns a series of track-ready Dark Horse variants. A 6-speed manual or 10-speed automatic transmission carry over for the turbo-4 and V-8, and the rear wheels and only the rear wheels get all the torque.
An optional Performance Pack can be added to both the GT and turbo-4 for greater handling and stability with a front strut tower brace and a limited-slip rear differential. Available add-ons with the Performance Pack include a magnetic suspension, wider rear wheels and tires, larger brakes, Recaro bucket seats, and an active exhaust.
Expect more news and specs, and perhaps an announcement from Chevy, in the months preceding the arrival of the 2024 Ford Mustang next summer.
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With the new AHSAA rule that allows high school football teams an extra week of practice in fall camp in lieu of having 10 days of spring football, there aren’t as many teams playing spring games this year.
Piedmont, St. Michael, McGill-Toolen, Oneonta and Clay-Chalkville are just a few of the teams that have opted out of a traditional spring.
Still, the month of May will bring some interesting matchups that will provide a glimpse of what we might expect from teams in the fall.
Here is a look at five intriguing spring football game matchups along with a list of other games around the state.
Spain Park at Prattville, 7 p.m., May 16
The skinny: Spain Park has a new leader in former Jackson-Olin coach Tim Vakakes. He led the Mustangs to 49 wins in nine years, including a 9-3 mark in 2021. He takes over a Spain Park team that has slumped badly since an appearance in the Class 7A title game in 2015. Last year’s team went just 2-8. J.B. Wallace enters Year No. 2 at Prattville. The Lions were 7-4 in his debut season as head coach.
Gadsden City at Hoover, 7 p.m., May 17
For the first time since in 14 years, someone other than Josh Niblett will be walking the sidelines for Hoover. Former James Clemens and Florence coach Wade Waldrop takes over the Bucs this year after Niblett retired and took a job at Gainesville (Ga.) High. Hoover won 6 state titles under Niblett and 5 other previous coach Rush Propst. Tough shoes for anyone to follow.
RELATED: One man’s story is all you need to know about Wade Waldrop’s character
Eufaula at Auburn, 6 p.m., May 19
Good matchup between two of the state’s top rising senior prospects and future Iron Bowl players. Eufaula EDGE Yhonzae Pierre committed to Alabama last month. Auburn offensive lineman Bradyn Joiner is committed to Auburn. Pierre is ranked No. 17 among the state’s top senior prospects, according to the 247 composite rankings. Joiner is No. 20.
Montgomery Catholic at Homewood, 6 p.m., May 19
Although Catholic fell short of a state championship a year ago, few teams dominated the competition like the Knights did. Kirk Johnson’s team outscored opponents 636-43 and recorded eight shutouts. Rival Montgomery Academy beat Catholic 10-7 in the state semifinals. The Eagles’ 10 points marked the highest total given up by the Catholic defense all season. Gone from that team are defensive stars TJ Dudley, Kylon Griffin and Jourdan Thomas. However, QB Caleb McCreary returns as does RB Jeremiah Cobb (No. 19 in the 247 rankings).
Hueytown at Sparkman, 7 p.m., May 20
If there is a favorite to win Mr. Football this year, it is likely Hueytown QB Earl Woods. The 5-foot-10, 170-pound quarterback completed 170-of-300 passes for 3,071 yards and 32 touchdowns with nine interceptions and ran 312 times for 2,120 yards with 35 more scores in leading the Golden Gophers to the Class 6A championship game. The reigning Gatorade Alabama Player of the Year is must-see TV as they say.
ALABAMA SPRING FOOTBALL GAME SCHEDULE
Friday, May 6
Fruitdale at Citronelle, 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 12
Elberta at Foley, 7 p.m.
Friday, May 13
Central-Tuscaloosa at Briarwood, 7 p.m.
Saks vs. Fyffe at Coosa Christian, 6 p.m.
Fyffe at Coosa Christian, 7 p.m.
Haralson County (Ga.) at Gulf Shores, 6 p.m.
Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa at Mountain Brook, 7 p.m.
Randolph at Elkmont, 6 p.m.
Theodore vs. Ocean Springs vs. Picayune (at Ocean Springs)
Monday, May 16
Spain Park at Prattville, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, May 17
Gadsden City at Hoover, 7 p.m.
Thursday, May 19
Eufaula at Auburn, 6 p.m.
Huntsville at Hartselle, 7 p.m.
McAdory at Vestavia Hills, 6 p.m.
Montgomery Catholic at Homewood, 6 p.m.
Muscle Shoals at Austin, 7 p.m.
North Pike vs. Saraland at Southern Miss, 3:30
Parker at Hewitt-Trussville, 7 p.m.
Friday, May 20
Asbury at Crossville, 7 p.m.
B.C. Rain at Southside-Selma, 7 p.m.
Davidson at Greene County, Miss., 7 p.m.
Dora at Russellville, 6 p.m.
Grissom at Decatur, 7 p.m.
Hueytown at Sparkman, 7 p.m.
Minor at Jasper, 6 p.m.
Mobile Christian vs. Long Beach, Miss. at Southern Miss, 6:30 p.m.
Priceville at Good Hope, 7 p.m.
Woodlawn at Dallas County, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 21
Baker vs. East St. John (St. Louis) at Southern Miss, 11:30 a.m.
Ramsay at Jackson-Olin, 4 p.m.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Coaches if you would like your spring game added to the list, please email bthomas@al.com with your opponent, date and time of game.
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RENO, Nev., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Conquer, a leading provider of Sales Enablement solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Aragon Research, Inc. in the "Leader" section of the Aragon Research Globe™ for Sales Enablement Platforms, 2023.
Aragon Research points to Conquer's Salesforce-native architecture, which allows for all activities to be captured automatically in the CRM, as a key strength for its leadership position. "This saves significant time and also means that enterprises don't have to acquire separate activity update offerings."
Another key strength highlighted includes enterprise-friendly guided selling functionality that "allows reps to focus on the prospects, deals, and customers that need attention first. Reps are prompted with the next best steps, open touchpoints, call scripts, and field updates specific to the sales process defined inside CRM."
"SEPs have become a de facto part of the sales enablement stack and have a defined set of capabilities," said Jim Lundy, CEO and Lead Analyst, Aragon Research. "Small and large enterprises have realized that generic office tools do not provide the levels of productivity that sales teams need, nor do they interface with CRM platforms, which is critical."
The Aragon Research Globe™ for Sales Enablement Platforms evaluated 15 technology providers that allow an enterprise to manage all aspects and touchpoints of the sales process. "Leaders" are noted as having comprehensive strategies that align with industry direction and market demand and perform effectively against those strategies.
Download the full Aragon Research Globe™ for Sales Enablement Platforms, 2023.
Aragon Research does not endorse vendors, or their products or services that are referenced in its research publications, and does not advise users to select those vendors that are rated the highest. Aragon Research publications consist of the opinions of Aragon Research and Advisory Services organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Aragon Research provides its research publications and the information contained in them "AS IS," without warranty of any kind.
Aragon Research "Aragon Research Globe™ for Sales Enablement Platforms, 2023" by Jim Lundy, CEO, Aragon Research, January 12th, 2023. © 2023 Aragon Research, Inc. and/or its Affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
Conquer makes selling smarter by delivering intelligent sales insight, engagement, and automation. Conquer works from a single pane of glass inside Salesforce to connect your sellers with your economic buyers faster, with less effort, and better results.
The Conquer Cadence Sales Engagement Platform enables sellers to:
- Reach and close buyers faster by combining enterprise grade voice and omnichannel communications with smart follow-up cadences.
- Gain visibility and drive rep efficiency without relying on rep data input through automated logging of all rep activities without application switching in a "single pane of glass" in Salesforce.com.
- Close more revenue with less ramp up and training through guided selling with real-time delivery of competitive battlecards and objection responses.
- Understand your revenue generation process at a deeper level with Conquer's intelligent reporting correlating every rep action to closed-won opportunities.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The urgency of treating chronic wounds and foot ulcers cannot be ignored. In recognition of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) Awareness Month, Healogics® is empowering patients living with PAD, to seek timely wound care treatment critical for optimal healing and reducing the risk of amputations.
Nearly 10 million people in the United States are living with PAD, affecting 1 in 5 people over the age of 60. Of those living with late-stage PAD, 25% may require an amputation within one year.
It can be a painful condition caused by a blockage in the arteries to the legs. Just like blockages in the heart's vessels, PAD is caused by a buildup of plaque and fatty material on the inner walls of the arteries in the extremities. Not only does PAD make it difficult to walk, especially when wounds are present, but is a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke.
"It's important to seek medical attention if you suspect you have PAD. Be aware of what your symptoms are and let your primary care physician know to check for PAD. Since PAD is such a prevalent problem that oftentimes goes undiagnosed, request a non-invasive and painless test called ankle brachial index (ABI). This is the first step to understanding how much blockage in the arteries is present and what the level of risk may be. Without the blood flow to wounded areas, necrosis develops and if left untreated, amputation may be the only recourse," said Healogics Chief Medical Officer, Dr. William Ennis.
Do not dismiss leg pain as part of growing old and seek care if you have these symptoms:
- Pain or cramps in the back of leg while walking or exercising
- Lower legs and feet that are cool to touch or that have shiny skin
- Legs and feet appear pale when raised and bluish/purplish when hanging down
- Numbness or tingling in the feet and legs
- A sore or wound on the toes, legs or feet that does not heal
There are 40% of those living with PAD that may not experience symptoms or leg pain until a wound becomes resistant to heal. The specialized care provided by Wound Care Centers® can reduce healing times, increase healing rates and significantly lower amputation risks.
"Treatment delays and the staggering increase in amputations drive us to work harder to improve awareness and access to advanced wound care. Any untreated wound is at risk for complications. Far too often we see patients who have developed a wound and may not have experienced pain because the neuropathy prevented the pain response. Many people do not realize that clogged arteries in the legs can be a warning sign of PAD and 82% of leg amputations are due to poor circulation of the affected limb. One of the most significant warning signs of PAD is foot ulcers that do not heal, specifically in people living with diabetes. Throughout September, we seek to educate our communities and health care providers to improve access to wound care for all that need it," said Healogics Chief Executive Officer, David Bassin.
If you or someone you care for is at risk for PAD and has a wound that is not healing, find a Center near you today. For more information, visit Healogics.com.
Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., Healogics is the nation's wound healing expert. Last year over 300,000 patients received advanced wound care through a network of over 600 Wound Care Centers. Healogics also partners with over 300 skilled nursing facilities to care for patients with chronic wounds and provides inpatient consults at more than 60 partner hospitals. As the industry leader, Healogics has the largest repository of chronic wound-specific patient data in the country. The Healogics Wound Science Initiative offers peer-reviewed research and advanced analytics in the pursuit of not only better outcomes but a better way to provide care.
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WHO chief: U.S. abortion ruling ‘a setback,’ will cost lives
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. calling the decision to no longer recognize a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would ultimately cost lives.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a media briefing that decades of scientific data prove that access to safe and legal abortion saves lives.
“The evidence is irrefutable,” Tedros said. “Restricting (abortion) drives women and girls toward unsafe abortions resulting in complications, even death.” He said safe abortion should be understood as health care and warned that limiting its access would disproportionately hit women from the poorest and most marginalized communities.
“We hadn’t really expected this from the U.S.,” Tedros said, adding that he was concerned the Supreme Court’s decision was a move “backwards.” In recent years, the U.S. has supported numerous maternal health care programs in developing countries, including access to reproductive health care.
“We had really hoped the U.S. would lead on this issue,” Tedros said.
WHO’s chief scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, said the U.N. health agency’s position on abortion was based on decades of data from numerous countries.
“I know from own experience, working in India, that having access to safe abortion is a life-saving measure,” Swaminathan said. She said denying a woman access to abortion was “like denying someone a life-saving drug.”
She said bans on abortion would do little to reduce the number of procedures while people who undergo unsafe abortions are at risk of developing fatal blood infections.
