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The Center supports transformative, individualized learning environments across the country
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Microschooling Center, a groundbreaking resource hub for microschools and families looking for alternative educational opportunities, launched today. With startup funding from Stand Together Trust, the Center offers a robust, diverse portfolio of resources and technical assistance to grow and support small learning environments across the country.
For educational entrepreneurs, the Center provides a variety of trainings, a network of microschooling leaders to learn from and with, digital learning tools, one-on-one consultations, measurement and evaluation support, and continued guidance as microschools and their leaders develop.
Central to the National Microschooling Center's work is policy analysis and advocacy. The Center offers microschool leaders the guidance to optimize their program within each state or jurisdiction's different policy and regulatory landscapes. The Center advises policymakers on the value of microschooling and how to support microschools and families with enabling policy.
The Center also acts as a convener, connecting families looking for a microschool with current and launching microschool leaders and with other families in their community.
As families grapple with a changing education environment, many are searching for alternatives that offer more flexibility and individualized learning opportunities for students. Microschools are creating a transformative shift in teaching and learning, meeting each child where they are in their learning trajectory.
"Today's microschools are created around the unique educational needs of each individual child, allowing them to deliver the powerful potential not possible in more traditional, institutional settings," said Don Soifer, CEO of the National Microschooling Center. "This fact makes microschooling's proliferation around the country about its transformative potential, and not the particular failings of whichever incumbent school systems they are leaving."
More than two million children left the public school system between 2020 and 2022, joining a growing movement of students, families, and educational entrepreneurs who are creating and sustaining a truly innovative education marketplace. Since April 2020, Stand Together Trust partners have funded more than 1,700 new education ventures, serving more than five million students with individualized learning options like microschools.
"Stand Together Trust is excited to partner with the National Microschooling Center in transforming education for families across the country. Today, most education is centered around a standardized approach that disregards the individual learning styles, interests, and strengths of students," says Derek Johnson, Executive Director of Stand Together Trust. "Every student is unique and deserves access to the educational options that they believe works best for them. Stand Together Trust is committed to helping families, learners, educators, and entrepreneurs expand innovative approaches to education alternatives that help all students thrive."
For more information on the National Microschooling Center, visit: MicroschoolingCenter.org.
For more information on Stand Together Trust, visit: StandTogetherTrust.org.
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A major winter storm and cold blast will impact nearly every state and bring what the National Weather Service is calling a "once in a generation type event" that will cripple travel on some of the busiest travel days of the year.
The strengthening storm will bring more than a foot of snow and possible blizzard conditions to the Midwest, as the weather service warns of "life-threatening" wind chills for millions.
More than 90 million people are under winter weather alerts and more than 87 million are under wind chill alerts. The alerts stretch across 37 states, dipping as far south as the Texas/Mexico border.
The cold will stick around for Christmas weekend, making this the coldest Christmas in roughly 40 years for portions of the Plains and Midwest.
Storm timeline:
Wednesday: The storm will strengthen over the Northern Plains through the day as heavy snow falls across much of the Rockies, the Northern Plains and into the Midwest. Slick roads will lead to travel headaches and airport delays through places like Minneapolis, Omaha and Rapid City.
This system will bring 5 to 9 inches of light fluffy snow across the region, with "the highest amounts just north and west of the Twin Cities," said the weather service office in Twin Cities. While snow will steadily fall across the region, the high winds won't kick in until Thursday.
Denver will go from a high of 47 on Wednesday to a low of minus 14 on Thursday morning. That would be the city's coldest day in 32 years, according to the weather service.
Thursday: Thursday will be the most difficult day for travel. The storm will be hitting the Midwest extremely hard with heavy snow and strong winds. Western Minnesota will face not only blizzard conditions, but potentially deadly wind chills Thursday and Friday.
"Whiteout conditions are expected during that time with travel becoming very difficult or impossible," said the weather service. "This event could be life-threatening if you are stranded with wind chills in the 30 below to 45 below zero range."
Chicago could also face blizzard conditions with winds gusting as high as 50 mph, with 2 to 4 inches of snow forecast.
"Overall, concern continues to increase in the quick development of dangerous conditions Thursday afternoon with potentially significant impacts to the evening peak travel window," warned the weather service office in Chicago.
Additionally, strong winds may knock out power lines in the Midwest, especially in areas where heavy snow fell last week and is already weighing down tree branches. This will leave millions finding a way to stay warm as temperatures plummet to well below freezing.
Snow could fall as far south as Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis and Nashville in Tennessee and even Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday. Little to no accumulation is expected for most of the southern cities, however, Nashville could pick up about an inch of snow.
In anticipation of what will be a week of travel nightmares, United, American, Delta, Southwest and Jet Blue have issued travel waivers for dozens of airports across the country from the South to the Northeast, because in addition to snow covering roadways, low visibility could make air travel dangerous.
Friday: The storm is expected to become a "bomb cyclone" Thursday evening into Friday. A bomb cyclone is when a storm rapidly intensifies -- and drops 24 millibars (a term used to measure atmospheric pressure) in 24 hours.
The storm is expected to reach the pressure equivalent of a Category 3 hurricane as it reaches the Great Lakes, with the weather service describing the strength of the low a "once-in-a-generation" event.
"This is a case in which snow totals may not tell the whole story. Even small snow amounts, when combined with very strong wind gusts and plummeting temperatures, can cause poor visibility and slick spots on roads. The sudden arrival of these conditions can increase the danger," the weather service explained.
The storm will be over the Great Lakes on Friday and continuing to produce heavy snow across much of the Midwest. Portions of Michigan could pick up more than a foot of snow by Friday, making travel impossible at times.
Heavy rain will also blanket much of the I-95 corridor, adding to the travel troubles and lengthy airport delays.
Even in places where the snow has ended, strong winds will continue to blow 30 to 40 mph across much of the Midwest and into the Northeast.
Friday night into Saturday morning, New England will get a quick shot of snow and windy conditions.
Life-threatening cold
Places that will escape the snow, won't escape the cold. Areas from eastern Montana through the Dakotas will experience the coldest air beginning Thursday morning. Temperatures will be running 40 degrees below normal for these places. The combination of cold temperatures and windy conditions will send wind chills as low as 50 degrees below zero.
Rapid City will feel like 45 degrees below zero on Thursday morning. By Friday morning, Chicago's wind chill will bottom out at 30 degrees below zero.
"The dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 5 minutes," warned the weather service office in Bismarck.
Even the South will be dangerously cold. Nashville and Atlanta's wind chill will drop to minus 11 on Saturday morning and Birmingham will feel like minus 5.
Jackson and Birmingham will both spend more than 80 hours below freezing between Friday and Monday. Houston could sit below freezing for 46 hours between Thursday and Saturday.
The cold temperatures will stay through Christmas weekend, before finally moderating next week.
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ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's most respected cannabis company, Jungle Boys, is pleased to announce the grand opening of its second Florida medical marijuana dispensary, and fifth retail dispensary store in the United States, Jungle Boys Orlando.
Located at 11401 University Blvd, Orlando, FL 32817, Jungle Boys' new Orlando location is open Monday to Saturday from 9am to 9pm, and Sunday from 11am to 6pm.
The Jungle Boys Orlando dispensary offers The Company's award-winning and legendary product portfolio including 16 unique strains of Premium indoor flower available in Pre-Rolls, 3.5G Eighths, 7G Smalls, Live Rosin vapes, Cold Cure Rosin, Fresh Press Rosin, and Rosin Jam. Available strains include the likes of LA Kush Cake, Motor Breath, Perfect Triangle, Mimosa, Frosted Gelato, Mac 1, Zack's Pie, Hippie Crasher, SFV x TK, amongst others.
The Jungle Boys are celebrating the unveiling of this 5,500 square foot flagship Orlando dispensary with an official grand opening on September 1st, 2022, at 9am. Patients are encouraged to attend early for registration that begins at 7am.
As part of the celebration, First Watch is providing egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches in the morning at 8am and 10am. Tijuana Flats is hosting a taco bar for the afternoon at 12pm and 2pm. Local music artist, DJ Diezel, is also scheduled to spin throughout the day.
For more information, or to speak with the Jungle Boys team, please contact Addie Wray via email at addie@jungleboysflorida.com.
Jungle Boys is a collective of cultivators working toward a singular mission: to grow clean and potent cannabis. For over a decade, they have strived to change the way people think about cultivation. It's more than just what they do — it's who they are. From humble backyard beginnings to state-of-the-art grow facilities, they're always searching for ways to perfect the process and take the jungle to new heights. Sharing their successes, challenges and experiences with their community, they're proud to inspire and educate the next generation of cannabis cultivators. They're proud to announce their 2nd official Jungle Boys retail location in Florida. Welcome to the Jungle, Orlando Florida.
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Top state election and cybersecurity officials on Thursday warned about threats posed by Russia and other foreign adversaries ahead of the 2024 elections, noting that America's decentralized system of thousands of local voting jurisdictions creates a particular vulnerability.
Russia and Iran have meddled in previous elections, including attempts to tap into internet-connected electronic voter databases. Distracted by war and protests, neither country appeared to disrupt last year’s midterm elections, but security officials said they expect U.S. foes to be more active as the next presidential election season draws near. The first primaries are less than a year away.
Jen Easterly, director of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, referenced Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the U.S.-led effort to supply weapons and other aid to the besieged country as a possible motivator. She said the agency was “very concerned about potential retaliation from Russia of our critical infrastructure.”
She also mentioned China as a possible source of election interference, especially as the relationship between the two countries has deteriorated, mostly recently over the suspected spy balloon that floated across the country before being shot down by a U.S. fighter jet.
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“We’ve not seen anything here, but I’d like to end that with the word – yet,” said Easterly, speaking during the annual gathering of the National Association of Secretaries of State.
Of particular concern is the decentralized nature of America's election system. There are some 10,000 local voting jurisdictions throughout the U.S., including counties and townships, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Not all of those have funding for new equipment, proper staffing or updated training of election workers. Easterly said it was a priority of her agency to get money and expertise to what she termed “target-rich, cyber-poor” entities.
Meagan Wolfe, administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, said her state has about 1,850 local officials running elections, which makes it difficult to disburse federal money in a way that is effective over the long term. Wisconsin is a perennial swing state, where four of the past six presidential races have been decided by less than a percentage point and election conspiracies have found fertile ground since the 2020 election.
“A lot of times if you don’t see anything bad happen in the cybersecurity space, it’s kind of forgotten about,” said Wolfe, who also is president of the National Association of State Election Directors. “People don’t remember that this is a real and imminent threat, and so getting those local jurisdictions, their governing bodies, to really buy into this concept and to support sustainable solutions for local election jurisdictions continues to be a real challenge, as well.”
Several secretaries of state called for additional federal funding for local election offices, which not only must prepare for cybersecurity threats but also have had to deal with harassment and threats since 2020.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes noted that election workers and even voters in his state’s most populous county, Maricopa, have been targets of harassment and intimidation.
Stephen Spaulding, policy director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules & Administration, said the committee’s chairwoman, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, is trying to obtain more election funding after an attempt late last year fizzled. Congress allocated $75 million in election security grants to states, but that was far short of what many state and local officials had requested.
“More than $75 million from last year’s omnibus is clearly needed in our view,” Spaulding said. “We have repeatedly heard about how sustainable funding ensures our elections continue to run smoothly, facilitate predictability and planning, and we’re striving to work on a bipartisan basis to get that done.” | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/a-real-and-imminent-threat-security-experts-warn-of-foreign-cyber-threat-to-2024-voting/4108745/ | 2023-02-17 01:02:19 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/a-real-and-imminent-threat-security-experts-warn-of-foreign-cyber-threat-to-2024-voting/4108745/ |
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Whether you’ve got a calendar full of vacation days or just a weekend to spend on sabbatical, the Oregon Coast is the destination of choice for summering Portlanders in the know. With a rich, diverse variety of accommodations, attractions, multiple ocean-front Pelican Brewing locations dotting the shoreline, it’s hard to deny the allure of Oregon’s ethereal windswept coastline as a top shelf vacation destination. For newly minted Oregonians yet to experience the breathtaking grandeur and overwhelming spectacle of the Oregon Coast, or for Portlanders in want of quick coastal refresher, consider referring to this quick guide as you plan your next oceanic getaway and your best beachfront pint.
For the Relaxed Traveler…Cannon Beach.
If you’re the type of traveler for whom the journey is the destination and the best plan is not to have any plan at all, we say: Cannon Beach. This coastal town is straight down Highway 26 from Portland, requiring very little navigation but delivering a big scenic payoff. For a low-stakes weekend with the fam, Cannon Beach offers relaxed dining and recreation experiences as well as a charming main boulevard overflowing with touristy shopportunities.
Here’s our list of what not to miss:
Eat & Drink: Pelican Brewing at the south end of Hemlock Street features not only the full slate of Pelican brews on tap, but also a robust pub menu and a genial, family-friendly atmosphere. Cannon Beach’s Sleepy Monk Coffee Shop roasts their organic beans in house, so just follow your nose toward some of the most compelling brews up or down the coast.
Stay: In between rental homes and camping areas are the romantically understated Hidden Village Cottages and Stephanie Inn, two under the radar stays that are worth the attention.
Shop: Basalt Studio’s handmade ceramics, the charming Jupiter’s Used Books, and the kitschy vintage inspired curios from Sesame + Lilies are just a few of the unique stores to explore during your getaway.
Explore: Once you’ve laid eyes on Cannon Beach’s iconic haystack rock formation, consider exploring Ecola State park and reminiscing over a cinematic, generational touchstone like the beach scenes from Twilight, Goonies, or Point Break - all filmed at Ecola. Cannon Beach also features funcycle rentals and, for the brave-hearted, surf lessons.
For the Curious Traveler…Lincoln City
Nearly every city along the coast has a beautiful beach and view. So for those looking for a city-specific experience - Lincoln City is it. Nearly 4x the size of Cannon Beach, Lincoln City is a vibrant town with culture that extends beyond the typical travel season. Looking to stumble on a bartender with a salty personality? Or a book shop with serious history? A monument to the local Sea Lion? This is the place. Plus, Pelican Brewing just opened their bay-front outpost in Lincoln City with spacious dining rooms, an enormous patio, private event spaces, and their famous brews all with a momentous view of Siletz Bay.
Our go-to’s:
Eat & Drink: The Wildflower Grill with its pastoral charm is a local fave, and Pelican Brewing’s new outpost on the bay is a vacation destination in itself, featuring not only an impressive tap list, but also a fresh caught, coastal-inspired menu. Imagine the singular, panoramic ocean views and ale pairings next time someone you know is shopping for a coastal wedding venue. Get tipsy with the locals at Nauti Mermaid or for a softer liberation, check out The Cheeky Cauldron, a Harry Potter Themed Tea Shop.
Stay: No coastal stay is complete without the soft lull of crashing waves to both lull you to sleep and gently wake you up - consider beachfront hotel Surftides for the full maritime fantasy.
Explore: Take a glass blowing class at the Lincoln City Glass Center, test your luck at Chinook Winds Casino, peruse the books at Roberts Bookstore, grab a smoothie at Lighthouse Coffee, and rent a fat tire bike for cruising the flat long beaches.
For the Adventurous Outdoors Traveler…Pacific City
One of the best parts of Northwest living is the natural wonder that surrounds us, never more than a quick ride from any given city center. And if your primary vacation directive is to revel in nature rather than explore a new city, Pacific Beach calls.
This iconic location, home to Pelican Brewing’s first brewpub, is an unincorporated pocket of Tillamook County with barely more than a thousand permanent residents. It’s a quiet community, perfect suited for the getaway that prioritizes scenic wonder over pretty much everything else, so pack your hiking gear and prepare to swoon over some of the most breathtaking vistas our state has to offer.
Here’s the list:
Eat & Drink: Though Pacific City is quite small, Portland craft brew denizens can still enjoy a pint after their daylight adventures or their evening constitutional at the Pelican brewco’s comfortable beachfront destination. This locale is not only the original birthplace of Pelican Brewing, it’s also the only beachfront brewery with views of Haystack Rock, the legendary Dory Boats, and even the occasional cold water surfer. Also worth a visit are the Grateful Bread Bakery and the fine dining Meridian Restaurant located in the Headlands Coastal Lodge and Spa.
Stay: Adventurous types will love the Hart’s Camp - a campground containing both RV spaces and renovated Airstream trailers you can rent for brief or extended stays.
Explore: This town is all about getting outside. Hiking at Cape Kiwanda, or Whalen Island County Park offer stunning views. Paddle the Nestucca River, or test your surfing skills - Monument Surf Company is a great place to start.
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A 3,000-plus crowd of students and community members at the University of Oregon’s Erb Memorial Union Amphitheater screams as Sen. Bernie Sanders walks on stage. He waves to the crowd as John Lennon’s “Power to the People” plays in the background.
But Sanders isn’t in Lane County for a presidential bid, like he was in 2016. This time, he’s one of several high profile Democrats — including President Joe Biden — who have recently traveled to Oregon to stump for the tight gubernatorial and congressional races in the Nov. 8 midterm election.
Sanders is one of the most popular Democrats in the country with young voters and progressives. During his time in the Senate, as well as his bids for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, he’s called for creating universal health care, taxing the rich and investing in climate action. And he stopped in Oregon on an eight-state trip to rally young and progressive voters to support Democrats in the midterm elections.
Polls show that Republicans are likely to take the House of Representatives, and with three congressional seats in Oregon without an incumbent, leaders from both parties have appeared at rallies and events. Oregon could play a role in influencing which party is in control of the U.S. House. This state’s tight gubernatorial race also means Oregon could see its first Republican governor in decades.
Democrats are vying to maintain majorities in Congress and the governor’s office to address climate change, gun safety, corporate accountability and more. Democratic nominee for the 4th Congressional District Val Hoyle is trying to succeed Peter DeFazio, who’s retiring after 18 terms in Congress, and she says that the two share similar values and policy interests.
Oregon Democrat Tina Kotek is running for governor, an office that Republicans may have in their grasp because of a three-way race that could split the Democratic Party vote.
Both candidates, facing tight races, have seen big household-name Democrats like Sanders as a way to generate enthusiasm, especially with the youth vote. “This election matters for their future, whether it’s climate, choice or gun safety,” Kotek tells Eugene Weekly. “These are really core issues for younger voters.”
Val’s Values
Before Sanders took the stage at the Oct. 27 rally, DeFazio told the crowd to just “vote, goddammit.”
“Just one of you out there who forgets to drop your ballot, you might make the difference in that race,” DeFazio said.
The first midterm after a change in the White House often results in the minority gaining at least one chamber of Congress; it’s a pattern that has held true in the post-World War II era, except in a few instances, such as the midterms immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks.
One seat in Oregon that Democrats are working to hold on to is the one that DeFazio held for decades. It’s a race where DeFazio is working with Hoyle to ensure his supporters back her while national Republicans back Alek Skarlatos.
Hoyle tells EW that she and DeFazio have similar political values, and that DeFazio has helped her as she campaigns against the opponent he defeated in 2020. “He has been incredible in helping me understand how to navigate federal versus state issues, and letting people in D.C. know that this is an important, key race and that I’m the right person,” Hoyle says. “It’s important for him to have somebody who’s actually qualified.”
Hoyle says she has many friends running for office throughout the country, and they don’t have that support, which makes a difference in a campaign.
DeFazio’s legislative priorities have focused on transportation and infrastructure — and he’s ending his career as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Hoyle says she’ll focus on transportation and infrastructure if elected, especially advocating for the Coos Bay container shipping port, which will reduce the supply chain congestion on the West Coast by 10 to 12 percent.
Hoyle says she’ll also push Congress to consider the windfall profits tax on fossil fuel companies. “Everyone is looking at gas prices,” she says. “But what they’re not noting is that every single one of these gas and oil companies has increased profits and uses profits to buy stocks back, as opposed to lowering prices at the pump.”
Addressing gas prices by holding fossil fuel corporations accountable is something that won’t happen under a Republican-majority government, Hoyle says. She says the Republican Party is planning to privatize Social Security and Medicare. And Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has already introduced a bill that would create a 15-week national abortion ban.
The pathway for the Democratic Party to maintain its majority in the House of Representatives is through Oregon, Hoyle says. Growing up in New Hampshire, where politicians flock in hopes of kickstarting presidential bids, she says she’s used to living in a place that gets a lot of attention.
Polls suggest that two out of Oregon’s six congressional races are tight — incumbent Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici and Cliff Bentz seem sure to win their seats. According to nonpartisan think tank The Cook Political Report, only Hoyle’s race leans Democratic and Andrea Salinas is slightly favored despite being a toss up.
But Republicans could grab the Congressional District 5 seat, which Jamie McLeod-Skinner unseated Democratic incumbent Rep. Kurt Schrader in the May primary. On Nov. 1, The Cook Political Report, changed its view on the race from toss-up to lean Republican. The race changed in favor of Lori Chavez-DeRemer because the think tank said national Republican ads purchased by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s Congressional Leadership Fund have made an impact.
According to data from the Federal Election Commission, Skarlatos has outraised Hoyle. He’s brought in $4 million compared to Hoyle’s $2.2 million. Skarlatos has received sizable contributions from national Republican organizations, such as about $28,000 from Take Back the House GOP PAC, $16,833 from the National Republican Congressional Committee and $10,000 from Congressional Leadership Fund.
Although Skarlatos is trying to paint himself as a moderate by running ads of him posing with President Barack Obama, Hoyle says that two years ago he was running as a MAGA Republican. “McCarthy isn’t paying to buy a moderate,” she says. “Kevin McCarthy is paying to buy a lap dog, who’s going to vote the party line.”
About half of Hoyle’s contributions come from political action committees, such as labor union organizations, and the most of the other half are individual contributions. She’s received a $10,000 total contribution from PACs associated with Teamsters United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, as well as the Save Democracy PAC and DeFazio’s political campaign. She’s also received $10,000 from James Fuiten of Hillsboro, owner of Metro West Ambulance, who’s also supported other Oregon Democratic candidates for Congress, including Schrader.
But Hoyle also received public support at the Oct. 27 rally from Sanders. The endorsement from Sanders, who’s beloved by progressives for his push for “Medicare for All” and calls to hold corporations accountable, is a strong reminder about her values to progressive voters in the wake of the Green Oregon PAC’s three mailers that it sent voters in the past few weeks, she says.
“He was coming down because he wanted to make it clear that there was just one person he supports,” she adds.
National Politicians Stumping in Oregon’s Governor’s Race
Sanders wasn’t in Eugene just to support Hoyle. He rallied for Kotek, who’s in the toss up gubernatorial race for governor in Eugene, as well as in Portland later in the day.
Of the 36 U.S. gubernatorial races, Oregon’s is remarkable because of unaffiliated candidate Betsy Johnson, who could split the Democratic Party vote, leading to a governor winning the race with less than 40 percent of the vote. With such a tight race, it’s not just raining money — national political figures are pouring in to support the two major party candidates.
“They understand what’s at stake,” Kotek says of national Democrats traveling to Oregon. “They also understand that my values are in line with where Oregonians are, and they are more than happy to come and make sure people know what’s at stake in the election.”
The Democratic Governors Association, which has contributed $6.6 million to Kotek’s campaign, helps bring in national political leaders to stump for the congressional and gubernatorial races, Kotek tells EW. Oregon campaigns have had several big names show up, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, President Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sanders. Those appearances, Kotek says, have generated a lot of enthusiasm.
And former President Barack Obama has hit the virtual campaign for Democrats throughout the U.S. He sent 30-second video endorsements to candidates in several close races, including Kotek, who says that she’s thrilled to have his endorsement. “He’s delivering the right message,” she says. “I’m a fixer — let’s get it done.”
Kotek’s campaign has been pushing the endorsement video as an advertisement on Facebook and Instagram. According to the Meta Ad Library, which publishes data on its ads, older users engage with ads, but the Obama video has mostly been seen by voters ages 18 to 35.
Democrats aren’t the only ones sending in support. Drazan has received $7 million from the Republican Governors Association. And she’s had big-name Republicans campaigning alongside her, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and RNC co-chair Tommy Hicks, who said on Twitter they were going door-to-door with her.
Drazan also had Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speak at an Oct. 19 rally. Youngkin, Virginia’s first Republican elected to a statewide office since 2009, told Drazan’s supporters that 2022 is their “moment to take back your state, take back your schools, take back your law enforcement and make a statement that just like in Virginia will be heard around the world,” according to reporting by the Oregon Capital Chronicle.
Kotek says that the Republican support for Drazan comes from political figures who don’t share similar values with Oregonians, citing Christie’s affiliation with the SBA Pro-Life advocacy group and Youngkin’s advocacy for right-wing policy, such as targeting so-called critical race theory in K-12 education.
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling, which overturned access to abortion as a constitutional right, Kotek says that who’s in charge of the Legislature and governor’s office is now more important with reproductive rights. “I’m a pro-choice champion. I believe in access to health care,” she says, adding that Drazan would take the state backward on abortion access.
And Drazan’s plans on addressing homelessness are weak, which speaks to how unprepared she is to serve as governor, Kotek says. “This isn’t a solely public safety issue,” she adds. “This is a mental health issue. This is making sure you’re providing services. This is about building housing. You got to do the whole thing.”
The Young Vote
During Sanders’ Eugene visit, he — and the other speakers — hammered the message of young people voting. Wyden said voters older than 65 have a 20 percent higher voting turnout than those 18 to 35 years old, and Sanders accentuated the importance of young people voting.
Before the Sanders events, Kotek says young voters in their late teens, 20s and 30s were already enthusiastic, but his appearance magnified it. She recalls talking to a voter whose young niece is enthusiastic about voting in her first election despite not being a politically engaged person. “This is really a consequential election,” Kotek says. “That’s the kind of response we need to see, and I think we’ll have a lot of success in turning out younger voters because they know what’s at stake — it’s their future.”
Young voters, ages 18 through 29, have long underperformed in participation, but recent polls show that they’re voting in larger numbers. According to an April 2022 national poll released by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, 36 percent of young voters said they would vote, 55 percent of which would vote for Democrats. The results suggest a similar turnout to the 2018 midterm elections.
At the Oct. 27 rally, Sanders was blunt about the importance of the 2022 midterms. He said the future of the country — and people’s lives — depend on Democrats maintaining control of Congress and the Oregon governor’s office.
“If we do not get our act together and have the guts to take on the greed of the fossil fuel industry, the planet my generation is leaving to you and your kids will be increasingly uninhabitable and unhealthy,” Sanders said. “And that is not acceptable.” | https://eugeneweekly.com/2022/11/03/battleground-oregon/ | 2022-11-03 17:56:34 | 0 | https://eugeneweekly.com/2022/11/03/battleground-oregon/ |
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that its executive team will participate in the following upcoming conferences:
- Patrick Harshman, Chief Executive Officer, will participate in a fireside chat and host in-person meetings at the Jefferies Software Conference in Newport Coast, CA, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET. For more information, please contact your Jefferies representative.
- Walter Jankovic, Chief Financial Officer, and Jeremy Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Business Development, will participate virtually in a fireside chat at the Rosenblatt 3rd Annual Technology Summit on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. PT / 4:00 p.m. ET. For more information, please contact your Rosenblatt representative.
A live video webcast of the Jefferies fireside chat will be available on Harmonic's website at https://investor.harmonicinc.com/. An archived webcast will remain posted on the company's investor relations website for 90 days.
About Harmonic Inc.
Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in virtualized broadband and video delivery solutions, enables media companies and service providers to deliver ultra-high-quality video streaming and broadcast services to consumers globally. The company revolutionized broadband networking via the industry's first virtualized broadband solution, enabling cable operators to more flexibly deploy gigabit internet service to consumers' homes and mobile devices. Whether simplifying OTT video delivery via innovative cloud and software platforms, or powering the delivery of gigabit internet cable services, Harmonic is changing the way media companies and service providers monetize live and on-demand content on every screen. More information is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
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HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) _ Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (BIP) on Wednesday reported a key measure of profitability in its third quarter.
The Hamilton, Bermuda-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $525 million, or 68 cents per share, in the period.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $32 million, or 5 cents per share.
The operator of utility, transportation and energy assets, based in Hamilton, Bermuda, posted revenue of $3.63 billion in the period.
The company's shares have declined roughly 10% since the beginning of the year. The stock has fallen roughly 7% in the last 12 months.
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Man charged with murder after girlfriend’s 1-year-old son dies
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - An Arizona man is facing a murder charge in the death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son.
KPHO reports a Maricopa County grand jury indicted 23-year-old Diego Miguel Garcia on one count of first-degree murder and child abuse.
On Feb. 1, police and paramedics reported they were called to a Phoenix-area apartment regarding a report of an injured child. Police said a young boy had a brain bleed along with injuries to his head, back and abdomen.
The 1-year-old died at a hospital the following day.
According to police, the boy’s mother had left him in the care of her live-in boyfriend, Garcia, so she could go to work.
Court documents stated that Garcia called her around 9 p.m. and said the child had hit his head while playing with another child and was bleeding from his lip.
However, when she got home later that night, the woman said she couldn’t get her son to wake up and called 911.
Garcia reportedly told investigators several stories about what happened, including that the child ran into the edge of a door and hit his head on a wall.
The 23-year-old also told police that the boy fell off the couch and fell out of a crib, hitting his head, according to court documents.
Authorities said Garcia was arrested and booked into jail.
“Children are some of the most vulnerable in our community and when a child dies at the hands of an adult, this office will seek justice for the tragic loss of life,” County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said.
Police said Garcia and the boy’s mother were together for about a month.
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In a glimpse of what's to come, House Judiciary Committee Republicans warned the FBI and Department of Justice that they plan to investigate both agencies if their party retakes the House of Representatives. And on Friday they released a 1,000-page report about whistleblower accounts of "a rampant culture of unaccountability, manipulation, and abuse at the highest level."
Republicans will more than likely retake the House, and possibly the Senate, with the party heavily favored to win midterm elections in several congressional districts.
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who heads the DOJ, and another to FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting documents pertaining to committee investigations lurking in the not-too-distant future. The report, titled FBI Whistleblowers: What Their Disclosures Indicate About the Politicization of the FBI And Justice Department, alleges political corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, according to a House Judiciary Republicans press release. Republicans assert in the report that whistleblowers have brought to their attention, "allegations of political bias by the FBI's senior leadership and misuses of the agency's federal law-enforcement powers." The report, while primarily focused on the FBI, also targets the Justice Department as well.
In response to a request for comment on the letter and the report, the FBI told NPR that it has testified to Congress and responded to letters from legislators on numerous occasions to ensure there is an accurate account of their work. It went on to say that its members are dedicated to protecting Americans against terrorism, violent crime and other dangers, all without a political agenda.
"Put quite simply: we follow the facts without regard for politics," the FBI said in a written statement. "While outside opinions and criticism often come with the job, we will continue to follow the facts wherever they lead, do things by the book, and speak through our work."
The DOJ told NPR it declined to comment on the matter.
Both letters and the report come mere days before the close of the 2022 midterm elections, touching on a handful of Republican hot button issues, including but not limited to: domestic violent extremism; allegations against President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden; and the FBI raid on former-President Trump's home where agents seized classified documents, which have become the subject of an ongoing legal battle.
Jordan and the committee Republicans accuse the FBI of, "artificially inflating and manipulating domestic violent extremism statistics for political purposes," in their report, claiming that the bureau is, "fueling the Biden Administration's narrative that domestic violent extremism is the biggest threat to our nation."
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security released a Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism report in October, which asserts that domestic violent extremists represent one of the most persistent threats to the country. The report listed more than 30 incidents from 2020 and 2021 it categorized as significant cases of domestic terrorism incidents.
"These individuals are often radicalized online and look to conduct attacks with easily accessible weapons," the report reads. "Many of these violent extremists are motivated and inspired by a mix of ideological, socio-political and personal grievances against their targets."
According to the report, anti-government or anti-authority and racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism accounted for 77% of the FBI's domestic terrorism investigations in 2020 and 57% in 2021. And, a significant portion of the investigations from 2021 were directly related to the January 2021 siege at the Capitol, the report noted.
In his letters to both agencies, Jordan set a deadline of Nov. 16, to turnover the documents requested by the House Judiciary Republicans.
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(NEXSTAR) – The country seems to be collectively battling a host of viruses right now, with influenza ripping through communities and RSV crowding hospitals with sick, young patients.
So if you’re one of the many sick Americans right now and have already tested negative for COVID-19, you may be wondering what exactly you have – is it the flu, RSV or just a common cold?
