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This news release constitutes a "designated news release" for the purposes of the Company's prospectus supplement dated October 15, 2021, to its short form base shelf prospectus dated September 10, 2021.
VANCOUVER, BC, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Great Panther Mining Limited (TSX: GPR) (NYSE-A: GPL) ("Great Panther" or the "Company"), a growth-oriented precious metals producer focused on the Americas, announces that the Company will undertake a share consolidation (the "Consolidation") of its common shares (the "Shares") on the basis of one post-Consolidation for every 10 pre-Consolidation Shares.
The Company currently has 471,164,174 Shares issued and outstanding. Upon completion of the Consolidation, the Company will have approximately 47,116,417 Shares issued and outstanding. Some slight variance is expected due to fractional rounding. As is customary, to reflect the Consolidation, all outstanding incentive stock options granted pursuant to the Company's Amended and Restated Omnibus Incentive Plan (the "Omnibus Incentive Plan") will be adjusted to increase their exercise price by a factor of 10 and to reduce the number of Shares issued upon exercise by dividing by 10. Appropriate adjustments to reflect the Consolidation will also be made to outstanding deferred share units, restricted share units and performance share units granted pursuant to the Omnibus Incentive Plan.
The Company expects the Consolidation will allow it to comply with the minimum price listing standard of the NYSE American and therefore maintain its listing of Shares on that exchange. Subject to the Company receiving all required approvals, including the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") and NYSE American, the Consolidation is expected to take effect at close of business on July 21, 2022. Notice of the Consolidation has been provided to the TSX and NYSE American, and the Common Shares are expected to begin trading on a post-Consolidation basis on the TSX and NYSE American on or about July 25, 2022, under a new CUSIP number.
No fractional Shares will be issued pursuant to the Consolidation. In lieu of any such fractional Shares, each registered shareholder of the Company otherwise entitled to a fractional Common Share following the implementation of the Consolidation will receive the nearest whole number of post-Consolidation Shares.
Holders of shares of the Company who hold uncertificated shares (that is shares held in book-entry form and not represented by a physical share certificate), either as registered holders or beneficial owners, will have their existing book-entry account(s) electronically adjusted by the Company's transfer agent or, in the case of beneficial shareholders, by their brokerage firms, banks, trusts or other nominees that hold in street name for their benefit. Such holders generally do not need to take any additional actions to exchange their pre-Consolidation Shares for post-Consolidation Shares. If you hold your Shares with such a bank, broker or other nominee, and if you have questions in this regard, you are encouraged to contact your nominee.
Registered shareholders holding share certificates will be mailed a letter of transmittal advising of the Consolidation and instructing them to surrender the share certificates representing pre-Consolidation Shares for replacement certificates or a direct registration advice representing their post-Consolidation Shares. Until surrendered for exchange, each share certificate formerly representing pre-Consolidation Shares will be deemed to represent the number of whole post-Consolidation Shares to which the holder is entitled as a result of the Consolidation.
Great Panther is a growth-oriented precious metals producer focused on the Americas. The Company owns a portfolio of assets in Brazil, Mexico and Peru that includes three gold and silver mines, an advanced development project and a large land package with district-scale potential. Great Panther is focused on creating long-term stakeholder value through safe and sustainable production, reinvesting into exploration and pursuing acquisition opportunities to complement its existing portfolio. Great Panther trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol GPR and on the NYSE American under the symbol GPL.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and forward-looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities laws (together, "forward-looking statements"). Such forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company's expectations that it will meet the NYSE American continued listing standards following completion of the Consolidation, and the Company's growth orientation and focus on creating long-term stakeholder value through safe and sustainable production, reinvesting into exploration and pursuing acquisition opportunities to complement its existing portfolio.
These forward-looking statements and information reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant operational, business, economic and regulatory risks and uncertainties, including risks relating to the Company's ability to regain compliance with NYSE American listing standards, and those described in respect of Great Panther in its most recent annual information form and management's discussion and analysis filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators and available at www.sedar.com and its most recent annual report on Form 40-F and management's discussion and analysis on Form 6-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov.
There is no assurance that these forward-looking statements will prove accurate or that actual results will not vary materially from these forward-looking statements. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, described, or intended. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward looking statements. Forward-looking statements and information are designed to help readers understand management's current views of our near- and longer-term prospects and may not be appropriate for other purposes. The Company does not intend, nor does it assume any obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, changes in assumptions, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by applicable law.
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ERLANGER, Ky., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hy-Tek Material Handling and Advanced Handling Systems (AHS), a Hy-Tek Material handling company, leading full-service integrators of automated fulfillment and distribution solutions, announced yesterday the Grand Opening of their newly updated 20,000 square-foot Innovation Lab. Among the audience were Mayor Jessica Fette, customers, prospects, and other local government officials. Located in Erlanger, KY, the event was held in tandem with the Package Fulfillment, Logistics and Delivery Expo being hosted yesterday and today in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear congratulated Hy-Tek | AHS and thanked the company leaders for their commitment to the commonwealth.
"As we work toward building an economy that works for all Kentuckians, high-tech job opportunities will play an increased role in those efforts," Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said. "This investment by AHS and Hy-Tek is creating quality jobs in Northern Kentucky and supporting distribution and logistics growth, which is one of our state's thriving key industries. Thank you to the company leaders for their commitment to the commonwealth. I look forward to seeing what's next for AHS and Hy-Tek in Kentucky."
"With Hy-Tek's unveiling of the Innovation Lab comes a new evolution in how we serve our customers," said Dave Tavel, Sr. Vice President of Sales at AHS. "The future of our industry will rely on the emerging technologies that we integrate, test, and evaluate within our lab. We are continuously reviewing new and better ways to solve our customers' challenges. It is an exciting time for our industry as the demands for quality and speed increase; the need to utilize robotics will be commonplace. Our focus will be on supplementing the existing labor force, reducing the physical demands of the jobs, and driving quality for the industry. The next 50 years begin today!"
Hosting over 25 customers and prospects throughout the last six months, the lab features warehouse robotics systems that solve many pain-points companies are facing today. These technologies include autonomous mobile robots, collaborative robotic arms, robotic sortation solutions, full-scale Goods-to-Person systems, and more to come in the future as the companies' partnerships and innovations continue to expand.
"Our strategic journey to focus on innovative technology started over four years ago," said Zac Boehm, Vice President of Innovation and Technology at AHS. "Throughout those years, we have researched many different robotics manufacturers and aligned ourselves with technologies that make a difference to our current and future customers. By building a focus around Exotec, Caja, and Tompkins Robotics, we can work through proving and pairing solutions together in our innovation lab to show the value to the industry."
Earlier this year, AHS was acquired by Hy-Tek Holdings, a material handling automation integrator that maintains a separate facility in Hebron. Having acquired Johnson Stephens Consulting, World Source, Fascor, BP Controls, and most recently, AHS, Hy-Tek now offers a comprehensive suite of solutions for its customers.
"Hy-Tek /AHS is the only Systems Integrator in North America to integrate robotics offerings from Exotec and Caja robotics systems," said Donnie Johnson, President of Integrated Systems at Hy-Tek. "Robotics are growing rapidly in the e-commerce and distribution areas in our business sector. Hy-Tek can offer end-to-end solutions for our valued customer base. Our clients prefer working with Hy-Tek/AHS due to our broad product offering and comprehensive design-build capabilities."
Having a universal location with all technologies, Hy-Tek | AHS provides an opportunity for customers to personally experience and test solutions that will optimize their supply chain process.
About Hy-Tek Material Handling, LLC – www.hy-tek.com
Headquartered in Columbus, OH, Hy-Tek is a material handling automation integrator serving clients in diverse end- markets and applications, including e-commerce, third-party logistics, and parcel. Hy-Tek was established as a combination of Hy-Tek Material Handling, WorldSource, BP Controls, Fascor, LCS, and AHS. Together, they operate as Hy-Tek Material Handling, LLC. Hy-Tek is the premier single-source provider of material handling solutions for a wide range of industries including manufacturing, distribution, retail, construction, food, electronics, and automotive. Since 1963, Hy-Tek and its best-in-class industry partners—including manufacturers of industrial equipment; conveyor systems; automated storage and retrieval systems; rack and shelving—have been providing customers large and small with turnkey solutions. From customized one-of-a-kind handling and storage systems to pre-assembled buildings and off-the-shelf products—Hy-Tek's experienced team of engineering, sales, operations, and project management professionals partner with customers to help enhance productivity, streamline processes, and boost profitability. With over 500 employees, Hy-Tek serves customers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico from offices in Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. For more information, visit www.hy-tek.com
About AHS – www.ahs1.com
AHS, a Hy-Tek Material Handling company, is a leading full-service integrator of automated fulfillment and distribution solutions, with a portfolio that encompasses 3PL, eCommerce, retail, wholesale, food and beverage, and healthcare. Headquartered in Erlanger, Kentucky, AHS is committed to unlocking the full potential of the supply chain to help its clients better serve their customers. The company uses its strategic partnerships of equipment and robotics manufacturers to create best-in-class solutions that solve a wide variety of pain points-- proven by the success of its clients. AHS has created a reputable brand over the past 45 years by creating strong relationships with its partners and clients, inspiring innovation, and consistently exceeding customer expectations. For more information, visit www.ahs1.com.
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Although the United States has a history of successful and necessary immigration for many years and has exhibited a moral commitment to offer opportunity to the less fortunate, the current uncontrolled mass movement of illegals at the southern border poses several questions. One, how many immigrants should be allowed into the country each year, 1; 5, 10 million, or should it be unlimited to anyone who wishes to enter the country? Two, at some level of entry, will the number of immigrants unalterably change the fabric of our country to the detriment? Three, should the government control the border in such a manner that every person entering the country is documented. Four, should there be criminal, education, skill, or ethnic standards for those who enter or is it first come, first serve? Five, what is the cost of this immigration in social services, education, health access. Six, will Congress ever develop a cohesive immigration policy that will be enforced?
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Over the past three months, a highly contagious strain of bird flu has spread rapidly across the United States, infecting and killing millions of chickens, turkeys and wild birds.
Experts say the outbreak, which is spread by waterfowl and other migrating birds and doesn’t pose a threat to human health, could be the deadliest the United States has ever faced.
Agriculture officials in many states have halted poultry exhibitions, public sales of birds and other related activities to reduce the virus’s spread. They are encouraging farmers and poultry owners to use biosecurity measures such as restricting visitors on properties and disinfecting equipment and clothing, and urging residents to stop filling bird feeders and bird baths. And some lawmakers are boosting funding to fight the avian influenza.
Despite the precautions, some poultry experts worry more birds will die. Consumers will see higher egg and poultry prices, and farmers and their rural communities will face financial hardship, loss of locally grown food and no community gatherings on the farms.
“It’s not just the farmers themselves, but it’s their neighbors. It’s the feed truck driver. It’s the bus driver that picks up the kids [for tours],” said Dr. Beth Thompson, state veterinarian and executive director of the Minnesota Animal Board of Health. “This hasn’t been shown to be a human health issue. So, folks can, rest assured, buy turkey, buy chicken, buy eggs, and continue to support those farmers.”
More than 35 million domestic poultry have been affected in 29 states, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. And the bird flu strain has been detected nearly 900 times in wild birds across 34 states, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported no human cases of the virus, which remains a low threat to public health in the United States.
At least 24 million birds have been killed so far, according to The Associated Press. By comparison, the last outbreak in 2015 led to more than 50 million chickens and turkeys being killed and to trade restrictions on U.S. poultry exports, a report by the Economic Research Service said. Exports of broiler chickens fell $1.1 billion from 2014 to 2015, a 26 percent drop, the report said.
Poultry experts say farmers should limit their birds’ exposure to ponds, conduct testing and quarantine birds when necessary. Experts also recommend that producers practice good hygiene and wear disposable clothing, and that residents clean bird feeders to minimize spread.
“If you have birds in your house, pet birds or any other species, if you have backyard poultry, you want to protect them from exposure,” said Dr. Julia Ponder, a wildlife veterinarian and associate dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota. “The birds and the bird feeders are really about our enjoyment of this as things warm up and not an important resource necessarily for the wild birds.”
Ponder suggested farmers and residents who own birds should pause bird feeding and bird baths because it can increase the transmission of the virus.
Some state officials and lawmakers are taking steps to help reduce the spread.
In several states, including Georgia, Massachusetts, Montana and Nebraska, the departments of agriculture suspended all poultry exhibitions, competitions, shows, sales, swaps and other in-person events.
In April, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation providing $1 million to the state Department of Agriculture for disease surveillance, equipment and testing supplies to help fight the bird flu. In Rhode Island, the House approved a bill that would give the state Department of Environmental Management authority to set up quarantine areas or control zones and order testing of potentially affected animals. The bill has been referred to a Senate committee.
Pennsylvania state Rep. Mindy Fee, a Republican who represents part of Lancaster County, introduced a bill that would provide $2 million for detection, response and prevention of the disease.
The state’s first reported case of avian influenza was confirmed April 16 on a Lancaster County farm. Since then, the illness has been detected on five more farms in the county. More than 3.8 million chickens have been killed, either from infections or euthanizations to try to stop the virus, LancasterOnline reported.
Some farmers implemented additional safety measures before the avian flu strain made its way across their states.
Bird flu has not yet reached the Taste of the Wind Farm in Centennial, Wyoming, where BJ Edwards and her husband, Chris Edwards, raise and sell mostly lamb, pork, chicken and eggs, which they process on their farm or at their local USDA service center in Laramie, about 30 miles away.
But that hasn’t stopped the Edwardses from preparing for a potential outbreak. Although their facility isn’t set up to close birds off completely from the outdoors because their farm allows animals to roam freely, BJ Edwards said all their domestic birds are in quarantine and they’ve decorated all their chicken coops with “sparkly stuff” to try to keep wild birds away.
“We have scarecrows out and we’re experimenting with moving around our decoys. We have all of our birds in places on the property where wild birds don’t frequent,” she said. “We’re so isolated out here. We’re so rural, we don’t think it’s too much of a risk that other domestic birds are going to pass it to our birds. It’s more of the wild cards that we’re concerned about.”
Before the first case was confirmed in neighboring South Carolina in January, Anthony “AJ” McKenzie, owner of Dan’s Farm Fresh Produce in Whiteville, North Carolina, began to move his chickens from outside to inside and secured the fencing area where the wild turkeys are. McKenzie also limited the visitors to the farm and implemented additional hand washing and boot changing, he said.
“I’m not scared yet. I’m not really in lockdown, but I could see it working its way here,” he said.
McKenzie said this current wave of the bird flu affirmed his decisions to create multiple cash crops to survive.
“Farming is very hard. And you might have a good year with chickens one year, but the next year it might not [be], especially with a food spike right now,” McKenzie said. “You can do jams and butters to try to have multiple streams … so if something does happen to your flock, you still have that one cash crop that won’t fade.”
The bird flu, along with inflation, has raised the price of eggs and chicken.
In March, egg prices increased by 1.9%. This year, poultry prices may increase up to 8.5% while egg prices may increase up to 7%, according to an April report by the USDA Economic Research Service.
As migratory fowl fly out of the country and the summer months approach, the virus should eventually dissipate, said Dr. Don Reynolds, poultry veterinarian and professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A vaccine could be a possible route to prevent future outbreaks, he added. The USDA is currently funding research to investigate a vaccine for the bird flu.
“We have to do some preventive medicine measures such as vaccination,” Reynolds added.
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Average long-term US mortgage rates inch down this week
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate declined for the fifth straight week, even as the Federal Reserve just raised its key borrowing rate for the seventh time this year and signaled there were more to come in 2023. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the benchmark 30-year rate inched down to 6.31% from 6.33% last week. The Federal Reserve raised its rate again Wednesday by 0.50 percentage points in a bid to bring down the highest inflation in decades. Higher interest rates have stalled the housing market, with sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declining for nine straight months. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/12/15/average-long-term-us-mortgage-rates-inch-down-this-week-2/ | 2022-12-15 18:19:00 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/12/15/average-long-term-us-mortgage-rates-inch-down-this-week-2/ |
ATLANTA — Donald Trump has long been the dominant force in Republican politics, but as he has faced a spate of setbacks in recent weeks — punctuated Tuesday night by the defeat of his favored gubernatorial candidate here in Georgia — the former president has been privately fretting about who might challenge him.
Trump has been quizzing advisers and visitors at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida about his budding rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, including his former vice president, Mike Pence, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Among his questions, according to several advisers, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations: Who will actually run against him? What do the polls show? Who are his potential foes meeting with?
He also had revived conversations about announcing a presidential exploratory committee to try to dissuade challengers, they say, even as some party officials and advisers continue to urge him to wait until after the midterm elections to announce that he’s running.
Trump’s deliberations follow prominent defeats this month for chosen candidates in Idaho, Nebraska, North Carolina and now Georgia, where former senator David Perdue was defeated Tuesday by Trump’s arch-nemesis, Gov. Brian Kemp, who refused his entreaties to overturn the election he lost in the state in 2020. The defeats were driven by rival Republican power centers amid a growing sense that Trump may not hold the dominant sway he once had over the party.
Throughout Georgia, Republican voters said they simply dismissed Trump’s sharp criticisms of Kemp and overwhelmingly elected the incumbent governor, delivering a remarkable repudiation of the former president by giving Kemp a victory of about 50 percentage points.
“I voted for him twice. Would I do it again? No!” said Vijah Bahl, a 65-year-old developer who attended Kemp’s election night party Tuesday at the College Football Hall of Fame. “Trump’s divisiveness hurt Perdue here and his endorsement backfired. It wasn’t really his content but his delivery. And Trump can be a very vindictive person.”
Over the din of a lone country crooner on the stage, Jim Braden, a 62-year-old developer, stood near the front of the makeshift indoor football field and said it was an easy choice to pick Kemp for governor.
“We’re not like the rest of the country that’s going to follow the lie,” he said of Trump’s false claims to winning the 2020 election.
In his victory speech, Kemp did not mention Trump and barely mentioned Perdue. “Even in the middle of a tough primary, conservatives across our state didn’t listen to the noise. They didn’t get distracted,” he said. “Georgia Republicans went to the ballot box and overwhelmingly endorsed four more years of our vision for this great state.”
That Trump spent more than $2.5 million on behalf of Perdue, held a rally in Georgia and relentlessly attacked Kemp but was still defeated was the latest sign that his influence over the Republican Party, while considerable, has receded somewhat in recent months. In another defeat for Trump, Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state who resisted Trump’s calls to “find” votes in 2020, was far ahead of his opponent, Trump-backed Rep. Jody Hice.
The Republican Governors Association steered $5 million to defeat Perdue after backing victors against Trump picks in Nebraska and Idaho. The emerging field of 2024 rivals have grown increasingly bold in their willingness to campaign against his interests. And in the U.S. Senate, all but 11 Senate Republicans joined with Democrats on a recent military aid bill for Ukraine, despite Trump’s criticism of the measure as a misplaced priority given the domestic baby formula shortage.
“Donald Trump is truly the leader of the party right now, but there are many people, particularly those in elected office, who also stake a claim to the ‘America First’ agenda,” Trump’s former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday during a Washington Post Live event when asked about the growing dissent within the party.
The former president has also found himself fighting in races in Ohio, Alabama and Pennsylvania against the Club for Growth, a deep-pocketed conservative group that once advised him. His candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, Mehmet Oz, is locked in a tight race headed for a recount after the May 17 primary there and has ignored Trump’s repeated calls to declare victory before all ballots are counted. And Trump’s pick for governor in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, found his primary victory marred last week by a statement from the RGA suggesting that the group did not see him as a competitive candidate.
The shifts add up to the biggest challenge to Trump’s self-image — “The king of endorsements,” he recently boasted — since his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol thrust his party into temporary chaos. Few in the party still publicly oppose or criticize him while seeking elected office, but a growing group has been working overtime to show that he can be ignored and is not infallible.
Trump has publicly batted away such concerns as he has vowed to allies that he plans to run for president again.
“I looked at the polls, and I’m ahead by 60 or 70 points,” the former president said during a recent interview with The Post at Mar-a-Lago, when asked about his Republican opponents for the 2024 nomination, without citing a specific poll. He repeatedly bragged that he “made” several of them, or argued they owed him loyalty.
When asked about other Republicans, like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who have repeatedly campaigned against his endorsees, Trump said he was watching closely.
“This is their prerogative,” he said. “People can do that, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it.”
But privately, his team increasingly expects Republican challengers — potentially including DeSantis, Pence, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, along with others — to come after him in 2024. Among his advisers biggest concerns though is that DeSantis, who has dominated chatter among Republican operatives and donors, takes Trump on.
“My guess is a lot of people run against him,” said Tony Fabrizio, his longtime pollster, if Trump announces he’s running.
That view is now widely held in Republican circles.
“I think there is a very real and growing sense — albeit in hushed tones, private conversations, and rarely publicly but more publicly now than ever before — of people saying maybe not that he’s a paper tiger, but that his power is greatly diminished,” one person close to him said. “Privately, no one around Trump — and when I say no one, I mean no one, other than the handful of people who wouldn’t have any professional existence without him — wants him to run again.”
Another Republican operative who recently met with Trump said it is now clear that Trump will have to compete to win the 2024 GOP nomination, for which the former president remains heavily favored.
“It isn’t going to be a clear field for him. There’s a lot of people who want to go against him,” the operative said. “If he runs, Pompeo, Pence and Chris Christie all will consider running against him. Who knows what DeSantis will do? These guys are out there working, they are hitting every donor they can find, they want to run.”
Pence’s decision to campaign for Kemp, whom Trump has called “a disaster” for not overturning the 2020 election results, is particularly notable — an early sign of clear separation between the longtime allies. Pompeo, another potential 2024 contender, has also become increasingly vocal, criticizing Oz after Trump endorsed him and calling for the “counting of valid absentee ballots” in Pennsylvania after Trump suggested Oz declare victory over rival David McCormick before the primary ballots were counted.
In Georgia, results were in before 9 p.m. for Kemp and Perdue had already conceded. There was little suspense in either crowd.
Advisers have repeatedly had to talk Trump out of announcing for president ahead of the midterms, which Republican strategists worry would offer a jolt to Democratic prospects by shifting the focus away from frustrations with President Biden, whose approval rating hovers around 40 percent. Trump has privately raged against some of his former allies, such as Pence, and has been discussing how to attack potential 2024 foes.
On the ground in key states, Trump’s intervention has caused friction with some of his local supporters.
“You’ve got Republicans willing to go down there and campaign for Kemp, you’ve got 30 or 40 or 50 state party chairmen in these places criticizing Trump, you’ve got guys like [former state GOP chair] Rob Gleason, who delivered Pennsylvania for us in 2016, coming out against him,” said one longtime Trump adviser, who noted the anger that followed Trump’s endorsements of Oz for Senate and Mastriano for governor.
In Alabama, Rep. Mo Brooks (R) lost only two of his 67 county campaign chairs after Trump pulled his endorsement in March, according an adviser. Both later signed back up, as Brooks continued to campaign by arguing that Trump had been misled by the advisers around him. Brooks share of the vote in public polls more than doubled in the weeks after Trump withdrew his endorsement, as the other candidates in the race turned their fire on each other.
In the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who Trump has singled out as a foe in recent months, publicly celebrated in an interview with Politico the recent overwhelming vote to send more support to Ukraine as a repudiation of “some loose talk during the Trump years” about wavering Republican commitment to allies in Europe. Trump had released a statement a week earlier, describing the $40 billion effort as a move by “Democrats” that was improper given the baby formula shortage. “America First!” Trump wrote.
Trump nonetheless remains a strong favorite if he chooses to run again, with a massive small-dollar fundraising operation and continued support within the party. A Washington Post-ABC News poll released earlier this month found that six in ten Republican and Republican-leaning voters thought party leaders should follow Trump’s leadership, compared with 34 percent who wanted to take the party in a different direction.
“I think he’s going to run. I’ll be shocked if he doesn’t run. All the polling shows he would be the front-runner by a country mile,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said. “The day that Trump makes it clear he’s going to run — it would be a mountain to climb to beat him.”
Ed McMullen, a longtime Trump ally and former ambassador, recently attended a small fundraising dinner for DeSantis in South Carolina, his home state, raising eyebrows in the Palmetto State. But McMullen said he was for Trump all the way — should Trump run. “I’m supporting Trump in 2024, and I have no doubt he’s running,” McMullen said.
“When you look at states like Pennsylvania, everyone enveloped themselves and wrapped themselves in Trump policy,” he continued. “All the candidates are embracing the president.”
Fabrizio said he’d polled in five different states about whether voters would support Trump in a primary campaign, and over 50 percent in each of the states said they would vote for him “regardless” if he entered the race.
But he said it would be easier said than done to defeat Trump.
“Just because people speak out and take him on doesn’t mean they can beat him. They have to beat him somewhere. not some candidate he endorsed. They have to beat him. I haven’t seen any data that showed any of these people are beating him anywhere. In fact, the person that comes closest is DeSantis, and all the rest of these people chattering on the sidelines can’t even break into double digits,” Fabrizio said.
Some of his opponents have been heartened by his electoral struggles. Christie, Pence and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) — all potential 2024 candidates — appeared on behalf of Kemp. All three have told others they might run against Trump.
In the meantime, Trump has focused on directing the public’s attention to his own count of primary endorsement wins, which he tallied at 82 to 3, before Tuesday night, a statistic that includes dozens of uncontested races with little competition. It also leaves out races like the Alabama Senate contest where he withdrew his endorsement of Brooks.
Taking account of only the prominent and heavily contested contests in May, his record is 6 to 4 after Tuesday, with one race still outstanding. Trump’s endorsements have lost in the Nebraska, Idaho and Georgia gubernatorial primaries, and one House primary in North Carolina, where Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) failed to win the nomination. His endorsements for two other House seats, in North Carolina and West Virginia, won, as did his picks in Senate contests in Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia, as well as his pick of Mastriano for governor of Pennsylvania. His pick for Pennsylvania Senate, Oz, leads slightly in that race with more ballots to tally and a recount pending.
Down-ballot in Georgia Tuesday, Trump did poorly, with his pick for attorney general losing, along with his picks for insurance commissioner and secretary of state.
“There’s a lot of folks around him who think that he shouldn’t be endorsing in every single opportunity; just take a few endorsements that he feels great about and stick with those,” said another person close to Trump. “I think this is his way of gambling and he enjoys that part of politics.”
In Georgia, Trump repeatedly goaded Perdue into the race, even though he soured on his candidacy near the end of the campaign because be believed Perdue had run a lazy effort. Allies of Perdue say he only ran because Trump repeatedly told him he could win — and found it difficult to gain any traction or raise money.
Erick Erickson, a prominent conservative radio host and friend of Kemp’s who emceed the governor’s Monday and Tuesday night’s events, said Kemp didn’t want to fight with Trump — and had tried to stay out of it, knowing Trump remained popular with many Republican voters. “It shows his impact is waning,” he said, adding it didn’t have to be that way.
“Trump made it a rejection of Trump. Kemp didn’t,” Erickson said. “Trump did that. Trump chose to do that.”
Scherer and Parker reported from Washington. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/25/trump-midterms-setbacks-2024/ | 2022-05-25 10:20:08 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/25/trump-midterms-setbacks-2024/ |
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PARIS (AP) — Over the course of an extraordinary nine-month trial, the lone survivor of the Islamic State extremist team that attacked Paris in 2015 has proclaimed his radicalism, wept, apologized to victims and pleaded with judges to forgive his “mistakes.”
For victims’ families and survivors of the attacks, the trial for Salah Abdeslam and suspected accomplices has been excruciating yet crucial in their quest for justice and closure. At long last, the court will hand down its verdict Wednesday.
Abdeslam faces up to life in prison without parole on murder and other counts, the toughest sentence possible under France’s justice system.
The historic trial in Paris of 20 men suspected of critical roles in the Islamic State massacres that killed 130 people on Nov. 13, 2015, addressed the violence in the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium — France’s deadliest peacetime attack.
For months, the packed main chamber and 12 overflow rooms in the 13th century Justice Palace heard the harrowing accounts by the victims, along with testimony from Abdeslam. The other defendants are largely accused of helping with logistics or transportation. At least one is accused of a direct role in the deadly March 2016 attacks in Brussels, which also was claimed by the Islamic State group.
For survivors and those mourning loved ones, the trial was an opportunity to recount deeply personal accounts of the horrors inflicted that night and to listen to details of countless acts of bravery, humanity and compassion among strangers. Some hoped for justice, but most just wanted tell the accused directly that they have been left irreparably scarred, but not broken.
“The assassins, these terrorists, thought they were firing into the crowd, into a mass of people,” said Dominique Kielemoes at the start of the trial in September 2021. Her son bled to death in one of the cafes. Hearing the testimony of victims was “crucial to both their own healing and that of the nation,” Kielemoes said.
“It wasn’t a mass — these were individuals who had a life, who loved, had hopes and expectations,” she said.
France was changed in the wake of the attacks: Authorities declared a state of emergency and armed officers now constantly patrol public spaces. The violence sparked soul-searching among the French and Europeans, since most of the attackers were born and raised in France or Belgium. And they transformed forever the lives of all those who suffered losses or bore witness.
Presiding judge Jean-Louis Peries said at the trial’s outset that it belongs to “international and national events of this century. ” France emerged from the state of emergency in 2017, after incorporating many of the harshest measures into law.
Fourteen of the defendants have been in court, including Abdeslam, the only survivor of the 10-member attacking team that terrorized Paris that Friday night. All but one of the six absent men are presumed to have been killed in Syria or Iraq; the other is in prison in Turkey.
Most of the suspects are accused of helping create false identities, transporting the attackers back to Europe from Syria or providing them with money, phones, explosives or weapons.
Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Belgian with Moroccan roots, was the only defendant tried on several counts of murder and kidnapping as a member of a terrorist organization.
The sentence sought for Abdeslam of life in prison without parole has only been pronounced four times in France — for crimes related to rape and murder of minors.
Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for nine other defendants. The remaining suspects were tried on lesser terrorism charges and face sentences ranging from five to 30 years.