“What these bans do...is it drives women into the hands of people who are there to exploit the situation, performing unsafe abortion and very often resulting in a huge amount of damage to their health and sometimes death,” Swaminathan said.
In recent years, the trend among countries has been to increase access to abortion, including regions where there was staunch opposition, like Latin America, she said.
“It’s unfortunate to see some countries going backward,” Swaminathan said, citing the U.S. decision.
WHO chief Tedros said he feared many other countries might not understand the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling and could take similar measures to restrict abortions.
“The global impact is also a concern,” he said. “This is about the life of mother,” he said. “If safe abortion is illegal, then women will definitely resort to unsafe ways of doing it. And that means it could cost them their lives.”
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Arizona appeals court reinstates injunction blocking pre-statehood total abortion ban, allowing abortions to restart
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona appeals court reinstates injunction blocking pre-statehood total abortion ban, allowing abortions to restart.
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona appeals court reinstates injunction blocking pre-statehood total abortion ban, allowing abortions to restart.
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evolv Consulting plans to hire additional 50+ Snowflake data professionals by end-of-year to support client needs for Snowflake Data Cloud initiatives and transformations
DALLAS, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- evolv Consulting today announced an initiative to hire an additional 50+ Data Architects and Engineers with Snowflake experience before year-end to keep up with the explosive growth they've experienced since partnering with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. This commitment is a critical step for evolv in their mission to bring innovative technology solutions, expertise, and a fresh perspective to their clients' emerging and traditional business challenges. After witnessing the business results achieved by evolv's and Snowflake's shared client-base, evolv is reinvesting in their commitment to Snowflake.
"evolv and Snowflake have allowed us to access previously unavailable data sources and improve the overall data experience, maximizing value beyond just migration," says evolv Client, Adam Colclasure, Senior Director of Risk Infrastructure at SoFi. "We are centralizing data across multiple sources, enabling faster data availability and increasing reporting performance."
This news comes shortly after evolv experienced sweeping 5x year-over-year client demand and employee growth for Data Strategy & Engineering Services and in the wake of many other growth-related initiatives and accomplishments, including:
- Recognition as a Select Services Partner by Snowflake
- Development and growth of new solution offerings including Machine Learning and Marketing Technology
- Beginning construction on 25,000-square feet of new office space in Dallas, TX
Katie Ecklund, Senior Director of Partner Sales - America at Snowflake said of evolv "During our partnership with evolv they've developed a Snowflake Core Center of Excellence to provide deep expertise and thought leadership inside the Snowflake Data Cloud. evolv is invested in leveraging the full potential of Snowflake's Data Cloud to advance and accelerate implementations, to provide clients with both quick wins and digital transformations."
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John C. Besley, Michigan State University
(THE CONVERSATION) Most Americans – 81% – think government investments in scientific research are “worthwhile investments for society over time,” according to the Pew Research Center’s latest survey on public perceptions of science.
A similar proportion said they have at least “a fair amount” of confidence that scientists act in the public’s best interests: 77% for all scientists, and 80% for medical scientists. As with previous surveys, this puts confidence in scientists at about the same level as in the military – 77%. It’s also much higher than for any other group pollsters asked about and, unlike most groups, fairly stable over time, despite recent increasing political polarization.
Science supporters want researchers to share their insights to help address societal problems. Scientists themselves want their research to have an impact. So public judgments like those identified in the Pew report matter because of what they suggest about how Americans might see evidence-based guidance on issues such as climate change and public health.
Don’t fixate on the negatives
It would be easy for the scientific community to look at this data and lament the 1 in 5 Americans who said they don’t think government investments in science are important or who said they do not have confidence in scientists.
Same with the fact that confidence in scientists has retreated from a small surge that Pew surveys previously identified starting in late 2018, or the reality that Republicans appear to have increasingly more negative views about scientists and scientific investments than Democrats do.
But I suspect there are more shades of gray behind the black and white numbers themselves.
For instance, while two-thirds of Democrat-oriented respondents said they supported scientists’ involvement in policy debates, less than a third of Republican-oriented respondents said they share this perspective, a further decrease from the proportion of Republicans who expressed this view in both 2019 and 2020.
But consider that this specific question only gave people two choices. Respondents could say they want scientists to take an “active role” in policy or “focus on establishing sound scientific facts.”
Given the choice, I suspect many respondents from across the political spectrum would have given a more nuanced answer. Even the biggest science boosters likely want scientists to devote most of their time to research and teaching.
Within this new survey, in fact, only about a third of Republicans said scientists currently have “too much” influence in public policy debates and about a quarter said scientists have “not enough” influence. The plurality – 39% – said they have “about the right amount.”
From my perspective, yes, it is disheartening that about 2 in 10 Republicans think scientists are “usually worse” at “making good policy decisions about scientific issues” than “other people” and that this proportion has doubled since 2019.
But about a quarter of Republicans still said scientists’ decisions are “usually better” than others, with about half saying scientists’ decisions are “neither better nor worse.”
And it seems possible that while current Republicans responded to the survey they were thinking about issues such as abortion or COVID-19 policies that involve medicine, but also ethics and economics and personal values. Additionally, many Republicans presumably recognize that most scientists oppose current directions in the party and may be using their poll answers to communicate their sense of alienation.
What could improve overall perceptions
Data such as those provided by the Pew Research Center point to potential problems; they don’t suggest a fix. Taking a positive view, though, puts the focus on potential solutions.
As Anthony Dudoand I argue in our new book on science communication strategy, anyone who wants to be trusted – including scientists – should consider social science research about what enhances trust and perceptions of trustworthiness.
Key among these findings: people perceive others as trustworthy if they appear to be caring, honest and competent.
Looking back at the Pew Research Center’s 2019 surveys on trust in science, which are consistent with other research, it seems that Americans largely perceive scientists as fairly competent. However, Americans tend to be less likely to believe scientists “care about people’s best interests,” are “transparent about conflicts of interest” or willing to take “responsibility for mistakes.”
These perceived characteristics help explain the chunk of the American population who don’t feel confident about scientists’ motivations. They are also perceptions that scientists, like others, can take responsibility for through their choices about how they behave and communicate.
Further, Americans tend to see “research scientists” less positively than science-focused practitioners such as doctors, suggesting that they feel more distant from academic researchers.
Looking on the bright side for better results
Focusing too heavily on the minority of people with negative perceptions is dangerous for those of us who want science to play a strong role in society because attacking one’s critics may exacerbate the problem.
While it might feel righteous to “fight” for science, being aggressive toward people who question one’s trustworthiness seems unlikely to spur positive perceptions.
Unlike politicians, science supporters probably can’t win by making others look bad. Just like the press, members of the scientific community want to ensure their field’s long-term place in society. Research suggests that for scientists, building real relationships with other members of the public will depend on communicating and behaving in ways that demonstrate caring, honesty and expertise.
Loud griping by scientists and their supporters about how too many people just don’t appreciate science’s place in society, or insults toward those who don’t see its value, are bound to be counterproductive.
The stakes are high as humanity confronts a number of science-related challenges, including climate change, infectious diseases and habitat destruction. Anyone who wants scientific evidence to have a seat at the table where solutions are being discussed may need to follow the evidence on how to make that happen.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/most-americans-do-trust-scientists-and-science-based-policy-making-freaking-out-about-the-minority-who-dont-isnt-helpful-193085.
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Which Asics golf shoes are best?
Golf shoes are often forgotten when it comes to integral golf equipment yet are easily among the most essential pieces. You won’t have the sturdiest stance without proper golf shoes, which means your swing won’t be perfect. And if your swing isn’t perfect, go ahead and add a few strokes to your game.
The best Asics golf shoes are the Asics Men’s Gel-Course Duo Boa Golf Shoes. They sport a special tying system that’s finely tuned and fast to take off, plus they have excellent grip with plastic spikes.
What to know before you buy Asics golf shoes
Golf shoe types
Asics makes athletic golf shoes, but you may want to consider traditional golf shoes or even golf sandals.
- Athletic golf shoes look similar to most athletic footwear. In fact, many Asics golf shoes are visually indistinguishable from the average tennis shoe. They’re typically made of synthetics to be water-resistant and breathable. Better shoes, including Asics’, are filled with padding for shock absorption and comfort. These are perfect for any type of golfer.
- Traditional golf shoes are the old-fashioned loafers of yesteryear. They’re usually made of leather, waterproof and highly durable, but have poor breathability and are expensive. They’re best for golfers who like to show off their style.
- Sandal golf shoes are just sandals with spikes on the outsole. They’re hard to beat when it comes to comfort and typically the most affordable, but they’re severely lacking in style.
Spiked vs. spikeless
Asics offers both types, and each has its pros and cons.
- Spiked golf shoes have the most grip, leading to greater stability and a better swing. They’re especially helpful when playing on slippery or steep terrain and if your swing is big and fast. The spikes can also be replaced or repaired once worn down. However, they tend to be a little more expensive and can be uncomfortable to walk on.
- Spikeless golf shoes use little nubs instead of big spikes. This still adds more grip and stability than standard athletic shoes without sacrificing comfort. They’re also safe to wear off the course. However, they don’t match the performance of full spikes, and they cannot be repaired or replaced once worn down.
What to look for in quality Asics golf shoes
Waterproofing
The best Asics golf shoes are completely waterproof. Carefully read the item descriptions when shopping, as some Asics golf shoes are only waterproofed in certain areas rather than across the entire shoe.
Tying method
The best Asics golf shoes use the “Boa system” instead of standard laces. This system allows you to tighten and loosen the shoes with a single knob.
How much you can expect to spend on Asics golf shoes
Asics golf shoes typically cost $50-$300. Older versions of its shoes typically cost less than $100, while the best cost $200-$300. Most cost $90-$180.
Asics golf shoes FAQ
Why can’t I just wear regular athletic shoes?
A. It’s perfectly acceptable to wear regular athletic shoes if you want, especially if you rarely golf or play just for fun. However, if you golf regularly — and you’re competitive — wearing regular athletic shoes instead of golf shoes negatively affects your stance by limiting your stability, balance, and grip. Since a good stance is a basic requirement for a good swing, you’ll need golf shoes if you want to keep your stroke count low.
Is it safe to wear spiked shoes off the course?
A. Generally, spiked shoes are safe to wear off the golf course but uncomfortable, plus the spikes can easily damage some flooring. Wearing them off the course also means the spikes wear down faster, so you won’t get as much use out of them where it matters.
How long do Asics golf shoes last?
A. It depends on how well you take care of them and how often they’re worn. If you’re always on the links and treat them poorly, they likely won’t last more than a year. Infrequent wear and regular maintenance can see them last as long as five years. They last two to three years on average.
What are the best Asics golf shoes to buy?
Top Asics golf shoes
Asics Men’s Gel-Course Duo Boa Golf Shoes
What you need to know: Never worry about laces again with these Asics golf shoes.
What you’ll love: They use Asics’ special “Boa fit” system that includes a knob to tighten the laces and an instant-release button so you can pop right out. There are seven sets of plastic spikes spread around the outsole, and the heel uses gel for extra shock absorption.
What you should consider: They’re expensive. A few consumers reported a clicking noise with each step and that the white shoe turned yellow over time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Asics golf shoes for the money
Asics Unisex Gel-Preshot Classic 3 Golf Shoes
What you need to know: These are as simple, comfy and affordable as golf shoes come.
What you’ll love: The outsole is spikeless and rubber for extra comfort while walking but still has enough texture to provide solid grip and traction. It comes in five colors, including a two-tone white, and passes for standard sneakers, so there’s no need to change shoes.
What you should consider: The shoe isn’t waterproof, so damp grass may invade and soak your socks. A few customers reported them to run large.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Asics Women’s Gel-Course Glide Golf Shoes
What you need to know: These shoes put a heavy emphasis on comfort.
What you’ll love: The shoe’s upper section has several designs implemented to reduce foot irritation. Gel in the heel and foam in the midsole adds ample cushioning and shock absorption. The outsole is spikeless but has a spike-like pattern for extra traction.
What you should consider: Some purchasers reported them running large. Others found them to run narrow. A few had issues with returning or swapping pairs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — A York man is in custody after police say he robbed another man at gunpoint post car crash in late July.