Unfortunately, nailing down a test for influenza and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is not quite as convenient as the COVID-19 rapid test, but there are still a number of options. RSV is a common cause of cold-like symptoms that can be serious for infants and the elderly.
“There are currently no fully at-home tests for flu or RSV,” James McKinney, spokesperson for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), told Nexstar.
This is unfortunate for people who come down with influenza, as the existing antiviral drugs work best when started early, one or two days after symptoms begin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
While you may not be able to get the results at home, there is an at-home testing kit from Labcorp the FDA approved under an emergency use authorization earlier this year. You can test for COVID-19, flu and RSV by self-swabbing and sending the kit to a laboratory for analysis. For those who aren’t insured or don’t meet the criteria for the $0 upfront cost option, the price is a hefty $169.
There are also a “handful of home collection tests for flu/COVID,” if not RSV, according to McKinney. CVS also offers in-store testing for the flu at their Minute Clinic locations.
If you’re determined to figure out what you have after experiencing symptoms, healthcare providers at hospitals and urgent care centers are able to test for both influenza and RSV.
‘Tripledemic’ wallops the U.S.
The U.S. flu season keeps getting worse as healthcare providers are already scrambling to treat waves of RSV patients – many of them pediatric cases – who require hospitalization.
While the CDC said Monday that there may be reason to hope that RSV cases are leveling off in parts of the country, the same can’t be said for the flu.
Health officials said Friday that 7.5% of outpatient medical visits last week were due to flu-like illnesses. That’s as high as the peak of the 2017-18 flu season and higher than any season since.
“Turns out that the cold weather the gathering indoors, all of that is good for respiratory viruses and bad for symptoms,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said during a media briefing on Monday. “But what I would say is, you know, there are other pathogens out there, we want to make sure that we are on top of the ones that people can do something about that is prevention with vaccines, flu and COVID, for sure. And then intervention with antivirals, again, influenza and COVID.”
The annual winter flu season usually doesn’t get going until December or January, but this one began early and has been complicated by the simultaneous spread of other viruses.
The measure of traffic in doctor’s offices is based on reports of symptoms like coughs and sore throats, not on lab-confirmed diagnoses. So it may include other respiratory illnesses.
CDC officials estimate that there have been at least 8.7 million illnesses, 78,000 hospitalizations and 4,500 deaths from the flu this year, including 14 pediatric deaths.
Dr. Walensky also addressed COVID-19, which has so far not seen the abnormally high infection rate, but is starting to tick higher.
“In the past week, we’ve started to see the unfortunate and expected rise of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations nationally after the Thanksgiving holiday,” Walensky said. “This rise in cases and hospitalizations is especially worrisome as we move into the winter months when more people are assembling indoors with less ventilation.” | https://www.cbs42.com/top-stories/can-i-test-for-the-flu-or-rsv-at-home/ | 2022-12-11 17:10:47 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/top-stories/can-i-test-for-the-flu-or-rsv-at-home/ |
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Arizona man accused of committing sexual act near high school rowing competition
TEMPE, Ariz. - Tempe Police officials have released new details surrounding the arrest of a man for allegedly committing a sexual act at the Tempe Town Lake area on Mar. 5.
According to court documents, 30-year-old Jonathen Baxter is accused of public sexual indecency in connection with the incident, which happened during the afternoon hours of Mar. 5.
Court documents provided a rather graphic description of the alleged act, with investigators saying that Baxter admitted to officers that he was committing a sexual act on himself, while laying on the grass about 10 to 15 feet behind the pop-up canopies set up for a high school-age rowing competition for high school girls.
A number of witnesses, according to investigators, said they saw actions indicative of Baxter committing a sexual act on himself, even though the Baxter's private parts were not seen.
"Multiple minors from the competition witnesses Jonathen," read a portion of the court documents.
Baxter, according to the court documents, has a criminal history that includes a prior conviction for public sexual indecency and a prior arrest indecent exposure. A judge has set bail at $10,000, and should Baxter make bail, he will be subjected to house arrest. Among other restrictions, Baxter will also not be allowed to have any contact with minors, with no exceptions.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Baxter on Mar. 15.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Among the graves at a scenic lakeside cemetery in Vermont is a row of 51 small headstones. There’s one for Little Harry, Baby Ruth and Baby Kirk, as well as for many other children like William and Willis Colby, Ethel Fuller and Claire Wilson.
The line of tombstones — less than knee high — mark the graves of children who died in the late 1800s and early 1900s while living at the Home for Destitute Children, a former orphanage and boarding house in Vermont’s largest city of Burlington that served children from around the state.
But over the years, the headstones have fallen into disrepair.
Many were tilted forward or back, and at least one was broken, so a group of about 30 volunteers this month set about repairing them. They restored the gravestones, resetting them and cleaning them in what they described as a memorable morning.
“It just really felt like we were honoring and respecting and regarding these young people who lived and died so many years ago,” said one of the volunteers, Denise Vignoe, a spokesperson for the social service organization the Howard Center, about the children.
The work involved pulling up the stones, digging holes for them, removing any cement, and making sure the line of graves along a road in the tree-filled cemetery that slopes down toward the lake was straight. Then material was added to keep the stones in place, and they were cleaned and scrubbed so that the names can be read.
The Howard Center has historical ties to the Home for Destitute Children, which was formed in the 1860s by some middle-class and wealthy women to serve Vermont children orphaned by the Civil War, according to University of Vermont professor Meghan Cope, who has researched the home.
It grew to serve a much broader population of children later, and only a small percentage were actually orphans, she said. They came from families in crisis and under a variety of circumstances, from a parent dying to poverty and neglect.
“There were a lot of children in a lot of different circumstances and it also varied over time,” said Cope. “The organization was a statewide organization so there were kids from all over Vermont.”
Such facilities were common in the 19th and early 20th century with all major cities having them as well as most states, Cope said. But not all children in need were sent to the Home for Destitute Children. Some whose families were in crisis were taken in by neighbors or relatives, she said.
Without the benefits of modern medicine, children in the late 1800s died from multiple diseases and ailments like tuberculosis, diarrhea, diphtheria and scarlet fever. As a result, deaths at homes like this were not usual. At the Home for Destitute Children, some infants died from what was reported to be teething but Cope suspects it was a more serious cause with teething as the most obvious symptom.
“If a child had an ear infection, or a fever, or had picked up a stomach bug, which is incredibly common, because the water sources weren’t very well treated, they could very well be suffering from something much more major but the teething is what’s apparent,” she said.
While there was likely some abuse, Cope said she does not suspect that children were abused like they were at the now-closed St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington. Former Attorney General T.J. Donovan said in 2020 that it was clear that children suffered while staying there and that the Vermont law enforcement community failed to protect the children. St. Joseph’s Orphanage closed in 1974.
“I have no doubt at all that kids got smacked, every kid got smacked in that era, but the level and severity of abuse that happened in St. Joseph’s I really don’t see that that would have been possible. The home was far more transparent,” Cope said of the Home for Destitute Children.
In the over 40-year span that Cope examined, between 65 and 100 children were living at the facility at any given time.
“I think probably during the Depression for a lot of families it was better to board their kids than not to feed them,” she said.
In 1893, the home was destroyed by fire, leaving 71 children homeless, according to the Howard Center. A new building was dedicated in 1898 and eventually in 1945, the name was changed to The Children’s Home to reflect its shift to a treatment-oriented institution serving children with special needs, according to the Howard Center.
At Lakeview, which the city describes as an example of a Victorian lawn park cemetery, next to Lake Champlain and the city’s bike path, a Howard Center employee had noticed the condition of the children’s headstones and suggested that they be improved. The Howard Center did some research on preservation and contacted the Vermont Old Cemetery Association, which led the restoration work.
“You can’t look at the the names of those children and see the names there and see how their life was cut so short — and we don’t even know why it was cut short — and not do something to just try to preserve their memory,” said Tom Giffin, president of the Vermont Old Cemetery Association. “They certainly deserve that.” | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/ap-home-for-destitute-childrens-graves-restored-in-vermont/ | 2022-09-28 21:06:50 | 0 | https://pix11.com/news/national-news/ap-national/ap-home-for-destitute-childrens-graves-restored-in-vermont/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kinderhook Industries, LLC ("Kinderhook") announced today the execution of a definitive agreement pursuant to which it will acquire 100% of the equity interests of Gulf Tanks Holdings, Inc. ("Tank and Pump" or the "Company") from WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. ("WillScot Mobile Mini") (NASDAQ: WSC) for an enterprise value of approximately $323 million. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022. This acquisition represents Kinderhook's 79th environmental / business services transaction and 17th public company carve out since inception.
Headquartered in Baytown, Texas, Tank and Pump is a leading provider of logistics based environmental solutions focused on the containment of liquid and solid industrial waste. The Company provides environmental solutions across a diverse set of end markets through a network of 24 branches and a young fleet of over 16,000 specialized rental assets used to store, separate, and transport liquid and solid industrial waste. Tank and Pump's best in class service and prioritization of compliance through its proprietary technology platform, EnviroTrack, makes them the first choice for waste generators. The current leadership team of Tank and Pump will continue on with the new platform. Eric John, Senior Vice President of the Tank and Pump segment, will serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the newly established Tank and Pump platform post-closing.
"The Tank and Pump team is excited to launch an aggressive growth strategy for our business with Kinderhook's support," said Eric John, Chief Executive Officer of Tank and Pump. "We will remain true to our roots of providing dependable, best-in-class environmental solutions for our customers while also expanding the breadth and depth of those solutions. Our expansion will be fueled by investments in fleet, new locations, and completing add-on acquisitions."
"We are eager to partner with Eric and the Tank and Pump team to grow the Company while continuing to provide best-in-class service to its customers," said Rob Michalik, Managing Director of Kinderhook Industries. "We will actively deploy capital in organic growth to better service the ongoing needs of the Company's customers and also look to grow through acquisition. It was a pleasure to work with Brad Soultz and Tim Boswell to execute this transaction, and we look forward to future opportunities to transact and partner with WillScot."
Oppenheimer & Co. served as the exclusive financial advisor and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel to Kinderhook. Financing for the transaction was provided by a debt syndicate led by Twin Brook Capital Partners. BofA Securities served as the exclusive financial advisor and Allen & Overy LLP acted as legal counsel to WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings in connection with the transaction.
About Kinderhook Industries
Founded in 2003, Kinderhook Industries, LLC is a private investment firm that manages over $5.2 billion of committed capital. We have made in excess of 325 investments and follow-on acquisitions since inception. Kinderhook's investment philosophy is predicated on matching unique, growth-oriented investment opportunities with exceptional financial expertise and our proprietary network of operating partners. Our focus is on middle market businesses with defensible niche market positioning in the healthcare services, environmental / business services, and automotive / light manufacturing sectors. We have a track record of successfully and consistently building industry leaders.
For more information, please visit: www.kinderhook.com
About Tank and Pump
Headquartered in Baytown, Texas, Tank and Pump is a leading provider of logistics based environmental solutions focused on the containment of liquid and solid industrial waste. The Company provides environmental solutions across a diverse set of end markets through a network of 24 branches and a young fleet of over 16,000 specialized rental assets used to store, separate, and transport liquid and solid industrial waste.
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James Gunn has plans for DC
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
No, we aren’t getting the old Superman back, but James Gunn has dropped some information about what’s to come for the DC superhero.
The “Guardians of the Galaxy” director and producer Peter Safran were recently named co-chairs of DC Studios.
After Henry Cavill posted that he will not be returning as Superman in the DC film franchise, Gunn started a Twitter thread on Wednesday.
“Peter & I have a DC slate ready to go, which we couldn’t be more over-the-moon about; we’ll be able to share some exciting information about our first projects at the beginning of the new year,” Gunn wrote.
“Among those on the slate is Superman. In the initial stages, our story will be focusing on an earlier part of Superman’s life, so the character will not be played by Henry Cavill,” Gunn tweeted. “But we just had a great meeting with Henry and we’re big fans and we talked about a number of exciting possibilities to work together in the future.”
Some DC fans have expressed concern for the fate of the DC universe given reports DC Studios (which is owned by CNN’s parent company) would not be moving ahead with a third installment of the “Wonder Woman” franchise, as well as the filmed “Batgirl” movie being shelved.
Gunn tweeted that he has been writing a new Superman movie “for a while,” adding “We don’t know who is directing yet.”
When a follower asked about having Ben Affleck, who has starred as Batman, directing a Superman movie, Gunn didn’t rule it out.
“Met with Ben yesterday precisely because he wants to direct & we want him to direct; we just have to find the right project,” Gunn tweeted.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Toc Tien, Touliver and Mew Amazing - three talented artists of Vietnamese music industry - collaborated in the product "Mot cong toc mai" ("A sideburn"), released on the evening of June 30.
Watch their Music Video on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_xLRrwDric
The song "Mot cong toc mai" marks the first collaboration between Toc Tien and Touliver after their marriage. This is a Dance song, based on their strength, when Toc Tien shows off her voice on a vibrant music backgr ound. And Touliver brought out the best of him in the color of electronic music and showed his distinctive features in the way he placed the bassline and electric guitar sound.
Two distinctive personalities of the Vietnamese music market have joined forces to create a different music product. In the context that the majority of Vietnamese audiences still love Ballad songs and Pop Ballad songs, Toc Tien and Touliver have reversed their tastes, accepting trade-offs to fully express their musical personality, thereby merging with the modern flow of the music world.
The difference of "Mot cong toc mai" also comes from Mew Amazing - who wrote the lyrics and melody for the song. Mew Amazing's songs always show her innovative thinking, subtly insert satirical elements, reflecting society. With "Mot cong toc mai", Mew Amazing conveys the message that girls must have the courage to overcome the pain after a breakup.
That is reflected in the sentences: "Since you left forever / Made me a failure / The sadness in me is only as long as a sideburn / I hope you look back once / Behind you, the people who stayed / Me and your ex / Your ex and the girl before her / Ain't nobody cry".
MV "Mot cong toc mai" has the presence of Chau Bui - a popular fashionista of Vietnamese youth. Kien Ung - a member of SpaceSpeakers - plays the role of MV director. MV "Mot cong toc mai" is a spectacular set of scenes, continuously changing scenes to follow the speed of the song.
The beginning of the MV is the torment and suffering of Toc Tien when being betrayed by the person she loves. After that, the guy constantly "flirts" with the next girls, in front of Toc Tien. In the end, the four girls get together and teach the guy a lesson about the betrayal in love. The MV ends with a scene where the girls are dressed elegantly, with heavenly charisma when they do not belong to any man.
Toc Tien appeared in the MV in many different images. There is a scene where Toc Tien "shows off" her body and curves. The female singer also performed choreography on the vibrant music background of the MV.
The MV shows the audience what is the strongest and most characteristic of Toc Tien. Previously, the female singer collaborated with Touliver to create the product "Tomorrow" that left a special impression on Vietnamese audiences. Toc Tien has tried all genres from Ballad, Pop Ballad, to Pop and all succeeded.
Toc Tien is a popular female singer of Vietnamese music with nearly 20 years of experience. She had a breakthrough with the domestic audience from the gameshow The Remix in 2015. Over the years, Toc Tien affirmed the position of the top female singer, through many hits that attracted tens of millions of views. Toc Tien also sat as a coach at The Voice Vietnam in 2018 and impressed with her professional ability.
Meanwhile, Touliver is the leader of SpaceSpeakers - the most popular music organization in Vietnam today. He is a pioneer DJ/Producer in bringing electronic music to the Vietnamese market. Apart from Toc Tien, Touliver showed a special influence with the success of many Vietnamese singers, including JustaTee, Binz and SOOBIN.
The combination of the duo Toc Tien and Touliver is always a breakthrough, which is supported by the Vietnamese music lovers. Besides, the fact that they both built a family together in early 2020 also made the public especially interested, becoming the most influential Vietnamese married celebrity couple in the market. Now, Toc Tien and Touliver are in the leading position in the Vietnamese music industry, and the quality and difference of "Mot cong toc mai" have proved it even more.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy prepared Wednesday for a face-to-face meeting at the White House, the new Republican leader hoping to negotiate significant federal spending cuts in a broader deal to prevent a debt limit crisis.
Biden has refused to engage in direct negotiations over raising the nation's legal debt ceiling, warning against potentially throwing the economy into chaos. McCarthy all but invited himself to the White House, pushing to start the conversation before a summer debt deadline.
McCarthy arrives carrying no formal GOP budget proposal, but he is laden with the promises he made to far-right and other conservative Republican lawmakers during his difficult campaign to become House speaker. He vowed then to work to return federal spending to 2022 levels — an 8% reduction. He also promised to take steps to balance the budget within the decade — an ambitious, if politically unattainable goal.
The political and economic stakes are high for both leaders, who have a cordial relationship, and for the nation as they work to prevent a debt default. But expectations are low that this first meeting will yield early results.
“Everyone is asking the same question of Speaker McCarthy: Show us your plan. Where is your plan, Republicans?” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ahead of the afternoon meeting.
"For days, Speaker McCarthy has heralded this sitdown as some kind of major win in his debt ceiling talks," Schumer said. But he added, “Speaker McCarthy showing up at the White House without a plan is like sitting down at the table without cards in your hand.”
The nation is heading toward a fiscal showdown over raising the debt ceiling, a once-routine vote in Congress that has taken on oversized significance over the past decade as the nation's debt toll mounts. Newly empowered in the majority, House Republicans want to force Biden and Senate Democrats into budget cuts as part of a deal to raise the limit.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen notified Congress last month that the government was reaching the limit of its borrowing capacity, $31 trillion, with congressional approval needed to raise the ceiling to allow more debt to pay off the nation's already accrued bills. While Yellen was able to launch “extraordinary measures” to cover the bills temporarily, that funding is to run out in June.
Ahead of the White House meeting, House Republicans met in private early Wednesday to discuss policies. McCarthy met with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday at the Capitol.
McConnell has a history of dealmaking with Biden during the last debt ceiling showdown a decade ago. But the GOP leader of the Senate, in the minority party, says it's up to McCarthy and the president to come up with a deal that would be acceptable to the new House majority.
Still, McConnell is doing his part to influence the process from afar, and nudging Biden to negotiate.
“The president of the United States does not get to walk away from the table,” McConnell said in Senate remarks. “The American people changed control of the House because the voters wanted to constrain Democrats’ runaway, reckless, party-line spending.”
Slashing the federal budget is often easier said than done, as past budget deals have shown.
After a 2011 debt ceiling standoff during the Obama era, Republicans and Democrats agreed to across-the-board federal budget caps on domestic and defense spending that were supposed to be in place for 10 years but ultimately proved too much to bear.
After initial cuts, both parties agreed in subsequent years to alter the budget caps to protect priority programs. The caps recently expired anyway, and last year Congress agreed to a $1.7 trillion federal spending bill that sparked new outrage among fiscal hawks.
McCarthy said over the weekend he would not be proposing any reductions to the Social Security and Medicare programs that are primarily for older Americans, but other Republicans want cuts to those as part of overall belt-tightening.
Such mainstay programs, along with the Medicaid health care system, make up the bulk of federal spending and are politically difficult to cut, particularly with a growing population of those in need of services in congressional districts nationwide.
The federal budget's non-mandatory programs, in defense and domestic accounts, have also proven tough to trim.
Agreeing on the size and scope of the GOP's proposed cuts will be a tall order for McCarthy as he struggles to build consensus within his House Republican majority and bridge the divide between his conservative and far-right wings of the party.
Biden has been here before, having brokered 2011-12 fiscal deals when he was vice president with McConnell.
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Mother-daughter-duo brings vintage western wear to Mandan
MANDAN, N.D. (KFYR) - A new western-style, vintage store is coming to Mandan.
For those of you who love fashion, you’ll want to write this date down: August 4. That’s the date the co-owner of Buffalo Gypsy said she plans to open the new store.
North Dakota native Shelby Arntson and her mother, Nancy Hanson, moved to Mandan from Watford City, and they decided the city could use a bit more western spice.
Arntson said her store will sell vintage western wear, like cowboy boots, belts, antiques, turquoise jewelry and silver accessories.
“My mom and I are doing it, and we’re from western North Dakota, so Watford City area. So, we have a lot of stores like that out there. So, we just wanted to bring a little of that here,” said Arntson.
Arntson says the shop at 122 W Main St in Mandan will open on August 4 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
For more information, visit the “BuffaloGypsy” Facebook page.
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First NFT Drop to Feature Cult Classic TV Series Land of the Lost
LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Orange Comet, Inc., a premium NFT (Non-Fungible Token) creative media and Web3 experience company, today announced a multi-year partnership with Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures, the creators of beloved classic television series including "H.R. Pufnstuf," "Land of the Lost," "The Bugaloos," and many more. The first project together will focus on the iconic "Land of the Lost," with the NFTs officially dropping in early Q4 2022.
With its 3D digital design studios, award-winning creative team and innovative technology, Orange Comet specializes in producing industry-leading NFT and blockchain experiences for some of the most valuable brands, IP, and talent in the worlds of sports, music, pop culture and entertainment. Most recently, the company launched a partnership with AMC's "The Walking Dead," leading to multiple sold out NFT drops.
"Sid and Marty Krofft are legendary world builders and we're honored to start our work with them by bringing the world of Land of the Lost back to life through this custom NFT collection," said Dave Broome, CEO of Orange Comet. "Our ultimate goal is to ensure that all of our Krofft NFTs remain nostalgic and authentic for the original fans, but with a unique, innovative spin on them to draw in and engage new audiences."
Orange Comet is working closely with the team at Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures and has access to the studio's massive vault of content, ensuring no detail will be spared in paying homage to these iconic shows and their characters. Learn more about the collection and pre-register at https://orangecomet.com/collection/land-of-the-lost/.
"Digital collectibles are the perfect way for our fans to own their own piece of Land of the Lost, and as a leader in the NFT space, we know Orange Comet's creativity and technology will wow them," said Marty Krofft, co-founder of Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures. "We're looking forward to continuing to collaborate with the team on our other series in the future - stay tuned!"
Sid & Marty Krofft will also be celebrating the launch of the NFT collection at "Krofft Kon" this Saturday, May 21st at the Orinda Theatre in Orinda, CA - the first-ever convention dedicated to the talents and creations of Sid & Marty Krofft. The event will include special appearances by the Kroffts, Pufnstuf, Butch Patrick from "Lidsville," Wesley Eure and Kathy Coleman from "Land of the Lost," Johnny Whitaker from "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters," Sharon Baird from"H.R. Pufnstuf," "Land of the Lost," "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters," and Lidsville, Caroline Ellis from "The Bugaloos," as well as Christopher Knight from ''The Brady Bunch Hour."
ABOUT ORANGE COMET
Orange Comet is a premium content creation company focused on producing high quality and disruptive NFT digital collectibles and Web3 experiences. The Company's team brings together some of the world's leading and award-winning media creators, producers, and artists to partner with the biggest brands, IP and talent across music, sports, arts and entertainment. By blending super-creative content and game-changing technology, our mission is to create groundbreaking NFT experiences for the passionate fan bases of our clients, simultaneously unlocking new levels of interest, engagement and revenue. Co-founded by Hollywood veteran producer, Dave Broome, NFL Hall of Famer Kurt Warner and Grammy award-winning music icons Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Orange Comet is powered by a passionate group of people that believe the future of all entertainment and media is on the verge of major disruptive change through a variety of blockchain experiences. Dedicated to blockchain sustainability, Orange Comet runs on green servers and builds a carbon-negative solution in the NFT space, including partnering with eco-conscious blockchains. Our collective diversity in background, expertise and industries, works to help our clients shape their businesses for the emerging Metaverse of opportunities that awaits. For more information, visit us at OrangeComet.com, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
ABOUT SID AND MARTY KROFFT PICTURES
Many of the most colorful and fondly remembered children's series of the 1970s and 1980s sprang from the imaginations of Sid and Marty Krofft. Their groundbreaking, live-action fantasy shows were mainstays of the Saturday morning airwaves, which had previously been the exclusive domain of cartoons. To this day, DVD box sets of beloved Krofft creations "H.R. Pufnstuf," "Lidsville," and "Land of the Lost" are brisk sellers, a testament to the artistry and charm of the Krofft brothers and the magical spell they cast on generations of TV viewers. For more information about Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, visit: https://www.sidandmartykrofft.com/about/history/.
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US readies second attempt at speedy border asylum screenings
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden scrapped expedited asylum screenings during his first month in office as part of a gutting of Trump administration border polices that included building a wall with Mexico. Now he’s preparing his own version.
Donald Trump’s fast-track reviews drew sharp criticism from internal government watchdog agencies as the percentage of people who passed those “credible fear interviews” plummeted. But the Biden administration has insisted its speedy screening for asylum-seekers is different: Interviews will be done exclusively by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, not by Border Patrol agents, and everyone will have access to legal counsel.
The decision to use fast-track screenings comes as COVID-19 asylum restrictions are set to expire on May 11 and the U.S. government prepares for an expected increase in immigrants trying to cross the border with Mexico.
Normally, about three in four migrants pass credible fear interviews, though far fewer eventually win asylum. But during the five months of the Trump-era program, only 23% passed the initial screening, while 69% failed and 9% withdrew, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Those who get past initial screenings are generally freed in the United States to pursue their cases in immigration court, which typically takes four years. Critics say the court backlog encourages more people to seek asylum.
To pass screenings, migrants must convince an asylum officer they have a “significant possibility” of prevailing before a judge on arguments that they face persecution in their home countries on grounds of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a social group.
Under the Biden administration’s fast-track program, those who don’t qualify will be deported “in a matter of days or just a few weeks,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday.
The expedited screenings will be applied only to single adults, Mayorkas said.
Despite the administration’s assurances that people will have access to legal services, some immigrant advocates who were briefed by the administration are doubtful. Katherine Hawkins, senior legal analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, noted that advocates were told attorneys would not be allowed inside holding facilities.
The Trump administration used fast-track reviews from October 2019 until March 2020, when it began using a 1944 public health law known as Title 42 to expel immigrants on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. The speedy screenings were among Trump-era immigration polices that Biden rolled back in a February 2021 executive order.
Unlike the Trump administration, the Biden administration won’t limit migrants to just one phone call. But it’s unclear how many calls U.S. authorities can facilitate, especially if there is no answer and attorneys call back, Hawkins said.
Screenings initially will be limited to Spanish-speaking countries to which the U.S. has regular deportation flights, according to Hawkins and others briefed. The administration began limited screening this month in Donna, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, and later expanded to large tents in other border cities, including San Diego; Yuma, Arizona; and El Paso, Texas.
Mayorkas, a former federal prosecutor, didn’t speak in detail about access to legal counsel in remarks Thursday about a broad strategy that, in addition to the screenings, includes processing centers in Guatemala, Colombia and potentially elsewhere for people to come legally to the U.S. through an airport.
“We have expanded our holding capacity and set up equipment and procedures so that individuals have the ability to access counsel,” Mayorkas said.
The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general took issue with lack of legal representation under Trump’s expedited screening. There were four cordless phones for migrants to share when screenings began in El Paso. Guards took them to a shack to consult attorneys.
Phone booths were later installed but didn’t have handsets for safety reasons, forcing migrants to speak loudly and within earshot of people outside, the inspector general said.
Facilities built under Biden are more spacious with plenty of phone booths, according to people who have visited.
“There are rows of cubicles, enclosed,” said Paulina Reyes, an attorney at advocacy group ImmDef who visited a San Diego holding facility in March.
The administration has not said how many attorneys have volunteered to represent asylum-seekers. Hawkins said officials told advocates they are reaching out to firms that offer low- or no-cost services to people in immigration detention centers.
Erika Pinheiro, executive director of advocacy group Al Otro Lado, which is active in Southern California and Tijuana, Mexico, said she has not been approached but would decline to represent asylum-seekers in expedited screenings. They arrive exhausted and unfamiliar with asylum law, hindering their abilities to effectively tell their stories.
“We know what the conditions are like. We know people are not going to be mentally prepared,” she said.
The Biden administration aims to complete screenings within 72 hours, the maximum time Border Patrol is supposed to hold migrants under an agency policy that’s routinely ignored.
It’s a tall order. It currently takes about four weeks to complete a screening. Under Trump’s expedited screenings, about 20% of immigrants were in custody for a week or less, according to the GAO. About 86% were held 20 days or less.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has identified 480 former asylum officers or those with training to assist about 800 on the expedited screenings, said Michael Knowles, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 119, which represents asylum officers.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — We were a diverse group of more than a dozen people, hunkered down in a small hotel in central Khartoum — a Sudanese family and the Sudanese hotel staff, a few British and French citizens, a Syrian family and a Lebanese man.
In better times, the Lisamin Safari Hotel catered to small tour groups that came to see Sudan’s little-known attractions — the ancient pyramids of Merowe and the coral reefs of the Red Sea.
Now, it was simply a five-story place of refuge.
Fighting between Sudan’s two most powerful generals had reduced the capital to an urban battlefield. The city had never seen anything like it, as the army and the paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces blasted each other in the streets with automatic rifles, artillery and airstrikes.
Each day, millions of Sudanese caught between them faced terrifying choices of how to survive: Stay hiding at home, where a bullet or a missile could blast through a wall, or make a run for it, risking the mayhem outside.
After days trapped in their homes, many chose to flee to the Liasamin Hotel — most of them on foot from the nearby neighborhood known as Khartoum 2, when the destruction became too great. I got to the hotel on the seventh day of the fighting. In this place of temporary safety, we all began to search for a way to escape the city.
We spent long hours together in the hotel lobby, the sound of gunfire almost constant in the mornings. Whenever the explosions got closer, some guests — myself included — moved to the stairwells for safety.
The guests exchanged stories of what they’d endured, seeing death outside their doors, armed men robbing people, looting shops and commandeering buildings. Early on in the fighting, Sudanese military planes flattened several RSF bases in the capital of Khartoum, driving paramilitary fighters into the streets.
“They used our roof to shoot from,” said a British woman. She and her group had left for fear the building would be targeted; the structure next door had been hit and caught fire.
The Sudanese family had fled their home with almost nothing. The father was an anthropology researcher at Khartoum University. Their children, a daughter of around 15 and her younger brother, were stoic, rarely complaining. They worried about the books, clothes and electronics they’d left behind and asked their mother if they could return to the house to retrieve them.
“I don’t think the RSF are going to steal your books,” she told them with a laugh.
We all waited for the hour or so each day when the generator was turned on — if there was fuel to run it — to charge our phones.
Like much of south Khartoum, the hotel fell under the control of the RSF, a force with a ruthless reputation. Its fighters strolled the area in their desert camouflage uniforms. We suspected others, in civilian clothes, were also RSF, from their buzz cuts and thick boots. Some could not have been older than 18.
I had landed in Khartoum from Cairo exactly a month before the fighting broke out, to report on the first phase of Sudan’s democratic transition, agreed upon by a handful of Sudanese political parties, the military and the RSF last December.
On paper, the new era promised closure to a 2021 coup in which Sudan’s two top generals, Abdel Fattah Burhan, and RSF commander Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, joined forces to overthrow a Western-backed, power-sharing government.
But on the ground, unease was rife. At night, the streets, which normally would have been bustling during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, were still. The start of the transition was delayed repeatedly. The army and the RSF were at loggerheads over merging the paramilitary force into the army, a key clause of the deal. Long-smoldering resentments between the two forces heated up.
Then, convoys of RSF fighters and army troops moved into downtown Khartoum. While Sudanese citizens warned of potential clashes, analysts, journalists and diplomats alike leaned to the logic that each side had too much to lose from open conflict. There was no sign of foreign embassies or aid agencies packing up.
We were wrong. After fighting erupted on April 15, I was trapped in an apartment where I’d been staying in Amarat, a neighborhood just south of Khartoum 2. With no water and food supplies dwindling, remaining there grew more perilous.
Finally, after several missiles struck the road outside, I decided to walk further south to the Lisamin.
Among the guests, fear had different triggers. For me, it was the hum of drones circling above the rooftops. It could drag on ominously for 15 minutes, until there came the sharp whine of a bomb being dropped.
During the lulls in fighting that usually came in the afternoon, our terror morphed into a duller angst. We talked about broader plans for the future. Hanging over us was an unspoken rule: Don’t talk about worst-case scenarios.
The owner, Mr. Salah, was generous. A single room cost $60 a night, a discount given the hardship of the times, and those without money were not charged. At night, the skilled cooks among us become the hotel caterers, using whatever dried and tinned food was left. Everyone knew the supplies would not last more than a few days.
