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Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence disgraced Theranos CE0 Elizabeth Holmes to 15 years in prison, arguing she deserves a lengthy prison term because her massive scheme duped investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars by falsely convincing them her company had developed a revolutionary blood testing device.
Calling the case “one of the most substantial white collar offenses Silicon Valley or any other District has seen,” prosecutors vehemently rejected defense attorneys’ characterization that Holmes had been unfairly victimized, in part by media coverage.
Holmes is set to appear for sentencing on Nov. 18 in federal court in San Jose, California, nearly a year after she was convicted of three felony counts of wire fraud and one felony count of conspiracy to commit fraud. She faces up to 20 years in prison for each count.
“She repeatedly chose lies, hype and the prospect of billions of dollars over patient safety and fair dealing with investors,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert S. Leach wrote in a 46-page brief filed Friday. “Elizabeth Holmes’ crimes were not failing, they were lying — lying in the most serious context, where everyone needed her to tell the truth.”
Holmes’ attorneys filed an 82-page document late Thursday calling for a lenient sentence of no more than 18 months, saying her reputation was permanently destroyed, turning her into a “caricature to be mocked and vilified.”
Besides asking that Holmes receive a lengthy prison sentence, prosecutors called for the 38-year-old pay $803,840,309 in restitution for her role in the yearslong scheme that turned her into one of the most widely respected and immensely wealthy entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley and the United States.
“She preyed on hopes of her investors that a young, dynamic entrepreneur had changed healthcare. She leveraged the credibility of her illustrious board,” Leach wrote. “And, through her deceit, she attained spectacular fame, adoration, and billions of dollars of wealth.”
Leach also pointed to how, after Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou exposed the scheme, Holmes “attacked him, along with his sources” and desperately tried to pin the blame on others.
“At trial, she blamed her COO (and longtime boyfriend), her board, her scientists, her business partners, her investors, her marketing firm, her attorneys, the media — everyone, that is, but herself,” Leach wrote.
The company’s former chief operating officer, 57-year-old Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, was convicted on 12 felony counts of investor and patient fraud in July during separate trial. He is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 7.
And Leach wrote that the health of actual patients was put into jeopardy by what Holmes had done.
“As money was drying up, she went to market with an unproven and unreliable medical device,” he wrote. “When her lead assay developer quit as Theranos launched, she chillingly told the scientist: ‘she has a promise to deliver to the customer, she doesn’t have much of a choice but to go ahead with the launch.’”
Holmes’ attorneys have argued that if U.S. District Judge Edward Davila does decide to send her to prison, she deserves a lenient sentence because she poses no danger to the public and has no prior criminal history. | https://www.wfla.com/community/health/ap-health/ap-prosecutors-push-15-year-sentence-for-theranos-ceo-holmes/ | 2022-11-13 17:55:41 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/community/health/ap-health/ap-prosecutors-push-15-year-sentence-for-theranos-ceo-holmes/ |
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HENDERSON, Colo. (AP) _ MYR Group Inc. (MYRG) on Wednesday reported third-quarter profit of $18.4 million.
The Henderson, Colorado-based company said it had net income of $1.09 per share.
The electrical construction services provider posted revenue of $799.8 million in the period.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Electronic voting machines from a leading vendor used in at least 16 states have software vulnerabilities that leave them susceptible to hacking if unaddressed, the nation’s leading cybersecurity agency says in an advisory sent to state election officials.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, or CISA, said there is no evidence the flaws in the Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment have been exploited to alter election results. The advisory is based on testing by a prominent computer scientist and expert witness in a long-running lawsuit that is unrelated to false allegations of a stolen election pushed by former President Donald Trump after his 2020 election loss.
The advisory, obtained by The Associated Press in advance of its expected Friday release, details nine vulnerabilities and suggests protective measures to prevent or detect their exploitation. Amid a swirl of misinformation and disinformation about elections, CISA seems to be trying to walk a line between not alarming the public and stressing the need for election officials to take action.
CISA Executive Director Brandon Wales said in a statement that “states’ standard election security procedures would detect exploitation of these vulnerabilities and in many cases would prevent attempts entirely.” Yet the advisory seems to suggest states aren’t doing enough. It urges prompt mitigation measures, including both continued and enhanced “defensive measures to reduce the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities.” Those measures need to be applied ahead of every election, the advisory says, and it’s clear that’s not happening in all of the states that use the machines.
University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman, who wrote the report on which the advisory is based, has long argued that using digital technology to record votes is dangerous because computers are inherently vulnerable to hacking and thus require multiple safeguards that aren’t uniformly followed. He and many other election security experts have insisted that using hand-marked paper ballots is the most secure method of voting and the only option that allows for meaningful post-election audits.
“These vulnerabilities, for the most part, are not ones that could be easily exploited by someone who walks in off the street, but they are things that we should worry could be exploited by sophisticated attackers, such as hostile nation states, or by election insiders, and they would carry very serious consequences,” Halderman told the AP.
Concerns about possible meddling by election insiders were recently underscored with the indictment of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in Colorado, who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists and is running to become her state’s top election official. Data from the county’s voting machines appeared on election conspiracy websites last summer shortly after Peters appeared at a symposium about the election organized by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. She was also recently barred from overseeing this year’s election in her county.
One of the most serious vulnerabilities could allow malicious code to be spread from the election management system to machines throughout a jurisdiction, Halderman said. The vulnerability could be exploited by someone with physical access or by someone who is able to remotely infect other systems that are connected to the internet if election workers then use USB sticks to bring data from an infected system into the election management system.
Several other particularly worrisome vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to forge cards used in the machines by technicians, giving the attacker access to a machine that would allow the software to be changed, Halderman said.
“Attackers could then mark ballots inconsistently with voters’ intent, alter recorded votes or even identify voters’ secret ballots,” Halderman said.
Halderman is an expert witness for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit originally filed in 2017 that targeted the outdated voting machines Georgia used at the time. The state bought the Dominion system in 2019, but the plaintiffs contend that the new system is also insecure. A 25,000-word report detailing Halderman’s findings was filed under seal in federal court in Atlanta last July.
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg, who’s overseeing the case, has expressed concern about releasing the report, worrying about the potential for hacking and the misuse of sensitive election system information. She agreed in February that the report could be shared with CISA, which promised to work with Halderman and Dominion to analyze potential vulnerabilities and then help jurisdictions that use the machines to test and apply any protections.
Halderman agrees that there’s no evidence the vulnerabilities were exploited in the 2020 election. But that wasn’t his mission, he said. He was looking for ways Dominion’s Democracy Suite ImageCast X voting system could be compromised. The touchscreen voting machines can be configured as ballot-marking devices that produce a paper ballot or record votes electronically.
In a statement, Dominion defended the machines as “accurate and secure.”
Dominion’s systems have been unjustifiably maligned by people pushing the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Incorrect and sometimes outrageous claims by high-profile Trump allies prompted the company to file defamation lawsuits. State and federal officials have repeatedly said there’s no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election — and no evidence that Dominion equipment was manipulated to alter results.
Halderman said it’s an “unfortunate coincidence” that the first vulnerabilities in polling place equipment reported to CISA affect Dominion machines.
“There are systemic problems with the way election equipment is developed, tested and certified, and I think it’s more likely than not that serious problems would be found in equipment from other vendors if they were subjected to the same kind of testing,” Halderman said.
In Georgia, the machines print a paper ballot that includes a barcode — known as a QR code — and a human-readable summary list reflecting the voter’s selections, and the votes are tallied by a scanner that reads the barcode.
“When barcodes are used to tabulate votes, they may be subject to attacks exploiting the listed vulnerabilities such that the barcode is inconsistent with the human-readable portion of the paper ballot,” the advisory says. To reduce this risk, the advisory recommends, the machines should be configured, where possible, to produce “traditional, full-face ballots, rather than summary ballots with QR codes.”
The affected machines are used by at least some voters in at least 16 states, and in most of those places they are used only for people who can’t physically fill out a paper ballot by hand, according to a voting equipment tracker maintained by watchdog Verified Voting. But in some places, including all of Georgia, almost all in-person voting is on the affected machines.
Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Gabriel Sterling said the CISA advisory and a separate report commissioned by Dominion recognize that “existing procedural safeguards make it extremely unlikely” that a bad actor could exploit the vulnerabilities identified by Halderman. He called Halderman’s claims “exaggerated.”
Dominion has told CISA that the vulnerabilities have been addressed in subsequent software versions, and the advisory says election officials should contact the company to determine which updates are needed. Halderman tested machines used in Georgia, and he said it’s not clear whether machines running other versions of the software share the same vulnerabilities.
Halderman said that as far as he knows, “no one but Dominion has had the opportunity to test their asserted fixes.”
To prevent or detect the exploitation of these vulnerabilities, the advisory’s recommendations include ensuring voting machines are secure and protected at all times; conducting rigorous pre- and post-election testing on the machines as well as post-election audits; and encouraging voters to verify the human-readable portion on printed ballots.
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This story has been corrected to reflect that Tina Peters has been barred from overseeing this year’s election in her county, not from running for secretary of state. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/cyber-agency-voting-software-vulnerable-in-some-states/ | 2022-06-01 04:40:12 | 1 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/political-news/cyber-agency-voting-software-vulnerable-in-some-states/ |
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spartech, a leading manufacturer of engineered thermoplastics and custom packaging solutions, is pleased to announce that Daniel (Dan) Gallo has joined the Spartech Executive Team as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Gallo will be responsible for all Spartech manufacturing sites except for the Sherman Plastics (Naperville, Illinois) location. In this role, he will be focused on driving excellence across safety, quality, service, and productivity initiatives while fostering strong collaboration with commercial, business management, and innovation to accelerate Spartech growth.
"Dan's leadership will be integral in our development and enhancement of a ONE Spartech culture," said Spartech CEO John Inks. "He will play a major role in helping us improve our speed to deliver customer excellence and leverage all of our core values."
Gallo has over 30 years of experience leading operations, supply chain, and logistics for premier consumer-facing companies. Before being promoted to the Spartech COO position, he served as Vice-President of Operations for Robert Bosch, a multinational engineering and technology company. In this role, he was responsible for a successful operational transformation including developing and executing initiatives to strengthen product offerings. Prior to this, Gallo was the Spartech Senior Plant Manager for the Muncie, Indiana location and was later promoted to Spartech Director of Manufacturing.
Dan and his wife will reside in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with a unique innovation center and 17 manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States, Spartech is a leading plastics manufacturer of engineered thermoplastic materials and specialty packaging products. Meeting exact standards for everything from food packaging to aerospace and automotive applications, Spartech continues to make a world of difference with sustainable, diverse, reliable, and innovative products including UltraTuf®, Royalite®, Korad®, PreservaPak®, and Polycast®. https://spartech.com
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– Long-Term Open-Label Treatment With Vidofludimus Calcium Was Associated With a Low Rate of Confirmed Disability Worsening (CDW) Over Time –
– CDW Data Compares Favorably to Historical Trial Data for Currently Available Multiple Sclerosis Treatments –
NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunic, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMUX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of selective oral immunology therapies focused on treating chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, today announced that Robert J. Fox, M.D., Staff Neurologist, Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis, Vice-Chair for Research, Neurologic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, will present data from the blinded and open-label extension (OLE) parts of the company's phase 2 EMPhASIS trial of lead asset, vidofludimus calcium (IMU-838), a selective oral DHODH inhibitor, in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) at the eighth annual Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIMS) Forum 2023, taking place February 23-25 in San Diego, California. Dr. Fox has served as Coordinating Investigator in Immunic's multiple sclerosis (MS) programs and receives consulting fees for serving as an advisor to Immunic.
"The encouraging data from the 24-week double-blind main treatment period of the phase 2 EMPhASIS trial of vidofludimus calcium in RRMS patients showed that 12-week and 24-week Confirmed Disability Worsening (CDW) events occurred in 1.6% of subjects in the combined vidofludimus calcium treatment arms as compared to 3.7% in the placebo group," stated Dr. Fox. "Additionally, in the OLE phase, the proportion of patients free from 12-week CDW was 97.2% after 48 weeks and 94.2% after 96 weeks of vidofludimus calcium treatment, as measured from the start of the OLE phase. Similarly, 97.6% of patients were free from 24-week CDW after 48 weeks and 94.5% after 96 weeks."
"The opportunity to present data from our EMPhASIS trial at the ACTRIMS Forum 2023 is of high relevance for Immunic, allowing us to further highlight to the industry the potential of vidofludimus calcium in RRMS, especially as the CDW rates seen in this trial were on the lower end of those observed in historical trials with currently approved MS medications," added Daniel Vitt, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and President of Immunic. "We eagerly await reporting data from our ongoing phase 3 ENSURE program in relapsing MS as well as our ongoing phase 2 CALLIPER trial in progressive MS. In the second half of this year, we already expect to provide selected biomarker data from an interim analysis of the CALLIPER trial to guide study progress. Vidofludimus calcium's well established safety profile, combined with its anti-inflammatory, antiviral and neuroprotective effects shown, to date, are impressive and we remain enthusiastic about the potential for this novel therapeutic to become a new treatment option for MS patients."
Presentation Details:
- Abstract Number: 697
- Poster Title: Assessment of effect of vidofludimus calcium on MS progression in the blinded treatment and open-label extension periods of the phase 2 study (EMPhASIS) in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
- Poster Number: P068
- Authors: Robert J. Fox, Christian Wolf, Andreas Muehler, Matej Ondrus, Valentina Sciacca
- Poster Session: Poster Session 1
- Date: Thursday, February 23, 2023
- Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm PT
- Location: Pacific Ballroom
The poster presentation will be accessible on the "Events and Presentations" section of Immunic's website at: ir.imux.com/events-and-presentations.
EMPhASIS is an international, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, parallel-group trial, designed to assess the efficacy and safety of vidofludimus calcium in patients with RRMS. The trial included a 24-week blinded main treatment period testing 10, 30 and 45 mg of vidofludimus calcium and placebo. In the third quarter of 2020, Immunic reported that the trial achieved both primary and key secondary endpoints with high statistical significance, and a safety and tolerability profile similar to placebo.
The trial also includes an optional long-term OLE phase running up to 9.5 years. An interim analysis was performed with data extraction in October 2022, when 209 patients remained on treatment in the OLE phase, some of whom have already received more than 180 continuous weeks (approximately four years) of active treatment with vidofludimus calcium.
About Vidofludimus Calcium (IMU-838)
Vidofludimus calcium is an investigational drug in development as an orally available, next-generation selective immune modulator that is designed to inhibit the intracellular metabolism of activated immune cells by blocking the enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH). Vidofludimus calcium has been observed in preclinical studies to act on activated T and B cells while leaving other immune cells largely unaffected and allows the immune system to stay functioning, e.g., in fighting infections. In previous trials, vidofludimus calcium did not show an increased rate of infections compared to placebo. In addition, DHODH inhibitors, such as vidofludimus calcium, are known to possess a host-based antiviral effect, which is independent with respect to specific virus proteins and their structure. Therefore, DHODH inhibition may be broadly applicable against multiple viruses. To date, vidofludimus calcium has been tested in more than 1,100 individuals and has shown an attractive pharmacokinetic, safety and tolerability profile. Vidofludimus calcium is not yet licensed or approved in any country.
About Immunic, Inc.
Immunic, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMUX) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of selective oral immunology therapies focused on treating chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The company is developing three small molecule products: its lead development program, vidofludimus calcium (IMU-838), a selective immune modulator that inhibits the intracellular metabolism of activated immune cells by blocking the enzyme DHODH and exhibits a host-based antiviral effect, is currently being developed as a treatment option for multiple sclerosis. IMU-935, a selective inverse agonist of the transcription factor RORγ/RORγt, is targeted for development in psoriasis, and castration-resistant prostate cancer. IMU-856, which targets the restoration of the intestinal barrier function and regeneration of bowel epithelium, is targeted for development in diseases involving bowel barrier dysfunction. For further information, please visit: www.imux.com.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that involve substantial risks and uncertainties for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release regarding strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenue, projected expenses, sufficiency of cash, expected timing and results of clinical trials, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. Examples of such statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to Immunic's three development programs and the targeted diseases; the potential for vidofludimus calcium to safely and effectively target diseases; preclinical and clinical data for vidofludimus calcium; the timing of current and future clinical trials and anticipated clinical milestones; the nature, strategy and focus of the company and further updates with respect thereto; and the development and commercial potential of any product candidates of the company. Immunic may not actually achieve the plans, carry out the intentions or meet the expectations or projections disclosed in the forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management's current expectations and involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual results and performance could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including, without limitation, the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing inflation, impacts of the Ukraine – Russia conflict on clinical trials, risks and uncertainties associated with the ability to project future cash utilization and reserves needed for contingent future liabilities and business operations, the availability of sufficient financial and other resources to meet business objectives and operational requirements, the fact that the results of earlier preclinical studies and clinical trials may not be predictive of future clinical trial results, the protection and market exclusivity provided by Immunic's intellectual property, risks related to the drug development and the regulatory approval process and the impact of competitive products and technological changes. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in the section captioned "Risk Factors," in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on February 24, 2022, and in the company's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov or ir.imux.com/sec-filings. Any forward-looking statement made in this release speaks only as of the date of this release. Immunic disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made. Immunic expressly disclaims all liability in respect to actions taken or not taken based on any or all the contents of this press release.
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Updated June 14, 2023 at 5:46 PM ET
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday, but reaffirmed its commitment to battling stubborn inflation.
After raising interest rates at the last ten meetings in a row, Fed policymakers opted to hold their benchmark rate steady, between 5 and 5.25%. They signaled that additional rate hikes are possible, if necessary to bring prices under control.
"The committee is completely unified in the need to get inflation down to 2%, and we'll do whatever it takes to get it down to 2%," Fed chairman Jerome Powell told reporters. "We understand that allowing inflation to get entrenched in the U.S. economy is the thing that we cannot allow to happen for the benefit of today's workers and families and businesses but also for the future."
The central bank's decision to forego an eleventh consecutive rate hike comes a day after the Labor Department reported mixed progress on restoring price stability. Consumer prices in May were up 4% from a year ago — the smallest annual increase since March 2021.
Much of the drop in inflation last month resulted from falling gasoline prices, which are notoriously erratic. Excluding volatile prices for energy and food, inflation is still running at 5.3% — more than two-and-a-half times the Fed's 2% target.
"Things are still moving in the right direction and encouraging," says Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide. "But when we look at what we call the 'core' consumer price index, there is where you still see some stickiness."
Powell notes that he and others have repeatedly gotten burned over the last two years by underestimating the staying power of inflation.
"Forecasters, including Fed forecasters, have consistently thought that inflation was about to turn down, and been wrong," Powell said.
He says they won't make the mistake of taking their foot off the brake prematurely.
On average, Fed policymakers now think rates will need to climb about a half percentage point higher — to 5.6% — by the end of this year. In March, Fed officials expected the current rate would be high enough to bring inflation under control.
Borrowing costs have already risen at the fastest pace in decades. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is 6.71%, according to Freddie Mac. The average interest rate on credit cards now tops 20%.
That's expensive for the nearly half of credit card users who carry a balance. Credit card balances have ballooned as borrowers struggle to keep pace with rising prices.
"For millions of Americans, the paycheck just doesn't go as far as the household expenses are now going, due to inflation," says Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate. "Budgets are stretched. And we've seen that with savings coming down and with credit card debt going up."
On the flip side, people who are lucky enough to have savings in the bank can finally earn interest rates that outpace inflation.
"Savers are seeing the best returns that they've seen in 15 years, provided that they're looking in the right place," McBride says.
He cautions that it pays to shop around. Internet banks, small community banks and credit unions often have the most competitive interest rates.
"A lot of banks are still dragging their feet and have been pretty stingy in their payouts for savings accounts and CDs," McBride says. "But the top yielding accounts are over 5%. And that's where you need to have your money."
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Family Adventure Box with Cabell County Schools
Published: Dec. 21, 2022 at 8:54 AM EST|Updated: 43 minutes ago
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - This time of year, we’re looking for ways to connect with our kids and be intentional with our time.
Dr. Ashley Stephens with Cabell County Schools stopped by First Look at Four with an idea to take advantage of resources right here in our area.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” earned 12 NAACP Image Awards nominations on Thursday, while “The Woman King” and “Abbott Elementary” will enter next month’s ceremony as other top nominees.
The “Black Panther” sequel — which found blockbuster success — led all film nominees. The Marvel film delved into the concept of Wakanda’s grief in the wake of the death of T’Challa — a character played by Chadwick Boseman, who died in 2020.
The film “The Woman King” starring Viola Davis and the ABC television series “Abbott Elementary” with Quinta Brunson each received nine nods. Both Davis and Brunson are nominated for entertainer of the year along with Mary J. Blige, Zendaya and Angela Bassett.
The awards honoring entertainers and writers of color will air live in Pasadena, California, on BET on Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. EST. The two-hour show will be held in front of an audience for the first time in three years.
“This year’s nominees have conveyed a wide range of authentic stories and diverse experiences that have resonated with many in our community,” said Derrick Johnson, the president and CEO of the NAACP. “We’re proud to recognize their outstanding achievements and performances.”
“Wakanda Forever” and “The Woman King” will compete for outstanding motion picture along with “A Jazzman’s Blues,” “Till” and “Emancipation.”
ABC emerged with a leading 28 nominations with the help of “Abbott Elementary,” “black-ish” and “The Wonder Years.”
Netflix, the streaming giant, received 15 nominations. RCA Records/RCA Inspiration has 11 nods, while Penguin Random House and HarperCollins Publisher led with nine in the literary categories.
In music, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar both came away with five nominations.
“We take pride in recognizing the trailblazing achievements and artistry of this year’s esteemed nominees and celebrating the powerful legacy of the NAACP,” said Connie Orlando, the EVP of specials, music programming & music strategy at BET. “We look forward to bringing the Image Awards back to Pasadena in front of a live audience and delivering unforgettable moments that epitomize the brilliance of the Black community.” | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-wakanda-forever-scores-12-naacp-image-award-nominations/ | 2023-01-13 21:59:40 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-wakanda-forever-scores-12-naacp-image-award-nominations/ |
WASHINGTON — Rihanna is lending her voice to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The singer teased a snippet of her upcoming single "Lift Me Up" on Wednesday for the "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" soundtrack. The single will be released on Friday and is Rihanna's first solo song in 6 years.
On Tuesday, the movie's official Twitter account released a cryptic video singling out the letter "R" in the film's title. Fans quickly speculated the "R" meant Rihanna would be featured in a song.
Rihanna confirmed the announcement on Wednesday through her own social media. She shared a video with the same letter "R," accompanied by a melodic hum along with the caption "lift me up" and Friday's date. She also included a link for fans to pre-save the song for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal.
Rihanna's last album, "Anti," was released in 2016. Since then, the singer has featured on songs with other artists, but primarily has focused on her beauty and lingerie businesses.
The singer's musical return also comes on the heels of another huge announcement last month. The Barbadian singer is set to take the halftime show stage in the upcoming 2023 Super Bowl LVII.
With sales of more than 250 million records worldwide, Rihanna ranks as one of the best-selling female artists ever. The "Diamonds" singer was ranked as the second richest female entertainer in 2021, with $1.7 billion in net worth according to Forbes.
Rihanna and rapper A$AP Rocky welcomed a baby boy earlier this year.
Marvel's "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" is a sequel to the superhero series, which starred the late Chadwick Boseman. He died of prostate cancer in 2020.
It has not been clear how the film would deal with the death of the title star of the first film, but the trailer suggests that his sister Shuri, played by Letitia Wright, might be the next Black Panther.
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LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s independence movement needs a new leader — and a new plan.
With the resignation of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the decades-long campaign by Scottish nationalists to secede from the United Kingdom is losing its star politician and strongest communicator, at a time when efforts to hold a new vote on independence are at an impasse.
The Times of London said Thursday that Sturgeon’s departure was a “huge boost to unionism,” and a “generational setback” to the independence cause. Financial Times columnist Robert Shrimsley said simply: “Nicola Sturgeon ran out of road.”
Sturgeon took the U.K. by surprise when she announced her resignation on Wednesday after eight years in office, saying she knew “in my head and in my heart” it was time to leave.
She will remain first minister for several more weeks while the Scottish National Party picks a new leader, a job for which there is no clear favorite. Potential successors include Angus Robertson, a Sturgeon ally who serves as Scotland’s constitution secretary, Finance Secretary Kate Forbes and Health Secretary Humza Yousaf. But none of the contenders has Sturgeon’s profile or proven political skills.
Voting for the new party leader will open March 12 and close March 27.
Whoever wins will have to find a way to break the independence logjam. Scottish voters opted by 55% to 45% to remain in the U.K. in a 2014 referendum that was billed as a once-in-a-generation decision.
Sturgeon took power in the wake of that defeat and tried to forge a path to a second vote. Brexit looked like it might give her a chance: The U.K. as a whole backed leaving the European Union in a 2016 referendum, but voters in Scotland strongly favored remaining. Sturgeon argued that Brexit had made a new referendum essential because it had dragged Scotland out of the European Union against its will.
But a binding referendum needs agreement from the U.K. government, and the Conservative administration in London has refused to grant one.
Sturgeon ruled out emulating Catalan separatists in Spain and holding an unauthorized vote, a decision that struck some independence supporters as too cautious.
Instead she unsuccessfully challenged the British government at the Supreme Court for the right to hold a new referendum. Then she said she would use the next U.K. national election, due by 2024, as “de facto” plebiscite on independence — though it was unclear exactly how that would work.
The SNP on Thursday postponed a special conference on its independence strategy that had been set for March 19,
Recent polls suggest Scots are about evenly split on the issue of independence. John Kampfner of think tank Chatham House said that with Sturgeon gone it’s possible “some of the air has gone out of the bubble” of the independence movement.
He said that momentum could weaken even more if the opposition Labour Party wins the next U.K. election, due by 2024, as polls currently suggest it will. He said Labour leader Keir Starmer is a more appealing figure to many Scots than “very English, divisive and right-wing” former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Sturgeon’s long-time antagonist.
Sturgeon exits without fulfilling her dream of leading Scotland to independence, but leaves a large, and contested, legacy. Scotland’s first female leader refashioned the SNP from a largely one-issue party into a dominant governing force with liberal social positions. Her departure brought praise from Nancy Pelosi — who hailed her “strong, values-driven leadership” — and a jibe from Donald Trump, who bid “Good riddance to failed woke extremist Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland!”
Admirers praised her calm, measured public communications during the coronavirus pandemic — a contrast to Johnson’s erratic bluster.
But Sturgeon’s plan to make it easier for people in Scotland to legally change their gender caused a storm inside the party that may have hastened her decision to leave.
Scotland’s gender recognition bill would allow people aged 16 or older to change the gender designations on identity documents by self-declaration, removing the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
Hailed as a landmark by transgender rights activists, the legislation faced opposition from some SNP members who said it ignored the need to protect single-sex spaces for women, such as domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers.
What to do about the bill — which has been passed by the Scottish parliament but blocked by the U.K. government — will be another challenge for Sturgeon’s successor. Some in the party strongly support it, while others see it as a distraction from the party’s main goal: independence.
Some have already left to join Alba, the rival party formed in 2021 by former First Minister Alex Salmond, Sturgeon’s now-estranged friend and mentor.
John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde, said “the $64,000 question is” whether the party can find a leader with ”the public impact and rhetorical skill” of Salmond and Sturgeon.
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Less than 15% of Shares Outstanding Supported Aviat's Director Nominees
Excluding Aviat's Stake, Less Than 10% of Shares Outstanding Supported Aviat's Director Nominees
ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT) (the "Company", "Ceragon", "we", "us", or "our"), a global innovator and leading solutions provider of 5G wireless transport, today announced that shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected ALL proposals set forth by Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) at the Company's 2022 Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM").
Ceragon issued the following statement:
We appreciate the significant support that our Board received from our shareholders. While preparing for the EGM, we have had the opportunity to speak directly with many of our shareholders to discuss Aviat's indication of interest as well as Ceragon's strategy and performance. We are pleased that our shareholders rejected Aviat's attempts to take control of our Board. We believe Ceragon has significant business momentum and upside, and we look forward to putting this proxy contest behind us. As we indicated many times, our Board is focused on maximizing value for all shareholders and remains open to any potential transaction that delivers full, fair and certain value to Ceragon shareholders including a combination with Aviat.
At the EGM, at least ~80% of the shares cast on the Company's white proxy card voted AGAINST ALL of Aviat's proposals, and more than 90% voted against most of Aviat's proposals. While the gold proxy card has no legal basis, even combined results, of both the white and gold proxy cards, show that at least ~63% of the shares cast voted AGAINST ALL of Aviat's proposals, and ~75% voted against most of Aviat's proposals. We would also note that Aviat's director nominees received support from less than 15% of total shares outstanding, and less than 10% of total shares outstanding excluding Aviat's stake, on both cards combined.
Today's outcome reinforces that Ceragon shareholders recognize that Aviat's indication of interest significantly undervalues Ceragon and that Aviat's attempts to take control of the Ceragon Board are not in the best interest of Ceragon shareholders.
Evercore is serving as financial advisor and Shibolet & Co. and Latham & Watkins LLP are serving as legal advisors to Ceragon.
About Ceragon Networks
Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT) is the global innovator and leading solutions provider of 5G wireless transport. We help operators and other service providers worldwide increase operational efficiency and enhance end customers' quality of experience with innovative wireless backhaul and fronthaul solutions. Our customers include service providers, public safety organizations, government agencies and utility companies, which use our solutions to deliver 5G & 4G broadband wireless connectivity, mission-critical multimedia services, stabilized communications, and other applications at high reliability and speed.
Ceragon's unique multicore technology and disaggregated approach to wireless transport provides highly reliable, fast to deploy, high-capacity wireless transport for 5G and 4G networks with minimal use of spectrum, power, real estate, and labor resources. It enables increased productivity, as well as simple and quick network modernization, positioning Ceragon as a leading solutions provider for the 5G era. We deliver a complete portfolio of turnkey end-to-end AI-based managed and professional services that ensure efficient network rollout and optimization to achieve the highest value for our customers. Our solutions are deployed by more than 400 service providers, as well as more than 800 private network owners, in more than 150 countries. For more information please visit: www.ceragon.com
Ceragon Networks® and FibeAir® are registered trademarks of Ceragon Networks Ltd. in the United States and other countries. CERAGON ® is a trademark of Ceragon Networks Ltd., registered in various countries. Other names mentioned are owned by their respective holders.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This document contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the safe-harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are based on the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of Ceragon's management about Ceragon's business, financial condition, results of operations, micro and macro market trends and other issues addressed or reflected therein. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: projections of demand, revenues, net income, gross margin, capital expenditures and liquidity, competitive pressures, order timing, supply chain and shipping, components availability, growth prospects, product development, financial resources, cost savings and other financial and market matters. You may identify these and other forward-looking statements by the use of words such as "may", "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "targets", "expects", "intends", "potential" or the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
Although we believe that the projections reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations therefrom will not be material. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause Ceragon's future results or performance to differ materially from those anticipated, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, any ongoing actions taken and future actions that may be taken by Aviat Networks Inc. or other stockholders or others; the continuing impact of the components shortage due to the global shortage in semiconductors, chipsets, components and other commodities, on our supply chain, manufacturing capacity and ability to timely deliver our products, which have caused, and could continue to cause delays in deliveries of our products and in the deployment of projects by our customers, risk of penalties and orders cancellation created thereby, as well as profit erosion due to constant price increase, payment of expedite fees and costs of inventory pre-ordering and procurement acceleration of such inventory, and the risk of becoming a deadstock if not consumed; the continued effect of the global increase in shipping costs and decrease in shipping slots availability on us, our supply chain and customers, which have resulted, and may continue to result in, price erosion, late deliveries and the risk of penalties and orders cancellation due to late deliveries; the impact of the transition to 5G technologies on our revenues if such transition is developed differently than we anticipated; the risks relating to the concentration of a major portion of our business on large mobile operators around the world from which we derive a significant portion of our ordering, that due to their relative effect on the overall ordering coupled with inconsistent ordering pattern and volume of business directed to us, creates high volatility with respect to our financial results and results of operations; the effect of the competition from other wireless transport equipment providers and from other communication solutions that compete with our high-capacity point-to-point wireless products; the continued effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy and markets and on us and on the markets in which we operate and our and our customers, providers, business partners and contractors business and operations; the risks relating to increased breaches of network or information technology security along with increase in cyber-attack activities, growing cyber-crime threats, and changes in privacy and data protection laws, that could have an adverse effect on our business; risks associated with any failure to meet our product development timetable, including delay in the commercialization of our new chipset; imposition of additional sanctions and global trade limitations in connection with Russia's invasion to Ukraine, the effects of general economic conditions and trends on the global and local markets in which we operate and such other risks, uncertainties and other factors that could affect our results, as further detailed in Ceragon's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F and in Ceragon's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Such forward-looking statements, including the risks, uncertainties and other factors that could affect our results, represent our views only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. Such forward-looking statements do not purport to be predictions of future events or results and there can be no assurance that it will prove to be accurate. Ceragon may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future but the company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so except as may be required by law.