Camp Hill Police say the victim had pulled off to the side of the road after he said he was rear-ended by a car with two men inside, including 26-year-old Junior Georges, on Route 15 northbound.
Once the cars stopped, police say Georges pulled out a handgun and told the victim to drive to their bank and withdraw $800.
Officials say the victim complied and drove the Georges to the bank while another subject followed in the vehicle that had originally rear-ended the victim's car.
While at the bank, police say the victim and Georges went inside to withdraw the money. Georges then got back in the vehicle that had originally rear-ended the victim's vehicle and left.
While investigating, police say they identified Georges, taking him into custody on Sept. 1.
Georges is facing robbery, weapons and unlawful restraint charges.
Anyone who has information regarding this incident is asked to contact Sgt. Scott Cornelious at 717-737-1570 or scornelious@camphillpolice.org.
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DENVER and MERCER ISLAND, Wash., Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Redwood Trust, Inc. (NYSE: RWT) ("Redwood"), a leader in expanding access to housing for homebuyers and renters, and LauraMac, a modern SaaS technology provider to the mortgage capital markets, have announced their collaborative development on a new loan acquisition technology to be used by Redwood and their clients. Built on the foundation of the LauraMac Loan Acquisition System ("LAS"), the Redwood technology instance has been specifically tailored to their unique loan process as well as their priority to providing an exceptional client experience.
"Redwood has built their loan acquisition business around great products and a great client experience," said Carlene Graham, Chief Operating Officer of Redwood. "We are excited to be part of developing a modern technology solution to further enhance the client experience with a nimble and innovative technology partner like LauraMac."
The Redwood technology features a modern and intuitive seller dashboard for clients to run scenarios, price loans, order services, and manage their pipeline. The seller experience is further enhanced with a configurable workflow, automated document recognition technology, and a robust rules engine to increase the efficiency of the sale transaction and create complete transparency for all parties in the trade.
"LauraMac is thrilled to collaborate with a market leader like Redwood on this project," said LauraMac Chief Executive Officer Bob Fulton. "Redwood's vision in designing this product and the trust they've placed in LauraMac to develop this technology has made the relationship a great success."
To learn more about Redwood visit www.RedwoodTrust.com. To learn more about the LauraMac LAS, visit www.LauraMac.com.
LauraMac was formed in 2019 by a team of leaders with deep experience in the mortgage capital markets and the development of technology. LauraMac provides modern SaaS technology solutions to the mortgage secondary and capital markets with products for document recognition and management, data extraction, loan due diligence, quality control, pricing and transaction management, and servicing transfer. The power of the LauraMac Platform is in the versatility of its design.
Redwood Trust, Inc. (NYSE: RWT) is a specialty finance company focused on several distinct areas of housing credit. Our operating platforms occupy a unique position in the housing finance value chain, providing liquidity to growing segments of the U.S. housing market not well served by government programs. We deliver customized housing credit investments to a diverse mix of investors, through our best-in-class securitization platforms; whole-loan distribution activities; and our publicly traded shares. Our aggregation, origination and investment activities have evolved to incorporate a diverse mix of residential, business purpose and multifamily assets. Our goal is to provide attractive returns to shareholders through a stable and growing stream of earnings and dividends, capital appreciation, and a commitment to technological innovation that facilitates risk-minded scale. We operate our business in three segments: Residential Mortgage Banking, Business Purpose Mortgage Banking and Investment Portfolio. Additionally, through RWT Horizons™, our venture investing initiative, we invest in early-stage companies strategically aligned with our business across the lending, real estate, and financial technology sectors to drive innovations across our residential and business-purpose lending platforms. Since going public in 1994, we have managed our business through several cycles, built a track record of innovation, and established a best-in-class reputation for service and a common-sense approach to credit investing. Redwood Trust is internally managed and structured as a real estate investment trust ("REIT") for tax purposes. For more information about Redwood, please visit our website at www.redwoodtrust.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.
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Mattivi confirmed as new KBI director
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Tony Mattivi has been confirmed as the 13th director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI).
Nominated by Attorney General Kris Kobach in January 2023, Kobach shared his thoughts on Mattivi joining his team.
“The Senate’s confirmation of Tony Mattivi as KBI Director is a reflection and recognition of his exceptional career in law enforcement. He will be a great asset to the state of Kansas in his new role, and I am honored to have him as a leading member of my team,” said Attorney General Kris Kobach.
For over 20 years, Director Mattivi served as a federal prosecutor — prosecuting drug trafficking, violent crime, racketeering, organized crime, gangs, money laundering and terrorism cases. In the 2000 capital case against the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the bombing of the USS Cole, Mattivi was the lead prosecutor. He also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice’s (USDOJ) Regime Crimes Liaison Office in Iraq, advising the Iraqi High Tribunal as they tried members of Saddam Hussein’s regime for committing war crimes.
Mattivi was part of the prosecution team who convicted three Kansas militia members for plotting to slaughter Somali Muslim immigrants living and worshipping at an apartment building and mosque in Garden City. He also prosecuted Terry Lee Loewen, a former U.S. Marine who attempted to detonate high explosives at the Wichita airport on behalf of al Qaeda, and John T. Booker, who conspired to detonate a truck bomb at Fort Riley in support of ISIS.
Over the years, he also worked for the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, the Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office, and as legal counsel for Medcor, an international healthcare company.
Mattivi is an alumni of the Metropolitan State College of Denver, and Washburn University School of Law. He was the Antiterrorism and National Security Coordinator for the District of Kansas, and recently served as president of the Federal Bar Association chapter of Kansas and Western Missouri.
“Under my leadership, the Bureau will be committed to aggressively investigating criminal activity while upholding the integrity, professionalism, and objectivity that makes it a valued resource to Kansas law enforcement,” said KBI Director Tony Mattivi. “Our absolute priority will be to work hard each day for Kansas citizens, and to assist law enforcement, prosecutors, and our criminal justice partners who rely on the expertise and services the KBI produces every day.”
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Accused Chicago officer killer ordered held without bond
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge ordered a teenager held without bond Friday in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer.
Steven Montano, 18, of Chicago, is charged with first-degree murder, two felony firearms charges and misdemeanor counts of assault and interfering with reporting domestic violence.
The officer was shot several times Wednesday afternoon on the city’s Southwest Side, Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown has said. He was identified Thursday as Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso, 32, by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The bail hearing was held a short time after the body of Vasquez-Lasso was taken with a police escort from the medical examiner’s office to a funeral home in Oak Lawn.
Montano was being chased when he suddenly turned around and pointed a gun at Vasquez-Lasso, prosecutors said at the hearing, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The two exchanged gunfire, with Montano hitting the officer in the head, arm and leg, prosecutors said. The officer fired twice and hit Montano in the face.
A police officer testified that Montano remained in critical condition Friday at Stroger Hospital.
An assistant public defender representing Montano said she had not had the opportunity to speak with her client and could provide no information about him for the hearing.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) threw his weight behind Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) hold on promotions for military officers over the Pentagon’s abortion policy, insisting that if he’s elected, the policy will not continue on.
“No, I don’t,” DeSantis said when asked by radio host Hugh Hewitt if he thinks Tuberville should release his hold. “And the reason is, the military’s policy is not following U.S. law. They are using tax dollars. They’re funding abortion tourism, which is not an appropriate thing for the military to be doing.”
“Our group of Republicans in the Congress should just take a stand on this,” he continued. “The [Department of Defense] should stand down. We have all these other problems in our military. We need more ammunition, we need more recruiting, we need all these other things and yet they’re focusing on abortion tourism.”
DeSantis added that the policy “will go out the window” on day one if he wins the White House.
Tuberville’s holds have been in place for more than five months, and the count of military promotions affected has increased to nearly 300, with little end in sight for lawmakers as they struggle to cut a deal with him to release the hold.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) indicated Thursday that he would support holding a one-off vote on the Senate floor on the policy, but it is unclear whether that would do the trick — Tuberville has not shown much interest in striking a deal that doesn’t include the policy itself changing.
Tuberville has held talks over the past week with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and has told reporters the talks are “cordial” but have not made any progress.
Pentagon officials Wednesday briefed members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the policy, and Tuberville said the briefing did not go well.
DeSantis has become one of the leading anti-abortion figures in the country, having signed a six-week abortion ban in Florida. He has not yet tossed his support behind a nationwide six-week ban.
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TEMPE, Ariz. , June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Manufactured Housing Industry of Arizona (MHIA) unveils a state-of-the-art online virtual marketplace of factory-built homes available in Arizona. The comprehensive consumer platform allows Arizona homebuyers the capability to browse, select, tour, and shop Arizona manufactured homes and modular homes for sale in Arizona.
MHIA's new website, ArizonaHousing.org will allow people shopping for a home to learn more about Arizona's manufactured and modular homes, view floorplans, get price quotes, find lenders and communities, and even take 3D tours of new homes available for sale.
"Today, people start their home buying experience online in order to focus on what they really need and want," said Tom Dunn, MHIA's President. "This is a unique online experience allowing Arizonans to shop for and find a new home or community that fits their lifestyle and budget."
About The Manufactured Housing Industry of Arizona
The Manufactured Housing Industry of Arizona is the trade association representing the factory-built housing industry in the Grand Canyon State. The Manufactured Housing Industry of Arizona (MHIA) not only serves the interests of our members in the Arizona factory-built housing industry but the interests of the prospective homebuyer as well. With a membership of over 100 individual businesses, the MHIA has become a potent force in Arizona, respected by both the government and the private sector. What this means for the prospective homebuyer is lower costs, fewer restrictions, more options, and fewer worries.
This new site is powered by Manufacturedhomes.com.
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DENVER (AP) — An attorney for one of two law enforcement officers indicted in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man who was stranded along a road in a small mountain town and having a “mental health crisis” last year is trying to have the charges thrown out against him.
Attorney Christopher T. Brousseau, representing Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Kyle Gould, told a judge in court Monday that there weren’t grounds to charge Gould with a crime. He said Gould was not among the officers who responded to help Christian Glass after his vehicle got stuck in the former mining town of Silver Plume in June.
Brousseau said Gould only gave advice to the other officer accused of shooting Glass, Andrew Buen, based on the information provided to him. Gould was off-duty and at home at the time, Brousseau said, echoing arguments he made in a motion to dismiss the charges filed last week.
Prosecutors did not respond to the argument during the hearing in Idaho Springs. Judge Catherine Cheroutes said she would give the district attorney’s office until Feb. 14 to respond to Brousseau’s arguments in writing.
Gould was indicted for reckless endangerment and criminally negligent homicide in Glass’ death, which drew national attention and prompted calls for police reforms focused on crisis intervention.
Glass, who called police to help get his Honda Pilot unstuck, appeared to be “paranoid” and having a “mental health crisis,” according to the indictment. After authorities broke a window in his vehicle, Glass then brandished a knife in “a state of complete panic and self defense,” and Buen fired five times at Glass, according to the indictment.
Gould gave permission for officers to break a vehicle window as a last resort, but he could not have foreseen a series of events that preceded the shooting, including Glass holding a knife and another officer getting too close to Glass, Brousseau said in last week’s filing.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota prosecutors were so worried a judge would move the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin out of the city where he killed George Floyd that they conducted a mock trial in a deep red rural county to test their strategy, Attorney General Keith Ellison reveals in a new book.
It worked. Ellison was pleasantly surprised that even the mock jurors in Stearns County of central Minnesota would have convicted Chauvin and three co-defendants of manslaughter, and almost all would have convicted them on the top charge of second-degree murder. Two simulated juries in Hennepin County, where the case ultimately stayed, came back guilty on all counts.
“Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence,” will be released Tuesday by Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, two days ahead of the third anniversary of Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020. Chauvin, who is white, kneeled on the Black man’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes. A bystander video captured Floyd’s fading cries of “I can’t breathe.”
“Our themes resonated,” Ellison wrote. “Several juries believed that the officers had a duty — moral or legal — to render aid to George Floyd. None were too concerned about the drugs. Even the Stearns County jury thought Floyd’s drug history was irrelevant.”