All paths beyond the hotel were risky.
The Sudanese guests and staff planned their escape to the countryside and other cities where fighting was less fierce, or, they hoped, to neighboring Egypt. The nearby city of Wadi Medeni was one option, but without a vehicle, fuel or a willing driver, it too was out of reach.
Those of us with European passports pinned our hopes on an eventual evacuation. But with no functioning airport and street fighting still ongoing, this seemed difficult.
By April 23, as foreign governments hinted at potential evacuation operations, it was clear we had to make a move. The Sudanese family found transport to Port Sudan, where the mother had family. Three French women in the hotel were told to make for the embassy by whatever means possible.
Two British nationals, a surgeon and a widow from Glasgow, decided to stay behind. The Syrian family and Lebanese man had few options; they didn’t know a government that would help them leave.
In the hotel lobby that morning, we all said our goodbyes and wished each other well.
I was promised a spot on a Turkish-organized land evacuation to neighboring Ethiopia. My colleagues helped find a car to the assembly point, another hotel further south. At checkpoints along the way, my driver charmed his way past RSF soldiers, some of whom stood nervously at attention while others lounged in the shade making sandwiches.
Halfway there, we received a message from my manager that the plan had changed: I was to turn around and head for the French Embassy. Thanks to my colleagues in Paris, I had been added to the French evacuation list. I was lucky, grateful, but most of all, deeply privileged.
While I made it safely into the fortified embassy building, others were not so lucky. A French soldier lay in an embassy hall, a tin foil blanket covering his wounds. A British woman struggled to walk after her foot was struck by a stray bullet.
Our convoy of at least four buses and 25 armored cars set off from the embassy at around 6 p.m., crossing through RSF-held streets into army-held territory, before arriving at the Wadi Seidna airbase just northwest of Khartoum.
To my great surprise, I spotted the hotel owner, Mr. Salah, at the airport hangar. We embraced, and I thanked him for the past three days.
After women, children and the elderly left on flights, other young men and I were bundled onto the final flight of that round of evacuations in the early hours of April 25, heading for Djibouti.
It was not meant to turn out like this. Not for Sudan, not for my colleagues, friends and millions of Sudanese.
Tracking down everyone from the hotel since the evacuation has proved difficult. Some of the staff say they are safe, for now, in other parts of the country. The hotel owner is in Copenhagen with family. The three French women also made it safely to France.
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CACTUS LEAGUE
2023 Cactus League schedule: Find MLB spring training games in Arizona
Jeremy Cluff
Arizona Republic
MLB spring training is here and Cactus League games are happening every day throughout the Phoenix area in Arizona.
Find a game to watch with this day-by-game schedule.
The games are scheduled to run through March 28 with MLB Opening Day set for March 30.
All games start at 1:05 p.m. or 1:10 p.m. unless noted. All times MST.
More:Key dates in 2023 Cactus League spring training
Tuesday, Feb. 28
- Angels @ Athletics
- Cubs @ Brewers
- Padres @ Giants
- Rockies @ Rangers
- Royals @ Guardians
- White Sox @ Diamondbacks
- Guardians @ Mariners
- Reds @ Dodgers
Wednesday, March 1
- Athletics @ Reds
- Brewers @ Angels
- Diamondbacks @ Giants
- Mariners @ Cubs
- Rangers @ Padres
- Royals @ Rockies
- Dodgers @ Rangers
- Guardians @ White Sox
Thursday, March 2
- Athletics @ Cubs
- Angels @ Royals
- Diamondbacks @ Dodgers
- Giants @ Guardians
- Padres @ Mariners
- Rangers @ Brewers
- White Sox @ Rockies
Friday, March 3
- Brewers @ Guardians
- Cubs @ Padres, 6:40 p.m.
- Giants @ Rangers
- Mariners @ Diamondbacks
- Rockies @ Giants
- Royals @ Athletics
- Dodgers @ Angels
- Reds @ White Sox
Saturday, March 4
- Angels @ Cubs
- Diamondbacks @ Giants
- Giants @ Brewers
- Padres @ Diamondbacks
- Rangers @ White Sox
- Rockies @ Mariners
- Royals @ Reds
- Dodgers @ Royals, 6:05 p.m.
- Guardians @ Athletics
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Sunday, March 5
- Athletics @ Padres
- Angels @ Rangers
- Cubs @ Rockies
- Diamondbacks @ Guardians
- Mariners @ Brewers
- Royals @ Giants
- White Sox @ Dodgers
- Reds @ Angels
Monday, March 6
- Cubs @ Mariners
- Diamondbacks @ Royals
- Padres @ Dodgers
- Rangers @ Rockies
- Rockies @ Reds, 6:05 p.m.
- Guardians @ Angels
Tuesday, March 7
- Athletics @ Diamondbacks
- Angels @ Padres
- Brewers @ White Sox
- Cubs @ Rangers
- Giants @ Reds
Wednesday, March 8
- Mariners @ Dodgers, 6:05 p.m.
- Rangers @ Diamondbacks
- Rockies @ Angels
- White Sox @ Royals, 6:05 p.m.
- Reds @ Padres
- Thursday, March 9
- Brewers @ Giants
- Padres @ Guardians
- Dodgers @ Athletics
- Reds @ Cubs
Friday, March 10
- Angels @ Dodgers
- Diamondbacks @ Reds, 6:05 p.m.
- Giants @ Rockies
- Padres @ Royals
- Rangers @ Athletics
- White Sox @ Cubs
- Guardians @ Brewers
- Reds @ Mariners
Saturday, March 11
- Athletics @ Guardians
- Cubs @ Dodgers
- Diamondbacks @ Angels
- Mariners @ Rockies
- Royals @ Brewers
- White Sox @ Padres
- Dodgers @ Giants
- Reds @ Rangers
Sunday, March 12
- Athletics @ Giants
- Angels @ White Sox
- Brewers @ Cubs
- Padres @ Athletics
- Rangers @ Mariners
- Rockies @ Diamondbacks
- Dodgers @ Reds
- Guardians @ Royals
Monday, March 13
- Athletics @ Rockies
- Brewers @ Reds
- Diamondbacks @ Rangers
- Giants @ Padres
- Mariners @ Angels
- Guardians @ Dodgers
Tuesday, March 14
- Athletics @ White Sox
- Angels @ Guardians
- Giants @ Diamondbacks
- Rockies @ Cubs, 6:05 p.m.
- Royals @ Mariners
- Reds @ Royals, 6:05 p.m.
Wednesday, March 15
- Brewers @ Diamondbacks, 6:40 p.m.
- Cubs @ Reds, 6:05 p.m.
- Giants @ Diamondbacks
- Mariners @ Athletics
- Rockies @ Dodgers, 6:05 p.m.
- Royals @ Rangers
- White Sox @ Giants
- Guardians @ Padres, 6:40 p.m.
Thursday, March 16
- Athletics @ Royals
- Angels @ Brewers
- Diamondbacks @ Cubs
- Giants @ Mariners
- Padres @ Rockies
- Rangers @ Dodgers, 6:05 p.m.
- White Sox @ Guardians
Friday, March 17
- Brewers @ Rangers
- Cubs @ White Sox
- Diamondbacks @ Rockies
- Giants @ Athletics
- Mariners @ Padres, 6:40 p.m.
- Royals @ Angels
- Dodgers @ Cubs
- Guardians @ Reds, 6:05 p.m.
Saturday, March 18
- Brewers @ Padres
- Cubs @ Giants
- Mariners @ Guardians, 6:05 p.m.
- Rangers @ Angels
- Rockies @ Royals
- Dodgers @ White Sox
- Guardians @ Diamondbacks
- Reds @ Athletics
Sunday, March 19
- Athletics @ Dodgers
- Angels @ Giants
- Mariners @ Rangers
- Padres @ Cubs
- Rockies @ Guardians
- Royals @ Diamondbacks
- White Sox @ Mariners
- Reds @ Brewers
Monday, March 20
- Angels @ Reds
- Brewers @ Mariners
- Diamondbacks @ White Sox
- Dodgers @ Rockies, 6:40 p.m.
- Guardians @ Rangers
Tuesday, March 21
- Athletics @ Angels
- Angels @ Diamondbacks
- Cubs @ Royals
- Giants @ Dodgers
- Rockies @ Padres, 6:40 p.m.
- White Sox @ Brewers
- Dodgers @ Guardians
Wednesday, March 22
- Angels @ Rockies
- Cubs @ Athletics
- Padres @ Reds, 6:05 p.m.
- Rangers @ Giants
- Royals @ White Sox
- White Sox @ Rangers
- Dodgers @ Mariners, 6:40 p.m.
Thursday, March 23
- Athletics @ Rangers, 6:05 p.m.
- Diamondbacks @ Cubs
- Giants @ White Sox
- Mariners @ Reds, 6:05 p.m.
- Padres @ Brewers
- Royals @ Padres
- Dodgers @ Diamondbacks
- Guardians @ Giants, 6:05 p.m.
Friday, March 24
- Athletics @ Mariners, 6:40 p.m.
- Brewers @ Dodgers
- Cubs @ Rangers
- Giants @ Royals
- Padres @ Angels
- Rangers @ Cubs
- Rockies @ Brewers
- White Sox @ Athletics
- Reds @ Diamondbacks
Saturday, March 25
- Brewers @ Athletics
- Cubs @ Angels
- Diamondbacks @ Mariners
- Mariners @ Giants
- Padres @ Rangers
- Royals @ Dodgers, 12:05 p.m.
- White Sox @ Reds, 6:05 p.m.
- Guardians @ Rockies, 6:40 p.m.
Sunday, March 26
- Diamondbacks @ Brewers
- Mariners @ Padres
- Rockies @ White Sox
- Royals @ Cubs
- Reds @ Guardians
- Reds @ Rockies
Monday, March 27
- Padres @ Mariners, 12:10 p.m.
- Rockies @ Brewers
- White Sox @ Cubs
Tuesday, March 28
- Brewers @ Rockies, 12:10 p.m.
- White Sox @ Cubs, 12:05 p.m.
Each Cactus League team's MLB spring training home venue:
- Cleveland Guardians: Goodyear Ballpark
- Cincinnati Reds: Goodyear Ballpark
- Texas Rangers: Surprise Stadium
- Kansas City Royals: Surprise Stadium
- Chicago White Sox: Camelback Ranch Glendale
- Los Angeles Dodgers: Camelback Ranch Glendale
- Seattle Mariners: Peoria Sports Complex
- San Diego Padres: Peoria Sports Complex
- Milwaukee Brewers: American Family Fields of Phoenix
- Los Angeles Angels: Tempe Diablo Stadium
- San Francisco Giants: Scottsdale Stadium
- Arizona Diamondbacks: Salt River Fields at Talking Stick
- Colorado Rockies: Salt River Fields at Talking Stick
- Chicago Cubs: Sloan Park
- Oakland Athletics: Hohokam Stadium
Reach Jeremy Cluff at jeremy.cluff@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on Twitter @Jeremy_Cluff.
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UMass-Lowell River Hawks (7-1) at Sacred Heart Pioneers (5-3)
The River Hawks are 2-1 in road games. UMass-Lowell has a 6-0 record in games decided by 10 points or more.
TOP PERFORMERS: Nico Galette is scoring 17.6 points per game with 8.0 rebounds and 1.6 assists for the Pioneers. Raheem Solomon is averaging 13.8 points and 3.3 rebounds while shooting 42.7% for Sacred Heart.
Everette Hammond averages 1.5 made 3-pointers per game for the River Hawks, scoring 11.6 points while shooting 52.2% from beyond the arc. Abdoul Karim Coulibaly is averaging 15.4 points and 9.9 rebounds for UMass-Lowell.
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Purdue Fort Wayne men's volleyball lost its regular-season finale Saturday night, falling to No. 11 Ball State 3-0 (25-17, 25-17, 25-22) in Muncie despite 10 kills apiece from Jon Diedrich and Mark Frazier.
The defeat drops the Mastodons to 16-12 overall and 7-7 in Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association play. They finished tied for fourth in the league and will be the No. 5 seed in the MIVA Tournament, which they will open at Lewis next Saturday at 8 p.m.
PFW reached the tournament final last year as the No. 6 seed.
Ball State (18-8, 11-3 MIVA) clinched a share of the conference crown with its victory Saturday and will be the tournament's No. 1 seed. They reached the NCAA Tournament Final Four last season, losing there in five sets to eventual national champion Hawai'i.
It was the second straight MIVA title for the Cardinals, who have gone back to back for the first time since 1996 and 1997. They finished the regular season with six straight conference victories to earn a share of the championship. Ball State shared the crown with Loyola Chicago and Ohio State this year.
Kaleb Jenness led Ball State with 15 kills against the Mastodons and Dyer Ball added nine plus two digs. Ball, an Angola graduate, is the son of former PFW volleyball great Lloy Ball, a two-time MIVA Player of the Year and four-time All-American. Dyer's grandfather, Arnie Ball, coached IPFW men's volleyball for 35 seasons from 1981 to 2015 and the Mastodon women for eight campaigns from 1981 to 1988, winning 800 matches all told.
Mastodons softball keeps rolling
The PFW softball team swept a doubleheader from IUPUI in Indianapolis, triumphing 9-5 and 4-1, to extend its winning streak to nine games and claim sole possession of first place in the Horizon League standings at 6-2 in conference play.
During their win streak, the Mastodons (14-18 overall) have won more games than they did all of last season (seven) and in 2015 (three) and nearly as many as they won in 2019 (10), 2017 (12) and 2016 (11).
Tori Countryman went 5 for 6 in the doubleheader with three RBI, two runs scored, a walk and two doubles.
Columbia City graduate Brooke Lickey went 2 for 3 with a double, two runs scored, an RBI and a walk in the opener.
Grace Hollopeter had four hits including a double, scored three runs and drew a walk over the two games.
In Game 2, Alyson Quinlan, pitched a complete game, giving up one run on six hits while striking out five and walking two for her third win of the season. | https://www.journalgazette.net/sports/colleges/local-colleges/saturdays-purdue-fort-wayne-roundup-mastodons-mvb-falls-to-ball-state-softball-wins-ninth-straight/article_6669648a-d68a-11ed-af67-77ce9abcb6d4.html | 2023-04-09 06:30:31 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/sports/colleges/local-colleges/saturdays-purdue-fort-wayne-roundup-mastodons-mvb-falls-to-ball-state-softball-wins-ninth-straight/article_6669648a-d68a-11ed-af67-77ce9abcb6d4.html |
INDIANAPOLIS — "The Greatest Spectacle in Rubber Duck Racing" returned to the Broad Ripple Canal Sunday afternoon.
Three-thousand plastic yellow ducks filled the canal for the annual Broad Ripple Duck Race. Money raised from the event will go toward the Broad Ripple Village Association.
Families and neighbors living nearby came out to watch the spectacle and cheer for their favorite duck.
Eric Feeney attends the race every year and said the event is fun for people of all ages.
"I think it brings a sense of togetherness and just a fun, light-hearted and artsy vibe that Broad Ripple is known for," he said.
Winners from the duck race received gift cards from Broad Ripple merchants. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/ducks-take-over-broad-ripple-canal-for-annual-duck-race/531-0b7e8908-6bc4-4f53-ad47-8a5ecbd920ca | 2023-06-05 02:23:04 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/ducks-take-over-broad-ripple-canal-for-annual-duck-race/531-0b7e8908-6bc4-4f53-ad47-8a5ecbd920ca |
Alexandra J. “Ali” Barber
Dec. 22, 1995 - April 14, 2023
ROBBINSDALE, Minn. - Alexandra J. “Ali” Barber, 27, Robbinsdale, Minn., died Friday, April 14, in Robbinsdale.
A celebration of life will be from 2-6 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at Log Cabin Tavern in South Range, Wis.
Arrangements by Lenroot-Maetzold Funeral Home. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/obituaries/obits/alexandra-j-ali-barber-5d0135ff67a60618cb3bf3a9-64481c9be3fbc5362541384a | 2023-04-29 17:24:26 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/obituaries/obits/alexandra-j-ali-barber-5d0135ff67a60618cb3bf3a9-64481c9be3fbc5362541384a |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the first multi-brand interactive virtual reality (VR) worlds, Tomato Galaxy, officially launched on Meta Horizon Worlds on December 30th. The project is led by Tomato US, a subsidiary of BlueFocus Intelligent Communications Group Co., Ltd (BlueFocus) (SHE:300058); with the world itself created by designers at Vidyuu.
Meta Horizon Worlds is a social VR platform where users can explore over 10,000 different worlds on Meta Quest 2. Tomato Galaxy is a tomato-themed world where users can interact with ten brands, including ECOVACS, Hisense, Lilysilk, Xtep, IQOO, Ugreen, Wave, Smileader, Moody, and OSOTEK.
Tomato Galaxy consists of four interconnected worlds: Spaceship Tour, Day Hemisphere, Night Hemisphere, and Tomato Eye. Players need to play mini-games and collect Tomato Energy, which is a key resource to activate the magical portals that connect the worlds.
Andrew Wong, Director, Head of Reseller Business at Meta, said: "It is one of the most complex worlds I have ever seen in Meta Horizon Worlds... it can be regarded as an interactive brand gallery and offers an enhanced user experience as well. This is something pretty new for Horizon Worlds."
Tomato Galaxy is more than just a virtual playground. Besides the fun gameplay, it offers unprecedented brand immersion. "Many brands have already built their own worlds in Meta Horizon Worlds, but we haven't seen any world containing multiple brands of different categories," said Joy Guo, Project Manager of Tomato Galaxy.
The immersive VR experience of Tomato Galaxy provides a new approach for brands to reach and interact with existing and potential consumers. A deeper connection between brands and players will be built through tailor-made mini-games. "With the aim of using innovative technology to empower our clients' business, BlueFocus has taken important steps into metaverse marketing," said Jiao Li, Vice President of BlueMedia and General Manager of Tomato Interactive.
For those who don't have headsets, an AR filter called "Tomato Together" has also been launched on Facebook and Instagram. "Through our dedication to metaverse marketing, we'll keep focusing on promoting creative campaigns and creating immersive experiences for brands and consumers. Tomato Galaxy is just the beginning," said Jiao.
With its vast industry experience, BlueFocus will continue to optimize its metaverse marketing strategy by connecting with brands and content creators and bringing users into the metaverse.
CONTACT: BlueFocus Metaverse Center, BLUENEO@BLUEFOCUS.COM
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AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University announced Thursday that its men's hockey club will be suspended from competition for the next academic year after an investigation found the club engaged in hazing, alcohol abuse and personal humiliation of new or rookie members.
The club was put on interim suspension in May and a subsequent investigation also found that since at least 2018, the club coerced money from new members for status in the club, the university said in a statement.
A separate investigation found the Recreational Services staff and the club's coaches did not have understand or adequately oversee student complaints and club finances.
The club was ordered to develop a plan for new team education, complete anti-hazing and alcohol abuse training and restructure to become a traditional, student-led sports club.
If those requirements are met by Dec. 16, the club could resume practices and squad scrimmages in the spring but it won't be allowed to participate in competitions or league games until the summer of 2023.
In a statement Thursday, the club's players, parents and alumni denied all the university's allegations and said Iowa State had an agenda to restructure the hockey club.
The club said it will explore “all available avenues in responding to the university’s sanctions.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Iowa-State-suspends-men-s-hockey-club-over-hazing-17262029.php | 2022-06-23 23:19:09 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Iowa-State-suspends-men-s-hockey-club-over-hazing-17262029.php |
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Defending national champion and unanimous preseason No. 1 South Carolina is, not surprisingly, the favorite to win another Southeastern Conference title.
The Gamecocks were picked Tuesday to win their seventh SEC championship in 10 seasons and third straight in voting by league and national media. The SEC didn't release vote totals, but the pick seemed a no-brainer with South Carolina unanimously voted preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25.
Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley stays on the lookout for signs of complacency.
“It’s a big worry, because once you’ve won and you return basically almost your entire team, you tend to want to take the beginning part of your season — the meat and potatoes of your season — lightly,” Staley said. "They haven’t shown signs of it. But we haven’t been healthy, healthy either.
“It’s in my mind and on my heart to keep this team engaged and challenged every day when we’re out there practicing.”
South Carolina's Aliyah Boston was named preseason player of the year and was joined as first-team All-SEC by teammate Zia Cooke. Boston was the unanimous national player of the year last season.
Preseason No. 5 Tennessee was picked to finish second and No. 16 LSU third, followed by Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Kentucky. The Lady Vols filled out the other three spots on the first team with Rickea Jackson, Jordan Horston and Tamari Key.
Jackson is one of four offseason transfer pickups after she led Mississippi State in scoring each of the past three seasons. The others are Jasmine Franklin (Missouri State), Jasmine Powell (Minnesota) and Jillian Hollingshead (Georgia).
“I think they bring something special,” Tennessee coach Kellie Harper said. “Each one of them brings something different, but they're all very explosive and they're veterans.”
Arkansas coach Mike Neighbors figures it might be hard to rank the SEC teams from 4-14. The top three are clear-cut.
“We have three teams that have separated themselves,” Neighbors said.
REPLACING RHYNE
Kentucky coach Kyra Elzy wasn't at all surprised when former Wildcats star Rhyne Howard “took the WNBA by storm.”
The two-time SEC player of the year was the No. 1 overall pick by the Atlanta Dream. She was a WNBA All-Star and rookie of the year.
Elzy moves on with a more balanced team that lacks that one huge star.
"People ask me, What do you do without Rhyne Howard? I say, You don't replace a Rhyne Howard," she said. “She is a once-in-a-lifetime type player that we had the honor to coach at Kentucky. But now, we do it collectively.”
SISTERS ACT
The Hayes sisters — Anastasia, Alasia and Aislynn — get to play together once again. It went pretty well the last time.
The Mississippi State guards led Riverdale High School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to a 34-0 record and second straight state championship in 2016-17 when Anastasia was a senior. They were named national champions by MaxPrep.
“We play really well together,” Anastasia said.
Having all three sisters on the same team makes it easy on their parents to attend games “and support all of us at once,” she said. “It’s just so cool.”
Anastasia, a second-team All-SEC pick last season, was the league’s Sixth Woman of the Year at Tennessee in 2018. She transferred to Middle Tennessee, where she was named Conference USA player of the year and tournament MVP.
Alasia sat out last season with an injury after spending one season at Notre Dame. Aislynn mostly came off the bench last season after also transferring from Middle Tennessee.
NEW COACHES
The SEC has four new head coaches, including Mississippi State's Sam Purcell, Georgia’s Katie Abrahamson-Henderson and Texas A&M’s Joni Taylor. Florida’s Kelly Rae Finley officially got the job in February after serving as interim coach last season following the September resignation of Cameron Newbauer over his treatment of players and staff.
“She loves and cares for us deeply, and that makes it easy to fight every night for her,” Gators forward Faith Dut said. “And she just does it with such style and grace.”
Taylor spent the past seven years at Georgia, taking the Lady Bulldogs to four NCAA Tournaments and earning SEC coach of the year honors in 2020-21.
Purcell was an assistant at Louisville the past nine seasons.
Abrahamson-Henderson is a former Georgia player who has been head coach at UCF, Albany and Missouri State. She inherits a team that has been to two straight NCAA Tournaments.
She intends to lean on her former coach, Hall of Famer Andy Landers, for input.
“He is going to be a tremendous resource for me,” Abrahamson-Henderson said. “Just the way he built this program and how he did things, his vision of how he looks at it may be a little different from the outside in, where he used to be the inside out and now he’s looking on the outside in.”
UCF star Diamond Battles, the American Athletic Conference Player of the Year, followed her to Athens.
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NEW YORK — It was, by any definition, a weird Tuesday afternoon in the Washington Nationals’ clubhouse at Citi Field.
And then the Nationals lost again, falling, 10-0, to the Mets (34-17). And shortstop Alcides Escobar exited with an apparent right leg injury after making a diving play in the fourth. He was helped off the field by Manager Dave Martinez and head athletic trainer Paul Lessard. The Nationals (18-33) didn’t hit and were buried by seven runs charged to Patrick Corbin. The Mets logged 17 hits.
Evan Lee, that 24-year-old prospect, will try to keep the Nationals from getting swept Wednesday afternoon. Austin Voth, the DFA’d reliever, may finish a five-year stretch in Washington with a 10.13 ERA over 18⅔ innings this year. After the bullpen was taxed Monday — with Voth and Andres Machado struggling — the Nationals called up Jordan Weems and Francisco Pérez. To make room, Voth was cut and Machado was optioned to Class AAA Rochester, where he was until getting promoted last weekend.
Lee, a lefty, was a two-way player at Arkansas and a 15th-round draft pick in 2018. This spring, he has a 3.60 ERA in seven starts with Class AAA Harrisburg, maxing out at 5⅔ innings May 14. Voth, 29, heads to waivers and has a week to be traded or claimed by another team. If neither happens, he is likely to choose between free agency and a minor league assignment with the Nationals. But that wasn’t it for moving parts ahead of first pitch.
Stephen Strasburg threw a bullpen session and is slated to make his third rehab start Friday, pitching for Rochester against Buffalo. The target is six innings and 80 to 85 pitches. Joe Ross, once Strasburg’s recovery partner, opted to undergo Tommy John surgery on a to-be-determined date. But before offering those updates, Martinez was asked about Lee being at the park Tuesday.
The Nationals will have to make another move before activating him. That could be optioning Pérez after he worked the sixth, yielded three hits, threw 32 pitches and was taken deep by Eduardo Escobar for a two-run homer. Weems, by contrast, retired the Mets in order in the seventh, striking out Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso. But since Lee wasn’t added to the roster or announced as Wednesday’s starter before the game, Martinez only smiled and told reporters, “Don’t assume nothing.”
Sure. That about sums it up.
How could Escobar’s injury affect the roster? As a Band-Aid fix Tuesday, Martinez moved Dee Strange-Gordon from left field to shortstop and put Lane Thomas in left. But if Escobar goes on the injured list, the Nationals face some interesting questions. Are they ready to promote Luis García to play shortstop every day — even though they’ve maintained that he needs more defensive reps in Class AAA? Or will they tap Lucius Fox as a stopgap, pairing him with Strange-Gordon, until utility man Ehire Adrianza can come off the 60-day IL on Monday?
How did the Mets get to Corbin? Starling Marte’s two-run homer in the first followed Mark Canha’s leadoff single. Alonso, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil and Luis Guillorme singled in the span of five batters in the third. A four-run rally in the fifth started with Corbin on the mound and ended with him hooked for reliever Erasmo Ramírez.
By the end of three innings, Corbin had thrown 73 of his 106 pitches. For his homer, Marte rocked a low sinker 431 feet to center. For his two-run single, Guillorme used new life after the umpires overturned a hit-by-pitch call, ruling an errant sinker hit the knob of his bat. Corbin’s night included 12 hits, two walks, six strikeouts and 14 base runners compared with 13 outs recorded. His ERA jumped from 6.30 to 6.96. The last three runs on his line scored on hits off Ramírez.
Where was the Nationals’ offense? For five scoreless innings, the Nationals were in the palm of Trevor Williams’s right hand. For the final four, they were limited by relievers Drew Smith, Joely Rodríguez and Adonis Medina.
Williams also continued to have his way with Juan Soto. After walking and reaching on an error, Soto is 1 for 14 with five walks against him. Washington’s six hits were collected by Strange-Gordon (three), Maikel Franco (two) and Josh Bell.
Why was Nelson Cruz not in the lineup? Cruz, 41, is nursing a contusion above his left ankle. The injury occurred when Mets starter David Peterson plunked him in the first inning of Monday’s series opener. In his place, Yadiel Hernandez was the designated hitter and finished 0 for 4 with a strikeout. After struggling for most of the young season, Cruz entered the week 16 for 36 (.444) with five doubles in his past 10 games. Next Washington will look for a healthy return and the power that was supposed to come with his one-year, $15 million deal. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/05/31/nationals-mets-roster-changes/ | 2022-06-01 03:05:15 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/05/31/nationals-mets-roster-changes/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
12-17-37-38-42
(twelve, seventeen, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty-two)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
12-17-37-38-42
(twelve, seventeen, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty-two) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17690694.php | 2023-01-03 04:39:15 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Cash-5-game-17690694.php |
Gage Gose of Lander put the finishing touches on his outstanding prep career Thursday when he was named the Wyoming Gatorade Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year.
The recent graduate won the 110- and 300-meter hurdles, the 200-meter dash and ran the anchor leg on the Tigers' winning 4x400 relay team at the Class 3A state meet in May.
Gose set an overall state record in the 300 hurdles with a time of 36.09 seconds and a class record in the 110 hurdles with a 14.24.
At the Wyoming Track & Field Classic on April 28, Gose broke the meet record in the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.27.
Gose also excelled on the national stage this year. He won the 400-meter hurdles in the Championship Division at the Nike Outdoor Nationals two weeks ago in Eugene, Oregon, with a time of 51.48 seconds, which was the No. 4 mark by an American high school athlete this year. Gose also won the 110 hurdles in 14.16 to earn All-America honors in both events.
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In April he won both the 110- and 300-meter hurdles at the Arcadia Invitational in Pasadena, California.
Gose, who graduated with a 4.19 GPA, has volunteered locally on behalf of the Lander Interact Club, a youth group that serves community meals and organizes community clean-up campaigns. He has also donated his time by helping to clear the trails at Sinks Canyon State Park in addition to participating in the Rotary Youth Leadership Camp.
In February he signed to run track at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. | https://trib.com/sports/high-school/track-boys/gage-gose-lander-gatorade-track/article_5f307db8-16b6-11ee-9212-87b1f9c9e179.html | 2023-06-29 23:45:30 | 0 | https://trib.com/sports/high-school/track-boys/gage-gose-lander-gatorade-track/article_5f307db8-16b6-11ee-9212-87b1f9c9e179.html |
DeSantis to expand ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law to all grades
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ‘ administration is moving to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” as the Republican governor continues to focus on cultural issues ahead of his expected presidential run.
The proposal, which would not require legislative approval, is scheduled for a vote next month before the state Board of Education and has been put forward by the state Education Department, both of which are led by appointees of the governor.
The rule change would ban lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity from grades 4 to 12, unless required by existing state standards or as part of reproductive health instruction that students can choose not to take. The initial law that DeSantis championed last spring bans those lessons in kindergarten through the third grade. The change was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel.
DeSantis has leaned heavily into cultural divides on his path to an anticipated White House bid, with the Republican aggressively pursuing a conservative agenda that targets what he calls the insertion of inappropriate subjects in schools.
Spokespeople for the governor’s office and the Education Department did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the proposal saying “It’s wrong, it’s completely, utterly wrong.” She called it “part of a disturbing and dangerous trend that we’re seeing across the nation” of targeting LGBTQ people.
Last year’s Parental Rights in Education Act drew widespread backlash nationally, with critics saying it marginalizes LGBTQ people and their presence in society. President Joe Biden called it “hateful.”
DeSantis and other Republicans have repeatedly said the measure is reasonable and that parents, not teachers, should be broaching subjects of sexual orientation and gender identity with their children.
Critics of the law say its language — “classroom instruction,” “age appropriate” and “developmentally appropriate” — is overly broad and subject to interpretation. Consequently, teachers might opt to avoid the subjects entirely for fear of being sued, they say.
The law also kicked off a feud between the state and Disney, one of the state’s largest employers and political donors, after the entertainment giant publicly opposed the law and said it was pausing political donations in the state.
At the governor’s request, the Republican-dominated Legislature voted to dissolve a self-governing district controlled by Walt Disney World over its properties in Florida, and eventually gave DeSantis control of the board. The move was widely seen as a punishment for the company opposing the law. The board oversees municipal services in Disney’s theme park properties and was instrumental in the company’s decision to build near Orlando in the 1960s.
Disney later this year will host a large conference on LGBTQ workplace representation with the group Out & Equal, continuing a longstanding relationship with the organization.
DeSantis has faced calls from at least one Republican presidential contender to go even further than the existing law, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley last month saying the prohibition could be more stringent and extended into later grades.
The proposed rule change this year also signals the governor’s willingness to bypass even the compliant state legislature and instead leverage state boards in order to accomplish his high-profile political goals. Late last year, at DeSantis’ urging, state medical boards voted to ban children from receiving hormones or undergoing surgeries to treat gender dysphoria.