Ceragon's public filings are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov and may also be obtained from Ceragon's website at www.ceragon.com.
Ceragon Investor & Media Contact:
Maya Lustig
Ceragon Networks
Tel. +972-54-677-8100
mayal@ceragon.com
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Twitter’s plan to charge for crucial tool prompts outcry
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, thousands of volunteer software developers have been using a crucial Twitter tool to comb the platform for calls for help — including people posting their location inside collapsed buildings — and connect people with rescue organizations to help them. But they could soon lose access to this tool unless they pay Twitter a monthly fee of at least $100 — prohibitive for many volunteers and nonprofits. Monday is the extended deadline Twitter set for shutting off free access to its API, or Application Programming Interface. But on Monday, it delayed the launch again.
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Super Bowl ads use celebs, humor, lots of dogs
NEW YORK (AP) — Advertisers bet big that viewers were turning to the Super Bowl for a comforting escape, and delivered a series of advertisements that relied on familiar celebrity faces, light humor, and plenty of cuddly dogs. This wasn’t a year for edgy humor or experimentation. After three years of a global pandemic, with economic uncertainty looming ahead and the war in Ukraine stretching on, advertisers just wanted people to feel good. Super Bowl advertisers each year try to reach the more than 100 million people tuning into the broadcast. It’s a pricey proposition: ads can cost as much as $7 million for 30 seconds.
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Google to expand misinformation ‘prebunking’ in Europe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Google is expanding an initiative that shows promise in fighting online misinformation. The tech company announced Monday that it will roll out a new “prebunking” campaign in Germany. Prebunking works like a viral inoculation by priming a person’s critical thinking skills to make them more resistant to false claims. Last fall, Google tested the premise in Eastern Europe by airing short advertisement-length videos explaining how misinformation can trick the brain. Research shows that prebunking can be among the most effective tools to combat misinformation because it’s affordable and can be used on a large scale.
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EU foresees economy improving, but inflation still painful
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Europe’s economic prospects are looking up, at least a little. The European Union’s executive Commission on Monday raised its economic growth forecast for the year. It’s now up to 0.8% for the 20 countries using the euro currency. That means the commission expects the eurozone to scrape by without a technical recession in 2023. But things are not great either. Inflation may have passed its peak, but it’s still high at 8.5%. That’s going to keep holding back consumer spending. And the European Central Bank is raising interest rates, a step that’s aimed at getting inflation down but also makes it more expensive to get credit for purchases or business expansion.
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Ford to build $3.5B electric vehicle battery plant in Mich.
DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. plans to build a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant about 100 miles west of Detroit that would employ about 2,500 people. The plant was revealed Monday at a meeting of the Michigan Strategic Fund, which approved a large state tax incentive package for the project near the city of Marshall. It will be built on a site that’s being readied for industrial development near the junction of Interstates 94 and 69. Gabby Bruno, director of economic development for Ford, said there was “no lack of competition for this project.” She said Michigan “competed against numerous states and countries” to secure the investment. Ford has scheduled press conferences later Monday to make electric vehicle announcements.
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Report: Companies’ climate targets not what they claim to be
BERLIN (AP) — A new report says climate commitments by companies aren’t always as green as they seem. The report published Monday concludes that major brands are exaggerating how ambitious their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are, essentially misleading consumers, investors and governments. Europe-based environmental think tanks NewClimate Institute and Carbon Market Watch examined 24 companies, including KitKat manufacturer Nestle, French retailer Carrefour and automaker Volkswagen. It found that only one company — shipping firm Maersk — had climate plans with “reasonable integrity” while the rest were assessed to be moderate to very low.
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Ex-CEO of Germany’s Wirecard denies charges at fraud trial
BERLIN (AP) — The former CEO of payments company Wirecard has denied having known anything about false accounting at the firm as he testifies at his trial over its collapse in 2020. Wirecard was long the darling of Germany’s fintech scene until it filed for insolvency, saying that 1.9 billion euros ($2 billion) that had been on its balance sheet could not be found. The case exposed flaws in the country’s financial oversight bodies. Ex-CEO Markus Braun, along with two other ex-managers, is charged with fraud amid allegations that much of Wirecard’s revenue and assets were faked. They went on trial in December.
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11 states consider ‘right to repair’ for farming equipment
DENVER (AP) — Lawmakers in Colorado and 10 other states have introduce bills that would force farming equipment manufacturers to provide the tools, software, parts and manuals needed for farmers to do their own repairs. The bills are a response to farmers unable to repair their own tractors and combines, forcing them to wait sometimes days and paying steep labor costs. The proposition has found pushback from manufacturers worried about releasing trade secrets, the safety of users who could more easily tinker with the software, and the operator’s ability to bypass the emissions controller.
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Stocks rally ahead of hotly anticipated inflation report
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed higher as traders made their final moves in anticipation of a report that could show whether inflation is cooling in the right way or setting the market up for worse pain. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% Monday. A report on Tuesday will show how bad inflation was at the consumer level in January. Economists expect a slowdown, and better trends than expected could reignite hopes that the Federal Reserve may be able to take it easier on interest rates. Treasury yields were mixed after jumping last week on rising expectations for the Fed to stay firm on rates.
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RIP Medical Debt seeks to buy, resolve more hospital debt
The CEO of a nonprofit that helps people with medical debt wants to expand the amount of debt her organization buys, especially from hospitals. RIP Medical Debt CEO Allison Sesso also wants to draw more attention to the system that generates the bills. The organization uses donations to buy debt in bulk from hospitals and debt collectors for pennies on the dollar. It mostly targets debt of people with low incomes and then forgives the amounts. The organization says that it has relieved more than $8.5 billion so far. Researchers estimate there is well over $100 billion in collections in the U.S.
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The S&P 500 rose 46.83 points, or 1.1%, to 4,137.29. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 376.66 points, or 1.1%, to 34,245.93. The Nasdaq composite added 173.67 points, or 1.5%, to 11,891.79. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies advanced 22.33 points, or 1.2%, to 1,941.14. | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/business-highlights-twitter-tool-google-s-17782172.php | 2023-02-13 23:56:36 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/business-highlights-twitter-tool-google-s-17782172.php |
BLACKPINK is ready for an encore.
The K-pop group has announced four summer stadium concerts as part of the “Born Pink Encore” tour kicking off at MetLife Stadium on Aug. 12.
They also will stop at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on Aug. 18, San Francisco’s Oracle Park on Aug. 22 and Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on Aug. 26.
This past weekend, BLACKPINK made history as being the first Korean act to headline Coachella Music Festival.
Fans can still buy tickets for Weekend 2 of Coachella, if they want to catch the girl group onstage.
If you want to see BLACKPINK this summer at MetLife Stadium, here’s what you need to know.
Where can I buy tickets to see BLACKPINK in concert?
BLACKPINK fans can apply for multiple presales held on Ticketmaster. These include the Blink Membership Presale, General Presale and American Express Presale.
The application for BLACKPINK’s Blink fan club presale is open now through April 23 on Weverse.
Fans must verify their Blink Membership on the group’s official website using their Weverse ID and Blink Membership ID. Select members will get a presale code via text to purchase tickets on April 26 at 1 p.m. ET.
For the General Presale, fans can register now through April 25 at 10 p.m. ET on BLACKPINK’s website. They will receive presale codes via text and email to purchase tickets starting at 12 p.m. on April 27.
American Express card members also can buy presale tickets from April 26 at 12 p.m. through April 27 at 10 p.m.
If you miss the presales, you can purchase tickets during the General Onsale at 10 a.m. on April 28. Tickets also will be listed on secondary market sites, like StubHub, Vivid Seats, TicketNetwork, TicketCity and MegaSeats.
It’s common for speculative tickets to be available on the secondary market first. However, tickets may be more expensive than the ones sold to the general public.
First-time Vivid Seats users can save $20 on ticket orders over $200 with promo code NJ20 at checkout.
TicketCity users can save $15 on orders over $400 using promo code TCITYSAVE15 at checkout.
A complete list of the BLACKPINK’s extended tour dates is available here.
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Here is a list of upcoming tours that you won’t want to miss.
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How do free tickets to the Super Bowl sound?
The game is just weeks away, and the excitement is building.
One person who knows a lot about the frenzy surrounding the big game is 2-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Eli Manning.
Manning is partnering with Verizon to spread the word about how some football fans can win tickets to three consecutive Super Bowls.
Watch the video today at 11am for details.
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Partnership expands Safe Harbor's suite of financial services offerings to ATACH's members and advocacy network of over 1,000 State Licensed Permit Holders
ARVADA, Colo., Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SHF Holdings, Inc., d/b/a/ Safe Harbor Financial ("Safe Harbor" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SHFS), a leader in facilitating financial services to the regulated cannabis industry, today announced it has been selected as the preferred facilitator for financial compliance, validation, and onboarding services for the American Trade Association for Cannabis & Hemp (ATACH), an organization that promotes the expansion, protection, and preservation of businesses engaged in the legal trade of industrial, medical, and recreational cannabis and hemp based products.
ATACH members and network of state-level memorandum of understanding ("MOU") partners through ATACH National Council of State Organizations, which includes over 1,000 state licensed permit holders will be eligible to take advantage of Safe Harbor's established relationships with its financial institution clients offering traditional financial services to cannabis, hemp, and CBD related businesses including: business checking and savings, debit cards, online and mobile banking, wire services, ACH transactions, treasury services, and payroll solutions as well as lending services.
"The partnership with ATACH will help deliver compliant financial solutions for licensed cannabis operators by making available to all of its members access to financial services through our financial institution clients and using our compliance and onboarding services," stated Sundie Seefried, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Safe Harbor. "As the premier cannabis-focused financial solutions provider to the cannabis industry, we are strongly positioned to assist the industry's most influential trade organization."
Established in 2015, Safe Harbor was formed to address an unmet need, providing compliant access to banking and financial services to the rapidly growing U.S. cannabis industry. Since inception, Safe Harbor has assisted with the onboarding of over $14 billion in transactions. As legislative reform unfolds in the U.S., Safe Harbor's platform is uniquely positioned to remain the standard for cannabis financial services.
"We're excited to connect our members to a reliable partner who will assist in providing access to financial services and has been an active advocate in the industry for many years now," said Michael Bronstein, President of ATACH. "Licensed cannabis operators have run into roadblocks hampering growth in the past, but now have the ability to access banking services through Safe Harbor's relationships with financial institutions. This partnership will advance our members' businesses giving them the tools they need to safely and organically grow."
About Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor is one of the first service providers to offer compliance, monitoring and validation services to financial institutions while providing traditional banking services to cannabis, hemp, CBD, and ancillary operators, making communities safer, driving growth in local economies, and fostering long-term partnerships. Safe Harbor, through its financial institution clients, implements high standards of accountability, transparency, monitoring, reporting and risk mitigation measures while meeting Bank Secrecy Act obligations in line with FinCEN guidance on cannabis-related businesses. Over the past seven years, Safe Harbor (including its predecessor) has assisted with the onboarding of over $14 billion in deposit transactions for customers with operations spanning 20 states with regulated cannabis markets. For more information, visit www.shfinancial.org.
About ATACH
The American Trade Association for Cannabis & Hemp ("ATACH") is a 501(c)(6) trade organization registered in Washington, DC, founded in 2014 to promote the expansion, protection, and preservation of businesses engaged in the legal trade of industrial, medical, and recreational cannabis and hemp-based products. For more information, visit www.atach.org.
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Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements'' within the meaning of federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to trends in the cannabis industry, including proposed changes in U.S and state laws, rules, regulations and guidance relating to Safe Harbor's services; Safe Harbor's growth prospects and Safe Harbor's market size; Safe Harbor's projected financial and operational performance, including relative to its competitors; new product and service offerings Safe Harbor may introduce in the future; the impact of recent volatility in the capital markets, which may adversely affect the price of the Company's securities; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Safe Harbor following the closing of the business combination; other statements regarding Safe Harbor's expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future; and the other risk factors discussed in Safe Harbor's filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intends," "outlook," "may," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would," and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject, are subject to risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties (some of which are beyond the control of Safe Harbor), and other assumptions, that may cause the actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nuggets coach Michael Malone so appreciates Nikola Jokic taking over a game and leading the way on both ends.
Jokic had his 77th career triple-double with 26 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists playing with a sore right wrist he had taped, and Denver edged Golden State 128-123 on Friday night in a rematch of the teams’ first-round playoff series won by the Warriors in five games on their way to the title.
“My biggest challenge for Nikola is always finding a way to use his voice and be a leader,” Malone said. “This is his team. He’s a great player, and what makes him great is he makes every one of those guys better. And that chemistry is only going to continue to get better and better as the season goes along. But tonight was a great example of what it has potential to be.”
Jordan Poole made a backcourt steal from Bones Hyland and scored with 14.7 seconds left to get Golden State to 124-123 then Bruce Brown dunked immediately off a long pass by Jokic. The Warriors had another chance and Klay Thompson missed a potential tying 3 from the top with 9.3 seconds to go.
Jokic secured the rebound then converted two free throws.
“He’s everybody’s kryptonite,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “He’s a two-time MVP for a reason.”
Stephen Curry scored 34 points with five 3-pointers after a second straight slow start shooting and has 30-point performances in his first two games. But the Warriors committed 19 turnovers that led to 30 Denver points.
Brown scored 20 points and Michael Porter Jr. and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 17 apiece for the Nuggets.
“We didn’t start off with a strong defensive presence,” Draymond Green said. “Five minutes into the game they had 20 points. That’s on me.”
Golden State debuted revamped “Run TMC” blue jerseys to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hall of Famer Chris Mullin’s gold medal with The Dream Team at the 1992 Olympics.
Thompson and Draymond Green had 16 and 13 points, respectively, playing increased minutes — 23 for Thompson and 27 for Green, who also had nine assists.
Thompson played nearly 20 minutes and Green almost 25 in a season-opening 123-109 victory over the Lakers on Tuesday night.
Denver has three straight regular-season victories on the Warriors’ home floor, getting in the win column after the Nuggets lost their opener to the Jazz 123-102 at Utah on Wednesday.
KERR HONORS BROWN
Kerr offered his thoughts to the family of longtime referee Tony Brown, who died Thursday at age 55 from pancreatic cancer.
“He’s a great ref and he made an impact on this league and everybody liked him,” Kerr said. “We’ve missed him the last couple years and the news yesterday it really hit home and hit hard for all of us, the players, coaches, entire organization.”
TIP-INS
Nuggets: G Jamal Murray sat out and won’t play both games of back-to-backs early on as he nurses a left knee injury. “We want to be smart,” Malone said. “Hopefully by Christmas, New Year, All-Star break what we’re doing now is not what we’re doing then.”
Warriors: Curry begins his 14th season with the Warriors, surpassing Mullin’s 13 for most in franchise history. … F Andre Iguodala sat out a second straight game to start the season as the Warriors manage his left hip injury.
UP NEXT
Nuggets: The Nuggets return to Denver during this grueling early stretch of three games in four nights with their home opener Saturday against the Thunder.
Warriors: Host the Kings and former top assistant Mike Brown, Sacramento’s first-year coach, on Sunday night.
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A person was struck by an Albuquerque Rapid Transit bus on Wednesday afternoon near the University of New Mexico campus.
Rebecca Atkins, an Albuquerque police spokeswoman, said the crash occurred at Princeton and Central. She did not give any details on the injuries to the person who was hit.
“Preliminarily it appears the pedestrian stepped into the roadway as the bus was driving,” she said. “The pedestrian has been transported to the hospital.” | https://www.abqjournal.com/2535855/art-bus-hits-person-near-unm.html | 2022-09-28 21:00:41 | 0 | https://www.abqjournal.com/2535855/art-bus-hits-person-near-unm.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Gerrit Cole hardly believes he’s solved pitching to Rafael Devers. At least he doesn’t have to worry about quieting teammate Matt Carpenter’s bat.
The rest of the Yankees are satisfied with concluding a memorable first half with two decisive wins over their longtime rival following their worst slump of the season.
Cole brushed back Devers and struck out 12, Carpenter drove in three more runs and the Yankees pounded the Red Sox 13-2 Sunday after Boston ace Chris Sale broke his left pinkie finger in the first inning.
“I don’t think I figured him out,” Cole said of Devers, who has been a thorn in the ace’s side. “I think I just executed the pitches that I wanted to execute today, and I think we sequenced better than we did last time.“
The Yankees reached double-digit runs for the 16th time — no other team has more than 10 such games — and cruised into the All-Star break with a major league-best record of 64-28. Their 64 wins matched the 2018 Astros for third-most prior to the break since the All-Star Game began in 1933.
New York outscored Boston 27-3 in the final two games of the series after losing five of six games, a stretch that included three extra-inning defeats.
“Great job by them,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Been a little bit of a rough week obviously. To answer last night and today with two pretty emphatic victories, you want to roll into the break feeling good.”
Cole (9-2) dusted Devers off the plate with a low, 99 mph fastball on his first pitch to the third baseman after allowing two homers to him July 7 in Boston. Devers glared at Cole from the dirt, then struck out swinging at a high fastball.
Cole allowed two runs and three hits over seven innings for his fourth straight win. He also got his 13th career game of double-digit strikeouts and no walks, two behind Randy Johnson for the most ever.
Aaron Judge singled twice and finished the first half with a major league-leading 33 homers, tied with Roger Maris for the franchise record before the break. Judge reached 33 homers in 89 games while Maris hit 33 in his first 83 games in 1961 on his way to breaking Babe Ruth’s single-season record.
Judge, Anthony Rizzo and DJ LeMahieu were hit by pitches after Cole knocked down Devers. LeMahieu was in considerable pain after being hit in the left elbow during the eighth inning and left the game, but Boone said there wasn’t an injury concern and no intent by Boston’s pitchers.
Carpenter had an RBI groundout in a three-run first inning and added a two-run double in an eight-run fourth. Carpenter drove in 10 runs over the final two games of the first half and has 34 RBIs in 31 games since joining the Yankees on May 26.
“It’s great when it’s on your team, I’ll tell you that,” Cole said of Carpenter, who was 14 for 38 with four homers when the two faced each other frequently for Pittsburgh and St. Louis. “I’ve been watching that for a long time, the first half of my career, and I’ve been on the wrong side of that quite a bit.”
Tim Locastro hit a two-run homer off Jake Diekman in the fourth. On the one-year anniversary of suffering a torn ACL in his right knee crashing into a wall in foul territory against Boston, Locastro went 3 for 5 and stole two bases.
It was Locastro’s third career three-hit game and it earned the speedy outfielder the team’s postgame wrestling championship belt for the first time.
“It took me a year to get that,” Locastro said.
LeMahieu and Judge started New York’s big inning with RBI singles and then scored on Carpenter’s double.
Aaron Hicks hit a pair of RBI singles, including the hit that fractured Sale’s left pinkie. Sale yelled in pain and exited after attempting to field Hicks’ 106.7 mph liner.
“Soon as I hit the ground, I looked down, the finger is gone,” Sale said. “It sucks.”
Joey Gallo tacked on a two-run homer after entering as defensive replacement in the seventh.
Sale (0-1) was making his second start since returning from a fractured right rib that he sustained working out on his own during the major league lockout.
Devers went 0 for 3 after homering on the first pitch he saw in the previous two games.
Rookie Jeter Downs hit a two-run homer off Cole in the third and also singled. The homer was his first in the majors.
The Red Sox concluded an inconsistent first half with their sixth loss in seven games and finished the first half on a 6-14 slide, dropping 16 1/2 games behind the Yankees in the AL East. Before slumping since June 27, Boston won 19 of 23 games.
Sale allowed three runs and two hits in 2/3 of an inning. After Sale exited, the Red Sox used every reliever except Austin Davis.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: LHP Rich Hill (left knee sprain) threw 35 pitches in a bullpen session Saturday.
Yankees: RHP Ron Marinaccio (right shoulder inflammation) struck out two and threw 23 pitches in his first rehab appearance for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre.
UP NEXT
Red Sox: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (4-2, 3.34 ERA) is expected to start the opener of a three-game series at Fenway Park against Toronto on Friday.
Yankees: Head to Houston for a day-night doubleheader Thursday made necessary because the lockout postponed their originally scheduled season-opening road trip.
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(WKBN) – June 1 may mark just the start of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico, but this year’s hurricane names are already set.
The World Meteorological Organization decided on the list of 21 names. When a tropical storm strengthens to wind speeds of 39 mph or higher, it gets a name from the list, starting in alphabetical order.
There are 26 letters in the alphabet but only 21 names chosen. The letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are all left off because they aren’t common enough to be easily understood in local languages spoken in North America, Central America and the Caribbean (areas all affected by hurricanes).
There are six lists of names, which are rotated through and recycled every six years. For example, the list used in 2023 will also be used in 2029.
The only time there is a change in the lists is if a hurricane is so costly or deadly that the future use of its name would be inappropriate or insensitive. If this occurs, the name is retired, and another is selected to replace it.
For example, Fiona and Ian from 2022 were recently retired and replaced with Farrah and Idris for the next time that list of names is recycled.
What are the 2023 Atlantic hurricane names?
Here is the list of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane names and their pronunciations.
This year, long-range forecasters are predicting a slightly below-average hurricane season thanks to an expected El Niño climate pattern.
But in the event that this year’s hurricane season exceeds expectations and produces more than 21 named storms, additional names will be pulled from a backup list agreed upon by the World Meteorological Organization. The WMO used to use Greek letters after the primary list was exhausted, but said it caused too much confusion and abandoned the system in 2021. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/is-your-name-on-the-2023-hurricane-list/ | 2023-06-01 17:00:53 | 0 | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/is-your-name-on-the-2023-hurricane-list/ |
ND House passes school lunch bill
Published: Feb. 19, 2023 at 5:48 PM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Lawmakers advanced a bill that would pay for more school lunches.
House Bill 1491 would dedicate $6 million of state funds over the next two school years to provide lunches for low-income families. That includes any family whose income is double the federal poverty level.
“There’s a lot of need out there and this is an easy way for us to help children in our state,” said Representative LaurieBeth Hager, D-Fargo.
The version of the bill that passed is significantly less than what was first introduced. Representative LaurieBeth Hager from Fargo originally asked for $89.5 million to provide free lunches to all K-12 students. Next, the bill goes to the Senate.
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NEW YORK, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner of the class action firm Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating Resolute Forest Products Inc. (RFP), relating to its proposed acquisition by The Paper Excellence Group, via Domtar Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, RFP shareholders will receive $20.50 in cash plus one Contingent Value Right per share they own. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/resolute-forest-products-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.
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Widespread rain Sunday
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - A period of widespread rain will occur today and tonight. The heaviest rain is expected across the southern half of Central Alabama, where isolated flooding appears possible.
As the area of high pressure responsible for our dry, cool conditions for the beginning of the weekend moves east, southwest winds have increased overnight returning clouds and rain chances for the remainder of the weekend. As the moisture continues to increase rain chances will spread across the area through the remainder of the weekend. The rain will be focused along an approaching cold front and rain areas will expand from Northwest Alabama east across the area through the morning with widespread rain expected along the some thunder and lightning in areas to the south.
Temperatures will remain above seasonal average through the remainder of the weekend, approaching 60-degrees in some locations.
Following the passage of the front highs will be slightly cooler tomorrow. Little day-to-day-variations are expected in temperatures through Friday, and after a brief rain-break Monday afternoon rain chances will remain high Tuesday through Thursday as a series of passing disturbances bring several waves of rain through the region.
The rain will finally end late Friday with drier conditions expected by the beginning of next weekend.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PA Consulting (PA), the consultancy that's bringing ingenuity to life, awarded Florida Power & Light Company with the National Reliability Award at the 22nd Annual ReliabilityOne® Awards ceremony. Six additional utilities were also recognized for their outstanding reliability and resiliency efforts.
The ReliabilityOne® Awards recognize North American utilities that excelled during the 2021 calendar year in critical industry categories such as resiliency, reliability, technology and innovation, sustainability, and customer engagement. Founded in 2000, PA Consulting's ReliabilityOne® Awards are widely considered to be one of the most prestigious honors in the electric utility industry, recognizing organizations that provide their customers with the highest levels of reliability and resiliency.
Gregg Edeson, PA Consulting's ReliabilityOne® Co-Program Director, said: "We are thrilled to award the National Reliability Award to Florida Power & Light who continues to raise the bar with ingenious resiliency solutions. This year they focused on continued hardening of their distribution systems against hurricanes and storms with their successful Storm Secure Undergrounding Program by purposely shortening the restoration curves and improving restoration efficiencies, which was successfully demonstrated during Hurricane Ian. Overall, their work highlights a commitment to continually challenge the traditional ways of asset inspections and pushing the envelope in holistic approach of safely delivering value to its customers and stakeholders."
Derek HasBrouck, PA Consulting's ReliabilityOne® Co-Program Director, added: "Congratulations to Florida Power & Light and all this year's winners. PA works with the top utilities in America, and those that participate in the ReliabilityOne® program, on average, experienced 35 percent fewer sustained outages, and outages were 50 percent shorter than the average US investor-owned utility. This proves that program participation leads to tangible benefits to consumers."
PA analyzes the nation's electric utility industry using publicly available information on the System Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI), which provides the average outage duration per customer, and System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI), which measures the average number of interruptions per customer. The indices show a very slight decrease in IOU (investor-owned utility) average system outage duration by a half minute in 2021 to 122 minutes, compared to the previous year. Key to the utility reliability trend data is PA's in-depth analysis, undertaken as part of the process to identify the top performing utilities and ReliabilityOne® award recipients.
PA's certification and analyses of the utilities in the ReliabilityOne® program found that:
- IOUs in 2021 saw a slight decrease in average outage frequency and a slight increase in average outage duration compared to 2020
- Average SAIDI performance of the ReliabilityOne® award recipients decreased by approximately a minute from 2020 to 2021. ReliabilityOne® award recipients' average SAIDI is 50 percent lower, or about 59 minutes better, than the average US IOU's SAIDI
- ReliabilityOne® award recipients experienced 35 percent lower SAIFI than the average US IOU
- Utilities are working to meet broader climate change, sustainability and clean economy goals and objectives by incorporating electric vehicles, electrified buildings, ports, and distribution interconnected resources into reliable operations
- Utilities are using technologies which provide more comprehensive situational awareness of their service territory, their assets, and customers. Using drones, imagery sourced from assets that range from satellites to dash-mounted iPhones, improved weather forecasting, and fire propagation models allows utilities to make better and more informed decisions regarding restoration prioritization, maintenance, and repair.
PA recognized regional ReliabilityOne® award recipients from utilities across the US, based on overall system-wide SAIDI and SAIFI performance. Regional awards criteria reflect unique challenges for utilities serving metropolitan locations and those serving suburban and rural locations. Additional categories honored utilities for Outstanding System Resiliency, Outstanding Grid Sustainability, Outstanding Technology and Innovation, and Outstanding Customer Engagement.
The list of all award recipients is as follows:
National ReliabilityOne® Award recipient:
The ReliabilityOne® National Reliability Award was presented to Florida Power & Light Company
The ReliabilityOne® National Reliability Award goes to the utility that showcases a focus on customer service, technology deployment, operational successes, and data and analytics. Florida Power & Light Company continue to provide excellent outage restoration practices, real time situational awareness, sophisticated fault locating technology, comprehensive data capture, security review and analytics, proactive customer outreach programs, and innovative customer self-serve options. In 2021, their successful deployment of the Storm Secure Undergrounding Program was especially innovative, as was their roadmap and use of fixed wing and substation-based drones.
This year's seven Regional ReliabilityOne® Awards recipients are:
West Region (Metropolitan) – San Diego Gas & Electric
Mid-Atlantic Region (Metropolitan) – Public Service Electric and Gas Company
Northeast Region (Metropolitan) – Consolidated Edison Company of New York
Northeast Region (Suburban and Rural) – Orange and Rockland Utilities
Southeast Region (Metropolitan) – Florida Power & Light Company
Midwest Region (Metropolitan) – Commonwealth Edison
Mountain Region (Suburban and Rural) – Public Service Company of New Mexico
ReliabilityOne® Award recipients for specific areas of outstanding performance are:
Outstanding Customer Engagement – Orange and Rockland Utilities
Outstanding Technology and Innovation – Consolidated Edison Company of New York
Outstanding Grid Sustainability – San Diego Gas & Electric
Outstanding System Resiliency – Commonwealth Edison
The awards reception was held at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte before an audience that included energy industry experts and senior management of leading utilities.
For more information on PA's work in the energy and utilities sector, please visit: https://www.paconsulting.com/industries/energy-and-utilities
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Howard Bragman, a beloved Hollywood publicist who specialized in crisis relations and whose clients have included Monica Lewinsky, Cameron Diaz, Ricki Lake, Sharon Osbourne and Chaz Bono, has died after a short battle with leukemia. He was 66.
He died Saturday night in Los Angeles, his family said Sunday. Bragman was diagnosed with leukemia just 10 days ago and promptly hospitalized.
A native of Flint, Michigan, where he said he always felt like a martian as a “fat, Jewish, gay kid,” Bragman got his start in public relations in Chicago, working with clients like Anheuser-Busch. Eventually he made his way to Los Angeles and founded his own firm, Bragman Nyman Cafarelli (BNC), in 1989. He became known as a go-to for helping celebrities come out publicly, including “Family Ties” star Meredith Baxter, country singer Chely Wright, basketball players John Amaechi and Sheryl Swoopes and football player Michael Sam.
“Howard Bragman was an industry leader who masterfully used the power of the press to create positive change and visibility for LGBTQ people,” GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement. “Throughout his long career, he worked with many LGBTQ notables to ensure their coming out stories were treated with dignity and created impact for the entire community. His own visibility as an out executive, paired with a trademark humor and bold approach to public relations, made unforgettable marks.”