It is not clear if Chauvin’s defense team also conducted a mock trial. His attorney, Eric Nelson, did not return a call seeking comment.
Ellison said he wrote the memoir because he wanted to provide a guide for other prosecutors and share the lessons his team learned about the difficulty of convicting police officers.
The importance of getting jury selection right was one of the key lessons, Ellison recounts, but so was the value of getting testimony from witnesses who spoke up as Chauvin kept a dying Floyd pinned to the pavement outside a corner store, and, critically, got out their cameras. So was finding medical experts who could make it clear to the jury that Floyd would not have died but for Chauvin’s actions.
“Many jurors have often associated Black victims with danger and criminality. Over the expanse of American history, juries have been part of the repeating pattern across the country of acquitting officers who shoot unarmed people, often Black men,” Ellison wrote. “The sheer numbers of officers who have been acquitted after killing unarmed citizens is impressive.”
Ellison became a national figure in 2006 when he became the first Muslim and the first Black Minnesotan elected to Congress. The Democrat became the state’s attorney general in 2019. Criminal prosecutions in Minnesota usually fall to county attorneys. But amid the turmoil and racial tensions that followed Floyd’s killing, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz asked Ellison to take the lead.
Ellison recounts in his book how he used his personal connections to assemble a high-powered, diverse team of volunteer and staff attorneys to try the case.
In the end, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, who Ellison praises in the book, kept the trial in Minneapolis, though he tried Chauvin separately from the other three defendants. Ultimately, all four offers were convicted or pleaded guilty to state and federal charges.
Despite extensive pretrial publicity, the court was able to seat a jury for Chauvin, through it took three weeks. Ellison wrote that it was the most diverse jury he had ever impaneled — six Blacks and six whites. He credits Steve Schleicher, a former federal prosecutor in private practice, and jury consultant Christina Maranakis.
“It wasn’t just luck,” Ellison wrote. “I knew that if we convicted Chauvin, many people would be taking some awesome jury selection work for granted.”
For prosecutors, Ellison said in an interview, he hopes their takeaway from the book is that “tough cases like this are winnable” even though roles are reversed. In a normal case, he said, jurors of all colors tend to believe the police, which helps the prosecution. But that makes officers harder to convict, he said. And while jurors typically sympathize with victims, that’s not guaranteed in a police case where the defense puts the victim on trial.
For other readers, Ellison said he hopes their takeaway is that ordinary citizens — like the bystanders who took video of the incident and had the courage to testify — can do extraordinary things.
“Those people who were randomly selected by fate on the corner of 38th and Chicago at around 8 p.m. Memorial Day 2020, they didn’t know George Floyd, but they saw a suffering human being,” Ellison said in the interview. “They stopped and they said something. They couldn’t do much more than say something, but they whipped out their cameras and they took pictures of it.”
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High-Speed Data Revenue from continuing operations of $100.1 million, up 4% compared to the first quarter of 2021
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WideOpenWest, Inc. ("WOW!" or the "Company") (NYSE: WOW), one of the nation's leading broadband providers, with an efficient, high-performing network that passes 1.9 million residential, business and wholesale consumers, today announced financial and operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
First Quarter 2022 Highlights (1)(2)
- Total Revenue from continuing operations of $174.6 million, a decrease of $6.9 million, or 4%, compared to the first quarter of 2021
- HSD Revenue from continuing operations totaled $100.1 million, an increase of $3.5 million, or 4%, compared to the first quarter of 2021
- Net Income from continuing operations was $5.7 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022
- Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA was $66.4 million, an increase of $4.8 million, or 8%, compared to the first quarter of 2021
- Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA margin of 38.0% compared to 33.9% for the first quarter of 2021
- Added 3,300 HSD RGUs
- Doubled Greenfield expansion plans for homes passed to 400,000 and increased target Greenfield investment capital to $400.0 million by 2027
"The first quarter results reflect continued momentum as we execute our broadband-first strategy. We delivered year-over-year growth in high-speed data revenue and further improvements in our pro forma adjusted EBITDA and pro forma adjusted EBITDA margins, which reached 38% this quarter," said Teresa Elder, WOW!'s CEO. "Our Greenfield strategy is also exceeding our expectations as we continue to see exciting opportunities to bring our multi-gig fiber network to significantly more homes as we have now increased our plan for Greenfield investments to $400 million without increasing our leverage."
"Our financials once again highlight the strength of our business. Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA grew 8% from last year and drove significant improvement in our margins," said John Rego, WOW!'s CFO. "The margin expansion further enables us to invest in the future growth of our business while maintaining a low leverage profile."
Revenue
Total Revenue from continuing operations was $174.6 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, down $6.9 million, or 4%, as compared to the corresponding period in 2021.
Total Subscription Revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 was $162.0 million, down $6.0 million, or 4%, as compared to the corresponding period in 2021. The decrease is primarily driven by a shift in service offering mix as we continue to experience a reduction in Video and Telephony RGUs, partially offset by an increase in average revenue per unit ("ARPU") as HSD customers upgrade to higher speed offerings coupled with an increase in volume attributable exclusively to the addition of HSD subscribers.
Other Business Services Revenue from continuing operations totaled $5.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, down $0.3 million as compared to the corresponding period in 2021. The decrease is primarily due to a decrease in data center revenue.
Other Revenue from continuing operations totaled $7.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, down $0.6 million as compared to the corresponding period in 2021, primarily related to decreases in advertising and line assurance revenue.
Costs and Expenses
Operating Expenses (excluding Depreciation and Amortization) from continuing operations totaled $87.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, down $11.1 million, or 11%, compared to the corresponding period in 2021 primarily driven by decreases in direct operating expenses, specifically programming expense, which aligns with the reduction in Video RGUs between periods and lower bad debt expense, partially offset by decreases in capital eligible expenses. Selling, General, and Administrative expenses from continuing operations totaled $38.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, down $4.2 million, or 10%, compared to the corresponding period in 2021 primarily attributable to decreases in costs associated with digital transformation initiatives, lower marketing and professional services expenses, partially offset by an increase in stock compensation expense.
Net Income (Loss)
Net Income from continuing operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 was $5.7 million as compared to Net Loss of $22.7 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA
Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 was $66.4 million, an increase of $4.8 million, compared to the corresponding period in 2021. Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA margin was 38.0% for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 as compared to 33.9% for the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
Subscribers
WOW! reported Total Subscribers from continuing operations of 534,700 as of March 31, 2022, an increase of 6,700, or 1%, compared to March 31, 2021, up 1,800 compared to December 31, 2021. HSD RGUs totaled 515,000 as of March 31, 2022, an increase of 10,100 or 2%, compared to March 31, 2021, up 3,300 compared to December 31, 2021.
Edge-Outs
Edge-Out Projects from continuing operations reached a total of 78,600 homes passed and 19,500 Subscribers since inception.
The 2020 Edge-Out projects from continuing operations include 800 Subscribers, which represents 23.5% penetration on such nodes. The 2021 Edge-Out projects from continuing operations include 700 Subscribers, which represents 35.0% penetration on such nodes.
Capital Expenditures
Capital Expenditures from continuing operations totaled $42.1 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, representing a $1.9 million decrease compared to the quarter ended March 31, 2021. The slight decrease is primarily related to a reduction in customer premise equipment ("CPE") and network enhancement expenditures partially offset by increases in line extensions as we focus on expanding our network.
Capital Expenditures from continuing operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 equates to 24% of Total Revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
Liquidity and Leverage
As of March 31, 2022, the total outstanding amount of long-term debt and finance lease obligations was $740.3 million, and cash and cash equivalents were $190.7 million. Total Net Leverage as of March 31, 2022, was 2.6X compared to 2.7X as of December 31, 2021 on a LTM Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA basis and undrawn revolver capacity totaled $245.6 million.
Second Quarter and Full Year 2022 Guidance
Webcast
WOW! will host a webcast on Monday, May 9, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. ET to discuss the financial and operating results contained in this press release. The conference call and webcast will be broadcast live on the Company's investor relations website at ir.wowway.com. Those parties interested in participating can use the information as follows:
Call Date: Monday, May 9, 2022 Call Time: 8:00 a.m. Eastern
Dial In: (888) 330-3556 International: (646) 960-0826
Conf. ID: 4844814
A replay of the call will be available on May 9, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. ET, on the investor relations website or by telephone. To access the telephone replay, which will be available until May 23, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. ET, please dial (800) 770-2030 or (647) 362-9199 and use conference ID 4844814.
About WOW!
WOW! is one of the nation's leading broadband providers, with an efficient, high-performing network that passes 1.9 million residential, business and wholesale consumers. WOW! provides services in 14 markets, primarily in the Midwest and Southeast, including Michigan, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. With an expansive portfolio of advanced services, including high-speed Internet services, cable TV, phone, business data, voice, and cloud services, the company is dedicated to providing outstanding service at affordable prices. WOW! also serves as a leader in exceptional human resources practices, having been recognized seven times by the National Association for Business Resources as a Best & Brightest Company to Work For, winning the award for the last four consecutive years. Visit www.wowway.com for more information.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements represent our goals, beliefs, plans and expectations about our prospects for the future and other future events. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical fact and can be identified by terms such as "may," "intend," "might," "will," "should," "could," "would," "anticipate," "expect," "believe," "estimate," "plan," "project," "predict," "potential," or the negative of these terms. Although these forward-looking statements reflect our good-faith belief and reasonable judgment based on current information, these statements are qualified by important factors, many of which are beyond our control that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors and other risks that could cause our actual results to differ materially are set forth in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report filed on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and other reports subsequently filed with the SEC. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this report are made as of the date hereof or the date specified herein, based on information available to us as of such date. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company has included certain non-GAAP financial measures in this release, including Adjusted EBITDA. These terms, as defined herein, are not intended to be considered in isolation, as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"). These terms may vary from the use of similar terms by other companies in our industry due to different methods of calculation and therefore are not necessarily comparable.
We believe that these non-GAAP measures enhance an investor's understanding of our financial performance. We believe that these non-GAAP measures are useful financial metrics to assess our operating performance from period to period by excluding certain items that we believe are not representative of our core business. We believe that these non-GAAP measures provide investors with useful information for assessing the comparability between periods of our ability to generate cash from operations sufficient to pay taxes, to service debt and to undertake Capital Expenditures. We use these non-GAAP measures for business planning purposes and in measuring our performance relative to that of our competitors. We believe these non-GAAP measures are measures commonly used by investors to evaluate our performance and that of our competitors.
Adjusted EBITDA eliminates the impact of expenses that do not relate to overall business performance and is defined by WOW! as net income (loss) before interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization (including impairments), impairment losses on intangibles and goodwill, write-off of any asset, loss on early extinguishment of debt, integration and restructuring expenses and all non‑cash charges and expenses (including stock compensation expense) and certain other income and expenses. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss), operating income or any other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP as measures of operating performance, operating cash flows or liquidity. Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA takes into account the recent sales of five service areas as though such transactions had occurred prior to the periods presented.
Refer to "Reconciliations of GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures" and the accompanying tables below for a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to Net Income which is the most directly comparable to its corresponding GAAP financial measure.
Subscriber Information
The Company uses the terms defined below throughout this release.
Homes passed are reported as the number of serviceable addresses, such as single residence homes, apartments and condominium units, and businesses passed by our broadband network and listed in our database.
We deliver multiple services to our customers, as such we report Total Subscribers as the number of Subscribers who receive at least one of our HSD, Video or Telephony services, without regard to which or how many services they subscribe. We define each of the individual HSD Subscribers, Video Subscribers and Telephony Subscribers as a Revenue Generating Unit ("RGU").
While we take appropriate steps to ensure subscriber information is presented on a consistent and accurate basis at any given balance sheet date, we periodically review our policies in light of the variability we may encounter across our different markets due to the nature and pricing of products and services and billing systems. Accordingly, we may from time to time make appropriate adjustments to our subscriber information based on such reviews.