“Everything he does is about what can further his own career ambitions,” said Brandon Wolf, press secretary for the LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Florida. “And it’s clear he see the anti-LGBTQ movement as his vehicle to get him where he wants to go.”
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Associated Press reporter Aamer Madhani contributed from Washington.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
https://claimyourloss.com/securities/u-s-bancorp-loss-submission-form/?id=34645&from=4
The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased U.S. Bancorp between August 1, 2019 and July 28, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until December 27, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Parts of U.S. 60 to close in Tempe for next few weeks
TEMPE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - The City of Tempe is working on “final repairs” to the water main that broke last May right near McClintock. The water main had a hole in it which flooded the U.S. 60. Crews had to stop the water before ripping up and repaving the roadway.
Now, city crews are back at McClintock and the 60 to work on cutting out an old pipe piece and replacing it with a new one. Cars can still drive in both directions on the 60, but two ramps will be closed for the next few weeks. You can find the info below.
Road closure details:
- Beginning Oct. 2, the eastbound U.S. 60 ramp to the southbound Loop 101 and the eastbound U.S. 60 off-ramp to McClintock Drive will both be closed until approximately Oct. 28.
- One eastbound lane on U.S. 60 from McClintock Drive to Loop 101 will be closed only on Oct. 2 to allow crews to set up barricades and protect the worksite. The lane will reopen on Oct. 3 before morning rush hour.
- Some lanes of McClintock Drive near U.S. 60 have been closed since the incident for repair work. As of today, all vehicle lanes are open. However, northbound McClintock Drive lanes may have intermittent restrictions during the final pipe testing anticipated to occur Oct. 19-28.
City of Tempe Public Information Officer Kris Baxter-Ging says these repairs were expected. In May, they focused on reopening the highway as quickly as possible. City engineers had to come up with a final restoration plan and order the parts. “Hopeful we can get this done before Oct. 28, but wanted to give us enough time to not have to go back and do it again.”
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A win by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) in next week’s Senate runoff would hand Democrats a crucial 51st vote in the upper chamber, along with something else they’ve been seeking: breathing room.
Some room to exhale could do wonders for a party that has been forced to navigate the tricky waters of a 50-50 Senate. No longer could a single Democratic member — including Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) — derail a contentious nominee or long-sought legislative item, handing Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) a boost in the process.
“It’s night and day,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) told The Hill. “Being able to lose one is 100 times better than not being able to lose one.”
A win for Warnock, coupled with Republicans retaking the House, would serve as a one-two punch that would drastically reduce the pressure on and influence of both Manchin and Sinema, the two foremost moderates in the Senate Democratic caucus.
In addition to being able to lose a Democratic vote on legislation, reconciliation bills, which require only 50 votes and have been the center of Democrats’ hopes for major legislation and frustration with Manchin and Sinema, would no longer be possible with the House in GOP hands, nor would passing bills simply by getting rid of the legislative filibuster.
“There’s pressure on everybody, but the focus on any one or two members dramatically reduces, which makes Schumer’s job so much easier,” Kaine added.
“It means all the difference in the world,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) added.
Of all the Senate Democrats, perhaps no one claims to be happier about a possible Warnock victory than Manchin himself. The West Virginia moderate, along with Sinema, is also up for reelection in 2024, raising the stakes on the next two years for him personally as he seeks to appeal to both Democrats broadly and more conservative voters in his home state.
“I wouldn’t wish 50-50 on anybody,” Manchin told The Hill.
Democrats appear to be in the driver’s seat heading into Tuesday’s runoff. Warnock topped Republican Herschel Walker by more than 36,000 votes on Election Day. According to the latest RealClearPolitics average of surveys, Warnock leads by 3.2 percentage points over the former University of Georgia running back.
A 51st Senate Democrat would also be a godsend on the committee level. Gone would be the power-sharing agreement between the two parties that has forced a time-consuming process just to bring some nominees to the Senate floor for votes. Once again, the party in power will be able to pass partisan nominees without the minority side having the opportunity to gum up the works.
“It’s an extra seat on committees. It makes things flow better,” said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.). “On committees like Judiciary, for example, it’ll make a big difference.”
And an extra vote will almost certainly be key simply because absences from the Senate floor, whether for health issues or other reasons, are not uncommon. Over the past two years, Senate Democrats were down at least one vote on a number of occasions, including because of positive COVID-19 results that sidelined members. Two senators — Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) — even suffered strokes that temporarily kept them out of action.
Couple those concerns with possible health issues for older members, and that 51st vote will almost certainly prove crucial during the 118th Congress.
“It means a huge difference in our ability to operate,” said Van Hollen. “It gives you a little more operating flexibility.”
An upset win by Walker, however, would not only stymie Democratic hopes for the next two years but also give Republicans a major boost heading into what they believe could be a winning cycle for the party. Of the 33 seats up for reelection, 23 are held by Democrats, including a number in red or purple states that will give the party a prime chance at winning back the upper chamber.
“Well, we could put this one in the hole for 2024 when we expect to have a pretty good map,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). “There’s no reason to go backward,”
However, there’s trouble at play for the GOP in the Peach State. On top of his own personal issues, Walker will not have the benefit of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on top of the ticket as he did last month. Kemp defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams on Election Day, winning 2.1 million votes — roughly 203,000 more than Walker earned.
Due to Democratic wins in Pennsylvania and Nevada, Walker and Republicans have also been deprived of having the race decide the majority, which the party was counting on as being their biggest get-out-the-vote calling card.
“Warnock has all the advantages. I think Herschel might even be the favorite if this was to determine the majority. … It’s not going to be close,” one GOP operative told The Hill. “Our people just have no motivation to vote. Herschel Walker and his campaign are not a motivation for people to vote.” | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/senate-democrats-seek-51st-vote-and-some-breathing-room-in-georgia-runoff/ | 2022-12-04 18:26:32 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/senate-democrats-seek-51st-vote-and-some-breathing-room-in-georgia-runoff/ |
DALLAS, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PermRock Royalty Trust (NYSE:PRT) (the "Trust") today declared a monthly cash distribution to record holders of its trust units representing beneficial interests in the Trust ("Trust Units") as of June 30, 2023, and payable on July 17, 2023, in the amount of $496,169.38 ($0.040784 per Trust Unit), based principally upon production during the month of April 2023.
The following table displays underlying oil and natural gas sales volumes and average received wellhead prices attributable to the current and prior month net profits interest calculations:
Oil cash receipts for the properties underlying the Trust totaled $2.01 million for the current month, an increase of $0.02 million from the prior month's distribution period. This increase was due to an increase in oil prices.
Natural gas cash receipts for the properties underlying the Trust totaled $0.08 million for the current month, a decrease of $0.04 million from the prior month's distribution period. This decrease was due to a decrease in natural gas sales volumes and prices.
Total direct operating expenses, including marketing, lease operating expenses, and workover expenses, were $0.64 million reflecting a $0.02 million increase from the prior month. Severance and ad valorem taxes were $0.16 million.
Capital expenses this month were $0.29 million, a decrease of $0.38 million from the prior month's distribution. Boaz Energy reports the decrease was due to a decrease in capital projects.
Boaz Energy informed the Trust that this month's net profits calculation included $120,000 net to the Trust of funds reserved by Boaz Energy to cover future capital obligations and expenses.
About PermRock Royalty Trust
PermRock Royalty Trust is a Delaware statutory trust formed by Boaz Energy II, LLC ("Boaz Energy") to own a net profits interest representing the right to receive 80% of the net profits from the sale of oil and natural gas production from certain properties owned by Boaz Energy in the Permian Basin of West Texas. For more information on PermRock Royalty Trust, please visit our website at www.permrock.com.
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Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements represent the Trust's and Boaz Energy's expectations or beliefs concerning future events, and it is possible that the results described in this press release will not be achieved. These forward-looking statements include the amount and date of any anticipated distribution to unitholders, future cash retentions, advancements or recoupments from distributions, and statements regarding Boaz Energy's operations and the resulting impact on the computation of the Trust's net profits. The amount of cash received or expected to be received by the Trust (and its ability to pay distributions) has been and will continue to be directly affected by volatility in commodity prices and oversupply. Other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements include expenses of the Trust and reserves for anticipated future expenses, uncertainties in estimating the cost of drilling activities and risks associated with drilling and operating oil and natural gas wells.
Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as required by law, the Trust does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Trust to predict all such factors. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements in the Trust's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023, and other public filings filed with the SEC. The risk factors and other factors noted in the Trust's public filings with the SEC could cause its actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. The Trust's filed reports are or will be available over the Internet at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
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Union County, NJ senator explains why kratom should be regulated
Up until last week, I had never heard of kratom, which is an herb grown in Southeast Asia — the different strains of which, depending on what you listen to, can be anything from a replacement for your morning coffee to something comparable to an LSD trip.
According to protectkratom.org:
Kratom is native to Southeast Asia and has been safely used there for centuries, and decades in the United States. The American Kratom Association advocates for pure kratom availability, scientific study of kratom, and appropriate consumer protections.
Sen. Jon Bramnick, R-Union, is sponsoring bill S3549 that would require kratom to be regulated, prohibit the sale of kratom to anyone under 21, and establish administrative penalties for any person who sells a kratom product without product registration.
Bramnick, a guest on my New Jersey 101.5 show says:
I got a call from some constituents. Apparently, Kratom is illegal in six or more states, and in many countries, including Australia.
Those six states are Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Rhode Island, Vermont and · Wisconsin.
It's illegal. It's a tropical plant, and if you take too much of it, it's harmful to your health. Apparently, the FDA is studying it, but they recognize it as a dangerous drug, but they haven't banned it.
So all I did in this piece of legislation is say that the health department needs to regulate it; we're not banning it. But somebody's gotta label it and tell people, 'You take too much of it, you're in the emergency room.' So it's a tropical plant that has significant effects, kind of like an opioid, right? So all I'm saying is, it's time for the health department to regulate. And so hopefully the bill will pass the legislature.
Mac Haddow, senior policy fellow at the American Kratom Association agrees with him.
From David Mathau's post,
We want them to have a higher level of confidence that when they walk into a New Jersey store and they purchase a kratom product they know it’s not going to adulterated.
When I took calls on peoples' experiences with kratom, there were really no problems with it; nor with Dennis and Judi's listeners when they took calls, according to Dennis Malloy's post.
If you'd like to share your stories about kratom, or get involved with federal and state advocacy efforts or even donate to the cause, you can click here for protectkratom.org.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow’s armed forces to hold a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, the Kremlin said.
The order follows a proposal by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, earlier in the day day.
“Based on the fact that a large number of citizens professing Orthodoxy live in the combat areas, we call on the Ukrainian side to declare a cease-fire and give them the opportunity to attend services on Christmas Eve, as well as on the Day of the Nativity of Christ,” according to Putin’s order, addressed to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and published on the Kremlin’s website.
Kirill suggested a truce from noon Friday through midnight Saturday, local time. The Russian Orthodox Church, which uses the ancient Julian calendar, celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7 — later than the Gregorian calendar — although some Christians in Ukraine also mark the holiday on that date.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak dismissed Kirill's call as “a cynical trap and an element of propaganda.” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had proposed a Russian troop withdrawal earlier, before Dec. 25, but Russia rejected it.
Kirill has previously justified the war as part of Russia's “metaphysical struggle” to prevent a liberal ideological encroachment from the West.
Moscow officials made no comment on Kirill’s overture. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Turkey’s president Thursday and the Kremlin said Putin “reaffirmed Russia’s openness to a serious dialogue” with Ukrainian authorities.
But that professed readiness came with the usual preconditions: that “Kyiv authorities fulfill the well-known and repeatedly stated demands and recognize new territorial realities,” the Kremlin said, referring to Moscow’s insistence that Ukraine recognize Crimea as part of Russia and acknowledge other illegal territorial gains.
Previous attempts at peace talks have fallen at that hurdle, as Ukraine demands that Russia withdraws from occupied areas at the very least.
Elsewhere, the head of NATO said he detected no change in Moscow’s stance on Ukraine, insisting that the Kremlin “wants a Europe where they can control a neighboring country.”
“We have no indications that President Putin has changed his plans, his goals for Ukraine,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Oslo.
Ukraine's Western allies have renewed a vow to keep supporting Kyiv for as long as it takes to defeat Russia.
In the latest pledge of military help, the French Defense Ministry said it plans talks soon with its Ukrainian counterpart on delivering armored combat vehicles. France’s presidency says it will be the first time this type of Western-made wheeled tank destroyer is sent to Ukraine's military.
Also, U.S. President Joe Biden said Bradley Fighting Vehicles, a medium armored combat vehicle that can serve as a troop carrier, could be sent to Ukraine.
The fighting in Ukraine has increasingly become a war of attrition in recent weeks, as winter sets in.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, said Thursday at least five civilians were killed and eight wounded across the country by Russian shelling in the previous 24 hours.
The ongoing intense battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut has left 60% of the city in ruins, Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said Thursday. Ukrainian defenders were holding the Russians back, but the Kremlin's forces have pummeled the city with months of relentless shelling.
Taking the city in the Donbas region, an expansive industrial area bordering Russia, would not only give Putin a major battlefield gain after months of setbacks, but it also would rupture Ukraine’s supply lines and open the way for Moscow's forces to press on toward key Ukrainian strongholds in Donetsk. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/putin-cease-fire-in-ukraine/507-f7abd43d-53ba-4994-a72b-36d0ba612be1 | 2023-01-05 16:42:07 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/nation-world/putin-cease-fire-in-ukraine/507-f7abd43d-53ba-4994-a72b-36d0ba612be1 |
- Revised platinum deficit forecast for 2023, up 77% to 983 koz, as demand grows 28% and supply decreases 1% year-on-year
- Stronger-than-expected positive investment demand in quarter one sees full-year forecast raised to 433 koz
- Industrial demand on track to be the strongest on record, increasing 17% driven by glass capacity expansions in China
- Strong platinum automotive demand growth continues in 2023, up 12% on higher loadings and increased substitution
LONDON, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Platinum Investment Council – WPIC® – today publishes its Platinum Quarterly for the first quarter of 2023 and a revised forecast for 2023.
Global platinum demand in the first quarter of 2023 jumped 28% (+441 koz) as an upswing in investment demand added to strong demand growth momentum in the automotive and industrial sectors. Combined with lower supply of refined platinum production in the quarter (-8% year-on-year, -96 koz), as well as reduced autocatalyst recycling (-15%, -52 koz) and jewellery recycling (-3%, -3 koz), this led to a market deficit of 392 koz – the first quarterly deficit since Q2'21.
These events have led to a meaningful upward revision of the deficit forecast for full-year 2023 to 983 koz, which is up by 77% versus the figure predicted three months ago. This reflects total supply which is now expected to fall 1% below the weak 2022 level to 7,193 koz (-63 koz), and stronger year-on-year demand growth than originally anticipated of 28% to reach 8,176 koz (+1,775 koz).
Jump in investment demand to over 400 koz
Q1'23 saw a surge in investor interest, driven by heightened global uncertainty, platinum's strong demand growth and concerns about risks to mine supply. Bar and coin investment jumped by 71% year-on-year in Q1'23 to 102 koz (+42 koz), its highest total since Q3'21, propelled by a marked recovery in Japan. This trend is set to continue for the full year, with an increase of 79% (+178 koz) forecast. Meanwhile, net platinum ETF holdings grew by 43 koz in Q1'23, reversing the previous six quarters' of net disinvestment, with significant renewed interest from South African funds for holding platinum ETFs in preference to PGM mining equities. Again, this trend is expected to continue in 2023. The result will mean net investment demand of 433 koz in 2023 – a swing of 1,073 koz on 2022.
Industrial demand in 2023 will be the strongest on record
Industrial platinum demand grew 8% (+43 koz) in Q1'23, driven by growth in chemical demand of 108% (+123 koz) due to paraxylene capacity additions in China. Similarly, on a full-year basis, LCD glass capacity additions in China are expected to offset closures in Japan and result in glass demand for platinum growing by 76% year-on-year (+316 koz) to 730 koz. Together with increases from the medical sector (+3%, +9 koz) and other industrial segment (+4%, +23 koz), 2023 is on track to be a record year for industrial demand, growing by 17% year-on-year (+382 koz) to 2,628 koz.
Platinum automotive demand up strongly despite weak macro outlook
Automotive demand rose 9% (+69 koz) to 806 koz in Q1'23, partly aided by higher vehicle production, but mainly on increased platinum use per vehicle. On a full year basis, global automotive demand is expected to rise by 12% in 2023 to 3,255 koz (+357 koz year-on-year), driven by a number of factors. Firstly, heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) production is forecast to grow by 6% in 2023, with output in China jumping by as much as 26%. Secondly, tighter emissions legislation, particularly in China, will result in higher loadings, especially for HDVs and non-road vehicles. Lastly, growing platinum for palladium substitution in gasoline after-treatment systems will further boost platinum consumption. Significantly, this has meant a further upward revision to the substitution estimate for 2023 to 615 koz.
Total supply continues to struggle in 2023
Refined mine production declined 8% (-96 koz) in Q1'23 year-on-year and fell 11% (-151 koz) against Q4'22, as gains from Russia failed to offset reduced output from South Africa. Output in South Africa declined 14% (-119 koz) year-on-year as smelter maintenance and the impact of the country's ongoing electricity shortages hampered output. While mined platinum supply is forecast to fall by a modest 1% (to 5,511 koz) in 2023, as reductions in South Africa are partially offset by gains in Zimbabwe and North America, significant uncertainties still exist for South African platinum supply.
Global recycling of platinum remained sluggish in the first quarter of 2023, falling 12% (-56 koz) year-on-year to 413 koz, due to reduced volumes of end-of-life vehicles as a result of fewer new vehicles being sold. Meanwhile, the regulatory environment in North America aimed at curbing autocatalyst theft also hindered recycling volumes. With both issues likely to prevail throughout 2023, full year platinum recycling supply is forecast to fall by 1% (-9 koz) to 1,682 koz.
Trevor Raymond, CEO of the World Platinum Investment Council, commented: "From a macro perspective, 2023 presents a raft of both existing and new challenges, with an uncertain economic and interest rate environment, turmoil in the banking sector, inflationary headwinds, and a global energy crisis. Against these challenges, platinum is, counterintuitively, forecast to see a meaningful and sustained period of deficit. Importantly, the core drivers of platinum's expected 28% demand growth in 2023 are areas where the downside risks are well protected. These include the ongoing platinum for palladium substitution in automotive applications, and already committed glass and chemical capacity additions in China, both supported by increasing investment demand.
"In Q1'23 we saw evidence of these core drivers increasing demand, with the deficit exacerbated by a worsening of electricity supply shortages in major producer South Africa. Mine supply concerns, together with strong automotive and industrial demand for platinum, were met by a surge in physical investment demand, all of which have contributed to a widening gap between the supply of, and demand for, platinum. The revised forecast deficit for 2023 of almost 1 million ounces, informed by these Q1'23 developments, is likely to attract further investor interest in bars and coins and physically backed ETFs.
"The link between platinum and the hydrogen economy is of increasing interest and is becoming more widely recognised by investors around the world. Platinum's use in electrolysers producing green hydrogen for Europe's future energy security is bolstering green hydrogen production and enhancing its role in global decarbonisation. Hydrogen-related platinum demand is expected to grow substantially in the medium term; as hydrogen demand becomes meaningful, platinum could become a proxy for investors looking for exposure to the global decarbonisation journey."
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A vineyard worker was killed in an industrial accident near San Miguel last week.
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office says Leonides Magallon was driving along Allende Road when the tractor he was driving went off the road and down a hill, causing it to roll multiple times.
Sheriff's officials say the 72-year-old’s boss discovered his body about 30 feet from the tractor around 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 14.
An autopsy is scheduled for this week to determine whether a medical event may have caused Magallon to go off the road.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A powerful storm system took aim at the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, spawning a tornado that caused damage east of Houston.
The National Weather Service had issued a tornado emergency for that area, warning that a “large, extremely dangerous and potentially deadly tornado" was on the ground Tuesday afternoon and was headed toward Baytown, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Houston. The warning expired as the system moved to the east.
There were downed power lines and damage to homes and businesses in Baytown, but no reports of serious injuries, said Baytown spokesperson Jason Calder.
Footage from Houston TV station KTRK showed damage to buildings and power lines in Pasadena, a city southeast of Houston. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The website PowerOutage.us, which collects live power outage data from utilities across the United States, reported about 123,000 Texas customers were without power Tuesday afternoon, mostly in the Houston area and surrounding counties.
It was the start of what's expected to be a stormy day along the Gulf Coast. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, said areas along the coast from Houston to the Florida Panhandle could see tornadoes, strong winds and hail on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Wednesday the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) will convene its next meeting on August 9-10. Nelson also appointed new members to the NAC, who will provide leadership counsel and advice on agency programs and priorities.
"NASA remains a global leader in exploration as a result of having a world-class workforce and the NASA Advisory Council is no different," said Nelson. "I am incredibly proud of the accomplishments and progress we've made to date, and these new additions to the NAC will bring new ideas and solutions to complex problems we face. We are in the midst of another banner year at the agency, and I look forward to hearing from and working with an exceptional NAC."
The new council members are:
- Dr. John-Paul Clarke (Chair, NAC Aeronautics Committee) – Clarke is a professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Ernest Cockrell Jr. memorial chair in engineering. He is also a former researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
- Hon. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Member at Large) – Hutchison most recently served as the U.S. permanent representative to NATO and served in the U.S. Senate prior to that. While in the Senate, she served as chair of Commerce Science and Space Subcommittee, supporting funding for the NASA investment in research and education in STEM. In 2005 she sponsored and passed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act.
- Dr. Ellen Williams (Chair, NAC Science Committee) – Williams is the director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, where she works at the interface of energy technology and policy in the context of mitigating climate change. She is also the former director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E).
- Ms. Jacklyn Wynn (Member at Large) – Wynn is vice president of strategic programs for the federal health sector at General Dynamics Information Technology, where she oversees multi-year, technology-enabled strategic engagements that provide high-quality health care enterprise solutions and resources across the federal health agencies.
Retired Gen. Lester Lyles will continue to chair the NAC and its 60 members appointed across the council and five committees supporting aeronautics, human spaceflight, science, and STEM, as well as technology, innovation, and engineering.
The NAC typically meets three times per year and the second virtual meeting of 2022 is slated for August 9-10, 2022. This year, in addition to its reviews of NASA's mission areas, the NAC will also align its work to focus on the following agency priorities:
- Climate Change
- Commercial and Industry Partnerships
- Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Accessibility
- International Collaboration
- Program Management and Acquisition
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Alligator bursts through screened-in porch to dive into backyard pool
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WFTV) – An alligator in Florida wanted to relax by the water so much it busted through a screened-in porch and landed in the pool.
Alligators are active this time of year. This one waddled through the woods to find water and decided Lynn Tosi’s pool was the perfect place.
“I just kind of circled around, not knowing what I was going to do next,” Tosi said. “I sure wasn’t going outside.”
The 11.5-foot alligator left a large hole in Tosi’s screened-in porch.
“He busted right through there, kind of like the Kool-Aid man, you know,” she said.
Her encounter is one of three reported in Volusia County over the past five days.
A man in Daytona Beach was bitten by an alligator when he opened his front door.
Then, Florida Fish and Wildlife Officials said they received a call from a man in Deltona after a gator grabbed his dog.
The man shot and killed the alligator, and authorities said he isn’t facing any charges.
Tosi said most people in Florida play it safe around lakes and ponds, especially as the weather gets warmer.
Now, after what happened in her swimming pool, she thinks all homeowners should double check before diving in.
“The professional coming to take him out was actually pacing and got on the phone and was really surprised by what they were up against,” Tosi said.
Trappers said alligators are most active at dusk and dawn.
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The Personified Advertising leader turns to attention metrics to drive performance and ensure better brand recall for digital campaigns
NEW YORK, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ogury, the global leader in personified advertising, today unveiled new capabilities providing brands and agencies with attention measurement metrics at the campaign level, through integrations with attention economy leaders Adelaide Metrics and Lumen Research.
Attention is the evolution of viewability, going further to determine an ad's ability to drive impact and memorability. Indeed, a recent global study shows that 57% of respondents believe attention gives a more complete view of engagement when it comes to advertising campaigns. But while the attention a user is giving an ad has become a key concern for the industry, there is no standard definition for it or a universal methodology to measure it. The same study effectively highlights that, while the majority of advertisers are familiar with attention measurement, only 47% of them use it to evaluate campaign performance.
As a result, Ogury now provides brands and agencies with the most advanced attention measurement tools currently available at the campaign level.
Ogury's Personified Advertising technology targets personas instead of individuals, to generate the highest level of attention. In a cookieless world, targeting the right audience is the starting point of any performance measurement, and this is the foundation of every campaign delivered by Ogury. Moreover, the company's creative team works closely with advertisers, enabling them to reach the intended personas across web and in-app environments, with innovative and highly performing formats.
Ogury is launching a series of direct integrations with companies specialized in attention measurement. With Adelaide Metrics and Lumen Research as its first partners, the company provides its clients with attention metrics across the globe.
Lumen Research combines state-of-the-art eye tracking technology - deployed on the largest attention panel in the world - with advanced machine learning to create a formula to measure attention.
Adelaide Metrics uses advanced machine learning to score media's probability of attention and outcomes on a 0-100 scale of AU - its omnichannel metric and the only attention metric that incorporates business outcomes into its model. It is calculated using hundreds of quality signals, like ad size, coverage, clutter, in-view duration, and full-funnel outcome data.
These integrations enable advertisers to have their campaigns measured and verified by highly respected attention measurement specialists to validate their performance and the ad message's memorability. Brands and agencies working with Ogury are given the option to choose which of these two specialists to run their campaigns with, measuring their performance in a transparent and accountable way.
"It goes without saying that attention has become a buzzword," said Christophe Bize, Chief Data Officer, Ogury. "But while everybody talks about it, very few actually know how to measure it. In truth, it almost feels like a new attention solution or program sprouts up each month. Because of this, partnering with established experts such as Adelaide Metrics and Lumen Research, which can provide worldwide attention measurement, and at scale, is undoubtedly the name of the game. The performance results of our test campaigns have consistently exceeded these specialists' benchmarks, confirming that Ogury's targeting and creative capabilities inherently drive higher levels of attention."
"Working with Ogury, we've been able to create a format-specific model of attention that truly represents not only how eye-catching Ogury formats are, but how they hold attention for longer. We know that the length of time that people spend looking at ads is a key determinant of success, and we're pleased to accurately represent this within the Ogury-specific models." Mike Follett, Managing Director, Lumen Research.
"Attention metrics offer a more precise and nuanced view of media quality compared to traditional metrics, with their most significant differentiator being a proven connection to business outcomes. This is why outcome data is crucial to our AU model," said Marc Guldimann, CEO & Founder of Adelaide Metrics. "We're excited to partner with Ogury to help advertisers measure media quality in the context of their KPIs and uncover opportunities to drive more efficient outcomes using AU."
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Ogury, the global leader in personified advertising, has created a breakthrough advertising engine that delivers targeting based on personas rather than users' identities, and on the destinations where these personas consume content — instead of the individual users themselves. Advertisers working with Ogury benefit from fully visible impactful ads, future-proof targeting and unwavering protection. Publishers enjoy the rewards of a respectful user experience, incremental revenues and premium demand. Founded in 2014, Ogury is a global organization with 500+ people, including 100 engineers across 17 countries.
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Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch rejected election conspiracy theories, Dominion lawsuit documents show
By Oliver Darcy, Jon Passantino, Marshall Cohen, Nicki Brown, Kate Trafecante, Anna Bahney and Jeanne Sahadi, CNN
A trove of text messages, emails, and other material from Fox News executives and on-air personalities were made public Tuesday as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the right-wing channel.
Among the the hundreds of pages of previously unreleased documents include repeated statements from Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch rejecting conspiracy theories about Dominion that his own network promoted after the 2020 election. And Internal Fox News emails and messages — also made public Tuesday — further show how Fox News’ staff privately dismissed some of the election conspiracies that were promoted on-air.
Dominion has alleged in its lawsuit that during the 2020 presidential election the right-wing talk channel “recklessly disregarded the truth” and pushed various pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theories about the election technology company because “the lies were good for Fox’s business.”
In a statement Tuesday, Fox News accused Dominion of distortions, misinformation and misattributing quotes as part of an attempt to “smear Fox News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press.”
Dominion on Tuesday said, “the emails, texts, and deposition testimony speak for themselves.”
“We welcome all scrutiny of our evidence because it all leads to the same place — Fox knowingly spread lies causing enormous damage to an American company,” Dominion said.
Tucker Carlson on Trump in days before Jan 6 attack: ‘I hate him passionately’
Months after the 2020 presidential election, and two days before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, Tucker Carlson wrote in a text message that he hated then-President Donald Trump “passionately,” according to the newly released court documents.
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” Carlson wrote on Jan 4, 2021, the filings show. “I truly can’t wait.”
“I hate him passionately,” the Fox host continued. “I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can’t handle much more of this.”
“That’s the last four years,” Carlson added. “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”
The text messages reveal that Carlson was harshly critical of Trump in private despite regularly expressing support for the former president on his Fox News primetime show and suggesting the 2020 election could have been stolen from him.
“He was pushing voting fraud stuff. I have no doubt there was fraud. But at this point, Trump and Lin and Powell have so discredited their own case, and the rest of us to some extent, that it’s infuriating. Absolutely enrages me,” Carlson wrote.
Days later, on Jan. 6, 2021, Carlson wrote in a text message to his producer, Alex Pfeiffer that Trump was “a demonic force, a destroyer.”
“But he’s not going to destroy us,” Carlson wrote.
In one Nov. 11, 2020 text message exchange, Carlson said Trump’s decision to snub Biden’s inauguration was “hard to believe. So destructive.”
Carlson added that Trump’s post-election behavior was “disgusting. I’m trying to look away.”
Murdoch rejected conspiracy theories
In a January deposition, Murdoch rejected conspiracy theories about Dominion, according to a transcript of his deposition released Tuesday.
“Do you believe that Dominion was engaged in a massive and coordinated effort to steal the 2020 presidential election?” Murdoch was asked by Dominion lawyers.
“No,” Murdoch replied.
“Have you ever seen any credible evidence to suggest that Dominion was engaged in a massive and coordinated effort to steal the 2020 presidential election?” the Dominion lawyer pressed.
“No,” Murdoch replied.
“Have you ever believed that Dominion was engaged in a massive and coordinated effort to steal the 2020 presidential election?” the Dominion lawyer asked.
“No,” Murdoch replied.
“You’ve never believed that Dominion was involved in an effort to delegitimize and destroy votes for Donald Trump, correct?” the Dominion lawyer asked.
“I’m open to persuasion; but, no, I’ve never seen it,” Murdoch replied.
The hundreds of pages of new documents that came out Tuesday include previously unreleased excerpts from key depositions, including Murdoch, and are part of Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
Fox News denies wrongdoing and says the judge should resolve the case in favor before it even goes to trial, which is scheduled for next month in Delaware.
Fox News staff privately rejected Sidney Powell’s election conspiracies
In messages from November 2020, then-Fox Business host Lou Dobbs asked producer John Fawcett what he thought of a recent lawsuit Sidney Powell filed attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
“It’s complete bs,” Fawcett responded, according to court filings made public Tuesday. “I can’t believe that was the kraken,” he added, referring to the phrase Powell used to describe the meritless suits she filed across the country.
Dobbs was one of the most notorious on-air promoters of Powell’s conspiracy theories related to Dominion and the 2020 election before his show was canceled in February 2021.
Additionally, shortly after the 2020 election, Fox News host Tucker Carlson acknowledged that Powell wasn’t telling the truth.
According to a court filing released Tuesday, Carlson told an unknown number on November 17, 2020, that “Sidney Powell is lying” and called her an expletive.
Fox’s DC chief decried ‘existential crisis’ over voter fraud claims
More than a month after the 2020 election, then-Fox News DC Managing Editor Bill Sammon decried the network’s coverage of false election claims in private messages to a colleague, fearing it had become an “existential crisis” for the right-wing channel.
“More than 20 minutes into our flagship evening news broadcast and we’re still focused solely on supposed election fraud — a month after the election,” Sammon wrote to then-political editor Chris Stirewalt. “It’s remarkable how weak ratings makes good journalists do bad things.”
Stirewalt replied, “it’s a real mess.”
The messages were part of hundreds of pages of documents released Tuesday in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News. (The network denies wrongdoing.)