Following BNC’s acquisition, he founded the firm Fifteen Minutes in 2005 and, later, LaBrea Media.
He wrote an advice book called “Where’s My Fifteen Minutes,” weaving in amusing anecdotes of a bygone Hollywood and relating that to the celebrity, media and audience landscape of today. He advised that “all press is not good press” and whoever said so is “an idiot.”
In addition to being an oft-quoted expert on celebrity crises, Bragman sometimes penned articles himself too, in publications from Playboy to the Los Angeles Times, and even appeared on various reality shows, including “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and as a guest judge on the first season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Bragman’s influence on the industry was wide-spanning. He was an adjunct professor of public relations at the University of Southern California, developed a media training manual for young actors in Nickelodeon tv shows and films, and media trained hundreds of professionals outside of Hollywood, from elected officials and attorneys to CEOs. He was also a passionate activist for LGBTQ rights and Jewish causes.
In 2021, he donated $1 million to establish the Howard Bragman Coming Out Fund at the University of Michigan, his alma mater, on the 50th anniversary of the school’s Spectrum Center, an LGBTQ support resource.
“I want to assure that other people get that same access that I had; life-changing, life-saving access,” he told the school’s paper at the time. “I don’t care how liberal the school is. I don’t care how accepting and loving your parents are. I don’t care how ‘woke’ the times are. Coming out is this most personal of journeys, and it’s a challenging journey.”
Bragman is survived by his husband Mike Maimone, his brother Alan and nieces and nephews. They asked that in lieu of flowers, for mourners to consider donating to the Coming Out Fund established in his name. | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/ap-hollywood-publicist-howard-bragman-dead-at-66/ | 2023-02-13 21:32:16 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/entertainment-news/ap-hollywood-publicist-howard-bragman-dead-at-66/ |
Prescription cannabis products with higher THC may help ease chronic pain, study says
Published: Jun. 8, 2022 at 8:17 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - Prescription cannabis products with higher THC to CBD levels may help ease chronic pain according to a new study.
Researchers say the products may provide small to moderate pain relief for the short term, but come with possible side effects, including dizziness and sedation.
Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is the chemical compound in the marijuana plant that causes a high. Cannabidiol, CBD, is the second most prevalent active chemical in cannabis but does not cause a high.
Both have been associated with pain relief.
The study found no benefits from taking over-the-counter products that contain only THC or CBD extracts.
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ARKANSAS, USA — On Wednesday afternoon, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to unveil her new education plan known as Arkansas LEARNS.
This proposal was presented in October 2022 as part of her election campaign.
It details what she plans to do to help better educate children in Arkansas. It also claims to empower parents and create a better future for the state in hopes to make the Natural State one of the best places to work, live, and raise a family.
Sanders has previously stated that she believes the plan is crucial to creating a better life for children in the state.
"I believe every child growing up in Arkansas should have access to a quality education, a good-paying job, and a better life right here in our state, and I believe Arkansas LEARNS is how together we will achieve it, " Governor Sanders said.
The goal behind the learning plan is to prioritize the following things:
- Literacy
- Empowerment
- Accountability
- Readiness
- Networking
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New York judge sides with Cuomo in dispute over book deal
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge sided with former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday in his dispute with a now-defunct state ethics commission that ordered him to give up $5 million he was paid to write a book about his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics initially approved Cuomo’s request to write the book, titled “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in 2020. But the panel withdrew that approval the following year after alleging Cuomo hadn’t kept a promise not to use any state resources on the book.
Cuomo acknowledged that state employees helped with tasks including editing the manuscript. But he’s said those employees did that work voluntarily during their personal time.
Last year the commission, commonly referred to by the acronym JCOPE, gave Cuomo 30 days to give up $5.1 million he was paid by a publisher for the book. Cuomo sued, claiming the commission’s members were biased against him and violated his due-process rights.
In Tuesday’s ruling, state Judge Denise A. Hartman declined the commission’s request that she enforce its order for Cuomo to turn over the money. Hartman characterized it as an attempt to sidestep administrative procedures, since the penalty was imposed without a required administrative hearing.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat like Cuomo, signed legislation disbanding the commission this year in favor of a new one. It isn’t clear whether the new commission will continue trying to claw back Cuomo’s book money.
“If, upon a review of JCOPE’s actions, the new commission decides to pursue action against Cuomo, proceeds with the adjudicatory hearing, and determines that a violation has occurred, the new Commission may then impose a civil penalty against him,” Hartman wrote.
In an emailed statement, Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin called JCOPE’s conduct “shameful, unlawful, and a waste of taxpayer’s funds.”
A message was left with an attorney representing the commission.
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TORONTO, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or the "Company") announces that it has filed a Statement of Claim in the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario (the "Court") against Validus Power Corp. and its subsidiary, Bay Power Corp. (collectively, "Validus"), a third-party supplier of energy to the Company's mining facility in North Bay, Ontario.
As previously disclosed, Hut 8 and Validus have been in an ongoing dispute due to Validus' failure to meet its contractual obligations in the power purchase agreement ("PPA") it entered into with the Company. Hut 8 is seeking various relief including enforcement of certain provisions of the PPA and monetary damages incurred as a result of the dispute.
As the matter is now before the Court, Hut 8 does not intend to make additional comments on this subject unless otherwise determined to be appropriate.
Hut 8 is one of North America's largest innovation-focused digital asset miners, led by a team of business-building technologists, bullish on bitcoin, blockchain, Web 3.0, and bridging the nascent and traditional high performance computing worlds. With two digital asset mining sites located in Southern Alberta and a third site in North Bay, Ontario, all located in Canada, Hut 8 has one of the highest capacity rates in the industry and one of the highest inventories of unencumbered, self-mined Bitcoin of any digital asset miner or publicly-traded company globally. With 36,000 square feet of geo-diverse data centre space and cloud capacity connected to electrical grids powered by significant renewables and emission-free resources, Hut 8 is revolutionizing conventional assets to create the first hybrid data centre model that serves both the traditional high performance compute (Web 2.0) and nascent digital asset computing sectors, blockchain gaming, and Web 3.0. Hut 8 was the first Canadian digital asset miner to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Through innovation, imagination, and passion, Hut 8 is helping to define the digital asset revolution to create value and positive impacts for its shareholders and generations to come.
This press release includes "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws and United States securities laws, respectively (collectively, "forward-looking information"). All information, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including such things as future business strategy, competitive strengths, goals, expansion and growth of the Company's businesses, operations, plans and other such matters is forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is often identified by the words "may", "would", "could", "should", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "allow", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "predict", "can", "might", "potential", "predict", "is designed to", "likely" or similar expressions. In addition, any statements in this press release that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information and include, among others, statements with respect to the North Bay facility and the expected outcome of any proceedings related to Validus.
Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts, but instead represent management's expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events based on certain material factors and assumptions at the time the statement was made. While considered reasonable by Hut 8 as of the date of this press release, such statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to, security and cybersecurity threats and hacks, malicious actors or botnet obtaining control of processing power on the Bitcoin network, further development and acceptance of the Bitcoinnetwork, changes to Bitcoin mining difficulty, loss or destruction of private keys, increases in fees for recording transactions in the Blockchain, erroneous transactions, reliance on a limited number of key employees, reliance on third party mining pool service providers, regulatory changes, classification and tax changes, momentum pricing risk, fraud and failure related to digital asset exchanges, difficulty in obtaining banking services and financing, difficulty in obtaining insurance, permits and licenses, internet and power disruptions, geopolitical events, uncertainty in the development of cryptographic and algorithmic protocols, uncertainty about the acceptance or widespread use of digital assets, failure to anticipate technology innovations, the COVID19 pandemic, climate change, currency risk, lending risk and recovery of potential losses, litigation risk, business integration risk, changes in market demand, changes in network and infrastructure, system interruption, changes in leasing arrangements, failure to achieve intended benefits of power purchase agreements, potential for interrupted delivery, or suspension of the delivery, of energy to the Company's mining sites, and other risks related to the digital asset and data centre business. For a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company, please see the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Information Form dated March 17, 2022, as well as its most recent Base Shelf Prospectus dated August 5, 2022 and Prospectus Supplement dated August 17, 2022, and Hut 8's other continuous disclosure documents which are available on the Company's profile on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval at www.sedar.com and on the EDGAR section of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov.
These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect Hut 8; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in this press release as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, sought, proposed, estimated, forecasted, expected, projected or targeted and such forward-looking statements included in this press release should not be unduly relied upon. The impact of any one assumption, risk, uncertainty, or other factor on a particular forward-looking statement cannot be determined with certainty because they are interdependent and Hut 8's future decisions and actions will depend on management's assessment of all information at the relevant time. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and Hut 8 expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Tesla board chair testifies in Musk compensation lawsuit
By RANDALL CHASE
AP Business Writer
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The head of Tesla’s board of directors says her focus in helping develop a huge compensation package for CEO Elon Musk in 2018 was the results he could bring, not how many hours he devoted to the job. Robyn Denholm testified Tuesday in a shareholder lawsuit challenging Musk’s deal, which is potentially worth more than $55 billion. The lawsuit alleges that the performance-based stock option grant was negotiated and approved by directors who had conflicts interest due to personal and professional ties to Musk. It also alleges that a shareholder vote approving the plan was based on a misleading proxy statement. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/11/15/tesla-board-chair-testifies-in-musk-compensation-lawsuit/ | 2022-11-15 21:45:52 | 1 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/11/15/tesla-board-chair-testifies-in-musk-compensation-lawsuit/ |
Editor's note: This is the ninth in a series of stories on the 2022 inductees to the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Induction ceremonies are June 25 in Natchitoches.
Longtime coach Laury Dupont has seen many outstanding high school football players during his tenure on the sidelines.
But there is one player that stands above the rest — Eric Andolsek.
Dupont coached Andolsek during the 1982 and 1983 seasons during his stint at Thibodaux High School. It didn’t take long to realize Andolsek was a special football player.
“You can tell that Eric’s talent was above everyone else on the team,” Dupont said. “We predicted that Eric would be a Division I football player and could make it to the pros ever since he came to Thibodaux High."
Andolsek would go on to parlay his success at Thibodaux to become a standout guard at LSU and eventually in the NFL as an anchor on the Detroit Lions’ offensive line, blocking for star running back Barry Sanders.
However, Andolsek’s life was tragically cut short.
On June 23, 1992, he was killed when a flatbed truck veered off La. 1 and struck him while he was cutting the grass at his Thibodaux home.
Andolsek may be gone but is not forgotten, as his football legacy lives on in the state he called home.
Thirty years later, he'll take his place among the state’s greatest athletes when he and 11 others are inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame on June 25 in Natchitoches.
It’s an honor that holds a special place for Andy Andolsek, Eric’s brother.
“I am fulfilled and grateful for Eric being chosen as a member of the Hall of Fame and to be part of that organization with others of similar stature," Andy Andolsek said.
Renee Jennings said she is overwhelmed with excitement and pride knowing her brother’s hard work and dedication to the game of football is being recognized.
“His passion, work ethic and dedication to his sport was infectious to anyone who knew him,” she said. "Even after 30 years since his death, we feel this is just another testimony of our beloved Eric’s true legacy.”
Former LSU quarterback Tommy Hodson understands the joy the Andolsek family is feeling as a 2013 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame inductee.
Hodson said it’s a well-deserved honor for Andolsek, who helped protect the legendary LSU quarterback during the 1986 and '87 seasons.
“I'm so happy for Eric’s family and everyone in Lafourche Parish because so many people loved him,” Hodson said. “It’s great to see that he will be getting his just due by going into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame."
Andolsek’s football journey started at Thibodaux High where he was an all-state pick. He also was an Adidas All-American after excelling on the offensive and defensive lines.
But it was at LSU where football fans across the country would discover something people in Louisiana knew: Andolsek was a special football player.
Andolsek started to assert himself as one of LSU’s top offensive linemen as a sophomore.
The 6-foot-2, 286-pound guard would eventually become a three-year starter and was a team captain and two-time All-SEC selection in 1986 and 1987.
Former LSU offensive tackle John Hazard said Andolsek’s intensity on the field helped make him one of the top guards in college football.
Andolsek’s intensity on the field paid dividends for LSU, as the Tigers had a successful four-year stretch during his tenure.
LSU posted a 36-9-3 overall record and a 19-4-2 mark in SEC play, including two conference championships, in Andolsek’s four-year stay.
Hazard said many teammates fed off his energy and became better players because of it.
“Eric was always so locked in and intense on the field,” he said. “He was such a fierce competitor that even the coaches didn’t want to upset him.”
That changed as soon as the pads were off, Hodson said.
“Eric was fierce and competitive, but you wouldn’t know from his exterior that he was really a teddy bear,” he said. “He was a good guy and good pal to be around, that’s the kind of guy that he was."
Andolsek’s dream of playing in the NFL became a reality when the Lions selected him in the fifth round (111th overall) in 1988.
Andolsek’s intensity and overall play along the offensive line once again paid dividends as the Lions went from a struggling franchise to one win away from Super Bowl XXVII.
Four years into his career, Andolsek was considered an up-and-coming NFL guard, a future All-Pro, before his life was tragically cut short at the age of 25.
While he made a name for himself at LSU and with the Lions, Dupont said Andolsek left a lasting legacy in his home state.
“Everybody loved him,” Dupont said. “No one was better than Eric on and off the field. Everybody still thinks about him because you don’t forget a legend like Eric Andolsek. Nobody was better than him.” | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_9c616102-efd4-11ec-b187-c30af3f44022.html | 2022-06-21 09:30:18 | 0 | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_9c616102-efd4-11ec-b187-c30af3f44022.html |
Man accused of security breach, causing airport chaos ‘couldn’t wait for flight,’ police say
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - Authorities say a man accused of causing chaos at a Las Vegas airport has been arrested and is facing several charges from incidents over the weekend.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 33-year-old Stefan Hutchison is accused of violating airport conduct, resisting arrest and burglary at Harry Reid International Airport.
According to KVVU, Hutchison was involved in two separate incidents, one on Aug. 13 and another on Aug. 14, leading to several delayed flights and cancellations.
Police said they first made contact with Hutchison on Aug. 13 when an officer was flagged down by a Transportation Security Administration agent after the 33-year-old reportedly breached a security checkpoint.
TSA agents said they tried to stop Hutchison multiple times, even standing in front of him and making a stop motion with their hands, but Hutchison didn’t comply.
According to police, Hutchison reportedly walked out of a store with a pair of sunglasses and yelled inside the terminal before resisting arrest.
On Aug. 14, at about 4:35 a.m., police said Hutchison was involved in another incident when an officer reported hearing loud banging sounds from the ticketing area.
The officer said he went to the ticketing area and a Spirit Airlines employee told him that a man, later identified as Hutchison, pushed past employees through a door to the secured area.
Authorities said three Spirit Airlines employees had caught Hutchison after the breach and the 33-year-old was taken into custody. However, the loud noises, which were later identified as line dividers falling to the floor, had sent thousands of travelers fleeing the area.
According to Hutchison’s arrest report, the officer said the airport was extremely busy at the time of the incident, which sent hundreds of travelers running through security without being screened along with people getting trampled as they escaped the ticketing area.
Police said Hutchison told them he arrived in Las Vegas on Aug. 12. However, he said he was ready to return home as soon as possible and couldn’t wait for his scheduled Monday flight.
Las Vegas police said that the hundreds of travelers who rushed through the security checkpoints without being cleared had to be called back for proper screening before being allowed to board their flights.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Isham Donell Davis, the man who attacked and robbed a 74-year-old woman in broad daylight in the parking lot of Rosie's Gaming Emporium in December 2022 is going to prison.
Davis pleaded guilty to a felony count of robbery using force. He was sentenced to ten years behind bars, but five were suspended.
This incident took place on Dec. 30, 2022, when Davis tricked the woman to help him park his car in a handicapped parking space.
Afterward, Davis got out of his car grabbed the woman's purse and pushed her to the ground, according to previous CBS 6 reporting.
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"We were toggling back and forth. Before you know it, we were on the ground and something snapped, which was my purse, and he ran off, got in his car, and sped," she told CBS 6 reporter Laura French in February.
The woman was left with bruises and a broken foot.
Davis was charged on Jan. 13, 2023, for robbery and assault. He also served time for the beating death of a 17-year-old, according to previous reporting.
The vice president of gaming operations for Churchill Downs Inc., which owns Rosie's, told the Virginia Racing Commission that security officer staffing will be increased by 40 percent in the parking lot; as well as hiring a security director and installing additional security cameras.
The woman said if there had been security outside, the attack would not have happened.
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Two parking lot sweeps were done on the day of the incident, as well as a security sweep of the parking lot an hour and a half before the attack occurred, according to a letter Rosie's provided to CBS 6 in March.
This is a developing story, so anyone with more information can email newstips@wtvr.com to send a tip.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The funeral for Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old motorist who died after a brutal traffic stop by police, will be held Wednesday in Memphis, with the Rev. Al Sharpton delivering the eulogy.
The funeral service will be live-streamed within this story at 1 p.m. CT / 2 p.m. ET. Note, the service time has been changed from 10:30 a.m.
Nichols will be laid to rest at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, 70 N. Bellevue Blvd. in Memphis.
Ben Crump, attorney for the Nichols family, will deliver a “call to action” in a service led by Rev. J. Lawrence Turner. Vice President Kamala Harris will attend, the White House confirmed.
Nichols was pepper-sprayed, beaten and kicked after running from a traffic stop toward his parents’ home in southeast Memphis the night of Jan. 7. He died three days later, severely injured in a hospital.
The latest on Tyre Nichols:
Five former Memphis Police officers, members of Memphis Police Department’s recently disbanded SCORPION Unit, have been fired and charged with second-degree murder. Two more have been relieved of duty, along with two sheriff’s deputies. Three fire department employees who responded have also been fired.
Tuesday night, Nichols’ family joined community activists and religious leaders including Rev. Al Sharpton at the Memphis church where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous Mountaintop speech on the eve of his assassination, calling for unity and change.
“We have a long fight ahead of us but we have to stay strong for it, so ‘Justice for Tyre. Justice for Tyre,’” Nichols’ stepfather Rodney Wells said. | https://www.wfla.com/video/tyre-nichols-funeral-livestream-and-updates/ | 2023-02-01 19:25:52 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/video/tyre-nichols-funeral-livestream-and-updates/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The most expensive ballot proposition gamble in U.S. history went bust Tuesday as California voters overwhelmingly rejected sports betting initiatives by Native American tribes and the gaming industry.
Nearly $600 million was raised in competing efforts to expand gambling and try to capture a share of a potential billion dollar market in the nation’s most populous state.
But voters did not want a piece of that action.
With more than 4.6 million votes counted, a measure largely supported by gaming companies that would have allowed adults to wager on mobile devices and online had only 16% support. A proposition that would have legalized sports gambling at tribal casinos and horse tracks had less than 30% support.
The money raised and spent more than doubled the record amount spent in 2020 by Uber, Lyft and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery services to prevent drivers from becoming employees eligible for benefits and job protection.
More than 30 other states allow sports betting, but gambling in California is currently limited to Native American casinos, horse tracks, card rooms and the state lottery.
The race was marked by a blast of advertising that touted benefits supporters of each measure claimed would come with approval. Each was countered by robust campaigns that warned of the dangers they posed.
Tribes who opposed Proposition 27, the mobile and online gambling measure, said voters didn’t want a massive expansion of gambling, they thought it would be easier to become addicted and feared children would place bets on devices.
“Our internal polling has been clear and consistent for years: California voters do not support online sports betting,” said Anthony Roberts, tribal chairman of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation. “Voters have real and significant concerns about turning every cellphone, laptop and tablet into a gambling device, the resulting addiction and exposure to children.”
Opponents of Proposition 26, which would have allowed casinos and the state’s four horse tracks to offer sports betting in person, said voters did not want to enrich wealthy tribes who would get a virtual monopoly on gambling and also be able to offer roulette and dice games at their gaming operations.
“Prop. 26 was not just a sports betting measure but a massive expansion of gambling by five wealthy tribes that included a poison pill aimed at taking market share away from highly regulated cardrooms that provide millions of dollars in tax revenue to communities and tens of thousands of jobs,” the No on Proposition 26 Campaign said in a statement.
That group was funded largely by cardrooms that stood the most to lose if the measure passed. They said the so-called “poison pill” would allow tribes to sue competitors such as cardrooms.
Supporters of each measure didn’t return messages seeking comment.
The casino and race track measure was bankrolled by a coalition of tribes who said a 10% tax would have helped pay for enforcement of gambling laws and programs to help gambling addicts.
The online sports gambling initiative was backed by DraftKings, BetMGM, FanDuel — the latter is the official odds provider for The Associated Press — as well as other national sports betting operators and a few tribes.
They promised to funnel tax revenues to help the homeless, the mentally ill and and poorer tribes that haven’t been enriched by casinos.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office found both initiatives would increase state revenues but it was unclear by how much. Proposition 26 could bring in tens of millions of dollars while Proposition 27 could bring in hundreds of millions, the office said.
However, that revenue could be offset if people spend money on sports gambling instead of shopping or buying lottery tickets.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who easily won reelection, didn’t take a position on either proposal but said Proposition 27 was “not a homeless initiative.”
The California Republican Party opposed both proposals. State Democrats opposed Proposition 27, but were neutral on Proposition 26. Major League Baseball backed Proposition 27.
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Often surrounded by drama, England’s soccer team is being turned into an actual show.
London’s National Theatre said Tuesday that Joseph Fiennes will star as manager Gareth Southgate in “Dear England,” a new play by James Graham that asks the question: Why can’t England’s men win at their own game?
“What Gareth Southgate has attempted in his quiet cultural reform of England football I find epic and deeply moving,” Graham said in a statement.
Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold will direct the show, which starts previews in the Olivier Theatre on June 10 and opens June 20 during a run through Aug. 11.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen killed 24 villagers in a remote part of north-central Nigeria, authorities said on Sunday, raising further concerns about the West African nation’s ongoing security challenges.
The gunmen arrived at the Akpuuna village in Benue state’s Ukum district on Saturday, shooting dead the villagers before escaping the area, according to Tersoo Kula, the spokesman for Benue state’s governor.
Police blamed the attack on a “militia gang,” a common reference to armed groups in Nigeria’s hard-hit northwest and central regions where armed violence has claimed the lives of thousands in the last year.
Catherine Anene, police spokeswoman in Benue, said eight bodies were retrieved from the scene. Local officials, including legislator Ezra Nyiyongo, said there were at least 24 killed and several others injured.
“I lack words to express my shock and sympathy to the families of the lost ones,” said Nyiyongo as he published the names of those killed.
Benue Gov. Hyacinth Iormem Alia said the attack was unprovoked and directed security agents to hunt for the suspects, his spokesman Kula said.
“Government will do everything possible to put measures in place to checkmate these things and forestall a re-occurrence,” Kalu said.
Such attacks are common in many parts of Nigeria’s northern region where local herdsmen have clashed in the past with farmers over limited access to land and water. More than 100 people have been killed this year in the violence in Benue alone. Arrests are rare after the killings.
The gunmen in the latest incident operated for more than two hours without the intervention of security forces, according to Emmanuel Udende, who represents the village at the Nigerian Senate. His comment re-echoed concerns about the security of villagers in many violent hotspots where the Nigerian security forces are far outnumbered and outgunned. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-gunmen-have-killed-24-villagers-in-latest-attack-in-nigerias-hard-hit-north/ | 2023-07-10 15:04:52 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-gunmen-have-killed-24-villagers-in-latest-attack-in-nigerias-hard-hit-north/ |
Highlights
- Net income in the second quarter of 2022 was $2.0 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, compared to $4.2 million, or $1.17 per diluted share, during the same period of 2021.
- Mortgage revenue, as expected, decreased to $3.8 million in the second quarter of 2022, compared to $7.8 million during the same period of 2021.
- Return on assets and return on equity was 0.85% and 7.25%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, compared to 1.45% and 13.44%, respectively, for the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
- Tangible common equity ratio was 11.04% on June 30, 2022 compared to 10.98% on December 31, 2021.
- New loan origination activity during 2022 drove a $39.7 million, or 7.7%, increase in loans held for investment. Excluding Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, loans held for investment amounted to $557.6 million on June 30, 2022, compared to $517.9 million on December 31, 2021.
- Allowance for credit losses at June 30, 2022, was 1.52% of loans held for investment, excluding $709 thousand of SBA PPP loans, compared to 1.75% at December 31, 2021.
BISMARCK, N.D., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BNCCORP, INC. (BNC or the Company) (OTCQX Markets: BNCC), which operates community banking and wealth management businesses in North Dakota and Arizona and has mortgage banking offices in Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Arizona, and North Dakota, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Overview of Quarter
Net income in the second quarter of 2022 was $2.0 million compared to $4.2 million in the same period of 2021. Second quarter 2022 earnings per diluted share was $0.56 versus $1.17 in the second quarter 2021. The year-over-year decrease was primarily due to lower mortgage revenues and net interest income, partially offset by lower non-interest expense.
Second quarter 2022 net interest income decreased by $38 thousand, or 0.5%, from the comparable 2021 quarter. Interest income decreased by $235 thousand, or 2.9%, from the second quarter of 2021 due to lower balances and yields on loans. This decrease was partially offset by higher balances and yields on debt securities as well as higher yields on interest-bearing cash. PPP fees were $55 thousand in the second quarter of 2022 compared to $206 thousand in the second quarter of 2021. Second quarter 2022 interest expense decreased by $197 thousand, or 32.2%, versus the second quarter of 2021 as the Company moved non-core deposits off the balance sheet at the end of the first quarter of 2022 through the use of an associated banking network. The Company also continues to manage the reduction in certificates of deposit balances.
Non-interest income in the second quarter of 2022 decreased by $3.9 million versus the same period in 2021. In the second quarter of 2022, mortgage banking revenues were $3.8 million, $4.0 million lower than the same period a year ago when the Company experienced a combination of historically high refinance originations and margins. Gains on sales of loans were $219 thousand in the second quarter of 2022, compared to losses of $1 thousand in the prior year period. Other income was impacted by the sale of the Company's Golden Valley, MN property in the second quarter of 2022 and by the sale of the loans and deposits from the same location in the second quarter of 2021.
Non-interest expense in the 2022 second quarter decreased by $1.1 million, or 8.9%, versus the second quarter of 2021. Non-interest expenses related to mortgage operations decreased by $951 thousand, or 16.0%, as management matched the scale of operations based on the marketplace opportunity.
Nonperforming assets were $1.4 million on June 30, 2022, down from $1.7 million on December 31, 2021. The ratio of nonperforming assets-to-total-assets was 0.15% on June 30, 2022, down from 0.16% on December 31, 2021. The Company had no provision for credit losses in either the 2022 and 2021 second quarters. The allowance for credit losses decreased to 1.52% of loans held for investment (excluding $709 thousand of PPP loans) on June 30, 2022, compared to 1.75% on December 31, 2021 (excluding $11.9 million of PPP loans). The Company continues to monitor key industry data and will prudently adjust its allowance for credit losses as appropriate.
Tangible book value per common share on June 30, 2022, was $28.53, compared to $32.35 at December 31, 2021. The decline in tangible book value per common share was driven by dividends declared in May 2022 along with the negative impact of higher long-term rates on accumulated other comprehensive income (losses) partially offset by retained earnings. The Company's tangible common equity capital ratio was 11.04% on June 30, 2022, compared to 10.98% on December 31, 2021.
Total assets were $918.7 million as of June 30, 2022 compared to $1.0 billion on December 31, 2021. Total deposits were $794.0 million at June 30, 2022, compared to $906.7 million at December 31, 2021.
Management Commentary
"As our quarterly results indicate, we are continuing to drive performance and maintain a stable financial position that allow us to seize opportunities as they emerge," said Daniel J. Collins, BNC's President and Chief Executive Officer. "This disciplined, deliberate approach is an asset in any market, but particularly so in the face of the macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds impacting the entire industry and particularly the mortgage sector. Over the last several quarters, we have transitioned our mortgage business from focusing on refinance transactions to purchase transactions, including adjusting our operations to match expected loan origination levels. In the second quarter, the volatile interest rate environment and inflation pressures added downward pressure on mortgage loan values and compressed margins. We continue to remain agile in actively addressing these changing conditions."
Collins continued, "Across the enterprise, we are intently focused on our core strengths: strong community banking relationships, sensible lending practices and a strong, stable, and forward-looking position in the marketplace. This disciplined focus helped drive a $39.7 million, or 7.7%, increase in loans held for investment in the first six months of 2022 while managing liquidity levels."
"As we look ahead to the rest of 2022, we plan to rely on our strong balance sheet and fiscal prudence to improve our financial performance and efficiently manage liquidity levels. Operationally, we have undertaken several initiatives to improve efficiency, productivity and strengthen our customers' experience. We are keenly focused on credit quality and how the potential impacts of inflation, government actions and other economic risk factors might affect us, but we remain encouraged by the momentum in generating loan growth in the businesses and communities we serve. We're confident that our superior customer service and broad range of financial products will continue to help us meet the needs of existing and prospective clients."
2022 Versus 2021 Second Quarter Comparison
Net interest income for the second quarter of 2022 was $7.4 million, a decrease of $38 thousand, or 0.5%, from $7.4 million in the second quarter of 2021, primarily the result of lower balances and yields on loans, partially offset by higher balances and yields on debt securities, higher yields on interest-bearing cash, and lower deposit balances and cost of deposits. PPP fees were $55 thousand in the second quarter of 2022 compared to $206 thousand in the second quarter of 2021. Net interest margin increased to 3.31% in the 2022 second quarter, compared to 2.72% in the year-earlier period.
Second quarter interest income decreased by $235 thousand, or 2.9%, to $7.8 million in 2022, compared to $8.0 million in the second quarter of 2021. The decrease is the result of lower loan balances, primarily lower balances of loans held for sale and PPP loans. The yield on average interest-earning assets was 3.50% in the second quarter of 2022, compared to 2.95% in the 2021 second quarter as the Company's variable rate assets have started to re-price in step with recent interest rate movements by the Federal Reserve.
The average balance of interest-earning assets in the 2022 second quarter decreased by $198.6 million from the same period of 2021, primarily due to a $139.7 million decrease in interest-bearing cash, by a decrease in average loans held for sale, and by a decrease in average loans held for investment (including PPP loans). Interest income for loans held for investment decreased $267 thousand on a period-over-period basis. The average balance of loans held for investment decreased by $20.7 million. The forgiveness of PPP loans accounted for $65.7 million of the decrease, which was partially offset by new origination activity. The average balance of mortgage loans held for sale was $50.2 million, $67.1 million lower than the same period of 2021. Interest income from loans held for sale decreased $323 thousand primarily due to lower average balances. The average balance of debt securities in the second quarter of 2022 was $196.9 million, $27.1 million higher than in the second quarter of 2021. Interest income from debt securities was $200 thousand higher compared to the same period of 2021.
Interest expense in the second quarter of 2022 was $415 thousand, a decrease of $197 thousand, or 32.2%, from the 2021 period. The average balance of deposits decreased by $173.4 million when comparing the second quarter of 2022 to 2021. The primary driver of the decrease was the movement of non-core deposits off the balance sheet at the end of the first quarter of 2022 through the use of an associated banking network coupled with managing the balances of our certificates of deposit. The cost of interest-bearing liabilities was 0.26% during the second quarter of 2022, compared to 0.30% in the same period of 2021. The cost of core deposits in the second quarters of 2022 and 2021 was 0.16% and 0.22%, respectively, as the Company continues to manage its overall cost of deposits.