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The information in this press release should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and footnotes contained in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, which will be posted on of our investor relations website at ir.wowway.com, when it is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). A slide presentation to accompany the conference call and a trending schedule containing historical customer and financial data will also be available on our website.
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Andrew Posen
Vice President, Head of Investor Relations
303-927-4935
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Tyson to close poultry facilities in Virginia, Arkansas
By DEE-ANN DURBIN
AP Business Writer
Tyson Foods is closing two facilities that employ more than 1,600 people in an effort to streamline its U.S. poultry business. The company plans to close its processing, broiler and hatching operations in Glen Allen, Virginia, and a plant in Van Buren, Arkansas. Both closures are scheduled for May 12. Tyson said the closures will help it better use all available capacity at remaining plants. The Springdale, Arkansas-based company said it will work with its 692 employees in Glen Allen and its 969 employees in Van Buren to apply for open positions at other plants.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indiana Fever closes its home season while advocating for Brittney Griner. The team is bringing her shoe drive to Indianapolis. Although Britney Griner remains detained in a Russian prison, her impact is felt off the court. It’s inspiring WNBA teams, including the Indiana Fever, to give back and carry on the work through “BG’s Heart and Soul Shoe Drive,” an initiative she founded in 2016.
Fever forward Emma Cannon is Griner’s best friend, and the two played together in Phoenix.
“I wanted to do something that would honor her. I know this story she was driving down the street,” Cannon said.
When asked about the backstory of BG’s behind the shoe drive, she added, “In Phoenix, it is hot. She has seen a homeless man walking with no shoes on, so she stopped, pulled over, got shoes out of the trunk of her car, and gave them to him. And that’s how she came up with ‘Heart and Soul.’”
The fever invites fans to donate new and gently used shoes for its final home game of the season at Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University on Friday at 7 p.m.
“For me, it is about her mental. She has been over there six months now. Not with anybody that truly speaks English, or somebody that she is familiar with. She’s only been able to write letters to her family,” Cannon said.
The U.S. government has designated Griner’s imprisonment as wrongful detainment, and it is ready to take steps toward negotiating a deal with Russia.
“It is important for Brittany to come home. It is important for Paul Whelan to come home. The president is going to work very hard with his national security team every day to make that happen,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, said.
“I hope everybody learns from this experience and learns what we can and can’t do, but going forward, at the end of the day, it is time to bring her home,” Cannon said.
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Decades before Frank Oz was bringing Miss Piggy and Yoda to life, his parents, Mike and Frances Oznowicz, were creating puppets of their own, and using puppetry as a means of parody and resistance in Nazi-era Belgium.
Oz shares their story in a compelling mini-show, currently at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Primary components include expressive marionettes, including a satirical Adolf Hitler puppet, and an interview detailing the couple’s harrowing escape from Nazi horror.
Presented free to the public in a tiny gallery inside the museum’s entrance, “Oz Is for Oznowicz: A Puppet Family’s History” continues at the CJM through Nov. 27. It overlaps with the related exhibit “Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited,” which runs at the museum through Aug. 14.
An intimate exhibit with universal significance, “Oz Is for Oznowicz” came about when the museum was seeking a Jewish element for the comprehensive Henson exhibition, CJM curator Heidi Rabben says.
“We spoke with Karen Falk, the director of archives for the Jim Henson Company, about Jewish and/or Bay Area ties to Henson and his work,” Rabben says. “We knew that Frank Oz was Jewish and grew up in Oakland, and Karen told us about his family’s marionettes and their extraordinary history.”
Oz, she adds, “was excited about the opportunity to share and honor his parents’ incredible story here and now, and to publicly display these family heirlooms for the first time.”
Discovered by Oz — as the 78-year-old puppeteer-actor-director tells us proudly in his introductory video —in his family’s attic, the featured puppets were created in 1930s Belgium by Isidore (Mike) and Frances Oznowicz, a Dutch-Jewish window trimmer and a Flemish-Catholic dressmaker, respectively. The Antwerp couple also were skilled amateur puppeteers. Mike carved them, and Frances costumed them.
While little information is available about the content of their nightclub acts, the couple were known to have a “great sense of humor,” Rabben says. Additionally, after the war, “They were very prominent and locally respected puppeteers in the Bay Area.”
Family members describe them as humorists with a social conscience.
The half dozen or so puppets on view are, in most cases, marionettes of nightclub entertainers. All but one are male; the sole female puppet is a singer, her mouth wide open and lipstick-red. Their faces reflect Mike Oznowicz’s expressionist and amusing style.
The centerpiece attraction is a Hitler puppet, a 20-inch-tall marionette with a Nazi uniform, black mustache and right arm raised in a Nazi salute. It is presented as it existed when Oz discovered it — no spruce-up has occurred. We don’t know if the couple used it in their performances, but it is believed that the two created it for the purpose of satire and social comment.
Rabben believes that the Hitler puppet will affect viewers in different ways. Some, perhaps due to the puppet’s authenticity, may find it chilling, while others will disagree. For Rabben personally, the puppet looks less “monstrous” than what she was prepared for. “I think the choices Mike made in carving the marionette are much more diminutive and infantilizing,” she says.
The exhibit’s other primary element is a 1970s interview Oz conducted with his father. In this half-hour black-and-white video, Mike Osnowicz details the couple’s harrowing evacuation, which took the pair from Belgium to France, Spain, Morocco, Portugal and eventually England, where they lived for a spell. Their journey involved boats, seasickness, hunger, German torpedos, extreme uncertainty, keen survival instincts, lucky coincidences and an ability, on Mike’s part, to see brightness even in the direst circumstances (as when he marveled at the sight of the Pyrenees).
“It’s a miracle we made it out,” Mike says in the film.
Rabben describes the interview as “compelling and powerful” and both extraordinary and down to earth.
“It is certainly rare to have firsthand, recorded accounts from Jewish people who escaped and survived World War II, and, according to Frank and his older brother, Ronald, it was also very rare that their parents spoke at all about their experience during that time. ...
“And then you factor in the time period when it was shot … so it’s also using some of the earliest available consumer video recording equipment, a Sony Portapak.”
We also learn that after crossing the Atlantic (Hitler puppet in tow) and settling in Oakland in the early 1950s, Oz’s parents became active in the local puppeteer community.
Oz, meanwhile, presented puppet shows of his own during his teenage years, though he didn’t want to be a puppeteer. After meeting Jim Henson at a puppeteer fair, however, a six-month work plan turned into a 23-year collaboration with the Muppet originator. During this time, Oz created and performed several well-known Muppet characters, including Miss Piggy, Bert and the Cookie Monster.
Oz entered the “Star Wars” universe as well, performing and voicing Yoda.
Oz has also directed films — both Muppet and non-Muppet fare. “The Dark Crystal,” “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” are a few of his works in this arena.
Puppet theater is a centuries-old, internationally practiced art form, explains Rabben. It is “most often categorized under entertainment, but, of course, the premise of many puppet shows is to present an exaggerated and stylized microcosm of things relevant to everyday life,” she says.
“One can presume that figures with power in a society, be they monarchs, religious leaders or politicians, were typically the most known figures of the time because their lives and choices impacted the greater society significantly. So that often made them the central target of critique, mimicry and mockery in puppetry and many other forms of artistic expression.”
Rabben also describes “Oz Is for Oznowicz” as a way to address the continued existence of anti-Semitism nearly 80 years after the Holocaust.
“I think when we are encountering untold stories of World War II and the Holocaust, sharing them is always with the objective of never forgetting that particularly unfathomable moment in history, of course, but also thinking about how it applies to the here and now,” she says.
“Right now, we are on the precipice of losing the last generation of Holocaust survivors, so preserving firsthand accounts of their experiences during that time is tremendously urgent. ... Stories like the Oznowiczes will never stop being relevant and imperative to humanity’s evolution.”
The plight of refugees also was part of “our earliest conversations around this exhibition,” Rabben says.
On this note, she quotes Oz from his introductory video: “‘I view these stories as emblematic of all the refugees past and present. Those refugees who didn’t make it alive. And all their stories are lost. So I honor those refugees as I honor my mom and dad.’”
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With more than two decades of experience, Screen has tried more than 250 cases and pivoted from representing auto insurance companies to assisting accident victims.
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mike Morse Law Firm is pleased to welcome veteran attorney Lisa Screen to its talented team of trial lawyers.
Screen has a diverse background in various practice areas including criminal law and auto insurance. She has tried more than 250 cases to a jury and has extensive experience litigating high profile cases throughout her two-plus decades in the legal sector. In 2018, Screen was named partner at Garan Lucow Miller PC, a firm that represents the auto insurance industry, before joining Mike Morse Law Firm.
"I was tired of seeing insurance companies not paying out on legitimate claims," Screen said. Screen made the switch to personal injury to help victims who weren't getting the settlements they deserved from the insurance companies.
As a senior attorney, Screen will lead a team of several attorneys at the firm and bring her extensive trial experience and knowledge to the forefront of her leadership.
"We're thrilled to welcome Lisa to our talented team of attorneys. Coming from the auto insurance industry, Screen has a unique understanding of clients' needs and where they are often left unmet. Her passion for helping victims and her impressive trial experience make her an invaluable asset for our firm and will translate to more wins for our clients," Mike Morse said.
The addition of Screen marks the 28th new hire the firm has welcomed this year. With a staff of over 175 legal professionals, Mike Morse Law Firm remains Michigan's largest personal injury law firm.
Since 1992, the Mike Morse Law Firm has been protecting the rights of Michigan auto accident and injury victims. They are Michigan's largest personal injury firm, specializing in auto, truck, pedestrian, and motorcycle accidents as well as Social Security disability claims. They are experts in Michigan's No-Fault Act. Since opening their doors in 1995, the firm has won over one billion dollars for its clients. Mike Morse Law Firm handles cases throughout the state of Michigan, with a main office in Southfield. To learn more, call (855) 645-3946 or visit www.855mikewins.com.
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Ohio water tower gets sweet, new design
BRYAN, Ohio (Gray News) – A sweet landmark attraction will soon come to fruition in Bryan, Ohio, home of Dum-Dums and other Spangler Candy treats.
The candy company is teaming up with the utility company in the area to give the water tower a new design.
It will feature eight large Dum-Dum lollipops around the main tank, with the legs of the tower painted white to represent lollipop sticks.
According to Spangler, award-winning muralist Eric Henn will paint the tower. He’s been painting water towers and oversized murals for more than 30 years.
“We are really excited for the opportunity to make this water tower an even larger asset for our community besides just holding water,” Spangler CEO Kirk Vashaw said in a press release. “With its new design painted by a world-famous artist, it will become a new landmark for Bryan and will provide a great opportunity to promote our city.”
Vashaw said there are plans to provide a viewing platform on the candy company’s property so people can take photographs and selfies.
The water tower is expected to be complete this fall, weather permitting.
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SOMERVILLE, Mass., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GNS, the leader in the application of Causal AI and simulation and "Digital Twins" to discover new drugs, today announced that John Maraganore, Ph.D., former founding CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, has been appointed as the new GNS Chair of the Board. Maraganore, who became a strategic advisor to GNS in June 2022 succeeds Timothy Thompson, who served as Executive Chair since 2020.
"I am delighted to take on this role at such an exciting time for our industry as multi-omic data and AI begin to become a more integral part of discovering and developing new medicines for patients," said John Maraganore. "GNS is the leader in this transition and, they are uniquely positioned to apply their Digital Twins and Causal AI technology platform in the discovery of new breakthrough therapies in neurodegeneration, oncology, and autoimmune diseases."
"John is a proven leader with an exceptional track record in building great companies that have turned breakthrough technologies into new therapeutics. From his roles at Biogen to Millennium Pharmaceuticals to Alnylam, John is the rare individual who has brought innovation to market. I have greatly valued his insight and support as a mentor over the years and I look forward to having the benefit of John's leadership in our next phase of growth," said Colin Hill, CEO and Co-founder of GNS. "I would like also to thank our outgoing Board Chair, Timothy Thompson, who will remain on the board, for his dedication and valuable service to GNS."