“In my 22 years affiliated with Fox, this is the closest thing I’ve seen to an existential crisis – at least journalistically,” Sammon said.
“What’s most worrisome is that there doesn’t seem to be much conflict,” Stirewalt said.
“What I see us doing is losing the silent majority of viewers as we chase the nuts off a cliff,” Sammon replied.
Both men, Sammon and Stirewalt, departed the company in early 2021.
Murdoch said top Fox hosts maybe ‘went too far’
Murdoch said in a January 2021 email that two of his top TV hosts maybe “went too far,” in an apparent reference to their election denial after Donald Trump lost.
“Maybe Sean and Laura went too far,” Murdoch wrote in the email, referring to Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. “All very well for Sean to tell you he was in despair about Trump, but what did he tell his viewers?”
Murdoch sent the email to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott on January 21, 2021, the first full day of President Joe Biden’s administration. The email also mentioned the ongoing impeachment proceedings against Trump.
In the email, Murdoch asked Scott if it was “unarguable that high profile Fox voices fed the story that the election was stolen and that January 6th (was) an important chance to have the result overturned”?
Later, Scott sent the question to Irena Briganti, Fox News’ senior vice president for corporate communications, requesting a specific answer. Briganti responded with more than 15 pages of transcript excerpts from Fox hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.
Murdoch helped Trump campaign with TV ads in 2020
In the final stretch of the 2020 presidential campaign, Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch informally helped the Trump campaign with its TV ad strategy, according to the new filings.
Murdoch prodded Jared Kushner to improve the Trump campaign’s TV ads, the documents show. Murdoch said candidate Joe Biden’s advertisements were “a lot better” than Trump’s, pointed out that Trump’s campaign was “spending less on TV than Biden.”
Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing Fox News for defamation, previously revealed the existence of the Murdoch-Kushner exchange. But the email itself became public Tuesday, as part of a massive trove of depositions and internal Fox messages.
The email exchange yet again highlights Murdoch’s controversial dual role as a TV news mogul and an informal political adviser to senior Republicans in Washington.
On September 24, 2021, Murdoch texted Kushner: “Know you are spending less on tv than Biden. However my people tell me his advs are a lot better creatively than yours. Just passing by it on.”
Kushner replied: “Should have some new creative out this week. I did a review and like what I’m seeing. I will now be reviewing this every week until the end as the real money is starting to be spent on TV and Digital to move voters universes and turn out the base voters.”
Murdoch responded, “Your adv at 1 pm this Sunday an improvement, but Biden in same football is extremely good. Or I think so! Will send it.” It’s not clear what he was referring to by mentioning football. Dominion claimed in previous filings that Murdoch gave “confidential information” to Kushner by sending him versions of Biden’s paid TV ads that hadn’t publicly aired yet on the network.
Fox and its parent company have denied wrongdoing and say the defamation claims are meritless.
Murdoch was furious over Fox’s decision to project Biden’s 2020 win
Murdoch lashed out in an email on Nov. 7, 2020, over an imminent projection by Fox News to project that Joe Biden would become the next president.
“CNN declares and FOX coming in minutes,” Murdoch wrote to former New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan. “I hate our Decision Desk people! And pollsters! Some of the same people I think. Just for the hell of it still praying for Az to prove them wrong!,” he said in reference to Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.
In a separate email that same day, Murdoch emailed his son, Lachlan, lamenting: “We should and could have gone first (calling the election for Biden) but at least being second saves us a Trump explosion!”
Lachlan, the Fox Corporation CEO, responded, “I think good to be careful. Especially as we are still somewhat exposed on Arizona.”
Two days later, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott texted Lachlan Murdoch that Fox viewers were “going through the 5 stages of grief” over Trump’s election loss.
“It’s two days after Biden was declared President elect. Viewers going through the 5 stages of grief,” Scott wrote to Lachlan Murdoch, according to court documents. “It’s a question of trust — the AZ was damaging but we will highlight our stars and plant flags letting the viewers know we hear them and respect them.”
“Yes. But needs constant rebuilding without any misteps [sic],” Lachlan Murdoch responded, before adding criticism of anchor Neil Cavuto and correspondent Chad Pergram, who are some of the less-partisan personalities at the right-wing network.
Fox reporter apologized to Tucker Carlson for saying there wasn’t fraud in 2020
Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed shortly after the 2020 election that the network’s national correspondent called him to apologize for saying there wasn’t voter fraud.
Carlson was referring to Fox News national correspondent Bryan Llenas. Among other things, Llenas had tweeted one day after the election that “There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania.” That was off-message with what Donald Trump and many Fox News personalities were claiming about massive election-rigging.
In a text chat with fellow Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, Carlson said on Nov. 13, 2020, that Llenas offered him a personal apology.
“He called me last night to apologize for that,” Carlson said.
Carlson went on to reassure his fellow hosts that “he won’t do that again.”
Fox under scrutiny
The Dominion lawsuit is one of two separate cases brought by voting technology companies against Fox News that collectively seek $4.3 billion in damages, posing a serious threat to the highly profitable arm of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Fox News has not only vigorously denied the claims, it has insisted it is “proud” of its 2020 election coverage.
The recent court filings in the Dominion case have offered the most vivid picture to date of the chaos that transpired behind the scenes at Fox News after Trump lost the election.
In one particularly damaging admission revealed in the case last month, Murdoch acknowledged that several Fox News hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
“They endorsed,” Murdoch said, referring to Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and former host Lou Dobbs.
“Some of our commentators were endorsing it,” he said, when asked about the talk hosts’ on-air positions about the election. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,” he added.
In his deposition, Murdoch also acknowledged that it was “wrong” for Carlson to have hosted election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell on his program following the presidential contest.
Fox has defended the actions of its executives and hosts in its own legal filings countering Dominion’s lawsuit, alleging that its hosts’ on-air assertions about election fraud were taken out of context.
“Dominion’s summary judgment motion is flawed from top to bottom and should be rejected in its entirety,” lawyers for Fox News wrote in a filing last month.
And Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, alleged Dominion “has produced zero evidentiary support for its dubious theory that high-level executives at Fox Corporation ‘chose to publish and broadcast’ or played a ‘direct role in the creation and publication’ of false election lies.”
While the First Amendment sets a high bar for defamation cases brought against media outlets, a protection that was reinforced in the landmark 1964 Supreme Court case New York Times v. Sullivan, legal experts have told CNN that Dominion’s case appeared unusually strong.
“It’s a major blow,” renowned First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams said of Dominion’s evidence presented last month, adding that the “recent revelations certainly put Fox in a more precarious situation” in defending against the lawsuit on First Amendment grounds.
Rebecca Tushnet, the Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School, described Dominion’s evidence as a “very strong” case that “clearly lays out the difference between what Fox was saying publicly and what top people at Fox were privately admitting.”
Tushnet said that in her years of practicing and teaching law, she had never seen such damning evidence collected in the pre-trial phase of a defamation suit.
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LOS ANGELES, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Religion of Sports, the award-winning sports media production company founded by Gotham Chopra, Michael Strahan, and Tom Brady is celebrating a Sports Emmy© Award win in the category of Outstanding Documentary Series, for Man in the Arena: Tom Brady.
Beyond this win, Religion of Sports had a total of three Sports Emmy© Award nominations. The 2021 docuseries, Simone vs Herself, which explored mental health with powerhouse athlete Simone Biles was nominated for Outstanding Documentary Series – Serialized, and Man in the Arena was also recognized in the Outstanding Editing Long-Form category.
"I'm incredibly proud of the work we do, the stories we tell here at Religion of Sports, and we are so humbled and honored to receive this recognition for Man In The Arena from the Sports Emmy Awards," said Tom Brady. "We pride ourselves in creating and developing projects that highlight the influential power of sports and the life lessons and values we gain from being part of a team. Thank you to those who watched our series, and we could not be more appreciative to receive this tremendous accolade."
Man in the Arena: Tom Brady is a 10-episode documentary series which explores all the triumphs and tribulations that made Brady the greatest NFL quarterback of all time. Each episode focuses on a single Super Bowl appearance, and everything that led to some of the greatest games in football history, with guest appearances from some of the most influential people in Tom's life to discuss their relationships with the famed athlete. Series guests included Gisele Bündchen, Rob Gronkowski, Tedy Bruschi, Randy Moss, Willie McGinest, and more. All series episodes are available on ESPN+, Disney+, and Hulu.
With an ethos of telling stories of greatness manifested, Religion of Sports is well-versed in the space and remains a trusted voice to tell the stories of an array of athletes such as Russell Westbrook, Usain Bolt, Russell Wilson, the late Kobe Bryant, and many more.
Religion of Sports is currently in the process of expanding its content slate and capabilities, recently entering into a partnership with Skydance Media to begin creating scripted content, and with PRX for award-nominated podcasts such as False Idol and Crushed.
About Religion of Sports
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ANN ARBOR -- The last time Kim Barnes Arico spoke to reporters at Crisler Center, it was after Michigan had earned a spot in the Sweet 16 in March. She was back on Tuesday (Oct. 25) to preview the upcoming season, one she hopes will prove that Michigan’s recent success is sustainable.
The Wolverines reached the Elite Eight for the first time in program history last year, staying with No. 1 seed Louisville until the final minute.
A couple of weeks before the regular season begins, Barnes Arico shared her thoughts on her team.
No more Naz
“What a great career for Naz Hillmon,” Barnes Arico said her during opening statement. “I know we’ve talked about that over and over and over again. But we are in the post-Naz era now. And actually, I’m really excited to talk about that.”
Hillmon was indeed the No. 1 topic of discussion at Big Ten media day earlier this month. But, as Barnes Arico said on Tuesday, “We have some really special pieces returning.”
Guards Leigha Brown (fifth-year senior), Maddie Nolan (senior), and Laila Phelia (sophomore), and forward Emily Kiser (fifth-year) will likely start. Aside from Hillmon and another outgoing senior, guard Danielle Rauch, those four played the most minutes for Michigan last season.
Phelia is especially intriguing after coming on strong late last season. “She’s so dynamic,” Barnes Arico said. “She can affect the game in so many ways.”
Michigan added Oregon State transfer Greta Kampschroeder, a sophomore who was a former McDonald’s All-American, and Barnes Arico has talked up senior guard Michelle Sidor as a potential breakout player. Junior forward Cameron Williams is a former five-star recruit who was Hillmon’s little-used understudy the past two years.
In other words, the cupboard is not bare.
Without Hillmon, Michigan will give opponents a different look than in recent years. Barnes Arico said Michigan will shoot (and make) more 3s than ever.
“We have some really great scorers from the outside. I think we’re going to open up the floor a little bit more and try to get driving lanes, try to get drive and kicks for 3s, try to make up for some of our offensive rebounding, the things that Naz did.
“I don’t know what that means in terms of actual wins and losses. But we will be a fun team to watch. We will be a team that is going to shock a lot of people (with) our success.”
The schedule
Barnes Arico, who’s entering her 11th year at Michigan and 26th as a college head coach, said she never spends much time looking at her team’s schedule in advance.
“If I did look at the schedule I would, like, actually get a stomach ache and want to throw up,” she said. “I’ve probably asked the staff a number of times, ‘When’s our first game? Who do we play first?’ As it gets closer I’ll obviously zoom in.”
She is aware of the marquee nonconference games, and mentioned them on Tuesday, such as the Jumpman Invitational in Charlotte, North Carolina. The two-night event features a doubleheader each night with women’s and men’s games. The Michigan women play North Carolina on Dec. 20 and those schools’ men’s teams play the following night at the Spectrum Center.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity for all of you and all of our fans and our alums around the country to attend two great basketball games,” Barnes Arico said.
Michigan is also set to play in the Gulf Coast Showcase in Estero, Florida, from Nov. 25-27, provided the damage from Hurricane Ian allows it. The Wolverines will fly back to Ann Arbor only to return to Florida for a road game at Miami on Dec. 1 as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
The Big Ten, meanwhile, is loaded. There are six Big Ten teams in the preseason AP top-25, more than any other conference. Iowa is No. 4, along with Indiana (No. 11), Ohio State (14), Maryland (17), Nebraska (22), and Michigan (25).
To answer the questions Barnes Arico has been asking her staff, Michigan opens at home on Nov. 9 against Delaware State.
Freshmen
One of the last questions Barnes Arico fielded on Tuesday was about her rookies. “I was hoping somebody would ask about our freshmen,” she said. “Thank you so much. I’m so excited to talk about them.”
Kate Clarke and Alyssa Crockett hail from Indiana, a state Barnes Arico has mined for talent often during her Michigan tenure. Both players are big guards -- Clarke is 6-foot-1; Crockett is 6-2 -- though Barnes Arico said Crockett has played more as a face-up power forward so far in practice. Both players shoot the 3 well and can handle the ball.
“They haven’t had many tough freshman days, so to speak,” Barnes Arico said. “Sometimes freshmen don’t pick things up as quick and you have to go over it again and again and again in practice.” That hasn’t been the case with these two.
Crockett is ranked as the No. 48 player in the 2022 class according to ESPN; Clarke is No. 99. How much they’ll play this season given the experience Michigan has at their positions remains to be seen.
The third freshman is Chyra Evans, a 6-foot-2 post player from Australia with professional and FIBA experience. She can shoot and has great footwork, Barnes Arico said. Evans arrived at Ann Arbor later than her teammates due to her national team schedule. “But she has an incredible future in our program,” Barnes Arico said.
Something to prove
Barnes Arico pointed out that Michigan ended last season ranked seventh in the final coaches’ poll, released after the NCAA Tournament. And yet the Wolverines didn’t appear on certain preseason rankings over the summer. In the official preseason AP poll, Michigan snuck in at No. 25.
“That’s a big drop,” Barnes Arico said. “A lot of people on the outside are saying, ‘Naz Hillmon is no longer there. Michigan women’s basketball can’t stay at that level of play.’ For the players in our program, that’s really a challenge. That’s something that, every day, excites us. … We have something to prove, we have a little bit of a chip on our shoulder.” | https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2022/10/kim-barnes-arico-michigan-basketball-will-shock-a-lot-of-people-this-year.html | 2022-10-26 12:04:30 | 1 | https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2022/10/kim-barnes-arico-michigan-basketball-will-shock-a-lot-of-people-this-year.html |
OCEAN CITY — Christian Elliott showed a bloop can be just as valuable as a blast Wednesday afternoon.
The Mainland Regional High School junior hit the first pitch of the game for a home run and also figured prominently into a seventh-inning rally as the Mustangs beat rival Ocean City 5-3 in a Cape-Atlantic League American Division game. Elliott finished 2 for 3 with two runs scored.
“We just had to play as a team,” he said. “One through nine, we all did our part, made big plays in the field, and the pitchers threw strikes. This is a team win right here.”
Elliott lined the first pitch over the center field fence for a home run.
“Ever since I was young, 12 or 13 years old, my dad said, ‘First pitch, you’re never going to get something like it (again),'” Elliott said. “It’s always a heater. The pitcher wants to get ahead. It’s always right down the middle. That’s the pitch I hunt.”
Mainland scored twice in the top of the seventh for the win. Elliott blooped a single the opposite way to right field to put runners at first and second with one out. The Mustangs then scored two runs — the first on an Ocean City fielding error and the second on a throwing miscue — to take the lead.
“Offensively, if you can limit strikeouts, good things will happen,” Mainland coach Billy Kern said. "Sometimes it’s the magnitude of the moment. Someone kicks a ball. But a lot of times it’s just high school baseball and high school baseball fields and a bad hop here and there. We try to tell them in these big games that if we can put as many balls in play as possible and make the other team catch-throw-catch, a lot of good things will happen.”
Elliott’s bloop single just cleared the head of the Ocean City second baseman. It didn’t travel as far as his first-inning blast, but in terms of determining the outcome it was no less important.
“I went down 1-2,” he said. “I was just trying to get a ball in play. It was perfectly placed.”
Mainland and Ocean City are rivals in every sport. Both are CAL American Division and South Jersey Group III contenders. Mainland (3-1) is ranked No. 5 in The Press Elite 11. Ocean City (2-3) is ranked No. 9.
“This is huge,” Elliott said. "It’s the Battle of the Bridge (the Route 52 causeway). It’s always active. It’s always live. It’s the best feeling to play in it.”
Mainland sophomore Jake Lodgek, who has committed to Miami University, started on the mound and pitched impressively, striking out eight and walking four in five innings.
Despite Elliott’s home run and Lodgek’s impressive outing, Ocean City led 3-1 after two winnings behind RBI singles Duke McCarron and Shawn Repetti.
Mainland grinded its way back into the game. Will LaPointe knocked in a run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the fourth. Ethan Mitnick tied the game at three with an RBI single in the sixth.
After Mainland took the lead, Cohen Cook pitched a scoreless bottom of the seventh for the save.
Elliott, a junior center fielder, has started since he was a freshman. That experience makes him one of the Mustangs leaders. Mainland features just three seniors.
“Christian had such a good offseason of getting his swing together to get where he wants to be,” Kern said. "He’s put weight on. He’s running well. In big games like this, that spark you get early. He also ran down two or three balls with ease in the outfield. He’s one of the catalysts of our offense and big games like this that’s what you expect from those guys.”
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Republic of Colombia ("Colombia") previously announced a tender offer (the "Tender Offer") to purchase its outstanding 2.625% Global Bonds due 2023 (the "2023 Bonds"), 4.000% Global Bonds due 2024 (the "4.000% 2024 Bonds"), and 8.125% Global Bonds due 2024 (the "8.125% 2024 Bonds", and collectively with the 2023 Bonds and the 4.000% 2024 Bonds, the "Old Bonds") on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the Offer to Purchase, dated November 28, 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase"). Colombia has instructed HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., as the billing and delivering bank for the Tender Offer, to accept, subject to proration and other terms and conditions contained in the Offer to Purchase, valid Reinvestment Tenders and Simple Tenders of the Old Bonds in an aggregate principal amount of U.S. $918,575,000. All capitalized terms used but not defined in this communication have the respective meanings specified in the Offer to Purchase.
The Maximum Purchase Amount and the aggregate principal amount of Reinvestment Tenders and Simple Tenders of the Old Bonds and the aggregate principal amount of Reinvestment Tenders and Simple Tenders of each series that have been accepted are shown in the table below. Appropriate adjustments will be made so that purchases are made in the minimum denominations set forth in the Offer to Purchase.
The settlement of the Tender Offer is scheduled to occur on Monday, December 5, 2022 (the "Tender Offer Settlement Date"), subject to change without notice. Failure to deliver Old Bonds on time may result, in Colombia's sole discretion, in any of the following: (i) the cancellation of a holder's tender and the holder becoming liable for any damages resulting from that failure, and/or (ii) the delivery of a buy-in notice for the purchase of such Old Bonds, executed in accordance with customary brokerage practices for corporate fixed income securities, and/or (iii) in the case of Reinvestment Tenders, the cancellation of a holder's tender and the holder remaining obligated to purchase its allocation of New Bonds in respect of its related Indication of Interest.
Colombia reserves the right, in its sole discretion, not to accept any or all Tender Orders and to terminate the Tender Offer for any reason.
The Offer to Purchase may be downloaded from the Information Agent's website at www.dfking.com/colombia or obtained from the Information Agent, D.F. King & Co., Inc., at 1-877-896-3199 or from any of the Dealer Managers.
The Dealer Managers for the Tender Offer are:
The Billing and Delivering Bank for this Tender Offer was: HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
Questions regarding the Tender Offer may be directed to the Dealer Managers at the above contact.
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Colombia has filed a registration statement (including the prospectus) and the preliminary prospectus supplement with the SEC for the New Bonds Offering. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents Colombia has filed with the SEC for more complete information about Colombia and such New Bonds Offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at http://www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the Joint Book-Running Managers, the Dealer Managers or the Information Agent, as the case may be, will arrange to send you the prospectus supplement and the prospectus if you request it by calling any one of them at the numbers specified above.
Important Notice
The distribution of materials relating to the New Bonds Offering and the Tender Offer and the transactions contemplated by the New Bonds Offering and the Tender Offer may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. Each of the New Bonds Offering and the Tender Offer is void in all jurisdictions where it is prohibited. If materials relating to the New Bonds Offering or the Tender Offer come into a holder's possession, the holder is required by Colombia to inform itself of and to observe all of these restrictions. The materials relating to the New Bonds Offering or the Tender Offer, including this communication, do not constitute, and may not be used in connection with, an offer or solicitation in any place where offers or solicitations are not permitted by law. If a jurisdiction requires that the New Bonds Offering or the Tender Offer be made by a licensed broker or dealer and a Dealer Manager or any affiliate of a Dealer Manager is a licensed broker or dealer in that jurisdiction, the New Bonds Offering or the Tender Offer, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be made by the Dealer Manager or such affiliate on behalf of Colombia in that jurisdiction. Owners who may lawfully participate in the Tender Offer in accordance with the terms thereof are referred to as "holders."
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities nor will there be any sale of the New Bonds or the Tender Offer in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction. The offering of the New Bonds and the Tender Offer will be made only by means of the preliminary prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement and prospectus and in Canada, under applicable exemptions from any prospectus or registration requirements.
The New Bonds may be sold and the Tender Offer is made in Canada only to purchasers purchasing, or deemed to be purchasing, as principal that are accredited investors, as defined in National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions or subsection 73.3(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario), and are permitted clients, as defined in National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations, and who are not individuals. Any resale of the New Bonds must be made in accordance with an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the prospectus requirements of applicable Canadian securities laws.
The New Bonds and the Old Bonds will not be registered under Chilean Law No. 18,045, as amended, with the Comisión para el Mercado Financiero de Chile (Financial Market Commission of Chile or "CMF") and, accordingly, the New Bonds and the Old Bonds cannot and will not be offered or sold to persons in Chile except in circumstances which have not resulted and will not result in a public offering under Chilean law, and in compliance with Norma de Carácter General (Rule) No. 336, dated June 27, 2012, issued by the CMF.
The New Bonds may not be offered, sold or negotiated in Colombia, except in compliance with Part 4 of Decree 2555 of 2010. The Offer to Purchase and the New Bonds Offering do not constitute and may not be used for, or in connection with, a public offering as defined under Colombian law.
The New Bonds are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area ("EEA"). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of the following:
(a) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, "MiFID II"); or
(b) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (as amended the "Insurance Distribution Directive"), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II.
Consequently, no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the "PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the New Bonds or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the New Bonds or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
The Old Bonds and New Bonds may not be offered or sold and will not be offered or sold in Hong Kong by means of any document other than (a) in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong) (the "CWUMPO"), or (b) to "professional investors" as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) (the "SFO") and any rules made thereunder, or (c) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a "prospectus" as defined in the CWUMPO.
No advertisement, invitation or document relating to the Old Bonds or New Bonds has been or will be issued, or has been or will be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the securities laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to the Old Bonds or New Bonds which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to "professional investors" as defined in the SFO and any rules made thereunder.
The Old Bonds and the New Bonds, and the Offer to Purchase and the New Bonds Offering prospectus supplement, and any other documents or materials related to such offers have not and will not be registered with the Italian Securities Exchange Commission (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa or "CONSOB") pursuant to applicable Italian laws and regulations. The Offer to Purchase and the New Bond Offering are being carried out pursuant to the exemptions provided for, with respect to the Offer to Purchase, in Article 101 bis, paragraph 3 bis of Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998, as amended (the "Consolidated Financial Act") and Article 35 bis, paragraph 4, of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended; and, with respect to the New Bonds Offering, in article 1, paragraph 4, letter c), of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129.
Holders or beneficial owners of the Old Bonds that are resident and/or located in Italy can tender the Old Bonds for purchase, and the New Bonds Offerings can be offered, sold and delivered, through authorized persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in Italy in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, the Consolidated Financial Act, the CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of 15 February 2018, as amended, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of September 1, 1993, as amended) and in compliance with any other applicable laws and regulations or with any requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority. Each intermediary must comply with the applicable laws and regulations concerning information duties vis à vis its clients in connection with the bonds or the relevant offering.
The New Bonds have not been and will not be registered under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan (Act No. 25 of 1948, as amended, the "Financial Instruments and Exchange Act") and each manager has represented and agreed that it has not offered or sold, and will not offer or sell any New Bonds, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the benefit of, any resident of Japan (as defined under Article 6, Paragraph 1, Item 5 of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act of Japan (Act No. 228 of 1949, as amended)), or to others for re-offering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the benefit of, a resident of Japan, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in compliance with, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act and any other applicable laws, regulations and ministerial guidelines of Japan.
Neither the Offer to Purchase, nor any other documents or materials relating to the Offer to Purchase have been approved by or will be submitted for the approval of, the Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores; the "CNBV") and, the New Bonds have not been and will not be registered with the Mexican National Securities Registry (Registro Nacional de Valores) maintained by the CNBV, and therefore the Old Bonds and New Bonds have not and may not be offered or sold publicly in Mexico. However, investors that qualify as institutional or qualified investors pursuant to the private placement exemption set forth in article 8 of the Mexican Securities Market Law (Ley del Mercado de Valores), may be contacted in connection with, and may participate in the Offer to Purchase, and can be offered with or purchase New Bonds. The participation in the Offer to Purchase or the acquisition of New Bonds will be made under such investor's own responsibility.
The Tender Offer is not intended for any person who is not qualified as an institutional investor, in accordance with provisions set forth in Resolution SMV No. 021-2013-SMV-01 issued by Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (Superintendency of Capital Markets) of Peru, and as subsequently amended. No legal, financial, tax or any other kind of advice is hereby being provided.
The New Bond Offering prospectus supplement, and the Offer to Purchase have not been and will not be registered as a prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The Offer to Purchase does not constitute an offering of securities in Singapore pursuant to the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore (the "SFA"). The New Bonds will not be offered or sold or cause that such New Bonds to be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase and will not offer or sell such New Bonds or cause such New Bonds to be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase, and has not circulated or distributed, nor will it circulate or distribute, this prospectus supplement or any other document or material in connection with the offer or sale, or invitation for subscription or purchase, of such New Bonds, whether directly or indirectly, to persons in Singapore other than (i) to an institutional investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA) under Section 274 of the SFA, (ii) to a relevant person (as defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA) pursuant to Section 275(1), or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A), and in accordance with the conditions specified in Section 275, of the SFA, and (where applicable) Regulation 3 of the Securities and Futures (Classes of Investors) Regulations 2018 of Singapore or (iii) otherwise pursuant to, and in accordance with the conditions of, any other applicable provision of the SFA.
Where the New Bonds are subscribed or purchased in reliance on an exemption under Sections 274 or 275 of the SFA, the New Bonds shall not be sold within the period of six months from the date of the initial acquisition of the bonds, except to any of the following persons:
- an institutional investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA);
- a relevant person (as defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA); or
- any person pursuant to an offer referred to in Section 275(1A) of the SFA,
unless expressly specified otherwise in Section 276(7) of the SFA or Regulation 37A of the Securities and Futures (Offers of Investments) (Securities and Securities-based Derivatives Contracts) Regulations 2018 of Singapore.
Where the New Bonds are subscribed or purchased under Section 275 of the SFA by a relevant person which is:
- a corporation (which is not an accredited investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA)) the sole business of which is to hold investments and the entire share capital of which is owned by one or more individuals, each of whom is an accredited investor; or
- a trust (where the trustee is not an accredited investor) whose sole purpose is to hold investments and each beneficiary of the trust is an individual who is an accredited investor, securities or securities-based derivatives contracts (each term as defined in Section 2(1) of the SFA) of that corporation or the beneficiaries' rights and interest (howsoever described) in that trust shall not be transferred within six months after that corporation or that trust has acquired the New Bonds pursuant to an offer made under Section 275 of the SFA except:
The prospectus supplement is not intended to constitute an offer or solicitation to purchase or invest in the New Bonds described therein in Switzerland, except as permitted by law. The New Bonds may not be publicly offered, directly or indirectly, in Switzerland within the meaning of the Swiss Financial Services Act ("FinSA") and will not be admitted to any trading venue (exchange or multilateral trading facility) in Switzerland.
Neither the prospectus supplement nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the New Bonds constitutes a prospectus as such term is understood pursuant to the FinSA, and neither the prospectus supplement nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the New Bonds may be publicly distributed or otherwise made publicly available in Switzerland.
Neither the communication of the Offer to Purchase nor any other offer material relating to the Offer to Purchase has been approved by an authorized person for the purposes of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA"). The Offer to Purchase and the New Bond Offering prospectus supplement are only being distributed to and are only directed at (i) persons who are outside the United Kingdom; (ii) investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the FSMA (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended, the "Order"); or (iii) high net worth entities falling within Articles 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such other persons together being referred to as "relevant persons"). Any investment or investment activity to which the Offer to Purchase relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on the Offer to Purchase or any of its contents. The New Bonds will only be available to, and any invitation, offer or agreement to subscribe, purchase or otherwise acquire the bonds will be engaged in only with, relevant persons. Any person who is not a relevant person should not act or rely on this prospectus supplement or any of its contents.
The New Bonds are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the United Kingdom ("UK"). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 2017/565 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ("EUWA"); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of the provisions of the FSMA and any rules or regulations made under the FSMA to implement Directive (EU) 2016/97, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA. Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (the "UK PRIIPs Regulation") for offering or selling the New Bonds or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the New Bonds or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.
Contact information:
D.F. King & Co., Inc.
48 Wall Street, 22nd Floor
New York, New York 10005
Toll Free: 1-877-896-3199
Email: colombia@dfking.com
Website: www.dfking.com/colombia
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NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Teladoc Health, Inc. ("Teladoc" or the "Company") (NYSE: TDOC) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Teladoc investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between October 28, 2021 and April 27, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
TDOC investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) increased competition, among other factors, was negatively impacting Teladoc's BetterHelp and chronic care businesses; (ii) accordingly, the growth of those businesses was less sustainable than Defendants had led investors to believe; (iii) as a result, Teladoc's revenue and adjusted EBITDA projections for FY 2022 were unrealistic; (iv) as a result of all the foregoing, Teladoc would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash goodwill impairment charge; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Teladoc during the relevant time frame, you have until August 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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LONDON, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virax Biolabs Group Limited ("Virax" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: VRAX), an innovative biotechnology company focused on the prevention, detection, and diagnosis of viral diseases, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with a leading healthcare-focused institutional investor, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell 2,330,000 shares of ordinary shares (or ordinary shares equivalents in lieu thereof) at a gross purchase price of $1.65 per share. Additionally, Virax has agreed to issue to the investor unregistered warrants to purchase up to 3,495,000 shares of ordinary shares (the "Ordinary Warrants"). The Ordinary Warrants have an exercise price of $1.73 per share, will become exercisable in six months after their date of issuance and will expire five and a half years from their date of issuance.
The gross proceeds from the private placement are expected to be approximately $3.8 million, before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the private placement for the development and commercialization of its proprietary T-Cell Test technology as well as for working capital and other general corporate purposes. The private placement is expected to close on or about November 8, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Roth Capital Partners, LLC is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.
The offer and sale of the foregoing securities are being made in a transaction not involving a public offering and the securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the securities may not be reoffered or resold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and such applicable state securities laws. Pursuant to a registration rights agreement with investors, Virax has agreed to file a resale registration statement covering the securities described above.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Virax Biolabs Group Limited
Founded in 2013, Virax Biolabs Group Limited is an innovative biotechnology company focused on the prevention, detection and diagnosis of viral diseases, with a particular interest in the field of immunology.
In addition to distributing an array of viral test kits in unique geographies, Virax Biolabs Group Limited is currently developing a proprietary T-Cell Test technology with the intention of providing an immunology profiling platform that assesses each individual's immune risk profile against major global viral threats. T-Cell testing can be particularly effective in the diagnosis and therapeutics of COVID-19 as well as other threats including Monkeypox, Hepatitis B, Malaria, Herpes and Human Papillomavirus. For more information, please visit www.viraxbiolabs.com.
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- GAAP Operating Margin of 14.6% and Record Adjusted Operating Margin of 15.0%, up 110 bps sequentially and 160 bps year on year; Sixth Consecutive Quarter of Record Adjusted Operating Margin
- 7.3% Organic Revenue Growth Year on Year, Led by Specialty and Engraving Segments
- Fast Growth Market Sales Increased ~30% Year on Year to ~$17 Million; Fast Growth Market Sales in Fiscal 2023 Expected to Increase ~35% Versus Prior Year
- Expect to Build on Momentum with Continued Improvement in Key Financial Metrics in Fiscal 2023
SALEM, N.H., Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- – Standex International Corporation (NYSE: SXI) today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 ended September 30, 2022.