As of June 30, 2022, credit metrics remained stable with $1.4 million of nonperforming assets, representing a 0.15% nonperforming assets-to-total-asset ratio, compared to $1.7 million and 0.16% on December 31, 2021. The Company had no provision for credit losses recorded in the second quarters of 2022 and 2021.
Non-interest income for the second quarter of 2022 was $5.8 million, compared to $9.6 million in the 2021 second quarter. The decrease was driven by a reduction in mortgage banking revenues to $3.8 million in the second quarter of 2022, versus $7.8 million in the prior-year period. The Company's mortgage business has transitioned to a lower level of originations compared to the historically high level of refinance activity and margins in the prior-year period. In the second quarter of 2022, BNC funded 718 mortgage loans with combined balances of $294.1 million, compared to 1,499 mortgage loans with combined balances of $536.3 million in the second quarter of 2021. Bank charges and service fees were $182 thousand higher when comparing the second quarter of 2022 to 2021 due to higher fees from letters of credit, deposit account charges, and from the movement of deposits to one-way sell positions. Wealth management revenues decreased $49 thousand, or 9.1%, as assets under administration decreased as a result of overall market declines relative to the 2021 period. Other income was impacted by the sale of the Company's Golden Valley, MN property in the second quarter of 2022 compared to the sale of the loans and deposits from the same location in the second quarter of 2021.
Non-interest expense for the second quarter of 2022 decreased $1.1 million, or 8.9%, to $10.5 million, from $11.6 million in the second quarter of 2021. Non-interest expenses related to mortgage operations decreased by $951 thousand, or 16.0%, as management scaled operations to match the marketplace opportunity. There were 125 full-time equivalent employees engaged in mortgage operations as of June 30, 2022, compared to 139 on June 30, 2021. Combined expenses for community banking and the holding company decreased by $83 thousand, or 1.5%, compared to the 2021 period primarily due to reduced salary and professional service expense that was partially offset by higher marketing and other expenses.
In the second quarter of 2022, income tax expense was $617 thousand, compared to $1.3 million in the second quarter of 2021. The effective tax rate was 23.5% in the second quarter of 2022, compared to 24.0% in the same period of 2021.
Net income was $2.0 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2022, versus $4.2 million, or $1.17 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2021.
2022 Versus 2021 Six-Month Comparison
Net interest income in the first half of 2022 was $14.3 million, a decrease of $2.2 million, or 13.3%, from $16.5 million in 2021. The decrease primarily reflects lower loan balances and lower yields on loans partially offset by higher yields on interest-bearing cash and balances of debt securities, lower cost of deposits, and a reduction in certificates of deposit. PPP fees were $282 thousand in the first half of 2022 compared to $2.5 million in the first half of 2021. Net interest margin decreased to 3.05% in the 2022 six-month period, compared to 3.13% in the year-earlier period.
Interest income decreased $2.6 million, or 14.9%, to $15.1 million for the six-month period of 2022, compared to $17.7 million in 2021. The decrease is the result of lower loan balances, primarily lower balances of loans held for sale and PPP loans, in addition to lower yields on loans held for investment. The yield on average interest-earning assets was 3.22% in the 2022 six-month period, compared to 3.37% in 2021.
The average balance of interest-earning assets in the first half of 2022 decreased by $114.5 million versus the same period of 2021, driven by decreases in interest-bearing cash, loans held for sale, and loans held for investment (including PPP loans) partially offset by a $26.1 million increase in debt securities year-over-year. Interest income for loans held for investment decreased $2.1 million. The average balance of loans held for investment decreased by $36.0 million period-over-period with PPP loans accounting for $62.0 million of the decrease. The average balance of mortgage loans held for sale was $55.1 million, $103.4 million lower than the same period of 2021. Interest income from loans held for sale decreased $1.1 million due to lower average balances. The average balance of debt securities in the first half of 2022 was $200.6 million, $26.1 million higher than in the first half of 2021. Interest income from debt securities was $326 thousand higher compared to the same period of 2021.
Interest expense in the first half of 2022 was $807 thousand, a decrease of $467 thousand, or 36.7%, from the 2021 period. The cost of interest-bearing liabilities was 0.24% in the first six months, compared to 0.33% in the same period of 2021. The cost of core deposits in the first six months of 2022 and 2021 were 0.15% and 0.24%, respectively.
As of June 30, 2022, credit metrics remained stable with $1.4 million of nonperforming assets, representing a 0.15% nonperforming assets-to-total-asset ratio, compared to $1.7 million and 0.16% at December 31, 2021. The Company also credited provision expense to release $550 thousand of its allowance for credit losses in the first six months of 2022. By comparison, the Company had no provision for credit losses recorded in the first six months of 2021.
Non-interest income for the first six months of 2022 was $11.3 million compared to $27.1 million in the 2021 period. The decrease was driven by a reduction in mortgage banking revenues to $7.9 million in the first half of 2022 versus $23.8 million in the prior-year period. The Company's mortgage business has transitioned its mortgage business to a lower level of originations compared to the historically high level of refinance activity and margins in the prior-year period. In the first half of 2022, BNC funded 1,478 mortgage loans with combined balances of $594.3 million, compared to 3,925 mortgage loans with combined balances of $1.4 billion in the first half of 2021. Bank charges and service fees were $228 thousand, or 20.3%, higher when comparing the second quarter of 2022 to 2021 due to higher fees from letters of credit, deposit account charges, and from the movement of deposits to one-way sell positions. Wealth management revenues decreased $58 thousand, or 5.3%, as assets under administration decreased as a result of overall market declines relative to the 2021 period. Other income was impacted by the sale of the Company's Golden Valley, MN property in 2022 compared to the sale of the loans and deposits from the same location in 2021.
Non-interest expense for the first half of 2022 decreased $3.6 million, or 14.3%, to $21.6 million, from $25.2 million in the first half of 2021. Non-interest expenses related to mortgage operations activity decreased by $3.4 million, or 25.1%, as management scaled its operations to match the marketplace opportunity. Combined expenses for community banking and the holding company decreased by $178 thousand, or 1.5%, compared to the 2021 period primarily due to reduced salary and data processing expense that was partially offset by higher marketing, occupancy, and other expenses.
During the six-month period ended June 30, 2022, income tax expense was $1.1 million, compared to $4.5 million in the first half of 2021. The Company's effective tax rate was 23.5% in the first half of 2022, compared to 24.3% in the same period of 2021.
Net income was $3.5 million, or $0.97 per diluted share, for the six months ended June 30, 2022, versus $13.9 million, or $3.90 per diluted share, in the first six months of 2021.
Assets and Liabilities
Total assets were $918.7 million at June 30, 2022 versus $1.0 billion at December 31, 2021.
Total loans held for investment were $558.3 million on June 30, 2022 compared to $529.8 million on December 31, 2021. PPP loan balances, included in loans held for investment, were $709 thousand on June 30, 2022 compared to $11.9 million at December 31, 2021. Loans held for sale at June 30, 2022, were $65.6 million, a decrease of $15.3 million compared to December 31, 2021. Debt securities decreased $16.2 million from year-end 2021 while cash and cash equivalent balances totaled $61.1 million on June 30, 2022, compared to $188.1 million on December 31, 2021.
Total deposits decreased $112.6 million to $794.0 million at June 30, 2022, from $906.7 million at December 31, 2021. The Company was able to decrease deposit balances at the end of the first quarter of 2022 by moving non-core deposits off the balance sheet through the use of an associated banking network.
Trust assets under administration decreased 15.4%, or $63.1 million, to $346.4 million at June 30, 2022, from $409.5 million at December 31, 2021. The overall market declines have outpaced the new assets that the Company has placed under administration.
Asset Quality
The allowance for credit losses was $8.5 million at June 30, 2022, and $9.1 million at December 31, 2021. The allowance as a percentage of loans held for investment on June 30, 2022 decreased to 1.52% from 1.71% as of December 31, 2021. Excluding PPP loans, which are 100% guaranteed by the SBA, the allowance for credit losses as a percentage of loans held for investment on June 30, 2022, decreased to 1.52% compared to 1.75% on December 31, 2021.
Nonperforming assets, consisting of loans, decreased to $1.4 million at June 30, 2022 compared to $1.7 million at December 31, 2021. The ratio of nonperforming assets-to-total-assets was 0.15% at June 30, 2022, and 0.16% at December 31, 2021. As of June 30, 2022, the Company did not hold any other real estate and held $15 thousand in repossessed assets. As of December 31, 2021, the Company did not hold any other real estate and held $17 thousand in repossessed assets.
As of June 30, 2022, classified loans decreased to $3.7 million with $1.4 million of loans on non-accrual. As of December 31, 2021, BNC had $8.5 million of classified loans and $1.7 million of loans on non-accrual. At the end of the second quarter of 2022, BNC had $6.2 million of potentially problematic loans, which are risk rated "watch list", compared with $6.5 million as of December 31, 2021.
The Company continues to monitor the effects of the pandemic and its potential impact on customers as one factor among numerous macroeconomic and geopolitical considerations when monitoring the performance of its loan portfolio and adjusting its allowance for credit losses.
BNC's loans held for investment are geographically concentrated in North Dakota and Arizona, comprising 61% and 22% of the Company's total loan held for investment portfolio, respectively.
The North Dakota economy is influenced by the energy and agriculture industries. Energy supply and demand factors have recently increased oil prices, benefiting the oil industry and ancillary services. Legislation and economic conditions remain potential risks to energy markets and production activity and could present potential challenges to credit quality in North Dakota. The Arizona economy is influenced by the leisure and travel industries. Positive trends in both industries have been noted, but an extended slowdown in these industries may negatively impact credit quality in Arizona. BNC's portfolio is constructed of various sized loans spread over a large number of industry sectors, although the Company manages meaningful concentrations of loans in hospitality and commercial real estate.
The following table approximately describes the Company's concentrations by industry. The amounts presented therein exclude PPP loans of $709 thousand and $11.9 million as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively (in thousands):
The Company's loans within the hospitality industry have shown signs of recovery that are reflected by hotel occupancy and restaurant utilization trends. Hotel operators in BNC's loan portfolio are reporting positive trends, and in some cases stronger balance sheets. Despite these positive indications, labor shortages limit capacity in some cases, and potential inflationary impacts on travel and leisure activities continue to be a closely monitored.
While the Company's loan portfolio and credit risk may still be subject to pandemic related risks, management believes that this potential risk remains qualitatively captured in the Company's allowance for credit losses.
Capital
Banks and bank holding companies operate under separate regulatory capital requirements. As of June 30, 2022, the Company's capital ratios exceeded all regulatory capital thresholds, including the capital conservation buffer.
A summary of BNC's capital ratios at June 30, 2022, and December 31, 2021, is presented below:
The Common Equity Tier 1 ratio, which is generally a comparison of a bank's core equity capital to its total risk weighted assets, is a measure of the current risk profile of the Bank's asset base from a regulatory perspective. The Tier 1 leverage ratio, which is based on average assets, does not consider the mix of risk-weighted assets.
The Company regularly evaluates the sufficiency of its capital to ensure compliance with regulatory capital standards and to serve as a source of strength for the Bank. The Company manages capital by assessing the composition of capital and the amounts available for growth, risk, or other purposes. The Company made an election at the adoption of BASEL III to exclude changes in accumulated other comprehensive income from the calculation of regulatory ratios.
About BNCCORP, INC.
BNCCORP, INC., headquartered in Bismarck, N.D., is a registered bank holding company dedicated to providing banking and wealth management services to businesses and consumers in its local markets. The Company operates community banking and wealth management businesses in North Dakota and Arizona from 11 locations. BNC also conducts mortgage banking from 9 locations in Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Arizona and North Dakota.
This news release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to the financial condition, results of operations, plans, objectives, future performance and business of BNC. Forward-looking statements, which may be based upon beliefs, expectations and assumptions of our management and on information currently available to management are generally identifiable by the use of words such as "expect", "believe", "anticipate", "at the present time". "plan", "optimistic", "intend", "estimate", "may", "will", "would", "could", "should", "future" and other expressions relating to future periods. Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements we make regarding our expectations regarding future market conditions and our ability to capture opportunities and pursue growth strategies, our expected operating results such as revenue growth and earnings and our expectations of the effects of the regulatory environment or current or future pandemics on our earnings for the foreseeable future. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Our actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: the impact of pandemics, the impact of current and future regulation; the risks of loans and investments, including dependence on local and regional economic conditions; competition for our customers from other providers of financial services; possible adverse effects of changes in interest rates, including the effects of such changes on mortgage banking revenues and derivative contracts and associated accounting consequences; risks associated with our acquisition and growth strategies; and other risks which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. In addition, all statements in this news release, including forward-looking statements, speak only of the date they are made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any statement in light of new information or future events.
This press release contains references to financial measures, which are not defined in GAAP. Such non-GAAP financial measures include tangible common equity to total period end assets ratio. These non-GAAP financial measures have been included as the Company believes they are helpful for investors to analyze and evaluate the Company's financial condition.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) — A police report reveals that NBA star Michael Porter Jr. had thousands of dollars worth of items and cash stolen from his Indianapolis hotel room the night before he was set to play against the Pacers.
Porter, who plays for the Denver Nuggets, filed the police report on Tuesday evening after flying into the city and booking a hotel room in the Conrad Indianapolis, located just off Monument Circle on Washington Street.
According to the report filed by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Porter told police that several thousands of dollars worth of items were stolen from his room including a gold bracelet, two Louis Vuitton bags, $8,000 in cash, and even his Bible.
The police report listed the total value of the stolen items at more than $12,000.
IMPD has not disclosed at this time if any arrests have been made in connection to the theft.
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Vote: Who is the best defensive back in the Battle Creek area?
Football B.O.B - Who is the best defensive back in Battle Creek area? Enquirer poll gives you a chance to vote
The B.O.B. is back and better than ever.
The Best Of Battle Creek series in the Enquirer is back for another year and again will include all the teams in the area.
Each week throughout the fall, we are asking, "Who is the Best Of Battle Creek?" as we look at each position in football among the city/area high school teams.
Nominations for each position have come from the city/area coaches with a little information on each player. It's a tougher list to make this year as we expand the field, but once we do, then it will be up to the Enquirer readers to decide who is the B.O.B.?
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Each week we will give readers choices and open our online poll for voting, with a winner decided by the following Monday.
Next are the defensive backs on the city/area football teams.
VOTE HERE: Who is the top high school defensive back in the Battle Creek area?
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Here are the nominations:
Karlito Campbell
School: Battle Creek Central
Class: Senior
Why he is on the list: Karlito Campbell is a versatile defensive player who play can play inside linebacker, outside linebacker or safety, making him one of the most valuable players on that side of the ball for the Bearcats. Campbell has played every snap on defense this season for a BCC team that is ranked No. 7 in the state and is tied for first place in the league.
Adam Torres
School: Harper Creek
Class: Senior
Why he is on the list: After missing last year with a shoulder injury, Adam Torres has become a leader on and off the field for Harper Creek at defensive back. The senior is one of the hardest workers in practice and in the weight room for the Beavers and is having a big final season.
Derek Booker
School: Tekonsha
Class: Senior
Why he is on the list: Derek Booker always lines up against the opposing team's best receiver but has yet to give up a touchdown catch all year. With 81 tackles, nine tackles for loss and an interception, Booker is reliable against the run and the pass.
Colton Russell
School: Union City
Class: Senior
Why he is on the list: Colton Russell is a key part of the Union City defense with his ability to roam the defensive backfield. He leads the team in tackles and interceptions from his strong safety position.
Jordan Eckman
School: St. Philip
Class: Junior
Why he is on the list: Jordan Eckman is always matched up with the opposing team's best receiver and has done an excellent job of limiting opponents. With 57 tackles and three fumble recoveries, the junior is having another successful season after coming into the year as a two-time All-City and all-league selection.
Jake Kucharczyk
School: Lakeview
Class: Junior
Why he is on the list: A two-way standout for Lakeview, Jake Kucharczyk lines up at safety on defense and at quarterback on offense. The junior is a difference maker on both sides of the ball and has made big plays on defense despite missing some games late in the year with injury.
Aidan Howard
School: Gull Lake
Class: Junior
Why he is on the list: A playmaker on the defensive side of the ball, Aidan Howard has seven interceptions from his defensive back spot for a Gull Lake team that is 3-5. Howard has good size for his position at 6-foot-2 and has shown great ability to close on the ball.
Bo Lincoln
School: Olivet
Class: Junior
Why he is on the list: A three-year starter as a junior, Bo Lincoln is an excellent run and pass defender for Olivet. With a knack for big plays, Lincoln has eight takeaways, with five interceptions and three fumble recoveries, and has returned four of those for touchdowns.
Isaiah Adams
School: Pennfield
Class: Junior
Why he is on the list: From the free safety spot, Isaiah Adams has shown to be a ballhawk with a pass is the air, while also showing the ability to support the run. A two-way starter, Adams is also a key to the Pennfield offense at receiver.
Landon Bennett
School: Athens
Class: Junior
Why he is on the list: A hard-hitting safety, Landon Bennett is among the team leaders in tackles with 32 and can also go after the ball in the air with two interceptions, leading a young Athens defense.
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Celebrity documentaries often dig up old talk show footage, and early in HBO’s “Being Mary Tyler Moore” we see her interviewed by David Susskind. The exchange reveals both the host’s stubborn assumptions about gender roles and Moore’s polite disinterest in pandering to his line of questioning.
The clip is from 1966, just as “The Dick Van Dyke Show” was drawing to a close. The sitcom made Moore a star playing Laura Petrie, and in Susskind’s estimation, the character is an “idealization of the American wife.” Then he pontificates, just generally, on what he sees as the sad state of matrimony in real life: Walk into any restaurant and “the woman is yakking like crazy and the man has a hurt, bored expression.”
What he fails to realize is that he’s creating that very dynamic in the television studio — except he is the one yakking like crazy while his guest has a hurt, bored expression. He thinks women are only “half-married” if they work outside the home. She gently but firmly pushes back. “Women should be human beings first, women second, and wives and mothers third,” she tells him. “It should fall in that order.”
Moore could turn the world on with her smile. Pioneering and funny. But woe to the person who underestimated her steely intelligence.
Off-screen, she was reserved in ways that differed from her most famous roles, first as Laura Petrie in those pedal pushers (previous to that, housewives appeared only in dresses, and it was a change Moore pushed for) and later as local TV news producer Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
She had impeccable comedy instincts — full of warmth and vulnerability and class — and I wish the film tried to examine a bit further how she sharpened those talents over the years.
She would switch gears with “Ordinary People” in 1980. It was a departure from what audiences had come to expect, instead playing a brittle, grieving mother who kept her feelings bottled up to preserve her elegant, upscale suburban Chicago facade. But Moore probably had more in common with the character than many realized — maybe not so chilly, but aloof. She kept to herself and wasn’t naturally open and revealing. That’s one of the more interesting revelations of the film.
She was a combination of strength, nervousness and determination, but she didn’t see herself as Mary Richards, independent woman extraordinaire. She was married throughout the show’s run to Grant Tinker (who headed up her production company MTM Enterprises), but the character’s backbone? “That was real,” she says. “That kind of substance and intrinsic dignity of being.”
Directed by James Adolphus (with a raft of producers including Lena Waithe), “Being Mary Tyler Moore” relies on old interviews with Moore, who died in 2017, and new off-camera interviews that Adolphus layers in as voice-overs.
Moore’s father would joke that the family came from impoverished nobility, but her mother struggled with alcoholism and that created instability: “She was most at ease at a party, or giving a party,” Moore says. “Everybody’s good-time best gal. Not the most attuned to parenting that I would have liked. She would start drinking during the day and would not stop until somebody found the bottle and took it away.”
Moore found fame in the 1960s, thanks to “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” but her career faltered after that, including a disastrous musical version of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on Broadway, and a movie contract that compelled her to appear in less-than-stellar films, including 1969′s “Change of Habit,” as a nun opposite Elvis Presley.
“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” would put her back on top in the 1970s. But when the show ended, so did her marriage to Tinker. Single for the first time in years, she moved to New York at 40, looking for a fresh start.
Maybe she was hoping to run away from problems that had been festering under the California sun. So much of her public persona was rooted in those exquisite manners — there was almost a throwback quality to the way she carried herself — but we learn that, in private, she could become belligerent after a few drinks. It was only in middle age that she acknowledged alcohol was a problem for her, as it had been for her mother.
She would eventually marry again, this time to a doctor named Robert Levine, who is an executive producer here and who provided the personal footage of Moore at home, including that of an informal gathering before her wedding that has the feel of a slumber party, where she’s toasted by good friend Betty White, among others.
Moore’s second act in New York was less about burnishing her celebrity than about a woman finally coming into herself. L.A. can be thrumming with career neuroses — the kind that foster an arrested development, especially if fame hits early and fast.
Maybe relocating was a way to shed all of that and reinvent some ideas she had about herself.
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‘BEING MARY TYLER MOORE’
3 stars (out of 4)
Not rated
Running time: 1:59
How to watch: 8 p.m. ET Friday on HBO (and streaming on Max)
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MONTERREY, Mexico, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FOMENTO ECONÓMICO MEXICANO, S.A.B. DE C.V. (NYSE: FMX; BMV: FEMSAUBD, FEMSAUB) ("FEMSA") today announced the early tender results and acceptance for its previously announced offers to purchase for cash FEMSA's notes of the series set forth in the table below (all such notes, the "Notes" and each such series, a "series" of Notes), for an aggregate purchase price, excluding accrued and unpaid interest and additional amounts, if any (the "Aggregate Purchase Price"), of up to US$2.0 billion (the "Tender Cap"), from registered holders of the Notes (each a "Holder" and, collectively, the "Holders"). We refer to our offer to purchase each series of Notes as an "Offer" and collectively as the "Offers." The Offers are being made pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the amended and restated offer to purchase dated February 17, 2023 (as amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Offer to Purchase").
The following table summarizes the early tender results for the Offers as of 2:00 a.m., New York City time today, March 3, 2023 (the "Early Tender Time"):
FEMSA has accepted for purchase all Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) in the Offers on or prior to the Early Tender Time. Holders who validly tendered (and not validly withdrew) their Notes on or prior to the Early Tender Time and whose Notes have been accepted for purchase are entitled to receive the applicable total consideration set forth in the table above (the "Total Consideration"), which includes the Early Tender Premium, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the accepted Notes from and including the last interest payment date to, but not including, the Initial Settlement Date (as defined below) and additional amounts thereon, if any.
FEMSA has decided to amend the terms of the Offers as follows: Holders who validly tender (and not validly withdraw) their Notes after the Early Tender Time but on or prior to the Expiration Time (as defined below) and whose Notes are accepted for purchase (the date of such purchase, the "Final Settlement Date") will, subject to the terms and conditions of the Offers as provided in the Offer to Purchase, be entitled to receive the applicable Total Consideration, which includes the applicable Early Tender Premium, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the accepted Notes from and including the last interest payment date to, but not including, the Final Settlement Date, and additional amounts thereon, if any.
Notes tendered on or prior to the Early Tender Time, which have been accepted for purchase on the Initial Settlement Date will have priority over Notes tendered after the Early Tender Time. If the Offers are oversubscribed at the Expiration Time, then only a portion of Notes tendered after the Early Tender Time may be accepted for purchase pursuant to the proration procedures described in the Offer to Purchase.
The total cash payment to purchase the accepted Notes on the Initial Settlement Date will be approximately US$1,389.4 million, excluding accrued and unpaid interest to but not including the Initial Settlement Date and additional amounts thereon (based on the U.S. dollar exchange rate described herein).
Notes that have been validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) on or prior to the Early Tender Time, or that are validly tendered on or prior to the Expiration Time, cannot be withdrawn, except as may be required by applicable law.
The initial settlement date on which FEMSA will make payment for Notes tendered (and not validly withdrawn) on or prior to the Early Tender Time and accepted in the Offers is expected to be March 7, 2023 (the "Initial Settlement Date").
The Offers will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on March 16, 2023, unless extended or earlier terminated with respect to an Offer (such time and date, as the same may be extended or earlier terminated with respect to an Offer, the "Expiration Time").
All conditions described in the Offer to Purchase that were to be satisfied or waived on or prior to the Early Tender Time have been satisfied or waived.
Except as described in this press release, all other terms of the Offers as described in the Offer to Purchase remain unchanged.
The Euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate used herein is US$1.06 per €1.00, calculated as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time on March 2, 2023, as reported on Bloomberg screen page "FXIP" under the heading "FX Rate vs. USD."
FEMSA has engaged BofA Securities, Inc. as dealer manager in connection with the Offers (the "Dealer Manager"). Global Bondholder Services Corporation is acting as the tender and information agent for the Offers.
This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell the Notes. The Offers are not being made to Holders in any jurisdiction in which FEMSA is aware that the making of the Offers would not be in compliance with the laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction in which the securities laws or blue sky laws require the Offers to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offers will be deemed to be made on FEMSA's behalf by the Dealer Manager or one or more registered brokers or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction. Any questions or requests for assistance regarding the Offers may be directed to BofA Securities, Inc. at (888) 292-0070 (toll-free) or (646) 855-8988 (collect) or (+44) (207) 996 5420. Requests for additional copies of the Offer to Purchase and related documents may be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation at (212) 430-3774 or (855) 654-2014 (toll-free).
Neither the Offer to Purchase nor any documents related to the Offers have been filed with, nor have they been approved or reviewed by, any federal or state securities commission or regulatory authority of any country. No authority has passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of the Offer to Purchase or any documents related to the Offers, and it is unlawful and may be a criminal offense to make any representation to the contrary.
FEMSA Forward Announcement
The offers described above form an integral part of the series of strategic initiatives announced by FEMSA on February 15, 2023, as a result of a thorough strategic review of its business platform, including the bottom-up definition of long-range plans for each business unit, as well as the top-down analysis of FEMSA's corporate and capital structure. That announcement is available at: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/02/15/2609255/0/en/FEMSA-Forward-Announcing-results-of-strategic-review.html. That announcement does not form part of this communication.
About FEMSA
FEMSA is a company that creates economic and social value through companies and institutions and strives to be the best employer and neighbor to the communities in which it operates. It participates in the retail industry through a Proximity Division operating OXXO, a small-format store chain, OXXO Gas, a chain of retail service stations, and Valora, an operator of convenience and foodvenience formats present in 5 countries in Europe. In the retail industry it also participates though a Health Division, which includes drugstores and related activities and Digital@FEMSA, which includes Spin by OXXO and OXXO Premia, among other loyalty and digital financial services initiatives. In the beverage industry, it participates through Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola products in the world by volume. FEMSA also participates in the logistics and distribution industry through its Strategic Business Unit, which additionally provides point-of-sale refrigeration and plastic solutions to its business units and third-party clients. Across its business units, FEMSA has more than 320,000 employees in 18 countries. FEMSA is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability MILA Pacific Alliance, the FTSE4Good Emerging Index and the Mexican Stock Exchange Sustainability Index: S&P/BMV Total México ESG, among other indexes that evaluate its sustainability performance.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are information of a non-historical nature or which relate to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. No assurance can be given that the transactions described herein will be consummated or as to the ultimate terms of any such transactions. FEMSA undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information or future events or for any other reason.
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One person severely burned in Vero Beach food truck explosion
Published: May. 14, 2022 at 12:01 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
One person was severely burned when a food truck exploded at a seafood festival in Vero Beach Saturday morning.
Vero Beach police said the truck was at the festival in Riverside Park when the explosion occurred.
The burn victim was flown to Arnold Palmer's Hospital Burn Unit in Orlando for treatment.
Indian River County Fire Rescue and the State Fire Marshall's Office Investigator are at the park conducting an investigation.
The cause of the explosion is unknown at this time.
The seafood festival remains open and no other injuries were reported.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) — The skeleton of a New York City woman who was reported missing in January was discovered accidentally by workers three months later, while they were doing maintenance outside her bedroom window at the public housing complex in Queens.
Nexstar’s WPIX has now learned the woman, Marilyn McMichael, 54, may have been dead since August 2020, however — that’s the last time a page was turned on her calendar.
“Apparently, her windows were open, so the men on the scaffolding saw her in her bed, dead,” said Simone Best Jones, one of McMichael’s foster sisters.
The discovery in Apartment 7-H was made on April 26.
Best Jones and another foster sister, Sharman McElrath, said they first became concerned about McMichael in June 2020, as the first wave of the pandemic was ebbing. They said McMichael called them saying she wanted to go to the hospital.
She had a history of emotional problems, they added.
“She wanted me to take her to the hospital,” Sharman McElrath said. “She didn’t sound sick at all. She sounded a little manic, and I was trying to explain to her they’re not accepting people at the hospital.”
McElrath said she and Best Jones did go to McMichael’s apartment on the seventh floor of the South Jamaica Houses and knocked on the door. They kept calling and got no response.
“We would never get her to come to the door,” Best Jones said, adding that this was not unusual behavior from McMichael. “She wouldn’t talk to us for years, because she didn’t want to.”
But the sisters became concerned as the pandemic stretched beyond a second year.
On Jan. 26, McElrath and Best Jones decided to file a missing persons report and called 911, meeting housing police officers at 106-56 160th Street in the basement New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) office. McElrath said NYCHA personnel told them McMichael “hadn’t paid rent in over a year.”
The sisters said they met resistance when they tried to file a police report, because NYCHA said they weren’t next of kin.
“They said my parents were on the emergency card,” Best Jones noted, “and I let them know they had both been dead for over twenty years.”
Best Jones said the police officer was on his phone, at one point, saying he was waiting to finish “this stupid call.” The sisters convinced the NYCHA managers and the officer to go with them to the 7th floor, but Best Jones recalled the master key didn’t work on the door.
“And they never tried again,” Best Jones said, “and they said they would. They said they had an investigator that would find her.”
When construction workers saw the skeleton three months later, the sisters said McMichael’s neighbor notified them of the discovery.
“She was treated, to me, less than human,” McElrath said. “You treat a dog better than that.”
A source told WPIX that NYCHA has an emergency services team that can breach a door to do a wellness check.
Neighbors told police they hadn’t seen McMichael in more than a year.
The Medical Examiner’s office confirmed it is conducting tests on McMichael’s skeleton and said it could be four to six months before a cause of death is confirmed.
McMichael’s sister announced her death on Facebook, so that friends who knew the four sisters from Hollis would know that Marilyn McMichael had passed on.
“We wanted her to have a voice through us, knowing ‘I was here, and I had a life on this earth,'” Sharman McElrath said.
“We grew up in foster care in the same home, and we were a family,” Best emphasized. “Four girls.”
According to Best, police said McMichael might have “been on vacation” during the period she was missing.
“Not hearing from her was not uncommon,” Best noted. A couple of years would go by. She was particular — and peculiar.”
A WPIX crew visited the NYCHA office in the basement of 106-56 160th Street and asked to speak to a supervisor, but was asked to leave the building.
When contacted Monday, NYCHA Press Secretary Barbara Brancaccio told WPIX to “reach out to NYPD for more information, as this is a police matter.”
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Positioned as a Leader Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
PLEASANTON, Calif., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the inaugural 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises* based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Workday Enterprise Management Cloud brings together core financials, human resources, and operational data in one adaptable system to help provide service-centric organizations with predictive insights, greater agility, and engaging experiences. Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Accounting Center, Workday Prism Analytics, and Workday Spend Management can integrate seamlessly into the customer's technology ecosystem to help transform the way organizations operate across finance, human resources, and procurement.