In closing arguments, prosecutors stressed that all 20 defendants, who had fanned out around the French capital, armed with semi-automatic rifles and explosives-packed vests to mount parallel attacks, are members of the Islamic State extremist group responsible for the massacres.
“Not everyone is a jihadi, but all of those you are judging accepted to take part in a terrorist group, either by conviction, cowardliness or greed,” prosecutor Nicolas Braconnay told the court this month.
Some defendants, including Abdeslam, said innocent civilians were targeted because of France’s policies in the Middle East and hundreds of civilian deaths in Western airstrikes in Islamic State-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq.
During his testimony, former President François Hollande dismissed claims that his government was at fault.
The Islamic State, “this pseudo-state, declared war with the weapons of war,” Hollande said. The Paris attackers did not terrorize, shoot, kill, maim and traumatize civilians because of religion, he said, adding it was “fanaticism and barbarism.”
The night of the attack was a balmy Friday evening, with the city’s bars and restaurants packed. At the Bataclan concert venue, the American band Eagles of Death Metal were playing to a full house. At the national stadium, a soccer match between France and Germany had just begun, attended by then-President Hollande and then-Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The sound of the first suicide bombing at 9:16 p.m. barely carried over the noise of the stadium’s crowd. The second came four minutes later. A squad of gunmen opened fire at several bars and restaurants in another part of Paris. That bloodshed outside came to an end at 9:41 p.m.
Worse was to follow. At 9:47 p.m., three more gunmen burst into the Bataclan, firing indiscriminately. Ninety people died within minutes. Hundreds were held hostage – some gravely injured – inside the concert hall for hours before Hollande, watching people covered in blood make their way out of the Bataclan, ordered it stormed.
Abdeslam was silent for years, refusing to speak to investigators. In April, his words started flowing, in testimony that at times contradicted earlier statements, including on his loyalty to the Islamic State.
He told the court that he was a last-minute addition to the group. He said he “renounced” his mission to detonate his explosives-packed vest in a bar in northern Paris that night. He hid out at first near Paris, and then fled with friends to Brussels, where he was arrested four months later.
Prosecutors emphasized contradictions in Abdeslam’s testimony — from pledging allegiance to the Islamic State at the start of the trial and expressing regret that his explosives strapped to his body failed to detonate, to claiming he had changed his mind in the bar and deliberately disabled his vest because he did not want to kill people “singing and dancing.”
During closing arguments Monday, Abdelslam’s lawyer Olivia Ronen told a panel of judges that her client is the only one in the group of attackers who didn’t set off explosives to kill others that night. He can’t be convicted for murder, she argued.
“If a life sentence without hope for ever experiencing freedom again is pronounced, I fear we have lost a sense of proportion,” Ronan said. She emphasized through the trial that she is “not providing legitimacy to the attacks” by defending her client in court.
Abdeslam apologized to the victims at his final court appearance Monday, saying his remorse and sorrow is heartfelt and sincere. Listening to victims’ accounts of “so much suffering” changed him, he said.
“I have made mistakes, it’s true, but I am not a murderer, I am not a killer,” he said.
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Surk contributed from Nice, France. | https://who13.com/news/ap-top-headlines/verdict-looms-in-trial-over-2015-paris-extremist-attacks/ | 2022-06-29 15:58:39 | 0 | https://who13.com/news/ap-top-headlines/verdict-looms-in-trial-over-2015-paris-extremist-attacks/ |
Khris Davis did not know who he was auditioning for when he first got the lines for an untitled project about a boxer. They didn’t even tell him it was based on a true story at first. But he liked that there was a character arc – it’s more than actors often get early in auditions.
Somewhere along the way he began to piece it together. And then it clicked: Oh, this is George Foreman, he thought.
The film, “Big George Foreman,” is now playing in theaters nationwide. It charts his path from impoverished youth to heavyweight champion, his crushing loss to Ali in Zaire that led him to give up boxing, all the way through his miraculous comeback to the sport at age 45.
“A lot of people see George as the grill guy,” said director George Tillman Jr. “Some people see him as the boxer. I wanted to tell a story of things that you don’t know.”
Tillman Jr. (“The Hate U Give”) had been searching for a while for the right actor. Some had the acting chops but not the size. Some had the size but not the chops. And they had the added pressure that Foreman himself was executive producing. Then 6-foot-4-inch Davis emerged. It would take a chemistry test with Sullivan Jones, who plays Muhammad Ali, to seal the deal.
Davis cut his teeth in the theater world, in Philadelphia first before he made the jump to New York. Oddly enough, his big break came in 2016 with a play also about a boxer, as the lead in Marco Ramirez’s “The Royale” at Lincoln Center Theatre. It was loosely based on the life of heavyweight Jack Johnson. Davis’ Broadway debut came in 2017 with “Sweat.” Movies started coming, too, with roles in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” and “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
He’d never had a challenge quite like George Foreman, but he was used to giving it all in the theater and he was going to do that here, too.
“It didn’t occur to me to put on a fat suit,” Davis said. “Why would I put on a fat suit if I can gain the weight? It didn’t occur to me to put a bald cap on. Why would I do that? I’m going to cut my hair off. It never occurred to me to cut a corner.”
Still, Tillman Jr. was a little nervous when he sent Davis off for a five-week hiatus in which he was supposed to put on a significant amount of weight. He didn’t tell his star, but he had a backup plan of a fat suit waiting. He also knew it was an imperfect solution: How would it look when the shirts came off in the ring?
But he didn’t need to worry. When Davis came back, Tillman was shocked to see that he’d actually gained 50 pounds in five weeks, going from 225 pounds to a heavyweight 275.
“I didn’t know my body could do that,” Davis said. “And sometimes I look at the images and I’m still in shock because I can’t believe that I managed to do that to myself. I was eating 7,000 calories a day. The heaviest I got was 282.”
It was, he said, hard on him emotionally to look in the mirror and see “Khris” going through this. That’s when he cut his hair, shaved his beard, took his shirt off, looked in the mirror and saw “George” instead.
“I said, ‘There you are. There it is,’” Davis said. “Every calorie that I was eating was worth it because it was working and I could see it being built all around me. It was insane. It was intense. But I think that amount of effort was worth it.”
The boxing was another challenge, full of complex choreography and a number system for where the hits were going to go. And they got to a certain point where they were comfortable enough to make “real contact” with the hits. During the staged Ali fight in Zaire, he believes he was punched in the face about 45 times. Davis got his hits in too, though.
“Those weren’t easy, soft punches,” Davis said. “If they would have cut the audio down and just let you hear my gloves hitting his body, it was shocking.”
And top of mind was always the real person he was playing.
“He was always kind of overlooked and bypassed. Mr. Foreman should not have been an underdog as much as he was in his life,” Davis said. “People talked about his rage. And as I was looking at interviews and looking at him on talk shows and on TV shows, I kept seeing this guy smiling and I’m like, ‘Wait a minute. Hold on, hold on. You guys are saying this is a crazy, deranged, mean guy, but this guy is smiling so much, he’s laughing, belly laughing out loud.’ I was like, ‘There’s a gentle person in there with a big heart. I can see it.’ So I wanted to carry that not just in the second half.”
Davis continued: “People think that he learned how to do that when he came back. No, that’s who he always was. But in the second half of his life, he didn’t have to commit to the persona anymore… This is his story. It’s not my story. Sure, part of my legacy is married to his story because I’m telling his story, but it’s his. It’s really a continuation of his legacy. I just didn’t want to disappoint him.”
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(NEXSTAR) – Homebuyers looking to offset soaring home prices and near-7% mortgage rates and are more willing than ever to shop outside of their city, according to a new study.
Real estate brokerage Redfin found that a near-record number of prospective buyers, 24.1%, looked to relocate from August through October.
When it came to the most sought-after cities, the Sunshine State dominated the top 10, despite the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian in late September. Miami landed in the third spot overall, followed by Tampa in fifth place, Cape Coral in seventh, North Port-Sarasota in eighth and Orlando in 10th.
Redfin calculated the ranking based on net inflow, or the number of people looking to move into a city minus the number trying to move out.
Remote work, born of necessity during the pandemic and now a valued job criteria for many, continues to ease workers’ moves between cities and even states. An October report from the National Association of Realtors found that the two qualities remote workers overwhelmingly valued above all others were year-round warm weather and, of course, high-speed internet.
California city takes top spot
The top city in the nation was not in Florida, however, but in California. Sacramento saw the highest net out-of-state searches among Redfin’s roughly 2 million users.
Filling out the top 10 are Las Vegas in second place, San Diego in fourth, Phoenix in sixth and Dallas in ninth.
The top five cities when it came to net outflow were, in order, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., and Boston.
Good news for homebuyers?
While the number of Redfin users looking to relocate is at near-record levels, home sales across the country are under pressure.
Amid high inflation and soaring mortgage rates, pending home sales dipped 4.6% in October, according to the National Association of Realtors, making it the fifth straight month of decline.
“October was a difficult month for home buyers as they faced 20-year-high mortgage rates,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. “The West region, in particular, suffered from the combination of high-interest rates and expensive home prices. Only the Midwest squeaked out a gain.”
The overwhelming trend identified by Redfin was a move away from the high sticker prices of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago to cities with lower asking prices, effectively increasing affordability and offsetting some hefty mortgage payments.
There may be some good news for homebuyers, however, according to Yun: “The upcoming months should see a return of buyers, as mortgage rates appear to have already peaked and have been coming down since mid-November.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/homeowners-looking-to-move-are-eyeing-cities-in-this-state/ | 2022-12-04 18:26:30 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/homeowners-looking-to-move-are-eyeing-cities-in-this-state/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
4-8-8-2, SB: 9
(four, eight, eight, two; SB: nine)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
4-8-8-2, SB: 9
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Greg Gutfeld slams Oregon health official as 'diabolical' for claiming 'urgency is a white supremacy value'
Greg Gutfeld says by telling others that good traits are racist, you're telling them to fail.
Happy hump day, America. So do I have a great monologue tonight? The best one of the year, I think. What's the hurry? You got to be somewhere, Sandra?
SANDRA SMITH: I love the new, I love the new place.
Yeah, whatever. That's so white of you, bunch of racist. Oh, look at you, I'm important, time is money, I have places to see, people to meet, wonder bread and mayonnaise to eat. You typical bigot, always in a rush. Thank you.
It's true. Urgency is racism, at least according to the Oregon health officials, who delayed a meeting for no other reason than stating that "urgency is a white supremacy value." As excuses go, it sounds a lot better than "the dog ate my alarm clock."
But it raises a key question. Since my show starts on time every night, do I qualify as a grand wizard?
In an email obtained by the great magazine "Reason," regional health equity coalition program manager Danielle Droppers, great name, told folks that a scheduled conversation would not take place as planned, because urgency is a white supremacy value that can get in the way of more intentional and thoughtful work, which I assume is what she calls sleeping in and then watching "The View" from her toilet. That's how I watch it.
OREGON PROMOTES TEACHER TRAINING THAT SEEKS TO 'UNDO RACISM IN MATHEMATICS'
So, what a happy coincidence for a government worker, that it's racist to do your job, whether it's holding a scheduled meeting or teaching children math, doing both is racist, so don't bother. That way, everyone fails, not just government.
Now this is the Oregon Health Authority, an actual agency tasked with coordinating medical care as well as unloading COVID info during the pandemic. So it's no wonder they screwed up that state over COVID, it would have been racist not to.
And could you use a broader brush to paint with? Blacks are never in a hurry. So when you say Bolt outruns a white guy, which is every time, is that reverse racism? "Hey Usain what's the hurry? Slow down, you're starting to run like a white guy." You know, I worry. I wonder if this stuff will ever show up at Fox.
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Now, to educate the confused on why urgency is racist, another employee pointed to a white anti-racist educator who pushes the idea that harmless traits are actually evil proof of white supremacy. Stuff like wanting to write stuff down or being a perfectionist.
It's getting to the point where I don't understand when they use the term white supremacy. Do they mean it as an insult or a compliment? Okay, so you write stuff down.
You seem to value time, and you want things done right. I mean, you just described the perfect employee and all the things that made this country the envy of the rest of the world.
CALIFORNIA PROPOSES CURRICULUM WITH CHANTING NAME OF AZTEC GOD WHO ACCEPTS HUMAN SACRIFICE
Now, apparently, this is all part of diversity, inclusion and equity training materials, D.I.E. for short, which is what any company that promotes this crap will do. But you know what? This is good news for lazy, incompetent workers. He's asleep right now. Show up late, unprepared, stinking of booze, you're fighting white supremacy now.
Looking back on it, in college I was a regular Rosa Parks. I got to admit, this is pretty diabolical. I mean, what a great way to ruin someone's career. Tell them all the things that make you successful, also make you a bigot. It's like a boxing trainer telling his protege, "hey, if you want to be a world champ someday, don't go to the gym, don't worry about your footwork and smoking will actually improve your lung capacity. Oh, and for God's sake, don't avoid McDonald's, that ---- is delicious." By telling others that good traits are racist, you're telling them to fail.
CNN must have had this plan in place for the last ten years. But you couldn't ask for a better way to leapfrog past inept, gullible coworkers plagued by white guilt. You get them all to stay home until they're tardy, and you win by showing up on time, all while telling minorities "don't reach your potential. Oh, you'll get equity once everybody loses."
Of course, for those bureaucrats who aren't held accountable like Ms. Droppers, their incompetence is expected. Hell, public health bureaucrats can literally cause a pandemic and still not get fired. The only thing they do on time, of course, is collect taxes.
So, here's some questions for Ms. Droppers, whose name is perfect for someone dropping standards for herself. If urgency is a racist value, why don't we delay your paycheck, for like a few weeks? It'll make us all a little less racist. And how about your summer vacation? Is it cool if we just get around to that in the fall? The beach is still nice in November. Don't even think about leaving Friday early to beat the traffic, you're no better than Robert Byrd. Forget sunscreen and just put on your white hood.
And think about, you know, Obama, and Harris and Jackson, they're all historical firsts, how very white of them to come in first.
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You best hope you don't end up in the emergency room any time soon. I mean, can there be anything more racist than an emergency? Emergencies demand quick action. "Nurse, I need 200cc of atropine stat. I mean, whenever you get around to it. Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like a bigot." Seriously, imagine being a doctor trying to curb your urgency. "Son, you need an appendectomy ASAP or your appendix could burst and you could die. O-M-G, did I just say ASAP? What am I, a doctor or a plantation boss? At any rate, I'm hitting the links. We can catch up tomorrow. Unless you're dead."
Yeah, dead. Death. Talk about finally escaping your own racism. And really, we'd all rather be dead than called racist. And the fact is, isn't death really the least racist thing ever? Think about it. What do they call you when you die? Late. | https://www.foxnews.com/media/greg-gutfeld-slams-oregon-health-official-diabolical-urgency-white-supremacy-value | 2022-07-07 04:37:00 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/media/greg-gutfeld-slams-oregon-health-official-diabolical-urgency-white-supremacy-value |
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — The 72-year-old gunman who sprayed bullets into a Southern California ballroom dance hall, killing 11 people, had no known connection to the victims and investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the massacre, the Los Angeles County sheriff said.
Before the shooting Saturday night, Huu Can Tran parked a motorcycle just a block away from the ballroom in Monterey Park, which investigators believe he had planned to use as a backup getaway vehicle, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said during a news conference Wednesday hours after police seized the motorcycle.
Tran opened fire on a mostly elderly crowd of dancers at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, killing 11 people and wounding nine others, police said.
The carnage, during what should have been joyful Lunar New Year celebrations, sent ripples of fear through Asian American communities already dealing with increased hatred and violence directed at them.
Some reports said Tran frequented the dance hall and fancied himself as an instructor, but Luna said he hadn’t been there in at least five years and did not appear to target the victims specifically.
“We have not been able to establish a connection between the suspect and any of the victims thus far,” Luna said.
Luna said it wasn’t clear how long Tran had been planning the attack in the city about 8 miles (13 kilometers) from downtown Los Angeles or what prompted him to spray at least 42 bullets, taking time to reload his weapon, a variant of the MAC-10 semiautomatic machine pistol with a 30-round magazine.
Tran’s motive continued to elude detectives days after the tragedy as they searched piles of items and paperwork seized from Tran’s home and a van he used to flee, the sheriff said.
“It doesn’t make sense,” Luna said. “It really doesn’t.”
About 20 minutes after the attack in Monterey Park, Tran entered another dance hall about 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) away in Alhambra, where an employee confronted and disarmed him during a brief struggle. Tran later shot himself in the van where his body was found Sunday morning.
Tran, who was originally from Vietnam, bought the machine pistol in Monterey Park in 1999, but it was not registered in California, the sheriff said. The gun and the high-capacity magazine are illegal in California.
Luna said Tran used a registered semiautomatic handgun when he died by suicide, and a registered bolt-action rifle was found at his home in Hemet, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) from Monterey Park. His only known criminal history was a 1990 arrest for unlawful possession of a firearm, but there is no indication of whether he was convicted.
Monterey Park Police Chief Scott Wiese on Wednesday defended his decision not to warn the public for hours that a killer was on the loose, saying he did not have enough information at the time to effectively alert residents.
Wiese said police in the region were alerted but that it didn’t make sense to send out a warning at night to residents in the predominantly Asian American city, even after learning that the suspect may have targeted a nearby dance club after the massacre.
“I’m not going to send my officers door to door waking people up and telling them that we’re looking for a male Asian in Monterey Park,” Wiese told The Associated Press. “It’s not going to do us any good.”
The shooting at 10:22 p.m. Saturday occurred just an hour or so after tens of thousands of people attended Lunar New Year festivities in the city. The public was not notified of the mass shooting for five hours, raising questions about why an alert wasn’t sent to people in the area.
Wiese, who was sworn in as chief two days before the shooting, said police were piecing together information from about 40 witnesses, including many who didn’t speak English, and didn’t want to broadcast incorrect information. He said notifying other local, state and federal agencies gave them the ability to get the word out.
Less than 48 hours later, a gunman in Northern California shot eight fellow farmworkers, killing seven of them, at mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay. The shooter was of Chinese descent and most of the victims were Asian.
Outside the locked gates of in Monterey Park’s Star Dance Studio, a memorial grew higher Wednesday with mounds of bouquets and balloons. Hundreds of people carrying flowers, candles and incense showed up for a vigil.
Marlene Xu gathered with fellow dancers by a row of flower-framed photos of the victims. Xu said she danced at the studio four times a week and spent an entire day and night in tears after the violence.
“It’s hard for us because it’s a part of my life,” she said. “It’s like a part of your life is gone.”
Vice President Kamala Harris visited the memorial Wednesday, adding her own bouquet, before heading to a senior center to talk to relatives of the victims. She paused in front of each of the large, rose-framed placards that contained photos or names of the victims at the memorial.
Speaking briefly to reporters, Harris relayed sentiments on behalf of President Joe Biden and called for Congress to enact stricter gun control laws.
“Tragically we keep saying the same things,” Harris said. “Can they do something? Yes. Should they do something? Yes. Will they do something? That is where we all must speak up.”
Pope Francis was among those who offered condolences, saying in a message to the Los Angeles archbishop that he “implores the divine gifts of healing and consolation upon the injured and bereaved.”
Wiese said he’s seen a lot during his three decade career, but some of the first officers on the scene were rookies who had never faced such carnage, and the trauma will be hard to forget.
Paramedics were loading the wounded into ambulances and treating others inside when the chief arrived. There were bodies every 10 feet: some slumped over tables, others sprawled on the dance floor.
“It’s hard to put words to it,” he said. “It takes your breath away when you see it. And it kind of burns the image into your brain.”
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A loving boyfriend. A 28-year-old bartender who loved to perform. A mother visiting from a small town who enjoyed hunting. These are among the victims of the rampage at an LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs that left five people dead and 17 others with gunshot wounds.
Club regulars and newcomers — gay and straight, transgender and cisgender — flocked to Club Q over the weekend to dance, enjoy a comedy show or work behind the bar. What began as a typical Saturday evening of dancing and drinking at the preeminent LGBTQ establishment in the conservative-leaning Colorado city south of Denver ended in tragedy when a gunman entered and began spraying bullets before he was tackled and subdued.
The 22-year-old suspect is facing five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury.
Here are the five people killed:
DANIEL ASTON
Daniel Aston, 28, grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and moved to be closer to family in Colorado Springs two years ago. He worked as a bartender and entertainer at Club Q and cherished the venue as a sanctuary where as a transgender man he could be himself and perform to a lauding audience, his mother Sabrina Aston told The Associated Press.
The self-proclaimed “Master of Silly Business,” Aston had a propensity for making others laugh that started as a child when he would don elaborate costumes and write plays acted out by neighborhood kids. In college, where he was president of his school’s LGBTQ club, he put on fundraisers with ever-more flashy productions.
″(Daniel’s shows) are great. Everybody needs to go see him,” his mother said. “He lit up a room, always smiling, always happy and silly,” she said.
DERRICK RUMP
Derrick Rump, 38, a bartender at Club Q, was remembered as a loving person with a quick wit who adopted his friends as his family.
“He was living his dream and he would have wanted everyone to do the same,” said his mother, Julia Thames, who confirmed his death to ABC News.
She said in a statement that Rump was “a kind loving person who had a heart of gold.”
“He was always there for my daughter and myself when we needed him; also his friends from Colorado, which he would say was his family also,” she said in the statement.
Rump’s friend, Anthony Jaramillo, told CBS News that Rump was “loving, supportive, with a heavy hand in his drink pouring, and just a really good listener and would not be afraid to tell you when you were wrong instead of telling you what you wanted to hear and that was really valuable.”
KELLY LOVING
Kelly Loving, 40, had been talking to a friend on a FaceTime call from inside Club Q just minutes before the shooting started. Natalee Skye Bingham told The New York Times that the last thing she said to Loving was: “Be safe. I love you.”
“She was like a trans mother to me. I looked up to her,” Bingham said. “In the gay community you create your families, so it’s like I lost my real mother almost.”
Bingham, 25, said Loving had only recently moved to Denver and was visiting the club while on a weekend trip to Colorado Springs.
“She was a tough woman,” Bingham said. “She taught me how it was to be a trans woman and live your life day to day.”
Loving’s sister, Tiffany Loving, offered condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the shooting as well as those struggling for acceptance in the world.
“My sister was a good person. She was loving and caring and sweet. Everyone loved her. Kelly was a wonderful person,” she said in a statement.
RAYMOND GREEN VANCE
Raymond Green Vance, 22, went to Club Q on Saturday night with his girlfriend, Kassy Fierro, and her father, Rich, the co-owner of Atrevida Beer Co., a local brewery in Colorado Springs. The group was there to celebrate a friend’s birthday.
“My sweet baby. ill never be able to heal from this. i want to wake up from this horrendous nightmare. i pray u hear me when i call for you. im so sorry. ill never forgive myself for taking everyone there. i will love you til the day i get to come back home to your arms,” Kassy Fierro wrote in a Facebook post Monday accompanied by a photo of the couple.
Vance’s family in a statement described him as a kind, selfless man with a promising future. He worked at a FedEx Distribution Center, loved video games and was “willing to go out of his way to help anyone,” the family said.
“Raymond was the victim of a man who unleashed terror on innocent people out with family and friends,” they wrote in the statement.
ASHLEY PAUGH
Ashley Paugh, 35, was a loving mother and wife with a “huge heart,” said her husband, Kurt Paugh. She volunteered with an organization that helped children in foster care and delivered Christmas trees to the homes in which they were placed to brighten their holiday seasons.
“She was my high school sweetheart – and she was just an amazing mother. Her daughter was her whole world,” her husband said in a statement.
She also enjoyed hunting, fishing and riding four-wheelers.
A resident of La Junta, a 7,500-person town about a two-hour’s drive from Colorado Springs, Paugh was visiting for the day with a friend when they went to Club Q on Saturday night for a comedy act. She was scheduled to organize the delivery of trees to homes with foster children in Pueblo and Colorado Springs this week, her husband said.
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(CNN) — Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who was shot in the head and arm after ringing the wrong doorbell in Kansas City, walked at a brain injury awareness event on Memorial Day.
The teenager and his family attended the “Going the Distance for Brain Injury” event, walking in the 1.5-mile race, according to CNN affiliate KMBC. It appears to be Ralph’s first major public appearance since the shooting.
In April, Ralph went to the wrong address to pick up his younger siblings and was shot by an 84-year-old White homeowner after he rang the man’s doorbell, authorities said.
Cleo Nagbe, Ralph’s mother, told KMBC that her son had been walking up to three miles ahead of the event. The teenager was not worried about walking but was more concerned with being around a large group of people, Nagbe said.
“It was mostly the anxiety for him,” Nagbe told KMBC. “Socially, it’s still hard for him. So, I’m glad he was able to overcome this. I pray that he will overcome most of his social hurdles after doing this.”
Nagbe thanked the community for their support at the event, saying, “It takes a community, it takes a family, it takes the support group, it takes all of that,” according to KMBC.
The event was organized by the non-profit Brain Injury Association of Kansas and Greater Kansas City. Robin Abramowitz, the group’s executive director, told CNN that she appreciated Ralph’s desire and effort to join the event because it can be difficult to be around large groups of “people who have recently sustained a brain injury.”
“He wanted to be there, but it can be a lot,” Abramowitz said.
She added that access to care early along with community and family support is important to recovery.
“Often with a brain injury it’s called silent disability because you may look OK on the outside, but inside you don’t feel the same and that can be really hard to articulate to your friends and family. That is why being able to connect with other people living with brain injuries really helps,” Abramowitz said.
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Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, pressured Arizona lawmakers on 2020 election
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urged Arizona state lawmakers to reverse former President Donald Trump's election loss in 2020 by choosing electors themselves.
The Washington Post first reported Friday on a move that adds new detail to the pressure campaign by national conservative figures and Arizona residents on state and local officials to avert Trump's narrow defeat.
Ginni Thomas' activism in the upper echelons of the conservative movement in Washington has raised cries for Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from some cases and for the adoption of clear ethics rules for the high court.
Her Arizona outreach came in a pair of emails to Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, and state Rep. Shawnna Bolick, R-Phoenix, who was part of the committee overseeing elections, the Post reported.
Bowers did not see Thomas' message, he said Friday in a written statement to The Arizona Republic.
"The emails appear to have been among the hundreds of thousands of messages sent to the Speaker's office during that period," said Andrew Wilder, a spokesperson for Bowers. "Speaker Bowers did not see, much less read, the vast majority of those messages, including the form email sent by Mrs. Thomas."
Bolick, who is married to Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick, responded to Thomas at the time by noting their personal relationship with the Thomases and told her how to file a formal complaint.
In a Twitter message Friday, Bolick, who is running for secretary of state, attacked the media.
"The dishonest media wants to distract attention from election fraud & our efforts to secure elections," she tweeted.
A spokesperson for Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich did not immediately say whether Thomas filed a formal complaint alleging fraud.
Thomas has been a strong supporter of Trump and her outreach came just after media organizations had called Arizona for President Joe Biden in what proved to be the closest race in the country. She didn't mention any candidate by name, but given Biden's apparent victory at the time, the messages unmistakably urged a different result.
“Article II of the United States Constitution gives you an awesome responsibility: to choose our state’s Electors,” Thomas wrote in a Nov. 9 email, the Post said. Please “take action to ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen.”
She told the lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and said they had the “power to fight back against fraud.”
Thomas was not immediately available for comment.
The messages are a reminder of how quickly Trump supporters concluded widespread election fraud, even as ballots were still being officially counted, and the radical plan for GOP-controlled states to pick electors to override voter choices was already being pursued in high places.
U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., suggested in a text message to Mark Meadows, Trump's then-chief of staff, on Nov. 6 — three days after the election — that in "states where there's been shenanigans" he submit alternate electors for Trump and have Republican-led legislatures formally support him despite apparent losses with voters, according to CNN, which obtained Meadows' messages.
The Biggs message includes language like "a look doors" where Biggs may have intended to say "electors."
"I'm sure you have heard of this proposal," Biggs wrote. "It is to encourage the state legislatures to appoint a look doors in the various states where there's been shenanigans. If I understand right most of those states have Republican Legislature's. It seems to be comport with glorified Bush as well as the Constitution. And, well highly controversial, it can't be much more controversial than the lunacy that were sitting out there now. And It would be pretty difficult because he would take governors and legislators with collective will and backbone to do that. Is anybody on the team researching and considering lobbying for that?"
"I love it," Meadows responded.
Thomas also was reportedly in touch with Meadows during this period.
Illegitimate alternate elector paperwork was submitted to Congress from seven states — including Arizona — as part of an effort intended to keep Trump in office.
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If you’ve ever shopped at Costco, you know the warehouse chain is notorious for selling large items — whether actual size or in terms of bulk quantity. Now imagine taking that larger-than-life vision and baking it into a massive pie made full of peanut butter and chocolate.
Costco’s new peanut butter chocolate cream pie has the internet’s collective sweet tooth kicking into overdrive. A video posted by TikTok creator @costcohotfinds showcasing this 5-pound pie already has more than three million views.
In the video, account creator Laura Lamb raves about this giant pie and warns viewers of its potentially addictive nature.
“It’s really dangerously delicious,” she said in the viral video.
@costcohotfinds PEaNuT BuTTeR PiE at Costco!!! New!!!⬠original sound – CostcoHotFinds
As Lamb slices into the pie, you can see why people can’t wait to sink their teeth into this dreamy dessert. The graham cracker crust is dense enough to support the thick layers of pie filling and give the pie that sweet, buttery taste. Then there’s a generous layer of peanut butter mousse topped with an even larger blanket of chocolate mousse. To top it all off, a swirl of the peanut butter mousse encircles the rim of the pie.
After picking up the pie at her local Costco near Dallas, Lamb told NBC’s “Today” she brought it home to try and share with her son.
“When I brought it home, it was essentially breakfast at that point because I was home by like 10:20 and I immediately ate a slice and gave a slice to my son, who was surprised I was giving him pie that early,” she told “Today.” “And he took one bite into it and goes, ‘Oh my god, Mom, this is like a huge peanut butter cup.’”