Dr. John Maraganore served as the founding CEO and a Director of Alnylam from 2002 to 2021, where he built and led the company from early platform research on RNA interference (RNAi) through global approval and commercialization of the first four RNAi therapeutic medicines, ONPATTRO®, GIVLAARI®, OXLUMO®, and Leqvio®. He also led the company's value creation strategy, building $25B in market capitalization, and forming over 20 major pharmaceutical alliances. He continues to serve on the Alnylam Scientific Advisory Board. Prior to Alnylam, he served as an officer and a member of the management team for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he was responsible for the company's product franchises in oncology, and cardiovascular, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases, in addition to leadership of M&A, strategy, and biotherapeutics functions. Before Millennium, he served as Director of Molecular Biology and Director of Market and Business Development at Biogen, Inc. where he invented and led the discovery and development of ANGIOMAX® (bivalirudin) for injection. Previously, he was a scientist at ZymoGenetics, Inc. and the Upjohn Company. Dr. Maraganore received his M.S. and Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Venture Partner at ARCH Venture Partners, a Venture Advisor at Atlas Ventures, an Executive Partner at RTW Investments, and a Senior Advisor for Blackstone Life Sciences. He is also Chair of the Board of Directors of certain privately-held companies including Aera Therapeutics, Hemab Therapeutics, and Orbital Therapeutics, and a member of the Board of Directors of certain public companies including Agios Pharmaceuticals, Beam Therapeutics, Kymera Therapeutics, ProKidney Corp, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Maraganore is Chair Emeritus and a member of the Board of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), where he was Chair from 2017-2019. In addition, he serves on the Boards of the Termeer Foundation and Nucleate, as Chair of the n-Lorem Foundation Advisory Council, on the Advisory Board of Ariadne Labs, and as a strategic advisor to a number of innovative companies.
GNS is the leader in the application of Causal AI and simulation technology to discover novel therapeutics and simulate clinical trials. GNS' patented AI uncovers new insights from multi-omics patient data leading to the discovery and prioritization of novel biological targets, and more efficient clinical trials with patients who are likely to respond to therapies. The Gemini Digital Twin models across oncology, auto-immune diseases, and neurology enable the simulation of disease progression and drug response at the individual patient level to simulate clinical trials in diverse patient cohorts. GNS' partners include seven out of the top ten pharmaceutical companies, leading research centers, medical societies, and patient advocacy groups globally. Our advisory board consists of a renowned group of scientific and medical experts.
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Epson Spotlights Independent Teacher and Offers Discount Pricing Across Select EcoTank Cartridge-Free Supertank Printers
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Classrooms today have once again evolved beyond a traditional space on a physical campus, with the home slowly growing as the environment of choice for both learning and teaching. However, one thing remains constant regardless of education location – the importance for teachers to ensure students understand and retain information wherever learning happens. According to a Bay View Analytics survey, 59% of teachers said students learn better from print materials. In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week beginning on May 8, Epson is spotlighting an independent teacher who finds printed materials invaluable in educating students. Epson is also offering discount pricing across select EcoTank® Cartridge-Free Supertank Printers through the end of May at select retail locations.1
Long-time educator Hitomi Bland is a full-time private language instructor teaching Japanese reading, writing, and speaking to people of all ages. Before becoming a language instructor, she taught middle school aged children and worked at preparatory education schools in Japan. Years later, after starting a family of her own and relocating to Florida with her husband, Ken, she decided to homeschool all three of her children while they traveled the world together.
"I went through enormous amounts of printer paper and toner, generating study documents and homework assignments and musical sheets. My sons were trained in the old-school method of printing out their papers, proof-reading aloud, red lining and marking up papers," shares Bland.
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Bland stresses the importance of printed materials in education as she witnesses students struggle when they rely on a screen to accomplish their work. "They learn slower than someone who prints out my character templates and practices writing the Japanese hiragana and katakana letters." She finds that students who create their own binder of worksheets have a better understanding of the language. The EcoTank ET-4850 handles pages with ease, according to Bland, providing her with the ideal tool to help support student learning. "EcoTank gives me so many more options for printing and makes my life easier, which is the most important thing."
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — The Latest on the British Open (all times local):
8:30 p.m.
Defending British Open champion Collin Morikawa is set to miss the cut.
The American, who won the title last year at Royal St. George’s, finished his two rounds at 1-over 145. The cut was projected to be even par.
Morikawa would be the first defending champion to miss the cut since Darren Clarke in 2012. Clarke also won his only major title at Royal St. George’s.
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6:40 p.m.
Cameron Smith shot 8-under 64 in the second round of the British Open and moved into a three-stroke lead at 13 under overall.
The Australian opened the round with three straight birdies. He had two more before an eagle on the par-5 14th when he swung a long-range putt from right to left, slightly down the hill and straight into the cup.
Smith is playing at his fifth British Open. His best finish was tied for 20th in 2019 at Portrush. His best results at the majors came at the Masters. He finished tied for second in 2020 and tied for third in 2022 at Augusta National.
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5:30 p.m.
Cameron Smith is producing a putting clinic to pull away from the field at the British Open.
The best of the bunch came at the par-5 14th hole, where Smith swung a long-range eagle putt from right to left, slightly down the hill and straight into the cup.
It moved him to 13 under, three shots clear of Cameron Young. Smith is 8 under for his second round.
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4:25 p.m.
The two Camerons are jostling for first place at the British Open.
Cameron Smith, a sixth-ranked Australian who won The Players Championship in March, has made six birdies in his first 10 holes and leads Cameron Young by one at 11 under.
Young, the American who led by two overnight, bogeyed his second hole but responded with two straight birdies and added another at No. 9. He was 2 under for his round and a shot clear of clubhouse leader Dustin Johnson.
Rory McIlroy has opened his second round with four straight pars and remained at 6 under overall.
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3:20 p.m.
Tiger Woods has finished what could be his last competitive round at a British Open on the Old Course.
The three-time Open champion, who won two of those titles at St. Andrews, shot 3-over 75 in the second round to finish the day at 9 over overall. He is not expected to make the cut and play the last two rounds over the weekend.
Before this year’s tournament, Woods called the Old Course “historic” and his “favorite.” He won the claret jug at St. Andrews in 2000 and 2005.
But this year his struggles started on the very first hole when he sent his second shot into the Swilcan Burn. He made double bogey and finished the day at 6-over 78.
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2:20 p.m.
The sun is finally out, the scoring is low and some big names have climbed onto the leaderboard at the British Open.
Adam Scott took most advantage of the softer conditions caused by early-morning rain at the Old Course, shooting 7-under 65 to move two shots behind clubhouse leader Dustin Johnson.
Top-ranked Scottie Scheffler shot a second straight 68 and is a stroke behind Johnson at 8 under overall alongside Tyrrell Hatton. Hatton and Sergio Garcia had 66s.
Among the afternoon starters, Cameron Smith opened with three straight birdies and Garrick Higgo started with four in a row.
Cameron Young was the overnight leader after a 64, but bogeyed No. 1 in his second round.
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1:20 p.m.
Dustin Johnson has made another great start to a British Open at St. Andrews.
The 36-hole leader at the last Open at the home of golf in 2015 took the clubhouse lead midway through the second round with a 5-under 67.
The former No. 1 two-putted for birdie at No. 18 to overtake first-round leader Cameron Young, who was about to tee off in his second round.
Tiger Woods looks certain to miss the weekend in what could be his final Open at the Old Course, though, after losing further ground. He was 1 over after 11 holes, and tied for 148th in the 156-man field at 7 over.
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1 p.m.
Talor Gooch moved up the leaderboard during the second round of the British Open and then backtracked on comments he made last month comparing the Saudi-funded breakaway series to the Ryder Cup.
Gooch is one of the dozens of players who have joined LIV Golf, causing a rift in the sport. He said after the second event in Oregon that he imagined the atmosphere at the tournament was as good as the Ryder Cup, even though he has never played at one.
“A bunch of players came up, and they’re like really? Really? I was like, hold on a second, guys. Give me a little break. I just won. I was in the moment. I might have gotten a little aggressive with the comments,” Gooch said. “Rightfully so, I’ve taken a little bit of heat for it.”
Gooch shot a 3-under 69 in the second round at the Old Course to move to 7 under overall.
The 30-year-old Gooch won his first PGA Tour title in the final tournament of 2021 against a field that had no one from the top 10 in the world on the weekend.
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12:50 p.m.
Cameron Young has finally been caught.
Dustin Johnson rolled in a long birdie putt at No. 16 and joined Young, his fellow American, at 8 under for the tournament.
Johnson is 4 under for his round and still has the drivable No. 18 to play.
Young, the first-round leader, has yet to start his second round.
The strong play of Johnson, a former No. 1, and Talor Gooch, who shot 3-under 69 to move to 7 under overall, raises the prospect of a player from the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series winning the British Open.
R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers this week delivered a withering verdict on the breakaway tour, describing it as a money grab that threatens the golf’s merit-based culture cultivated over centuries.
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11:45 a.m.
Mark Calcavecchia followed a time-honored tradition and stood on the Swilcan Bridge on the 18th hole to wave farewell at his last British Open.
The 1989 champion at Royal Troon felt the emotions.
“Got a little choked up,” Calcavecchia said after his second round of 10-over 82, which will ensure he will not make the weekend at St. Andrews.
The American’s exemption as a past champion ran out in 2020, the year the British Open was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. He couldn’t play last year at Royal St. George’s because of injury and was invited by the R&A to close his Open career at the home of golf, at the age of 62.
His kids were there to watch him Friday as Calcavecchia went out in the first group.
“Forget about my golf,” Calcavecchia said. “It wouldn’t have mattered if I shot a pair of 75s or a pair of 85s, which I nearly did. It was about playing one more, my last one here at the home of golf, which is really cool to be able to end it here.”
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11:20 a.m.
Not for the first time, Tyrrell Hatton is on the charge at St. Andrews.
The English player holed a long-range putt at No. 10 for a fourth birdie of his second round and moved to 6 under, two shots off the lead held by Cameron Young — an afternoon starter.
Hatton is a two-time winner of the Dunhill Links Championship, a European tour event in Scotland that is partly staged at St. Andrews.
The umbrellas are down and sweaters have come off as the weather improves at the home of golf. So should the scoring, with the fairways made softer by morning rain.
Talor Gooch birdied the par-5 14th hole and was one off the lead on 7 under. Dustin Johnson, the former No. 1 who also plays on the LIV Golf series, birdied Nos. 9 and 11 to join Hatton on 6 under.
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10:20 a.m.
Tiger Woods is out on the course for his second round at the British Open. He played it safe on the first hole this time.
Woods found the middle of the fairway, the middle of the green and two-putted for par.
That’s a whole lot better than in the first round, where he hit a wedge into the Swilcan Burn from out of a fresh divot and ran up a double-bogey.
The two biggest movers early in the second round at St. Andrews were players who have signed up for LIV Golf, the Saudi-funded breakaway series.
Talor Gooch birdied two of his first three holes and was tied for second place at 6 under, two shots off the lead.
Paul Casey, the latest player to join LIV, was 3 under for his round after eight holes and at 4 under overall.
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7:30 a.m.
Tiger Woods arrived at St. Andrews in shorts and a hoodie. He might also need an umbrella.
The second round of the British Open began under a light rain. That is likely to take some of the fire out of an Old Course that was so fast that it make the rounds go atrociously slow on Thursday.
Of greater concern to Woods is making up ground. His 78 in the first round was good to beat only seven other players. Three of them were past champions in their 50s. Woods figures he needs a 66 or better to make it to the weekend.
Cameron Young leads Rory McIlroy by two. They don’t tee off until the afternoon.
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The state of Vermont has agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle all pending and potential lawsuits from foreign investors in development projects at the Jay Peak resort, the ski area that was shaken by a massive fraud case involving its former owner and president, officials said Wednesday.
In 2016, the federal Securities and Exchange Commission and the state alleged that former Jay Peak owner Ariel Quiros and former president William Stenger took part in a “massive eight-year fraudulent scheme.” The civil allegations involved misusing more than $200 million of about $400 million raised for various ski area developments from foreign investors through a visa program. The EB-5 program encourages foreigners to invest in job-creating ventures in the U.S. in exchange for a chance to earn permanent residency.