First Quarter Fiscal 2023 Results
Commenting on the quarter's results, President and Chief Executive Officer David Dunbar said, "We are very pleased with our first quarter performance despite the challenges presented by the uncertain global environment. We achieved strong organic growth and record consolidated adjusted operating margin of 15% in fiscal first quarter 2023 representing a 110 bps sequential increase over prior record adjusted operating margin, reported in fiscal fourth quarter of 2022. Four of our five business segments reported sequential operating margin improvement and adjusted operating margin of at least 16%, reflecting continued successful company-wide execution on price realization, productivity, and efficiency actions. Sales from fast growth markets such as electric vehicles, green energy, and the commercialization of space increased 30% year on year to $17 million in fiscal first quarter 2023, and we anticipate our fast growth market sales in fiscal 2023 to increase approximately 35% versus prior year.
"With our focus on fast growth markets and pricing disciplines, we are confident in our ability to adapt to the dynamic macro-economic environment and continue delivering strong earnings. We anticipate the majority of our segments to exhibit solid organic growth for the fiscal year, partly driven by new opportunities in our fast growth markets such as electric vehicles, renewable energy, smart grid, and commercialization of space. Our solar energy partnership with ENEL, which began in 2017, is progressing to plan and is now in the pilot plant design phase.
"In addition, Standex's consistent cash generation and substantial financial flexibility position us well to pursue a very active pipeline of organic and inorganic growth opportunities. Although the fiscal first quarter cash flow was negatively impacted by supply chain inefficiencies affecting working capital and annual bonus payments, we believe free cash flow conversion will return to our target level in the fiscal second quarter, with further improvements in the second half of the fiscal year. We have approximately $294 million in available liquidity and a net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratio of approximately 0.7x.
"In summary, we are well positioned to deliver sustainable, profitable growth as we have progressed from a portfolio company to an operating company, comprised of a stronger mix of high-quality businesses with attractive growth rates and higher margin profiles. Our segments are favorably aligned with emerging and sustainable global trends in areas such as renewable energy, electric vehicles, defense, human health, and commercialization of space. As such, we are increasing our investments towards these fast growth end markets to support our NBO funnel and new product introductions. Our Value Creation System, strong balance sheet and consistent cash flow generation position us well to support these initiatives." concluded Dunbar.
Fiscal Second Quarter 2023 Outlook
In fiscal second quarter 2023, the Company expects slightly higher revenue and similar operating margin to fiscal first quarter 2023, with flat revenue and moderate to significant improvement in operating margin on a year-over-year basis. On a year-on-year basis, embedded within the Company's outlook is a mid- to high-single-digit organic growth rate, largely offset by the currency impact.
The Company expects the Engineering Technologies Group segment to be the primary revenue driver with a moderate to significant increase compared to fiscal first quarter 2023, while Scientific segment revenue is expected to slightly increase. Electronics and Engraving segment revenue is expected to be similar to fiscal first quarter 2023, while the Specialty Solutions segment revenue is expected to slightly decline.
First Quarter Segment Operating Performance
Electronics (42% of sales; 51% of segment operating income)
Revenue decreased approximately $0.6 million or 0.8% year-over-year reflecting 4.3% organic growth and 1.5% contribution from acquisitions offset by a 6.6% impact from foreign exchange. On a sequential basis, revenue increased approximately 5%, in line with the Company's outlook which called for a moderate increase. The segment is seeing positive trends in end markets like industrial applications, medical, power management and EV-related applications, with some softness in white goods.
Electronics segment backlog realizable in under one year of approximately $147 million increased 12% year-over-year and was sequentially similar to fiscal fourth quarter 2022. The segment had a book to bill ratio of 1.0 at the end of the fiscal first quarter.
Operating income decreased approximately $0.2 million or 0.7% year-over-year which reflects organic sales growth and productivity initiatives largely offsetting the inflationary and currency impact. On a sequential basis, operating margin increased approximately 210 bps, primarily driven by pricing initiatives and higher volume.
In fiscal second quarter 2023, on a sequential basis, the Company expects revenue to be similar, as relay and magnetic components growth in North America is offset by softness in white goods end markets in Europe. The Company expects a slight decrease in operating margin, mostly due to mix and higher growth investments, partially offset by continued price actions.
Engraving (19% of sales; 16% of segment operating income)
Revenue decreased approximately $0.2 million or 0.4% year-over-year reflecting 7.9% organic growth which was more than offset by an 8.3% impact from currency. On a sequential basis, revenue decreased approximately 6%, versus the Company's outlook which called for a slight decrease, primarily driven by a strengthening US dollar. Operating income increased $1.0 million or 20.1% year-over-year, primarily driven by realization of previously announced productivity actions in North America and Europe, which more than offset the currency impact. On a sequential basis, operating margin increased approximately 50 bps, primarily driven by realization of productivity actions.
In fiscal second quarter 2023, on a sequential basis, the Company expects revenue to be similar and operating margin to decrease slightly due to project mix.
Scientific (10% of sales; 11% of segment operating income)
Revenue decreased approximately $3.1 million or 14.3% year-over-year reflecting lower demand for COVID vaccine storage units. On a sequential basis, revenue decreased approximately 2%, in line with the Company's outlook which called for a slight decrease. Operating income decreased approximately $0.8 million or 17.4% year-over-year due to the lower volume, partially offset by price and realization of productivity actions. On a sequential basis, operating margin increased approximately 40 bps, primarily driven by lower oceanic freight cost.
In fiscal second quarter 2023, on a sequential basis, the Company expects a slight revenue increase, and slightly lower to similar operating margin, primarily due to R&D investments and higher anticipated spend on advertising and tradeshows
Engineering Technologies (10% of sales; 5% of segment operating income)
Revenue decreased approximately $0.6 million or 3.3% year-over-year reflecting a 0.9% organic decrease and a 2.4% impact from currency. On a sequential basis, revenue decreased approximately 21% due to project timing, in line with the Company's outlook which called for a moderate to significant decrease. Operating income increased approximately $1.0 million or 107.5% year-over-year reflecting productivity and efficiency initiatives and the impact of a one-time project related charge in fiscal first quarter 2022 that did not repeat. On a sequential basis, operating margin decreased approximately 400 bps, primarily driven by the sequential revenue decline.
In fiscal second quarter 2023, on a sequential basis, the Company expects moderate to significant increase in revenue and operating margin, reflecting an increased level of project activity.
Specialty Solutions (19% of sales; 17% of segment operating income)
Specialty Solutions revenue increased approximately $9.4 million or 36.9% year-over-year, reflecting a 39.3% organic growth partially offset by a 2.4% impact from currency. Organic growth was primarily driven by price realization, strong market demand in the Hydraulics business unit, and a favorable year-over-year comparison due to a labor work stoppage in two plants during the fiscal first quarter 2022. On a sequential basis, revenue was similar, in line with the Company's outlook. Operating income increased approximately $3.3 million or 115.9% year-over-year reflecting the price and volume increases. On a sequential basis, operating margin increased approximately 190 bps, primarily driven by pricing and productivity initiatives.
In fiscal second quarter 2023, on a sequential basis, the Company expects revenue to decrease slightly primarily due to seasonality in food service equipment end market. Operating margin is expected to be similar as volume decline is offset by pricing and productivity actions.
Capital Allocation
- Share Repurchase: During the fiscal first quarter, the Company repurchased 90,368 shares for approximately $8.4 million. There was approximately $82.3 million remaining on the company's current share repurchase authorization at the end of the fiscal first quarter 2023.
- Capital Expenditures: In fiscal first quarter 2023, Standex's capital expenditures were $5.3 million compared to $5.0 million in the fiscal first quarter of 2022. The Company expects fiscal year 2023 capital expenditures between $35 million and $40 million with key investments focused on growth initiatives and capacity expansion. Capital expenditures were $23.9 million in fiscal 2022.
- Dividend: On October 27, 2022, the Company declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.28 per share, an approximately 7.7% year-over-year increase. The dividend is payable on November 23, 2022, to shareholders of record on November 9, 2022.
Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Highlights
- Net Debt: Standex had net debt of $95.5 million on September 30, 2022, compared to $68.9 million at the end of fiscal first quarter 2022 and $70.0 million at the end of fiscal fourth quarter 2022. Net debt for the first quarter of 2023 consisted primarily of long-term debt of approximately $199 million and cash and equivalents of $103.4 million of which approximately $94 million was held by foreign subsidiaries.
Standex had no repatriation in fiscal first quarter 2023. The company expects to repatriate between $30 million and $35 million in fiscal 2023.
- Cash Flow: Net cash used in continuing operating activities for the three months ended September 30, 2022, was $2.7 million compared to net cash provided by continuing operating activities of $13.1 million in the prior year's quarter. Free cash flow after capital expenditures was $(8.0) million compared to free cash flow after capital expenditures of $8.1 million in the fiscal first quarter of 2022. Working capital was negatively impacted by supply chain inefficiencies, a one-time litigation settlement payment, and annual bonus payments. The company expects free cash flow conversion levels to improve throughout the balance of the fiscal year.
Conference Call Details
Standex will host a conference call for investors tomorrow, November 4, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. ET. On the call, David Dunbar, President, and CEO, and Ademir Sarcevic, CFO, will review the Company's financial results and business and operating highlights. Investors interested in listening to the webcast and viewing the slide presentation should log on to the "Investors" section of Standex's website under the subheading, "Events and Presentations," located at www.standex.com.
A replay of the webcast will also be available on the Company's website shortly after the conclusion of the presentation online through November 4, 2023. To listen to the teleconference playback, please dial in the U.S. (877) 344-7529 or (412) 317-0088 internationally; the passcode is 1369497. The audio playback via phone will be available through November 11, 2022. The webcast replay can be accessed in the "Investor Relations" section of the Company's website, located at www.standex.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), the Company uses certain non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP adjusted income from operations, non-GAAP adjusted net income from continuing operations, free operating cash flow, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA to net debt, and adjusted earnings per share. The attached financial tables reconcile non-GAAP measures used in this press release to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. The Company believes that the use of non-GAAP measures including the impact of restructuring charges, purchase accounting, insurance recoveries, discrete tax events, loss on sale of a business unit, and acquisition costs help investors to obtain a better understanding of our operating results and prospects, consistent with how management measures and forecasts the Company's performance, especially when comparing such results to previous periods. An understanding of the impact in a particular quarter of specific restructuring costs, acquisition expenses, or other gains and losses, on net income (absolute as well as on a per-share basis), operating income or EBITDA can give management and investors additional insight into core financial performance, especially when compared to quarters in which such items had a greater or lesser effect, or no effect. Non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to, and not as a replacement for, the corresponding GAAP measures, and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
About Standex
Standex International Corporation is a multi-industry manufacturer in five broad business segments: Electronics, Engraving, Scientific, Engineering Technologies, and Specialty Solutions with operations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, India, and China. For additional information, visit the Company's website at http://standex.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this Press Release that are not based on historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "should," "could," "may," "will," "expect," "believe," "estimate," "anticipate," "intend," "continue," or similar terms or variations of those terms or the negative of those terms. There are many factors that affect the Company's business and the results of its operations and that may cause the actual results of operations in future periods to differ materially from those currently expected or anticipated. These factors include, but are not limited to: the impact of pandemics such as the current coronavirus on employees, our supply chain, and the demand for our products and services around the world; materially adverse or unanticipated legal judgments, fines, penalties or settlements; conditions in the financial and banking markets, including fluctuations in exchange rates and the inability to repatriate foreign cash; domestic and international economic conditions, including the impact, length and degree of economic downturns on the customers and markets we serve and more specifically conditions in the automotive, construction, aerospace, defense, transportation, food service equipment, consumer appliance, energy, oil and gas and general industrial markets; lower-cost competition; the relative mix of products which impact margins and operating efficiencies in certain of our businesses; the impact of higher raw material and component costs, particularly steel, certain materials used in electronics parts, petroleum based products, and refrigeration components; the impact of higher transportation and logistics costs, especially with respect to transportation of goods from Asia; the impact of inflation on the costs of providing our products and services; an inability to realize the expected cost savings from restructuring activities including effective completion of plant consolidations, cost reduction efforts including procurement savings and productivity enhancements, capital management improvements, strategic capital expenditures, and the implementation of lean enterprise manufacturing techniques; the potential for losses associated with the exit from or divestiture of businesses that are no longer strategic or no longer meet our growth and return expectations; the inability to achieve the savings expected from global sourcing of raw materials and diversification efforts in emerging markets; the impact on cost structure and on economic conditions as a result of actual and threatened increases in trade tariffs; the inability to attain expected benefits from acquisitions and the inability to effectively consummate and integrate such acquisitions and achieve synergies envisioned by the Company; market acceptance of our products; our ability to design, introduce and sell new products and related product components; the ability to redesign certain of our products to continue meeting evolving regulatory requirements; the impact of delays initiated by our customers; our ability to increase manufacturing production to meet demand including as a result of labor shortages; and potential changes to future pension funding requirements. In addition, any forward-looking statements represent management's estimates only as of the day made and should not be relied upon as representing management's estimates as of any subsequent date. While the Company may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company and management specifically disclaim any obligation to do so, even if management's estimates change.
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One person suffered a minor injury in a house fire Sunday morning that left a home with extensive damage.
Bismarck's fire and police departments responded to 106 E. Ave. C after receiving a call of a house fire at 7:36 a.m. Sunday, according to Police Sgt. Scott Betz.
Four people were there when the fire began. Betz said he didn't know the cause of the fire, which the Fire Department will investigate and determine.
Police called the Red Cross to aid the people displaced by the fire, Betz said.
The house sustained "extensive damage," he said. Maintenance-free fencing of a nearby home melted during the fire, he said.
One person in the home received a minor injury while leaving the house and was treated at the scene.
Fire crews found one of the occupants' pet dogs dead during a search, but were unable to find the occupants' other two dogs.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Asep Medical Holdings Inc. ("Asep Inc." or the "Company") (CSE: ASEP) (OTCQB: SEPSF) (FSE: FSX: JJ8) is pleased to announce its common shares commenced trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE) on November 10, 2022, under the stock symbol FSX: JJ8. The Company's common shares will continue trading on the CSE under the stock symbol CSE: ASEP and on the OTCQB under the stock symbol OTCQB: SEPSF.
The FSE listing represents a strategic milestone for the Company, as it provides exposure to the European retail and institutional investment community and highlights its potential as a global biotechnology enterprise. This listing is expected to provide the Company with added liquidity and a diversified investor base within a large and globally recognized exchange. Recently, Asep Inc.'s patent application for its sepsis diagnostic technology was approved by 13 European countries, and the listing on the FSE will certainly provide the Company with exposure to the European investment community.
Founder, chairman and CEO Dr. Robert E. W. Hancock stated, "Asep is addressing globally critical issues causing the failure of antibiotics. Trading in Germany (Europe) enables us to maintain a global investor base to support the advanced development of our breakthrough sepsis diagnostics and anti-biofilm therapeutics."
The FSE is one of the world's largest international trading centres for securities. Operated by the Deutsche Boerse AG, it is the largest of Germany's seven stock exchanges and is responsible for approximately 90 percent of all securities traded in Germany. The FSE facilitates advanced electronic trading, settlement and information systems and enables cross-border trading for international investors. (boerse-frankfurt.de/en)
Asep Medical Inc. (asepmedical.com) is dedicated to addressing antibiotic failure by developing novel solutions for significant unmet medical needs. The Company is a consolidation of two existing private companies (Sepset Biosciences Inc. (Sepset Inc.) and ABT Innovations Inc. (ABT Inc.), that are both in the advanced development of both proprietary diagnostic tools, enabling the early and timely identification of severe sepsis as well as broad-spectrum therapeutic agents to address multidrug-resistant biofilm infections.
Sepset Inc. (sepset.ca) is developing a diagnostic technology that involves a patient gene expression signature that predicts severe sepsis, one of the significant diseases leading to antibiotic failure since antibiotics are the primary treatment for sepsis. Despite this, sepsis is responsible for nearly 20% of all deaths on the planet. The SepsetER test is a blood-based gene expression assay that is straightforward to implement, and results are obtained in about an hour in the emergency room or intensive care unit. This proprietary diagnostic technology differs from current diagnostic tests in enabling diagnosis of severe sepsis within 1-2 hours of first clinical presentation (i.e., in the emergency room), while other diagnostics only provide diagnosis after 24-36 hours. Asep Inc. believes this will enable critical early decisions to be made by physicians regarding appropriate therapies and reduce overall morbidity and mortality due to sepsis.
ABT Inc.'s (abtinnovations.ca) peptide technology covers a broad range of therapeutic applications, including bacterial biofilm infections (medical device infections, chronic infections, lung, bladder, wound, dental, skin, ear-nose and throat, sinusitis, orthopaedic, etc.), anti-inflammatories, anti-infective immune-modulators and vaccine adjuvants. The company is in the pre-clinical development phase with promising data.
This news release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of such statements under applicable securities law. Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "anticipates," "plan," "continue," "expect," "project," "intend," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "may," "will," "potential," "proposed," "positioned" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. These statements include but are not limited to the successful clinical testing of our Sepsis diagnostic test and its intended filing for regulatory approval; and the undertaking of pre-clinical studies on our lead therapeutic, with the expectation that this will lead to fast-track clinical trials. Various assumptions were used in drawing conclusions or making the predictions contained in the forward-looking statements throughout this news release. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made and are subject to a variety of risks (including those risk factors identified in the Asep Medical Inc.'s prospectus dated November 9, 2021) available for review under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Asep Inc. is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
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Including the cities of Willapa, Frances, Elk Mountain,
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427 AM PDT Mon Sep 12 2022
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Highs in the lower 70s. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
patchy drizzle after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s. West wind
5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning, then a
slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.
Light wind. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Light
wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers after midnight. Lows around 50.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs
in the mid 60s.
$$
WAZ040-130030-
South Washington Cascade Foothills-
Including the cities of Toutle, Ariel, Lake Merwin, Yale Lake,
and Cougar
427 AM PDT Mon Sep 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers this morning,
then partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers this
afternoon. Patchy fog this morning. Hazy. Highs in the mid 70s.
Light wind. Chance of rain 40 percent. Rainfall amounts less than
a tenth of an inch.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Hazy in the evening. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in
the mid 50s. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy drizzle in the morning. Patchy
fog in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s. Light wind.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. Light
wind.
.WEDNESDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly cloudy. Highs
around 70. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.THURSDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Partly sunny. Highs in the
upper 60s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 50.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 70.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
WAZ019-130030-
South Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center,
Mount St. Helens, and Wind River Valley
427 AM PDT Mon Sep 12 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
A 50 percent chance of showers. Hazy with areas of smoke. Light
wind. Rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hazy in the evening. Areas of smoke.
Free air freezing level 12000 feet. Light wind.
.TUESDAY...Patchy dense fog in the morning. Partly sunny. Free
air freezing level 11000 feet. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
12000 feet. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 12000 feet.
Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
12000 feet.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Free air freezing level 11000 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level
12000 feet.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Free air freezing level 11000 feet.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Free air freezing level 10000 feet.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Snow level 7500 feet.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Snow level
8000 feet. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Snow
level 8000 feet.
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The number of child migrants who crossed the treacherous Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama has spiked, the United Nations Children's Fund said Friday. UNICEF said that in May 2021, 500 children were detected crossing on the jungle trail. But in May 2022, that number had risen to 2,000.
The fund estimates that about 5,000 children have crossed the Darien Gap so far this year.
Plagued by wild animals, swollen rivers, rough terrain and thieves, the gap claims many lives each year. The overall number of migrants crossing the land bridge between South and North America doubled.
The overall number of migrants crossing the land bridge between South and North America doubled, with about 32,000 crossing so far this year, compared to 16,000 in 2021. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/unicef-spike-in-child-migrants-crossing-the-darien-gap | 2022-06-18 02:36:11 | 1 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/unicef-spike-in-child-migrants-crossing-the-darien-gap |
(WJW) — Queen Elizabeth II, who died at the age of 96 on Thursday, is being remembered all across the United States. President Joe Biden has ordered all U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff in remembrance of the Queen.
Flags are to be flown at half-staff at the White House, all federal buildings, military posts, naval stations and naval vessels until sunset on the day of internment, the order states.
You may have noticed flags hanging lower in your own state, too. Several state governments have also ordered U.S. and state flags to be flown at half-staff on all public buildings and grounds.
In the video below, the Terminal Tower in Cleveland goes dark on Thursday night in honor of the late monarch.
The royal family posted a statement on their official site Thursday saying: “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.”
Her 73-year-old son Charles automatically becomes king, though the coronation might not take place for months.
In his Thursday proclamation, Biden wrote, in part:
“Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was more than a monarch. She defined an era. In a world of constant change, she was a steadying presence and a source of comfort and pride for generations of Britons, including many who have never known their country without her. Queen Elizabeth II led always with grace, an unwavering commitment to duty, and the incomparable power of her example.”
President Joe Biden
Biden thanked the Queen, who marked 70 years on the throne in February, for helping perpetuate the “special relationship” between the United Kingdom and the United States. | https://www.ksn.com/news/why-are-flags-flying-at-half-staff-friday/ | 2022-09-09 23:28:46 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/why-are-flags-flying-at-half-staff-friday/ |
NORTH VENICE, Fla. (AP) _ PGT Inc. (PGTI) on Tuesday reported second-quarter profit of $36.5 million.
On a per-share basis, the North Venice, Florida-based company said it had profit of 61 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 67 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 45 cents per share.
The maker of windows and doors posted revenue of $406.5 million in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $364.8 million.
PGT expects full-year revenue in the range of $1.45 billion to $1.53 billion.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Sixth Annual Veterans Awareness Expo kicked off at the Mid-American All-Indian Museum in Wichita on Saturday.
Many veterans came out to learn about over 60 veteran service providers.
The event is free to the public and is put on by the Vet-To-Vet Support Command the Veteran Providers’ Coalition of Sedgwick County.
“We want to make sure that no veteran gets left behind on anything, so the VA is here, the vet center reps are here if you have a claim issue and you wanna see people in person,” CEO of the Vet-To-Vet Support Command, Patty Gnefkow.
“It’s like going to the home show you know people walk away just in awe of all the new innovations literally our veterans walk away from this with that same wow I had no idea,” said Founder of the Veteran Providers’ Coalition of Sedgwick County Howard Hutchinson Jr.
Around 1,000 veterans attend the event each year.
Military vehicles were on display and a program was held on Wichita’s only aviation Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Erwin R. Bleckley, an update on the restoration of an identical DH-4 biplane that he flew in World War I, and long-term plans for the Bleckley project. | https://www.ksn.com/news/6th-annual-veterans-awareness-expo-helps-vets-find-services/ | 2022-08-06 18:23:43 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/6th-annual-veterans-awareness-expo-helps-vets-find-services/ |
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the establishment of FBSciences Brasil earlier this year, FBSciences has received registration in Brazil of their three initial product offerings in the country. These include FBSciences' flagship product Transit Duo™, premium zinc product Zicron®, and a manufacturing use product, ProTransit™ 31, for incorporation into seed treatments. With the approval of these registrations, FBSciences is able to deliver the transformative power of their agricultural biologicals to Brazil's 1.8 trillion USD agriculture and food market.
Over the last 16 years, FBSciences has conducted over 140 commercial and independent trials with collaborators and researchers in South America, observing outstanding performance across a wide variety of crops, with particularly impressive results in abiotic stress impacted growing conditions. As the agriculture sector in Brazil faces growing challenges, such as record high temperatures, areas of extreme drought, and areas of excessive rainfall, partners are motivated to find solutions that not only help growers adapt to these difficult conditions but improve plant, soil, and climate health for long term mitigation. In a trial conducted on sugarcane in Brazil during a period of extreme heat, Transit Duo resulted in a 30% increase in yield over the grower standard, while during a period of drought, Zicron resulted in a 21% increase in yield over the grower standard and significantly improved water use efficiency with a 61% increase in sucrose produced per inch of water. In both trials, FBSciences' treatments demonstrated improved quality metrics, including number of stems, plant height, and stem diameter.
"The registration of FBSciences' initial product offerings in Brazil, including Transit Duo, Zicron, and ProTransit 31, launches the opportunity to bring the transformative performance of our agricultural biologicals to this market and speaks to our commitment to growth in South America," said Courtenay Wolfe, Chair and CEO of FBSciences. "With years of successful trials in South America showing increased crop quality and yield, improved ROI, and stress mitigation, the registration of these products provides growers with powerful tools to improve plant, soil, and climate health."
With 76.6 million hectares of total crop planted area forecast for the 2022-2023 growing season, Brazil plays a major role in the global agriculture market and represents a tremendous opportunity in climate adaptation and mitigation. The registration of FBSciences' initial three product offerings in the country marks a milestone for FBSciences' growth in South America. As FBSciences continues to see a growing global demand for sustainable solutions, they will look to introduce additional products to the South American market, including their FBS Defense™ line of crop protection products encompassing fungicide, miticide, insecticide, and nematicide products. As they continue to grow across South America and Europe, FBSciences welcomes outreach from partners, distributors, and collaborators in these markets.
FBSciences is a global leader in the innovation and commercialization of climate-smart biologicals for agriculture. Their naturally derived, proprietary technologies are the foundation for their biostimulant, biopesticide, and fertilizer product lines. With over 125 million dollars in commercial success and more than 1600 independent and university studies over 16 years, FBSciences has proven their technologies and products increase quality and nutrient density, improve stress mitigation and recovery, produce healthier plants, and higher yields, and increase utilization of other crop inputs. In addition, their sustainable products provide measurable benefits to the environment, including increased nitrogen use efficiency, leading to N2O emissions reduction, decreased nitrogen runoff, and reduced CO2 emissions by increased carbon sequestration. With an opportunity for meaningful impact on every managed acre, FBSciences is committed to harnessing the power of nature to transform agriculture globally. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and learn more at www.fbsciences.com.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT
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Chair and CEO
cwolfe@fbsciences.com
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BOSTON, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Analysis Group, one of the largest international economics consulting firms, announced that digital business models, competition, and policy expert Eliana Garces has joined the firm's Washington, DC, office as a Senior Advisor.
Dr. Garces is an economist with deep public- and private-sector antitrust policy and regulation experience in the US and Europe, including serving on the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) and Directorate-General for Internal Market and Industry. With a focus on innovation, dynamic competition, and platform business models, she is widely recognized as an expert on the economic analysis of new digital business models and the interaction between regulation and innovation. Dr. Garces has published extensively on topics such as the antitrust analysis of commercial practices, the assessment of conglomerate mergers, the interaction between antitrust and privacy concerns arising from data collection by digital platforms, value creation processes related to platform businesses, and the impact of behavioral economics on competition policy, among other topics. She is also a coauthor of the widely used textbook Quantitative Techniques for Competition and Antitrust Analysis and coauthor of a chapter in Cases in European Competition Policy. She will be contributing a chapter on the concept of economic fairness in the forthcoming Handbook of Research on Competition Policy and Corporate Law.
"Eliana's extensive experience with European competition matters – working with the European Commission's DG COMP and then setting policy with the Directorate-General for Internal Market and Industry working across a range of industries – forms a unique perspective clients will be eager to tap," said Antoine Chapsal, an Analysis Group Managing Principal. "We are thrilled to have her join the firm and look forward to her contributions."
Dr. Garces added, "The rapid evolution of antitrust policy and regulation in the technology sector has underscored the importance of sound analytical foundations for describing markets and the forces at play, and how to model these dynamics across economies. I'm excited to join Analysis Group, which has been at the forefront of applying economics to a number of these complex issues throughout Europe, as well as in the US."
Prior to joining Analysis Group, Dr. Garces was economic policy director at Facebook (later Meta Platforms), where she helped design the company's approach to global regulatory and policy strategy. She also served as deputy chief economist for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market and Industry, where she worked on European industrial competitiveness. She has served as an economist and a cabinet member of the European Commissioners for Consumer Policy and for Competition (DG COMP).
Dr. Garces holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, a master's in European economic integration from the College of Europe, and a licentiate in economics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
To learn more about Analysis Group's capabilities, visit AnalysisGroup.com
About Analysis Group:
Analysis Group is one of the largest international economics consulting firms, with more than 1,000 professionals across 14 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since 1981, we have provided expertise in economics, finance, health care analytics, and strategy to top law firms, Fortune Global 500 companies, and government agencies worldwide. Our internal experts, together with our network of affiliated experts from academia, industry, and government, offer our clients exceptional breadth and depth of expertise.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A man who allegedly stole a fire truck while first responders were at a call in downtown Buffalo, New York, has been arraigned on numerous felony and misdemeanor charges, the District Attorney’s Office announced.
Bill Renaldo, the commissioner of the Buffalo Fire Department, told Nexstar’s WIVB that a four-member crew was responding to an EMS call around 11:50 p.m. on Thursday when they came back outside and realized their truck was gone.
Renaldo was unsure how long the truck was unattended, though the air brakes were engaged, he said, making it difficult to drive away.
The truck was later found roughly a mile away. Renaldo added that someone inside a nearby bar used a fire extinguisher on the abandoned truck because it had become smoky, possible because the air brakes were engaged.
The thief also hit two parked cars during his joy ride, Renaldo said. The engine should be back in service soon.
The suspect, Yassin A. Abdikadir, 25, was charged with one count of fourth-degree grand larceny and one count of criminal possession of stolen property, both of which are felonies. Misdemeanor changes include obstructing emergency medical services, reckless driving, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
The DA’s office said Abdikadir was also charged in connection with another crime that occurred the night before. They allege he entered an Buffalo restaurant in the very early hours of Thursday morning, broke into a storage cabinet, and stole approximately 50 bottles of alcohol. This incident landed him two additional felony charges for burglary and grand larceny, as well as a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge.
Abdikadir is scheduled to return to court on Friday, Aug. 26. The DA’s office said he was released on his own recognizance because the charges are non-qualifying offenses for bail. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/man-steals-unattended-fire-truck-while-crew-responds-to-ems-call/ | 2022-07-16 18:33:43 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/man-steals-unattended-fire-truck-while-crew-responds-to-ems-call/ |
LUND, Sweden, Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hansa Biopharma today announced that the Nomination Committee has been formed in accordance with the principles adopted by the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on June 30, 2022 and has the following composition:
- · Natalie Berner representing Redmile Group
- · Jannis Kitsakis representing AP4
- · Arne Myhrman representing Thomas Olausson
As the conveyer of the Nomination Committee, Peter Nicklin, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hansa Biopharma will be asked to summon the first meeting in the Nomination Committee.
The function of the Nomination Committee is to prepare and submit proposals for the AGM regarding the number of board members to be elected by the general meeting, election of chairman and other board members, board fees and any remuneration for committee work, election of the chairman of the AGM, election of auditors (if applicable) and fee for the auditors, and proposals for rules for appointing the Nomination Committee.
The proposals of the Nomination Committee will be presented in the notice of the Annual General Meeting 2023 and will be published on Hansa Biopharma's website.
Shareholders wishing to submit comments or proposals to the Nomination Committee may do so via e-mail to ir@hansabiopharma.com or by letter to Hansa Biopharma, Nomination Committee, Box 785, 220 07 Lund, Sweden.
This disclosure contains information that Hansa Biopharma AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU nr 596/2014). The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person, on 23 December 2022 at 8am CET.
CONTACT:
For further information, please contact:
Klaus Sindahl, Head of Investor Relations
Hansa Biopharma
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NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ClubRare is making a huge splash in the NFT world by bringing it to the mainstream. The NFTs aren't just digital goods, but represent ownership of a real-world authenticated collectible. These NFTs are traded in the ClubRare collector-focused economy, and brought to life in the Metaverse.
Industry analysts have repeatedly observed that merging the physical with the digital is the next huge boom in crypto and metaverse investment.
At the core of ClubRare Universe is the $MPWR token, set to be one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies on the market, providing huge rewards for those who join the ClubRare mission in this early launch stage.
ClubRare has formed an official partnership with The Sandbox, a global metaverse platform. The Sandbox is a metaverse platform that grew rapidly in 2021 to sales of over $144 Million. With over 500,000 users and 12,000 land owners, The Sandbox is becoming a household name.
Through this partnership, ClubRare collectors and creators will see their NFTs come to life within The Sandbox. The two projects will work closely to publish limited-edition products on the ClubRare platform and allow players to freely use them on The Sandbox's Metaverse platform. In addition, a ClubRare metaverse storefront will be opened in The Sandbox.