Not all Costco locations have the 5-pound peanut butter chocolate cream pie — yet. Before you head out to snag a pie for your family, you might want to give your local store a call to see if they have it in stock.
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — It should have been the first day of a joyous week for Robb Elementary School students — the start of summer break. Instead, the first two of 19 children slain inside a classroom were being remembered at funeral visitations.
The gathering for 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza was at Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home on Monday in Uvalde, Texas, directly across from the grade school where the children, along with two teachers, were shot to death last week before the gunman himself was killed. Visitation for another 10-year-old, Maite Rodriguez, was at the town’s other funeral home.
Over the next two-and-a-half traumatic weeks, people in the southwestern Texas town will say goodbye to the children and their teachers, one heart-wrenching visitation, funeral and burial after another. As family and friends unleash their grief, investigators will push for answers about how police responded to the May 24 shooting, and lawmakers have said they’ll consider what can be done to stem the gun violence permeating the nation.
This week alone, funerals are planned for 11 children and teacher Irma Garcia.
On Monday, some mourners at Amerie’s visitation wore lilac or lavender shades of purple — Amerie’s favorites — at the request of her father, Angel Garza. Many carried in flowers, including purple ones.
The little girl who loved to draw had just received a cellphone for her 10th birthday. One of her friends told Angel Garza that Amerie tried to use the phone to call police during the assault on her fourth-grade classroom.
Among the mourners at Amerie’s visitation were some of Maite’s relatives. Like many people, they were attending both.
Maite’s family wore green tie-dye shirts with an illustration showing Maite with angel wings. Before going into the funeral home, they stopped at the ditch to see the metal gate gunman Salvador Ramos crashed a pickup truck into before crossing a field and entering the school.
“How did he walk for so long?” asked Juana Magaña, Maite’s aunt.
Hillcrest Memorial itself and the shooting will be forever linked. After Ramos wrecked the truck, two men at the funeral home heard the crash and ran toward the accident scene. Ramos shot at them. He missed and both men made it to safety.
Eliahna “Ellie” Garcia’s funeral will be June 6 — the day after she was supposed to turn 10. Her family had been preparing a big birthday bash at her grandmother’s house this coming weekend. She had been hoping to receive gifts related to the Disney movie “Encanto.”
“She loved that movie and talked a lot about it,” said her aunt, Siria Arizmendi.
Ellie was quiet even around family but loved doing videos and had been already practicing with her older sister a choreography for her quinceañera party — the celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday — even though it was still five years away, Arizmendi said.
Ellie’s older sister is doing OK, Arizmendi said, understanding their family and others face a long road to recovery.
“It is just sad for all the children,” she said.
Funeral directors, embalmers and others from across Texas arrived to help. Jimmy Lucas, president of the Texas Funeral Directors Association, brought a hearse and volunteered to work as a driver, pitch in for services, or do whatever he could, he told NBC News. Other arriving morticians were there to help with facial reconstruction services given the damage caused by the shooter’s military-style rifle.
Gov. Greg Abbott, speaking at a Memorial Day event in Longview, urged Texans to keep Uvalde in their prayers.
“What happened in Uvalde was a horrific act of evil,” Abbott said. “And as Texans, we must come together and lift up Uvalde and support them in every way that we possibly can. It is going to take time to heal the devastation that the families there have gone through and are going through, But be assured, we will not relent until Uvalde recovers.”
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Sunday a review of the law enforcement response. Police have come under heavy criticism for taking well over an hour to kill Ramos inside the adjoining classrooms where he unleashed carnage.
Officials revealed Friday that students and teachers repeatedly begged 911 operators for help as a police commander told more than a dozen officers to wait in a hallway. Officials said the commander believed the suspect was barricaded inside an adjoining classroom and that there was no longer an active attack.
The revelation raised new questions about whether lives were lost because officers did not act faster to stop the gunman, who was ultimately killed by Border Patrol tactical officers.
Authorities have said Ramos legally purchased two guns not long before the school attack: an AR-style rifle on May 17 and a second rifle on May 20. He had just turned 18, permitting him to buy the weapons under federal law.
A day after visiting Uvalde and pledging, “We will,” in response to people chanting, “Do something,” President Joe Biden on Monday expressed some optimism that there may be some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman.
“I think things have gotten so bad that everybody’s getting more rational, at least that’s my hope,” Biden told reporters before honoring the nation’s fallen in Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery.
“The Second Amendment was never absolute,” Biden said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and buy a lot of weapons.”
A bipartisan group of senators talked over the weekend to see if they could reach even a modest compromise on gun safety legislation. Encouraging state “red flag” laws to keep guns away from those with mental health issues, and addressing school security and mental health resources were on the table, said Sen. Chris Murphy, who is leading the effort.
The group will meet again this week under a 10-day deadline to strike a deal.
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Nathan Ellgren in Uvalde and Jim Salter in O’Fallon, Missouri, contributed to this report.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Oscar Gonzalez tied the game with a two-run single and scored on Owen Miller's go-ahead sacrifice fly as the Cleveland Guardians rallied for four runs in the ninth inning to beat the Minnesota Twins 11-10 on Wednesday night.
Gonzalez homered earlier and finished with four RBIs for the surging Guardians, who have won the first two in a three-game series to take a one-game lead over Minnesota atop the AL Central. The teams also meet five times in four days next week in Cleveland.
Carlos Correa hit two home runs for the Twins, who have lost four of five and are 8-11 in June. Max Kepler and Gio Urshela also went deep for Minnesota.
Sam Hentges (1-0) tossed a scoreless eighth and Emmanuel Clase earned his 17th save with a 1-2-3 ninth for Cleveland, which has won 11 of 13 and is 17-4 since May 30. The young Guardians also won their seventh straight series.
With the Guardians down by three, Amed Rosario and José Ramírez singled to start the ninth before an RBI double by Josh Naylor off Emilio Pagan made it 10-8.
Gonzalez came through with a two-run single off Griffin Jax and reached second on the throw. Gonzalez moved to third on Andrés Giménez's sacrifice before Miller lofted a fly ball to left-center with plenty of distance as Cleveland completed its latest thrilling comeback.
Jax (4-2) took the loss for the second straight night.
Rosario tied a season high with four hits. Gonzalez hit a two-run homer to give the Guardians a 7-6 lead in the seventh.
Urshela, who was a double shy of the cycle, hit a three-run homer as part of a four-run seventh for a 10-7 Minnesota lead. All the runs scored with two outs.
Spotted a 5-1 lead, Twins starter Sonny Gray gave up a home run to Austin Hedges to start the fifth. Three straight singles — with Gray late to cover first base on the last one — coupled with an error by Nick Gordon in center field, ended Gray’s outing. A balk by Caleb Thielbar plated a run to get the Guardians within 5-4.
Making his second start after missing 16 games with a right pectoral strain, Gray allowed season highs with four earned runs on eight hits in four innings. He had allowed nine hits and one earned run over 18 innings in his previous three starts.
Cleveland starter Triston McKenzie entered with an opponents' batting average of .185, tied with Tampa Bay’s Shane McClanahan for second-best in the majors behind the .150 of the Dodgers’ Tony Gonsolin.
Correa didn’t seem to care.
His first-inning home run landed in the second deck in left field, and his third-inning round-tripper was to straightaway center for a 3-1 lead.
Tying his shortest start of the season, McKenzie allowed nine hits and six earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Guardians: DH Franmil Reyes, who returned Tuesday after missing 23 games with right hamstring tightness, did not play. He is expected to be in Thursday’s lineup.
Twins: RHP Bailey Ober (right groin strain) said his past four or five catch days have gone well and he hopes to throw off a mound later this week. … 1B Miguel Sanó, out since surgery in early May to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, has moved along in his running progression, started hitting and should take live batting practice next week. … RHP Randy Dobnak (right middle finger strain) recently threw a 15-pitch, fastball-only bullpen at about 75% and has played catch at 120 feet.
UP NEXT
The starters for Thursday afternoon’s series finale are scheduled to be RHP Zach Plesac (2-4, 4.41 ERA) for Cleveland and LHP Devin Smeltzer (3-1, 3.52) for Minnesota.
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TROY, Mich., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Editorial Advisory and Securities Review Committee of BetterInvesting Magazine today announced Align Technology (ALGN: NASDAQ) as its "Stock to Study" and Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM: NASDAQ) as its "Undervalued Stock" in the September 2022 issue for investors' informational and educational use.
"Several long-time members and expert presenters at our 70th Annual BetterInvesting National Convention this past week expressed excitement over the recent market pullback. Why? The opportunity to add to their portfolios those quality growth stocks which currently are selling at reasonable prices," said Ken Zendel, CEO of the National Association of Investors (NAIC), the parent organization of BetterInvesting.
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LEE’S SUMMITT, Mo. (KTVI) – Pam Tovar of Missouri is getting ready for Christmas, putting gifts she recently bought at Walmart under her tree.
“Just mainly toys for the kids and getting stuff for Christmas dinner, things like that,” said the Lee’s Summit resident.
Tovar’s bill for the gifts and holiday accessories totaled $588.37.
“It was a big ticket and I had a lot of money going out, and I generally do try to check those just to make sure, and I’m glad I did,” she said.
When Tovar checked her account, she found she’d been charged twice, totaling more than $1,100. Walmart directed her to her bank.
“When I talked to the lady at the bank, she said the person before me had the same problem at Walmart,” Tovar said.
She posted what happened on the neighborhood app Nextdoor, thinking it might just be an issue at the Lee’s Summit store.
“I’ve had numerous people ask me which location, ‘Because I was just there five minutes ago and I’m checking my receipt and I have a double post too.’ So, it seemed to be more than just me,” Tovar said. “This lady right here says, ‘I received a notice from my bank yesterday of a possible duplicate charge from Walmart. Reviewed it, and yes, it was a duplicate.”
People across the country have been sharing complaints on social media about being double charged at Walmart. The company responded with this statement:
“On Dec. 5, the payment processor Walmart utilizes for credit and debit transactions experienced a technical issue that charged certain customers twice. The issue was resolved, and all impacted transactions have been identified and submitted for correction. Should you have any questions about posting times, please contact your issuing bank at the number found on the back of your card.“
When asked how many customers were affected or if the issue indeed affected customers nationwide, a representative referred back to Walmart’s statement, according to Nexstar station WDAF.
Tovar, who was originally told it could be up to 30 days to get a refund, said she’s thankful to have the money back in her account before the holidays.
“It is three weeks before Christmas and plus the property tax is due on (Dec. 31), so you need money,” she said. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/walmart-customers-complain-about-double-charges-retailer-responds/ | 2022-12-13 17:13:09 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/walmart-customers-complain-about-double-charges-retailer-responds/ |
In addition to “Are we there yet?” on road trips, arguably the most persistent question kids might have for their parents is “Can we get a pet?”
Whether it’s the decision to get a dog, cat or any other pet, it’s often a source of constant thought and debate in a household.
In honor of Wednesday being National Kids and Pets Day, here are five things to know before deciding on whether to get your kid a pet.
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1. Does your family have any kind of allergies to specific pets?
It would be a major bummer to bring a pet into a household, only to discover someone in your house will constantly be sneezing or have other allergic reactions to it. Make sure to consult with a doctor to see if there would be any allergies to a specific pet you are considering.
2. Who will be taking care of the pet?
Of course, any kid at first will promise to feed, walk, clean up after, or let a pet outside to do its business even when it’s rainy and chilly outside. But then those moments come, and either there is moans and groans from those same kids, or they conveniently “hide” in their rooms. In other words, parents who get a pet for their kids are going to face the reality quickly that they’ll be sharing a big portion of the responsibility to take care of that pet. As long as parents are comfortable with this, then getting a pet is not a bad idea. Factoring in a child’s age is important also. The older your kid is, the more mature and willing they might be to handle the responsibility of a pet.
3. What will the cost of a pet be?
No doubt, getting a pet won’t be cheap. Expenses such as food, medicine, vet bills, toys, litter or special bedding will have to budgeted for.
To view a recent report on what the typical costs to own a dog are, click or tap here.
To view a recent report on what the typical costs to own a cat are, click or tap here.
4. What kind of pet is best for your family?
If you are a busy family that is gone from the house a lot during the course of a day, maybe a pet that doesn’t require as much responsibility, such as a cat, ferret, hamster or fish, is the best option.
But if someone in the family is around the house for a majority of the day, then getting a dog might be a better option since someone is more readily available to potty train it if need be, let it outside and make sure it’s not chewing up items in a house.
5. What ultimately is the benefit to having a pet?
When it’s all said and done, there has to be good reasons or a purpose for getting a pet to justify the personal and financial sacrifices. Is it for companionship over the course of many years? Is it the desire to provide a living creature a safe and warm home? Is it to teach kids responsibility? Or is it simply for security, especially when it’s talking about getting a dog to help protect the house?
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Safety improvement requirements to prevent injury or death from elevators inside North Carolina vacation cottages and short-term rentals received final legislative approval on Wednesday.
The House voted unanimously to accept a version of legislation passed in the Senate last week by a similar margin, and sent the bill to Gov. Roy Cooper's desk.
The bill, called “Weston's Law," was prompted by last year's death of a 7-year-old Ohio boy who became trapped between the elevator car and elevator shaft at a rental home on the northern Outer Banks.
The bill would require that the gap between landing and car doors for elevators at such rentals be no more than 4 inches (10.2 centimeters). That can be addressed by installing a space guard on the landing door.
The bill also sets minimum force requirements on elevator car doors and gates. The landlord must document the improvements with the state Insurance Department. Without the improvements, the elevator must be turned off. The bill also would direct the state building code to require such safety measures in new short-term rental construction. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Elevator-improvements-in-NC-vacation-rentals-go-17275446.php | 2022-06-30 00:27:24 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Elevator-improvements-in-NC-vacation-rentals-go-17275446.php |
Cape Coral Fire Department responded to a brush fire Sunday night. Making it the third brush fire this weekend.
Battalion Chief Eric Hawkins said the last time this many brush fires started in July was in 2013.
“It’s out of the norm. I think in 2013; we had something similar. We certainly would like some rain,” said Hawkins.
The fire was reported at around 8 p.m.
“Tonight, we had a news crew from NBC2 come out and fly their drone around, and they called 911, and cape coral dispatched that they had a fire on the Yucca Pen,” said Hawkins.
The fire was over 2,000 feet deep into the Yucca Pen. It was roughly five acres. Hawkins said the cause is unknown, but the other two fires this weekend were started by lightning.
The fire was 100 percent contained by 11:30 p.m. It was on privately owned land; no homes were near it. | https://nbc-2.com/news/2023/07/17/more-than-4-acres-burnt-after-cape-coral-brush-fire/ | 2023-07-18 02:38:38 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/2023/07/17/more-than-4-acres-burnt-after-cape-coral-brush-fire/ |
The debate over abortion moves from the court to the states and voters
After the Supreme Court overturns Roe V. Wade, lawmakers on Capitol Hill tell us what they think about the court’s decision.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) -The country is reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that ruled there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion.
States will now get to decide their own laws surrounding abortion.
“There will be daughters waking up with less rights than their mothers had,” said Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.).
Cortez Masto joined protestors outside the Supreme Court Friday, shortly after the opinion came down. She told us she believes the court’s ruling treats women like 2nd class citizens.
“We’ve had over 50 years of women being able to make these decisions. And now it is going to be elected representatives, people making these decisions, government officials making these decisions for women. It’s outrageous,” said Cortez Masto.
The ruling means access to abortion may be more difficult for Americans living in states that regulate or ban the procedure.
Democrats are calling on Americans to elect more pro-choice lawmakers so they can pass legislation that would federally protect abortion access.
Meanwhile, Republicans are celebrating the court’s decision.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas.) believes the court did the right thing. “This decision is an incredible vindication for the Constitution and for the rule of law,” he said.
Kansas Senator Roger Marshall (R) also praised the court.
He told us, “So many people worked so hard for years for this moment.”
A moment that is igniting the country and moving the debate over abortion from the court to the states and voters.
More than a dozen states have already passed laws restricting legal access to abortion. Some ban abortion even in cases of incest or rape.
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BEIJING, July 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WeTrade Group Inc. ("WeTrade" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: WETG), a global diversified "software as a service" ("SaaS") technology service provider committed to providing technical support and digital transformation tools for enterprises across different industries, today reports its financial results for fiscal year 2022, ended December 31, 2022.
Mr. Hechun Wei, Chief Executive Officer of Wetrade, commented: "2022 is a year of rapid growth for us. The expansion of our diversified business and the steady growth of customer base are laying a strong foundation for our long-term development. We are confident in restoring the growth of our revenue and operating profits in the near future. In 2023, we will seize the cross-border business development opportunities after the reopening of the border and achieve further milestones. WTPay will be the major drive of the Company's growth and will help the Company expand its business. Meanwhile, as we are seeing the explosive growth of generative AI in 2023, we are convinced that this is a breakthrough innovation and technological revolution, which will attract new talents and like-minded organizations. In 2023, we will focus on AI intelligence, restoring growth, and maximizing the potential of AIGC ."
Ms. Annie Huang, Chief Financial Officer of Wetrade, commented: "In 2022, we mainly focused on the development of multi-sector businesses. We believe the temporary decline in our revenues is a tradeoff in building the foundation for a steady future. We will continue to optimize our strategic development plan in a timely and effective manner, focusing on developing the Company's core businesses to ensure the Company's financial resilience."
Fiscal Year 2022 Financial Results
Revenue from Operations
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, total revenue was $11,671,335 and $14,381,295, respectively. The decrease was mainly due to the decrease in Gross Merchandise Volume ("GMV") in Ycloud system under the outbreak of the coronavirus disease during the year. Service revenue from third party were $10,803,232 (2021: $9,734,966) and service revenue from related party were $868,103 (2021: $4,646,329) for the year ended December 31, 2022. The system services fees are collected through from end users of YCloud system based on the GMV as follow:
Cost of revenue
General and Administrative Expenses
Net Income/ (loss)
As of December 31, 2022, we had total assets of $46,229,241, which mainly consisted of $20,025,495 in cash, $8,992,642 in receivables and loan receivables, $1,821,428 in amortised expenses, property and equipment, and $15,366,488 in other receivables, deposit and prepayments; we had total liabilities of $4,509,731 which consisted of $723,648 in accounts payables & accrued expenses, $1,291,296 in amount due to related parties and $2,365,808 in other liabilities; we had total stockholders' equity of $41,719,510.
Operating activities
Our continuing cash flow used in operating activities is $17,608,419 for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2022 as compare to the cash flow provided by operating activities of $3,753,384 in prior year, which was increased by approximately of $14.1 million. The increase were mainly due to prepayment of WT Pay System and payment of professional fees in relation to the Nasdaq up-listing.
Investing activities
Our continuing cash flow provided by investing activities is $493,954 for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2022 as compare to the cash flow used in investing activities of $1,028,322 in prior year. The increase was mainly due to loan repayment receipts of $2.1 million and which were partially offset by the addition of property and equipment of $1.5 million during the year.
Financing activities
Cash provided by our financing activities was $37,720,440 for the year ended December 31, 2022 as compare to the net cash provided by financing activities of $689,031, which was increased by approximately of $37.1 million. The increase is mainly due to 10,000,000 share issuance with the net proceeds from sales of common stock in the amount of $37,534,676 during the year.
About WeTrade Group Inc.
WeTrade Group Inc. is a global diversified "software as a service" ("SaaS") technology service provider which is committed to providing technical support and digital transformation tools for enterprises across different industries. The four business segments of WeTrade Group are YCloud, WTPay,Y-Health and YG.
YCloud is a micro-business cloud intelligent system launched by WeTrade, serving global micro-business industry. YCloud strengthens users' marketing relationship and CPS commission profit management through leading technology and big data analysis. It also helps increase the payment scenarios to increase customers' revenue by multi-channel data statistics, AI fission and management as well as improved supply chain system.
Independently developed by the Company, WTPay supports multiple methods of online payment and eight mainstream digital wallets in over 100 countries to help customers quickly realize global collection and payment business.
Y-Health is the sector focusing on public health business, which engages in developing global business for biological health and medical enterprises. Currently, Y-Health mainly focuses on detection and prevention of epidemic, daily healthcare, traditional Chinese medicines, and others.
YG is the new energy business segment which mainly provides tools and technical support for the digital new energy industry in the Middle East and Central Asia.
For more information, please visit https://ir.wetg.group.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains information about the Company's view of its future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from historical results or those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors including, but not limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with its ability to raise additional funding, its ability to maintain and grow its business, variability of operating results, its ability to maintain and enhance its brand, its development and introduction of new products and services, the successful integration of acquired companies, technologies and assets into its portfolio of products and services, marketing and other business development initiatives, competition in the industry, general government regulation, economic conditions, dependence on key personnel, the ability to attract, hire and retain personnel who possess the technical skills and experience necessary to meet the requirements of its clients, and its ability to protect its intellectual property. The Company's encourages you to review other factors that may affect its future results in the Company's annual reports and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Hurricanes 3, Tigers 2
First Period
1. Lethbridge, Jones 8 (Zimmer, Chadwick) 11:20.
Penalties — Bocharov Mh (hooking) 3:18; Laventure Let (hooking) 19:32.
Second Period
2. Lethbridge, Wormald 5 (Pauls, Thacker) 6:59.
Penalties — Smith Mh (cross checking) 2:42; St. Martin Mh (hooking) 10:47; MacNeil Mh (high sticking) 16:26; Parsons Mh (cross checking) 16:44.
Third Period
3. Medicine Hat, Basha 5 (Wiesblatt, MacNeil) 0:05.
4. Lethbridge, Zimmer 2 (Zandee, Jones) 8:38.
5. Medicine Hat, Melin 4 (Boehm) 17:25.
Penalties — Smythe Mh (hooking) 2:09; Jones Let (hooking) 6:27; Smythe Mh (delay of game) 9:57; Chadwick Let (interference) 14:33; Bentham Let (interference) 19:41.
Shots on goal by
Goal — Lethbridge: Picklyk (W, ). Medicine Hat: May (L, ).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Lethbridge: 0-7; Medicine Hat: 0-4.
Referees — Adam Forbes, Mike Campbell. Linesmen — Devin Kohlhauser, Tyson Phillips.
Attendance — 2,308 at Medicine Hat. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Sums-Lethbridge-Medicine-Hat-17561939.php | 2022-11-06 04:02:02 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Sums-Lethbridge-Medicine-Hat-17561939.php |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I grew up in the Caribbean and have been through many floods. I thought there should be a means to protect a vehicle against flood waters," said an inventor, from Seattle, Wash., "so I invented the VEHICLE FLOOD PROTECTOR. My design would help to uphold the condition, appearance and value of a car or truck during a flood."
The invention provides effective flood protection for a vehicle. In doing so, it offers an improved alternative to traditional tarps and vehicle covers. As a result, it helps to prevent flood-related damage and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a waterproof design that is easy to apply so it is ideal for vehicle owners who live in high flood areas. Additionally, it is producible in design variations. Inventor claims it helps prevent insurance claims and saves money.
The original design was submitted to the Seattle sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-FED-2384, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-5-1
(six, five, one)
¶ Top Prize $500
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
6-5-1
(six, five, one)
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BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Norway said Sunday they have euthanized a walrus that had drawn crowds of spectators in the Oslo Fjord after concluding that it posed a risk to humans.
The 600-kilogram (1,320-pound) female walrus, known affectionately as Freya, became a popular attraction in Norway in recent weeks, despite warnings from officials that people should refrain from getting close and posing for pictures with the massive marine mammal. Freya liked to clamber on small boats, causing damage to them.
Walruses are protected and as recently as last month officials said they hoped Freya would leave of her own accord and that euthanasia would be a last resort.
Norway's Directorate of Fisheries said Freya was put down early Sunday “based on an overall assessment of the continued threat to human safety.”
“Through on-site observations the past week it was made clear that the public has disregarded the current recommendation to keep a clear distance to the walrus,” it said. “Therefore, the Directorate has concluded, the possibility for potential harm to people was high and animal welfare was not being maintained.”
The head of the directorate, Frank Bakke-Jensen, said other options — including moving the animal elsewhere — were considered. But authorities concluded it wasn't a viable option.
“We have sympathies for the fact that the decision can cause reactions with the public, but I am firm that this was the right call,” Bakke-Jensen said. “We have great regard for animal welfare, but human life and safety must take precedence.”
Atlantic walruses normally live in the Arctic. It is unusual but not unheard of for them to travel into the North and Baltic Seas. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Norway-puts-down-Freya-the-walrus-that-drew-Oslo-17372516.php | 2022-08-14 13:06:00 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Norway-puts-down-Freya-the-walrus-that-drew-Oslo-17372516.php |
Florida State hopes to capitalize on momentum when the Seminoles host their annual Garnet and Gold spring football game on April 15.
FSU is coming off a 10-3 campaign — its best season since 2016 — with the program already receiving a lot of preseason hype heading into 2023.
The game is scheduled to kick off at 4 p.m. and will air on ACCNX, the network’s digital platform on the ESPN app. It’s one of nine ACC spring games featured on the network that Saturday. More information about the spring game and spring camp will be available at a later date.
It will be the third spring game for coach Mike Norvell, who missed his first one in 2020 when the game was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Florida State finished in the top 20 in both total offense (484 yards per game) and total defense (321.8 yards per game,) with the Seminoles returning more than a dozen starters led by quarterback Jordan Travis. Travis put together a career season that saw him total 3,631 yards of total offense with 32 total touchdowns.
Joining Travis are running back Trey Benson, receivers Johnny Wilson and Mycah Pittman, offensive linemen Maurice Smith and Robert Scott, edge rusher Jared Verse and linebackers Kalen DeLoach and Tatum Bethune.
Along with the returning starters, Florida State signed the No. 20 recruiting class with 24 prospects. Eighteen of those players are early enrollees, including transfers TE Jaheim Bell (South Carolina); TE Kyle Morlock (Shorter); OL Jeremiah Byers (UTEP); OL Keiondre Jones (Auburn); OL Casey Roddick (Colorado); DL Braden Fiske (Western Michigan); DL Darrell Jackson Jr. (Miami); DL Gilber Edmond (South Carolina); and DB Fentrell Cypress (Virginia).
FSU opens the season against LSU at Camping World Stadium on September 3.
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Matt Murschel at mmurschel@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @osmattmurschel. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-state-seminoles/os-sp-fsu-seminoles-football-spring-game-april-15-20230130-y7kvrof7rrah7lwohs5flqmreq-story.html | 2023-01-30 21:37:58 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/florida-state-seminoles/os-sp-fsu-seminoles-football-spring-game-april-15-20230130-y7kvrof7rrah7lwohs5flqmreq-story.html |
MADRID (AP) — The next Latin Grammy Awards gala will be held in southern Spain, leaving the United States for the first time, the head of its organization said Wednesday.
Latin Recording Academy CEO Manuel Abud and the regional president for Spain’s Andalusia region made the announcement in Seville.
“That the Latin Grammys will leave the United States for the first time is reason for special celebration, and what better place to hold them than Andalusia,” Abud said.
Regional president Juan Manuel Moreno said the awards show would be held in November. Neither the specific dates nor the host city were given.
Andalusia is home to popular tourist destinations such as Seville, Granada, Córdoba and Málaga. Moreno said the at the organizers would make the decision.
The Latin Grammys were first held in Los Angeles in 2000. Last year, they took place in Las Vegas, where Spanish artist Rosalía won best album for “Motomami.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-latin-grammys-to-be-held-in-spain-leaving-us-for-1st-time/ | 2023-02-22 18:54:45 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/ap-latin-grammys-to-be-held-in-spain-leaving-us-for-1st-time/ |
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Russia on Tuesday rejected imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s second appeal of a nine-year sentence.
The 46-year-old dissident is serving the sentence, handed to him in March, on the charges of fraud and contempt of court, in a high-security prison.
Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, was arrested in January 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he had been recuperating from a nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Russian authorities deny the charge. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for a parole violation that the West has called politically motivated.
In March, he was sentenced to nine years in a separate case on charges of embezzling money that he and his foundation raised over the years and of insulting a judge during a previous trial. Navalny has rejected the allegations as politically motivated. His first appeal was rejected in May.
Navalny’s arrest last year triggered the biggest protests seen in Russia in recent years. In response, Putin’s government unleashed a sweeping crackdown on his organization, associates and supporters.
Several criminal cases have been launched against Navalny individually, leading his associates to suggest that the Kremlin intends to keep him behind bars indefinitely. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-russian-court-rejects-navalnys-2nd-prison-sentence-appeal/ | 2022-10-19 03:01:22 | 0 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-russian-court-rejects-navalnys-2nd-prison-sentence-appeal/ |
WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, January 5, 2023
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
118 AM PST Thu Jan 5 2023
...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Southeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts 45 to 55 mph
expected.
* WHERE...In California, Owens Valley and Death Valley National
Park. In Nevada, Esmeralda and Central Nye County.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM PST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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Leading consumer electronics consumer financing FinTech welcomes ten new board members to guide the company's rapid growth.
NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glow today announces the establishment of its new Board of Advisors comprising of seven former CEOs of telecoms companies, two financing experts and the CBI President. The role of the Board is to help the Company achieve its strategic growth objectives and market expansion. The establishment of the new Board follows Glow's new FinTech launch with a major global OEM in the UK and its expansion to the Netherlands, Germany, the Nordics and the USA.
Joining the Advisory Board are:
Niek Jan Van Damme
Former CEO, Deutsch Telekom Germany, current Telstra Board Member; Also Chairman of the Board, NGN Fiber Network; Board Advisor, LotusFlare
Lord Karan Bilimoria
Current President of the CBI, member of the UK's upper chamber, the House of Lords and founder of Cobra Beer
Jim Mooney
Former Executive Chairman of Virgin Media; former Sirius and RCN Board Member
Nadir Mohamed
Former CEO of Rogers, current TD Bank Board Member, among others
Paul A. Gould
Current Managing Director and EVP at Allen & Co, LLC, current Liberty Global PLC and Warner Discovery Inc. Board Member; Board of Trustees for Cornell University, and previously served as a director of DirecTV
Manuel Cubero
Former CEO of Kabel Deutschland, current United Internet Board Member;
President of the European Cable Communications Association
John Meeks
Current Managing Director, TA Associates; former Asurion investor
Blaik Kirby
Current Group President, Bell Canada Consumer and SMB
Glenn Lurie
Former CEO, AT&T Mobile & Consumer, current Board Member of Avis;
Former CEO of Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.