Quiros and Stenger settled civil charges with the SEC, with Quiros surrendering more than $80 million in assets, including the two resorts.
In 2019, Quiros, Stenger and Quiros’ adviser William Kelly were indicted over the failed plan to build a biotechnology plant using tens of millions of dollars in foreign investors’ money. Quiros was sentenced last year to five years in prison; Stenger served just over nine months in prison; and William Kelly was sentenced to a year and a half.
Foreign investors sued the state and its immigrant investor regional center, accusing it of inadequately supervising the projects.
The settlement announced Wednesday, if approved by the court, “will resolve all pending and potential lawsuits against the State that have been brought or could be brought by the approximately 850 investors in the Jay Peak EB-5 projects,” Attorney General Charity Clark said in a news release. The state will also continue to support investors’ pursuit of green cards. If that is successful, the overall settlement payment will be reduced by $4 million, Clark said.
“As I’ve said before, Vermonters, investors, and the State of Vermont were all deceived by the fraud of Ariel Quiros, Bill Stenger, and William Kelly,” Clark added. “This civil settlement will bring a global resolution to the State’s involvement in this matter, which will protect the State from additional EB-5 lawsuits, preventing further financial harm to Vermont.”
The $16.5 million will be paid over three years into the Jay Peak Receivership, which will distribute the funds. The investors paid over $400 million to the eight Jay Peak EB-5 projects.
Last month, the state agreed to a $750,000 payment to settle claims from eight Jay Peak investors.
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Families sue to block Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming health care for kids
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Families of transgender children on Tuesday sued to block a new Missouri law banning gender-affirming health care for minors from taking effect as scheduled on Aug. 28.
The law will prohibit Missouri health care providers from providing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries to minors. Minors prescribed puberty blockers or hormones before Aug. 28 would be able to continue to receive those treatments.
Missouri’s Planned Parenthood clinics had been ramping up available appointments and holding pop-up clinics to start patients on treatments ahead of the law taking effect.
Lawyers sued on behalf of three families of transgender minors, doctors and two LGBTQ+ organizations. They asked a Cole County judge to temporarily block the law as the court challenge against it plays out.
Lambda Legal attorney Nora Huppert in a statement said letting the law take effect “would deny adolescent transgender Missourians access to evidence-based treatment supported by the overwhelming medical consensus.”
“This law is not just harmful and cruel; it is life-threatening,” Huppert said.
Most adults will still have access to transgender health care under the law, but Medicaid won’t cover it and prisoners’ access to surgeries will be limited.
Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who tried to ban minors’ access to gender-affirming health care through rule change but dropped the effort when the law passed, is responsible for defending the legislation in court.
“There are zero FDA approvals of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to treat gender dysphoria in children,” Bailey said in a statement. “We’re not going to let left-wing ideologues experiment on children here in the state of Missouri.”
The FDA approved puberty blockers 30 years ago to treat children with precocious puberty — a condition that causes sexual development to begin much earlier than usual. Sex hormones — synthetic forms of estrogen and testosterone — were approved decades ago to treat hormone disorders or as birth control pills.
The FDA has not approved the medications specifically to treat gender-questioning youth, but they have been used for many years for that purpose “off label,” a common and accepted practice for many medical conditions. Doctors who treat trans patients say those decades of use are proof the treatments are not experimental.
Every major medical organization, including the American Medical Association, has opposed the bans on gender-affirming care for minors and supported the medical care for youth when administered appropriately. Lawsuits have been filed in several states where bans have been enacted this year.
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Presentations at Neuroscience 2022 and the 4th Inflammasome Therapeutics Summit will highlight the potential for RRx-001 to prevent and treat a broad range of chronic diseases
TORREY PINES, Calif., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EpicentRx, a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company with novel therapies to target cancer and inflammatory diseases, announced it will be participating in two upcoming conferences where presentations on RRx-001, its late-stage first-in-class NLRP3 inhibitor, will focus on the compound's potential to protect against inflammasome-driven diseases such as Parkinson's disease and other chronic diseases.
A key driver of inflammation, and a promising target for the treatment of chronic diseases, is a protein complex called the inflammasome. The best-known member of the inflammasome complex is called NLRP3. Its activation is accompanied by secretion of inflammatory signaling molecules called cytokines, which stimulate the immune response. However, excessive, and persistent activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome is closely linked to the development of a variety of chronic diseases. As a direct NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitor with evidence of experimental and clinical activity, RRx-001 is under development across a wide variety of indications with high unmet medical need including cancer, neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases.
RRx-001 is an inhibitor of the inflammasome in Phase 3 development with the potential both to prevent and treat a broad range of disease conditions, many of which are strongly related to aging. These include Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)/motor neuron disease (MND), multiple sclerosis, depression, obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and arthritis.
Details on the company's presentation at Neuroscience 2022 in San Diego are below:
Abstract Title: The NLRP3 inhibitor RRx-001 crosses the blood brain barrier and alleviates neuroinflammation in experimental models of Parkinson's disease
Abstract Control Number: 13396
Session Type: Nanosymposium
Session Number: 511
Session Title: Parkinson's Disease Molecular Mechanisms
Session Date and Time: Tuesday, November 15, 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM PT
Location/Room: SDCC 1
Abstract Control Number: 13396
Details on the company's presentation at the 4th Inflammasome Therapeutics Summit in Boston are below:
Presentation Title: RRx-001, a small molecule anticancer agent in Phase 3, Protects Against Inflammasome-Driven Diseases
Session Number: 511
Session Title: Advances in Proof-of-Concept Trials in Various Disease Groups for Clinical Relevance in Humans
Session Date and Time: Wednesday, November 30, 11:30 AM ET
About RRx-001
RRx-001 leads EpicentRx's CyNRGY platform as a first-in-class investigational treatment sourced from an exclusively licensed and proprietary portfolio of aerospace-derived small molecules. RRx-001 is an anti-inflammatory NLRP3 inhibitor that also reprograms the tumor microenvironment and stimulates an immune response.
About EpicentRx Inc.
EpicentRx is a leading-edge clinical stage biopharmaceutical company with a complementary pipeline of small molecules and cancer targeting virus platforms that represent the next frontier in treating patients with diseases of significant unmet need. With two platforms, CyNRGY and AdAPT, EpicentRx has developed therapies and novel drug delivery devices that fine tune the inflammatory response, turning it ON in cancer and turning it OFF in diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and congestive heart failure, with emphasis on not just treating the disease but improving quality of life. For more information, visit www.epicentrx.com.
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Chauvin murder conviction upheld in George Floyd killing
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday upheld former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s second-degree murder conviction in the killing of George Floyd, and his 22 1/2-year sentence remains in place.
Chauvin’s attorney had asked the appeals court to throw out the ex-officer’s convictions for a long list of reasons, including the massive pretrial publicity. He also argued that legal and procedural errors deprived Chauvin of a fair trial. But the three-judge panel sided with prosecutors who said Chauvin got a fair trial and just sentence.
Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, used his knee to pin the Black man’s neck to the ground for 9 1/2 minutes. A bystander video captured Floyd’s fading cries of “I can’t breathe.” Floyd’s death touched off protests around the world, some of which turned violent, and forced a national reckoning with police brutality and racism.
“Police officers undoubtedly have a challenging, difficult, and sometimes dangerous job. However, no one is above the law,” Appeals Judge Peter Reyes wrote for the panel. “When they commit a crime, they must be held accountable just as those individuals that they lawfully apprehend. The law only permits police officers to use reasonable force when effecting a lawful arrest. Chauvin crossed that line here when he used unreasonable force on Floyd.”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who assembled the prosecution team, said in a statement that he was “grateful we have a system where everyone, no matter how egregious their offense, is entitled to due process and fair treatment.”
“The Court’s decision today shows once again no one is above the law — and no one is beneath it,” Ellison said.
A voicemail and emails were sent to Chauvin’s attorney, William Mohrman. He argued on appeal that the trial judge should have moved the case out of Minneapolis because of extensive pretrial publicity and unprecedented security precautions due to fears of violence.
“The primary issue on this appeal is whether a criminal defendant can get a fair trial consistent with constitutional requirements in a courthouse surrounded by concrete block, barbed wire, two armored personnel carriers, and a squad of National Guard troops, all of which or whom are there for one purpose: in the event that the jury acquits the defendant,” Mohrman said in oral arguments in January.
But Neal Katyal, a special attorney for the state, argued that Chauvin got “one of the most transparent and thorough trials in our nation’s history.”
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Chauvin to 22 1/2 years after jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin later pleaded guilty to a separate federal civil rights charge and was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison, which he is now serving in Arizona concurrent with his state sentence.
“Judge Cahill managed this trial with enormous care, and even if Chauvin could identify some minor fault, any error is harmless,” Katyal said. “The evidence of Chauvin’s guilt was captured on video for the world to see.”
Mohrman argued that the pretrial publicity was the most extensive of any trial in Minnesota history, and that the judge should have moved the trial and sequestered the jury. He said the publicity and the riots, the city’s $27 million settlement with Floyd’s family announced during jury selection, the unrest over a police killing of a Black man in a Minneapolis suburb during jury selection, and the sealing off of the courthouse, were just some of the factors prejudicing Chauvin’s chance of a fair trial.
His appeal also focused on one juror who participated in a civil rights event commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington, a few months after Floyd’s death. Only after the trial did the juror reveal that he had been there.
But the appeals court ruled that Cahill did not abuse his discretion in deciding those issues.
The appeals court declined to address whether it was legally permissible to convict Chauvin of third-degree murder. The defense said a 2021 Minnesota Supreme Court decision in a different police killing case that clarified the definition of that crime meant the law no longer fit the facts of Floyd’s killing. But the appeals court noted that the trial judge never formally adjudicated that conviction nor did he sentence Chauvin on that count.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Moscow sentenced a student activist to 8 1/2 years in prison for social media posts criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on dissent unleashed by the Kremlin.
Dmitry Ivanov, 23, was convicted of spreading false information about the Russian army, which was made a criminal offense under a new law that Russian lawmakers rubber-stamped a week after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine.
The legislation has been used to prosecute individuals who deviate from the government's official narrative of the conflict that the Kremlin insists on calling “a special military operation."
Prominent opposition politicians, such as Ilya Yashin, who is serving an 8 1/2 prison term, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is in jail awaiting trial, also were charged with spreading false information about the military.
Ivanov was charged over a number of social media posts in his Telegram channel that called Russia's campaign in Ukraine a “war" and talked about Russian forces attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, committing war crimes in the Kyiv suburbs of Bucha and Irpin, and targeting the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Most were reposts from other sources.
At the time of his April 2022 arrest, Ivanov was a student at Lomonosov Moscow State University, one of Russia's top universities also known as the MSU. He ran a popular Telegram channel called Protest MSU, which was launched in 2018 to cover student protests against the construction next to the university’s main building of a fan zone for the Russia-hosted World Cup soccer tournament.
Ivanov initially was jailed for 10 days on the charge of organizing an unauthorized rally. Authorities jailed him again on the same charge for 25 days, and then he was arrested over the social media posts.
While in custody, the student missed his final exams and failed to submit his final dissertation. He was expelled from the university.
During Ivanov's trial, in an unusual twist the court approved a defense request to subpoena Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov and Russia's ambassador to the U.N., Vasily Nebenzya.
Ivanov's lawyers argued that since the authorities had used the officials' statements to prove that Ivanov's social media posts contained false information, they should be deposed in court.
However, neither of the three complied with the subpoenas to appear in court.
In his final address to the court last week, Ivanov rejected the charges against him as “looking absurd” and said the crime he was prosecuted for “shouldn't exist at all.”
“The investigation, in trying to accuse me of spreading ‘fakes,’ has built one big fake (itself). Literally the entire indictment, from the first to the very last word, contradicts the reality,” Ivanov said. “I, in the meantime, stand by every word I wrote a year ago.”