Helping Customers to Accelerate Transformation
With more than 9,500 customers across 175 countries, Workday continues to deliver innovative solutions that help enable service-centric enterprises to navigate transformation in the changing world of work.
With Workday, service-centric organizations can:
- Gain more meaningful insights and adapt business strategies to match the speed of change. Employees and extended workers often represent the largest source of spend for service-centric organizations. By combining operational data with finance and worker data, organizations are empowered to make real-time, data-driven decisions to help maximize profitability and performance across talent populations. With Workday's intelligent data core, organizations can integrate and manage multiple data sources, allowing visibility across their ecosystem in one place. For example, an organization can respond to dynamic changes by modeling new strategies and taking action, as well as aligning the workforce to business needs.
- Fuel automation and increase efficiency in mission-critical business processes. Workday helps orchestrate seamless processing across the front, middle, and back office technology ecosystem, creating a connected and frictionless experience that helps increase employee productivity. For example, with the ability to conduct continuous accounting and embedded machine learning to help automate transactional processes, as well as workspaces that help enable collaboration across finance teams, employees have more time to focus on strategy and analysis.
- Unlock the potential of the most valuable resource – the workforce. Human capital is the most complex, multi-dimensional asset service-centric organizations have to manage. Workday helps organizations map people resources to business needs, including upskilling, job rotations, and training. In addition, with Workday Peakon Employee Voice, leaders can get real-time insight into employee sentiment so organizations can turn feedback into dialog and action. With these tools, organizations can better manage critical people resources to help improve retention and reduce attrition.
Ability to Execute Drives Customer Satisfaction
Workday achieved an industry-leading 97% customer satisfaction rating in its latest customer satisfaction survey driven by the ability to execute effectively for customers facing the growing challenges of today's volatile climate. Additionally, Gartner® Peer Insights™ documents customer experience through verified ratings and peer reviews. As of July 1, 2022, Workday customer reviews include the following:
- "Moving from an aging on-premise ERP solution to Workday was a breath of fresh air. Selecting Workday as our corporate HR ERP solution has provided us with stability, flexibility, and ease of use." — ERP Director in the Banking Industry [read full review]
- "Great tool that allows [us] to keep Finance and HR core operations within the same tool as a single source of truth." — Sr. Director of Information Systems in the IT Services Industry [read full review]
- "The actionable insights to optimize the process is commendable. Whether it is working hours or paid time off, everything is answered." — Center Head in the Higher Ed Industry [read full review]
Comments on the News
"We realize the importance of strong workflow and reporting capabilities to increase the efficiency in the organization, as well as having quick access to key data to drive business performance," said Duncan Magrath, chief financial officer, Alfa Financial. "Workday enables our finance and HR teams to streamline previously manual, time-consuming processes and gives us a real-time, holistic view of our business."
"With Workday, we have an enterprise system that enables us to both manage our workforce and the costs associated with our workforce in a single platform," said Rich Rogers, chief information officer, Prisma Health. "Our employees and contingent workers are happy with the user experience and streamlined workflows in Workday, and our finance team has a real-time view into our business, which simplifies our reporting and analysis. Combining our ability to manage our finances, supplies, and people in a single system helps us achieve our organizational goals to support exceptional service to our patients and their families."
"With Workday, we have been able to consolidate multiple systems and manual processes into one, which has been extremely beneficial for our business," said Wayne Sisco, executive vice president and chief financial officer, Redstone Federal Credit Union. "As part of our culture of accountability, Workday has allowed our employees to be less focused on transactions and spend more time on analytics and strategy through increased visibility and effective reporting."
"Workday was founded on the idea that enterprise systems must be fully interconnected to provide the capability and visibility modern enterprises need to be successful," said Sayan Chakraborty, executive vice president of product and technology, Workday. "We are proud to have been named a Leader in Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises. By bringing together systems and data and helping enable finance, procurement, and HR leaders to support their organizations, together we can deliver digital transformation for the changing world of work."
Additional Information
- Read the blog, "Workday Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises"
- Get the report, "2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises"
- See a demonstration of Workday Financial Management, Workday Accounting Center, and Workday Adaptive Planning
*Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises, John Van Decker, Denis Torii, Tim Faith, Sam Grinter, Patrick Connaughton, 12 July 2022
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About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics have been adopted by thousands of organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding Workday's plans, beliefs, and expectations. These forward-looking statements are based only on currently available information and our current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. If the risks materialize, assumptions prove incorrect, or we experience unexpected changes in circumstances, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements, and therefore you should not rely on any forward-looking statements. Risks include, but are not limited to, risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including our Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2022, and our future reports that we may file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Workday assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
Any unreleased services, features, or functions referenced in this document, our website, or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Workday's discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Workday services should make their purchase decisions based upon services, features, and functions that are currently available.
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FORT BELVOIR, Va. (AP) — A “barricade situation” has drawn the FBI and other law enforcement officials to a U.S. Army base outside the nation’s capital Sunday, according to the official twitter account of Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia.
The base tweeted shortly before 1 p.m. that its law enforcement officials, local police and the FBI had responded “to a barricade situation” Sunday morning.
“The situation is ongoing, & we cannot comment further at this time,” the base tweeted.
It provided no other details except to say some of the gates to the installation remained open.
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Florida Republican Sen. Jason Brodeur has introduced new proposed legislation that aims to require bloggers who are compensated to write about lawmakers, including Gov. Ron DeSantis and his cabinet along with other state legislators, to register with the state.
The bill is called "Information Dissemination" and requires bloggers to be transparent about who pays them to write political posts.
The legislation's language states, "If a blogger posts to a blog about an elected state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post, the blogger must register."
If the proposed bill passes, those who fail to register under the law could face a $25 per day fine, capping at $2,500.
Florida Politics defined the bill as targeting what is known as "pay-to-play blog posts" where bloggers are paid to produce content about elected officials.
Some believe if passed into law, the legislation would likely be challenged in court citing First Amendment violations.
Sen. Brodeur said, "Paid bloggers are lobbyists who write instead of talk. They both are professional electioneers. If lobbyists have to register and report, why shouldn't paid bloggers?" | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/florida-proposal-would-register-bloggers-who-write-about-lawmakers | 2023-03-03 22:34:58 | 0 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/florida-proposal-would-register-bloggers-who-write-about-lawmakers |
Well Suited for Christmas premieres tonight at 8/7c on Lifetime. Stream every new holiday hit with Philo and DIRECTV Stream.
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Better Trucks' next-day and two-day delivery is available to top retailers as peak shipping season arrives
CHICAGO, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Better Trucks, a regional last-mile parcel platform, and ProShip, a multi-carrier shipping software platform, announce an integration that enables all current and prospective ProShip customers to instantly and easily utilize Better Trucks' strategic regional delivery network across the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Texas.
Better Trucks is a last-mile delivery platform focused on next-day and two-day parcel shipping to residential customers. Leading retailers, modern eCommerce fulfillment companies, and traditional third-party logistics (3PL) companies comprise its fast-growing customer base.
As the industry-leader of multi-carrier shipping software, ProShip's solution tackles the parcel challenges that enterprise-level retailers, manufacturers, and third-party logistics (3PL) providers encounter on a daily basis. ProShip's elite multi-carrier shipping software combines complex functionality with a robust, flexible architecture to allow shippers to avoid carrier capacity constraints, leverage advanced rate shopping, and cost-effectively deliver shipments to customers quickly, empowering over 30% of NRF's Top 100 Retailers. With a legacy of over 20 years in the supply chain and logistics software industry, some of the world's largest companies trust ProShip to deliver on the core tenets of speed, compliance, support, and flexibility to promote positive customer experiences.
"The traditional, hub and spoke model of parcel shipping centralized around the big box truck has run its course," said Andy Whiting, Better Trucks co-founder and CEO. "The launch of this integration comes at a pivotal time as shippers head into another hectic peak shipping environment. With inventory and market uncertainties, labor disputes among the national shippers, and rising surcharges, we offer reliability and ingenuity to shippers seeking options to delight their customers."
"As the parcel landscape continues to change, ProShip seeks to adapt to evolving customer delivery expectations, and that means partnering with unique and innovative carriers," said Justin Cramer, Co-Founder of ProShip. "ProShip is happy to welcome Better Trucks to the ProShip platform. This partnership benefits both our customers and our carrier partners as the ProShip multi-carrier shipping software platform can provide the flexibility to scale as well as the strength of an industry veteran. ProShip's solution serves as the tether connecting a wide range of carrier and carrier services with the agility and stability of a supply chain technology leader, resolving today's pain points to set you up for success with the challenges of tomorrow."
Better Trucks is a technology-first last-mile carrier that specializes in next-day and two-day parcel package deliveries to residential customers. Built and designed for the digital commerce world, Better Trucks is relentless in its pursuit to help retailers, eCommerce firms, and fulfillment centers ship parcels faster with better prices and better communication. Founded in 2018, today Better Trucks is proud to have 2+ million miles driven, 5+ million happy customers, and 5+ million packages delivered and counting.
For more information, please visit: www.bettertrucks.com.
Making complex parcel shipping challenges simple & cost-effective. ProShip is the most trusted provider of automated multi-carrier shipping software for parcel. With simple carrier connectivity and high flexibility, ProShip enables complex features & functions, such as maintaining compliance, executing multi-carrier rate shopping with unified business logic, and empowering omnichannel fulfillment. Because ProShip integrates with multiple parts of your Enterprise Software Stack (ESS), our multi-carrier shipping solution can automate the supply chain workflow & turn your parcel shipping operation into an efficient powerhouse. For more information, please visit www.proshipinc.com.
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Intends to Withhold Its Votes Against All Three Board Members Up for Election at the Annual Meeting Citing the Board's Failure to Hold Management Accountable for Years of Underperformance
Plans to Carefully Scrutinize the Process Undertaken by the Board in Approving the Proposed Sale and May Vote Against the Proposed Transaction
DALLAS, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Asset Management, L.P., together with its affiliates (collectively, "NexPoint"), who beneficially own approximately 12% of the outstanding common stock of Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:PRTK) (the "Company") today issued an open letter to the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") announcing its plans to withhold its votes against all three Board members up for election at the Company's upcoming Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for July 6, 2023 (the "Annual Meeting"). In the open letter, NexPoint notes its reasons for withholding its vote against these directors, including its serious concerns with the Board's lack of oversight in holding management accountable for years of underperformance. NexPoint also states in the letter that it intends to carefully scrutinize the process undertaken by the Board in approving the proposed acquisition of the Company by Gurnet Point Capital, LLC, once the Company makes available additional information, and may vote against the transaction if the information provided does not demonstrate a robust sale process to justify the proposed purchase price.
The full text of the letter is set forth below.
Board of Directors
c/o Corporate Secretary
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
75 Park Plaza, 3rd Floor,
Boston, MA 02116
To the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
NexPoint Asset Management, L.P. (together with its affiliates, "NexPoint" or "we") is the largest independent stockholder of Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Paratek" or the "Company") with economic exposure equal to almost 12% of the Company's outstanding common stock. We are writing today to express our serious concerns with the Company's long-term underperformance, the Board's failure to hold management accountable for such underperformance and the process the Board may have undertaken in approving a sale of the Company to Gurnet Point Capital LLC in a deal that upon preliminary review appears to grossly overcompensate Company leadership to the detriment of stockholders. While we will wait to review materials to be filed by the Company before determining how we will vote on the proposed acquisition, we intend to withhold our votes against each of the directors up for election at the Company's upcoming annual meeting of stockholders to express our discontent with the Board's history of not properly aligning pay for performance and approving an executive compensation structure that we believe has not been in the best interest of stockholders and may provide a financial windfall for management upon a sale of the Company.
We have had an investment in the Company since 2016 because we believe the Company's most important drug, NUZYRA (omadacycline), will become a great commercial success as a once-daily oral and intravenous antibiotic for the treatment of adult patients with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia, and acute skin and skin structure infections caused by susceptible pathogens. However, five years after receiving approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), the Company's revenue is far below many analysts' expectations despite management having spent over approximately $440,000,000 on sales, marketing, and administrative expenses, which includes what we perceive as excessive amounts of compensation for senior management. We believe this underperformance is largely due to senior management's inability to execute its sales plan. As a result, the stock price has suffered. Since receiving FDA approval on October 5, 2018, the Company's stock price has declined from $8.86 to $1.24 as of May 31, 2023, constituting an 86% decline.1
As a long-term stockholder, we have spent a considerable amount of time reviewing the Company's corporate governance, executive compensation practices and capital allocation decisions and attempted to engage meaningfully with management to better understand its overall strategy. Based on our diligence, we believe that the Board has consistently failed to carry out its critical role to supervise management's performance and hold management accountable. We are deeply troubled by the Board's stewardship, especially as it relates to executive compensation, which we believe illustrates that several incumbent directors have been either unable or unwilling to advance stockholders' best interests or embrace and act on stockholder feedback. We contend:
- The Board has consistently prioritized the interests of management by enriching Company executives at the expense of stockholders.
- For years, management and the Board have taken harmful actions that dilute stockholders.
- The Board has failed to hold management accountable for poor total stockholder returns.
- Management and the Board have failed to diversify Paratek's drug pipeline through business development efforts.
- The independent directors' limited stockholdings have only perpetuated its misalignment with investors since the independent directors own less than 1% of the Company's outstanding common stock.
As such, we plan to withhold our votes for all three directors up for election at the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held July 6, 2023. If the Board was not classified, we would have withheld our support against the entire Board.
Against this backdrop, on June 6, 2023, Paratek announced that they would be acquired by Gurnet Point Capital, LLC and Novo Nordisk Foundation (such transaction, the "Proposed Acquisition"). We intend to carefully scrutinize the Proposed Acquisition once more information regarding the sale process and valuation is made available in the proxy statement which should be filed soon by the Company with the Securities Exchange Commission. If we believe that the Proposed Acquisition is unfair to public stockholders because, for example, it provides a financial windfall to certain managers and Board members which we believe are directly responsible for severe value erosion to the detriment of stockholders, we will vote against the Proposed Acquisition.
We pride ourselves on being a patient, constructive and relationship-oriented investor. However, when the evidence of management's entrenchment becomes undeniable and the opportunity for long-term stockholder value creation is so high, we will always consider exercising our stockholder rights.
Please note that NexPoint reserves all rights to take any actions that it deems necessary to protect value for all stockholders.
Sincerely,
NexPoint Asset Management, L.P.
About NexPoint Asset Management, L.P.
NexPoint Asset Management, L.P. is an SEC-registered investment adviser. NexPoint Asset Management, L.P. is the adviser to a suite of registered funds, including open-end mutual funds, closed-end funds, and an exchange-traded fund. The funds draw on NexPoint's investment capabilities, covering a range of asset classes and strategies. For more information visit nexpointassetmanagement.com.
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Prosek Partners for NexPoint
mgeller@prosek.com
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Meta Platforms' Instagram reportedly has Twitter competitor app in the works
Instagram has a new app with similarities to Twitter in the pipeline, according to a report.
Bloomberg reported Friday that the app being developed by Instagram, a social media platform owned by parent company Meta Platforms, will be text-based and compete with Twitter. The earliest its rollout could happen is around the end of June, the outlet reported, citing UCLA Extension Social Media and Influencer Marketing Instructor Lia Haberman.
Haberman suggested its features could include compatibility with some other apps and connection with Instagram’s platform. She did so in a tweet thread, as well as a recent post for her ICYM newsletter.
ELON MUSK SAYS TWITTER WILL SOON HAVE VOICE, VIDEO CALLING AND OTHER FEATURES
Unnamed sources told Bloomberg some famous people and social media influencers had gotten access to the app in recent months amid it undergoing testing.
Stock image of a woman using cell phone to send text message on social network at night. via Getty Creative Images
The Bloomberg report comes roughly two months after articles put out by Platformer and Moneycontrol quoted a Meta spokesperson as saying the company was "exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates."
FACEBOOK PARENT META EXPLORING NEW SOCIAL NETWORK TO RIVAL TWITTER
The reported text-based Twitter competitor would mark an addition to Meta Platforms' family of apps. In addition to Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp fall under the umbrella.
When reached for comment regarding the Friday report about the upcoming Twitter competitor, Meta Platforms declined to do so.
In its latest quarterly earnings release, the company reported seeing an average of 3.02 daily active people across its apps in March.
ZUCKERBERG ANNOUNCES PAID SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE FOR FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/meta-platforms-instagram-reportedly-has-twitter-competitor-app-in-the-works | 2023-05-21 18:52:54 | 1 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/meta-platforms-instagram-reportedly-has-twitter-competitor-app-in-the-works |
Holiday travel crunch is on in North Dakota
WILLISTON, N.D. (KFYR) - Travelers are met with sticker shock as holiday travel heats up. Travel platform Hopper forecasts Thanksgiving and Christmas travel to be up, with airfares the highest seen in five years.
More people are expected to be taking trips this year too, which is a good thing for those running the Williston Basin International Airport.
“You know, it’s business as usual for us. It’s going to be incredibly busy for the holiday season. We are seeing that on all the flights as we try to keep track as flights get sold out and things of that nature,” said Anthony Dudas, Williston airport director.
To make sure your travel plans run without a hitch, Dudas says the earlier you plan, the better. He says it’s a good idea to arrive at least 90 minutes before departure and, of course, prepare for North Dakota winter conditions on the roads getting to the airport.
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The wood industry has seen a lot of challenges in the last few years during the pandemic, which has caused a lot of price shifts.
Many companies have been affected, from sawmills to contractors, to small woodworkers and even consumers.
Within the last couple of years, the price of processed wood products increased significantly. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, processed wood prices nearly quadrupled. Wholesale prices for plywood increased from $400 to $1500 per thousand square sheets, according to NASDAQ information.
Near Portage Lake, Maine you’ll find many different sawmills producing high-quality Maine-grown lumber.
And lumber is one of the things Maine does best.
The logging industry in Maine makes up about 7.8 billion dollars of the U.S.’s economy, according to a study done by the University of Maine.
As for the global wood industry, information from IBISWorld reported the leading timber-producing countries are China, the United States, and Japan. The U.S. contributes 18 percent of the world’s timber production.
As far as the largest wood product exporters, the top three are China, Canada, and the U.S.
The country contributes about 8.4 percent of the world’s total exports of wood products with the primary one being lumber. The lumber industry is growing at an annualized rate of 6.9 percent and generating more than 135 billion dollars over the last five years.
But the price and demand for lumber significantly increased when the pandemic started. Maine Woods Company has been around for more than 20 years, supplying lumber to the entire world while creating jobs for the small community it resides in.
But just like every business in the world, Scott said the supply chain issues over the past couple of years have made production more challenging.
“We have let down a fair amount of our customers not having been able to supply what their needs have been, the same has been true for the supplies we need,” Scott said. “The demand has been excellent for our product, but we’ve struggled to keep a full workforce. It’s been a frustrating time for different reasons, and we have yet to get back to a fully staffed production rate. I don’t know when we will.”
Experts report that some of the major lumber supply chain issues come from a workforce shortage that was triggered by the pandemic. The domino effect continued with a lack of truckers to move materials, and now the increase in gas prices has all led to an increase in wood prices for everyone.
“Manufacturing has certainly become more expensive,” Scott said. “And on top of that we had to try and keep pace with inflation with wages which we thought we have done at the beginning of the year, but we had to recently do it again.”
Scott said more employees are needed in the industry. Most companies have raised their wages; however, it still hasn’t helped much when it comes to recruiting.
Higher pay didn’t result in enough extra workers to make up for increased demand and limited supply because high-level skills are needed to work with the advanced machines.
“Manufacturing is the key to security to the way of life going forward,” Scott said. “If you don’t have manufacturing then what do you have? Cause we all can’t sit at home and sell things if there’s nothing to sell.”
The wood industry, though, never stops. And Maine Woods Company will continue to process and push its suppliers to help keep the country a reliable lumber exporter. If big companies are feeling the weight of the supply chain issues in their operations, then small town made in America businesses may feel the weight even more.
Siders Wood Crafting is in Bangor, Maine, and run by Bruce Graybill and his wife Mary. Even in the high timber-producing state of Maine, Graybill said work has been challenging.
Supply and demand for products determine the price of commodities, and experts say more investment in increasing pay for employees and increasing the number of technically competent employees to help increase production can help drive those prices down.
But this is the lumber industry, and the demand for wood is always going to be there. It’s how to keep up with that demand that the industry consistently is trying to adjust to. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national-politics/the-race/how-the-wood-producing-industry-is-adjusting-to-the-times | 2022-05-21 02:26:46 | 1 | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national-politics/the-race/how-the-wood-producing-industry-is-adjusting-to-the-times |
United States Postal Service (USPS) is phasing out its aging fleet of delivery vehicles and replacing them with battery-electric vehicles.
USPS announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire at least 66,000 battery-electric vehicles by 2028.
“We have a statutory requirement to deliver mail and packages to 163 million addresses six days per week and to cover our costs in doing so – that is our mission. As I have said in the past, if we can achieve those objectives in a more environmentally responsible way, we will do so," said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
The new infrastructure law provides billions of dollars for states to implement charging infrastructure. DeJoy said that investment reduces the risk of moving to electric vehicles.
"When combined with our substantial commitment to the electrification of our delivery vehicles, the Postal Service will be at the forefront of our nation’s green initiatives," DeJoy said.
The White House praised the Postal Service's five-year $9.6 billion investment, which DeJoy said will mostly come from revenue.
The first electric delivery vehicles are expected to start servicing routes in late 2023. | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/usps-replacing-aging-delivery-fleet-with-electric-vehicles | 2022-12-20 18:34:35 | 1 | https://www.wptv.com/news/national/usps-replacing-aging-delivery-fleet-with-electric-vehicles |
ATLANTA, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- INROADS has announced the appointment of Yolanda Smith, an INROADS alumna, as Chief Marketing Officer. In December 2021, Smith began working at INROADS as an Executive Marketing Consultant. Since joining the team, Yolanda has directed the organization's brand, marketing, and communications strategy. She focuses on creating innovative, integrated marketing activities that increase brand awareness, charitable giving, student, alumni, and corporate engagement.
"I am honored to have the opportunity to advance the mission of INROADS. As a proud INROADS alumna, I can personally attest to the impact of our programs. INROADS was my first introduction into the business world and set me on a trajectory for corporate and community leadership. I am thrilled to bring my talents to INROADS and ensure that more students, families, universities, and employers experience the benefits of working with INROADS," said Yolanda Smith.
Yolanda is a proud INROADS alumna who lived the experience of receiving training and development as a four-year INROADS intern in Chicago, IL. She's bringing over 20 years of experience in marketing, management, and entrepreneurship to INROADS.
Yolanda has directed and managed multimillion-dollar brands for The Home Depot and Kodak, devising and implementing integrated marketing programs that have resulted in significant year-over-year sales increases. As an entrepreneur, Yolanda was the owner and operator of a healthcare company, where she oversaw marketing, business development, procurement, and fulfillment of government contracts, finance, and operations.
Yolanda has redesigned marketing at INROADS, from the website, program materials, and social media to marketing and PR support of significant organization events. She has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Alabama A&M University. Smith will be based in Atlanta, GA.
"We are pleased to announce Yolanda as our chief marketing officer and member of the executive leadership team," said Forest T. Harper, Jr., INROADS President and CEO. "She has demonstrated her ability to drive strategic brand marketing and communications strategy and her dedication to advancing the INROADS mission. We are confident that she will continue to elevate the INROADS brand and utilize her expertise to provide overall strategic and operational input for our organization."
About INROADS
Founded in 1970, INROADS delivers innovative programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate the development of underrepresented talent throughout their careers. Through this development, students become equipped for corporate and community leadership that effects community renewal, social change and elevates economic status and quality of life. INROADS has more than 30,000 alumni, over 900 interns and serves 4,000+ students and 200 corporate clients. Learn more at INROADS.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn: @INROADSInc.
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Utah teenage farmer missing more than 2 weeks as mom fears foul play
Dylan Rounds, 19, last spoke to family on May 28
A Utah teen is missing from his farm, according to family members, and police found his boots and truck left behind – and his mother now says she "absolutely" believes foul play is involved with his disappearance.
Dylan Rounds, a 19-year-old Idaho native who struck off on his own as a farmer in Utah, last spoke to family just over two weeks ago, according to authorities.
"My son would not walk away from that farm on his own," his mother, Candice Cooley, told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "He was removed from it."
She said she was not aware of her son having any enemies, although she believed he had recently fired a farmworker who she does not think harbored any ill will. The area is very rural, she said, and neighbors mostly live off the grid and keep to themselves.
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"I cannot fathom who would want to do something to our son," she said. "It just blows my mind."
The Utah farm's ground is rough and covered with thorny brush, Cooley said. She does not believe that her son would have walked on it without his boots, or even in flipflops. It had also rained significantly that weekend.
She described Rounds as fiercely independent and said he avoids drugs, video games and social media.
"Dylan had a farm, Dylan had a goal, and he had a drive in life so that he would absolutely not let anything, anything, take him away," she said. "This is a kid that the last three years has been out in the desolate desert tearing out new ground."
Investigators say he called his grandma just before 7 a.m. on May 28, and cell tower data placed his phone on his farm at the time. They found his truck on the property – and his boots 100 yards away, Cooley said.
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Rounds is a White male standing 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing around 160 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes.
Deputies across state lines in Elko County, Nevada, said they became involved in the case after a report of a hostage situation in Montello on May 31.
The incident turned out to be a false report, Cooley said, but Elko investigators determined that the missing teen did visit the area on May 26, when he was seen at a restaurant. But phone records show he called family members from Utah after that.
Cooley said the last known communication came on May 28 with Rounds’ grandmother. When friends and relatives realized two days later that no one else had been in touch with him, she said she called police to file the missing person report.
"Instant panic set in, and we headed straight down," she said. "I called on the way down to his farm. I live in the Twin Falls area [of Idaho], so I’m only about 2 hours from where his farm is."
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Shortly after the search began, she said, investigators found her son’s boots in the opposite direction of his camper, which she said should have raised more cause for concern.
"Everything should have stopped and it should have been treated 100% differently," she said.
Anyone with information on Rounds’ whereabouts is asked to call the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office at 435-734-3800.
Search efforts are expected to continue with additional help from outside groups including EquuSearch as well as numerous law enforcement agencies. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/utah-teenage-farmer-missing-2-weeks-mom-fears-foul-play | 2022-06-15 23:29:11 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/utah-teenage-farmer-missing-2-weeks-mom-fears-foul-play |
Dave and Erica Harrig stayed true to their values when they won a lottery jackpot of more than $61 million in 2013. It made all the difference.
The couple from Gretna, Nebraska, a community on the outskirts of Omaha where Dave Harrig now is a volunteer firefighter, allowed themselves to buy a new home, some vintage automobiles and a few ocean cruises after they both quit their jobs.
But nine years later, they still live much as they always did, remaining in their community, keeping up with church, family and friends, and teaching their children to work hard to make a living despite any financial windfall that might come their way.
Many other winners haven’t been as lucky, suffering personal setbacks and lawsuits or becoming the victims of scams. The latest winner of a big jackpot came Friday, when a single ticket sold in Illinois matched the numbers for a $1.337 billion Mega Millions prize. Illinois is among the states where winners of more than $250,000 can choose to not reveal their names.
Dave Harrig, an Air Force veteran who worked in aircraft maintenance, says keeping things simple probably saved him and his family from the kind of hassles and tragedies that have befallen other big winners.
Almost overnight, the Harrig family mailbox was filled with letters full of hard luck stories: sick children, lost jobs, burned out homes.
Dave Harrig said they ignored them all and focused on their own family and charities.
They didn’t even touch the principal on their winnings until just a few years ago, when they tapped into it to fund a new museum of firefighting in Gretna that will open soon.
“We have nicer things, a bigger house, and more than we ever had in the past. But we are the same, and my wife and I keep each other in check,” Dave Harrig said, encouraging future lottery winners to invest wisely, choose a national investment adviser rather than a local one, and to avoid advisers who try to sell financial products.
They’ve ignored false rumors that have swirled about them, suggesting that his wife at one point ran off with a doctor and that he had a lawyer girlfriend. Their four children endured teasing at school.
“We’re still learning, but it has helped to stay working together as a team,” he said of himself and his wife.
He acknowledged the struggles of some past winners, saying the experience of winning a jackpot “can really accentuate your character and any addictions.”
The late Andrew Whittaker Jr., of West Virginia, suffered lawsuits and personal setbacks after he claimed a record $315 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas night in 2002.
At the time, it was the largest U.S. lottery jackpot won by a single ticket. People harassed him so much with requests for money he was quoted several times saying he wished he had torn up the ticket.
Before dying of natural causes in 2020 at age 72, he struggled with alcohol and gambling problems and had a series of personal tragedies, including the death of his granddaughter.
Winning the lottery brought other kinds of headaches for Manuel Franco, of West Allis, Wisconsin, who claimed a $768 million lottery jackpot in April 2019.
Then just 24, Franco excitedly held a news conference to discuss his win, but later reportedly went into hiding amid harassment by strangers and the news media.
The Better Business Bureau of Wisconsin began warning people in 2021 about messages from scammers who claimed to be the multimillion-dollar winner.
Using Franco’s name, the scammers sent text messages, social media messages, phone calls and emails phishing for personal information, telling recipients they had been chosen to receive money.
The BBB said scammers got more than $13,000 from people they tricked, including people in Alabama and Colorado.
Despite the problems encountered by the winners, lottery officials favor publicly identifying winners to instill public trust in the games.
That’s in large part because some past drawings have been rigged. Former Multi-State Lottery Association information security director Eddie Tipton pleaded guilty in 2017 to manipulating software so he could predict winning numbers on certain days of the year. He and his brother rigged jackpots in numerous states for a combined payout of some $24 million.
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Lava from Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is no longer feeding a flow that’s been creeping closer to a crucial highway, scientists said Thursday, even as the world’s largest volcano keeps on erupting.
That means lava isn’t advancing, and is no longer an imminent threat to the road that connects the east and west sides of the Big Island. Hawaii County officials say they will continue to plan and remain vigilant.
As of Thursday morning, the lava that was contributing to the flow heading toward the road has been cut off, said David Phillips, deputy scientist-in-charge at U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
While the eruption keeps boiling out of an active fissure, the supply down to the flow front has been cut off, likely because of a reduced production rate, he said.
Lava from Mauna Loa, which began erupting Nov. 27 after being quiet for 38 years, was 1.76 miles (2.83 kilometers) from Saddle Road, also known as Route 200 or Daniel K. Inouye Highway, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey said.
“So just to emphasize, there is no current threat to any island communities or infrastructure at this time,” Phillips said.
Last week, officials said the earliest the lava could hit the road was one week. But, as expected, the lava slowed considerably in recent days as it moved across flatter ground, leaving scientists unable to estimate a clearer timeline.
“That’s good news for us,” Hawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth said.
But while the eruption remains active, county officials said they will stay on the alert — because scientists say things could always change. | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-mauna-loa-20221208-uwviiy7xfbhzpjzvz3jxar4o6u-story.html | 2022-12-08 21:23:32 | 0 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ct-aud-nw-mauna-loa-20221208-uwviiy7xfbhzpjzvz3jxar4o6u-story.html |
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The Carroll County Board of Education is working to create a strategic plan for the public school system’s next five years, focusing on growth in student success, family and community partnerships, and support for staff.