Eelco Blok
Former CEO, KPN, current Board Member of Telstra and the OTE Group; Co-chairman of the Dutch National Cyber Security Council, a Director for the international association, GSMA
The Board's combined skills will help guide Glow through new and exciting opportunities as well as strengthen our commitment to being a trusted financing partner.
Glow Financial Services is a global consumer electronics financing FinTech working with large channel partners. These partners include mobile operators, OEMs and retailers. In addition to high finance and servicing services, the FinTech provides a unique financing platform that drives competitive advantage for clients. For more information, visit www.GlowGFS.com
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But, at 70 years old, Lake never thought she would find herself facing homelessness, trapped in the kind of "devastating situation" she had seen her clients face for years.
At the beginning of June, Lake's landlord taped a letter on the door of her apartment in east Phoenix. If she wanted to renew her lease when it expired in August, the letter said, she would face a monthly rent increase of $462. For three years, Lake had paid around $1,350 a month for a modest two-bedroom apartment for herself and her adult son, who is disabled.
Now, that monthly rent was jumping to more than $1,800.
"I'm pretty scared right now," Lake told Phoenix New Times last week. She doesn't have that kind of money. Moving is expensive, and affordable apartments are hard to find. Every morning since that letter arrived, Lake said, she wakes up and thinks: "What can I do today to get out of this?" Lake's story is a common one these days in Phoenix. Rising rents are the casualty of a white-hot real estate market, in turn propelled by an influx of new residents to Phoenix. Figures from Rent.com, which aggregates rental price trends in markets, show that in the last year, the average price for a one-bedroom apartment in Phoenix has increased by nearly 40 percent. Investors have rushed into the Phoenix market, buying up not just luxury rentals but trailer parks and affordable housing.
Ascent at Papago Park, Lake's apartment complex, is located at Van Buren Avenue and 51st Street. The rush of development is pronounced in this slice of Phoenix. Cranes stretch over empty lots nearby. New, modern developments loom over shabby convenience stores and auto shops.
In March, Ascent at Papago Park sold for $107.5 million. The buyer was Decron Properties, a real estate investment firm based in Los Angeles.
Decron, as one industry newswire put it, has gone on an "acquisition spree" in Phoenix over the last year. The firm bought its first property in the state in May 2021 — a 276-unit apartment building in Tempe. Now, one year later, Decron owns eight properties — and more than 2,100 units — across the Valley. Decron did not return multiple calls and emails from New Times seeking comment.
For its residents, for years, Ascent provided relatively affordable housing. For a real estate tycoon, though, the apartments looked like a good investment. The complex is gated, with 270 units. From some vantage points, the red sandstone buttes of Papago Park jut out on the horizon. After Decron bought the apartments, they added a new tagline: "Luxury apartment living."
Phoenix, Decron Properties wrote in a press release after the sale, was a lucrative place for such investments. There was "pent-up demand for living space" with the influx of new residents into the city, which meant that rents could rise rapidly, yielding "as much as 20 percent in rent premiums."
For Lake, it's closer to a 40 percent rent hike.
In the release, Decron outlined its plan to quickly jack up the value — and income — of its new acquisition. First, it would fix up landscaping and amenities. Then, it would renovate each unit. "We're confident," CEO David Nagel wrote, that the Phoenix market would ensure "our ability to meet or surpass our investment goals."
Decron is perhaps the archetypal bogeyman in Phoenix's housing market: an investment firm in California buying up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of multifamily housing. Such firms have inspired slogans like "Don't LA My PHX" (coined by one local realtor). They are easy scapegoats.
David Leibowitz, spokesman for the Arizona Multihousing Association, hesitated to place the blame on firms like Decron, however. "I'll tell you that generally rental homes and apartments have always been investments, whether by a mom and pop, a pension fund, or a home builder, regardless of geography," he wrote in an email on Thursday.
"The Valley and the state are in the midst of a massive housing supply crisis. This crisis — along with cities, towns, and NIMBY [Not In My Backyard] neighbors standing in the way of new homes being built — is directly responsible for driving up rents," he said.
Of course, as Decron acknowledged in its announcement of the sale, the heightened demand for housing means big profits for investors. And strife for renters.
Ken Volk, founder of Arizona Tenants Advocates, said Lake's situation was all too familiar in his line of work. All day, Volk fields a flood of calls from tenants across the Valley, seeking help breaking leases or dealing with maintenance issues. There was a point in the last year, he told New Times, when the majority of those calls were about rent hikes. That's slowed some now, he thinks because the wave of rent hikes has already crested at many apartment complexes.
"Sometimes the rents are almost doubling," he said. Lake's nearly $500 increase was on the high end — but certainly not unusual. "It's a good time for landlords now."
Lake's family has lived in Arizona for generations. She grew up in Phoenix, and lived for a time in Sedona before returning to the Valley. Over lunch last week, Lake told of hardships that she encountered in her life. One of her two sons died in 2006, when he was a young adult living in San Diego. Her other son is now in his 40s, but cannot work; he has schizo-affective disorder. He had worked odd jobs over the years, for a time as a bagger at a Fry's Food and Drug supermarket. But those jobs never lasted long.
Just a year or two ago, Lake said, she was hopeful about her future. She received a master's degree in counseling in 2016. "I felt I had a good 10 years left to work," she said.
Then, the pandemic hit.
Through her years as a counselor, Lake said, she saw how the social services system sometimes failed those in need. She recalled seeing nonprofit CEOs with cushy salaries, while programs were strapped for funding. "A lot of times, it's like putting a Band-Aid on a problem," she said. Families were dealing with systemic homelessness.
She saw how issues would "pile on" for people, until they found themselves on the streets. Lake sees this pattern in her own life. She has been hospitalized several times since the start of the pandemic. When she came down with COVID-19 in January 2021, she found herself still unable to work after recovering from the worst of the virus, and was forced to quit her job. This May, Lake was hospitalized again with the flu.
Her son gets a few hundred dollars a month in disability pay, and Lake has some retirement income. Her ex-husband, until this summer, had been helping support the two as well. But recently he found himself in financial trouble and hasn't been able to send them money. "It's like a domino effect," Lake said. The friends and family she thought she could once rely on for financial support had started to struggle with inflation and cost-of-living hikes.
"I was on a panel about homelessness once. We were brainstorming great ideas," Lake said, pausing for a moment. "I guess they don't happen."
When Volk, the tenant advocate, gets calls from people in the same situation as Lake, there's little advice he can give them. "I give them the statute that says the state is the sole party to regulate rent," he said. "And the state chooses not to." He joked, wryly, that Arizona might as well be telling them to "go sleep under a bridge."'
Lake said she has been calling around, looking for options. She has spoken to nonprofits about assistance with housing for her son, and spoken to the city of Phoenix about possible rent relief. It has all been difficult to navigate, she said. Nothing, so far, has come through.
On Tuesday, Lake sat at her dining room table, amid stacks of medical bills and other paperwork, feeling overwhelmed, she said. She wasn't sure if she could even pay the July rent, which was due on Thursday. She went through the options facing her: She could ask her brother for money, or for a room; she could try harder to find a more affordable place; or she could try to bargain with the property manager, but so far, they hadn't been responding.
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Dejah Mulipola is the 2022 Athletes Unlimited softball champion.
The former University of Arizona star scored 1,782 points to claim the individual title in a 60-player field. The winner was determined during a 30-game season at Parkway Bank Sports Complex in Rosemont, Illinois.
Mulipola, a silver medalist for Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics, considers it one of her greatest accomplishments as a softball player.
“I definitely say top three, just because the women in this league are the best of the best,” the California native said. "It’s a challenging league.”
It was the closest race in three years of Athletes Unlimited softball. The top 10 players were separated by just 288 points heading into the final weekend.
Mulipola fell behind Alyssa Denham in the standings heading into the final game but responded by going 2-for-2 with a triple, a home run and two walks.
“I was like, you know, I could either pout about it or I could be optimistic and be like, ‘I have no pressure on my back now. I can play freely.’” she said.
For the season, Mulipola led the league with a .432 batting average and 19 RBIs and tied the Athletes Unlimited championship season record with nine home runs. The catcher hit seven homers in her final nine contests to become the first non-pitcher to win the championship.
Denham finished second, and Haylie McCleney and Sahvanna Jaquish rounded out the top four.
Mulipola joins Cat Osterman and Aleshia Ocasio as champions. Osterman won the inaugural title in 2020, then retired after finishing fifth last season. Ocasio finished 16th this season.
Mulipola finished third in the Athletes Unlimited AUX season earlier this year behind winner Danielle O’Toole and Rachel Garcia. She said playing that extra season in June helped prepare her for the Athletes Unlimited championship season.
“That kind of has its perks," she said. “It was just getting some live (at-bats) under our belts and being able to catch the pitchers, learn the pitchers a little bit more, get comfortable with the athletes on the field.”
Middle infielder Hannah Flippen was selected Defensive Player of the Year and outfielder Shannon Rhodes was named Rookie of the Year.
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Two minutes into Weekend Update, hardly anyone laughed at Colin Jost's jokes. Until anchor Michael Che revealed why. As part of an Aprils Fools' Day prank, Che had told the audience not to laugh.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin never had a definitive timeline on when to hand the keys to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offense to Kenny Pickett.
If anything, Tomlin wanted to delay a move that seemed inevitable from the moment the Steelers drafted Pickett with the 20th overall pick six months ago. Asked as recently as a week ago how he would know it’s time, Tomlin shrugged and said simply “you just kind of know when you’re there.”
The Steelers, off to a 1-3 start heading into the most daunting stretch of their season, are there.
The Pickett era is officially underway in Pittsburgh. No turning back now. The rookie quarterback will make his first start on Sunday when the Steelers visit Buffalo (3-1), a decision Tomlin made because he feels it gives his team its best chance to win, not only this weekend but down the road.
“He’s a young guy, he’s going to grow throughout this process,” Tomlin said Tuesday. “But make no mistake about it, we’re not grading him on a curve. He’s not grading himself on a curve. There’s an expectation of quality play and playing to win.”
Tangible qualities Pickett showed in abundance while playing next door at the University of Pittsburgh, where he morphed from a three-star prospect when he arrived in January 2017 to a Heisman Trophy finalist last fall.
Tomlin watched Pickett’s development casually over the years, his interest piquing after Pickett spent 2021 re-writing most of the Pitt record book while leading the Panthers to the ACC title.
Pickett carries himself with a swagger that’s greater than the sum of his parts, the NFL prospect who spent months listening to draftniks openly wonder about the size of his hands now finds himself tasked with carrying the considerable baggage that comes when you’re the heir apparent to a likely Hall of Famer in Ben Roethlisberger.
Like Roethlisberger, Pickett was taken in the first round. Like Roethlisberger, Pickett spent the beginning of his rookie season sitting behind a veteran on the depth chart. And like Roethlisberger, Pickett now finds himself thrust into the spotlight perhaps a little earlier than anticipated.
It’s a glare Tomlin believes Pickett is ready to handle.
“Kenny has shown us maturity at every point throughout this process,” Tomlin said, pointing out that at age 24 Pickett is older than most NFL rookies.
“The things that we valued in him from a draft perspective: fluid and quick decision-making, pro-like anticipation and things of that nature have proven to be true.”
Pickett showed flashes during the second half on Sunday against the Jets, becoming the first rookie quarterback in NFL history to run for two touchdowns in his debut. There were also mistakes, namely an ill-advised heave toward the sideline late in the fourth quarter that smacked off the hands of tight end Pat Freiermuth and into the awaiting arms of Jets safety Michael Carter II that set up New York’s game-winning touchdown drive.
The player who Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi called “Kenny Perfect” took full responsibility for the miscues as the Steelers dropped their third straight game, though what’s ailing Pittsburgh goes far beyond the quarterback position.
Tomlin was quick to not place full blame for the switch at the feet of Mitch Trubisky, who found only sporadic success in three-plus games after being tabbed as the starter at the end of training camp.
“Oftentimes a quarterback position gets too much credit and too much blame,” Tomlin said. “We haven’t moved the ball fluidly enough to our liking. We hadn’t put enough points on the board. The quarterback is a component of that, but not the only component. We’ve all got to absorb the responsibility that comes with what we are.”
Trubisky, signed to a two-year deal in March and selected as a co-captain on the eve of the season, will serve as Pickett’s backup. Tomlin described Trubisky as “disappointed” in the demotion, which is a full-circle moment of sorts for the second overall pick in the 2017 draft by the Chicago Bears.
Trubisky sat behind Mike Glennon during the first month of his rookie season. With the Bears off to a 1-3 start and Glennon struggling, Chicago turned to Trubisky, who held onto the job for three-plus seasons and helped the Bears to a pair of playoff berths.
That success, however, did not lead to any sort of security for Trubisky, who was cut after the 2020 season and spent last year as Josh Allen’s backup in Buffalo.
The Steelers are hoping for a relationship with Pickett more akin to what they had with Roethlisberger, who retired in January after 18 seasons that included two Super Bowl wins and an appearance in a third.
That’s the long-term goal. The shorter-term goal is finding a way to navigate a four-game stretch against teams with a current combined record of 12-4. It would be a challenge for any quarterback, let alone one who has taken all of 31 snaps as a professional.
Yet less than two weeks after saying “definitively no” when asked if he was considering a switch from Trubisky to Pickett, Tomlin is even more resolute in his commitment to Pickett as the Steelers embrace a future that arrived maybe earlier than even Tomlin expected.
“When we make decisions, man, we don’t anticipate blowing in the wind,” Tomlin said. “That’s not how we are. … We’re optimistic and thoughtful in our thought process. We believe in Kenny.”
NOTES: S Minkah Fitzpatrick (knee), S Terrell Edmunds (concussion), DT Cam Heyward (ankle, elbow) and CB Cam Sutton (hamstring) could be limited in practice this week. … CB Ahkello Witherspoon (hamstring) will miss his second straight game.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Mexican government has arrested a man it says is the principal producer of fentanyl pills and methamphetamine south of the border.
Jose Guadalupe Tapia Quintero, a.k.a. “Lupe Tapia,” was arrested last week in a town near Culiacan, Sinaloa, and brought before a judge in Mexico City, who arraigned him on drug and weapons charges, the Defense Ministry (SEDENA) said in a statement Sunday.
Tapia on Monday remained in the maximum security Cefereso prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, the ministry said.
“It is worth noting that the suspect is considered the alleged principal producer of fentanyl pills and methamphetamine and is allegedly involved in large-scale transportation of cocaine from Central and South America to the United States,” the statement said.
Tapia allegedly oversees logistics for reputed Sinaloa cartel drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and is one of the main “generators of violence a menace to society,” the Ministry said.
A U.S. federal grand jury in Phoenix in 2013 indicted Tapia, the owner of several bus and tractor-trailer companies in Mexico, on charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, conspiracy to commit money laundering and other charges.
“As a transportation coordinator for the powerful Sinaloa cartel, Jose Guadalupe Tapia Quintero used his businesses to move large quantities of methamphetamine from the interior of Mexico to the U.S.-Mexico border, including Arizona,” the DEA said at the time of the indictment.
Tapia also controlled key drug distribution routes from Sinaloa in northwest Mexico to destination points along the Southwest border, according to the DEA.
The U.S. Treasury Department a year later labeled Tapia as a senior lieutenant in the Sinaloa cartel and placed him under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. The act allows the federal government to levy million-dollar civil penalties for each illegal act a target is found guilty of.
There was no word on Monday whether the U.S. government will seek to extradite Tapia to the United States.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that fentanyl played a role in many of the record 107,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2022. International private security analysts say Mexican drug cartels import precursor chemicals from Asia and use industrial-sized warehouses to crank out fentanyl pills for export to the United States. The factories are located in Mexican states where the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa cartel have influence over local communities and authorities.
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FBI arrests pastor for allegedly possessing, distributing child pornography
AUSTIN, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) - A former pastor in Texas was arrested Friday on criminal charges related to child pornography.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Austin federal court, 56-year-old David Lloyd Walther is accused of knowingly searching for, downloading, distributing and possessing child pornography.
The criminal complaint alleges that Walther downloaded and made available child pornography using BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
KWTX reports Walther was pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Round Rock, Texas, at the time.
During a search of Walther’s home and vehicle, officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation said they found two large computer hard drives containing child pornography.
Walther has been charged with distribution, receipt, transportation and possession of child pornography.
If convicted, Walther faces up to 20 years in prison.
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LFR battles kitchen fire at home in southwest Lincoln
Published: Jun. 4, 2023 at 7:55 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Firefighters with Lincoln Fire and Rescue knocked down a kitchen fire at a home in southwest Lincoln Sunday afternoon.
Crews were sent to a home around 3:30 p.m. near 6th & A Streets.
According to LFR, the house sustained smoke and water damage throughout the structure. No injuries were reported, as LFR says the homeowners and their dogs were all able to get out safely.
The department has not released the cause of the fire or the amount of damage done.
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WARWICK, Australia, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia (KIAA) is calling for designers of fashion, footwear, and apparel, together with industry which values high performance leather such as premium soccer boots and heavy-duty sports, to embrace kangaroo leather with the launch of a new U.S. social media campaign.
The peak body for the commercial kangaroo industry says the campaign – the first in its history – showcases one of the world's most beautiful, lightest, and strongest leathers, which importantly, is sourced sustainably and responsibly.
KIAA President Ray Borda said not only do people expect beautiful products, they're looking for exceptional performance.
"Kangaroo leather is unique as it has an ultra-thin fibre structure which provides greater strength and longevity. Today, with domestic and international certification schemes allowing consumers to determine whether the source of their leather is sustainable and ethical, it has become a natural choice for leading designers."
The commercial industry employs more than 3,000 people across Australia, predominantly from rural and remote areas, and supports local farmers. Commercial harvesting of kangaroos is widely considered by the scientific community, government, animal welfare experts, indigenous groups, and the agricultural industry as a responsible way to manage kangaroo numbers while boosting the economy.
Mr Borda continued: "All KIAA kangaroo leather is a by-product of the meat industry which would otherwise end up in landfill. Our priority is to use ethical and sustainable practices to turn a by-product into a valuable, premium product."
"This is a responsible approach in a circular economy – we're all being encouraged to make better choices and move away from fast, disposable consumer goods," said Mr Borda.
Australia has a national commercial code of practice for the humane treatment of kangaroos based on the latest scientific research into kangaroo behaviour and ecology. The industry must meet the code's high animal welfare standards set by animal welfare experts including The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), Australian Veterinary Association (AVA), state governments and regulators, the kangaroo industry and farmers.
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Golden Superfood Bliss is a turmeric and superfood elixir blend from Earth Echo.
Designed to curb emotional eating and fight sugar cravings, Earth Echo Golden Superfood Bliss can help you eat fewer calories per day – without feeling hungry.
Keep reading to discover if Golden Superfood Bliss lives up to the hype today in our review.
What is Golden Superfood Bliss?
Golden Superfood Bliss is a nutritional supplement sold online through TheFitRise.com.
According to Earth Echo, the Colorado-based manufacturer of Golden Superfood Bliss, emotional eating is not caused by dieting, exercise habits, or hormones; instead, it’s caused by something happening within your body on a cellular level.
By taking Golden Superfood Bliss daily, you can stop this cellular process, stop emotional eating, and reduce your daily caloric intake without feeling hungry.
Golden Superfood Bliss comes in the form of a powder. You mix one scoop of powder per day with the beverage of your choice, then drink Golden Superfood Bliss to support a range of benefits.
Many people drink the popular formula nightly, for example, to enjoy a better night’s sleep, wake up feeling refreshed, and control their appetite the next day.
Golden Superfood Bliss Benefits
According to the official website, Golden Superfood Bliss can target the root cause of emotional eating, leading to a range of benefits.
By taking one scoop of Golden Superfood Bliss daily, you can support benefits like:
- Get better results from your current diet and exercise program
- Get more wiggle room to enjoy your favorite foods
- Boost metabolism to achieve a body you love without starving yourself
- Lower anxiety and stress
- Fall asleep faster and enjoy more rejuvenating sleep
- Block hunger and carvings, making it easier to stick to a diet
According to the official website, Golden Superfood Bliss can also improve digestion, support a healthy inflammatory response, relieve temporary pain caused by exercise, dissolve stubborn fat, and help soothe occasional anxiety and stress.
Meanwhile, specific ingredients like turmeric in Golden Superfood Bliss can help the body relax after a stressful day, calm your mind when stressed, and lower occasional anxiety to help you sleep, among other sleep-related benefits.
How Does Golden Superfood Bliss Work?
Golden Superfood Bliss is designed to target the root cause of emotional eating: stress.
When your body is stressed, it creates imbalances throughout your body. Stress sends a survival signal throughout your body. It tells your body to do whatever it takes to survive the stressful time. This was a useful feature in prehistoric times. Today, it can lead to sleep disruption, emotional eating, and weight gain.
To stop stress, Golden Superfood Bliss contains a blend of natural ingredients linked to inflammation, immunity, stress relief, and anxiety relief, among other benefits.
Many of the ingredients in Golden Superfood Bliss target the amygdala of your brain. Studies show your amygdala controls much of the responses linked to stress eating. Studies cited on the Golden Superfood Bliss website show:
- One study found that 81% of a group of female college students reported an appetite change as soon as they felt stressed
- Dutch scientists found you’re more likely to eat when stressed, even if you’re not hungry
- Researchers from the University of California found women ate significantly more calories and sweets when stressed
- Typically, your body balances your hunger with your appetite. Your appetite tells you to eat, and you eat until you stop feeling hungry.
When you’re stressed, however, it disrupts this pathway, leading to emotional eating. Stress leads to higher levels of insulin, which can impede your body’s normal appetite control signals.
Stress, Anxiety, Insulin, and Appetite
Golden Superfood Bliss works because it targets stress, anxiety, insulin, and appetite.
Here’s how Danette May, the creator of Golden Superfood Bliss, explains the hunger disruption caused by insulin:
“Frequent daily stress and high-calorie foods skyrocket insulin up to 10 times the normal level…See, once your insulin levels remain too high for too long…Your brain becomes confused and stops detecting insulin.”
Insulin is crucial for appetite control. Typically, your body produces insulin when you eat. Your body produces insulin to help your cells absorb glucose. This insulin sends a “stop eating” signal to your brain.
Here’s what happens when your body is stressed – and why it’s hard to lose weight:
High levels of stress and anxiety cause insulin levels to spike 10x higher than they should
Those insulin spikes release the hunger hormone NPY
NPY forces you to eat more
Then, you feel guilty about overeating, leading to more stress and anxiety
This cycle encourages you to eat even more
It’s a brutal cycle, but it’s not your fault: it’s the process of chemical reactions and hormonal balances within your body. By taking Golden Superfood Bliss daily, you may be able to counteract these stressors and lose weight.
You May Be Stressed Without Knowing It
Do you struggle to lose weight with diet and exercise programs? Have you failed to see results from previous weight loss attempts?
If so, your body could be stressed – even if you don’t know it.
Many of us are carrying around stress unknowingly. Our bodies are overloaded with inflammation and toxins, for example, that cause us to constantly feel stressed on a cellular level.
We know the obvious signs of stress: like feeling panicked or anxious in intense situations. However, many of us are stressed without obvious symptoms.
That’s where Golden Superfood Bliss aims to help. The formula works on a cellular level to support a healthy stress response in your body. That means you can manage stress, target emotional eating, and get the weight loss you need when paired with a healthy diet and exercise program.
Lack of Sleep Lowers a Hunger Receptor Called 2-AG
Golden Superfood Bliss also works by targeting a hunger receptor called 2-AG. If you don’t get enough sleep, then your 2-AG is imbalanced, leading to weight loss problems and emotional eating.
Here’s how Danette May explains the phenomenon:
“We all know that lack of sleep makes you tired, grumpy, and just plain miserable…But unfortunately it also does something far more sinister than sour moods…It triggers a little-known hunger receptor inside your brain called 2-AG.”
If you aren’t getting enough sleep, then you might find yourself reaching for high-calorie foods and other unhealthy snacks.
In fact, one study found that sleep-deprived people ate an extra 385 calories per day.
Lack of sleep could cause 2-AG to “hijack” your brain, contributing to emotional eating. If your 2-AG is healthy, then it drops during the night as you get high-quality sleep, then slowly rises throughout the day until it peaks after lunch.
When you lose sleep, however, your 2-AG levels skyrocket by up to 33%. These elevated 2-AG levels can lead to:
- Mood issues and irritability
- Unnecessary stress on your immune system
- Blood sugar disruption
- Lower sex drive
Some of the ingredients in Golden Superfood Bliss are designed to target sleep. These ingredients target stress and anxiety, for example, that make it difficult to sleep. By taking Golden Superfood Bliss daily, you can support a better night’s sleep, fall asleep faster, and enjoy maximum rejuvenating effects as you sleep.
The Sleep Boosting Power of Turmeric
Golden Superfood Bliss contains an active ingredient called turmeric. The well-known plant extract is prized for its effects on inflammation, immunity, rest, relaxation, and even weight loss, among other effects.
According to the official website, studies on turmeric have shown the ingredient will:
- Support healthy inflammatory response
- Improve digestion
- Relieve temporary pain caused by exercise
- Dissolve fat
- Help soothe occasional anxiety and stress
Many people know the benefits of turmeric. However, not everyone knows turmeric is also a powerful sleep aid. Turmeric can also:
- Help your body relax after a stressful day
- Calm the mind when anxious
- Lower occasional anxiety to help you fall asleep
To achieve these benefits, turmeric has three sleep-boosting benefits, including:
Sleep Booster #1: Help Curb Stress and Unwanted Hunger Signals: Turmeric can help with stress, making it easier to manage your appetite. Above, we established stress is linked to overeating. Turmeric stops this overeating cycle by blocking 2-AG using nerve growth factors. Elevated 2-AG levels are linked to emotional eating. By curbing 2-AG, turmeric can lower hunger while helping you unwind and relax.
Sleep Booster #2: Fights Anxiety to Help You Fall Asleep Faster: If you’re stressed and anxious, it’s difficult to fall asleep. Turmeric, according to the official Golden Superfood Bliss website, helps by balancing anxiety, boosting DHA levels, supporting a deeper sleep, rebalancing hormones, and helping you avoid the hormonal weight gain roller coaster.
Sleep Booster #3: Supports a Healthy Inflammatory Response and Relaxes the Body: Finally, turmeric can help you sleep by supporting healthy inflammation and relaxing the body. Inflammation is your body’s response to injury. If your body is inflamed, however, it can be difficult to relax and fall asleep. Turmeric, according to the official Golden Superfood Bliss website, helps reduce inflammation and manage temporary pain caused by exercise.
Golden Superfood Bliss Reviews: What Do Customers Say?
Golden Superfood Bliss is backed by thousands of 5-star reviews online. Generally, customers agree the formula works as advertised while tasting great.
Here are some of the thoughts shared by Golden Superfood Bliss customers, according to the official website:
Multiple customers like Golden Superfood Bliss for relieving stress while being a healthy, easy-to-drink beverage
One customer claims his first sip of Golden Superfood Bliss “blew me away” for having the perfect balance of sweet, earthy, and sharp tones; he described the taste as “like the warm hug of a loved one,” and Golden Superfood Bliss immediately became a part of his nightly routine
Multiple customers like the taste of Golden Superfood Bliss, and many customers have made the beverage a permanent part of their nighttime routine
Some customers experiment with different mixes, blending Golden Superfood Bliss with almond milk, hot water, and other ingredients to improve the taste
One customer claims she has never had anything that makes her feel at peace and relaxed “in seconds of taking a few sips” like Golden Superfood Bliss
Others like Golden Superfood Bliss for quenching cravings; the formula has a nice sweetness and creaminess to it, which can help you avoid eating something unhealthy at night when you have cravings
Golden Superfood Bliss Active Ingredients
Golden Superfood Bliss contains a blend of turmeric and other active ingredients to support a range of benefits.
Here are all of the active ingredients in Golden Superfood Bliss and how they work.
Turmeric with Black Pepper Extract: Golden Superfood Bliss contains turmeric, which is prized for its effects on inflammation, anxiety, stress, and weight loss. Plus, the formula includes black pepper extract for better absorption. Studies show your body struggles to absorb turmeric on its own, but it absorbs turmeric 2,000% better when mixed with black pepper extract.
Coconut Milk & MCT Oil: Golden Superfood Bliss contains coconut milk and MCT oil. These ingredients stimulate weight loss by retraining the body to burn more calories, according to the official website. They also help you feel full for longer. Key parts of the keto diet, coconut milk, and MCT oil, are rich sources of healthy fats that could help you feel more satiated.
Amla Fruit: Amla fruit helps reduce fat, boosts carbohydrate metabolism, and keeps you full for longer, according to the official website.
Cinnamon Bark: Golden Superfood Bliss has a unique taste combining cinnamon with turmeric. However, the cinnamon bark in Golden Superfood Bliss also has its own active effects. It lowers hunger and increases fat loss by fighting hunger hormones like ghrelin, for example, while also supporting digestive enzymes that break down carbs.
Ginger Root: Used in traditional Korean and Chinese medicine for centuries, ginger can help you feel fuller for longer, reduce your appetite, and boost your metabolism by accelerating digestion, among other benefits.
Cardamom: Cardamom is a spice that gives flavor to Golden Superfood Bliss. However, like cinnamon, cardamom has several benefits of its own, including fighting occasional anxiety and certain types of inflammation and contributing to hormone balance.
Ashwagandha: Used for centuries as an adaptogen, ashwagandha can help balance stress and reduce cortisol by up to 28%, according to the official website. Ashwagandha, like other adaptogens, could help manage your body’s response to physical and mental stressors, which could make a meaningful difference in weight loss, relaxation, and sleep.