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Janet Yellen: You don’t have a recession when you have the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years
By Betsy Klein, CNN
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday that the probability of a US recession this year is low as she touted job growth and low unemployment on the eve of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
“You don’t have a recession when you have 500,000 jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years,” Yellen said during an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America.
Friday’s jobs report showed that the US economy added an whopping 517,000 jobs in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate ticked down a tenth of a percentage point to 3.4% — the lowest jobless rate since May 1969.
Last summer, inflation hit a 40-year high in the United States as a confluence of pandemic-related matters (including supply chain disruptions, worker shortages and economic stimulus) and geopolitical issues, including the war in Ukraine, helped cause prices to spike. The Federal Reserve has embarked on a heavy-handed monetary tightening campaign to bring down inflation without causing unemployment to rise drastically.
“What I see is a path in which inflation is declining significantly, and the economy is remaining strong,” Yellen said on GMA. “And really that’s a path I believe is possible, and it’s what I’m hoping we will be able to achieve.”
Pressed on whether Congress will resolve the debt limit showdown, Yellen reiterated the administration’s stance that it is non-negotiable.
“America has paid … some of these bills on time since 1789; and not to do so — we produce an economic and financial catastrophe,” she said. “And every responsible member of Congress must agree to raise the debt ceiling. It’s something that simply can’t be negotiable.”
She added: “And while sometimes we’ve gotten up to the wire, it’s something that Congress has always recognized their responsibility, needs to do again.”
And asked to square Friday’s low unemployment numbers with ABC polling that 41% of Americans feel they are worse off from when Biden took office, Yellen said the “country has been through a lot,” as she pointed to stress from the pandemic, the economic impact of the war in Ukraine, and inflation.
She said Biden would be talking about the “strong and resilient” US economy when he addresses Congress Tuesday, highlighting job creation and bipartisan legislation now in implementation phase.
— CNN’s Alicia Wallace contributed to this report.
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Jalen Jackson scored 13 of his season-high 17 points in the second half, Owen Dease came off the bench to add a career-high 16 and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi defeated Northwestern State 75-71 to win its second straight Southern Conference Tournament championship on Wednesday.
The Islanders (23-10) defeated the second-seeded Demons for the third time this season to become the first No. 1 to take the tournament title since New Orleans in 2017.
Trevian Tennyson scored 10 of his 14 points in the second half and Isaac Mushila had 10 points and nine rebounds for Corpus Christi.
Conference player of the year DeMarcus Sharp scored 32 points on 15-of-31 shooting to lead Northwestern State (22-11). Ja’Monta Black added 15 points and Jalen Hampton had 13 points and 12 rebounds.
The Islanders rallied from an early 16-point deficit after losing senior point guard Terrion Murdix, the conference’s defensive player of the year who averages double figures, to a leg injury in the opening minutes.
The Islanders took the lead for good with eight minutes left on a Mushila 3-pointer and led by eight before a final push by the Demons, who got within a point on a layup Sharp after a pair of Islanders turnovers.
Tennyson hit a floater with 20.7 left even though the shot clock had reset after an Islanders miss. Black missed an off-balance 3-pointer and a Jackson free throw with 5.5 left wrapped up the win.
Sharp already had 14 points midway through the first half and the Demons led by 16. Dease scored 10 minutes in the final nine minutes of the first half to help the Islanders to a 31-all tie at the break.
Sharp only scored four points over the middle 20 minutes before leading Northwestern State’s near-miss rally.
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Norman restaurants, breweries and specialty shops are putting the finishing touches on their plans for a weeklong celebration of the local culinary scene.
From Friday through July 17, participating Norman eateries and breweries will boast special price points or offerings in the spirit of #EATNORMAN Restaurant Week. The $50 sign-up fee for businesses will be donated to Food and Shelter.
Event manager Taylor Mauldin Wagner said they wanted to implement minimal requirements to encourage participation.
The event was created in 2020 to provide a boost to Norman eateries during the height of COVID-19, but it’s now an annual summer tradition.
Scratch Kitchen and Cocktails participated in the first two restaurant weeks, and this year, the restaurant will celebrate under a new executive chef and Norman native, Luke Fry, who has worked at restaurants like Nonna’s in Oklahoma City and Victoria’s Pasta Shop.
The restaurant has three specials finalized for the week.
Fry has spent recent weeks trying to determine both what Oklahoma food tastes like and looks like. He said the answer to that is a blend of Creole, Southwest and Southern styles of cooking.
“Oklahoma is somewhat of a melting pot of different styles, so my specials are a reflection of that in a couple different ways,” Fry said.
Fry said a Smoked Scallop Crudo will surely be perceived as a unique blend of flavors.
“I smoke the scallops ahead of time with a cold smoke, and a guajillo pepper rub, then I’ll put them in a slicer and slice them really thin and lay them on a plate, and I created a citrus vinaigrette,” Fry said.
Patrons may then try a crispy beef ravioli. The slow-cooked and shredded NoName beef short rib is combined with ricotta cheese, mozzarella and herbs in fresh pasta — fried and served with grilled tomato marinara and buttermilk herb dressing.
Fry said the beef is braised with red wine and the local tomatoes come from Phoenix Farms in Davis.
The final course will be a grilled pork chop with sweet corn jalapeno cakes with flash fried spinach and an apple bourbon butter.
“I’ll be making my own apple butter by putting it through a food mill and then slow cooking it down with evaporated milk, and introduce the jalapenos in, then let it all cook down together,” Fry said.
All three courses can be purchased for $50 or bought separately for their respective price point, according to the event website.
Wagner said Norman residents may also experience some culinary programming at Scratch. The restaurant is offering a Martini Cocktail Class on July 11.
Spots can be reserved by calling 405-801-2900.
For an updated list of participating businesses, visit www.eatnormanrestaurantweek.com/participating-restaurants
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OXON HILL, Md. — Soft-spoken but brimming with confidence, Dev Shah asked precise questions about obscure Greek roots, rushed through his second-to-last word and rolled to the Scripps National Spelling Bee title Thursday night.
Dev, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida, had his spelling career interrupted by the pandemic, then didn't make it out of his regional bee last year. He got through his highly competitive regional this year for his third and final try at the national title, and he ended up holding the trophy over his head as confetti fell.
His winning word was “psammophile,” a layup for a speller of his caliber.
“Psammo meaning sand, Greek?” he asked. “Phile, meaning love, Greek?”
He soaked up the moment by asking for the word to be used in a sentence, something he described a day earlier as a stalling tactic. Then he put his hands over his face as he was declared the winner.
Charlotte Walsh, a 14-year-old from Arlington, Virginia, was the runner-up.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A cold snap blanketing the Deep South has upended water systems as local officials struggle to repair widespread leaks and broken pipes, forcing some people to take drastic measures to get by without reliable access to running water.
Breakdowns in infrastructure arose in rapid succession after days of freezing temperatures in areas where extended periods of frigid weather are abnormal.
The water woes are acute in places like Jackson, Mississippi, where the water system partially collapsed in late August and has had repeated weather-related breakdowns. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said the city is dealing with a "worst case scenario" on Tuesday.
Lumumba declared a local state of emergency Monday evening as Jackson's troubled water system failed to produce adequate pressure because of broken and leaking pipes. Crews have spent days working to identify leaks, but city officials said pressure remains low or nonexistent. The Environmental Protection Agency is assisting with the effort to repair broken water lines, Lumumba said.
“We are dealing with an old, crumbling system that continues to offer challenge after challenge,” he said.
Tekemia Bennett said she hasn't had any water since Friday. She and her four children woke up with no water on Christmas day.
“Christmas was very much like the Grinch came and stole it. I could not cook for my children. It was more like we were in survival mode," Bennett said.
People flocked to water distribution sites set up by the city, but the lines were "as long as the eye could see,” Bennett said. She got on line two days in a row before eventually giving up.
Flushing a toilet without any pressure requires large quantities of water, a hot commodity in Jackson. So she began to cover her toilet bowl with plastics bags and trash can liners.
“We are actually defecating in bags and tying them up and throwing them in the trash," Bennett said.
Throughout the Deep South, hundreds of leaks from broken pipes were draining water towers faster than treatment plants could replenish them.
Selma, Alabama, was in the third day of trying to find leaks and started Monday to shut down major lines and interrupting service to try to isolate where the biggest leaks were happening, Mayor James Perkins Jr. said in a statement.
Water crews in Florence, South Carolina, finally succeeded Tuesday to get the water pressure back up after having to follow just about every water line in the city to find a large, but hidden leak, officials said.
Widespread water problems also continued in Georgia. Officials on Monday began distributing water in Clayton County, a suburb just south of Atlanta, after burst pipes caused many customers to lose water on Sunday.
“It’s not a great feeling, and we are sad because on Christmas, I woke up to make tamales and realized we had no water,” Maria Landeros, a 30-year-resident of Forest Park, told WXIA-TV in Spanish.
Cars lined up around the corner of the Forest Park police station as city officials gave out 200 cases of water over three hours.
A number of other areas reported low water pressure and advised residents to boil water, including large swaths of the Atlanta suburbs of DeKalb and Forsyth counties.
Bottled water was being distributed Tuesday in Memphis, Tennessee, where authorities urged people “to limit all non-essential water uses.”
Up to 15% of Memphis Light, Gas and Water water customers are without water in Shelby County, the most populous county in Tennessee, because of inadequate water pressure. "Most of the cause of that lack of pressure are the water leaks in privately owned buildings, particularly from fire- suppression equipment," Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said.
The water issues started on Dec. 24 when the utility said it experienced multiple line breaks because of freezing weather and power outages. The breaks resulted in a significant loss of pressure to the drinking water system.
Memphis Light, Gas and Water, which serves more than 440,000 customers in Memphis and Shelby County, said at the time that all customers should conserve water and boil it as a precaution when using.
An emergency drought management plan was into place Monday by Memphis Light, Gas and Water that prohibits non-essential water uses such as washing cars while the utility works to find, fix or isolate main breaks and broken water services, it said in a statement.
In Kentucky, the Meade County Water District asked its 5,000 customers to conserve water. But then it said in a statement that because of the cold temperatures and increased demand, it was unable to keep up and would temporarily cut off service to some areas so that tanks could refill.
Parts of Asheville, North Carolina, were experiencing water outages or were advised to boil water. The city said Tuesday afternoon that a water production facility in the southern part of the city has been unable to produce water since Dec. 24, and the problem has been exacerbated by line breaks because of extremely cold temperatures.
Officials encouraged people across the South to drip faucets during the prolonged cold snap because water moving through pipes is less likely to freeze. But as soon as the temperature rose above 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 Celsius), they said people need to stop the drip. That thaw also means frozen, broken pipes will suddenly begin leaking.
Water expands when it freezes, bursting pipes that aren’t protected. Then when the temperature rises, those broken pipes start leaking hundreds or thousands of gallons of water.
In Sun Belt cities like Jackson, water systems aren’t standing up the tumultuous weather. Tens of thousands of Jackson residents in the Mississippi capital were also left without running water for days during a cold snap in 2021, only for the water system to fail again in late August.
Bennett vowed that she won’t be living in the city this time next year.
“I know they say it get’s worse before it gets better. But I can’t wait until it gets better no more,” she said.
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Associated Press journalist Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Jeff Amy in Atlanta; Rebecca Reynolds in Louisville, Kentucky; and Jonathan Drew in Raleigh, North Carolina, contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. ("Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp.") (NASDAQ: ARQQ) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of: (i) all persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Arqit securities between September 7, 2021 and April 18, 2022, inclusive; and/or (ii) all holders of Centricus securities as of the record date for the special meeting of shareholders held on August 31, 2021 to consider approval of the merger between Arqit and Centricus (the "Merger") and entitled to vote on the Merger.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp., 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 Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Arqit's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards for telecommunications; (2) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of Arqit's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (3) the British government was not an Arqit customer but, rather, providing grants to Arqit; (4) Arqit had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger; and (5) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: July 5, 2022
Aggrieved Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. investors only have until July 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
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