Open until June 25th, all 861,400+ users who have traded on OpenSea's smart contract prior to January 1 2022 are eligible for this AirDrop of up to 75 $MPWR.
Learn more: https://docs.clubrare.xyz/opensea-user-airdrop
The hub of ClubRare Universe is ClubRare Marketplace, a decentralized community-owned NFT trading platform for both digital and physical goods. The team has innovated a logistics, shipping, and collectible authentication system. Collectors can purchase real-world exclusive merch, and see their IRL closet replicated in the metaverse with NFT-based digital goods.
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As the governance token for ClubRare Universe, AGOV allows holders to steer the future of metaverse development and NFT trading. By working with creators and collectors to innovate in the collector economy, everyone is rewarded.
As the governing body of ClubRare Universe, AGOV DAO members enjoy exclusive access to physical and digital assets released by creators. DAO members will cooperate to increase overall economic value, conduct buybacks, and act as a thinktank for the future of ClubRare.
AGOV DAO will also issue sponsorship to creators to kickstart their growth potential, and facilitate exciting opportunities for the community of collectors.
The ClubRare team will be convening in NYC on June 20-23 for NFT.NYC conference, as platinum sponsor. The team will be revealing a huge brand partnership, giving away $MPWR, and featuring an exclusive auction.
On June 23, ClubRare will host the afterparty, post NFT.NYC. At this invite-only event, attendees will hear from established and rising voices in web3, and benefit from a wealth of experience across e-commerce and metaverse.
ClubRare Universe is an ecosystem of Web3 products built with and for a thriving community of collectors, bridging from the metaverse to the physical world.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A 33-year-old Orlando man was hospitalized Monday after suffering what investigators believe was a shark bite at Daytona Beach, according to Volusia County Beach Safety.
According to Deputy Chief Tamra Malphurs, the man was wading in waist-deep water along the beach at approximately 3 p.m. when he was bitten on his right foot, “presumably by a shark.”
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Malphurs said the man was taken to the hospital by EVAC, though his injuries were not life threatening. The deputy added that this incident marks the sixth shark bite of the year.
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FDA revamping foods program to move past ‘constant turmoil’
By JONEL ALECCIA
AP Health Writer
The head of the Food and Drug Administration has announced an overhaul of the agency’s food safety and nutrition division. FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf is vowing to better protect consumers and the U.S. food supply. He said Tuesday he would create a new human foods program led by a deputy commissioner. That person would have authority over policy, strategy and regulatory activities for the agency responsible for 80% of the foods Americans eat. The changes are drawing praise from some food safety advocates, but other experts say they don’t go far enough. The new deputy will report directly to the commissioner and will be named by spring. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/01/31/fda-revamping-foods-program-to-move-past-constant-turmoil/ | 2023-01-31 22:07:31 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/01/31/fda-revamping-foods-program-to-move-past-constant-turmoil/ |
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United States launched an initiative Thursday promoting international cooperation on the responsible use of artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons by militaries, seeking to impose order on an emerging technology that has the potential to change the way war is waged.
“As a rapidly changing technology, we have an obligation to create strong norms of responsible behavior concerning military uses of AI and in a way that keeps in mind that applications of AI by militaries will undoubtedly change in the coming years,” Bonnie Jenkins, the State Department’s under secretary for arms control and international security, said.
She said the U.S. political declaration, which contains non-legally binding guidelines outlining best practices for responsible military use of AI, “can be a focal point for international cooperation.”
Jenkins launched the declaration at the end of a two-day conference in The Hague that took on additional urgency as advances in drone technology amid the Russia’s war in Ukraine have accelerated a trend that could soon bring the world’s first fully autonomous fighting robots to the battlefield.
The U.S. declaration has 12 points, including that military uses of AI are consistent with international law, and that states “maintain human control and involvement for all actions critical to informing and executing sovereign decisions concerning nuclear weapons employment.”
Zachary Kallenborn, a George Mason University weapons innovation analyst who attended the Hague conference, said the U.S. move to take its approach to the international stage “recognizes that there are these concerns about autonomous weapons. That is significant in and of itself.”
Kallenborn said it was also important that Washington included a call for human control over nuclear weapons “because when it comes to autonomous weapons risk, I think that is easily the highest risk you possibly have.”
Underscoring the sense of international urgency around AI and autonomous weapons, 60 nations, including the U.S. and China, issued a call for action at the Hague conference urging broad cooperation in the development and responsible military use of artificial intelligence.
“We are in time to mitigate risks and to prevent AI from spiraling out of control, and we are in time to prevent AI from taking us to a place we simply don’t want to be,” Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said.
The call to action issued in the Netherlands underscored “the importance of ensuring appropriate safeguards and human oversight of the use of AI systems, bearing in mind human limitations due to constraints in time and capacities.”
The participating nations also invited countries “to develop national frameworks, strategies and principles on responsible AI in the military domain.”
Military analysts and artificial intelligence researchers say the longer the nearly year-long war in Ukraine lasts, the more likely it becomes that drones will be used to identify, select and attack targets without help from humans.
Ukraine’s digital transformation minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, told The Associated Press in a recent interview that fully autonomous killer drones are “a logical and inevitable next step” in weapons development. He said Ukraine has been doing “a lot of R&D in this direction.”
Ukraine already has semi-autonomous attack drones and counter-drone weapons endowed with AI. Russia also claims to possess AI weaponry, though the claims are unproven. But there are no confirmed instances of a nation putting into combat robots that have killed entirely on their own.
Russia was not invited to attend the conference in The Hague.
China’s ambassador to the Netherlands Tan Jian did attend and said Beijing has sent two papers to the United Nations on regulating military AI applications, saying the issue “concerns the common security and the well-being of mankind, which requires the united response of all countries,” he said.
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NEWTON, Mass., Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MPINarada is pleased to announce the FEN4850, a new lithium battery for the telecom market that can save users time, money, and space with its outdoor application use. The 48-volt LFP (lithium iron phosphate) battery offers long cycle life, reduced weight, smaller size, and easy installation for mounting to a pole or enclosure. Ideal for telecom, small cell, DAS, and 5G applications, this new battery offers all the benefits of lithium, plus the added benefit of outside use. For applications that were initially deployed without battery back-ups, the FEN4850 delivers the easiest- most cost-effective way to accommodate existing and new equipment.
Product highlights:
- Simple installation and load/charge integration: The plug-and-play capability of the battery can save users time and money.
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- Energy transfer patented technology: High cell utilization efficiency for prolonged operational life and significant enhancements permit the battery to last longer than other technologies and puts the FEN4850 at the forefront of the industry.
- Configuration flexibility: Support of parallel connection expansion of up to four modules for increased capacity, provides users the advantage of adjusting to growth as needed.
- Integrated heating feature: Great for colder climates where a service outage can be more perilous, the built-in self-heating feature for cold temperature operation senses temperature drops and alerts the BMS (battery monitoring system) to trigger the heating element to warm up.
MPINarada continues to demonstrate its commitment to safety and performance by meeting all key standards for compliance and testing including: UL1642, UL2054, UL1973, IEC62133:2012, EN61000-6-1:2007, EN61000-6-3:2007+A1:2011, and UN38.3. Additionally, the FEN4850 meets IP65 requirements to designate its outdoor use feature.
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As the U.S. and Europe spearhead COVID vaccines, other regions are left struggling to gain access. But now scientists from Latin America and Africa are collaborating on mRNA technology.
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Cinema’s biggest stars just seem to shine a bit brighter at the Venice International Film Festival, which begins this week in the Northern Italian city.
Think of Lady Gaga, a woman who has never shied away from a grand entrance, somehow topping even herself delicately perched over the edge of a moving water taxi and vamping for the cameras like a classic screen siren. Or Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck evoking old Hollywood glamour to make their official debut as a couple just last year.
Whether you’re a celebrity gliding down the red carpet in front of hundreds of flashing cameras or an onlooker an ocean away daydreaming about Timothée Chalamet’s crystal-studded Haider Ackermann suit, or that electric moment between non-couple Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, it is the kind of occasion that ignites the imagination. And that’s all before you even step inside the theater.
For director and actor Olivia Wilde, the dream of Venice was woven into the fabric of her new film, “ Don’t Worry Darling.” Ending up at the festival became a shorthand for the type of movie she wanted to make.
“We had several studios and streamers who wanted to make this film and I sat down with all of them and I said, ‘The path that I see leads us to Venice. Which one of you understands what kind of movie were making based on that dream?’” Wilde said. “To me, a Venice film is a film that really embraces everything that is ambitious and romantic and beautiful about cinema. And this film is truly a love letter to movies.”
Wilde went with New Line and Warner Bros. and her wish came true: The stylish psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as a picture-perfect couple in an experimental postwar community will have its world debut out of competition on Sept. 5.
Styles, Pugh and Wilde are just some of the stars expected to pose on the docks outside of the opulent Hotel Excelsior and grace the red carpet outside of the Palazzo del Cinema. Their presence, alongside lifetime achievement recipient Catherine Deneuve, Hugh Jackman, Tilda Swinton, Penelope Cruz, Chalamet and many others, helps transform the Lido, the laid-back beach town across the Venetian Lagoon from St. Mark’s Square, into a bastion of glamour, fantasy and cinema on the Adriatic.
This year’s festival is stacked with highly anticipated films and performances in the main competition slate: Ana de Armas is making her debut as Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s “ Blonde ”; Brendan Fraser’s turn in Darren Aronofsky’s new film “The Whale” is already being hailed as an awards-worthy comeback; and Cate Blanchett is playing a renowned conductor in “ TÁR,” director Todd Field’s first film in over 15 years.
“Todd Field is as major a film artist as has ever been,” said Peter Kujawski, the chairman of Focus Features. “And what Cate is doing with the character, without saying too much, is just something you don’t see executed on this level very often.”
The festival, which began in 1932 and is heading into its 79th edition, officially begins Wednesday night with the premiere of Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s seminal novel “ White Noise,” starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.
“White Noise” is one of four high-profile Netflix films hoping to make a splash at the festival, which is an important platform not just for the streaming service, but for all Oscar hopefuls. Baumbach’s last Venice film, “Marriage Story,” went on to get six Oscar nominations and win one for Laura Dern, who is also returning this year in Florian Zeller’s “The Son.” It’s the first of many fall festivals that will refine the awards conversation for the rest of the year.
Field, Baumbach, Aronofsky and Zeller are also among a slew of filmmakers with good Oscar track records who are making their first stop at Venice in competition: There’s also Martin McDonagh’s Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson friendship drama “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s comedy “Bardo, or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”; and Luca Guadagnino’s cannibal romance “ Bones and All,” which reunites the Italian director with Chalamet.
There are also two narrative debuts from documentarians Frederick Wiseman (“A Couple”) and Alice Diop (“Saint Omer”) that are among the 23 films vying for the Golden Lion. The coveted award will be decided on by a jury led by Julianne Moore and presented at the festival’s close on Sept. 10.
Participant Media CEO David Linde, a 30-year veteran of the festival, wanted Venice specifically for the debut of two high-profile documentaries: Oscar-winner Laura Poitras’ “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” about photographer Nan Goldin’s fight against the Sackler family, which is playing in competition, as well as Steve James’ “A Compassionate Spy,” about nuclear physicist Ted Hall.
“The opportunity to bring people to the festival is something I treasure,” Linde said. “This is really about three great American artists coming to Venice: Laura, Nan and Steve.”
Venice may not always produce the best picture winner, though there are some like “Birdman,” “Spotlight,” “The Shape of Water” and “Nomadland,” and many more nominees. But it has become a reliable launching pad for the eventual best director winner, claiming nine in the past decade alone including Silver Lion winner Jane Campion earlier this year.
The films go beyond Hollywood too, of course, with the entire slate boasting works from some 59 countries including several Oscar hopefuls, like Santiago Mitre’s “ Argentina, 1985 ” and Romain Gavras’ “ Athena.”
The festival is putting a spotlight on both the war in Ukraine, with a devoted day and the premiere of Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary about the war, as well as plight of persecuted directors around the world, like imprisoned Iranian director Jafar Panahi whose film “No Bears” is among the competition titles.
And the slate is not without some potential controversy either: They will also host the premiere of “Call of God,” from the late South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, a past Venice-winner who was also accused of sexual assault.
But after two scaled back editions, it is mostly excitement in the air. The Venice Film Festival is the kind of place that enchants whether you’re a first-timer or an industry veteran.
Maybe it’s the romanticism of Northern Italy or the sense of occasion that comes with being part of the world’s oldest film festival. It could be the desire to step it up a notch to bid farewell to the bombast of the summer movie season and welcome in the more adult fare of the fall. Or perhaps it’s the delightful unpredictability of a festival that one year awards its top prize to “Joker,” helping establish Todd Phillips’ big studio comic book film as a serious awards contender, and another year to “Happening,” a small French drama about abortion.
“You go in both with a sense of purpose and excitement for whatever film you’re bringing, but I think all of us in in the community share the other aspect of it that you also just go in giddy as a fan. Every single thing you might sit down and watch is going to be a thoughtful, meaningful, truly wonderful moviegoing experience,” Kujawski said. “That’s the magic of Venice.”
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Fully Baked Ideas Kneaded to Win Prizes, Bread Bragging Rights
CHICAGO, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago-based Alpha Baking Co., Inc., the bakers behind beloved Chicagoland brands S. Rosen's, Mary Ann Baking, and Natural Ovens, launches their "Name A Bread Truck" contest today. For the contest, Alpha Baking is asking customers to submit their most creative ideas to name three bread delivery trucks from their fleet.
Three winning entries will be chosen by a panel made up of Alpha Baking employees and will be prominently featured on designated Alpha Baking delivery trucks. Winners will also receive a year's worth of bread products, tickets to a MLB game in Chicago or Milwaukee, and a lifetime of bragging rights.
"Our S. Rosen's and Natural Ovens trucks can be seen delivering fresh bread, buns, and rolls to stores and restaurants every morning," said Stephanie Powell, director of marketing for Alpha Baking Co. "We like to think they're as much a part of the communities we serve as the local park or firehouse, and we love the idea of getting the community involved and having them name three of the trucks in our fleet."
This contest is open to residents of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, and entries can be submitted online via Alpha Baking's website.
Participants are invited to submit their unique suggestions from April 12th through May 31st, and the three winners will be announced on July 1st.
"We're confident we'll see some fully baked, imaginative names that capture the spirit of Alpha Baking's brands and presence in Chicagoland," added Powell.
For more information on the contest, how to submit names, and the rules, visit https://www.srosens.com/nameabreadtruck/.
Chicago-based Alpha Baking Co., Inc. provides premium baked goods to restaurants, food service outlets, retailers, and consumers under the S. Rosen's, Mary Ann Baking, and Natural Ovens brands. Alpha Baking Co., employs more than 1,800 people at its six production plants.
S. Rosen's began in 1909 when founder Sam Rosen purchased a small bakery on Chicago's Northwest side. Renaming the company after himself, Sam Rosen used it to introduce his now-famous rye bread to the city. S. Rosen's became a Chicago tradition and they would later merge with Mary Ann Baking Company, producer of the iconic poppy seed hot dog buns, used at more than 90 percent of Chicagoland hot dog stands today. Alpha Baking is still a family-owned company, with Sam Rosen's grandson Steve serving on the board and his son Jason serving as Safety Director for the company. The company continues its long-standing support of food-insecure organizations, including donating more than 265 million pounds of bread products in 2020.
For more information, visit www.alphabaking.com or www.SRosens.com.
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VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. and WATERLOO, ON, Oct. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Visteon Corporation (NASDAQ: VC) and BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced an expansion of their collaborative work to accelerate the deployment of digital cockpit solutions for automakers and suppliers around the world.
As part of the multi-year agreement, Visteon will use a range of BlackBerry QNX software and services to build next generation digital consolidated cockpits, including infotainment systems, digital instrument clusters, and telematics systems for multiple auto manufacturers.
The strategic agreement is the most recent milestone in the collaboration between the two companies. Past achievements include the October 2017 announcement which saw Visteon select BlackBerry's safety-certified QNX Platform for Instrument Clusters 1.0 software for a digital instrument cluster project the company won with a major Chinese OEM.
For future digital cockpit projects, BlackBerry will provide Visteon with QNX software including its QNX Software Development Platform, QNX OS for Safety, QNX Hypervisor, QNX acoustics middleware, QNX Black Channel Communications Technology, BlackBerry Jarvis, as well as professional engineering services for system-level integration, performance optimization, and solution validation.
"As an automotive electronics technology leader, Visteon's hardware and software solutions support the industry trends of intelligent digital cockpits and the connected car," said Bob Vallance, Visteon senior vice president, customer business groups and marketing. "Our collaboration with BlackBerry QNX reflects our shared passion for innovation that helps our automotive customers stay ahead of the curve with future-proof cybersecurity solutions."
For example, Visteon's SmartCore™ domain controllers help automakers accelerate the digital transformation of their cockpits with digital instrument clusters, Android-based infotainment, secure over-the-air updates and connected applications to create a rich, premium in-vehicle experience. With the increasing industry acceptance of Android-based operating systems globally, Visteon is experiencing an acceleration in the adoption of its SmartCore™ technology by automakers in all regions. Today, the company has SmartCore™ business with ten automotive customers and expects the technology to be a key growth driver in the coming years.
"We are thrilled to build on and expand our relationship with Visteon as part of our commitment to provide auto manufacturers with innovative safety-certified, secure and reliable solutions," said John Wall, SVP and Co-Head, BlackBerry Technology Solutions. "If software is now the driving force of the automotive industry, delivering compelling digital experience to users has quickly become the new battleground where OEMs can differentiate themselves from one another. With trusted partners like Visteon, together we can help manufacturers stay on the cutting edge of an industry that's undergoing a profound transformation."
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BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including over 195M vehicles. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
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Visteon is a technology leader in automotive electronics dedicated to creating a more enjoyable, connected and safe driving experience. Our platforms leverage proven, scalable hardware and software solutions that enable the digital, electric and autonomous evolution of our global automotive customers. Visteon products align with key industry trends and include digital instrument clusters, displays, Android-based infotainment systems, domain controllers, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and battery management systems. Headquartered in Van Buren Township, Mich., the company employs approximately 10,000 people at more than 40 facilities in 18 countries. Visteon reported sales of approximately $2.5 billion and booked $4.6 billion of new business in 2020. Learn more at https://www.visteon.com/newsroom/.
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5-year-old missing after mother found dead in South Carolina
Published: Nov. 27, 2022 at 10:46 AM MST|Updated: 17 minutes ago
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - Police in South Carolina are looking for a missing 5-year-old child, Aspen Jeter, WIS reported.
Officials say around noon on Thursday, deputies were sent to a residence to conduct a welfare check on Aspen’s mother after she had not been seen since Nov. 1.
They found the woman deceased at the home and Aspen was missing.
Authorities ask anyone with information on Aspen’s location or the deceased woman to contact the Orange County Sheriff’s Office at 803-534-3550 or Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIMESC.
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Aaron Judge’s homers almost always impress, and No. 61 on Wednesday night was no exception — a laser-beam shot that landed in the Blue Jays bullpen amidst huge cheers from the crowd in Toronto.
Baseball history was made and the joy was palpable. The New York Yankees slugger had just tied Roger Maris for the American League, and what some fans consider the “real,” single-season home run record.
No controversy. No debate. No questions. Right?
No way.
As anyone who follows the sport knows, baseball has a unique and sometimes infuriating habit of being unable to completely enjoy its biggest moments. Instead of running from that reality, MLB appears to be embracing the chaos of debate.
Judge’s chase for 61 this season and, to a lesser extent, Cardinals star Albert Pujols’ quest for 700 career homers, have brought the game’s prodigious record books and historical debates back to the forefront.
Even if Judge hits No. 62 in the next seven games, MLB’s records clearly state Barry Bonds is the record-holder with 73 in 2001. Mark McGwire hit 70 in 1998 and 65 a year later. Sammy Sosa topped 61 three times in a four-year span from 1998 to 2001.
Those numbers came during baseball’s performance-enhancing drug era.
A sizable chunk of fans believe the numbers from that era are tainted. Roger Maris Jr. — who was in attendance in Toronto on Wednesday — is one of them, saying it’s Judge who is the real home run king.
The 30-year-old Judge has an impeccable reputation in an era during which each player is tested for PEDs during spring training and is subject to random tests during the season and offseason.
“He should be revered for being the actual single-season home run champ,” the younger Maris said after Judge matched his dad’s record-setting total with the Yankees in 1961. “I mean, that’s really who he is if he hits 62, and I think that’s what needs to happen.
“I think baseball needs to look at the records and I think baseball should do something.”
That’s probably not going to happen. MLB has tried to dance around the steroid debate by stating Judge is the American League record-holder, which is absolutely true. Bonds, McGwire and Sosa all played in the National League.
But since when has anyone really cared about AL records?
The answer is fans usually don’t — unless it can be conveniently used as a euphemism for “real.”
For its part, MLB doesn’t appear eager to embrace the use of asterisks. Neither does the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
MLB has been down that road before. Maris’ record had an asterisk attached to it for 30 years because he played a 162-game schedule instead of 154 like Babe Ruth did when he hit 60. It remained until Sept. 4, 1991, when a committee on statistical accuracy chaired by former commissioner Fay Vincent voted unanimously to recognize Maris as the record-holder.
Josh Rawitch, the president of the Hall of Fame, said his organization’s role is to stay as agnostic as possible.
“What we just try to focus on is documenting history, regardless of the storylines that may be surrounding it,” Rawitch said “We’ll absolutely have artifacts from the current home run chases, whether it’s Pujols or Judge or any others, but at the same time, we also tell the history of 1998 and we have areas of the museum that focus on the PED time period.
“I’d say we don’t tend to inject too many opinions into it.”
Fans, of course, will be happy to fill that void.
Baseball’s record book is the most expansive in the major American sports. Stats on baseball-reference.com go back to 1871 and have been recently updated to include stats from the Negro Leagues, which began to dissolve one year after Jackie Robinson became MLB’s first Black player with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
A lot of things in baseball have changed over 150 years. The historical arguments aren’t going away anytime soon.
“In general, baseball has always been about debates and comparing eras,” Rawitch said. “Whether it’s Aaron Judge to Roger Maris or Shohei Ohtani to Babe Ruth, I think that’s part of what makes the sport pretty special.”
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AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum in New York and freelancer Ian Harrison in Toronto contributed to this story.
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Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, adding to their recent losses as traders realized how determined the Federal Reserve is to keep interest rates high to fight inflation.
The S&P 500 gave back almost 1% Monday. Technology companies were the biggest drag on the index. The Nasdaq and the Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell. European markets were also lower and Asian markets closed lower overnight. Treasury yields were higher.
This week investors will get more updates on the economy including the government’s monthly jobs report on Friday and a reading on consumer confidence Tuesday from the Conference Board.
On Monday:
The S&P 500 fell 27.05 points, or 0.7%, to 4,030.61.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 184.41 points, or 0.6%, to 32,098.99.
The Nasdaq fell 124.04 points, or 1%, to 12,017.67.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 16.89 points, or 0.9%, to 1,882.94.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 735.57 points, or 15.4%.
The Dow is down 4,239.31 points, or 11.7%.
The Nasdaq is down 3,627.30 points, or 23.2%.
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... FOR ALEX MURDAUG... H THE ONCE ... WELL- RESPECTED SOUTH CAROLINA ATTORNEY. JUNE 7TH...2021. ALEX MURDAUGH DISCOVE RS HIS WIFE MAGGIE AND SON PAUL - SHOT DEAD - AT HIS COLLETON COUNTY HUNTING LODGE. <> "I NEED THE POLICE AND AMBULANCE IMMEDIATELY. MY WIFE AND SON HAVE BEEN SHOT BAY!" DL THE SOUTH CAROLINA LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISIONS I CALLED - TO LOOK INTO THEIR DEATHS. JUNE 23RD. .. BASED ON INFORMATION GATHERED IN THE MURDER INVESTIGATION - SLED ANNOUNCEITS S LOOKING INTO THE 2015 DEATH OF STEPHEN SMITH. .. THAT VEDELOPMENT- A HUGE RELIEF TO STEPHEN'S MOTHER - WHO NEVER BELIEVED THE STORY - POLICE HAD TOLD HER. SOT: STEPHEN'S MOM>: "THEY SAID HE WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD," SAID SANDY SMITH. "THEN IT TURNED TO, IT WAS A HIT AND RUN AND THEN HE WAS BEAT UP. SO THE STORY JUST KEPT CHANGING." FAST FORWARD TO SEPTEMBER 2...THE PMPED LAW FIRM LNCHEAUS AN INVESTIGATION INTO ALEX MURDAUGH - OVER CONCERNS HE HAD BEEN TAKING MONEY FROM THE FIRM AND CLIENTS - FOR PERSONAL USE. MURDAU GH RESIGNS FROM THE FIRM - THE NEXT D. AY SEPTEMBER 4TH.- .. MURDAUGH IS SHOT IN THE HEAD ON A QUIET HAMPTON COUNTY ROAD. <> : "THEY SHOT ME." "OK. YOU NEED EMS?" "UH, WELL. I MEAN YES. I CAN'T DRIVE." "OK." "I HAVE TROUBLE SEEING AND I'M BLEEDING A LOT ." 10 DAYS LATER...ON SEPTEMBER 14 - CURTIS EDWARD SMITH IS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO THE ASSISTED SUICIDE SHOOTINGF O MURDAUGH. MURDAUGH ADMITS THE SCHEME WAS SET UP SO HIS SURVIVING SON BUSTER COU LD COLLECT A 10 MILLION DOLLAR LIFE INSURANCE POLICY. THE NEXT DAY... - MURDAUGH IS NAMED THE CHIEF DEFENDANT IN A WRONGFUL DEATH LAWSUIT - FILED BY THE SONS OF LONGTIME MURDAH UG HOUSEKEEPER AND NANNY - GLORIA SATTERFIELD. LE SD SIMULTANEOUSLY ANNOUNCES ITS OPENING A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IN STOATTERFIELD'S 2018 DEAT H. OCTOBER 4... THE LAW FIRM REPRESENTING THE ESTATE OF SATTERFIELD ANNOUNCES A SETTLEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED. AND...JUST DAYS AGO...ON JUNE 3RD - AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE SATTERFIELD FAMILY - CONFIRMS THE SOUTH CAROLINA LAW ENFORCEME NT DIVISION PLANS TO EXHUME GLORIA SATTERFIELDS BODY AS PART OF THEIR INVESTIGATION INTO HER DEAH T. THAT WAS OUR BROOKE BUTLER REPORTING. THERE ARE *SO MANY LAYERS TO THE MURDAUGH FAMI LY MYSTERY. YOU CAN TRACK *EVERY - *DEVELOPMENT ..
Reports: Disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh to be charged for the murder of his wife and son
Updated: 1:31 PM EDT Jul 12, 2022
More than a year after the bodies of Maggie Murdaugh and her son Paul were discovered on the prominent Lowcountry family's property in Colleton County, South Carolina, charges in the double homicide may be filed as soon as this week.On Tuesday, multiple reports indicated that disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh would be charged this week in the murder of his wife and son.Video above: Murdaugh murders investigation: 1 year later A report from the Post & Courier said family members were notified by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, as a courtesy, Tuesday morning. Alex Murdaugh told authorities from the onset he discovered the bodies of his wife and son after they were shot to death the night of June 7, 2021. In the months that followed, SLED said it found evidence of other crimes surrounding the Murdaugh family.Murdaugh was eventually charged with dozens of fraud-related crimes after allegations he stole millions of dollars from his clients and from the family of the former Murdaugh housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who died after a fall at the Murdaugh home. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
More than a year after the bodies of Maggie Murdaugh and her son Paul were discovered on the prominent Lowcountry family's property in Colleton County, South Carolina, charges in the double homicide may be filed as soon as this week.
On Tuesday, multiple reports indicated that disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh would be charged this week in the murder of his wife and son.
Video above: Murdaugh murders investigation: 1 year later
A report from the Post & Courier said family members were notified by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, as a courtesy, Tuesday morning.
Alex Murdaugh told authorities from the onset he discovered the bodies of his wife and son after they were shot to death the night of June 7, 2021.
In the months that followed, SLED said it found evidence of other crimes surrounding the Murdaugh family.
Murdaugh was eventually charged with dozens of fraud-related crimes after allegations he stole millions of dollars from his clients and from the family of the former Murdaugh housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who died after a fall at the Murdaugh home.
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How to Watch the Kings vs. Warriors: Streaming & TV Channel Info for NBA Playoffs Game 7
Published: Apr. 30, 2023 at 8:33 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Sacramento Kings will face the Golden State Warriors in a decisive Game 7 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs.
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Kings vs. Warriors Game Info
- When: Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 3:30 PM ET
- Where: Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California
- TV: ABC
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Kings Stats Insights
- The Kings make 49.4% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.5 percentage points higher than the Warriors have allowed to their opponents (46.9%).
- In games Sacramento shoots higher than 46.9% from the field, it is 42-15 overall.
- The Warriors are the eighth-ranked rebounding team in the league, the Kings sit at 20th.
- The Kings record just 3.6 more points per game (120.7) than the Warriors give up (117.1).
- Sacramento has a 40-9 record when scoring more than 117.1 points.
Warriors Stats Insights
- The Warriors have shot at a 47.9% rate from the field this season, 1.3 percentage points less than the 49.2% shooting opponents of the Kings have averaged.
- Golden State is 29-9 when it shoots better than 49.2% from the field.
- The Warriors are the eighth-ranked rebounding team in the league, the Kings sit at 23rd.
- The Warriors' 118.9 points per game are just 0.8 more points than the 118.1 the Kings allow.
- Golden State is 34-12 when it scores more than 118.1 points.
Kings Home & Away Comparison
- The Kings are posting 123.4 points per game this season when playing at home, which is 5.4 more points than they're averaging on the road (118).
- Sacramento is giving up 120.1 points per game at home. In away games, it is allowing 116.
- In home games, the Kings are draining 0.2 more threes per game (13.9) than on the road (13.7). They also have a better three-point percentage at home (38.1%) compared to in away games (35.7%).
Warriors Home & Away Comparison
- In 2022-23 the Warriors are putting up more points at home (119.7 per game) than on the road (118.2). And they are conceding less at home (111.7) than on the road (122.5).
- In 2022-23 Golden State is allowing 10.8 fewer points per game at home (111.7) than on the road (122.5).
- This season the Warriors are collecting more assists at home (30.5 per game) than away (29.2).
Kings Injuries
Warriors Injuries
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37 Years Later, the Expansion Ensures New Yorkers in Harlem Have Access to High-Quality, Affordable Health Care
NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MetroPlusHealth, New York City's five-star health plan, celebrated the opening of its new flagship location at 2104 Adam Clayton Powell Junior Boulevard yesterday in Harlem, New York. The new MetroPlusHealth Harlem Community Office will be open weekdays from 9 AM – 6 PM and Saturdays from 9 AM – 5 PM. The community office will assist Harlem residents with health insurance education and enrollment, health screenings and illness prevention workshops, social services resources (food stamps, SNAP, etc.), life skills training, legal and immigration services, and more. Additionally, the office will be open to the public for meetings, small gatherings, workshops, conferences, and other community needs.
The celebration included a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the morning with an exceptional performance by Mama Foundation for the Arts, School of Gospel, Jazz, and R&B, followed by an open house to the community and a job fair. Guests enjoyed food prepared by Sylvia's Harlem Restaurant, "The Queen of Soul Food," and Cake Man Raven. DJ Whutever of iHeartMedia's Power 105 was also on hand to add even more excitement to the event.
New York Senator Cordell Cleare and Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine presented a proclamation to MetroPlusHealth's Harlem Community Office for their leadership and involvement in the Harlem community.
"We are excited to announce the opening of our newest office, located on Adam Clayton Powell Junior Boulevard, just over a year after our Flushing grand opening," said Lesleigh Irish-Underwood, Chief Brand and External Relations Officer of MetroPlusHealth. "We are no stranger to the Harlem community; it is the birthplace of MetroPlusHealth. During COVID-19, Harlem emerged as one of Manhattan's hardest-hit neighborhoods, emphasizing the City's health care inequities. Today, there is a strong need for more services and support to create equity. MetroPlusHealth is an insurance company for New Yorkers, by New Yorkers."