The school board held its first work session Monday afternoon to create the new strategic plan. The current five-year plan is due to expire next year and a new plan is due to the state by March 15.
“It’s a living document, and you constantly tweak it,” said Board of Education President Kenneth Kiler, “but we hope to learn from it and to use that information to improve.”
The Carroll County Public Schools strategic plan has four pillars that categorize the ways in which the system seeks to improve: pathways for student success, family and community partnerships, developing and supporting the school system workforce, and establishing positive learning environments.
Progress toward goals set in each category were discussed and evaluated Monday.
The board chose third-grade reading levels, eighth-grade algebra enrollment and ninth-grade test scores as metrics to monitor growth in the student pathways to success pillar. Based on data presented, board members discussed raising the threshold for success for students enrolled in algebra and continuing to work toward goals set for third-grade reading levels and ninth-grade test scores.
Board Vice President Tara Battaglia said the pandemic switch to online learning hampered progress and threw a wrench in the data.
“It’s gonna be a gradual process towards the goals we set,” Battaglia said. “People are still processing everything that happened regarding COVID-19. Our kids were part of a vulnerable group, especially with growing and learning and their development, so progress is going to take some time.”
Unlike other success metrics, family involvement in events rose amid the pandemic before falling as restrictions lifted. Carroll County Superintendent Cynthia McCabe said she would love to see every CCPS family attend at least one event per school year. The superintendent said she plans to continue to host events that have been well-attended in past years and to offer more programs that provide resources for specific family needs, such as mental health and drug awareness.
Regarding the pillar that deals with developing and supporting a successful workforce, the board discussed setting a goal for employee retention percentages to be the same across all demographics.
White employee retention has been higher than minority employee retention for three of the last four years according to staffing report data presented at the meeting.
Board member Patricia Dorsey said she would also like to see employee demographics reflect student demographics as much as possible.
“You can defeat negative stereotypes when you can see everybody is working together,” Dorsey said, “and it’s important for kids to see that.”
Dorsey is running for reelection to the Board of Education in the election next month.
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Employee retention has suffered in recent years, which Battaglia said is another byproduct of the pandemic. She said it would be helpful to compare Carroll County’s retention percentages to those across the state. Specific data were not available, but should be within the next two months, according to school staff.
Board member Donna Sivingny said it is important to continue to make money available in the budget for school building renovations in order to maintain healthy and modern environments for students and staff. The system consists of more than 40 buildings.
“We need to be asking for 40-plus million dollars in capital improvements every year and then prioritize the things that need to happen next,” Sivingny said.
Battaglia said the board will be able to better strategize once more information is released from the State of Maryland. Regardless, Battaglia, who is running for reelection next month to the school board, said she expects post-pandemic learning loss will be a top priority for the school system moving forward.
The school board will continue to develop the 2023-2028 strategic plan, but does not yet have a date set for its next work session on the topic. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/education/cc-education-strategic-plan-20221005-htlf6qnqzjbbdmv7bs4xygjhby-story.html | 2022-10-05 12:12:19 | 0 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/education/cc-education-strategic-plan-20221005-htlf6qnqzjbbdmv7bs4xygjhby-story.html |
mParticle Customer Data Platform will empower Sweaty Betty to accelerate their marketing programs and deliver great customer experiences.
NEW YORK, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- mParticle, a real-time customer decisioning engine, announced today that Sweaty Betty, the global premium women's activewear brand, has chosen to partner with mParticle as their customer data foundation.
Sweaty Betty has grown considerably over the past few years with 90% of their revenue being generated from their Digital and Retail channels. To drive sustainable growth, improve customer loyalty, and further support international expansion, the team recognized the need to be able to respond to customer insight by continuing to invest in their customer data architecture.
Sweaty Betty partnered with mParticle to establish a first-party data foundation, empowering its marketing teams with the infrastructure they need to deliver sophisticated cross-channel customer journeys and support regulatory compliance without data engineering support.
"As we looked to continue Sweaty Betty's growth and continue delivering a customer centric brand experience, we needed an advanced customer data infrastructure to support the increasing importance of first-party data," said Simon Pakenham-Walsh, Chief Technology Officer at Sweaty Betty. "mParticle makes it easy to equip our commercial teams with the robust data capabilities they need to deliver differentiated customer experiences."
As Sweaty Betty has grown there have been limitations and constraints with their customer technology and data. With mParticle in place, the team can access high-quality customer data in real time and act on insights quickly, helping to improve marketing efficiency and increase the relevancy of messaging across channels.
"For multi-channel retailers, it's incredibly important to establish a customer data infrastructure that makes it possible to get a complete understanding of the customer journey, both online and in-store," explains Rob Murphy, SVP of International at mParticle. "By partnering with mParticle, Sweaty Betty is able to turn their customer data into a business-critical growth engine, building a best-in-class foundation for the changing retail landscape."
To learn more, please visit https://www.mparticle.com.
About mParticle
mParticle is an AI-powered, real-time Customer Data Platform that powers the entire customer data stack by combining data quality and compliance protections with rich insights and predictions. Companies like NBCUniversal, JetBlue, and Venmo use mParticle to simplify their customer data infrastructure, maximize the value of their data, and accelerate growth at scale. mParticle has raised nearly $300M in funding. Founded in 2013, mParticle is headquartered in New York City with employees around the globe.
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Iconic American brand Firehouse Subs® opens first restaurant in Zurich, Switzerland and announces signing of a development agreement to launch in Mexico
ZUG, Switzerland, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Today, Firehouse Subs® opens its first restaurant in Switzerland and announces the signing of a development agreement to launch in Mexico later this year. These announcements mark the beginning of the brand's expansion plan globally, with the first opening outside North America.
Firehouse Subs was founded by two former firefighting brothers in Jacksonville, Florida in 1994. Firehouse Subs is all about hearty portions, premium ingredients, and delicious recipes, with a commitment to saving lives through raising funds to support local public safety organizations. To date, more than $80 million has been awarded to first responders and public safety organizations in the U.S. and Canada.
Through its growth journey globally, the brand will benefit from the scale and proven growth capabilities of Restaurant Brands International Inc. (RBI), parent company of Firehouse Subs, one of the largest quick service restaurant companies in the world, bringing global scale, new market entry expertise, and a digital strategy and infrastructure.
"Firehouse Subs is our newest brand, and we are excited about its global expansion potential. The entry into Switzerland and development agreement in Mexico are the first steps in our international expansion, and we are working to launch the brand in key growth countries across EMEA, APAC and Latin America," said David Shear, President International RBI. "Sandwiches represent one of the top food occasions for consumers across markets. With its truly differentiated product offering and strong brand heritage, we are confident that Firehouse Subs can achieve tremendous growth internationally."
The brand conducted research in several high priority markets to understand guests' profiles and provide local relevance. This will be reflected in the menu, image, and overall guest experience.
The first Firehouse Subs restaurant in Switzerland will be used as a showcase for future international developments as it unveils a reimagined guest centric approach featuring self-order kiosks, mobile ordering, a dedicated area for click & collect, table service and 62 comfortable seats where guests can enjoy the delicious subs the brand is known for.
Each hearty and flavorful sandwich is made to order, layered with cheeses and a variety of premium meats sliced in-house and steamed-to-perfection with Firehouse Subs' proprietary steaming process, which unlocks flavor and maintains moisture. Guests can look forward to their new favorites from the iconic Hook & LadderTM, to the Firehouse ItalianTM or the Firehouse Beef & Cheddar BrisketTM or try out the new cold sub Roast Beef & CheddarTM available only in Switzerland. The recipes have been perfected by Firehouse Subs' chefs.
Philanthropy is key to the brand. Firehouse Subs in Switzerland intends to demonstrate the brand's values by supporting public safety and first responder organizations by raising funds through its new foundation.
The brand is a strong and growing player within the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) sandwich category in the United States and has experienced significant growth in the last decade, boasting over 1,200 restaurants across the U.S. and Canada.
Today's announcement is a big step towards the expansion plan set for Firehouse Subs and the introduction of the iconic brand to more guests around the world to enjoy.
About Firehouse Subs
Firehouse Subs® is a restaurant chain with a passion for hearty and flavorful food, heartfelt service, and public safety. Founded in Jacksonville, Florida in 1994 by two former firefighting brothers. Firehouse Subs is a brand built on decades of fire, hot and hearty subs piled with high quality meats and cheeses and its commitment to saving lives through raising funds to support local public safety organizations. Firehouse Subs is a subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International Inc. ("RBI"), one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with over $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and approximately 30,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – BURGER KING®, TIM HORTONS®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®.
To learn more, visit http://www.firehousesubs.com and www.firehousesubs.ch and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements and information, which reflect management's current beliefs and expectations regarding future events, initiatives and operating performance and speak only as of the date hereof. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements about our expectations regarding the ability of the Firehouse Subs business to expand internationally and achieve tremendous growth as well as its ability to launch in Mexico later this year. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from RBI's expectations are detailed in filings of RBI with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada, such as its annual and quarterly reports and current reports on Form 8-K and include the following risks: risk related to our ability to successfully implement its domestic and international growth strategy and risks related to its international operations; risks related to our ability to compete domestically and internationally in an intensely competitive industry; global economic or other business conditions that may affect the desire or ability of our customers to purchase our products; our relationship with, and the success of, our franchisees and risks related to our fully franchised business model; and the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising programs and franchisee support of these programs. Other than as required under applicable laws, we do not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, subsequent events or circumstances, change in expectations or otherwise.
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NEW YORK (WPIX) — As we enter the respiratory virus season when kids’ sniffles and coughs turn into colds and the flu, the Food and Drug Administration is warning about a link between a popular cough medicine and a dramatic increase in child poisonings.
A study published by the FDA found a 158 percent rise in pediatric poisonings over an eight-year period involving the prescription drug Benzonatate, sold under the brand name Tessalon. Though the cough relief medicine is prescribed for children aged 10 or older, most cases of unintentional exposure involved children under the age of five.
Tessalon capsules look like candy, which the FDA believes is contributing to the uptick in accidental poisonings, primarily among 10 to 16-year-olds. Dr. Anthony Santella, an infectious disease specialist and professor of health administration policy at the University of New Haven, says he feels potential over-medication by parents could be another factor.
“There’s a fine line with how much further you go with a prescription medication,” he said. “A parent may decide to give a child one extra dose, hoping it would relieve the cough, but instead [it] may lead to poisoning and death.”
Dr. Santella notes that signs of possible poisoning can surface as soon as 15 minutes after ingestion. He says the symptoms in a severe case could include tremors, seizures, convulsions, slow heart rates and major changes in breathing.
Tessalon is considered a good alternative to addictive opioids and is becoming more and more common in medicine cabinets. The American Academy of Pediatrics says it is imperative not to give cough medicine to children with asthma, at any age, because the ingredients could cause severe side effects.
Doctors recommend home remedies for young children that are age-specific. Dr. Santella recommends clear liquids for children under age one.
“For children over one, add some honey and for children over age six add some cough drops to ease the tickle.”
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SMITHS FALLS, ON, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Canopy Growth Corporation ("Canopy Growth" or the "Company") (TSX: WEED) (NASDAQ: CGC) announced today that it has entered into privately negotiated exchange agreements (collectively, the "Exchange Agreements") with a limited number of holders (the "Noteholders"), including Constellation Brands, Inc. ("CBI") through its wholly-owned subsidiary Greenstar Canada Investment Limited Partnership ("GCILP"), of the Company's outstanding 4.25% unsecured convertible senior notes due 2023 (the "Notes"), to acquire approximately C$255.4 million (approximately USD$198 million) aggregate principal amount of the Notes from the Noteholders (the "Transaction") in exchange for common shares of the Company (the "Canopy Shares") and approximately C$3 million (USD$2.35 million) in cash for accrued and unpaid interest (the "Cash Payment").
GCILP, a subsidiary of CBI (together "Constellation"), is participating in the Transaction and will acquire a minimum of 21,929,914 Canopy Shares and up to 30,701,880 Canopy Shares pursuant to its Exchange Agreement.
In accordance with the terms of the Exchange Agreements, Canopy Growth has agreed to acquire the Notes from the Noteholders for an aggregate purchase price (excluding accrued and unpaid interest which will be paid in cash as part of the Cash Payment) of approximately C$252.8 million (approximately USD$196 million) (the "Purchase Price"), which will be payable in such number of Canopy Shares (the "Share Consideration") as is equal to the Purchase Price divided by the volume-weighted average trading price (the "VWAP") of the Canopy Shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (the "Nasdaq") for the 10 consecutive trading days beginning on, and including, June 30, 2022 (the "Averaging Price" and such period of time being the "Averaging Period"), subject to a floor price of US$2.50 (the "Floor Price") and a maximum price equal to US$3.50, which is the closing price of the Canopy Shares on the Nasdaq on June 29, 2022 (the "Market Price").
The Share Consideration, for Noteholders other than GCILP, will be satisfied by the issuance of Canopy Shares in up to two tranches as follows: (a) on the initial closing of the Transaction, anticipated to be June 30, 2022, 34,073,160 Canopy Shares (the "Initial Closing Shares") will be issued to the Noteholders; and (b) in the event that the Averaging Price calculated over the Averaging Period is less than the Market Price, on or about July 18, 2022 (the "Final Closing"), up to such number of Canopy Shares as is equal to the excess of the Purchase Price divided by the Averaging Price over the Initial Closing Shares. The Share Consideration for GCILP will be issued solely on the Final Closing based on the Averaging Price.
In the event that the daily VWAP of the Canopy Shares on the Nasdaq during the Averaging Period (a) exceeds the Market Price, then the daily VWAP for such trading day will instead be deemed to be the Market Price; or (b) is less than the Floor Price, then the daily VWAP for such trading day will instead be deemed to be the Floor Price, such that in no circumstances will more than 78,404,305 Canopy Shares be issuable pursuant to the Transaction.
The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture dated June 20, 2018, among the Company, GLAS Trust Company LLC ("GLAS Trust"), as U.S. trustee, and Computershare Trust Company of Canada, as Canadian trustee, as supplemented by supplement no. 1 to the indenture dated April 30, 2019 and supplement no. 2 to the indenture dated June 29, 2022 (collectively, the "Indenture"). As a result of supplement no. 2 to the Indenture dated June 29, 2022 between the Company, Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (as replacement U.S. trustee following GLAS Trust's resignation) and Computershare Trust Company of Canada (the "Second Supplemental Indenture"), the Company irrevocably surrendered its right to settle the conversion of any Note by Physical Settlement or Combination Settlement (as each such term is defined in the Indenture). As a result, the conversion of any Note on or after the date hereof will be settled by Cash Settlement (as such term is defined in the Indenture) and in no event will any Canopy Shares be issuable upon conversion of any Note. A copy of the Second Supplemental Indenture will be available on the Company's SEDAR profile page at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
GCILP currently holds C$200 million aggregate principal amount of Notes. Pursuant to the Transaction, the Company will acquire C$100 million (approximately USD$77.5 million) aggregate principal amount of the Notes held by GCILP. GCILP will be issued a number of Canopy Shares based on the VWAP during the Averaging Period, provided that GCILP will receive a minimum of 21,929,914 Canopy Shares (based on the Floor Price) and a maximum of 30,701,880 (based on the Market Price), representing between 5.4% and 7.6% of the issued and outstanding Canopy Shares on a non-diluted basis.
Constellation, though GCILP and CBG Holdings LLC, currently holds 142,253,802 Canopy Shares, representing 35.3% of the issued and outstanding Canopy Shares on a non-diluted basis. GCILP's participation in the Transaction (the "Insider Participation") will be considered to be a "related party transaction" within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). Pursuant to Section 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101, the Company is exempt from obtaining a formal valuation and minority approval of the Company's shareholders with respect to the Insider Participation as the fair market value of the Transaction is below 25% of the Company's market capitalization as determined in accordance with MI 61-101. In addition, the Transaction was approved by the board of directors of the Company with Ms. Judy A. Schmeling, a director of CBI, Mr. Garth Hankinson, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of CBI, Mr. Robert Hanson, Executive Vice President and President – Wine & Spirits Division of CBI and James Sabia, Executive Vice President and President - Beer Division of CBI, each having disclosed their interest in the Transaction by virtue of their positions with CBI and abstaining from voting thereon.
The Transactions are being conducted as private placements, and any Canopy Shares to be issued in the Transaction will be issued pursuant to the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act in transactions not involving any public offering. This press release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities described above, nor will there be any offer, solicitation or sale of any securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED, NASDAQ:CGC) is a world-leading diversified cannabis and cannabinoid-based consumer product company, driven by a passion to improve lives, end prohibition, and strengthen communities by unleashing the full potential of cannabis. Leveraging consumer insights and innovation, Canopy Growth offers product varieties in high-quality dried flower, oil, softgel capsule, infused beverage, edible, and topical formats, as well as vaporizer devices by Canopy Growth and industry-leader Storz & Bickel. Canopy Growth's global medical brand, Spectrum Therapeutics, sells a range of full-spectrum products using its colour-coded classification system and is a market leader in both Canada and Germany. Through Canopy Growth's award-winning Tweed and Tokyo Smoke banners, Canopy Growth reaches its adult-use consumers and has built a loyal following by focusing on top quality products and meaningful customer relationships. Canopy Growth has entered into the health and wellness consumer space in key markets including Canada, the United States, and Europe through BioSteel sports nutrition, and This Works skin and sleep solutions; and has introduced additional hemp derived CBD products to the United States through its First & Free and Martha Stewart CBD brands. Canopy Growth has an established partnership with Fortune 500 alcohol leader Constellation Brands.
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 applicable Canadian securities legislation. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "estimates", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company or its subsidiaries to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release. Examples of such statements and uncertainties include statements with respect to the benefits of the debt repurchase, the anticipated date of issuance of the Initial Closing Shares, the anticipated date of the issuance of any additional Canopy Shares following the Averaging Period and expectations for other economic, business, and/or competitive factors.
Risks, uncertainties and other factors involved with forward-looking information could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including inherent uncertainty associated with projections; the diversion of management time on Transaction-related issues; expectations regarding future investment, growth and expansion of operations; regulatory and licensing risks; changes in general economic, business and political conditions, including changes in the financial and stock markets and the impacts of increased rates of inflation; legal and regulatory risks inherent in the cannabis industry, including the global regulatory landscape and enforcement related to cannabis, political risks and risks relating to regulatory change; risks relating to anti-money laundering laws; compliance with extensive government regulation and the interpretation of various laws regulations and policies; public opinion and perception of the cannabis industry; and such other risks contained in the public filings of the Company filed with Canadian securities regulators and available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission through EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar, including the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2022.
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On Tuesday, the White House celebrated the passage of the the Inflation Reduction Act, a sweeping climate, tax and health care package passed in August. Among other measures, it grants Medicare historic new powers to control prescription drug prices.
Democratic leaders like U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., celebrated what they see as one of the law's historic achievements. "For years, the naysayers said we could never take on the big drug companies and lower prescription drug costs but we did, and we won," Schumer said.
But for the people faced with putting this law into practice, the work is just beginning. Now, federal government employees and pharmaceutical companies begin a new round in the fight over how much the massive Medicare program pays for prescription drugs.
This round is shaping up to be a bureaucratic brawl over the new law's fine print, its loopholes and its legality. Here's what's at stake and what stands in the way of Medicare benefiting from the new measures.
Medicare's new powers to cut and cap prescription drug prices
Two of the biggest battlegrounds will be a pair of new powers that lawmakers gave Medicare, the federal insurance program that covers 64 million seniors and people with disabilities. Medicare's roughly $180 billion annual drug budget accounts for more than a third of the country's total drug spending.
One of the new powers lets the federal government negotiate deep discounts directly with drugmakers for some of the drugs that cost Medicare the most. This provision is unprecedented — and one that the pharmaceutical industry fought for decades.
To be eligible for negotiation, drugs must be among the 100 products costing Medicare the most money, have been on the market at least several years, lack generic competition, and be unaffected by several other exemptions in the law.
Despite those caveats, Medicare can still target some of the industry's biggest moneymakers, like Eliquis and Xarelto, a pair of blood thinning medications that Medicare spent $10 billion on in 2020 and Januvia, a diabetes drug that racked up nearly $4 billion in Medicare sales that same year.
Medicare will announce its first 10 targets next September and the prices negotiated for those drugs will take effect in 2026. The law allows Medicare to target additional drugs each year thereafter, adding up to as many as 60 by the end of this decade.
The other new power lawmakers gave Medicare is known as the inflation rebate. It does have precedent. Medicaid, which covers 82 million low-income Americans, has used its inflation rebate power for 30 years. It allows Medicaid to claw back any price increases that exceed the rate of inflation, and has significantly lowered Medicaid's spending.
This provision, which applies to most drugs, now allows Medicare to do the same. It takes full effect in 2023, with Medicare planning to collect rebate payments for some drugs as soon as April.
Drugmakers often hike product prices in January, so executives will be facing some important pricing decisions very soon, said Sean Dickson, health policy director for the West Health Policy Center, a nonpartisan organization focused on lowering health care costs.
Numbers released last week by the Congressional Budget Office estimate that together this pair of provisions would save Medicare about $170 billion over the next decade. But those savings are far from guaranteed.
More lobbying and lawsuits likely
Although the Inflation Reduction Act is now law, many of its crucial details still need to be filled out. That process, known as rulemaking and guidance, is where experts expect the pharmaceutical industry to shift its lobbying effort.
Many seemingly technical details could have major implications on this law's impact. For example, the text of the Act does not clearly outline how a negotiated price will be calculated if bargaining between a drugmaker and Medicare ends in a stalemate.
Mark Newsom, a policy consultant who worked at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for several years, including in 2004 when Medicare underwent major reforms, expects the drug industry to apply heavy political and legal pressure on this rulemaking process.
Numerous experts say they expect to see lawsuits challenging provisions of the law. One legal target could be a massive tax penalty for companies who refuse to cut Medicare a deal.
"They're going to go to the Hill and ask for legislative change, or they're going to go to the courts and they're going to litigate," Newsom said.
Taking advantage of the law's vulnerabilities
At the same time, the drug industry is also laying plans for a world in which Medicare's new powers do survive. "They are absolutely preparing for implementation," said Alice Valder Curran, who advises drug companies on pricing strategy at the law firm Hogan Lovells.
There's plenty of evidence from Medicaid's 30 years of implementing inflation rebates showing how drugmakers work around the system.
"There's a long track record of manufacturers taking creative strategies to avoid paying these rebates," said Dickson of West Health Policy Center who previously advised drugmakers on compliance with government pricing rules.
Occasionally, companies blatantly break the rules, as evidenced in a recent $233 million settlement between the Department of Justice and drugmaker Mallinckrodt. Far more often, though, said Dickson, companies take advantage of the rules, exploiting vague definitions, flawed formulas and other loopholes in the rebate law.
One area ripe for gaming is the formula known as average manufacturer price that Medicaid uses to determine whether companies owe money for hiking prices faster than inflation. The law gives companies ample discretion in how they calculate that average, and firms have used that discretion to include or exclude certain sales to avoid triggering rebate payments. Just one loophole in that formula, which Congress closed in 2019, had cost Medicaid at least $595 million per year in lost rebates, according to a report by the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The Inflation Reduction Act essentially duplicates the language of Medicaid's inflation rebate law, making Medicare now vulnerable to the same loopholes. And drugmakers have much more incentive to exploit them, said Dickson. Companies make three times the revenue from Medicare than they make from Medicaid.
"It's a constant effort to keep churning through and finding where those vulnerabilities lie," said Amber Jessup, the chief health care economist at the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, which monitors federal health programs for fraud, waste and abuse. Jessup added that it is too soon to know whether similar vulnerabilities might lie within the negotiation provision of this new law.
She said that her team of auditors, analysts, evaluators and lawyers feel the weight of this new challenge. "There are a lot of health care dollars at stake."
Preparing for the unprecedented
Whatever conflicts lie ahead, the Inflation Reduction Act will usher in sweeping change in how Medicare pays for prescription drugs. "It transcends any of the other pricing reforms I've ever seen, because it is so expansive," said industry advisor Alice Valder Curran.
That expansiveness has made the law's longer term implications difficult to ascertain, especially for large pharmaceutical companies with hundreds of products on the market, each priced and paid for in different ways. "We're really still in the discovery phase," Curran said.
Other industry experts expect companies to consider a variety of responses to the law to make up for losses in their bottom line, including charging private insurers more or hiking the launch prices of future drugs — an area not regulated by this law.
About the only thing certain this early in the implementation of the new law is that drugmakers and the government officials who regulate them are both hurtling toward a new frontier. The race to map it, navigate it and thrive in it has just begun.
This story was produced by Tradeoffs, a podcast exploring our confusing, costly and often counterintuitive health care system.
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Frozen Chicken Rings in Two Flavors Highlight Debut Line in Summer 2022
MINNEAPOLIS and COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- White Castle®, America's first fast-food hamburger chain and the retail leader in frozen Sliders, and Bellisio Foods, one of the nation's largest, most trusted frozen food companies, have announced a partnership to bring White Castle's popular Chicken Rings to retail outlets across the U.S.
White Castle Chicken Rings are the new, delicious addition to the freezer aisle for Craver Nation, debuting in two flavors, Original and Spicy, in summer 2022. Made with tender, juicy white meat chicken and lightly breaded to perfection in a fun ring shape, White Castle Chicken Rings deliver bold, crispy taste. Packaged in a stand-up, resealable pouch, they're ready to satisfy every crave anytime.
"We are thrilled to support the expansion of the White Castle retail portfolio," said Steve Young, CEO of Bellisio Foods, Inc. "With consumers turning to the frozen aisle for new innovation, and snacking at home doubling over the past two years, this is the perfect time to fulfill consumer needs for more delicious options."
"This partnership accelerates offering one of our most craveable restaurant menu items to retailers nationwide," said Lynn Blashford, CMO, White Castle, "We are excited to give shoppers the ability to discover a high quality, fun to eat product that runs rings around the competition."
White Castle, famous for its craveable portfolio of sliders and sides, celebrates its 35th birthday in retail this year. The company was the first fast-food chain to introduce its retail division in 1987, and today is a category leader in frozen Sliders, available in retailers large and small, in all 50 states. White Castle Chicken Rings, the latest in White Castle's retail innovations, are also expected to be available nationwide.
White Castle and Bellisio Foods are exploring other grocery portfolio expansion opportunities and hope to announce more soon.
More information about White Castle's retail offerings can be found at whitecastle.com/grocery.
Bellisio Foods, Inc. is one of the nation's largest and fastest growing frozen food companies with a rich 30-year history of providing quality, innovative food tailored to consumer tastes and lifestyles. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Bellisio Foods produces more than 400 products spanning a wide variety of frozen food categories, including single and multi-serve entrees, snacks and side dishes. Bellisio markets these products under its Michelina's, Authentic Asia and Eat! Brands, as well as under licensed brands Boston Market, Atkins and Quest. The company also co-manufactures private label, retail and foodservice products. Bellisio Foods, Inc. is a subsidiary of Charoen Pokphand Foods, based in Bangkok, Thailand. For more information, visit bellisiofoods.com.
White Castle, America's first fast-food hamburger chain, has been making hot and tasty Sliders as a family-owned business for 101 years. Based in Columbus, Ohio, White Castle started serving The Original Slider® in 1921. Today White Castle owns and operates more than 350 restaurants dedicated to satisfying customers' cravings morning, noon and night. Through its retail division, which launched in 1987, White Castle also offers its famous fare in freezer aisles of grocery, convenience and club stores nationwide. The Original Slider, named in 2014 as Time magazine's "Most Influential Burger of All Time," is served alongside a menu of creatively crafted Sliders and other mouthwatering food options. White Castle's commitment to maintaining the highest quality products extends to the company owning and operating its own meat processing plants, bakeries and frozen-food processing plants. In 2021, 100 years after the first Slider was sold, Fast Company named the fast-food pioneer one of the "10 Most Innovative Dining Companies."
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DUBLIN (AP) — DUBLIN (AP) — Steris Corp. (STE) on Wednesday reported profit of $123.8 million in its fiscal third quarter.
The Dublin-based company said it had net income of $1.24 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $2.02 per share.
The medical products maker posted revenue of $1.22 billion in the period.
Steris expects full-year earnings in the range of $8 to $8.10 per share.
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4 takeaways from President Biden’s ‘very blunt’ meeting with China’s Xi Jinping
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — A highly anticipated meeting between China’s leader Xi Jinping and President Biden finished Monday with both leaders expressing an openness to restoring channels of communication and repairing a relationship that has been compared to a second Cold War.
The leaders of two superpowers met face-to-face and unmasked on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Monday evening. In a substantial meeting, they touched on the war in Ukraine, military tension in the Taiwan Strait and North Korean missile tests.
Biden said he and Xi were “very blunt with one another.” Xi, according to his spokesperson, viewed the meeting as “in-depth, candid and constructive.”
Here’s what you need to know about their three-hour discussion.
A “baby step” — but a step in the right direction
Biden and Xi both said in their opening remarks that they were looking for ways to coexist despite their disagreements. The two spent lots of time together when they were both vice presidents more than a decade ago — and both men referenced their lengthy relationship in warm greetings before the talks began.
“Do I believe he’s willing to compromise on certain issues? Yes,” Biden told reporters afterward about his meeting with Xi. “We were very blunt with one another about places where we disagreed.”
Today’s meeting was the first face-to-face exchange between the two since Biden became president. It took place after both leaders had just strengthened their respective political positions at home, analysts say.
Yu Jie, a senior research fellow on China at the London-based think tank Chatham House, says that given Biden’s “reasonable success” in the midterms, he is in a stronger position to steer Washington’s relationship with Beijing.
And for Xi, Yu says his further consolidation of power in the Chinese system may leave him more space for conducting diplomacy. “Xi is keen to resume a routinized mechanism and dialogue to steady the bilateral ties with Biden,” she says.
U.S. officials share this relative optimism. “The fact of a leaders’ meeting coming together has created space in the Chinese system, for reopening what we believe to just be simply ongoing work between our side to get things done,” a senior administration official told reporters before the meeting.
In what analysts called a “breakthrough,” Beijing and Washington said they would resume climate talks that had been frozen following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own. The White House said the leaders “agreed to empower key senior officials to maintain communication and deepen constructive efforts.”
However, Yu warns that Monday’s meeting is just “a baby step” towards improving relations: “It will not resolve any substantial grievances both sides have had against each other, but only slowing down the deterioration of their relations.”
The State Department said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken will also visit China in person sometime early next year to follow up on the Xi-Biden meeting.
Taiwan, technology and human rights remain areas of intense disagreement
During their meeting, Biden and Xi did not resolve the key issues that have driven competition and disagreement between the U.S. and China.
Last month, the U.S. imposed dramatic export bans on certain advanced semiconductor technology — trade sanctions explicitly designed to hobble critical technology sectors like military modernization and artificial intelligence that are important to China.
Meanwhile, according to the U.S. readout, Biden “raised concerns about PRC practices in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, and human rights more broadly.” China has long insisted these issues are of “internal affairs” and has warned against “external interference.”
“The world is big enough for the two countries to develop themselves and prosper together,” tweeted Hua Chunying, a foreign ministry spokesperson who accompanied Xi in his meeting with Biden.
On Taiwan, despite intense media speculation over Beijing’s intention, Biden said he did “not think there’s any imminent attempt on the part of China to invade Taiwan.”