Ancient Medicinal Mushrooms in Golden Superfood Bliss
In addition to the active ingredients above, Golden Superfood Bliss contains a blend of four “ancient medicinal mushrooms.” Mushrooms have been prized for centuries for their effects on immunity, inflammation, and overall health and wellness. By giving you four active mushroom extracts, Golden Superfood Bliss could support additional benefits.
The four active mushroom extracts in Golden Superfood Bliss include:
Reishi: Described as the “God of Fungi,” reishi is a mushroom extract linked to antioxidant effects and healthy inflammation. It works as an antioxidant, helping to shield the body from oxidative stress. It could also promote healthy gut tissue.
Shiitake: Shiitake is a mushroom extract designed to increase satiety, reduce food intake, and delay nutrient absorption while boosting immunity.
Lion’s Mane: Lion’s mane mushroom was added to Golden Superfood Bliss specifically to curb 2-AG, the compound above linked to appetite. When your 2-AG levels are high, your appetite is high. The lion’s mane mushroom in Golden Superfood Bliss could help control appetite, according to several studies.
Maitake Mushroom: Maitake mushroom extract can complement shiitake to maximize its fat-burning effects. One study from the University of Louisville found maitake and shiitake had greater fat-burning effects when used together.
How to Take Golden Superfood Bliss
Earth Echo recommends mixing Golden Superfood Bliss with hot, warm, or cold liquids, then taking it nightly to enjoy the active effects:
Add one level scoop to 8fl oz of hot, warm, or cold liquids
Try mixing it with almond milk or coconut milk
You can also add Golden Superfood Bliss to baked goods and other recipes
Golden Superfood Bliss Pricing
Earth Echo Golden Superfood Bliss is priced at $59.95 per bag through a one-time promotional offer today. The normal retail price is $79.95 per bag.
Further discounts are available when subscribing to the Golden Superfood Bliss auto-ship program or buying multiple bags.
Here’s how pricing breaks down:
- 1 Pouch: $59.95 + Shipping
- 3 Pouches: $149.95 + Shipping
- 5 Pouches: $199.95 + Shipping
Each pouch comes with a 30-day supply of Golden Superfood Bliss, or 30 servings. You take one scoop nightly to support the benefits listed above.
All Golden Superfood Bliss purchases are backed by a 60-day refund policy. You can request a complete refund within 60 days if unsatisfied for any reason.
About Earth Echo
Earth Echo is an Evergreen, Colorado-based nutritional supplement company. The company is known for natural formulas like Cacao Bliss and Golden Superfood Bliss, among others.
Earth Echo supplements are USDA Organic certified. You can contact Earth Echo via the following:
- Email: support@earthechofoods.com
- Phone: 888-997-3851
As the official Earth Echo website explains, the company was founded with the goal of tapping into nutrient-dense superfoods sourced from nature, helping customers achieve optimal health.
Conclusion
Golden Superfood Bliss is a turmeric-based superfood formula featuring a blend of active ingredients to support inflammation in various ways.
By taking Golden Superfood Bliss daily, you can support a better night’s sleep, support weight loss, and support inflammation and immunity, among other benefits. The formula contains a blend of turmeric and mushroom extracts.
To learn more about Golden Superfood Bliss or to buy the popular formula today, visit the official website at TheFitRise.com.
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- Underscoring its commitment to world-class technology, DAZN has recruited Sandeep Tiku to drive innovation and lead the next phase of platform development
- Sandeep is internationally recognised as a world-class technologist and innovator
LONDON, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DAZN Group, the global sports entertainment company, today announces that Sandeep Tiku will be joining the company as Chief Technology Officer.
Sandeep will lead DAZN's global technology and product teams to drive the next phase of development for its core sports streaming media platform as it integrates new experiences to become an interactive sports entertainment ecosystem and expands into new markets.
Having spent over 20 years designing and developing transformational technology and complex platforms for B2C digital products, Sandeep is recognised as a global technology leader and respected innovator.
Sandeep's impeccable track record in building complex technology, coupled with his entrepreneurial spirit and customer-centric approach, will be invaluable to DAZN.
His appointment follows the launch of DAZN X, the company's innovation lab, and underscores DAZN's ongoing investment in world-class technology and commitment to an exceptional fan experience as it integrates richer and more interactive content for fans to enjoy alongside live sports.
Sandeep joins from Entain, a FTSE 100 global gaming and entertainment company, where he was most recently Chief Operating Officer, and oversaw the technology and operations that supports a portfolio of brands in over 30 markets. During his eight years at Entain, Sandeep was instrumental in developing their industry-leading global platform to be robust and scalable.
CEO of DAZN Group Shay Segev said, "Having worked alongside Sandeep for many years at Entain, I know that he is an exceptional and visionary technologist and the right person to lead DAZN's technology teams. He will be invaluable as we expand our offering with even more ways to entertain and engage sports fans and forge ahead with transforming the global sports market."
Sandeep Tiku said, "To join a company like DAZN that has boundless ambitions and puts the customer at the heart of everything it does, is fantastic. With their vision and my tech experience, the potential is phenomenal. I look forward to working with Shay and the global technology teams to grow DAZN's platform as a true destination for sports fans across the world."
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Workers at 150 Starbucks locations will strike in the coming week over what their union says is a clash over decor supporting LGBTQ+ causes, but the company denies it’s banned any such displays and accused the union of using misinformation as a tactic in labor talks.
Starbucks Workers United said in a tweet Friday that 3,500 workers will be on strike over the next week, starting with the flagship location in Seattle.
The union has tried to establish a foothold at Starbucks for some time and at least 358 Starbucks stores have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold union elections. A Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, became the first to unionize early last year.
But those efforts have slowed in recent months with pushback from some workers who have resisted organization efforts. Starbucks on Friday said Workers United is using misinformation about its support for LGBTQ+ causes as part of ongoing contract negotiations.
“Workers United continues to spread false information about our benefits, policies and negotiation efforts—a tactic used to seemingly divide our partners and deflect from their failure to respond to bargaining sessions for more than 200 stores,” Starbucks said in a written statement.
Starbucks, based in Seattle, said last week that there had been no change to any policy on the matter and that its support for LGBTQ+ causes is “unwavering.” The company has been outspoken in its support for LGBTQ+ employees for decades. It extended full health benefits to same-sex partners in 1988 and added health coverage for gender reassignment surgery in 2013.
Starbucks Corp. is also currently selling Pride-themed tumblers in its stores designed by Toronto artist Tim Singleton, who is gay.
Workers United says that store managers around the country have curtailed or removed displays during a monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ people. In some cases, the union said, managers told workers that Pride displays were a safety concern, citing recent incidents at Target where some angry customers tipped over merchandise and confronted workers.
Starbucks said recent anti-LGBTQ+ social media campaigns against brands like Disney, Target and Bud Light in some parts of the country have not changed it stance.
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George leads Clippers over Rockets 109-101 with Leonard out
By KRISTIE RIEKEN
AP Sports Writer
HOUSTON (AP) — Paul George scored 28 points, Marcus Morris added 21 and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Houston Rockets 109-101 on Wednesday night.
It was the Clippers’ second win in a row over Houston following a 95-93 victory on Monday that snapped a four-game skid.
“It was a good win for us,” Los Angeles coach Tyronn Lue said. “I knew they were going to come in and play hard. They’re an improved basketball team.”
Los Angeles was without Kawhi Leonard, who did not make the road trip because of stiffness in his surgically repaired right knee. It’s the fifth straight game he’s missed, and his time off will stretch to six games Friday when the team visits San Antonio.
Lue said he doesn’t love how the team has played with Leonard out and that it’s on him to help the players adjust to the forward’s absence. He added that they’ve looked better in the last two games than they did in the first few games Leonard missed.
“Since the two OKC games we have made a good emphasis on attacking,” Lue said. “If we keep playing that way, we can get better.”
Alperen Sengun had 26 points and 13 rebounds and Jalen Green scored 22 points for the Rockets, who have dropped five straight since their only win this season.
The game featured the return of John Wall, who spent the last two seasons in Houston, but sat out all last season with the Rockets unable to find a trade destination for the veteran.
He had a highlight-reel play when he dribbled into the lane and made a behind-the-back pass to Moses Brown, who finished with a dunk for the first points of the fourth quarter.
The Clippers had a seven-point lead before using a 7-2 run, with four points and an assist by George, to make it 105-93 with 3 minutes to go. Reggie Jackson got a steal at the end of that run and found George, who dished to Morris for a 3-pointer that capped the run.
The Rockets scored the next six points, but George made two free throws with about a minute left to make it 107-99.
Neither team could get its offense going in the fourth quarter and they had combined for just seven points when a 3-pointer by Kevin Porter Jr. cut the lead to 90-85 with about eight minutes to go.
The Clippers raced out to a 23-5 lead, but the Rockets soon got going and cut the lead to 56-53 by halftime.
“Spotting them at the first timeout 25 and then you’re climbing back all the way to tie it up and then you’ve got to be borderline perfect after that,” Rockets coach Stephen Silas said. “That’s a tough way to start a game.”
A dunk by rookie Tari Eason got the Rockets within one with about 2 minutes left in the third. But the Clippers scored the last six points of the quarter, with four by Norman Powell, to lead 86-79 entering the fourth.
TIP-INS
Clippers: Leonard, who missed all last season recovering from a torn right ACL, played in two of the team’s first three games before he began having trouble with his knee. It’s unclear if he’ll return when the Clippers host Utah on Sunday.. … Nicolas Batum fouled out with about a minute left.
Rockets: Jae’Sean Tate missed a second straight game with a sore right ankle. … Porter had 22 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. … Houston made just 11 of 38 3-pointers. … Sengun fouled out late in the fourth quarter.
BROWN’S BIG GAME
Lue raved about the play of Brown, who had 13 points and six rebounds off the bench.
“Moses came in and did a great job,” Lue said. “He really won the game for us just with his energy and the way he played.”
UP NEXT
Clippers: Visit the Spurs Friday night.
Rockets: Start a four-game road trip at Minnesota Saturday night.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The group looking to repeal the Arkansas LEARNS Act is in its final stretch of getting signatures on a petition for a referendum.
Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) is tasked with getting more than 50,000 signatures by July 31, to get the item on the November 2024 ballot for voters.
CAPES recently created a hotline for people experiencing intimidation or bullying over signing the petition and director Kimberly Crutchfield said the reports she has heard point to administrators, superintendents or bosses in the private sector.
“They are using all these intimidation and bullying tactics that are not true to get people to forgo their constitutional right to petition the government,” Crutchfield said. “It is against the law first and foremost for you to intimidate someone not to participate in your democracy.”
Crutchfield said the ACLU of Arkansas helped create the hotline, though a spokesperson for ACLU said they are not involved in any hotline related to signature collection.
A spokesperson for Attorney General Tim Griffin responded to the claim.
“We have not received any complaints regarding alleged intimidation, but we welcome any information,” the spokesperson said.
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NEW YORK, June 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of DouYu International Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: DOYU) between April 30, 2021 and May 9, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important August 8, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased DouYu securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland has begun building a state-of-the-art electronic barrier at its land border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave to monitor and counteract any illegal activity, the Polish interior minister said Tuesday.
The barrier, which will be equipped with 24-hour monitoring cameras and motion detectors, will run for 210 kilometers (130 miles) and is due to be completed in the fall.
“We will have full monitoring of the border with Russia,” Mariusz Kaminski told a news conference.
“I am sure that this will be the best secured EU border,” he said.
Last year, Poland, which is an EU member, built a wall on its border with Belarus, a Russian ally, to stop a massive illegal inflow of migrants. Warsaw said the crossings were organized by the Belarus and Russian authorities to destabilize Poland and the rest of the EU.
Poland’s eastern borders with Russia and Belarus, which are also EU external borders, will be “perfectly prepared for any type of illegal activities that are linked to crisis situations regarding our eastern neighbors,” Kaminski said.
In February, Poland put up anti-tank barriers on roads leading to border crossings with Kaliningrad. Last year, it put up a razor-wire barrier there.
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TOKYO – Scandal-embattled Japanese electronics and technology manufacturer Toshiba has accepted a 2 trillion yen ($15 billion) tender offer from Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund made up of the nation’s major banks and companies.
If the proposal succeeds, it will be a major step in Toshiba’s yearslong turnaround effort, allowing it to go private and delist from the Tokyo Stock Exchange. But overseas activist investors own a significant part of Toshiba’s shares, and it’s unclear if they will be happy with the latest bid.
Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp. announced its board accepted the bid at 4,620 yen ($36) a share late Thursday. Toshiba closed at 4,213 yen ($32) a share Thursday, and is trading at 4,474 yen ($34) early Friday. The offer was announced after trading closed in Tokyo.
The move comes while the world’s financial sector is in turmoil over the ripple effects from the recent collapse of banks in the U.S.
The critical point is that the latest offer, if successful, will keep Toshiba’s business Japanese in an alliance with Japanese partners.
Japan Industrial Partners, set up in 2002 to restructure Japanese companies, lists big names among where it has invested, such as Sony, Hitachi, Olympus and NEC.
The consortium includes about 20 Japanese companies, such as Orix Corp., a financial services company, electronics manufacturer Rohm Co. and the megabanks such as Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., according to Japanese media reports.
The deep troubles at Toshiba began with a sprawling accounting scandal in 2015, involving books being doctored for years. That added to its woes related to its nuclear energy business.
Its U.S. nuclear arm Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy in 2017, after years of deep losses as safety costs soared. Toshiba is also involved in the decommissioning effort at the Fukushima nuclear plant heavily damaged by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Toshiba has gone through several presidents over the years, as the brand once prized for making household appliances, laptops, batteries and computer chips, became the target of overseas activist shareholders.
The latest proposal still needs to go through regulatory reviews in several countries, including the U.S., Vietnam, Germany and Morocco. The process is expected to take several months.
Toshiba has been trying to go private in recent years. Proposals to split Toshiba into three, and then two, companies were rejected by shareholders. Delisting will allow Toshiba to leave behind the activist investors.
Toshiba had its humble beginnings in a telegraph equipment factory in 1875. The brand had been synonymous with the power of modern Japan’s manufacturing sector. It has sold parts of its operations, including its flash-memory business, now known as Kioxia, although Toshiba remains a stakeholder in Kioxia.
Whether Toshiba can get back on a solid growth track remains uncertain. Last month, Toshiba lowered its profit forecast for the fiscal year through March to 130 billion yen ($1 billion), down from an earlier projection for a 190 billion yen ($1.5 billion) profit.
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A judge in Tennessee has temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by President Joe Biden's administration that extended protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces.
U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. in an order on Friday ruled for the 20 state attorneys general who sued last August claiming the Biden administration directives infringe on states' right to enact laws that, for example, prevent students from participating in sports based on their gender identity or requiring schools and businesses to provide bathrooms and showers to accommodate transgender people.
Atchley, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020, agreed with the attorneys generals’ argument and issued a temporary injunction that prevents the agencies from applying that guidance on LGBTQ discrimination until the matter can be resolved by courts.
“As demonstrated above, the harm alleged by Plaintiff States is already occurring — their sovereign power to enforce their own legal code is hampered by the issuance of Defendants’ guidance and they face substantial pressure to change their state laws as a result,” Atchley wrote.
The attorneys general are from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and West Virginia.
The directives regarding discrimination based on sexual orientation was issued by the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in June following a landmark civil rights decision by U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 that, under a provision called Title VII, protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in the workplace.
The Department of Education guidance from June 2021 said discrimination based on a student's sexual orientation or gender identity would be treated as a violation of Title IX, the 1972 federal law that protects sex discrimination in education.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released guidance that month about what could constitute discrimination against LGBTQ people and advised the public about how to file a complaint.
With its guidance, the Biden administration in part took a stand against laws and proposals in a growing number of states that aim to forbid transgender girls from participating on female sports teams. The state attorneys general contend that the authority over such policies “properly belongs to Congress, the States, and the people.”
The education policy carried the possibility of federal sanctions against schools and colleges that fail to protect gay and transgender students.
The attorneys general argued that a delaying a legal review of the directives would “cause them significant hardship, as Defendants would be allowed to use the ‘fear of future sanctions’ to force ‘immediate compliance’ with the challenged guidance,” Atchley wrote.
“The Court finds that Plaintiffs have shown a credible threat of enforcement,” Atchley wrote. “Plaintiffs highlight that private litigants are relying on Defendants’ guidance to challenge Plaintiffs’ state laws.”
Atchley noted that the U.S. Department of Education has filed a statement of interest in a West Virginia lawsuit taking a position that Title IX prohibits the state from excluding transgender girls from participating in single-sex sports restricted to girls. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/US-agencies-temporarily-barred-from-enforcing-17309501.php | 2022-07-16 16:43:23 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/US-agencies-temporarily-barred-from-enforcing-17309501.php |
Snakes in the walls: First-time homebuyer discovers snake infestation
DENVER, Colo. (KMGH) – Owning a home can be very stressful, but a first-time home buyer in Colorado discovered a massive snake infestation in the walls of the house.
After weeks of looking at homes, Amer Hall knew a home in Centennial was the one she wanted when she walked inside.
Her family and their two dogs moved in at the end of March. But settling in has taken more time than she thought.
Their dog found a snake in the back of her garage, but that was just the beginning. Hall said there were more hidden in the wall.
She hired a snake wrangler who said there’s likely a den somewhere underground and they’ve been living there for at least two years.
“My kids and I are afraid to sleep in our beds,” Hall said. “We’re afraid to use the restroom because snakes may come out of the toilet.”
She’s not sure when, or even if, that feeling will ever go away.
“It’s rough. I’m 42 years old, and this is my first home. I’ve worked my whole life for it, and I can’t enjoy it. My kids can enjoy it. I’m scared to death,” Hall said.
Hall said she wants to rip up the concrete and find out where the reptiles are before she can escape from the snake saga that’s her new home.
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Record-breaking heat hits Texas. Five non-travel related cases of malaria have been reported in Texas and Florida. Over $200 billion in pandemic business loans appear to be fraudulent, watchdog says.
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Record-breaking heat hits Texas. Five non-travel related cases of malaria have been reported in Texas and Florida. Over $200 billion in pandemic business loans appear to be fraudulent, watchdog says.
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- To Supply Safe and Secure Beverages and to Further Accelerate Global Environmental Conservation -
KYOTO, Japan, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OMRON Corporation (hereinafter "OMRON"), headquartered in Kyoto, and Kirin Brewery Company, Limited (hereinafter "Kirin Brewery"), a Tokyo-based group company of Kirin Holdings Company, Limited (hereinafter "Kirin"), also based in the Japanese capital, announced on October 18 that they have signed a Stock Purchase Agreement regarding OMRON's investment in Kirin Techno-System Company, Limited (hereinafter "KTS"), based in Kawasaki, to supply safe and secure beverages. OMRON's equity stake will be 60%, and Kirin Brewery's 40%.
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Lately, as consumers' interest in the safety and security of food and beverages has increased, there is a growing need for advanced quality control and quality inspection to ensure the safety and security of such products at the manufacturing site. On the other hand, as the labor shortage in the manufacturing industry accelerates, automation of manual processes has become a management issue. In addition, reducing waste due to quality defects is also critical from the perspective of global environmental conservation in order to reduce plastic use. In addition to further improving productivity, which has been an issue for some time, there is an urgent need to achieve higher inspection accuracy, automation, and reduction of defective products in order to both ensure the safety and security of food and beverages and protect the global environment by reducing the use of plastics and use of production energy.
Through OMRON joining the investment in KTS, the two companies will jointly develop "Manufacturing DX (Digital Transformation)" solutions utilizing inspection data and contribute to the development of the food and beverage industry. Both companies will co-create new value (solutions) by combining OMRON's advanced control technology with KTS' inspection technology. Specifically, by identifying the causes of defects from inspection data and taking countermeasures, both companies aim to achieve manufacturing sites that do not produce in-process defects. By extending the solutions created through co-creation to customers in the beverage industry around the world, both companies will promote quality improvement and production innovation in the entire food and beverage industry and contribute to global environmental conservation by reducing the number of defective products.
Through the investment in KTS, OMRON aims to further enhance corporate value by leveraging the strengths of both companies to jointly develop value, providing safe and secure beverages, and contributing to the protection of the global environment.
- Comments from both companies
Junta Tsujinaga, Managing Executive Officer, Company President of Industrial Automation Company, OMRON Corporation
"OMRON's Automation Business is committed to 'Enriching the future for people, industries and the globe by innovative-Automation' under our long-term vision SF2030, launched this fiscal year. We are conducting our business to create a future society in which the sustainable development of industries that support the upper 'Medical,' 'Food' and 'Living Environment' and enrichment of the future for people and the globe are concurrently achieved. This capital alliance is positioned to contribute to the sustainable development of the food and beverage industry, which supports the 'Food.' Through this investment, OMRON will retain KTS' 'inspection machine,' which is becoming increasingly critical at production sites in the food and beverage industry. By integrating it with our value creation concept, 'innovative-Automation,' we will continue contributing to the safe, secure, and fulfilling 'Food.'"
Masao Maehara, Senior Executive Officer in charge of Supply Chain Management, Production Technology Strategy at Kirin Holdings
"Kirin Techno-System is a pioneering 'in-house venture company' that was incorporated based on optical technology developed by Kirin Brewery's Engineering Department; directed at maintaining the health and safety of consumers and has gained the trust of numerous domestic and international food, beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Under the Kirin Group Vision 2027, a long-term management vision launched in 2019, the Kirin Group aims to become 'A global leader in CSV (*),' creating value across our world of Food & Beverages to Pharmaceuticals, and Kirin Techno-System plays an important role in putting this vision into practice. Through this investment, we will evolve and expand the value provided by Kirin Techno-System and contribute to the health and safety of consumers worldwide."
(*) Creating Shared Value. Combined added value for consumers as well as for society at large.
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WASHINGTON — The last conversation Sandra Torres had with her 10-year-old daughter was about her nervous excitement over whether she’d make the all-star softball team. Hours later, Eliahna Torres was one of 19 children and two teachers massacred at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
With little closure and few answers about law enforcement’s 77-minute wait on May 24 in the school hallway rather than confronting the gunman, Sandra Torres filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against police, the school district and the maker of the gun the shooter used.
“My baby never made it out of the school,” she said. “There’s no accountability or transparency. There’s nothing being done.”
The lawsuit accuses the city, the school district and several police departments of a “complete failure” to follow active shooter protocols and violations of the victims’ constitutional rights by “barricading them” inside two classrooms with the killer for more than an hour. The city, school district and police did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
Torres is being helped by the legal arm of the group Everytown for Gun Safety. Her suit also names the manufacturer of the AR-style semiautomatic rifle that Salvador Ramos used to fire more than 100 rounds in the horrific mass shooting.
The claim is part of a new and expanding legal front in the nationwide court battle over firearms. While gunmakers are typically immune under federal law from lawsuits over crimes committed with their products, families of victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, secured a $73 million settlement with Remington, the maker of the weapon used in that shooting a decade ago.
The settlement came after the victims successfully argued that suing over marketing under state law was an exception to the federal immunity measure.
The new Uvalde suit alleges that marketing tactics by Daniel Defense violated the Federal Trade Commission Act by negligently using militaristic imagery, product placement in combat video games and social media to target “vulnerable and violent young men,” said Eric Tirschwell, executive director at Everytown Law.
“It wasn’t by accident that he went from never firing a gun to wielding a Daniel Defense AR-15,” Tirschwell said, citing the findings of a report written by an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives. “We intend to prove Daniel Defense marketing was a significant factor in the choices that Ramos made.”
The company, based in Black Creek, Georgia, did not immediately return a message seeking comment, but in a congressional hearing over the summer CEO Marty Daniels called the Uvalde shooting and others like it “pure evil” and “deeply disturbing.” Still, he separated the weapons themselves from the violence, saying mass shootings in America are local problems to be solved locally.
Everytown is also part of a similar lawsuit after a shooting attack on parade-goers in Highland Park, Illinois, based on a state law. If arguments based on federal law are successful, it could open up gunmakers to costly civil lawsuits as the nation grapples with rising gun violence and a brutal string of mass shootings.
“It would be an important step forward to holding gun manufacturers to account if their marketing crosses a line,” Tirschwell said.
The case also names the gun shop where Ramos bought the weapon used in the shooting, along with another AR-15 and ammunition, purchases that totaled thousands of dollars, though only one weapon was used in the shooting. One patron later told the FBI he “looked like ... a school shooter,” according to the report from the Texas House of Representatives.
The July report found that nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to the mass shooting, but “egregiously poor decision-making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman was finally confronted and killed. It criticized state and federal law enforcement as well as local authorities for failing to follow active shooter training and prioritizing their own safety over the victims’ lives.
Another parent whose child was wounded in the shooting and two parents whose children were on campus at the time filed the first suit related to the Uvalde shooting in late September.
For Sandra Torres, the case is also another way to seek answers about the botched police response.
“For 77 minutes they did nothing. Nothing at all,” she said. “She’ll never know what it’s like to get married, to graduate, to go to her first prom ... never forget their faces.” | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/uvalde-mom-sues-gunmaker-in-school-massacre/507-1bc807e1-f8fe-4ae5-93f0-a9d1282b5534 | 2022-11-28 21:36:50 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/uvalde-mom-sues-gunmaker-in-school-massacre/507-1bc807e1-f8fe-4ae5-93f0-a9d1282b5534 |
Duo recognized for excellence in business growth and community giving during the Association's 63rd annual convention
JUPITER, Fla., March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Franchise Association (IFA) has announced that Joseph and Kathryn Pizzurro, franchise owners of the Gainesville, Florida locations of dog wellness concept Scenthound, have been recognized as 2023 Franchisees of the Year. The annual award program recognizes outstanding franchise establishment owner-operators that are selected for their service to their communities, fostering a strong and vibrant workforce, opening the doors for career growth and entrepreneurship, and supporting their fellow franchisees.
The Pizzurros joined the Scenthound family after over 30 years in the corporate world, opening their Gainesville location in May 2021. They were drawn to Scenthound's wellness-focused concept by their desire to bring local pet owners an option for routine care that would lead to happier, healthier dogs. Since opening, their location has serviced almost 3,000 local dogs through Scenthound's monthly membership and offerings that address five core areas of needed care — Skin, Coat, Ears, Nails, and Teeth.
"The Pizzurros embraced Scenthound's franchise model and culture from the start, as they consistently prioritize the health and wellness of the dogs in their care while fostering a team-first environment for their staff," said Tim Vogel, CEO and Founder of Scenthound. "Their unwavering dedication to Scenthound's values and commitment to delivering exceptional customer experience has proven them to be outstanding franchise partners. They not only excel in their own operations but also actively contribute to the growth and development of the franchise community through their willingness to support and engage with other franchisees."
Joseph and Kathryn were standouts within Scenthound before the doors of their location even opened. Prior to opening, they set the systemwide record for the most pre-sale memberships and since have maintained one of the largest Scenthound membership communities. This performance earned them two recognitions at Scenthound's 2022 Franchisee Conference — Franchisee of the Year and Pre-Sale Powerhouse. In addition, they are extremely community-minded, working through Scenthound's "Clean Start" program to offer free services to the local humane society, shelters, and other rescue programs to prepare dogs for adoption. New dog parents that adopt through these organizations also receive a free service from the Pizzurros' location, along with teaching them about the importance of routine care.
"Our ultimate goal is to partner with pet parents to help provide their dogs with the routine care needed to stay clean and healthy. We love what we do and are honored to have received this award," explained Joseph Pizzurro. Kathryn Pizzurro added, "Our journey with Scenthound has been so fulfilling, to be able to see the impact that we have on the wellness of the dogs that come through our doors. We look forward to continuing to serve our community's pets in the years to come."
Scenthound continues to look for franchise partners who, like the Pizzurros, are passionate about keeping dogs happy and healthy. For more information about development opportunities, visit Franchise.Scenthound.com.
About Scenthound
Founded in 2015, Scenthound, the nation's first dog wellness franchise, offers membership-based services for affordable and accessible routine dog care. With a unique focus on pet health and hygiene, the brand's services are elevated through the integration and innovative technology, including its proprietary S.C.E.N.T. Check® (Skin, Coat, Ears, Nails and Teeth) detailing an assessment of each dog's external well-being following its monthly visit to a 'Scenter.' Today, Scenthound has finalized plans for over 210 franchised and corporate-owned locations across 22 states and is positioned for explosive growth across the U.S. For more information about Scenthound's unique membership offerings, visit Scenthound.com or follow the brand on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. To find out more about franchise opportunities, visit Franchise.Scenthound.com.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Chance Nolan threw for 276 yards and four touchdowns and Oregon State remained undefeated with a 68-28 victory over Montana State at Portland's Providence Park on Saturday night.
Anthony Gould caught a pair of touchdown passes and returned a punt for another score for the Beavers, who are 3-0 to open the season for the first time since 2014.
Providence Park is normally home to Major League Soccer’s Portland Timbers and the Portland Thorns of the National Women’s Soccer League. Oregon State hadn’t played in Portland since 1986.
Montana State is using a two-quarterback system this season, with Tommy Mellott and Wyoming transfer Sean Chambers. Mellott threw for 101 yards with three interceptions, while running for 135 yards. Chambers ran for 35 yards and three touchdowns.
The Bobcats (2-1) — who haven't defeated an FBS team since 2006, when they beat current Pac-12 member Colorado 19-10 — were coming off a 63-13 victory over Morehead State in Bozeman.
Deshawn Fenwick gave the Beavers the early lead with a 25-yard scoring run up the middle. Montana State answered with Chambers' 7-yard keeper on the Bobcats' first series of the game.
Nolan hit Tre'Shaun Harrison with a 6-yard scoring pass to give the Beavers a 14-7 lead.
Mellott was intercepted on Montana State's subsequent drive and Oregon State took advantage, scoring on Nolan's 1-yard keeper. But Marqui Johnson scored for the Bobcats on a 98-yard kickoff return to close the gap to 21-14.