"I want to recognize MetroPlusHealth for their inspiring commitment to the well-being of the Harlem community upon the ribbon-cutting ceremony of their expansion of the Harlem Resource Center," said New York State Senator Cordell Cleare. "Thank you so much for your partnership and involvement with our seniors, community events and more.
"I want to thank MetroPlusHealth for continuing to serve diverse communities in need. The pandemic has highlighted the gross inequities in accessing healthcare that communities across the city, especially Harlem, continue to face," said Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine. "I am glad that MetroPlusHealth will open a community office to combat these issues, open on Monday–Saturday and assisting with access to health screenings and social, legal, and immigration services."
"As the CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, I am proud of the relationship we share with MetroPlusHealth. The robust community we serve depends on MetroPlusHealth to provide much-needed health insurance access," said NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem CEO Georges H. Leconte. "I personally welcome the team to the Village of Harlem, which will now serve as the home of a brand-new flagship community-based office. As the premiere health care institution in Harlem, we pledge to continue our collaboration with MetroPlusHealth as they continue to insure our community. We are proud to say that MetroPlusHealth is an insurance provider on whom we rely."
"We are thrilled to have MetroPlusHealth set up shop right across town from our hospital so that residents of El Barrio and surrounding communities can more easily access vital services as our city continues to recover from the health, social, and economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic," said NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan CEO Cristina Contreras, LMSW, MPA, FABC. "MetroPlusHealth started as a pilot program here at Metropolitan, and now it is a five-star health plan covering hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers across the five boroughs. We look forward to continuing our partnership with them as we provide the Metropolitan community with high-quality, comprehensive health care right in their neighborhood."
"The partnership that we have with MetroPlusHealth is made possible for us to reiterate that no matter who you are, where you come back, how you worship, whom you love; New York City is a place where those rights are protected and will continue to be protected together," said Kajori Chaudhuri, LMSW, Deputy Commissioner, Community Relations Bureau at New York City Commission on Human Rights. "Congratulations to MetroPlusHealth for this amazing office space."
The new Harlem office reflects MetroPlusHealth's commitment to being more than a health plan for its members and their communities. This year, the Plan provided no-and-low-cost high-quality health insurance to individuals and families, addressed food insecurity by launching its pilot program for medically tailored meals, and expanded its $0 dietitian benefit for Gold members. MetroPlusHealth also held its first-ever press conference on the steps of City Hall in partnership with community-based organizations and NYC agencies offering mental health services and resources to New Yorkers and hosted its second town hall in honor of AAPI Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month to discuss the mental health stigmas among women in AAPI communities.
MetroPlusHealth has expanded to over 675,000 members, with a strong presence in Harlem through multiple stores and a provider network at NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan, NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, City MDs, and other locations. Visit https://www.metroplus.org/metroplus-near-you for a list of MetroPlusHealth locations and hours of operation, including the new Harlem location.
About MetroPlusHealth
Since 1985, MetroPlusHealth has built a reputation for providing access to affordable, quality health care to residents across New York City. MetroPlusHealth is the plan of choice for over 675,000 New Yorkers and has a five-star rating based on the State's 2021 Consumer's Guide to Medicaid and Child Health Plus Managed Care Plans in New York City. The health plan's robust network of primary care doctors and specialists includes many independent community providers. Culturally sensitive, and fluent in more than 40 languages, MetroPlusHealth's staff is as diverse as the great city it serves. For more information about MetroPlusHealth plans, benefits, and services, visit www.metroplus.org. MetroPlusHealth is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation's largest public health system.
CONTACT:
Divendra Jaffar
212-908-3380/646-952-3243
jaffadi@metroplus.org
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia toddler who was reported missing by his mother last week is believed to be dead, and she is a suspect in his death, according to police.
The Chatham County Police Department tweeted late Wednesday, “We are saddened to report that CCPD and the FBI have notified Quinton Simon’s family that we believe he is deceased. We have named his mother, Leilani Simon, as the prime suspect in his disappearance and death.”
No arrests have been made and no charges have been filed, police said. It wasn’t immediately known Thursday if Leilani Simon had a lawyer who could speak on her behalf.
The police chief planned to discuss the case during a news conference later Thursday.
Simon called police Oct. 5 to report that her 20-month-old son had been in his playpen before she discovered he was missing. Police searched the family’s neighborhood just outside of Savannah for the toddler, who was described as last seen wearing a Sesame Street T-shirt and black pants.
In the week that followed, police obtained a warrant and searched the family’s home with the FBI’s assistance. Investigators drained a pool in the backyard and used dogs to search nearby woods.
Police reports and court documents show there was turmoil in recent weeks between the child’s mother and grandmother, Billie Jo Howell, who had legal custody of him and an older sibling. Quinton, his mother and his mother’s boyfriend lived with Howell.
Simon called police on Sept. 7 following an argument with her mother over laundry in which she said Howell had shoved her against a wall, according to a police report. No one was charged and an officer found no injuries other than Simon’s reddened elbow.
The following day, Quinton’s grandmother filed papers in Chatham County Magistrate Court to have Simon and her boyfriend evicted from her home, WTOC-TV reported.
“Just want them to move out as quick as possible. … They have damaged my property and at this point no one is living in peace,” the Sept. 8 court document read.
A few weeks later, on Sept. 28, a Superior Court judge ordered Leilani Simon to pay $150 per month in child support.
Quinton’s mother reported him missing a week later.
The police chief previously said officers had contacted the boy’s biological father and did not believe he was involved. Police never issued an Amber Alert for Quinton because they didn’t have evidence the child had been abducted, he said. | https://www.koin.com/news/national/ap-police-missing-georgia-toddler-believed-dead-mom-a-suspect/ | 2022-10-14 02:18:27 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/national/ap-police-missing-georgia-toddler-believed-dead-mom-a-suspect/ |
GRAPHIC: Toxic algae bloom is sickening and killing marine mammals on California coast
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Emergency rescues of marine mammals are taking place up and down the central California coast this week in response to a toxic algae bloom.
A major effort is underway to save as many sea lions and dolphins as possible.
An emergency rescue of a sick sea lion on Hendry’s Beach in Santa Barbara on Tuesday was a tough battle.
The Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute had a rapid response of volunteers.
They were careful but still needed the help of beach visitors to get the animal into a large crate.
Even though it was ill, the sea lion put up a struggle.
“Yeah, that poor guy did not want to go into the little cargo area ‘cause we don’t have the ability to explain to him we are here to help him,” said Trevor Wilkinson, a beach visitor.
He and his son were-front line helpers.
“To see a 12-year-old boy with some natural empathy is awesome, right? And that’s really important too, that we do that to our young men,” Wilkinson said.
The sea lion was affected by rising toxins in an algae bloom offshore that’s impacting small fish, its food source.
“You can tell he’s already disoriented, not able to focus. Poor guy, looked like he was pretty scared,” Wilkinson said.
There were other sick sea lions on the beach nearby in areas marked by the rescue teams to keep the public out.
Some were moving around and might return to the ocean, but timing is essential to save their lives.
“They can dissipate the toxin from their body within a 24-to-72 hour period. If we can get to them and get fluids into them and other treatments, we feel it helps them out,” said Ken Hughes of Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute.
Since last week, the marine life impacted by the algae bloom and toxins has been significant.
“We’ve received over 100 calls and dealing with 20 different animals on the beach,” Hughes said.
This is one of many rescues along the coastlines, and they have to move very quickly to get the animal up to Gaviota where it can get treatment immediately at their center.
This week, about 15 dolphins along the Santa Barbara and Ventura County coastlines have come ashore, presumably with the same illness, but there were no known rescues.
“We try to respond to them if we can, but generally by the time we get there they have already passed,” Hughes said.
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FILER — Dagmar Knight, 65, of Filer passed away on February 18, 2023, in her home. A visitation will be held at Parke’s Magic Valley Funeral Home, 2551 Kimberly Rd in Twin Falls, ID, on February 24, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. For a complete obituary and to leave online condolences go to www.magicvalleyfuneralhome.com.
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Get the Halloween snacks and spooky drinks ready, because Freeform has officially released their 31 Nights of Halloween schedule!
Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween begins at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1 with “Edward Scissorhands” and ends on Halloween night, Oct. 31 at 12 a.m. with “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes. This year’s 31 Nights of Halloween includes favorites like “Hocus Pocus” and “Ghostbusters,” plus a Tim Burton Day that includes more than 12 hours of films including “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” “Corpse Bride,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Beetlejuice.”
You can view the entire “31 Nights of Halloween” schedule below. Make sure you mark down the dates and times for your favorites so you don’t miss them!
Note: All times are listed for the Eastern time zone.
Saturday, Oct. 1
- 7 a.m.: “Edward Scissorhands”
- 9:10 a.m.: “The Witches” (1990)
- 11:20 a.m.: “The Haunted Mansion” (2003)
- 1:25 p.m.: “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”
- 3:05 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 5:10 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 7:15 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 9:25 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 11:30 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
Sunday, Oct. 2
- 7 a.m.: “The Witches” (1990)
- 9:10 a.m.: “Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic”
- 10:10 a.m.: “Halloweentown”
- 12:15 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 2:20 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 4:25 p.m.: “Maleficent”
- 6:30 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 8:35 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 10:45 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
Monday, Oct. 3
- 1 p.m.: “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” (1992)
- 3 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
- 5:30 p.m: “Ghostbusters II”
- 8 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Tuesday, Oct. 4
- 11:30 a.m.:“Ghostbusters” (1984)
- 2 p.m.: “Ghostbusters II”
- 4:30 p.m.: “Edward Scissorhands”
- 7 p.m.: “Maleficent”
- 9 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 12 a.m.: “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb”
Wednesday, Oct. 5
- 12 p.m.: “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb”
- 2 p.m.: “Madagascar”
- 4 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 6 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 8 p.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
- 12a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Thursday, Oct. 6
- 11 a.m.: “Madagascar”
- 1 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 3 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 5 p.m.: “Shrek Forever After”
- 7 p.m.: “Halloweentown”
- 9 p.m.: “Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge”
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Friday, Oct. 7
- 10:30 a.m.: “Scared Shrekless”
- 11 a.m.: “Shrek Forever After”
- 1-11 p.m.: “Family Guy” episodes
- 12 a.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
Saturday, Oct. 8
- 7 a.m.: “Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic”
- 8 a.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 10 a.m.: “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween”
- 12:05 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
- 2:35 p.m.: “Ghostbusters II”
- 5:05 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 7:10 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 9:20 p.m.: “Maleficent”
- 11:25 p.m.: “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”
Sunday, Oct. 9
- 7 a.m.: “Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins”
- 7:30 a.m.: “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween”
- 9:35 a.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
- 12:05 p.m.: “Ghostbusters II”
- 2:40 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 4:45 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 6:55 p.m.: “Get Out”
- 9:25 p.m.: “Halloween” (2018)
- 11:55 p.m.: “A Quiet Place”
Monday, Oct. 10
- 11:30 a.m.: “A Quiet Place”
- 1:40 p.m.: “Get Out”
- 4:15 p.m.: “Halloween” (2018)
- 6:50 p.m.: “Happy Death Day”
- 8:55 p.m.: “Happy Death Day 2U”
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Tuesday, Oct. 11
- 12:30 p.m.: “Maleficent”
- 2:30 p.m.: “The House with a Clock in Its Walls”
- 5 p.m.: “The Haunted Mansion” (2003)
- 7 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 9 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Wednesday, Oct. 12
- 10:30 a.m.: “The House with a Clock in Its Walls”
- 1 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 3 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 5 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
- 8 p.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Thursday, Oct. 13 (Tim Burton Day)
- 10:30 a.m.: “Frankenweenie” (2012)
- 12:30 p.m.: “Edward Scissorhands”
- 3 p.m.: “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”
- 6 p.m.: “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
- 7:30 p.m.: “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”
- 9 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 12 a.m.: “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
Friday, Oct. 14
- 10:30 a.m.: “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”
- 1:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.: “Family Guy” episodes
- 5 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 7 p.m. – 11 p.m.: “Family Guy” episodes
- 12-2 a.m.: “Family Guy” episodes
Saturday, Oct. 15
- 7 a.m: “Hook”
- 10:15 a.m.: “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
- 12:25 p.m.: “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
- 2:25 p.m.: “Toy Story of Terror!”
- 2:55 p.m.: “Scared Shrekless”
- 3:25 p.m.: “Shrek Forever After”
- 5:30 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 7:40 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 9:45 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 11:50 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”
Sunday, Oct. 16
- 7 a.m.: “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
- 9:10 a.m.: “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
- 10:45 a.m.: “Scared Shrekless”
- 11:15 a.m.: “Shrek Forever After”
- 1:20 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 3:25 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 5:30 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”
- 7:40 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 9:50 p.m.: “Maleficent”
- 11:55 p.m.: “The Witches” (1990)
Monday, Oct. 17
- 12 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
- 2:30 p.m.: “Ghostbusters II”
- 5:05 p.m.: “The Haunted Mansion” (2003)
- 7:10 p.m.: “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” (With Pop’N Knowledge facts)
- 8:50 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus” (With Pop’N Knowledge facts)
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Tuesday, Oct. 18
- 10:30 a.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
- 1 p.m.: “Ghostbusters II”
- 3:30 p.m.: “Fright Night” (2011)
- 6 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
- 9 p.m.: “Beetlejuice” (With Pop’N Knowledge facts)
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Wednesday, Oct. 19
- 10:30 a.m.: “Fright Night” (2011)
- 1 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
- 4 p.m.: “Maleficent”
- 6 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 8 p.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Thursday, Oct. 20
- 11 a.m.: “The Witches” (1990)
- 1 p.m.: “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb”
- 3 p.m.: “Halloweentown”
- 5 p.m.: “Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge”
- 7 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 9 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 12 a.m.: “The Witches” (1990)
Friday, Oct. 21
- 10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.: “Family Guy” episodes
- 5 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 7 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 9 p.m. – 11 p.m.: “Family Guy” episodes
- 12 a.m.: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1992)
Saturday, Oct. 22
- 7 a.m.: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1992)
- 9 a.m.: “Maleficent”
- 11 a.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
- 1:30 p.m.: “Ghostbusters II”
- 4 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
- 7:15 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 9:20 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 11:30 p.m.: “The House with a Clock in Its Walls”
Sunday, Oct. 23
- 7 a.m.: “The House with a Clock in Its Walls”
- 9:30 a.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
- 12 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
- 3:10 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 5:15 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 7:25 p.m.: “Monsters, Inc”
- 9:30 p.m.: “Monsters University”
- 12 a.m.: “Shrek Forever After”
Monday, Oct. 24
- 12 p.m.: “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
- 2 p.m.: “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”
- 5 p.m.: “Shrek Forever After”
- 7 p.m.: “Haunted Mansion” (2003)
- 9 p.m.: “Maleficent”
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Tuesday, Oct. 25
- 10:30 a.m.: “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
- 12 p.m.: “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”
- 3 p.m.: “Halloweentown”
- 5 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 7 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 9 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Wednesday, Oct. 26
- 12 p.m.: “Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge”
- 2 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 4 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 2”
- 6 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”
- 8 p.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
- 12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
Thursday, Oct. 27
- 11 a.m.: “Ready or Not”
- 1 p.m.: “Maleficent”
- 3 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
- 5 p.m.: “Ghostbusters II”
- 8 p.m.: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
- 12 a.m.: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1992)
Friday, Oct. 28
- 10:30 a.m.: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
- 1:30-11 p.m.: “Family Guy” episodes
- 12-2 a.m.: “The Office” episodes
Saturday, Oct. 29
- 7 a.m.: “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
- 9:10 a.m.: “Edward Scissorhands”
- 11:40 a.m.: “Frankenweenie” (2012)
- 1:40 p.m.: “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
- 3:35 p.m.: “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween”
- 5:40 p.m.: “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”
- 7:20 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 9:25 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 11:35 p.m.: “Ghostbusters II”
Sunday, Oct. 30
- 7 a.m.: “The Witches” (1990)
- 9:05 a.m.: “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
- 10:45 a.m.: “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween”
- 12:50 p.m.: “The Haunted Mansion” (2003)
- 2:55 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
- 5 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
- 7:05 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
- 9:15 p.m.: “Maleficent”
- 11:20 p.m.: “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”
Monday, Oct. 31
10:30 a.m.: “Ghostbusters” (1984)
1 p.m.: “The Haunted Mansion” (2003)
3 p.m.: “Beetlejuice”
5 p.m.: “Maleficent”
7 p.m.: “Hotel Transylvania”
9 p.m.: “Hocus Pocus”
12 a.m.: “The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror” episodes
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Spreading joy! That's what two Philadelphia school teachers are doing with the help of the city's Mural Arts Program.
What started as a book of affirmations will soon be Afromation Avenue-- a collection of positive street signs meant to uplift the community.
Brittni Jennings and Kristin Kelly said the idea was born following the murder of George Floyd.
As they and their students worked to unpack what happened, the duo came up with a way to celebrate Black joy with a book of affirmations.
Now, their efforts will extend beyond the four corners of their classrooms.
"It's a collection of positive affirmations, street signs, curated by the community and for the community," said Kristin Kelly, co-founder of Crown.
Fifteen signs will be strategically placed around West Philadelphia at Malcolm X Park -- the lifeline of cultural events. Signs will also be found at Laura Sims Skate House (the first ice skating rink designed by an African American), and 52nd Street Corridor, also known as the Black Wall Street.
Still in the planning stages, Brittni Jennings and Kristin Kelly are charting out what these 15 street signs will look like.
"The signs lend a reminder that our history can't be erased, that we shouldn't forget ourselves and don't let others to forget us," said Brittni Jennings, co-founder of Crown. "We want people to feel joyous, empowered and that they have a purpose when they see the signs."
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Rest easy, soccer fans. Lionel Messi will grace the World Cup stage at least one more time.
The Argentina great had a penalty saved but his team still beat Poland 2-0 Wednesday after second-half goals from Alexis Mac Allister and Julian Alvarez and advanced to the last 16.
After opening the World Cup with a shocking 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in one of biggest upsets in the tournament’s history, Argentina wound up finishing in first place in Group C and will next play Australia — a surprise qualifier for the knockout stage.
Messi rolls into Saturday’s game suddenly in a strong position in likely his final World Cup.
“Now another World Cup begins.” Messi said, “and hopefully we can continue to do what we did today.”
As for Poland, it was ultimately a happy night, too, because the team went through as the group’s second-place team — on goal difference ahead of Mexico — and will next play defending champion France.
Messi ended up relieved after failing to score a penalty for the second straight World Cup. It was awarded after he was hit in the face by the flailing hand of Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who made amends by diving to his left to block Messi’s kick in the 39th minute.
“I’m upset that I missed the penalty, but the team came back stronger after my error,” he said.
A largely pro-Argentina crowd, waving flags and scarfs and beating drums behind both goals, had been sweeping Messi and his team along at the 44,000-seat Stadium 974 and they didn’t stop after the penalty. Within seconds, a chant of “MESSI! MESSI!” immediately reverberated around the venue in a bid to keep their idol’s head high.
And the roars were even louder at the start of the second half, first after Mac Allister’s goal — a scruffy finish from Nahuel Molina’s cut-back from the right — in the first minute and soon after as news filtered through that Mexico had taken the lead against Saudi Arabia, which started the day in third place.
Playing an Argentine-record 22nd World Cup game, Messi never stopped surging forward and he was a menace all game to Poland with his dribbling ability and vision. One 40-meter solo run saw him weave past three opponents, drift past another only to miskick as he took aim.
The match was billed as a head-to-head between Messi and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski, perhaps the best center forward in the world, but it proved to be a mismatch.
“If Messi played with us and Robert played for Argentina, Robert would have scored five goals,” Poland coach Czeslaw Michniewicz said. “Robert needs to be helped and the match was only played in our half.”
Messi wasn’t involved in either goal, though. For the second, Enzo Fernandez scooped a pass to Alvarez — starting ahead of regular striker Lautaro Martinez — and he took one touch before curling his shot into the top corner in the 67th minute.
Things couldn’t have gone better for Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni, who made more bold changes in bringing in Alvarez, Fernandez and Molina and seeing them play a part in the goals. Mac Allister, meanwhile, didn’t start against Saudi Arabia and has added energy in midfield in the two games since.
Suddenly, Argentina looks more like the team which entered the World Cup on a 36-match unbeaten run and as one of the tournament favorites, a year after winning the Copa America.
“We wanted to make amends for that Saudi Arabia game because we knew we could play better,” Mac Allister said. “We’ve managed to find that calm we needed … we played well collectively and it fills us with confidence.”
The final whistle blew with Poland players still unsure if they were advancing, given the Mexico-Saudi Arabia game was ongoing. At one stage, Poland and Mexico were only separated by the number of yellow cards they had collected in the group stage — Poland had five compared to Mexico’s seven — and Michniewicz was desperately urging his team to not give away fouls in the final minutes.
A stoppage-time goal by the Saudis meant their match finished 2-1 in favor of Mexico, whose goal difference was inferior by one to Poland.
Upon confirmation they had advanced, Poland’s players squirted water from their bottles in the middle of the field and jumped up and down.
“Sometimes,” Michniewicz said, “losses can be bittersweet.”
CRAZY SCHEDULE
Scaloni criticized a schedule that will see Argentina have to play within three days of beating Poland. “We don’t want to be euphoric because I think it’s crazy, these conditions,” he said.
PENALTY SAVES
Szczesny has now saved penalties in back-to-back games, having kept out Saudi Arabia forward Salem Aldawsari’s spot kick in the 2-0 win on Friday.
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UK banking boss apologizes to populist politician Farage over the closure of his account
LONDON (AP) — The chief executive of U.K. bank NatWest Group has apologized to populist politician Nigel Farage after he complained that his bank account was shut down because the banking group didn’t agree with his political views. Farage, a talk show presenter and former leader of the pro-Brexit U.K. Independence Party, said his account with the prestigious private bank Coutts, owned by NatWest Group, was closed down unfairly. Alison Rose, chief executive of NatWest Group, wrote to Farage to apologize for “deeply inappropriate comments” made about him in bank documents. Her statement came after Britain’s Treasury announced Thursday that U.K. banks will be subject to stricter rules over closing customers’ accounts under changes designed to protect freedom of expression. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/07/20/uk-banking-boss-apologizes-to-populist-politician-farage-over-the-closure-of-his-account/ | 2023-07-20 20:33:50 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/07/20/uk-banking-boss-apologizes-to-populist-politician-farage-over-the-closure-of-his-account/ |
(The Hill) — Former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani conceded that he “does not contest” that statements he made about two election workers in 2020 were “false,” according to a Tuesday court filing.
Two Fulton County poll workers — Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss — sued Giuliani for defamation in December 2021 over statements he made falsely claiming they played a role in fixing the election. In a two-page statement filed Tuesday, he said that he will “not contest” that those statements were “false” and “carry meaning that is defamatory.”
In his statement, Giuliani also said he will not challenge the “factual elements of liability” regarding the election workers’ allegations of “intentional infliction of emotional distress and other related tort claims.”
However, his statement maintains that those concessions do not affect his argument that the statements and opinions he made were “constitutionally protected.” The statement also notes that he is conceding on these allegations “for the purposes of deciding this case on legal issues.”
This statement comes just days after former New York Police Department (NYPD) commissioner Bernard Kerik — who helped former President Donald Trump’s campaign look into false claims of election fraud in 2020 — committed to turning over documents to Freeman and Moss’s legal team.
The Hill has reached out to Giuliani for further comment.
Freeman and Moss, a mother-daughter pair, began to receive backlash during the 2020 election after social media posts surfaced that falsely claimed to show them committing election fraud. These false allegations were perpetrated by Giuliani and Trump, according to a report investigating the matter.
A series of probes led by three law enforcement agencies — Georgia’s Secretary of State’s office and special agents within the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation — found those allegations against the poll workers “were false and unsubstantiated.”
The election workers also filed a defamation lawsuit against One America News Network — which advanced the false claims during their broadcasts. The network ultimately paid a settlement and issued an on-air retraction of the allegations last year. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/giuliani-concedes-he-made-false-statements-about-2-georgia-election-workers/ | 2023-07-26 16:29:51 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/giuliani-concedes-he-made-false-statements-about-2-georgia-election-workers/ |
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong earthquake rocked a central Philippine province on Thursday, sending people out of their homes at night, prompting dozens of patients to be evacuated from a hospital and causing minor damage to a government coliseum and business establishments, officials said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage from the magnitude 6 quake that was set off by a local fault line at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), about 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) west of the coastal town of Batuan in Masbate province, officials said.
The quake struck about two hours after midnight, rousing many people from their sleep, Masbate provincial disaster-mitigation officer Adonis Dilao said.
“The first jolt was really strong followed by shaking that woke me up and my baby,” Red Cross officer MJ Oxemer told The Associated Press by telephone from the provincial capital of Masbate city. “We could hear the rumbling of the ground.”
Dozens of patients from a Masbate provincial hospital were evacuated but later brought back after the quake caused some cracks in the three-story building. A part of the ceiling on a small government coliseum in Masbate city was also damaged, Dilao said.
Cracks were also spotted in the concrete pillars of some business establishments, including grocery and drug stores in Masbate city’s downtown area, and in some houses, Dilao told The AP by telephone.
Although business owners have discretion when to reopen, Dilao said they should heed the advice of government safety inspectors because at least two strong aftershocks were felt following the quake. “Unlike typhoons, which can be predicted to give people time to brace, earthquakes can just suddenly hit,” he said.
The quake knocked out power in many areas of Masbate and nearby Ticao island, and some school classes were suspended, the Office of Civil Defense said, adding that damage assessments by local officials were underway.
The Philippines lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s earthquakes occur. Each year it is also hit by about 20 typhoons and tropical storms, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.
A magnitude 7.7 quake killed nearly 2,000 people in the northern Philippines in 1990. | https://www.mrt.com/news/world/article/philippines-quake-causes-hospital-evacuation-17787544.php | 2023-02-16 05:35:26 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/world/article/philippines-quake-causes-hospital-evacuation-17787544.php |
LOS ANGELES (AP)The union representing concession workers at Dodger Stadium on Friday agreed not to strike during Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game and its related events.
Unite Here Local 11 and concessionaire Compass Group and its subsidiary Levy Restaurants have made what the union said is ”substantial progress” in contract negotiations this week.
As a result, the union agreed not to strike during the All-Star events that begin Saturday and conclude with the game on Tuesday night.
”Both parties look forward to a successful All-Star Game and continued negotiations,” union spokesperson Maria Hernandez said in a statement.
The union is seeking what it calls ”a fair new contract,” although it never gave details about its demands. It said Unite Here members had earlier voted to authorize a strike during the All-Star festivities.
Levy employs nearly 1,500 food servers, bartenders, cooks and dishwashers at the stadium, which is hosting the All-Star Game for the first time since 1980.
The union represents more than 32,000 hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona.
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Kia America's Longest-Running Nameplate Sets All-Time Monthly Sales Record and Tops 10,000 Units For Third Consecutive Month
IRVINE, Calif., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia America today announced June sales of 65,142 units, an increase of 12-percent month-over-month. The all-new Sportage SUV posted all-time record monthly sales total of 14,153 units. June also marked the third consecutive month that sales of the Sportage SUV exceeded 10,000 units contributing to record high SUV ratio of overall sales of 71-percent. In addition, Kia captured its largest share of market ever beating the previous high achieved in July 2021.
"With our wide range of sedans, SUVs and electrified vehicles, Kia has the most well-balanced model line-up in the industry," said Eric Watson, vice president, sales operations, Kia America. "The ongoing popularity of the EV6 and strong initial sales performance of the all-new Sportage SUV continue to push the brand on its upward trajectory. We are confident that Kia will continue to outpace the industry well into the third quarter and through the rest of the year."
In addition to sales, June saw several significant announcements coming from the brand, including:
- The 2022 Kia EV6 named among Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX award winners
- The Forte taking top honors in the Compact Car segment; and the Carnival, K5, Rio, Sportage and Telluride models – each taking the number two spot in their respective categories – according to the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Initial Quality Study (IQS)
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electrified vehicles sold through a network of nearly 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America.
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ATLANTA — An agreement reached by email constitutes a valid contract the state must uphold, even if that means delaying the execution of a person on death row, the Georgia Supreme Court has unanimously ruled.
The email was an agreement between defense lawyers and the state Attorney General’s office that capital cases would not move forward during the COVID pandemic unless certain conditions were met.
One result was a delay in the execution of Virgil Presnell Jr., the longest-serving person on Georgia’s death row. Presnell was sentenced to death in 1976 after convictions on murder, rape and kidnapping charges.
In April of last year, a deputy attorney general and Presnell’s lawyers agreed — via email — that no executions could take place until six months after three conditions related to the COVID pandemic were met. Vaccines had to be widely available to the public, the state Department of Corrections must have resumed its normal visitation rules, and the COVID-19 statewide judicial emergency order must have been lifted.
The Attorney General’s office moved ahead and set Presnell’s execution for May of this year but provided only two days’ advance notice to his lawyers. They sued the state for breach of contract, arguing Georgia had violated its agreement, that the conditions had not all been met, and that six months had not elapsed.
Lawyers for the state argued the state cannot be sued because of the doctrine of sovereign immunity, which bars lawsuits against the state government without its consent. A Fulton County court judge sided with Presnell and his lawyers and blocked the state from moving ahead with the execution.
The state then appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court, arguing the attorneys’ email agreement was not a written contract that could override the sovereign immunity doctrine.
The state Supreme Court unanimously sided with Presnell and his lawyers on Tuesday, finding the email agreement was a valid contract that the state violated by scheduling the execution.
“[T]he state has not cited a single case, nor are we aware of one, in which our appellate courts have adopted a per se rule that emails cannot create a written contract sufficient to waive sovereign immunity,” Justice Carla Wong McMillian wrote. “To the contrary, the great weight of authority has indicated that, as a general matter, emails may constitute written contracts.”
“Though it may prove inconvenient, uncomfortable, or undesirable to the state … everyone should be able to count on the state to honor its word,” Justice Charles Bethel added in a concurring opinion. “The state should keep its promises because the people of Georgia, who are the very source of the state’s sovereignty, are owed a government that honors its commitments.” | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/georgia-state-supreme-court-upholds-agreement-to-delay-execution/article_a1afce58-816c-11ed-8e7c-1bc00c1535f0.html | 2022-12-23 04:40:45 | 0 | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/georgia-state-supreme-court-upholds-agreement-to-delay-execution/article_a1afce58-816c-11ed-8e7c-1bc00c1535f0.html |
1 killed after strong winds cause stage collapse at music festival in Spain
CULLERA, Spain (CNN) - One person died Saturday and dozens more were injured, three of them seriously, after a stage collapsed at a music festival near Valencia, Spain, according to local officials.
Disaster struck at the Medusa Festival in the town of Cullera near Valencia at 4:18 a.m. local time “due to a strong gust of wind,” they said.
The man killed in the stage collapse incident was 22 years old, the Spanish Civil Guard told CNN.
Early Saturday morning festival management announced that the festival had been suspended.
“Due to inclement weather occurring in the early hours of Aug. 13, 2022, and with the aim of guaranteeing the security of the concert-goers, workers and artists gathered at the Medusa Festival, the festival organization suspends its activity for the time being,” festival management said on Instagram.
“The festival site is cleared as a preventative measure with the aim of facilitating the work of the emergency and security services at the Medusa Festiva,” it added.
Videos posted on social media early Saturday showed strong winds and structures falling from the stage as large crowds of festival attendees were evacuated.
The Civil Guard said there were about 50,000 people at the festival site when the incident happened. The press office added that evacuation of the festival took about 40 minutes and the exit doors to the site were functioning properly.
The Spanish Civil Guard, Spain’s paramilitary police unit that is in charge of the investigation, also said there was more damage than just the partial collapse of the stage.
“Due to a strong gust of wind, the main entrance and the main stage of the Medusa Festival in Cullera fell to the ground,” the Civil Guard press office in Valencia told CNN.
The Valencia section of Spain’s national weather service (AEMET) said on Twitter that warm breezes were producing very strong gusts of wind and abrupt increases in temperature.
Around 3 a.m. local time, the temperature was a blistering 40.5 Celsius (104.9 degrees Fahrenheit) at the Alicante-Elche airport, just south of the concert site, on the Mediterranean coast -- with winds measuring 82 kilometers (around 50 miles) per hour.
Temperatures have been soaring across Europe with droughts declared in several parts of England and wildfires in France.
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