But the president objected to Beijing’s “coercive and increasingly aggressive” Chinese actions in the waters around Taiwan, according to the White House readout, adding such behaviors “undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and in the broader region, and jeopardize global prosperity.”
China regards the “Taiwan question” an internal matter. It is “at the very core of China’s core interests, the bedrock of the political foundation of China-U.S. relations, and the first red line that must not be crossed in China-U.S. relations,” wrote Hua, the spokesperson, on Twitter after the meeting ended.
Both Chinese and American militaries have recently been beefing up their capabilities in case of a conflict over Taiwan. For Washington, this is also a part of the broader paradigm shift in its strategy in the Indo-Pacific region. After decades of concentrating its fighting power in the Middle East, the U.S. is now shifting its focus to Asia.
China is watching closely, too. Xi recently appointed a new slate of top military leaders from China’s Eastern Theater Command, which encompasses Taiwan, indicating that going forward, the island is a priority for China’s fighting forces. Last week, he urged his military to “focus all its energy on fighting.”
Ukraine and North Korea were elephants in the room
The U.S. has pushed China to take a clearer stand against Russia’s war in Ukraine, which China has tried to remain neutral on despite signing a partnership with Moscow in February.
Some analysts say China appeared to be blindsided when Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Beijing has called repeatedly for a peaceful, negotiated end to the war.
During their meeting, Xi and Biden agreed “that a nuclear war should never be fought and can never be won and underscored their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” according to the White House statement. The Chinese readout included no mention of nuclear weapons.
The two leaders also spoke about North Korea — a longstanding regional security issue. Biden warned if Beijing is unable to rein in Pyongyang’s weapons ambitions, the U.S. would beef up its presence in the region — a move that will be read by Beijing as a threat to its own security.
U.S. domestic politics also plays a role
Last year, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi put out three core demands — “bottom lines” — that China wanted the U.S. to agree to in order for relations to improve: to not get in the way in the country’s development, to respect China’s claims over places like Taiwan and to respect Beijing’s Communist Party rule.
From Beijing’s perspective, the U.S. has since done the opposite on all counts. It has imposed the semiconductor export bans and sanctioned some of China’s leading technology firms — moves Beijing decried.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has upped ties with Taiwan, with lawmakers including Pelosi visiting the island since August. Congress is considering drawing on the U.S. weapons stockpile to arm the island at American expense. Biden stressed in the press conference after meeting Xi that U.S. policy on Taiwan remains unchanged.
And while Biden came in to the G20 with a stronger position due to the narrow Democratic victory in the battle to control the Senate, he is up for reelection in two years himself.
Many in China now worry that should Republicans win the presidency in 2024, the U.S. will take an even more starkly hostile position against it.
Aowen Cao contributed research from Beijing. | https://whyy.org/npr_story_post/biden-xi-meeting/ | 2022-11-14 23:33:15 | 1 | https://whyy.org/npr_story_post/biden-xi-meeting/ |
Leaders of the Catholic community in Central Florida and statewide mourned the death of former Pope Benedict XVI, who passed away New Year’s Eve.
Born Joseph Ratzinger, he was elected as leader of the Catholic Church in 2005 and served until he resigned in 2013, the first pope to do so in 600 years, citing old age. He was also the oldest pope elected in 275 years and the first German to serve that post in nearly a millennium.
He was 95 when he passed after reports this week of his failing health.
In Central Florida, Bishop John Noonan of the Diocese of Orlando released a statement mourning the former pope, calling him “a man with the eyes of faith in our triune God.” Noonan was appointed by Benedict as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Miami in June 2005.
“I was privileged to be one of the first bishops to be named by him in the USA,” the statement read. “For this I am eternally grateful to God and him for naming me an apostle of the Church. In my meeting with him, he was always gracious and interested in the Church in Florida.”
A Mass in honor of Benedict was held Saturday in Orlando at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe, and livestreamed on social media.
“The Lord has seen fit to say, ‘Come to me, you are burdened. Come, and I will give you rest.’ And he will find that rest in the arms of Jesus,” said the Rev. Anthony Aarons, rector of the Diocese of Orlando.
During his stint as pope, Benedict focused on addressing what he called in 2005 “a strange forgetfulness of God.” A studied theologian, he continued his writings while leading the Church through a child sex abuse scandal that was largely ignored under Pope John Paul II.
However, a January report commissioned by the Catholic Church found Benedict failed to act in at least four child sex abuse cases when he was archbishop of Munich. He later apologized after initially denying the allegations.
“I have had great responsibilities in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses and the errors that occurred in those different places during the time of my mandate,” he said in a statement in February
Several world leaders also responded to Benedict’s death after news broke. Pope Francis described his predecessor as a “noble person, so kind.” He is slated to preside over Benedict’s funeral Mass on Jan. 5 at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City.
“Only God knows the value and the power of [Benedict’s] intercession, of the sacrifices he offered for the good of the Church,” Francis said.
Others, like President Joe Biden, who is the second Catholic U.S. president in the country’s history, joined millions in mourning who he said was a devoted Catholic “guided by his principles and faith.” | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orange-county/os-ne-pope-benedict-death-central-florida-mourning-20221231-pq744oxwuzg47ovvmifjirdwzi-story.html | 2023-01-01 00:01:45 | 1 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orange-county/os-ne-pope-benedict-death-central-florida-mourning-20221231-pq744oxwuzg47ovvmifjirdwzi-story.html |
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By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89.
Her son Kyle Johnson said Nichols died Saturday in Silver City, New Mexico.
“Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away. Her light however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration,” Johnson wrote on her official Facebook page Sunday. “Hers was a life well lived and as such a model for us all.”
Her role in the 1966-69 series as Lt. Uhura earned Nichols a lifelong position of honor with the series’ rabid fans, known as Trekkers and Trekkies. It also earned her accolades for breaking stereotypes that had limited Black women to acting roles as servants and included an interracial onscreen kiss with co-star William Shatner that was unheard of at the time.
“I shall have more to say about the trailblazing, incomparable Nichelle Nichols, who shared the bridge with us as Lt. Uhura of the USS Enterprise, and who passed today at age 89,” George Takei wrote on Twitter. “For today, my heart is heavy, my eyes shining like the stars you now rest among, my dearest friend.”
Takei played Sulu in the original “Star Trek” series alongside Nichols. But her impact was felt beyond her immediate co-stars, and many others in the “Star Trek” world also tweeted their condolences.
Celia Rose Gooding, who currently plays Uhura in “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” wrote on Twitter that Nichols “made room for so many of us. She was the reminder that not only can we reach the stars, but our influence is essential to their survival. Forget shaking the table, she built it.”
“Star Trek: Voyager” alum Kate Mulgrew tweeted, “Nichelle Nichols was The First. She was a trailblazer who navigated a very challenging trail with grit, grace, and a gorgeous fire we are not likely to see again.”
Like other original cast members, Nichols also appeared in six big-screen spinoffs starting in 1979 with “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and frequented “Star Trek” fan conventions. She also served for many years as a NASA recruiter, helping bring minorities and women into the astronaut corps.
More recently, she had a recurring role on television’s “Heroes,” playing the great-aunt of a young boy with mystical powers.
The original “Star Trek” premiered on NBC on Sept. 8, 1966. Its multicultural, multiracial cast was creator Gene Roddenberry’s message to viewers that in the far-off future — the 23rd century — human diversity would be fully accepted.
“I think many people took it into their hearts … that what was being said on TV at that time was a reason to celebrate,” Nichols said in 1992 when a “Star Trek” exhibit was on view at the Smithsonian Institution.
She often recalled how Martin Luther King Jr. was a fan of the show and praised her role. She met him at a civil rights gathering in 1967, at a time when she had decided not to return for the show’s second season.
“When I told him I was going to miss my co-stars and I was leaving the show, he became very serious and said, ‘You cannot do that,’” she told The Tulsa (Okla.) World in a 2008 interview.
“’You’ve changed the face of television forever, and therefore, you’ve changed the minds of people,’” she said the civil rights leader told her.
“That foresight Dr. King had was a lightning bolt in my life,” Nichols said.
During the show’s third season, Nichols’ character and Shatner’s Capt. James Kirk shared what was described as the first interracial kiss to be broadcast on a U.S. television series. In the episode, “Plato’s Stepchildren,” their characters, who always maintained a platonic relationship, were forced into the kiss by aliens who were controlling their actions.
The kiss “suggested that there was a future where these issues were not such a big deal,” Eric Deggans, a television critic for National Public Radio, told The Associated Press in 2018. “The characters themselves were not freaking out because a Black woman was kissing a white man … In this utopian-like future, we solved this issue. We’re beyond it. That was a wonderful message to send.”
Worried about reaction from Southern television stations, showrunners wanted to film a second take of the scene where the kiss happened off-screen. But Nichols said in her book, “Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories,” that she and Shatner deliberately flubbed lines to force the original take to be used.
Despite concerns, the episode aired without blowback. In fact, it got the most “fan mail that Paramount had ever gotten on ‘Star Trek’ for one episode,” Nichols said in a 2010 interview with the Archive of American Television.
Shatner tweeted Sunday: “I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Nichelle. She was a beautiful woman & played an admirable character that did so much for redefining social issues both here in the US & throughout the world.”
Born Grace Dell Nichols in Robbins, Illinois, Nichols hated being called “Gracie,” which everyone insisted on, she said in the 2010 interview. When she was a teen her mother told her she had wanted to name her Michelle, but thought she ought to have alliterative initials like Marilyn Monroe, whom Nichols loved. Hence, “Nichelle.”
Nichols first worked professionally as a singer and dancer in Chicago at age 14, moving on to New York nightclubs and working for a time with the Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton bands before coming to Hollywood for her film debut in 1959’s “Porgy and Bess,” the first of several small film and TV roles that led up to her “Star Trek” stardom.
Nichols was known as being unafraid to stand up to Shatner on the set when others complained that he was stealing scenes and camera time. They later learned she had a strong supporter in the show’s creator.
In her 1994 book, “Beyond Uhura,” she said she met Roddenberry when she guest starred on his show “The Lieutenant,” and the two had an affair a couple of years before “Star Trek” began. The two remained lifelong close friends.
Another fan of Nichols and the show was future astronaut Mae Jemison, who became the first black woman in space when she flew aboard the shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
In an AP interview before her flight, Jemison said she watched Nichols on “Star Trek” all the time, adding she loved the show. Jemison eventually got to meet Nichols.
Nichols was a regular at “Star Trek” conventions and events into her 80s, but her schedule became limited starting in 2018 when her son announced that she was suffering from advanced dementia.
Nichols was placed under a court conservatorship in the control of her son Johnson, who said her mental decline made her unable to manage her affairs or make public appearances.
Some, including Nichols’ managers and her friend, film producer and actor Angelique Fawcett, objected to the conservatorship and sought more access to Nichols and to records of Johnson’s financial and other moves on her behalf. Her name was at times invoked at courthouse rallies that sought the freeing of Britney Spears from her own conservatorship.
But the court consistently sided with Johnson, and over the objections of Fawcett allowed him to move Nichols to New Mexico, where she lived with him in her final years.
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Associated Press Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton contributed from Los Angeles. Former AP Writer Polly Anderson contributed biographical material to this report.
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Which console table is best?
Console tables are essentially shelves with legs and are great places to put things as well as break up elongated spaces. They are used as places to display photos and collectibles and store items you need quick access to, such as your keys, phone and wallet.
Console tables are great for putting in hallways and entryways because they’re usually long with narrow table tops. Anywhere you have a few feet of open wall is a good spot for a console table. But there are a few things to consider before choosing the best one for your needs.
What to know before you buy a console table
Design
Console tables come in a range of styles. Here are a few popular options:
- Traditional tables are one of the most popular decorating styles and often incorporate elements of more than one architectural school of thought. Some features of traditional furniture are dark wood, ball and claw feet, and ornamentation.
- Modern consoles fit nicely into sleek, minimalist surroundings. Modern decor is clean, simple, and designed as a counterpoint to ornate and florid designs. Modern console tables have clean, straight lines and smooth surfaces.
- Contemporary is often confused with modern but is more of a concept than a movement. Contemporary furniture features the most up-to-date looks and is where you will find trendy designs and materials. Art Deco is one example of contemporary design.
- Rustic console tables are great choices for a farm or country house look. They may be wood, wrought iron or a combination of the two, but they always have natural textures, simple patterns and neutral colors.
Materials
Once you’ve chosen a design, you’ll want to consider which material would look best with your decor:
- Wood is the most common console material, just as it is with most tables. Wood comes in enough choices of stains, tones and colors that you will find it easy to coordinate a wood console table with most decors. Budget console tables are made of engineered wood, and natural wood is found on more expensive products.
- Metal tables can be steel, iron or aluminum and come with a choice of finishes from shiny to dull. Metal is the most durable of console table materials and forms the framework for many tables with wood and glass tops.
- Glass consoles and mirrored tables reflect what you place on them. Glass and metal tables are the sleekest surfaces of all.
- Stone tables are made of granite, marble and other durable materials and are nearly as durable as metal.
- Plastic console tables are lightweight, durable and the least expensive.
- Concrete is used in outdoor console tables because of its ability to stand up to harsh weather.
Storage
The classic console table has a single narrow shelf supported by four narrow legs. Everything placed on the tabletop is out in the open and within easy reach. Some of today’s console tables incorporate storage underneath the tabletop.
- Additional shelving: Many console tables have two, three and even four shelves.
- Cabinetry: Some console tables have hinged doors underneath the tabletop to store things out of sight. If your table is in your dining area, the cabinet underneath may be where you store placemats, napkins, candles and the like.
Best console tables
Console tables under $100
Alloswell Narrow Entryway Console Table
Black alloy steel and dark brown engineered wood combine for a rustic, retro, industrial look. This table measures 47 inches long and 8 inches deep and supports up to 44 pounds.
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Linsy Home 4-Tier Console Table
The artfully designed black iron frame holds four waterproof engineered wood shelves at four different heights. The feet adjust to protect your floor and prevent wobbling.
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Console tables from $100-$200
Superjare 71-inch Console Table with 2 Outlets and 2 USB Ports
You’ve got a place to keep your phones and tablets now with two AC power outlets and two USB ports. The sturdy walnut particleboard is heat-resistant and easy to clean.
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ChooChoo Oxford Console Table with 2 Drawers
You get two large drawers with retro knobs and a second shelf underneath for additional storage. It’s made of natural rubber wood, pine and manufactured wood covered in white environmentally safe water-based paint. It’s also available in other colors, such as espresso.
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Convenience Concepts Oxford One-Drawer Console Table
The single drawer runs the full length of the 39.25-inch tabletop. This table is made from melamine and particle board and comes in 12 colors and finishes.
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Safavieh Home Albus Mid-Century 3-Drawer Console
This mid-century modern table measures 41-inches wide and 14-inches deep and weighs 34 pounds. Constructed of pine, the deep black color and canted legs make a striking statement.
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Console tables over $200
P Purlove Console Table with Drawers and Bottom Shelf
With a frame and legs made of solid wood, this table can hold as much as 220 pounds. The table is 64 inches wide, has four drawers and assembles in minutes with hardware and tools included.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 51-year-old Kansas man was arrested Sunday morning in connection with two fatal overnight shootings in Lawrence after fleeing police and firing on officers during the chase.
Lawrence Police spokeswoman Laura McCabe said in a news release the two shootings were reported early Sunday morning just a few blocks apart in the city that is home to the University of Kansas.
The first shooting was reported around 1 a.m. Sunday, and officers found a critically injured 53-year-old man. He died later at a Kansas City hospital. The second shooting was reported a few blocks away a short time later, and officers found a dead 43-year-old man.
Over the next several hours investigators identified a suspect, but when officers found him around 6 a.m. he refused to pull over and instead fled police.
The suspect led police on a chase across Lawrence before getting on Kansas Highway 10 and heading toward Kansas City. McCabe said the suspect fired at officers several times as he drove down the highway before hitting stop sticks that an officer from Eudora put out and stopping.
After the chase ended, police arrested Rodney Ericson Marshall of Lawrence on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder.
McCabe said investigators believe Marshall acted alone, but she didn’t say what led to the shootings.
The victims' names were not immediately released Sunday. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Kansas-man-arrested-after-2-fatal-shootings-17341693.php | 2022-07-31 23:01:20 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Kansas-man-arrested-after-2-fatal-shootings-17341693.php |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Lotto Plus" game were:
02-03-06-11-22-26
(two, three, six, eleven, twenty-two, twenty-six)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Lotto Plus" game were:
02-03-06-11-22-26
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
5-6-0-2
(five, six, zero, two)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Evening" game were:
5-6-0-2
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 23, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
534 AM EST Mon Jan 23 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Heavy snow. Additional snow accumulations of 1 to 3
inches for a storm total of 6 to 8 inches with locally higher
amounts possible.
* WHERE...Southern Herkimer, Southern Fulton, Northern Fulton
and Southeast Warren Counties.
* WHEN...Until 1 PM EST this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions will impact the morning commute.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snowfall rates between a half inch and
one inch per hour are possible this morning.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Wet snow expected. Additional snow accumulations of 1
to 3 inches for a storm total of 3 to 5 inches.
* WHERE...Hamilton, southern Herkimer, Fulton, Warren, northern
Washington, Columbia, western Ulster and eastern Greene
Counties.
* WHEN...Until 1 PM EST Monday.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS
* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations of up to one inch for
a storm total of 3 to 5 inches.
* WHERE...Northern Herkimer County.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snowfall rates of up to a half inch per
hour are possible this morning.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS
* WHAT...Heavy snow. Additional snow accumulations of 3 to 5
inches for a storm total of 4 to 8 inches with locally higher
* WHERE...The Greater Capital Region and Saratoga region,
Montgomery County, the central Taconics, and southeast
Catskills.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS
* WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation. Additional snow
accumulations of 4 to 6 inches for a storm total of 6 to 10
inches with locally higher amounts possible.
* WHERE...In Massachusetts, Northern Berkshire County. In
Vermont, Bennington and Windham Counties. In New York, eastern
Rensselaer County.
* WHEN...Until 5 PM EST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions will impact the morning commute and may impact the
evening commute as well. Downed tree limbs due to combined
weight of snow from the previous storm, and the additional
heavy wet snow could result in power outages, especially
across higher elevations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snowfall rates may exceed one inch per
hour at times this morning.
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Law enforcement deaths decline, but firearm line-of-duty deaths remain high
The report by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund details line-of-duty-deaths in 2022.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Line-of-duty deaths were dramatically down in 2022. But, firearms deaths remain high, according to a just-released report by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF).
The report shows the number of law enforcement professionals who died in the line of duty in 2022 decreased by 61% over the previous year. NLEOMF notes, that decrease is driven by substantial reductions in Covid-19 related deaths.
Read the full report here
“When you’re talking about a fatality report, you’re never going to talk about good news because if there’s one officer on that report, it’s not good news. I would say that the trend is that we’re trending down, 61% right now, but most of that is due to COVID. If you take out COVID, we’re trending down 14% year over year,” said Marcia Ferranto, CEO Of NLEOMF.
The organization notes what it calls a “troubling trend of higher-than-average firearms fatalities” in both 2021 and 2022. It said, “firearms-related fatalities have claimed the lives of 64 officers in 2022, which mirrors the number of firearms-related fatalities in 2021. Both years represent a 21% increase in firearms-related deaths when compared to the average of 53 firearms-related fatalities from 2010-2020.”
“I think the significance around that is as we dove into the data, it’s a 21% increase decade over decade. So what is happening now compared to what was happening ten years ago? And I think it’s important for us, for all law enforcement agencies to take a look at that data, see where our country is, see if any of this is having an impact on the fatalities due to firearms with our law enforcement. And, put together the programs necessary to educate, to help keep our law enforcement officers safe,” said Ferranto.
Meanwhile, traffic-related fatalities decreased 3% with 56 deaths in 2022 compared to 58 deaths in 2021. The organization adds, “while overall traffic-related fatalities are down, the 40 fatal crashes in 2022 (automobile/motorcycle) represent an increase of 29% compared to fatal crashes in 2021. Struck-by fatalities, defined as an officer struck outside of their patrol vehicle, dropped 41% from 27 in 2021 to 16 in 2022.”
The state of Texas had the largest number of law enforcement fatalities in 2022 with 33 deaths. New York was the second highest, followed by California, Georgia, and Tennessee.
“The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is a leading authority on official line of duty deaths. So when we come out with this fatality report, you can be assured that every case we’ve examined and put through a very stringent review process,” said Marcia Ferranto, CEO of National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
Currently in Washington D.C., 23,229 names are on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and 226 more names will be added this spring. In May, the nation will mark National Police Week. This year will also mark the 35th year a candlelight vigil will be held to honor the fallen in Washington D.C. on May 13th. The newly engraved names of fallen officers will be read aloud during that ceremony.
“It’s unthinkable what these survivors families and friends and colleagues go through, because some of these fatalities are avoidable and they don’t need to happen. To watch during police week, the families come through here and stand at the wall, you can’t even get close to the wall. It is four and five deep, people standing on these hallowed grounds, honoring the men and women who gave their lives,” said Ferranto.
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CHICAGO, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wilson Dow Group has been named to Inc. magazine's annual Best Workplaces list. Featured in the May/June 2022 issue, hitting newsstands on May 17, 2022, and prominently featured on Inc.com, the list is the result of a comprehensive measurement of American companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company culture, whether operating in a physical or virtual facility.
After collecting data from thousands of submissions, Inc. selected 475 honorees this year. Each company that was nominated took part in an employee survey, conducted by Quantum Workplace, which included topics such as management effectiveness, perks, fostering employee growth, and overall company culture. The organization's benefits were also audited to determine overall score and ranking.
"The past two years have put the spotlight once again on the importance of culture and putting people first", says Partner/Owner Steve Wilson. "We are incredibly honored and proud of our team and the client partners that have created such a creative, collaborative and fun environment that even a pandemic could not subdue."
"Not long ago, the term 'best workplace' would have conjured up images of open-office designs with stocked snack fridges," says Inc. editor-in-chief Scott Omelianuk. "Yet given the widespread adoption of remote work, the concept of the workplace has shifted. This year, Inc. has recognized the organizations dedicated to redefining and enriching the workplace in the face of the pandemic."
About Wilson Dow Group
Wilson Dow Group is a creative production agency in relentless pursuit of uniting and activating audiences through the power of shared experiences. For 25 years, Wilson Dow has cultivated teams of world-renowned creative strategists, specialized production teams, and instructional designers to partner with global clients. The company designs and delivers in-person, virtual and hybrid experiences that engage audiences around a shared purpose. From the Chicago headquarters, and across San Francisco and New York satellites, the power of Wilson Dow Group's integrated approach comes from a commitment to collaboration, ensuring deep audience connection and the long-term success of brand initiatives. For more information, visit wilsondow.com.
About Inc. Media
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
About Quantum Workplace
Quantum Workplace, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is an HR technology company that serves organizations through employee-engagement surveys, action-planning tools, exit surveys, peer-to-peer recognition, performance evaluations, goal tracking, and leadership assessment. For more information, visit QuantumWorkplace.com.
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Putin to host leaders of adversaries Armenia and Azerbaijan
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to help broker a settlement to a conflict between the two ex-Soviet neighbors. Putin’s talks with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev were scheduled to take place at the Russian leader’s Black Sea residence in Sochi on Monday. The Kremlin said Friday that the leaders will discuss the implementation of a 2020 Russian-brokered peace deal and “further steps to enhance stability and security.” The neighbors have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/10/28/putin-to-host-leaders-of-adversaries-armenia-and-azerbaijan/ | 2022-10-28 17:26:44 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/10/28/putin-to-host-leaders-of-adversaries-armenia-and-azerbaijan/ |
Ukraine deploys therapy dog services for kids experiencing war trauma to reduce stress, anxiety
The Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation in Boyarka brought in an eight-year-old dog to spread joy to Ukraine's children
Kids in Ukraine have had a very rough year ever since Russia invaded the country in February 2022.
Many of Ukraine’s children have been uprooted from their homes and separated from their families — and there’s been a push by many to help comfort traumatized children.
Most recently, these efforts have appeared in the form of dog therapy.
UKRAINE'S REFUGEE CHILDREN: AMID THE WAR, HOW TO HELP KIDS SUFFERING FROM TRAUMA
The Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation in Boyarka, Ukraine, brought in an eight-year-old dog on Dec. 7, 2022, to spread joy to the center’s kids, the Associated Press reported.
Bice, a playful dog with an important job, instantly brought smiles to the children’s faces as he walked into the room.
The dog’s owner, Darina Kokozei, invited each child to step up and ask Bice to do a few tricks.
Obedient Bice sat, stood on his hind legs, rolled over and gave his paw to the kids for treats.
FOR UKRAINE'S KIDS, A THERAPY DOG CAN HELP EASE TRAUMA AND SUFFERING
He withstood 30 minutes of hugs and pets from the children without ever making a sound, helping to distract the kids from their fears of war.
The group of 16 youths, ranging in age from two to 18 years old, have all experienced war trauma — some witnessing Russian soldiers invading their hometowns and even beating their relatives.
Some students have family members on the frontlines — or, their family members have been killed in service.
The state-operated community center has been a resource for people coping with trauma since Russia’s invasion in February, the AP reported.
SERVICE DOGS HELPING VETERANS AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
Staffers such as psychologist Oksana Sliepova provide regular psychological therapy for those impacted.
Even though the center has worked with horses in the past, Sliepova told the AP that this was her first time experiencing canine therapy.
"I read a lot of literature that working with dogs, with four-legged rehabilitators, helps children reduce stress, increase stress resistance and reduce anxiety," she said.
Sliepova shared that many of the children are terrified of loud noises ever since the invasion.
UKRAINIAN REFUGEE CHILDREN FACING DISORIENTATION, EXPLOITATION DURING DANGEROUS TREK FROM HOME
Even the sound of a window closing or a jet overhead may cause a child to drop to the floor and ask for the nearest bomb shelter location.
But Bice’s presence seemed to melt away all war-stricken anxieties, as the dog offered a moment of "freedom" for the kids, Kokozei told the AP.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Verywell Mind editor-in-chief and licensed psychotherapist Amy Morin stressed the benefits that dog therapy can have in terms of releasing stress and anxiety.
"Therapy is a wonderful thing, especially for somebody who is going through something traumatizing," she said.
"It reduces our cortisol levels [and] gives us a quick break in some of the anxiety and stress that we feel."
She said of others under severe stress, "Once they get a little bit of a break from the extreme stress or the horrible anxiety that they're under, they might be able to see themselves as a hero that emerges from the story rather than a horrible victim."
EXPLAINING WAR TO KIDS AS RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE
The Florida-based Morin said that introducing dogs into therapy is a great idea, especially for children who immediately "laugh, smile and find joy" at the animals' presence.
The expert explained that it also helps kids who are facing trauma cope with their emotions.
"Kids work really hard to manage their emotions when they're around a pet," she said. "So they know, ‘If I am calm, then the dog is calm,’ or, 'If I'm excited, the dog gets excited.'"
"So often for kids, it's an easy way for them to figure out, ‘OK, how do I need to regulate my emotions right now?’ And that's a skill that we want them to have when they're not working with the dogs, too."
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As long as the kids are physically safe, said Morin, this kind of pet therapy can "certainly help" in serious circumstances such as war.
"Sometimes kids just don't have the language. They don't have the words to describe what they've just been through," she said.
"So to be able to get a break, [playing] with a dog and [being] a kid for a few minutes is super important for their mental health."
The Center for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation is located about 12 miles southwest of Kyiv.
It was originally founded in 2000 to provide support after the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl in 1986.
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Now, the center also doubles as a shelter that provides stable lighting and heat after Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/ukraine-deploys-therapy-dog-services-kids-experiencing-war-trauma-reduce-stress-anxiety | 2022-12-15 00:35:06 | 1 | https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/ukraine-deploys-therapy-dog-services-kids-experiencing-war-trauma-reduce-stress-anxiety |
WASHINGTON — Shortly before he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his detailed plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary.
Discord, the chat platform where 18-year-old Payton Gendron kept the diary, confirmed Wednesday that an invitation to access his private writings was sent to the group about a half-hour before Saturday’s attack at Tops Friendly Market, which he live-streamed on another online service. Some of them accepted.
Gendron’s diary and its racist, anti-Semitic entries dated to last November included step-by-step descriptions of his assault plans, a detailed account of a reconnaissance trip he made to Buffalo in March, and maps of the store that he drew by hand.
"What we know at this time is that a private, invite-only server was created by the suspect to serve as a personal diary chat log," a Discord spokesperson said in a written statement. "Approximately 30 minutes prior to the attack, however, a small group of people were invited to and joined the server. Before that, our records indicate no other people saw the diary chat log in this private server.”
It wasn’t clear if any of the people who accessed Gendron’s diary or saw his livestream did anything to alert the authorities or attempt to stop the attack. Discord said it removed Gendron’s diary as soon as the platform became aware of it, in accordance with the company's policies against violent extremism.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Monday that investigators were working to obtain, verify and review Gendron’s online postings.
Copies of his Discord diary — essentially a transcript of his postings to his private chat log — briefly surfaced elsewhere online after the shooting, along with a 180-page screed attributed to him. Both were laced with white supremacist beliefs echoing a baseless extremist conspiracy theory about a plot to diminish the influence of white people.
President Joe Biden, visiting Buffalo on Tuesday, repudiated such beliefs, saying: “Now’s the time for people of all races, from every background, to speak up as a majority ... and reject white supremacy.”
Gendron was arraigned over the weekend on a murder charge; a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf and he remains jailed under a suicide watch. He is scheduled to appear in court in Buffalo again Thursday.
Tech companies like Discord and Twitch, which authorities say Gendron used to livestream the supermarket attack, are under scrutiny for their role as vectors of hate speech.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday authorized the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, to investigate social media platforms used by Gendron to determine if they have “civil or criminal liability for their role in promoting, facilitating, or providing a platform to plan and promote violence."
Discord said it planned to cooperate with James' probe and is continuing to assist law enforcement in the ongoing investigation into the shooting.
“Our deepest sympathies are with the victims and their families," the company said. "Hate has no place on Discord and we are committed to combating violence and extremism.”
Messages seeking comment were left with Twitch. Twitch CEO Emmett Shear told the Harvard Business Review in an interview earlier on Wednesday that the Amazon-owned platform would continue to “invest heavily in ensuring the safety of everyone on Twitch.”
“I think this is an example of one of those places where we’ve done a lot of work, but there is obviously still work to be done,” Shear said.
Attempts to reach representatives of two other tech platforms James is investigating, 8kun and 4chan, were unsuccessful. Gendron wrote in his diary that those boards were where he started reading up on the racist ideologies that set him on a path to killing nonwhite, non-Christian people.
When reached for comment, Ron Watkins, the longtime administrator of 8kun and its predecessor, 8chan, said he resigned from the organization last year and has “no idea what’s going on with that.”
Gendron wrote in his Discord diary that he started reading 4chan a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and that he was heavily influenced by Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 people in a shooting rampage at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. Gendron wrote that he originally planned his attack for March 15, the three-year anniversary of Tarrant’s attack.
Copies of Gendron’s diary postings were shared with The Associated Press by Marc-André Argentino, a research fellow at the London-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. He said it was possible but unlikely the diary could have been altered by someone other than the author.
Gendron, in the diary, said he specifically targeted a store with a predominantly Black clientele, researching spots in Rochester, Syracuse and on Long Island before settling on Buffalo. Prosecutors say he showed up Saturday wearing body armor and armed with an AR-15-style rifle as a helmet-mounted camera streamed to the internet.