Silas Bolden scored for the Beavers on a 24-yard pass from Nolan midway though the second quarter. Nolan added a 9-yard scoring pass to Gould to make it 34-14 going into halftime.
Gould returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown early in the second half.
Chambers had and 8-yard run to close the gap to 40-21, but Damien Martinez ran for a 7-yard score and Gould caught a 17-yard TD pass from Nolan to extend the lead to 54-21.
Jam Griffin ran for 23 yards for another Oregon State touchdown early in the fourth quarter, after the Beavers pulled many of their starters.
Chambers added a 1-yard keeper for the Bobcats with 7:55 left but Kanoa Shannon ran for a 3-yard Beavers touchdown in the final minutes.
THE TAKEAWAY
Montana State: Freshman running back Jared White injured his lower leg in the game against Morehead State and won’t be available for at least a couple of months. Isaiah Ifanse, who racked up 1,623 yards and 10 touchdowns last season, also missed Saturday’s game.
Oregon State: Oregon State was without tight end Luke Musgrave and running back Trey Lowe will miss Saturday’s game because of unspecified injuries. ... The game at Providence Park was a sellout. ... Gary Payton II, who played at Oregon before winning an NBA title last year with the Golden State Warriors, was at the game. Payton signed with the Portland Trail Blazers in the offseason. ... Gould’s touchdown on a punt return was Oregon's first since 2015.
UP NEXT
Montana St: The Bobcats visit Eastern Washington next Saturday.
Oregon State: The Beavers host the USC Trojans next Saturday night.
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They think they’re better than us!
By “they,” we mean everyone. All 49 other states, who regularly use New Jersey as a punchline and have contributed to our notorious ranking as the most hated state in America.
They think they’re better than us!
By “they,” we mean everyone. All 49 other states, who regularly use New Jersey as a punchline and have contributed to our notorious ranking as the most hated state in America.
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Fundraising professionals shared their 2022 successes, challenges, and how they're planning for 2023
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OneCause, a leading provider of event and online fundraising technology, today released their new report: The 2023 Fundraising Outlook: Insights for Nonprofit Planning & Prioritization. In this year's annual survey, findings from 890 fundraising professionals provided insights into where organizations found success in 2022, common challenges, and what they're prioritizing in 2023 as they create their fundraising strategies.
"The nonprofits that are listening to what donors have to say about event format preferences are seeing the greatest success," said Steve Johns, chief executive officer at OneCause. "Our data shows that 80% of organizations who held all in-person or hybrid fundraising events with some virtual elements reported being in line with or raising more than their 2022 event fundraising goals. As nonprofits prepare for 2023 and prioritize donor acquisition, organizations who haven't typically relied on formats like DIY fundraising, hybrid peer-to-peer events, or auctions with a virtual component should consider experimenting with these wide-reaching formats to provide optionality and engage wider audiences."
Key findings include:
- Event and online fundraising revenue remain vital to nonprofit success. Over half of nonprofits reported generating 21% or more of their annual operating budget from their event and online fundraising efforts in 2022. Ninety-five percent of organizations held at least one online campaign, and 93% reported holding at least one fundraising event this year.
- In-person events will make a strong showing in 2023, and nonprofits remain mindful of donor preferences by keeping hybrid events on the calendar. As donor comfort levels with in-person events continue to grow, 83% of organizations plan to hold at least one in-person event in 2023. To meet varying preferences, and to continue to reach a more geographically dispersed donor base, many nonprofits are keeping a diverse mix of event formats on their calendars.
- Donor engagement, fatigue, retention and recurring giving all fall within the top challenges for nonprofits. There was a marked decrease in the number of organizations that reported pandemic-related planning as a major challenge. Donor-related challenges returned to the top of the list for most nonprofits. Staff turnover also emerged as a challenge affecting many organizations, particularly those with annual operating revenues above $5 million.
- Organizations have inconsistent access to data useful in data-driven fundraising and storytelling. Time, the ability to gain actionable insights, and disorganized data present challenges to approximately two-thirds of nonprofits. Only 18% of nonprofits reported having all the data and insights they need and that they use them in nearly every decision they make.
These are just a few of the key findings. Visit the OneCause website to download the full report.
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Amazon to shutter virtual health care service Amazon Care
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is shutting down the hybrid virtual, in-home care service it’s spent years developing. It’s a surprising move that underscores the challenges Amazon faces as it moves into health care. Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said in an email sent to staff that Amazon Care will end by Dec. 31. Amazon Care launched in 2019 for Seattle-based Amazon’s Washington state employees. That served as a testing ground for Amazon care before the company rolled it out nationally last year to include workers in all 50 states. Its also offered to private employers nationwide. Lindsay said the company determined it wasn’t the right long-term solution for customers. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/24/amazon-to-shutter-virtual-health-care-service-amazon-care-2/ | 2022-08-25 01:41:56 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/08/24/amazon-to-shutter-virtual-health-care-service-amazon-care-2/ |
Workers Protest Company Plans to Outsource 200 Local Jobs
FREEHOLD, N.J., June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters Local 11 members who work at Nestle will rally on Tues., June 20, to demand the company keep its Freehold plant open.
Teamsters are fighting plans by Nestle USA to close its only coffee production facility in the U.S. and outsource 200 good-paying union jobs to Mexico.
Nestle managers told workers and their Teamsters Union representatives the plant could close by the end of 2023, a decision that would deeply impact workers and the local community.
Nestle made a $17 billion profit in 2022 and has taken $14.5 million in taxpayer-funded public subsidies from the state of New Jersey.
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VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Authorities are searching for a 31-year-old woman who allegedly fatally hit a 25-year-old man riding a bicycle on Saturday.
California Highway Patrol officers say they received a call on Saturday around 1:00 p.m. about a crash somewhere near Avenue 144, south of Avenue 313.
CHP says Shay Dejong was driving a 2012 Mazda when they hit a man who was riding a bike.
Investigators say Dejong fled southbound on Avenue 144 towards Visalia after hitting the bicyclist.
The biker was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Witnesses said they saw a female driver with blonde hair, matching the description of Dejong, who owns the the Mazda.
After tracking down the car in the incident in Visalia, officers say they knocked on the door to the residence they believed Dejong was in.
Officers say that's when she fled the residence on foot. The Mazda was then impounded for evidence.
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Zach Wilson’s reset needed more time.
The New York Jets benched the second-year quarterback for three games so he could work on his mechanics, fundamentals and mental approach.
But Wilson was forced back into action in the middle of a playoff push because of Mike White’s rib injury – and the flaws in his game are still very much present. And perhaps worse than ever.
Being replaced by Chris Streveler, a fourth-string practice squad quarterback, in a 19-3 loss to Jacksonville on Thursday night to give the offense a spark was further evidence Wilson isn’t the guy the Jets hoped for when they drafted him No. 2 overall last year.
And the Jets (7-8) have gone from playoff contenders to a team on a four-game skid with serious questions about its future at the quarterback spot.
”I don’t second-guess any decisions that we made,” coach Robert Saleh said Friday. ”Some of them were forced because of injury, some of them were looking at the players on the team, and the quarterback is the most important position on the team. If the quarterback is playing well, everything falls into place.
”Feel like we have a damn good defense, our run game was going pretty good (and) it’s kind of failed us the last couple of weeks. Again, starts with us. And getting good quarterback play is what gets every team over the hump.”
Saleh pointed to the Jets’ last four opponents – Minnesota, Buffalo, Detroit and Jacksonville – having exactly that against them.
”This is the time for defenses and quarterback play to elevate, along with the run game,” Saleh said.
In the short-term, the Jets don’t have that difficult a decision: If White is healthy enough to play at Seattle on Jan. 1, he’ll be under center. Saleh said the team will hold off on determining their starting quarterback until more evaluations and tests are done on White’s broken ribs over the weekend and early next week.
But if White can’t play, it’s uncertain if it’ll be Wilson or Joe Flacco – or even Streveler – in his place.
”We’ve got time,” Saleh said. ”I don’t have those answers for you yet.”
While the Jets insisted they liked where Wilson was physically after sitting out three games, it was unrealistic to think his issues could be totally fixed in that short a time.
And now there’s another major factor in the big picture for Wilson.
”Confidence is a big deal,” Saleh said. ”It’s a tough thing to try to overcome, but it doesn’t take much to flip confidence.
”He just needs to get on a little run, just a couple things happen, go his way.”
WHAT’S WORKING
Hopefully the antacids frustrated Jets fans were probably popping as they watched their team’s playoff hopes all but fizzle out on a cold, wet and windy night at MetLife Stadium. The Jets are on the verge of missing the postseason for the 12th straight season, the longest active skid in the NFL.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
What doesn’t? The coaching, the quarterback, the running game, the offensive line are all culprits. The defense has been solid all season, but even Jeff Ulbrich’s unit has been susceptible to breakdowns – such as the 96-yard touchdown drive engineered by Trevor Lawrence.
”It’s absolutely not our standard,” Ulbrich said. ”To give up a 96-yard drive is not acceptable, by any means.”
STOCK UP
Streveler. The former CFL quarterback who helped lead Winnipeg to the Grey Cup during the 2019 season topped the Jets in rushing with 54 yards on nine carries. He was 10 of 15 for 90 yards, although most of his throws were hardly crisp. But on a night when Wilson and the offense struggled mightily, Streveler was a bright spot.
STOCK DOWN
Offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur. The focus has been on Wilson, and deservedly so. But LaFleur has failed to put the quarterback in a position to succeed by switching things up in his play calling. Wilson has shown he’s more effective out of the pocket, especially with a porous offensive line. But there has been little deviation from that by LaFleur, who declined to say why other quarterbacks not named Wilson have made plays in his offense.
”I’m not trying to compare Zach to all the other guys,” LaFLeur said. ”I’ve got to figure it out and figure out how to get him in a rhythm and I haven’t done that.”
INJURIES
The Jets came out of the game without any new injuries. The status of White’s ribs will be the focus as New York begins preparations for their game at Seattle.
KEY NUMBER
72.8 – Wilson’s passer rating is the second worst among second-year quarterbacks in the last 15 seasons with a minimum of eight starts. The only player worse was the Rams’ Sam Bradford at 70.5 in 2011. And yes, that even includes Denver’s Tim Tebow (72.9 in 2011).
NEXT STEPS
The Jets are barely in the postseason hunt and finish with two road games, at Seattle and Miami.
”Thinking playoffs is far-fetched,” Saleh said. ”But at the same time, we’ve done a lot of really, really cool things this year and the most important thing right now is finishing strong.”
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AP Pro Football Writer Josh Dubow contributed.
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Maximize your walk routine with mindful movement in nature
By Stephanie Mansour, CNN
With summer weather and the sun shining, getting outside for some fresh air is highly appealing right now. Whether you head out in the morning to get energized for a busy day or in the evening to wind down, you can use this time to engage both body and mind.
In fact, you can easily turn the outdoors into your own meditation studio by simply focusing on aspects of nature and mindful movement while using your breath and imagination.
These meditations can help you feel more relaxed, think more clearly and even help improve concentration and decision-making, studies have found. Each meditation can be done for 60 seconds and up to 60 minutes. Repeat daily as part of your routine or whenever you get the chance.
Feeling stressed? Performing one of these meditations can help you decrease anxiety and improve self-esteem, according to research. Having difficulty sleeping? Mindfulness meditation can help with better sleep, too, according to studies.
Whether you’re looking for a sense of peace or a clearer mind, one of these meditations could be your ticket to a blissful summer.
Important note: Before beginning any new exercise program, consult your doctor. Stop immediately if you experience pain.
1. Walking meditations
Walking is a great form of exercise, and you can make the most of it by practicing a mindfulness technique at the same time. A simple one to start with is a gratitude meditation (see video above). You’ll focus on feeling thankful and making a mental list of things that you appreciate in your life.
If you’re walking on a track, you focus on one thing you’re grateful for on the first lap, then shift to another thing you’re thankful for on the second lap and so on. If you’re walking on a sidewalk, you could focus on one item during each block that you cover.
Another form of meditation is visualization. When you’re on your walk, transport yourself to a place that feels calm and relaxing. For example, while you’re walking along the streets of a loud city or on the quiet streets in your neighborhood, you can imagine yourself in a beach chair on the sand next to the water. Feel your feet in the sand, the wind in your hair and the sun on your face. Focus on feeling relaxed and calm while you walk and notice how the body feels lighter and looser in motion.
2. Smelling meditation
The outdoors in summertime is filled with scents of fresh flowers, trees, freshly cut grass and bodies of water. For this meditation, sit down next to one of these natural elements and get into a comfortable position. Sitting cross-legged with your hands resting on your knees or your lap is the traditional meditation position, but feel free to sit on a bench or even lean against a tree.
From here, inhale through your nose and breathe in the scent of nature around you. After you inhale, pause and hold your breath for a couple of seconds, then exhale through your nose or mouth to release the breath and the scent. As you inhale, begin counting up to four, hold for a count of two, and then exhale for a count of four. Repeat this breath pattern for anywhere from 60 seconds to 60 minutes.
3. Breathing meditation
This breathing meditation uses the breath to help focus the mind and can be done while in motion. So try out this simple breath work whether you’re walking, running or sitting still.
Breathe in through the nose and focus on one word that’s a positive representation of how you feel. This word could be “good,” “relaxed,” “happy” or even “proud.” Perhaps you are proud of yourself for getting outside!
Then as you exhale through the mouth, think about letting go of any feelings that are the opposite of that positive feeling. These could be feeling stress, anger or antsy. Repeat this breath pattern and word association for the duration of your time outside.
Enhance your time in nature this summer with any of these outdoor meditations.
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Baby clothes are cute and fun, but they can be a bit wasteful. Little ones grow up right before our eyes, which means they're constantly outgrowing their favorite outfits.
You can hand them down of course, or donate the clothes, and now, after the cycle of use is over, you can toss them into the compost bin.
H&M released a line of compostable clothes for newborns.
The outfits are made from 100% organic cotton, which makes them biodegradable.
The pigments H&M uses to dye the baby clothes will also degrade naturally, and they don't feature any buttons or metal trim.
The EPA says the U.S. generated 17 million tons of textile waste in 2018. Just 2.5 million tons of that waste were recycled.
H&M says the baby clothes are super simple to recycle. You can just put them in a compost pile at your home.
There are 12 pieces to choose from, including tops, bottoms with adjustable waistbands and cuffs, jackets, hats and blankets. They'll all go on sale in May.
This is the first of any of H&M's clothing lines to go 100% compostable.
The clothing company says it hopes to use its global scale to "enable big changes in the fashion industry," and it hopes "to be a leader in sustainability." | https://www.wfmz.com/news/good-news/h-m-unveils-compostable-line-of-baby-clothes/article_a1743b0c-c229-11ec-91fb-0330554911b9.html | 2022-04-22 12:42:32 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/good-news/h-m-unveils-compostable-line-of-baby-clothes/article_a1743b0c-c229-11ec-91fb-0330554911b9.html |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Night" game were:
4-4-2, WB: 6
(four, four, two; WB: six)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Night" game were:
4-4-2, WB: 6
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ALS drug wins FDA approval despite questionable data
WASHINGTON (AP) — A much-debated drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease won U.S. approval Thursday, a long-sought victory for patients that is likely to renew questions about the scientific rigor behind government reviews of experimental medicines.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug from Amylyx Pharmaceuticals based on results from one small, mid-stage study in which patients with the debilitating disease appeared to progress more slowly and survive several months longer. Typically, the FDA requires two large studies or one study with “very persuasive” survival results for approval.
“This approval provides another important treatment option for ALS, a life-threatening disease that currently has no cure,” FDA’s neurology drug director Dr. Billy Dunn said in a statement.
The drug, Relyvrio, is the third U.S.-approved medicine for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which destroys nerve cells needed for basic functions like walking, talking and swallowing.
The FDA’s review has become a flashpoint in broader debates about the regulatory agency, including how flexible it should be when reviewing drugs for deadly diseases and how much weight it should give to appeals from patients and other outside voices.
“I think it demonstrates the FDA’s ability to be facile and I think it demonstrates a lot of tenacity on the part of ALS patients and advocates,” said Dr. Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, an ALS specialist at the University of California San Francisco. “The company really tried to do everything possible to get this potentially promising drug out to patients.”
Amylyx’s drug is the latest in a string of neurological drugs that have won FDA approval despite questionable effectiveness data. The agency is still facing two government probes into its approval of the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm last year, which has not yet been shown to slow the disease.
In an online memo summarizing its decision, the FDA said “regulatory flexibility” was appropriate for approving Relyvrio, “given the serious and life-threatening nature of ALS and the substantial unmet need.”
The latest approval followed a remarkably turbulent path, including two negative reviews by the FDA’s internal scientists, who called the company’s results “borderline” and “not persuasive.” A panel of outside advisers backed that negative opinion in March, narrowly voting against the drug.
But the FDA has faced intense pressure from ALS patients, advocates and members of Congress. In recent weeks the agency received more than 1,300 written comments from the ALS community supporting the treatment.
That outpouring helped sway the same expert panel when FDA reconvened them earlier month to revisit Amylyx’s drug. The second time around, they backed the drug, 7-2. The vote was not binding, but it seemed to open the door for FDA approval.
Several panelists said they were reassured by an extraordinary exchange at the meeting in which an FDA official requested — and Amylyx affirmed — that the company would voluntarily pull its drug from the market if a large, ongoing study doesn’t confirm its benefit.
That 600-patient study is expected to report results in 2024.
But experts have pointed to the many potential problems with such an informal commitment. The FDA and the company could disagree on whether the final data supports the drug; or a company that acquires the drug in the future may not feel bound by Amylyx’s pledge.
The powder-based drug is a combination of two older ingredients: a prescription medication for liver disorders and a dietary supplement associated with traditional Chinese medicine. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Amylyx has patented the combination and says the chemicals work together to shield cells from premature death.
Some ALS patients already take both drugs separately, sometimes paying $5,000 a month for the prescription component, according to physicians. FDA approval is expected to compel insurers to cover Amylyx’s medication.
Amylyx did not immediately disclose the price Thursday but said it planned to announce the information on a call with investors Friday morning. In Canada, where the drug received approval in June, the company has proposed a price equating to $165,000.
One outside group that analyzes the cost effectiveness of new treatments pegged the drug’s value at between between $9,100 and $30,700 per year. The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review also noted that many patients are expected to take Amylyx’s drug in combination with an older therapy, which costs over $170,000 per year.
Sunny Brous was diagnosed with ALS in 2015 and hopes to add Relyvrio to the two older FDA-approved medications she already takes for the disease.
“I’ve made it this far without this drug and I’m hoping having it now will extend my life further,” said Brous, 35, who lives near Fort Worth, Texas.
Amylyx’s data came from a study in 137 patients that showed some benefit in slowing the disease, based on functionality questionnaires completed by patients. Patients who continued taking the Relyvrio after the study concluded appeared to survive several months longer than patients who originally received a placebo, the FDA noted.
“The ALS community has proven that our advocacy can impact decisions that are being made about our health,” said Larry Falivena, an ALS Association board member who was diagnosed with the disease in 2017, in an emailed statement. The group invested $2.2 million in Amylyx’s early research and stands to recoup $3.3 million from future drug sales.
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DETROIT – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has won a second term for the top political job in the battleground state, according to a race call by The Associated Press.
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The state of the economy is always a big issue in the industrial Midwest, but abortion rights and Whitmer's deployment of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic also played a role in the campaign.
Whitmer beat political novice Tudor Dixon in the Republican nominee's first run for public office. Dixon was best known as a commentator on conservative news networks prior to winning the Republican nomination in a crowded GOP primary.
Whitmer is a big supporter of abortion rights and has gone to court to block a 1931 Michigan abortion ban from taking effect, earning her a national following.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Rangers player and Albuquerque native came back to his hometown for a bit as he went through a rehab assignment.
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Former National Football League star Marshawn Lynch has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Las Vegas, police said in a tweet posted Tuesday.
Lynch, an Oakland native who played college football at Cal Berkeley, played in the NFL from 2007 to 2019, including an early retirement that saw him miss the entire 2016 season. He spent time with the Seattle Seahawks, Buffalo Bills and Raiders during his career.
This is not Lynch's first run-in with the law involving him operating a car.
In 2008, he pled guilty to a hit-and-run charge that resulted in his license being suspended when he struck a woman with his car at 3:30 a.m. in Buffalo, N.Y. When questioned, he said he didn't know that his car had hit "anyone or anything."
Four years later, Lynch was arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence and registered a reported 0.10 blood alcohol content (BAC), 0.2 over the legal limit to drive. He avoided jail time by pleading guilty to a lesser charge of reckless driving in exchange for two years probation, a $1,033 fine and attending drivers' safety classes.
Lynch is known to be private and particularly hesitant toward the media throughout his career. His most recent activity included becoming a minority owner of the Seattle Kraken and reportedly taking on a more active role mentoring current NFL players on financial advice through his management agency, Beastmode Marketing.
Since a second retirement in 2019, Lynch has flirted with a return to the league. During the 2020 season, the 36-year-old said he would entertain opportunities from Super Bowl contenders.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would add wine and distilled spirits containers to its struggling recycling program, while giving beverage dealers another option to collect empty bottles and cans, under a measure lawmakers approved Wednesday. But critics say the bill would also give hundreds of millions of dollars to corporations they say don’t need the incentives.
It’s “a huge opportunity” to divert hundreds of additional tons of waste from landfills, said Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting, who carried the bill in the Assembly. “This bill will be a huge leap.”
In addition, dealers could form a cooperative organization to collect the containers as an alternative to the current law that requires stores to take back the empties, under the proposal by Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins.
Fewer people have been able to claim their deposit refunds in recent years as many neighborhood recycling centers closed. The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog has said many grocery stores have been refusing to take back empties in-store as required.
The measure cleared the Assembly 54-0 and the Senate 38-0. It will have an effective date of July 1, 2024, if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the bill into law.
The bill doesn’t spell out how the cooperative would work, but would require dealers to submit their plan to state regulators for approval. It would also increase the penalty for violating the law from the current $1,000 to $5,000 per day and for intentional violations from $5,000 to $10,000 per day.
California consumers pay a nickel each time they buy a 12-ounce (355-milliliter) bottle or can, and a dime for containers over 24 ounces (709 milliliters).
They’re supposed to get that money back by returning the bottles and cans, an incentive so the containers don’t go into landfills but can be recycled into new products.
The proposal would include a 25-cent deposit and refund for wine and distilled spirits sold in a box, bag or pouch.
Hawaii, Iowa, Maine and Vermont already have deposit programs including those containers, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Adam Smith, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States’ vice president of state government relations, praised the bill’s passage in a statement.
“The spirits industry believes that sustainable environmental practices are critical to the continued production of the high-quality spirits that consumers enjoy,” he said.
Adding wine and spirits would bring nearly $18 million more annually to the state’s recycling fund starting in 2024, along with annual costs topping $6 million, projects the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally known as CalRecycle.
Newsom’s administration has proposed grants for automated recycling machines, also known as reverse vending machines, at high schools, colleges and retailers, and state-funded mobile recycling programs in rural areas and other places with few recycling options. It also has proposed temporarily doubling the refunds to encourage recycling and give back a portion of nearly $600 million in unclaimed deposits, but that double refund is not in the current proposal.
Consumer Watchdog, Container Recycling Institute and The Story of Stuff Project objected that Atkins’ proposal contains too much pork for corporations, costing nearly $400 million over the next five years for market development and quality incentives that the groups argue aren’t needed.
Of that, $300 million would go to glass container makers including E&J Gallo Winery’s Gallo Glass Company, the nation’s largest glass container plant, they said.
Consumers’ deposits “shouldn’t underwrite enormously profitable companies such as Gallo,” Liza Tucker of Consumer Watchdog said in a statement. “These grants do not help existing redemption centers that are dying on the vine, they only help manufacturers and the biggest recyclers.”
The recycling institute withdrew its support, saying the grants would put “a strain on the ability of the program to operate with financial sustainability.”
Consumer Watchdog backed the distributors’ cooperative portion of the bill, which is similar to previous legislative proposals. That option “could work to create better access if the rules are drafted correctly and enforced,” the group said.
“This is an issue done what I call the right way” with intensive negotiations over several years, said Democratic Assemblyman Adam Gray. “We’ve come to a solution … good for the industry, good for the state of California.”
Without addressing the grants, Atkins said her bill would “reduce consumer confusion” by adding wine and spirits containers, while potentially more than doubling the recycling of those containers from the current 30%. She said her bill also gives dealers “a new path to compliance” with the state’s recycling law.
A second bill heading to Newsom is designed to help reduce recycling fraud by barring cash payments from processors to recyclers.
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History was made Saturday in Neyland Stadium as Tennessee ended 15 years of heartache with a 52-49 beating of Alabama.
Everyone had their say in the aftermath. Here’s a taste of the reaction to the Vols’ first win over Alabama since 2006.
-- Smoked ‘Em: Tennessee Has Celebration for the Ages After Ending Its Alabama Heartache (Sports Illustrated)
-- Tennessee brushes past 15 years of Alabama smoke in triumphant, program-reviving rivalry win (CBS Sports)
-- Nick Saban: Alabama’s defense ‘too soft’ late in loss to Tennessee (ESPN)
-- Tennessee beats Alabama: Celebratory cigars and a party 16 years in the making (ESPN)
-- Light the cigars: Tennessee slays the dragon (On3)
-- Goalposts in the river, victory in the air: Tennessee celebrates huge win over Alabama (Yahoo Sports)
-- What Alabama’s loss to Tennessee means for Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and more (Sporting News)
-- Tennessee proved its resurgence is very real by giving the Alabama defense a historic whooping (SB Nation)
-- Postgame Huddle: Reaction to No. 6 Tennessee’s win over No. 3 Alabama (GoVols247)
-- Tennessee football stuns Alabama on Chase McGrath field goal in thriller (Knoxville News Sentinel)
-- Tennessee football topples Alabama, then the goalposts. Now, rank Vols No. 1 | Toppmeyer (USA Today Network)
-- Week 7 college football winners and losers: Tennessee topples Alabama; Michigan rolls; Utah beats USC (USA Today) | https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2022/10/what-theyre-saying-nationally-after-tennessee-beats-alabama.html | 2022-10-16 12:58:42 | 1 | https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2022/10/what-theyre-saying-nationally-after-tennessee-beats-alabama.html |
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CNH Industrial Reman now offers a repair and return program as part of its fuel injector and injection pump service line. Designed to quickly repair parts to keep equipment moving, the program provides another solution to save time and money when new or remanufactured parts are unavailable.
The program allows CNH Reman to offer different levels of service and repair in addition to its remanufacturing program. Injection components are received and inspected to provide a Reman and/or repair quote back to the dealer. Once the quote is approved, repairs typically take 3-5 business days and are completed using OEM parts.
"This program can provide a quick, cost-effective alternative when new or Reman parts are not available," Travis Stewart, CNH Reman product manager, said.
Repair is the more cost-effective choice when minor repairs are needed compared to remanufacturing. The remanufacturing process inspects the damaged part, tearing it down and replacing all the elements before rebuilding the part. This is the better choice when the damage exceeds the level of repair offered in the repair and return program.
Stewart said there are benefits to both the Reman and repair programs and having both expands CNH Reman's services to customers.
"Our Reman program provides an industry-leading 24-month parts and labor warranty on fuel injection parts. Our Reman fuel injection parts are completely disassembled. All parts are inspected and replaced when necessary with OE component parts," Stewart says. "Repair may make more sense if the issue is minor and a less expensive point of failure fix is available, particularly on older, cost-sensitive machines."
The repair and return program offers repair and Reman alternatives. There is an 18-month warranty on repair parts, while Reman parts offer a 24-month warranty on parts and a limited labor warranty.
Most Bosch, Denso and Delphi fuel injection components can be repaired through the program, as well as nearly all CNH and non-CNH OEM brands and short lines.
To learn more about CNH Industrial Reman's Fuel Injector and Injection Pump Repair and Return program, visit mycnhreman.com or visit your local Case IH or New Holland dealer.
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Todd and Julie Chrisley's legal drama has been tumultuous, complex and hotly contested.
The Chrisley Knows Best stars were indicted in 2019, and more than two years later, following a three-week trial, both were convicted on federal tax evasion and fraud charges.
On Monday, Nov. 21 -- after several sentencing delays -- both Todd and Julie were sentenced by a federal judge to spend several years behind bars.
ET is taking a look back at the couple's legal woes, what they were charged with, and how they've handled their conviction.
Aug. 12, 2019 -- Grand Jury
Todd and Julie were indicted by a grand jury for charges of tax evasion. Court documents obtained by ET showed that Todd and his wife were indicted on multiple counts of conspiracy, bank fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion. Their accountant, Peter Tarantino, was also indicted on tax-related offenses.
Todd immediately went on the defensive, denying the charges and claiming they were set up by a disgruntled former employee.
Todd took to Instagram to claim that the former employee set out to convince the U.S. Attorney's office that the Chrisleys were responsible for committing financial crimes. Todd said he and his wife had "nothing to hide."
"Not only do we know we've done nothing wrong, but we've got a ton of hard evidence and a bunch of corroborating witnesses that proves it," Todd argued at the time.
Aug. 14, 2019 -- Entering Their Pleas
Todd and Julie appeared in court in Atlanta on Aug. 14, and entered a plea of not guilty. During the court hearing, the reality TV stars were granted a $100,000 unsecured bond. Todd and Julie were not in handcuffs in the courtroom during the hearing.
Todd and Julie were ordered to turn in their passports, effective immediately, and the couple's travel was restricted to middle Tennessee and North Georgia districts. Furthermore, the couple was ordered to give notice to their probation officers if they need to travel to California to tape their reality TV show.
Todd told local Atlanta news station WSB-TV, "We stand in our faith, and we stand in what we know is right. We are fortunate to have the counsel that we have, and our family will stick together, and we'll walk this road because we know that the good Lord will hold our hand and take us through."
Oct. 8, 2019 -- Cleared on Some Charges
Todd and Julie were cleared of their state tax evasion charge. The Georgia Department of Revenue officially exonerated the couple of the $2 million claim related to their state taxes between 2008 and 2016.
The state conceded that the Chrisleys actually overpaid their taxes for some years. The couple ended up having a net liability of less than $77,000 in overdue taxes for just one year of incorrect filing. The Department of Revenue concluded that the Chrisleys owed no taxes for 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012, and were due refunds for 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. The only year they owed money for was 2009, which has since been paid by the family.
The couple stilled faced federal charges for allegedly evading federal taxes in the same years.
Oct. 15, 2019 -- The Chrisleys Sue
The Chrisleys filed a lawsuit against the director of the Georgia Department of Revenue's Office of Special Investigations, alleging that he abused his power as part of an effort to prosecute "bogus tax evasion claims" against them.
The pair claimed in the lawsuit that director Joshua Waites specifically targeted their estranged daughter, Lindsie, in an effort to "induce her to reveal compromising information about her family," and to gain media attention for himself. The Chrisleys claim that Waites pursued "an increasingly aggressive relationship with Lindsie," and improperly shared their confidential tax and grand jury information that he had learned through his position with the Department of Revenue to gain her trust and to intimidate her into cooperation.
Lindsie's lawyer told ET in a statement that her client was not the source of information that led to her parents being indicted, and denied the allegations of any such relationship.
Aug. 9, 2021 -- Opening Up to ET
ET exclusively spoke with the Chrisley Knows Best stars in Nashville, and they claimed that they wouldn't be in the situation they were in if not for their reality show and level of fame.
"I wouldn't think so, because then nobody would care who we are," Todd explained.
"People ask me all the time, 'What's the best and worst part about having the show and TV and all this?'" added Julie. "And I said, 'Well, imagine every day of your life, going to work with your spouse, with your adult children, with your minor children, and with your mother-in-law. ... This is a job, but at the end of the day, all the BS has to go away and this is our family."
May 17, 2022 -- The Trial Begins
The long-awaited federal trial kicked off, and in opening arguments, the government alleged that the pair exaggerated their earnings to banks to borrow more than $30 million.
Assistant US Attorney Annalise Peters argued in court, "They made up documents and they lie through their teeth to get whatever they want, whenever they want it," per Us Weekly.
The Chrisleys' lawyer alleged in response that a disgruntled former employee was to blame for the fraud, and they were not responsible.
June 7, 2022 -- Found Guilty
After a nearly three-week-long trial, Todd and Julie were found guilty in their tax fraud trial. The pair was convicted on all counts in a federal court in Georgia.
Todd was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax fraud. Julie was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, tax fraud and wire fraud.
The convictions could potentially land the pair in prison for 30 years.
June 8, 2022 -- Homeward Bound
After being found guilty in their tax fraud trial, Todd and Julie's bond conditions changed to include house confinement and electronic monitoring, meaning the pair was under house arrest until their sentencing.
According to the couple's bond condition form, obtained by ET, Todd and Julie were both restricted to their residence at all times except for employment, education, religious service, health treatment, attorney visits, court appearances, court-ordered obligations, or other activities as pre-approved by the Court or probation officer.
Per the bond condition form, the couple must pay all or part of the costs of the Location Monitoring Program based upon their ability to pay as determined by the probation officer. Additionally, the couple was ordered to inform probation of any spending over $1,000.
Sentencing was originally set for Oct. 6, but later postponed.
August 2022 -- A New Motion
Todd and Julie filed a motion for a new trial and acquittal in August, claiming that their initial trial was "fundamentally unfair."
In that legal filing, Todd and Julie claimed that an IRS Revenue officer "lied" in her testimony about the Chrisleys owing taxes "when she knew no taxes were due."
They claimed that those statements had the effect of "falsely painting the Chrisleys as untruthful, likely to commit other forms of fraud, and evading the tax payments alleged in the indictment."
They also accused the court of admitting "substantial volumes of evidence at trial which were obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment," citing financial documents they say were "unlawfully seized" by Georgia's Department of Revenue and initially suppressed by the court. The filing goes on to accuse the court of failing to "properly enforce its suppression order" by allowing some of said documentation to be admitted into evidence.
Sept. 14, 2022 -- Sentencing Delayed
In response to the motion for a new trial, Todd and Julie's sentencing date was pushed back from Oct. 6 to Nov. 21.
Oct. 28, 2022 -- Motion Denied
The pair's joint motion for a new trial was denied by a federal judge, and their sentencing date of Nov. 21 was upheld.
Nov. 21, 2022 -- Sentencing Passed
After previously having the hearing delayed, a federal judge sentenced Todd and Julie to spend time behind bars in federal prison on Nov. 21. Todd was sentenced to 12 years in prison, as well as 16 months probation, while Julie was sentenced to seven years in prison, plus 16 months probation. Meanwhile, their accountant, Peter Tarantino -- who was also convicted -- was previously sentenced to three years in prison.
According to Deadline, this also spelled the end for the family's two unscripted reality docu-series, Chrisley Knows Best and Growing Up Chrisley. Both shows were reportedly canceled due to the conviction.
Nov. 22, 2022 -- Sentencing Explained
After the couple's sentencing, Judge Rachel Juarez, who was not involved in the case and is not connected to the pair, told ET that the Chrisleys' multi-year sentence fell along the lines of what most legal experts expected.
"These were very serious crimes," Juarez said. "The fraud was extensive, and there was really no remorse being shown by either Todd or Julie. They stuck by their actions. They didn't express any remorse or accept any sense of responsibility. I think unwillingness to show responsibility absolutely played into the sentence."
"They were not harshly punished beyond what would be within the guideline or even below guideline, taking into account other factors like their age, risk of security and criminal history," she added. "... The fact that the Chrisleys were [flaunting their wealth], putting it out there for the country -- that they were spending, living a lavish lifestyle -- made it really important to show America and show the public that these actions have consequences, so that others watching might think twice about committing tax fraud, committing bank fraud, lying about their financials themselves."
Nov. 22, 2022 -- Life in Prison
Juarez additionally told ET about what the couple can expect when they report to serve their sentences, which for Todd will likely be at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Pensacola in Florida, and for Julie will likely be at FCI Tallahassee.
FCI Pensacola, Juarez said, "has made a lot of lists as one of the easier places to do time in a federal system." Buffalo News described the minimum-security prison as "laid-back" and basically like "camp," adding that there's a stocked library, gym, track and movie nights.
At FCI Tallahassee, meanwhile, inmates are woken up at 6 a.m. every day. According to one report, inmates are afforded yoga classes, allowed to watch movies, play sports and take up hobbies include painting, art and ceramics.
Even with all of that taken in account, Juarez noted, "No prisons are easy."
Nov. 23, 2022 -- What's Next for the Minor Chrisley Children
In a podcast episode recorded prior to Todd and Julie's sentencing but released after the fact, the Chrisleys' daughter, Savannah, revealed that she was planning to take custody of her siblings Grayson, 16, and Chloe, 10. Chloe is Savannah's biological niece, but was adopted by and was being raised in Todd and Julie’s household.
"I never had to worry about where my parents were, if they were gonna show up," Savannah said on Unlocked With Savannah Chrisley. "I think that’s the hard part, I think there’s a level of guilt too for myself, knowing that Chloe and Grayson aren’t going to have that same feeling, of, 'Are Mom and Dad going to be home tonight?'"
"I have to be a positive role model for Chloe and Grayson," she added. "No matter how hard it gets, I have to show up."
Nov. 23, 2022 -- Todd and Julie Speak Out
On an episode of Todd and Julie's Chrisley Confessions podcast, which was recorded prior to their sentencing but released after the fact, the couple spoke about their impending time in prison.
Julie called the situation a "nightmare," but noted that she's "grateful that [her and Todd's] relationship has grown instead of falling apart" during the challenging time.
Todd and Julie went on to explain that despite their legal circumstances, they are taking the lessons that God is giving them by "stripping them down" and "reminding them where they came from."
Nov. 28, 2022 - Chase Chrisley Breaks His Silence
The Chrisleys' 26-year-old son, Chase, took to his Instagram Story to seemingly react to his parents' sentencing news by reposting a viral tale with a poignant lesson.
"A good friend of mine unexpectedly lost his wife. A couple months later, we were golfing together, chatting about nothing. He asked what my dinner plans were and I told him wifey wanted my homemade chili and cornbread, but I didn't feel like stopping at the store," the post read. "We golfed a few more minutes when he quietly said, 'Make the chili.'"
"It took me a few minutes to realize we were no longer talking about dinner," the post continued. "It was about going out of your way to do something for someone you love because at any moment, they could unexpectedly be taken from you."
"So today I'm sharing with you that wisdom handed to me by my dear friend, that I've thought of so many times since that day," the post concluded. "Next time someone you love wants you to go for a walk or watch a football game or play a board game or just put your phone down and give them your undivided attention, just do it. 'Make the chili.'"
Nov. 30, 2022 -- Living Every Days Like It's Their Last
On yet another episode of Todd and Julie's Chrisley Confessions podcast -- which, like the previous episode, was recorded prior to their sentencing -- Julie said the couple is living "every day as if it's our last."
"Yesterday doesn't matter. Today is what we have. Tomorrow belongs to God, because we're not promised tomorrow," Todd shared.
As they move through this difficult time in their lives, Julie said she tries to approach every tough moment with the idea that her children are watching. Todd noted that both he and Julie have tried to be good examples for their children though he admits they have "fallen short" at times.
They also reflected on the importance of staying positive in the face of challenges and setbacks.
"You have to live above your circumstances, you have to know that your circumstances are not forever, that they will eventually change and you're going to come out the other side, and that you're going to be given the strength you need to get through it," Julie shared. "But that's sometimes hard to accept, I think, when you don't see the light at the end of the tunnel."
"There are dark days, we all have dark days," Todd chimed in, "and we can choose to sit and wallow in it, or we can get up."
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Brand With Most Sought After Stretching Methodology in the Industry has Record Breaking Number of New Locations in 2022
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A movement unlike any other is putting the world into motion one stretch at a time.
Stretch Zone, the world's first and largest stretching franchise, is coming out of a remarkable year with a 60% increase in new locations in 2022 – with no closures to date. The accelerated growth positions the brand to reach 300 locations nationwide in Q2 of 2023.
Over the past 12 months, Stretch Zone's credibility has been solidified by taking the title of the first assisted-stretching franchise to reach 200 locations as well as differentiated itself from industry competition with enhancements to its operations and an increase in system performance. The brand also established the first and only National Stretching Day on December 11.
"Looking back at 2022, we are extremely proud of the evident success we have had within our segment. In the next year, we have several initiatives to support both franchise and consumer appeal," said Tony Zaccario, the president and CEO of Stretch Zone. "There is an immense amount of passion and purpose that has driven this brand to the remarkable growth its accomplished so far. We look forward to keeping the client and franchise experience a high priority while carrying out our 2023 goals which aim to show the impact Stretch Zone has beyond the fitness segment."
Heading into 2023, Stretch Zone is remaining focused on the client experience by unveiling new strategies and resources to help clients achieve success in their health and wellness journey.
"Our strong methodology and dedication to the values, along with the practitioners we have behind the Stretch Zone brand has undeniably allowed us to pave the way to growth and success in 2022," said Jorden Gold, founder and mastermind behind Stretch Zone's stretching methodology. "Stretching has always been a personal passion of mine and it's heartwarming to know that our swift expansion has aided the demand for high quality and effective wellness services for people of all ages."
Stretch Zone offers franchisees a full range of programs. The franchise opportunity differentiates itself with a simplistic, franchisee-first business model backed by a science-based, patented stretching system. In 2021, the brand also struck up a partnership with Drew Brees, who sits on the Board of Directors, which strategically positions Stretch Zone to continue its stature as a leader in the industry. Further elevating the franchise opportunity are several award recognitions including a spot on the Franchise Times Top 500 list as well as Franchise Business Review's "Culture 100 Award and "Top Franchises for Veterans."
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Stretch Zone is the leading franchised stretching concept that offers proprietary, practitioner-assisted stretching sessions to help clients achieve enhanced quality of life. It was founded by Jorden Gold in 2004 after seeing the first-hand benefits assisted stretching brought to his grandfather. With a steady cadence of location openings, Stretch Zone recently achieved its 200th location milestone. The brand has now set a goal to reach 300 locations in Q2 of 2023. As a pioneer within the health and wellness space, Stretch Zone uses its patented Stretch Zone Stabilization System to aid in increased mobility and muscle function. The system enables clients to accomplish Flex-ability for Life® with processes to train muscles to move with a greater range of motion, allowing for an easier golf swing or comfortable night's rest. Clients are welcomed into Stretch Zone by nationally accredited practitioners, a relaxing atmosphere and secure equipment. For more information about Stretch Zone, visit www.stretchzone.com.
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Record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot fans ticket sales
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Powerball jackpot has reached an estimated record high of $1.6 billion, leading longtime players and first-timers alike to flock to buy tickets ahead of Saturday night’s drawing.
At Woodman’s Markets in Madison, sisters Christy Bemis and Cherrie Spencer were among the dozens of weekend shoppers who paid for their groceries and loaded up carts before joining the line at the lottery counter to purchase their shot at the prize.
They said they almost never buy lottery tickets, but they were lured in by the size of the jackpot.
“My $2 has just as good a chance of winning as anyone else’s $2,” said Spencer.
The counter was one of the busiest areas of the supermarket — so busy that employees set up stanchions to guide the queue. Like most of the players in line, Jim Olson, 78, was buying Quick Picks, randomly generated Powerball numbers, but he doesn’t always.
Olson said he has typically bought a Powerball ticket once every drawing “virtually since they started.” When he picks his own numbers, there’s no rhyme or reason to how he does it: “They just come to you. I can’t explain it.”
Olson’s biggest win to date? $300 about 20 years ago, he said.
It speaks to the extremely long odds of winning the jackpot — about 1 in 292.2 million.
Still, the chance of pocketing $782.4 million (the value of the cash option before taxes) has been enough to bring people flooding across state lines for a chance to play. Winners of massive jackpots almost always opt for cash, but some financial experts say the annuity option, which is paid out over a 30-year term, might be a safer bet.
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With a record-breaking jackpot, business has picked up. Davis said he’s also seen a recent increase in players purchasing tickets online.
As customers arrived at the counter, Davis would ask how he could help them. Almost every one answered the same: Powerball tickets.
“Every time, it’s always that one,” Davis said.
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LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against Pegasystems Inc. ("Pegasystems" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: PEGA) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investors who purchased the Company's securities between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the ''Class Period''), are encouraged to contact the firm before July 18, 2022.
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According to the Complaint, the Company made false and misleading statements to the market. Pegasystems engaged in a campaign of corporate espionage and the misappropriation of trade secrets to gain a competitive advantage over rival Appian. The Company's product development and success was driven in part by the theft of trade secrets. The Company's CEO was personally involved in the theft of trade secrets and other corporate espionage activities. The Company was "unable to reasonably estimate damages" in litigation related to Appian. Based on these facts, the Company's public statements were false and materially misleading throughout the class period. When the market learned the truth about Pegasystems, investors suffered damages.
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Donation will unlock an additional $210M in public and private investments
HOUSTON, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The non-profit Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) announces that its Buffalo Bayou East Master Plan will become a reality thanks to a historic public-private partnership anchored by a $100 million gift from Kinder Foundation, which is leveraging another $210 million of public and private investments. This visionary plan integrates new bayou parks, trails, housing, cultural destinations, and infrastructure improvements into Houston's Greater East End and Fifth Ward neighborhoods.
Funding for delivery of the first ten years of Buffalo Bayou East is a premiere example of public and private entities working together to provide equitable green space for all. Kinder Foundation's $100 million gift, combined with approximately $37 million already raised by BBP, served as the catalyst to secure significant public funds from the City of Houston ($83.5 million), and Harris County ($24 million), as well as $14 million in federal housing tax credits. BBP will continue to raise the remaining private funds needed, with a goal of raising an additional $46 million by 2031. The Kinder Foundation's $100 million gift is the largest single donation in Houston parks history.
"Buffalo Bayou Partnership is honored that the Kinder Foundation is entrusting our organization to steward this extraordinary gift," says Anne Olson, Buffalo Bayou Partnership President. "This plan is not only about parks and trails – it is a comprehensive community development plan for a part of town that has not seen this level of investment before."
"There is a rich history and a valued culture along Buffalo Bayou east of downtown, and Buffalo Bayou Partnership is to be commended on the decades spent in the community laying the groundwork for this plan," stated Rich Kinder, Chairman, Kinder Foundation. "This plan is in good hands under the direction of Buffalo Bayou Partnership."
"The City of Houston is grateful to the Kinder Foundation for this generous investment that will accelerate the Buffalo Bayou East Master Plan, pending City Council approval. The visionary plan will enhance our community for Houstonians and visitors. Public-private partnerships are critically important because there are never enough public funds to address infrastructure and quality of life issues. By working together, we can make a meaningful and enduring impact on the lives of every Houstonian," said Mayor Sylvester Turner.
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Did you lose money on investments in Amazon.com? If so, please visit Amazon.com, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AMZN) between February 1, 2019 and April 5, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Amazon is a multinational technology company that engages primarily in the businesses of e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. On the Company's Amazon.com e-commerce platform, Amazon sells both third-party merchandise and Amazon's own private-label products. As the owner and operator of the Amazon.com e-commerce platform, Amazon has access to certain non-public data of the third-party sellers that use the Amazon.com platform.
Plaintiff alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made misleading statements about Amazon's business because: (i) Amazon engaged in anticompetitive conduct in its private-label business practices, including giving Amazon products preference over those of its competitors and using third-party sellers' non-public data to compete with them; (ii) the foregoing exposed Amazon to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and/or enforcement actions; and (iii) Amazon's revenues derived from its private-label business were in part the product of impermissible conduct and, thus, unsustainable.
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In the course of the Subcommittee Investigation, the Subcommittee held several oversight hearings in which various officers of the above referenced companies, including their respective Chief Executive Officers, offered witness testimony on topics such as the effect of market power on the press, innovation, privacy, and the market dominance of the firms under investigation. After each of the hearings, members of the Subcommittee submitted questions for the record to the witnesses.
On March 9, 2022, media outlets reported that the House Judiciary Committee had requested that the U.S. Department of Justice open a criminal investigation into Amazon and certain of its executives for allegedly lying to Congress about its business practices during the course of the Subcommittee Investigation.
On April 6, 2022, The Wall Street Journal published an article entitled, "SEC Is Investigating How Amazon Disclosed Business Practices." The article reported, inter alia, that the SEC's probe has been underway for more than a year and focuses on Amazon's disclosures regarding its use of third-party seller data for its own private-label business. On this news, the price of Amazon stock price declined 3.2% to close at $3,175.12 per share on April 6, 2022.
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Cleanroom Licensing Model Protects Pharma Cash Positions in a Soft Market
ALAMEDA, Calif., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Azzur Cleanrooms on Demand™, a market-leading provider for early-phase life sciences GMP manufacturing space and related services, hosted a ground-breaking ceremony on July 20 for its latest cleanroom facility in Alameda, CA. The facility's construction comes during an economic downturn for the life sciences industry, which has prompted companies to pursue financial risk management strategies to protect their cash positions.
The Alameda Cleanrooms on Demand facility is located at 1955 N Loop Rd, Alameda, CA 94502. Speakers included executives from Azzur as well as the following civic leaders:
- Trish Herrera and Tracy Jensen, Alameda City Council
- Stephen Baiter, Executive Director of East Bay Economic Development Alliance
- Patricia Flinn, Senior Business Development Manager, California Life Sciences
- Madlen Saddik, President and CEO, Alameda Chamber and Economic Alliance
When completed, this latest addition to the Azzur Cleanrooms on Demand™ portfolio will have 26 cleanrooms along with labs; storage space, both ambient and controlled temperatures; and 26 client-dedicated office spaces. The facility will create approximately 200 jobs, including staff positions and support services, as well as provide opportunities for future clients to bring additional jobs into the Bay Area.
The new Alameda facility will offer life sciences companies in the Bay Area with a strategy for cash preservation and risk management at a time when corporate valuations are flattening and businesses are holding onto their cash.
"Pharma companies are eager to grow but also must be careful when it comes to investing capital in new facilities," said East Bay Economic Development Alliance's Stephen Baiter. "Life sciences valuations are based on how quickly new discoveries can be brought to market. Accessing world-class lab space without having to incur upfront building and development costs is extremely helpful to generate a faster economic turnaround. Cleanroom licensing like that provided by Azzur Group provides a sound financial risk management strategy," Baiter explained.
"Azzur's Cleanrooms on Demand™ is a solid bridging approach for life sciences companies," said Daniel Dernbach, Senior Vice President of Global Operations at Azzur Cleanrooms on Demand™. "Cleanroom licensing lets biotech manufacturers continue GMP manufacturing as the industry's economy improves. Many of our clients continue cleanroom licensing even after they've begun expanding their internal infrastructure."
Azzur's Cleanrooms on Demand™ (COD) model provides GMP support to the biotechnology industry with on-demand cleanroom facilities, materials management, storage, asset management, and supply chain solutions. Life science manufacturers can focus on science and cGMP manufacturing without the expense of facility ownership and maintenance.
The Alameda location of Azzur Cleanrooms on Demand™ is led by Omri Paran, Senior Director of Operations. Omri joined Azzur Group in June of 2022 and will oversee all site operations.
"It's a privilege to be at the helm of such an innovative endeavor at this inflection point in our industry," said Paran. "Just as there have been successive revolutions in agriculture and other areas that have made it a good time to be, and to stay, alive, we're on the cusp of another revolution. Right here in the Bay Area, RNA technologies, cell and gene therapy, and therapeutic proteins are changing the way medicine is practiced. And with our licensed cleanrooms, we are changing the way our industry partners deliver these medicines to patients."
By 2024, Azzur Labs will open a new laboratory at the Alameda site serving COD customers as well as the surrounding area to provide microbiology, analytical, and molecular for pharmaceutical, biologics, and biotechnology for GxP compliance. With six locations throughout the United States, Azzur Labs provides customers with microbiology and analytical testing services necessary to maintain their GxP operations.
Azzur Cleanrooms on Demand™ operates four cleanroom facilities, with established locations in Raleigh, NC, Waltham, MA, Burlington, MA, and Vista, CA. The Alameda facility joins an additional construction project already underway in Devens, MA. Azzur has selected each location for its proximity to established or growing life sciences business areas.
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Midfielder Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir has been awarded more than $88,000 in back pay that was withheld by her French club team, Lyon, in violation of FIFA's rules protecting maternity rights.
Gunnarsdóttir, who now plays for Juventus in Italy, wrote her account of the salary dispute for The Players' Tribune website and the details of the ruling by FIFA's Football Tribunal were made public this week.
According to FIFPro, the international players union that represented Gunnarsdóttir in the dispute, the case is the first to test FIFA rules protecting players' maternity rights that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2021.
“This should have been the happiest moment of my life,” Gunnarsdóttir wrote. “All I wanted was to enjoy my pregnancy, and work my ass off to come back to help the team and the club.
"But instead I felt confused, stressed, and betrayed."
Lyon claimed it was following French law. But FIFA's rules say players are entitled to maternity leave “defined as a minimum period of 14 weeks’ paid absence – with at least eight weeks after birth – during the term of the contract, paid at the equivalent of two-thirds of her contracted salary.” Clubs are also required to re-integrate players following maternity leave.
FIFPro said in a statement: “It is extremely important for women footballers and the women’s game that these mandatory maternity regulations are both implemented and enforced at national level.”
Megan Rapinoe reacted on social media, notable because she plays for OL Reign in the National Women's Soccer League. The Reign are owned by the parent company of Olympique Lyonnais, commonly known as Lyon.
“The culture at OL in France has a LONG way to go. Y’all love to talk about how much you support women, but this math is not mathing. I implore you to be the club that is ALWAYS supporting women, not the club that once did,” Rapinoe posted.
Gunnarsdóttir discovered she was pregnant with her first child in March 2021. Advised by her doctor to stop playing and wary of COVID-19 infections within the team, she asked if she could return home to Iceland, with the understanding that she would continue to play for Lyon after pregnancy leave.
But once home, her regular paychecks stopped. Instead, she got only a small percentage, based on what the team said was French law.
FIFPro took up the fight for her wages. In the meantime, she gave birth to her son and returned to Lyon, but it was clear that her role on the team had diminished, and she understood that her future was elsewhere.
“I was entitled to my full salary during my pregnancy and until the start of my maternity leave, according to the mandatory regulations from FIFA. These are part of my rights, and this can’t be disputed — even by a club as big as Lyon,” she wrote. “That’s why I’m writing this. The victory felt bigger than me. It felt like a guarantee of financial security for all players who want to have a child during their career. That it’s not a “maybe,” or an unknown.”
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ASU expects to set another enrollment record with 140,000-plus students this fall
Arizona State University just keeps getting bigger.
University officials are projecting another record year in terms of student numbers this fall, with over 140,000 enrolled for the fall semester, an increase of more than 5,000 students from a year ago.
ASU expects that during the first week of classes, it will have record enrollment university-wide, plus the largest first-year on-campus student cohort in school history, about 58% of whom are Arizona residents.
Nationally, many universities are continuing to see declining enrollment even as pandemic impacts wane, amid questions about whether a college degree is necessary in the job market. ASU, however, has seen sustained enrollment growth, even throughout the pandemic.
Total enrollment across the university is projected to be about 4.4% higher than a year ago, according to ASU.
ASU is likely to have over 79,000 students on its campuses, plus more than 61,000 students in an online degree program, with faster growth online, per early numbers. Close to one in three students enrolled at ASU this fall is new to the university, officials said.
Officials also are predicting records in terms of Arizona resident new students, veteran students and minority first-year students on campus. And one in three Sun Devils will be a first-generation college student.
It’s especially important for Arizona schools to boost enrollment for in-state students to help position the state for future economic success. College-going rates in Arizona have trailed the national average for several years, worsened by the pandemic.
ASU starts classes for the fall semester on Thursday. The other state universities start later: Aug. 22 for the University of Arizona and Aug. 29 for Northern Arizona University.
UA did not yet have enrollment projections available, and an NAU spokesperson said the university wouldn’t have that data until about three weeks into the semester when the official count happens. NAU last fall saw enrollment drop for the third consecutive year, while the other two universities grew.
ASU’s early numbers are projected enrollments for the first week of the semester based on student registrations. Numbers are expected to change up to the official headcount on the 21st day of the semester.
So far, the projected enrollments show another year of growth at a university that has sought to prioritize scalability and access.
Growth online and on-campus
Continuing a trend from recent years, ASU is seeing faster increases online than on-campus, although both are growing.
ASU will have over 61,500 students in online degree programs, about 4,000 students more than this time last year, for an increase of 6.9%. Over 45,000 of those online students will be undergraduates in online degree programs, an 8% increase from a year ago.
There will be close to 2,500 more students on campuses, for a total of over 79,000. That’s a 3.2% increase from last year.
ASU’s overall student body will have increased by about 36% in the past five years if projections hold, driven by a doubling of online students and nearly 9% growth in campus enrollment since fall 2017.
More new students on campus
Students new to college are greater in number, more diverse and more academically prepared than in previous years, according to the university.
ASU is expecting over 15,000 new first-time, first-year undergraduate students on its metro campuses, the largest group in school history. Officials say that’s a 6.4% enrollment increase from a year earlier.
Of those first-year campus students, about 46% identify as a minority, making up the largest number of minority first-year students ASU has seen.
And about one in four identifies as Hispanic or Latino, another university record. This summer, ASU announced the U.S. Department of Education designated it a Hispanic-Serving Institution, which means at least a quarter of undergraduate students identify as Latino.
The new first-year campus class is coming in with a 3.88 average weighted GPA, tying the ASU record.
Out-of-state and international students
As in recent years, ASU’s student body remains a geographic mix.
The metro campuses will see the largest Arizona resident class in university history, with about 8,750 new first-year students.
That Arizona resident number is an important one the universities focus on in terms of boosting college attainment in the state. In 2020, less than half of Arizonans graduating high school enrolled in a two- or four-year college, below both the national average and Arizona's rates for the previous few years.
About 5,315 new first-year, on-campus students are from other states, including 1,510 from California.
The in-state students represent a 1.8% increase from a year ago, compared with an 8.9% increase in out-of-state students, per the university.
Over 11,300 international students are enrolled to study at an ASU campus this fall, a 27% increase from a year ago.
International student counts are rebounding from losses during the pandemic caused by travel restrictions and visa changes. In August 2020, for example, ASU saw international student enrollment drop by about 15%.
Before COVID-19, the university had nearly 13,500 international students during the 2017-18 school year, putting it fifth nationally and the top public university for international student enrollment.
Among those international students, ASU expects to see 1,050 first-time, first year students on campus, which it says is an increase of 323 students, or 44%, from last year. The school will have more students from Brazil, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Mexico and Vietnam.
More than 10,000 veteran and military-affiliated students are enrolled this fall, a record number for ASU.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Among the sites of the former Soviet Union’s “frozen conflicts,” a long and narrow strip of land in Moldova has been the most stable for three decades. Trans-Dniester hasn’t seen fighting since the end of a separatist war in 1992.
But explosions in the past two days have raised concerns that Russia’s war in Ukraine could extend there. About 1,500 Russian troops already are stationed in Trans-Dniester. Another outbreak of hostilities would pose a severe challenge to Moldova, one of Europe’s poorest countries.
WHAT IS TRANS-DNIESTER?
Trans-Dniester extends some 400 kilometers (249 miles) between the eastern bank of the Dniester River in Moldova and the country’s border with Ukraine. Most of the breakaway region’s population of 470,000 speaks Russian, although residents identify themselves as ethnically Moldovan, Ukrainian or Russian.
Moves to make Moldovan Moldova’s official language in 1989, when it still was part of the Soviet Union, alarmed people in Trans-Dniester. The region declared independence in 1990 and clashes broke out. Fighting intensified in March 1992 and lasted until a July cease-fire; more than 700 people are estimated to have died in the conflict.
As part of the cease-fire agreement, a contingent of Russian troops stayed in Trans-Dniester as nominal peacekeepers. Since then, the region has insisted it is not part of Moldova, which declared independence in 1991.
Trans-Dniester has retained many Soviet ways and iconography, including using the hammer-and-sickle image on its flag. But it has remained generally peaceful, and some tourists come to relish the anachronisms.
WHAT HAPPENED THERE THIS WEEK?
Explosions rocked the headquarters of the region’s state security ministry on Monday. The building reportedly was empty due to the Orthodox Easter holiday, and no casualties were reported. Officials said the attack was committed with rocket-propelled grenades. Local media showed what appeared to be firing tubes lying on a street.
On Tuesday morning, a pair of explosions at a broadcasting facility knocked two powerful antennas out of service. No claims of responsibility for the attacks have been made.
Trans-Dniester’s president, Vadim Krasnoselsky, called Tuesday for imposing anti-terrorist security measures at a “red level” for 15 days, including setting up blockposts at the entrances to cities.
The United States has warned amid the war in Ukraine that Russia could launch “false-flag” attacks in nearby nations as a pretext for sending in troops.
DOES RUSSIA HAVE AMBITIONS IN THE REGION?
Russia does not recognize Trans-Dniester as independent, as it does with other breakaway areas, such as South Ossetia, Abkhazia and the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
It recognition of those areas came either after Russia and Georgia fought a 2008 war or as justification for Moscow’s February invasion of Ukraine. An outburst of fighting in Trans-Dniester could change the Kremlin’s political calculus; Russia’s security policy states it has the right to protect ethnic Russian populations throughout the world.
A senior Russian military official, Rustam Minnekayev, said last week that Russian forces were aiming to take full control of southern Ukraine, saying such a move would also open a land corridor between Russia and Trans-Dniester.
Achieving that military objective would require significant battles to capture Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, including the major port city of Odesa. Russian soldiers would surely encounter enormous resistance. The Russian contingent in Trans-Dniester is focused on guarding ammunition and warehouses, and its fitness for combat is uncertain.
Moldova is constitutionally neutral, so Russia could not cite the country seeking to join NATO to justify an invasion, as Russian President Vladimir Putin did with Ukraine. But expanding to Moldova would give Russia a presence next to NATO member Romania.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea threatened Friday to take “unprecedently” strong action against its rivals, soon after South Korea announced a series of planned military drills with the United States to hone their joint response to the North’s increasing nuclear threats.
North Korea has halted weapons testing activities since its short-range missile firing on Jan. 1, though it launched more than 70 missiles in 2022 — a record number for a single year. Friday’s warning suggests the North’s testing could resume soon over its rivals’ military training, which it views as an invasion rehearsal.
“In case the U.S. and South Korea carry into practice their already announced plan for military drills that (North Korea), with just apprehension and reason, regards as preparations for an aggression war, they will face unprecedentedly persistent and strong counteractions,” the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by state media.
The statement accused South Korea and the United States of planning more than 20 rounds of military drills, including their largest-ever field exercises. It called South Korea and the United States “the arch-criminals deliberately disrupting” regional peace and stability.
“This predicts that the situation in the Korean Peninsula and the region will be again plunged into the grave vortex of escalating tension,” the statement said.
It didn’t specify which U.S.-South Korean military trainings it was referring to. But North Korea has typically slammed all major regular military drills between Washington and Seoul as a practice to launch an invasion and responded with its own weapons tests.
Some experts say North Korea has used various South Korea-U.S. drills as a chance to test and perfect its weapons systems. They say North Korea would eventually aim to use its enlarged nuclear arsenal to win international recognition as a legitimate nuclear state and win sanctions relief and other concessions.
Seoul and Washington have said their training is defensive in nature.
Earlier Friday, Heo Tae-keun, South Korea’s deputy minister of national defense policy, told lawmakers that Seoul and Washington will hold an annual computer-simulated combined training in mid-March. Heo said the 11-day training would reflect North Korea’s nuclear threats, as well as unspecified lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War.
Heo said the two countries will also conduct joint field exercises in mid-March that would be bigger than those held in the past few years.
The allies had downsized or canceled some of their regular drills in recent years to guard against the COVID-19 pandemic and support now-dormant diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear program.
Earlier Friday, Seoul officials said that South Korea and the U.S. will hold a one-day tabletop exercise next week at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, to sharpen a response to a potential use of nuclear weapons by North Korea. The exercise, scheduled for Wednesday, would set up possible scenarios where North Korea uses nuclear weapons, explore how to cope with them militarily and formulate crisis management plans, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Seoul’s security concerns about North Korea’s nuclear program deepened after Pyongyang last year adopted a law that authorizes the preemptive use of nuclear weapons, and tested nuclear-capable missiles that put South Korea within striking distance.
In response to the intensifying North Korean threats, South Korea and the United States have expanded their joint military drills and stepped up pressure on the North to abandon its nuclear program. In January, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. would also increase its deployment of advanced weapons such as fighter jets and bombers to the Korean Peninsula.
During their annual meeting in November, Austin and South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-Sup agreed to conduct tabletop exercises annually and further strengthen the alliance’s information sharing, joint planning and execution. Austin reiterated a warning that any nuclear attack against the U.S. or its allies would result in the end of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s regime. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-s-korea-us-to-hold-simulated-drill-on-north-use-of-nukes/ | 2023-02-17 11:53:03 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-s-korea-us-to-hold-simulated-drill-on-north-use-of-nukes/ |
Free filtered water available at the Natural Grocers store located in Billings, Montana through June 30, 2022
LAKEWOOD, Colo., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural Grocers® offers members of Montana communities impacted by this week's significant flooding free filtered water from its store in Billings, Montana. Free water will be available starting today through Thursday, June 30, 2022.
The unprecedented recent flooding in the Yellowstone area has triggered power outages and damaged hundreds of homes in the nearby communities. The flooding has also impacted water treatment plants, leaving multiple cities in Montana without water or with boil water orders (the requirement to boil water before consumption: including eating, drinking, washing hands and faces, and brushing teeth).
Natural Grocers is offering free water from the Billings, Montana store's reverse osmosis water filtration machines for those in need. The ultraviolet sterilization process used in Natural Grocers' water dispensers disinfects the water with UV light, designed to provide safe, high-quality water that does not need to be boiled before consumption. Additionally, via multiple filtration steps, the reverse osmosis process is intended to filter out suspended particles, chlorine and a wide range of chemicals, salts, lead, impurities, and more.
Due to capacity limitations of the store's water filtration system, which can only pump 75 gallons of water every other hour, each person is limited to two free gallons of water. To fill up on free water from the organic and natural grocery retailer, customers should bring their filled receptacle to the register, along with any items they are purchasing. Customers are urged to bring their own containers to fill, though the store will have a limited assortment for purchase.
"We are here to support our community as we navigate this disaster together. Please spread the word to friends and neighbors. We are thankful for your business and hope this can help you and your family during these hard times," said Mat Topham, Regional Manager for Natural Grocers.
- For location and hours of the Natural Grocers store in Billings, Montana, click here.
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Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products, and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA-certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, clean, and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based Nutrition Education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 162 stores in 20 states. Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations.
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First Alert Forecast | 12/8PM
LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) - Tonight a cold front currently situated in the Texas Panhandle will progress through Texoma, though its effects won’t be drastic as the temperature will only drop by several degrees for tomorrow. Mostly clear skies for the first half of the night, with some clouds re-emerging before daybreak. Winds will shift out of the south to north at 5-10 mph with lows in the low 40s. Isolated fog not out of the question.
For Friday, we will see another day featuring mostly cloudy skies with light winds out of the northeast at 5-15 mph following the previous night’s cold front. Temperatures won’t be too different from today with highs in the upper 50s and low 60s, though morning lows in the low 40s to start tomorrow will be cooler compared to this morning. Some light isolated rain showers will build up from the south during the afternoon due to disturbance moving through the Southern Plains, thankfully not nearly as intense or as widespread as yesterday’s rain. Impacts from any rain we see tomorrow in Southwest Oklahoma won’t occur until the late afternoon and evening, and even then it will be widely isolated with minimal accumulation. If you are headed out to donate to Share Your Christmas at both Walmart locations in Lawton tomorrow, expect dry conditions through most of the day.
The greatest amount of rainfall we could see with this system will be during the overnight hours through early Saturday morning. This will all move out before the middle of the day as another cold front will sweep through Texoma. Cloud coverage will diminish throughout the day as temperatures top out in the low 60s. Tons of sunshine for Sunday, though afternoon temperatures still won’t be that different from the previous few days, only getting up to the upper 50s and low 60s.
We will see a warm-up into the upper 60s on Monday ahead of, you guessed it, a third cold front. And yet again, the majority of the rain that comes with it will occur during the evening hours on Monday, lasting overnight into Tuesday morning. Because of a large upper-level trough orientation in the Rockies and Central/Southern Plains, this could bring the possibility of some strong-to-severe weather (large hail/damaging winds/localized flooding/lightning) to areas along and southeast of I-44. The exact details like intensity, threats and locations are fuzzy as model guidance is still in disagreement, but it’s a trend we’re keeping a close eye on. Temperatures on Tuesday will fall to the low 60s, with a cold pattern settling in for the days beyond the 7-day forecast as highs on Wednesday will plummet to the mid/upper 40s.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A suspended Ohio National Guard member, who was previously charged with making terroristic threats against a Jewish school in April, has pleaded guilty to making and selling “ghost guns” with a 3D printer.
Thomas Develin, 25, of Columbus, pleaded guilty to federal charges related to making homemade guns that were made whole or in part with a 3D printer, according to U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Kenneth Parker. Develin was arrested by federal agents in June and admitted to making the guns to sell and possessing devices to convert rifles and pistols into fully automatic machine guns.
Develin is also facing local charges in the Franklin County Court of Commons Pleas after he made a terroristic threat against the Jewish K-12 school Columbus Torah Academy. While working there as a private security guard, Develin posted a photo on social media holding a handgun and a caption that read, “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem,” according to court documents.
Agents discovered more than 25 firearms during a search warrant of his home, along with night vision goggles, ballistic plates, a ballistic helmet, first aid equipment and ammunition in his car. On April 14, Develin was ordered under house arrest after paying a bond of $125,000 in Franklin County common pleas court.
In his plea agreement, Develin admitted to hiding and burning illegal firearms parts in March, said Parker. Text messages also show Develin discussing hiding and destroying incriminating evidence.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Upper Deck, the premier global sports and entertainment collectibles company, announced today a multi-year license in connection with TOP LEGENDS to produce authentic currency quality value-notes® featuring four-time Stanley Cup® champion, Wayne Gretzky. Reminiscent of a commemorative banknote, the ice hockey value-notes® will feature a series of seven major legendary figures, released over the seven years. The Gretzky ice hockey value-notes® will be the first released.
Through Upper Deck's exclusive global licensing agent, Brevettar, the program is designed with Gretzky in mind to offer fans an experience beyond his hockey highlights. TOP LEGENDS' value-note® is a unique collectible item that combines fine artistry, authentic design, original manufacturing, and the most sophisticated safety features while celebrating the sports and entertainment industries most iconic athletes and artists. Gretzky will not only have his name and image featured on the value-note® but also will be an ambassador for TOP LEGENDS and headline the release event in Las Vegas, NV. The release goes live on June 28 at 3 p.m. PST in Las Vegas, NV, and broadcasts live on YouTube.
"We are very proud to collaborate with Upper Deck as we perceive this company as a safeguard of authenticity for all the products they make," said Radek Šulta, CEO of TOP LEGENDS. "For us, it is a major step to open the market of a very new commemorative line and experience for Gretzky fans to enjoy."
"Working with TOP LEGENDS is an opportunity to create a premium, quality limited-edition collectible for the millions of Wayne Gretzky fans worldwide," said Jason Masherah, president of Upper Deck. "As we continue to explore new ways to celebrate one of the greatest hockey players of all time, this collaboration holds immense promise."
The limited-edition release of Wayne Gretzky value-notes® will be available on TopLegends.com and through select retailers in the rare coin and currency markets. The initial pricing is planned at $440 USD per value-note®.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Look for new faces and fresh political dynamics as President Joe Biden delivers this year's State of the Union address, coupled with attention to some old problems brought back into painful focus by recent events.
The president on Tuesday night will stand before a joint session of Congress for the first time since voters in the midterm elections handed control of the House to Republicans. Biden, like presidents past, will make the case that the nation is strong and that better days lie ahead. But he finds himself in choppy waters as he passes the halfway mark of his term.
After a series of legislative victories during the first two years of Biden's term, Republicans are looking to undo some of his early wins. Recent mass shootings and a police killing in Memphis, Tennessee, have brought renewed focus to the issues of gun violence and excessive police force. And on the foreign policy front, Biden faces the formidable task of keeping a Western alliance — and the American electorate — united behind Ukraine in its effort to repel Russia's ongoing invasion. He's also dealing with fallout from the U.S. downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon that floated across the U.S. last week. On top of all that, a special counsel is investigating how classified information from Biden’s days as vice president and senator ended up at his Delaware home and former office.
Some things to watch for on Tuesday night:
BIDEN v. MCCARTHY
It will be new GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wielding the gavel and seated behind Biden on the dais this time rather than Democrat Nancy Pelosi. Watch the body language between the two — and how Republicans legislators treat Biden overall after some sharp GOP outbursts from the audience last year.
The president and new speaker recently had a productive first sit-down but are at an impasse over the nation’s borrowing limit. Republicans have refused to raise the statutory debt limit unless Biden accepts cuts in federal spending. Biden has said raising the cap is not up for negotiation, and Congress must pay the nation's bills or the country will face economic calamity.
The Democratic president last week said McCarthy made ”absolutely off the wall" commitments to win the speakership. Biden's rhetorical jabs might not be so sharp in the formal address, but look for him to more subtly argue that there's an enormous chasm between how he and Republicans approach the economy, health care and Social Security.
GUN VIOLENCE AND POLICING
The parents of Tyre Nichols, who was severely beaten by police officers in Memphis and later died, are expected to be in the audience for Biden's address. So is Brandon Tsay, who disarmed the gunman who shot and killed 11 people last month in Monterey Park, California, along with others who jumped in during recent mass shootings.
Watch how Biden, in their presence, speaks to the recent rash of mass shootings and the beating death of Nichols, after his past efforts to address gun violence and police excesses have been sharply restricted by resistance in Congress.
Biden has repeatedly urged Congress to pass an assault weapons ban and he's likely to talk about it again on Tuesday. He’s also spoken out about the deaths of Black and brown people at the hands of police but for him it’s a sensitive matter. He’s a longtime institutionalist who believes in the rule of law and often says he believes in giving police forces better tools and training — not disbanding them.
NEW FACES
There will be plenty of new faces in the crowd as Biden addresses the nation. The nation has a new Supreme Court justice since last year’s address in Ketanji Brown Jackson, and in recent years justices have tended to attend addresses by the president who nominated them. There are new legislators from both parties, as well. Among those getting outsized attention: Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican who has been in the spotlight for embellishments and lies about his education, work experience and other aspects of his personal and professional life.
THE CHINESE BALLOON
Look for Biden to talk about his decision to have the military shoot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon on Saturday, but how tough will he be on China?
His comments on the balloon are likely to be part of a broader section on countering China’s more assertive economic and military actions around the world, according to two administration officials who requested anonymity to preview the speech.
WHAT NEXT IN UKRAINE?
Biden has repeatedly said the U.S. is committed to helping Ukraine “as long as it takes” to beat back Russia. The United States has already committed nearly $30 billion in security assistance since the start of the war.
Polls show Americans r emain broadly in favor of providing support to Ukraine as it tries to fend off Russia. Administration officials, however, have made clear to Ukraine that Congress' patience with the cost of war is not endless.
Look for Biden to spotlight that Ukraine has been able to stay in the fight with a more formidable Russian military because of U.S. and allies' generosity. He'll also try to spell out why Americans must remain committed to a war that has ramifications far beyond Europe.
CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT PROBE
Will Biden bring it up? Not likely.
After criticizing his predecessor, Republican President Donald Trump, for holding on to classified documents after his presidency, Biden now finds himself in the middle of a special counsel inquiry into classified documents that were found in his home and former office space.
The White House makes the case it's important to distinguish between Biden voluntarily turning over documents and the behavior of Trump, who refused to hand over hundreds of documents, prompting the FBI to raid his home.
Biden is likely to steer clear of the controversy in his address, as past presidents have tended to avoid mention of whatever's got them into difficulty.
THE 2024 QUESTION
Biden is expected to announce he's running for reelection sometime this spring, but there's growing sentiment among voters that he should stick to one term. Will Biden address the reelection question head on? Probably not. But his speech could well be framed as an argument for an additional four years of a Biden White House. And millions of viewers will be evaluating not just Biden's words but his delivery as they weigh whether that's a good idea.
CULTURE WARS
Arkansas' new governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, will deliver the Republican response to Biden's address.
Sanders has staked out ground in the early days of her term on hot cultural issues in schools by issuing executive orders targeting the teaching of critical race theory in Arkansas schools and expressing support for legislation banning instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through the third grade.
Don't expect her to hold back on the national stage in making the case that Democrats are out of touch with mainstream American values.
THE FENCE RETURNS
It's back: the tall, imposing security fencing at the Capitol complex.
Following the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who refused to accept Biden’s election victory, a massive fence went up around the grounds as a temporary security measure.
It stayed there for six months before finally being removed. It went back up briefly before last year’s State of the Union address, when Democrats were still in charge of Congress. And now it's back again for this year's address.
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Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro and Zeke Miller contributed to this report. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/what-to-watch-new-political-vibes-this-state-of-17766445.php | 2023-02-06 16:18:23 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/what-to-watch-new-political-vibes-this-state-of-17766445.php |
(The Hill) – Home prices are ticking up amid a sustained housing shortage, making it even more difficult for people to enter the market.
Mortgage rates remain well above recent historic lows, and even with new homes coming on the market soon, according to recent data, experts don’t expect first-time buyers to see lower prices right away.
Home prices are moving up largely due to inventory constraints, especially at the lower end of the market, where fierce demand leads to bidding wars. The intense competition drives home prices higher — and often above what many would-be homeowners can afford.
Home prices are heating up again
After falling during the second half of 2022 amid the Federal Reserve’s bout with inflation, home prices are rising again and nearing their peak, according to a recent report from Black Knight.
Black Knight’s data showed five straight months of price gains have erased the slight drop seen last year.
“Firming prices have now fully erased the pullback we tracked through the last half of 2022 and lifted the seasonally adjusted Black Knight [Home Price Index] to a new record high in May,” said Andy Walden, Black Knight vice president of enterprise research, in a statement.
Walden added that figures suggest annual price growth flatlines for a “short time before inflecting and trending sharply higher in coming months.”
Yelena Maleyev, an economist with KPMG, told The Hill housing price growth is “still a supply story, especially in the existing housing market.”
She said there are roughly half as many homes for sale as there were in 2019, and even fewer listed for $300,000 or lower. Owners who purchased homes when interest rates were near record lows are not eager to sell, Maleyev added.
“Those are getting the bidding wars,” she explained, “And that’s still going to be a problem going into the rest of the year simply because of what we’re calling this mortgage winter.”
“A majority of homeowners are locked into a sub-4 percent mortgage rate and so they’re not expected to list their homes easily unless there’s some sort of life event in which they do have to list their homes,” she added.
Mortgage rates are staying high
Mortgage rates soared as the Fed battled inflation by raising interest rates.
The Fed’s rate hiking cycling drastically cooled housing demand for a time as mortgage rates met already-high home prices and pushed would-be buyers to the sidelines.
Demand rebounded as mortgage rates trended downward from their peak above 7 percent last fall in the early part of year and has remained steady even as rates have moved toward their peak in recent months.
Average mortgage rates reached their highest level since November last week, when the 30-year fixed rate mortgage hit 6.97 percent, data from Freddie Mac showed.
But the latest inflation data could bode well for prospective buyers.
“Low inflation means low mortgage rates,” Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, said in a statement. “Therefore, decelerating consumer prices could steadily lift home sales and increase home production in a few months.”
Housing costs are driving inflation
Consumer inflation figures released by the Labor Department last week showed housing costs continued to drive it.
The consumer price index revealed the slowest annual inflation since 2021, coming in at 3 percent. This is down from 4 percent in May.
Yet housing costs continue to prop up inflation, the data showed, fueling more than 70 percent of price growth in June.
Maleyev explained part of housing’s sustained pressure on inflation is due to lagging data figures, noting prices seen at the end of last year are just showing up in the CPI.
“We already have in our assumption that inflation, the housing part of inflation, will start to be stationary into the end of the year. So that’s good news,” Maleyev said.
“We need that to help bring overall CPI down, especially at the core. The concern for inflation in general is that when housing is doing this part in disinflation the other inflation figures will start to re-inflate and re-accelerate.”
The Fed could raise rates again
The central bank paused its interest rate hikes in its last meeting in June to evaluate the impact of previous increases.
Since then, mortgage rates have moved up close to 7 percent, while inflation has shown signs of cooling.
Still, the Fed could continue its monetary tightening and raise rates further this year.
Fed Governor Christopher Waller said during a speech last week he sees room for two more rate hikes this year.
“I see two more 25-basis-point hikes in the target range over the four remaining meetings this year as necessary to keep inflation moving toward our target. Furthermore, I believe we will need to keep policy restrictive for some time in order to have inflation settle down around our 2 percent target,” Waller said.
George Ratiu, chief economist for Keeping Current Matters, told The Hill recent economic indicators validate the Fed’s monetary approach while showing a “soft landing” could be achieved without damaging consumer confidence and spending.
“At next week’s FOMC meeting, the central bank’s rate-setting body could well choose to stay put and not push rates higher,” Ratiu said.
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In SoftwareReviews' latest Emotional Footprint report, the firm reveals the six top-performing RPA software solutions that users say best help organizations unlock digital transformation.
TORONTO, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2023 Emotional Footprint Report on the top robotic process automation solutions. The report identifies the top six enterprise and midmarket providers as Champions for 2023.
Robotic process automation (RPA) uses low-code implementation to automate repetitive and well-defined business processes by following pre-determined rules. With RPA bots, businesses can perform various automated tasks such as calculations, transaction reconciliation, and transcription issue exception notifications. RPA software interacts with both structured and unstructured data sources through application user interfaces.
RPA technology allows employees to quickly automate processes and business applications with minimal to no coding experience. However, organizations may encounter adoption challenges, making it crucial to select a platform that offers excellent product training and resources.
"In a continuously changing and complex business and IT environment, robotic process automation can improve productivity and insight generation. This is only the starting point," says Andrew Kum-Seun, research director, Info-Tech Research Group and SoftwareReviews. "Bundling RPA with business process management solutions, low code, AI, and other workflow automation technologies in the right way will significantly extend RPA's return on investment and create a more impactful workforce."
SoftwareReviews' survey data from 1,189 end-user reviews was used to identify the top RPA software providers. The insights are intended to support organizations who are considering options to streamline their robotic process automation strategies.
The Net Emotional Footprint (NEF) of each software provider is a result of aggregated emotional response ratings across the areas of service, negotiation, product impact, conflict resolution, strategy, and innovation. The NEF is a powerful indicator of overall user sentiment toward the provider and its product from the software user's point of view.
Software providers with the highest NEF score, based on user feedback, are recognized as Champions in their category.
The 2023 Robotic Process Automation Software Champions for the enterprise market are as follows:
- UiPath Studio, 98 NEF, ranked high for being effective.
- Automation Anywhere, 95 NEF, ranked high for saving time.
- Blue Prism, 95 NEF, ranked high for being efficient.
The 2023 Robotic Process Automation Software Champions for midmarket are as follows:
- JIFFY.ai Automate, 95 NEF, ranked high for being caring.
- ElectroNeek, 90 NEF, ranked high for including product enhancements.
- G1ANT, 93 NEF, ranked high for being client friendly.
User assessments of software categories provide an accurate and detailed view of the constantly changing market. SoftwareReviews' reports are informed by data from users and IT professionals who have intimate experience with the software throughout the procurement, implementation, and maintenance processes.
The full report is now ready to access on the firm's website, which is updated in real time to reflect new reviews and ratings.
For more information about SoftwareReviews, the Data Quadrant, or the Emotional Footprint, or to access resources to support the software selection process, visit softwarereviews.com.
SoftwareReviews empowers organizations with the best data, insights, and advice to improve the software buying and selling experience.
For buyers, SoftwareReviews' proven software selection methodologies, customer insights, and technology advisors help maximize success with technology decisions. For providers, the firm helps build more effective marketing, product, and sales processes with expert analysts, how-to research, customer-centric marketing content, and comprehensive analysis of the buyer landscape.
SoftwareReviews is a division of Info-Tech Research Group, a world-class technology research and advisory firm.
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FORT GAY — Fort Gay Water Works’ chief operator said Friday it was a customer complaint that prompted a "do not consume" order that lasted nearly 80 hours this week.
Larry Sagraves, the chief operator, said one of the system’s 1,685 customers complained of a diesel fuel odor from water, prompting the "do not consume" order to be issued Monday at 10:30 a.m.
The water works announced Thursday the order had been lifted effective 6 p.m. that evening.
“The samples have been analyzed. They’re all clean,” Sagraves said Friday morning, reporting the samples yielded no volatile organic compounds — chemicals that have a low water solubility.
Wayne County Office of Emergency Management Director B.J. Willis said Thursday morning it was unknown then whether the water supply was contaminated after a report of an odor and possible small oil sheen near the water intake.
The water works said the order was lifted after results came back from samples conducted Monday and collected by the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
The water works said the DHHR recommended all customers flush their water heaters. Water was only to be used for toilet flushing and fire protection during the order period.
Water had been distributed from Fort Gay City Hall to Fort Gay water customers only, according to Willis, with someone onsite to confirm those receiving water are system customers. Willis said his office was working with the state Emergency Management Division to ensure potable water was delivered.
The Emergency Management Division, West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, an association of independent organizations, and West Virginia American Water have been among the sources providing water, according to Willis.
There had been two water buffaloes on site for those who had their own water-safe containers to fill, Willis said.
Water samples were sent to a West Virginia American Water laboratory since there were water quality issues identified in the samples, according to the DHHR.
The DHHR’s Bureau for Public Health received sample results that did not conclusively indicate a source of contamination, so repeat samples were taken, DHHR spokeswoman Allison Adler said late Wednesday afternoon.
The U.S. Coast Guard performed an investigation and determined there is no ongoing risk of contamination, according to Adler, who added that no spills were reported.
The state Department of Environmental Protection said it inspected local gas stations to check for any leaks that may have been a source and that no leaks were detected.
The DEP and the DHHR did not see or smell petroleum evidence around the plant but felt it best to keep the "do not consume" order in place until tests could be completed, Willis said.
Mike Tony covers energy and the environment for HD Media. He can be reached at 304-348-1236 or mtony@hdmediallc.com. Follow @Mike__Tony on Twitter.
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Supervisor in Tyre Nichols’ death retired before firing
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The Memphis police supervisor on scene when Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by officers retired with his benefits the day before a hearing to fire him, according to documents filed to revoke his law enforcement certification.
Lt. DeWayne Smith was identified Friday in records obtained by media outlets as the officer that officials said earlier this month had retired before his termination hearing.
Some Memphis City Council members were upset an officer was allowed to retire before steps could be taken to fire them, including the council’s vice-chairman JB Smiley Jr., who said it didn’t seem fair that the then-unidentified officer could keep pension and other benefits.
“I just don’t like the fact that his parents are paying this officer to go on and live and that’s troubling,” Smiley said.
The attorney for Nichols’ family said the department should not have let Smith “cowardly sidestep the consequences of his actions” and retire after 25 years.
“We call for Memphis police and officials to do everything in their power to hold Lt. Smith and all of those involved fully accountable,” attorney Ben Crump said.
Seven other Memphis officers were fired after Nichols died following a traffic stop on Jan. 7, and five of them are charged with second-degree murder. Smith is not charged in Nichols’ death.
Nichols, 29, was pulled roughly from his car as an officer threatened to shock him with a Taser. He ran, but was chased down. Video showed five officers held him down and repeatedly struck him with their fists, boots and batons as he screamed for his mother.
The decertification documents against Smith reveal additional details about his actions that night.
Smith heard Nichols say “I can’t breathe” as he was propped up against a squad car, but failed to get him medical care or remove his handcuffs, according to the report.
Smith also didn’t get reports from other officers about using force and told Nichols’ family he was driving under the influence even though there was no information to support a charge, the documents said. Investigators said Smith decided without evidence that Nichols was on drugs or drunk, and video captured him telling Nichols “you done took something” when he arrived at the scene.
Additionally, Smith did not wear his body camera — violating police department policy. His actions were captured on the body cameras of other officers, documents said.
The U.S. Department of Justice is currently reviewing the Memphis Police Department policies on the use of force, de-escalation strategies and specialized units in response to Nichols’ death.
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SEGUIN, Texas, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alamo Group Inc. (NYSE: ALG) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared its quarterly cash dividend of $0.18 per share, payable Aug 1, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 18, 2022.
About Alamo Group
Alamo Group is a leader in the design, manufacture, distribution and service of high quality equipment for vegetation management, infrastructure maintenance and other applications. Our products include truck and tractor mounted mowing and other vegetation maintenance equipment, street sweepers, snow removal equipment, excavators, vacuum trucks, other industrial equipment, agricultural implements, forestry equipment and related after-market parts and services. The Company, founded in 1969, has approximately 4,300 employees and operates 29 plants in North America, Europe, Australia and Brazil as of March 31, 2022. The corporate offices of Alamo Group Inc. are located in Seguin, Texas.
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This release contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual results in future periods to differ materially from forecasted results. Among those factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: overall market demand, continuing impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic including more significant supply chain disruptions, reductions in customer demand, sales and profitability declines, operational disruptions, full or partial facility closures, and other similar impacts, geopolitical risks, including effects of the war in Ukraine, inflation, competition, weather, seasonality, currency-related issues, and other risk factors listed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update the information contained herein, which speaks only as of this date.
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