Problems with his gun and then a bout with COVID-19 — which he theorized he contracted from a fast-food chicken sandwich poisoned by government agents — prevented him from attacking earlier, he wrote in the diary.
Gendron wrote that he started thinking about “a personal attack against the replacers” a few weeks prior to an episode in a high school class about a year ago. That episode led to him being taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
A few weeks before the attack, Gendron wrote that neither his parents nor his brothers were aware of his plans, but that he feared they would find out.
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Sisak reported from New York. Associated Press reporters Haleluya Hadero in New York, Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker in Washington, D.C., and Carolyn Thompson in Buffalo, New York, contributed to this report. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/buffalo-shooter-let-some-people-see-plans-before-attack/507-b224db3b-6ea1-4781-8b95-c7588b23279e | 2022-05-20 15:07:58 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/buffalo-shooter-let-some-people-see-plans-before-attack/507-b224db3b-6ea1-4781-8b95-c7588b23279e |
WICHITA, Kan. — Taylor Hendricks scored 23 points as UCF beat Wichita State 72-67 on Wednesday night.
Craig Porter Jr. led the Shockers (12-12, 5-7) in scoring, finishing with 19 points, six rebounds and seven assists. Jaron Pierre Jr. added 14 points, eight rebounds and two steals for Wichita State. James Rojas also had 12 points.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
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MILAN (AP) — German airline Lufthansa on Thursday signed a deal with the Italian government for a minority share in the long-struggling ITA Airways, formerly Alitalia.
Lufthansa’s industrial plan calls for revenues of 2.5 billion euros ($2.68 billion) this year, growing to 4.1 billion euros in 2027, the Italian Finance Ministry said in a statement. No financial terms were disclosed.
The cashflow will allow ITA airlines to expand its fleet from 71 aircraft to 94 in the next four years, the statement said. The airline also foresees new hires to expand the workforce to 5,500.
Under the strategy, Rome’s Fiumicino airport will become one of the Lufthansa Group’s hubs, as ITA Airways focuses on long-range flights. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr also identified Milan, Italy’s business and finance hub, as having potential for growth.
The deal must be approved by EU competition authorities.
ITA Airways and its Alitalia predecessor have long been searching for an industrial partner as the Italian airline lost out on domestic and European routes to low-cost carriers. A string deals with potential and real partners had all fallen through over the last 15 years.
ITA officially launched in October 2021 after bankrupt flag carrier Alitalia landed its final flight, ending a 74-year run which in later years was characterized by financial uncertainty and slides into bankruptcy.
Lufthansa was the only airline that submitted an offer in the latest tender earlier this year.
The German airline already operates Air Dolomiti in northern Italy, funneling long distance traffic from cities like Milan, Verona and Venice to connections in Munich and Frankfurt. | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/ap-german-airline-lufthansa-signs-deal-for-minority-stake-in-italys-struggling-ita-airways/ | 2023-05-25 22:38:16 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/business/ap-german-airline-lufthansa-signs-deal-for-minority-stake-in-italys-struggling-ita-airways/ |
GOMA – More than 3,000 new military recruits began training Monday as the Congolese army steps up its fight against the M23 rebels that it alleges are backed by neighboring Rwanda.
The Rwandan government, which has repeatedly denied supporting M23, meanwhile said that a Congolese fighter plane had “violated Rwandan airspace” by landing briefly at Rubavu airport.
“No military action was taken by Rwanda in response, and the jet returned to the DRC,” the Rwandan government said in a statement.
The M23 rebels rose to prominence more than a decade ago when they seized Goma, the largest city in Congo’s east that sits along the border with Rwanda. After a peace deal, many of M23′s fighters were integrated into the national military. But then a year ago, the group re-emerged saying the government had failed to live up to its decade-long promises.
Tensions have mounted as the M23 rebels have advanced in recent weeks, seizing several key towns including Kiwanja. Congo's government has blamed Rwanda and expelled the Rwandan ambassador about a week ago.
Representatives from the two countries met over the weekend in Angola where they agreed to “maintain dialogue." Other peace talks are expected to resume in Kenya next week. However, Congolese government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said representatives of M23 will not be allowed to take part unless conditions are met.
“The M23 must withdraw from occupied positions before being reintegrated into the process like other armed groups,” he told journalists over the weekend.
In Goma on Monday, North Kivu military spokesman Lt. Gen. Guillaume Djike Kaiko said more than 3,000 people had stepped forward to join the military's efforts against M23.
Among them was Clarisse Mahamba, a 19-year-old who said she's been interested in the military since childhood and wanted to serve her country.
“I see that things are not going well in our country,” she told The Associated Press. “I saw the Rwandans coming to invade us because I was in Rumangabo. I saw how our soldiers were suffering, I fled and that’s why I have also joined the military service.”
Edison Butsira, 27, has a college degree in economics but said he wants to follow the example set by young Ukrainians who took up arms to defend their country.
“Young people decided to abandon their activities — they left to enlist in their army to fight because Ukraine was invaded,” Butsira told AP. “Here I also gave up my job and I joined my friends to go fight.”
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi also has called on his citizens to mobilize against “Rwandan aggression” in Rutshuru territory on Thursday.
“We must be aware that no one but ourselves will save our nation and that this requires from each of us a mobilization all around," he said on RTNC radio.
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Associated Press writer Jean-Yves Kamale in Kinshasa, Congo, contributed. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/11/07/congo-trains-3000-new-army-recruits-amid-rwanda-tensions/ | 2022-11-07 16:01:07 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/11/07/congo-trains-3000-new-army-recruits-amid-rwanda-tensions/ |
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DENVER, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise security teams face unprecedented attack surface expansion as technology evolution, employee fatigue and complicated cloud or digital transformation initiatives strain resources. Optiv, the cyber advisory and solutions leader, today announced the expansion of its Managed XDR (MXDR) offering to ease clients' burden of safeguarding critical data, applications and systems in the cloud (public or multi-cloud) in near real-time with an all-star roster of integrated platforms, including:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides clients with additional detection and response capabilities to protect them from increasingly complex cyberattacks.
- Google Cloud (GCP), which adds comprehensive visibility and workload protection at scale across multi-cloud environments.
- Microsoft Azure, which offers extensive data protection and integrated services.
Users rely on Optiv MXDR's unique ability to aggregate, organize and prioritize security alerts and configuration changes and correlate them across multiple cloud sources. By chaining services together with leading platforms, Optiv streamlines data collection and enrichment to provide customizable insights to strengthen security controls. Clients are able to address threat detection and visibility on a scale that meets their individual level of cloud adoption. In addition, the service's expansion ensures in-depth coverage and access to rapid investigation and response measures.
"Organizations require enhanced and fully integrated solutions to counter the evolving methods and increased number of cyberattacks by threat actors. As part of Optiv's Advanced Detection and Response solution, MXDR and AWS, GCP and Azure help our clients reduce their risk and focus their valuable resources on the things that matter most," said Rocky Destefano, Optiv's chief technology officer. "By innovating with world-class cloud partners, we're taking Optiv's security analysis expertise to the next level and helping our clients secure their future by focusing on the very best of what the market has to offer."
Optiv's MXDR was launched in August 2021. A collaborative approach to cutting-edge services, products and technical experts is necessary to defend against a wide-range of adversaries. With expanded integration in the cloud, organizations have the potential to lean on Optiv to provide enhanced detection and response, quicker returns to operational normalcy and business-centric outcomes across every stage of the security lifecycle, no matter the level of maturity.
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The Ravens placed wide receiver Devin Duvernay on injured reserve Tuesday, leaving the offense without a key weapon as it heads into a crucial late-season stretch.
Duvernay, who injured his foot at Tuesday’s practice, will miss the Ravens’ final three regular-season games and at least one potential playoff game. He limped off the field with a staff member after special teams drills ended Tuesday. It was unclear what led to the injury.
Just hours after his exit, the Ravens reunited with Sammy Watkins, claiming the veteran wide receiver off waivers as they continue their push for an AFC North title. Watkins, 29, had 13 catches on 22 targets for 206 yards in nine games (three starts) this season for the Green Bay Packers. He was released Monday and placed on waivers.
Still, replacing Duvernay won’t be easy. He set career highs in catches (37), receiving yards (407) and receiving touchdowns (three) this season, though Duvernay’s production has waned since top wide receiver Rashod Bateman suffered a season-ending foot injury in October. As a runner, the 2020 third-round pick has 12 carries for 84 yards and a touchdown, and is often involved in run fakes in coordinator Greg Roman’s rushing attack.
Duvernay’s also the team’s starting punt returner, for which he earned All-Pro honors last season, and kick returner. He returned a kickoff for a touchdown against the Miami Dolphins in Week 2.
With Duvernay sidelined, three of the four wide receivers the Ravens have drafted over the past three years are now on IR. Bateman, a 2021 first-round pick who missed the Ravens’ first five games last year with a groin injury, was shut down after just six games this season. Tylan Wallace (hamstring), a fourth-round pick in 2021 who has just five career catches, was placed on IR earlier this month. Only James Proche (25 career catches) has avoided a significant injury.
While the Ravens’ quarterback situation remains uncertain entering Saturday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons — starter Lamar Jackson has yet to practice since suffering a Week 13 knee injury — Watkins has at least a familiarity with the team’s offense. He signed a one-year, $6 million contract with the Ravens before the 2021 season, finishing with 27 catches for 394 yards and a touchdown.
Injuries, though, have limited him in recent years. Watkins had just 102 receiving yards after returning from a hamstring injury that sent him to injured reserve in the middle of last season. This season, he missed four Packers games with a hamstring injury he suffered in September, after which he had just 96 receiving yards.
The Ravens, coming off a 13-3 loss Saturday to the Cleveland Browns, are searching for a jolt on offense. Their passing attack has struggled since returning from their Week 10 bye, especially since backup Tyler Huntley took over for Jackson. Now the team could have to lean even more on wide receivers Demarcus Robinson and DeSean Jackson and tight ends Mark Andrews, Isaiah Likely and Josh Oliver over the regular season’s final weeks.
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Even the Sacred Cod has to pass through security.
In a festive march to fifes and drums, a replica of the wooden Sacred Cod that hangs above the Massachusetts House of Representatives was borne to Beacon Hill from the Old State House in a re-creation of its move there 225 years ago Wednesday.
Gawking pedestrians asked, “What is that?” The stand-in cod, wrapped in a Revolutionary era flag, stopped at traffic lights. And Matthew Wilding, who carried the 5-foot carving in outstretched arms, carefully weaved his way through queues of cars on crowded downtown streets.
“You do a decade of tour guiding, and you get to read traffic pretty well,” said Wilding, director of visitor experience at Revolutionary Spaces, an organization created by the merger of the Old State House and Old South Meeting House.
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Once at the (new) State House, where the Sacred Cod found a second home in 1798, Wilding had to sidestep his way through a metal detector while holding the swaddled replica.
“It hurt after a while,” Wilding said with a laugh about carrying the cod.
About 250 people followed the cod on its short upstream walk, some chanting, “Cod Fish! Cod Fish!” to help Wilding, a cadre of lawmakers, and assorted history buffs maintain a brisk pace.
“How often do you get to march behind a cod,” said Lisa Rosenfeld of Newton, counsel for the Legislature’s joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities.
Once at the State House, the throng viewed the real thing, suspended from the ceiling above the rear of the House chamber. Cellphones were pressed into action, photographing the regal, rigid symbol of a once-ubiquitous fish that helped bring power and prosperity to Massachusetts.
“The success of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was no sure thing,” said state Representative Michael Day, a Stoneham Democrat. “We honor the industry, resolve, and vision of those who came before us.”
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The current codfish is believed to be the third iteration to hang over Massachusetts legislators since their Colonial gatherings at the Old State House, then called the Town House and located near today’s City Hall.
Historians speculate that the first was destroyed in a 1747 fire that swept through the Town House, and that the second was pilfered by British redcoats during the Revolution.
“Mayhap some burly British trooper, quartered in the improvised barracks of the Old State House, took umbrage at the spic-and-span elegance of the newly painted emblem of Colonial independence and thrift,” mused a Massachusetts legislative committee in 1895, charged with probing the misty genealogy of the iconic carving.
The current fish, nicknamed the Sacred Cod by that committee, was donated to the new state’s government in 1784 by wealthy Boston merchant John Rowe, for whom Rowes Wharf is named, “as a memorial of the importance of the cod fishery to the welfare of this Commonwealth.”
Tim Corbett, 73, of Melrose, who held a small “Follow the Cod” flag on Wednesday, had more than passing interest in the procession.
“I played John Rowe in a 30-minute standup,” said Corbett, who used to perform as a historical interpreter.
The New York Times in 1933 estimated the Sacred Cod’s value to be “something less than nothing,” and sniffed that “as an object of art, it is worthless.”
That year also marked the cod’s nighttime theft by Harvard Lampoon staff, who hid the fish in a florist’s box with protruding lilies before exiting the building. Police dredged the Charles River and, running down a tip, even searched an arriving plane in New Jersey.
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The cod was returned three days later, with damaged fins, when a Harvard official met clandestinely with two young men, their identities cloaked in darkness, in the woods of West Roxbury. The cod was handed over, and the duo sped away in an automobile.
In 1968, the cod was stolen again, this time by University of Massachusetts Boston students who wanted more legislative attention for the institution. The carving was discovered later in an obscure State House hallway.
In 1895, state legislators praised the Sacred Cod in near-reverential terms.
“Humble the subject and homely the design, yet this painted image bears on its finny front a majesty greater than the dignity that art can lend to graven gold or chiseled marble,” the lawmakers wrote. “The lessons that may be learned of it are nobler than any to be drawn from what is beautiful, for this sedate and solitary fish is instinct with memories and prophecy, like an oracle.”
“It typifies to the citizens of the Commonwealth and of the world the founding of a state,” the panel added. “It commemorates democracy. It celebrates the rise of free institutions. It emphasizes progress. It epitomizes Massachusetts.”
In the 21st century, the cod continues to draw applause.
“It was fun, and it was cool,” said Lidyani Vega, 14, an eighth-grader from the Patrick Lyndon Pilot School in West Roxbury. “Follow the cod!”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — All at once, they were everywhere.
After claiming their biggest triumph yet in an awards season full of them — the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble to go with three of the four individual film SAG Awards — the cast of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was supposed to head backstage as a group to be led through the kitchen at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles and into the area where a horde of cameras awaited winners.
But like the multiple versions of multiverse characters in the film that has become the Oscars favorite for best picture, the cast members — including best female actor winner Michelle Yeoh, best supporting male actor winner Ke Huy Quan and best supporting female actor winner Jamie Lee Curtis — scattered all over the place, some back into the audience, some to the bathroom, some who-knows where.
Of the top-billed cast, only 94-year-old James Hong showed up backstage, where an Associated Press reporter was waiting to embed with them on their victory lap. Hong, as the senior member, gave the last speech of the night and took full advantage, talking at length about his 70 years as a member of the acting guild.
“I hope I will come back when I’m 100 years old!” Hong said to close his speech.
Andy Le and Brian Le, who play minor but menacing martial artists in the film, were nothing but gentle as they each took one of Hong’s arms and helped him down the makeshift stairs at the back of the stage and into the hallway.
Mark Wahlberg, who had just given the cast the night’s biggest award, greeted Hong.
“I just wanted to say hi,” Wahlberg said with a smile. “You are truly a legend. You brought the house down.”
Hong, Le and Le slowly made their way through the kitchen and back into the spotlight of the media room, where castmate Tallie Medel awaited them.
Curtis, an upset winner over Angela Bassett in her category, was next to appear, holding one of the blue, stone SAG statuettes and wearing a red gown.
“Alright, I’m here sorry, sorry, I had to pee!” she said.
Jenny Slate, who plays Debbie the Dog mom, Yeoh’s laundromat customer-turned fighting foe in the film, emerged from another hallway, as did Harry Shum Jr.
Yeoh then burst through a door from the ballroom like a gowned version of one of the many action heroes she has played through the decades.
She was followed soon after by Quan, who played several incarnations of her husband in the film.
“Coming everyone!” Quan shouted as he bounded gleefully into his castmates.
Photographers began shooting pictures, but Curtis wouldn’t have it until the whole ensemble had assembled. Stephanie Hsu, who plays Yeoh’s daughter and antagonist in the film and was also nominated in Curtis’ category, was not among them yet.
“Wait wait wait, wait until Stephanie is here!” Curtis said. Pointing at each person shooting photos, she said, “You, put the camera down, you, put the camera down. Not without Stephanie.”
While they waited, they noticed Brendan Fraser, best male actor winner for “The Whale,” standing nearby with his trophy, looking overwhelmed. Several walked over to celebrate him.
“I’m so glad I got to watch you have this beautiful moment,” Slate told him.
Quan reached up and gave the much larger Fraser an enthusiastic hug.
“You made me cry again!” Fraser told Quan, who had given a tearful speech about becoming the first Asian actor to win his award.
Quan, who like Fraser has made a dramatic comeback after a long Hollywood hiatus, is likely to get another opportunity at the Academy Awards on March 12.
After also taking the top prizes at the Directors Guild and Producers Guild awards, it would be a stunner if any film other than “Everything Everywhere” wins best picture at the Oscars.
When Hsu finally appeared, Curtis told the photographers to shoot away.
The cast shouted for Fraser join them for photos. Hesitating at first, he gave in and joined them, his eyes beaming. “We did it!” he said as they smiled for cameras.
The group has won so many awards, it was becoming hard to keep track of them.
“I put one down and it’s lost,” Curtis said.
“Wait, Michelle has two!” someone shouted.
Quan, Yeoh and Curtis then posed individually while holding an award in each hand. Curtis handed one to Hong, who pretended he couldn’t bear its weight before cradling the statue like a baby.
Daniel Scheinert, the film’s co-director with Daniel Kwan, watched from the side and stayed out of pictures, letting his actors have the stage on this night.
When Yeoh saw Scheinert, she hurried over and hugged him. Several photographers descended on the duo. Scheinert didn’t stop them, pointing out he had been an actor of sorts in his movie.
“I had a cameo,” he said. “That counts.”
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WFO EUREKA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, February 5, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Eureka CA
207 AM PST Sat Feb 4 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS
AFTERNOON TO 5 AM PST SUNDAY ABOVE 3500 FEET...
* WHAT...Snow expected above 3500 feet. Total snow accumulations
of up to 5 inches. Winds gusting as high as 45 mph.
* WHERE...Northern Trinity County.
* WHEN...From 4 PM this afternoon to 5 AM PST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
The latest road conditions for the state of California can be
obtained by calling 1-800-GAS-ROAD.
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NEW YORK (AP)Infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa and the New York Yankees agreed Friday to a $6 million, one-year contract and reliever Lou Trivino got a $4.1 million deal, both avoiding salary arbitration.
Kiner-Falefa got a $1.3 million raise under the deal, which was struck as the evening deadline approached for teams to offer 2023 contracts to unsigned players on their 40-man rosters. Trivino received a $1.1 million raise.
New York also claimed right-hander Junior Fernandez off waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Kiner-Falefa was acquired by the Yankees after the lockout and hit .261 with four homers and 22 stolen bases. He tied for sixth among major league shortstops with 10 defensive runs saved but made 15 errors.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone benched Kiner-Falefa for Game 4 of the Division Series against Cleveland. Kiner-Falefa committed an error in Game 1 and looked shaky on routine plays.
”I feel that in some big pressure spots throughout the season he has made big-time plays,” Boone said. ”So he’s always answered the bell really well after a mistake. This time I feel like it snowballed a little bit on him in this series, so that’s kind of going into this.”
In the fourth game of the AL Championship Series against Houston, rookie Jeremy Pena hit what should have been an inning-ending double-play ball to Gleyber Torres in the seventh. But his flip to second base went wide of Kiner-Falefa, setting up Houston’s two-run inning that sent the Astros on to a four-game sweep.
Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner said Tuesday that Anthony Volpe and Oswald Peraza will be given a chance to earn infield jobs during spring training.
Kiner-Falefa will be eligible for free agency after the World Series.
He spent his first four major league seasons with Texas, was traded to Minnesota on March 12 with right-hander Ronny Henriquez for catcher Mitch Garver, then dealt to the Yankees the following day with third baseman Josh Donaldson and catcher Ben Rortvedt for catcher Gary Sanchez and infielder Gio Urshela.
Trivino was acquired from Oakland ahead of the Aug. 2 trade deadline and the 31-year-old right-hander had a 1.66 ERA in 25 relief appearances with 22 strikeouts in 21 1/3 innings. He can become a free agent after the 2024 World Series.
Fernandez, 25, had a 2.41 ERA in 15 relief appearances for St. Louis and Pittsburgh, striking out 14 and walking 12 in 18 2/3 innings while allowing eight hits – three of them homers. He was 2-3 with a 4.87 ERA it 41 games at Triple-A Memphis and Indianapolis. Fernandez is 1-1 with a 5.16 ERA in 50 relief appearances over four seasons with the Cardinals (2019-22) and Pirates.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A ferry carrying more than 130 people caught fire in the northeastern Philippines on Monday, killing seven passengers and forcing many survivors to jump into the sea where they were rescued by other vessels.
The fire rapidly spread from the engine room to the upper passenger deck of the M/V Mercraft 2 while it was approaching a seaport in Real, town administrator Filomena Portales said. It had been en route to the town in Quezon province from Polillo Island.
Many of the 134 passengers and crew jumped into the water and were plucked from the sea by motorboats and cargo vessels, coast guard officials said.
“Fishing boats and other vessels were able to approach quickly and everybody helped, so the rescue was fast,” Portales told The Associated Press by telephone, adding many of those rescued were in shock and had to be treated for burns and bruises and given dry clothes and shoes.
Pictures released by the coast guard showed fire engulfing the ferry and dark smoke billowing from it. Injured survivors on stretchers were taken to waiting ambulance vans while a rescuer tried to revive an unconscious survivor by pressing on his chest.
The coast guard said everyone on the ferry had been accounted for and 24 people who were injured were brought to a hospital.
Portales said seven passengers died from burns and drowning and one possibly had a heart attack while floating in the water.
Investigators were looking into the fire and other ferries operated by the owner of Mercraft 2 would likely be suspended from operating while undergoing safety inspections, officials said. The wreckage was towed to shore in Real.
Sea accidents are common in the Philippine archipelago because of frequent storms, badly maintained boats, overcrowding and weak enforcement of safety regulations. In December 1987, the ferry Dona Paz sank after colliding with a fuel tanker, killing more than 4,300 people in the world’s worst peacetime maritime disaster. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/7-dead-120-others-rescued-in-philippine-ferry-fire/ | 2022-05-23 18:14:42 | 0 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/7-dead-120-others-rescued-in-philippine-ferry-fire/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Veru Inc. ("Veru") (NASDAQ: VERU) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Veru Inc. common stock between May 11, 2022 and November 9, 2022, inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Veru, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
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ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Veru includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: 1) the Company had withheld material adverse facts about the data from the sabizabulin Phase 3 trial and the Company's interactions with the United States Food and Drug Administration; 2) defendants misled Veru's shareholders to believe that the data from the sabizabulin Phase 3 trial was sufficient to support Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA") and even the submission of a New Drug Application without any further studies; and 3) the Company's filings concealed the true risks faced by Veru in gaining approval for its EUA request.
DEADLINE: February 6, 2023
Aggrieved Veru investors only have until February 6, 2023 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Night" game were:
3-7-1, WB: 1
(three, seven, one; WB: one)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Night" game were:
3-7-1, WB: 1
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(AP) – A woman from New Hampshire who works for a nonprofit organization in Haiti and her young daughter have been reported as kidnapped as the U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country and ordered nonemergency personnel to leave there amid growing security concerns.
Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, the organization said in a statement Saturday. El Roi, which runs a school and ministry in Port au Prince, said the two were taken from campus. Dorsainvil is the wife of the program’s director, Sandro Dorsainvil.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family,” El Roi president and co-founder Jason Brown said in the statement. “Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus.”
A State Department spokesperson said in a statement Saturday it is “aware of reports of the kidnapping of two U.S. citizens in Haiti,” adding, “We are in regular contact with Haitian authorities and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.”
In its advisory Thursday, the department said that “kidnapping is widespread, and victims regularly include U.S. citizens.”
It said kidnappings often involve ransom negotiations and U.S. citizen victims have been physically harmed.
Earlier this month, the National Human Rights Defense Network issued a report warning about an upsurge in killings and kidnappings and the U.N. Security Council met to discuss Haiti’s worsening situation.
WMUR-TV reported that Dorsainvil is from Middleton, New Hampshire, and went to Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, which has a program to support nursing education in Haiti.
“It doesn’t surprise me that Alix chose to get involved in this type of service work,” Regis College president Toni Hays told the station. “She was amazing. She was passionate, she was compassionate.” | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ | 2023-07-30 14:51:15 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/us-mother-daughter-reportedly-kidnapped-in-haiti-do-not-travel-advisory-issued/ |
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ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hurricane Ian has flooded neighborhoods throughout Florida and has devastated many. In the wake of this natural disaster, Island Fin Poké Co. believes everyone must come together like family, or Ohana, and help each other in times of need. In support of the Florida community, the franchise will collect non-perishables and canned foods throughout the month for its local food pantries and Second Harvest, a central Florida food bank.
Island Fin Poké Co. is a Florida-based fast-casual concept known for its Hawaiian-style build-your-own poké bowls that are more than just a bowl, they're a lifestyle. The Island Fin Poké Co. brand is built on the principle of treating everyone like Ohana and is focused on offering a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, so each guest feels special during every visit, from the moment they walk through the doors until the time they leave.
Since the beginning of October, Island Fin Poké Co. has been collecting canned foods and non-perishables to donate to surrounding food pantries. In addition, at Island Fin's Lake Nona, Orlando, Fl. location, all donations will be donated to Second Harvest food bank because of the company's regular established collection times for donations.
"The damage from Hurricane Ian weighs heavy on our hearts and we continue to keep those who are impacted in our thoughts as the restoration efforts begin," says Island Fin Poké Co. CEO and co-owner, Mark Setterington. "We all must come together and support our communities by donating and helping those affected by this disaster."
Staying true to their brand, Island Fin Poké Co. looks to support the community in as many ways as they can, and collects and donates to local food banks twice a year. We all must come together and support our communities by donating and helping those affected by this disaster."
Guests who would like to help donate can drop off food items at any local Island Fin Poké Co. when the months of donations are announced. From there, Island Fin Poké Co. will work with local pantries to get the items where they need to go.
The company believes in not only offering healthy and customized poké bowls, but also in coming together during devasting times. To learn more about Island Fin Poké Co. and their locations to donate and help other Floridians, please visit https://www.islandfinpoke.com/. For media inquiries, contact PR@teaminnovision.com.
Island Fin Poké Co. is a Florida-based fast-casual concept known for its Hawaiian-style build-your-own poké bowls. From farm-to-fork, the brand uses the freshest ingredients to bring traditional flavors from the islands to local communities nationwide. Founded in 2017, Island Fin Poké Co. has 24+ locations open, with numerous others in various stages of development. Island Fin Poké Co. was listed in Fast Casual's 2022 Movers & Shakers List. For more information, or if interested in joining the brand's Ohana, please visit https://www.islandfinpoke.com/.
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REAL ESTATE BRIEFS: Quick-delivery homes in Wellen Park appeal to homebuyers
New-home construction has been moving along this summer in Wellen Park’s Playmore District, where quick-delivery homes save considerable time on the building process and feature the advantage of professionally curated design and style options, allowing buyers to move into their new home ahead of the winter season.
Catering to an array of lifestyles – from the ease of low-maintenance paired villas to larger single-family homes – Playmore’s eight distinct neighborhoods, in South Sarasota County, offer a variety of price points and floor plans from 1,400 to over 3,350 square feet.
Playmore’s convenient location places neighborhoods within walking distance of shopping, dining and entertainment in Downtown Wellen. Wellen Park’s growing network of biking, hiking and pedestrian trails links the district to community parks, outdoor recreation and amenities.
Quick delivery homes are priced from the $400,000s to over $1 million and several builders are offering limited-time savings on select homes.
Home sales began last fall in Playmore, which includes the newest section of Boca Royale, a semi-private golf and country club community minutes from Manasota Key Beach.
Sarasota-based Neal Communities offers quick move-in paired villas and single-family homes within Boca Royale’s 1,000-acre setting of mature moss-draped live oaks, sparkling lakes, nature preserves and 18 holes of championship golf.
Neal Communities is also building Playmore’s Avelina and Wysteria neighborhoods, both with quick move-in homes.
The gated, maintenance-assisted Avelina features 96 single-family homes with five available floor plans in British West Indies- and coastal-style architecture and a small park for connecting with nature.
Neal’s just-announced Wysteria offers 89 single-family homes with four available floor plans, 64 paired villas and maintenance assistance.
National luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers is finalizing construction of the four homes in the model park at Solstice, its introductory neighborhood in Wellen Park. Sales are open for 270 attached villas and one- and two-story single-family homes with 16 different floor plans.
Lennar recently broke ground on four models at the Wellen Park Golf & Country Club, a bundled golf community planned for 1,300 single-family and multifamily residences. The models are expected to open in early 2023, along with the 18-hole golf course.
To learn more about Wellen Park, call 941-960-7805, go to wellenpark.com or visit the Welcome Center at 12275 Mercado Drive, in Venice. The Welcome Center is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/business/2022/08/31/move-in-quick-in-wellen-parks-playmore-district/7893733001/ | 2022-08-31 14:23:58 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/business/2022/08/31/move-in-quick-in-wellen-parks-playmore-district/7893733001/ |
Computer News: The Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 Creative Pen & Touch Display and Pro Pen 3 deliver the precision and responsiveness to enhance almost any workflow and style.
NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- B&H is pleased to announce that Wacom is taking professional graphics workflows to the next level with the launch of the Cintiq Pro 27 Creative Pen and Touch Display. Designed to keep focused on your projects, this high-performance 26.9" pen and touchscreen display features a 3840 x 2160 resolution with a 120 Hz refresh rate and support for 10-bit color and high-dynamic range, covering 98% of the DCI-P3 gamut to deliver lifelike photos and illustrations. The easy-to-reach ExpressKeys allow you to quickly switch between touch gestures and pen inputs in addition to accelerating your workflow with customizable shortcuts.
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- 26.9" 4K 3840 x 2160 120 Hz Touchscreen
- 23.5 x 13.2" Active Area
- HDMI | Mini DisplayPort
- 8192 Levels of Pen Pressure Sensitivity
- 1.07 Billion Colors with HDR
- 98% Adobe RGB
- Eight Tactile ExpressKeys
- Wacom Pro Pen 3 Included
- USB Type-A & Type-C Ports
Debuting alongside the Cintiq Pro 27 creative display is the Wacom Pro Pen 3, which has a fully customizable design to fit just about any hand, style, and drawing preference. The pen included in the kit has an adjustable weight to change the pen's center of balance, flared and straight grips, and the option to have either three side switches or none at all. This battery-free pen also delivers 8192 levels of pressure sensitivity with a 60-degree tilt, creating a smooth, natural pen-and-paper feel while drawing thick and thin lines. The Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 Creative Pen and Touch Display connects to your system via its DisplayPort, HDMI, and USB-C connectors. It also includes USB ports to support peripherals such as the ExpressKey remote.
Complete your setup with the Cintiq Pro 27 Stand. With it, you can adjust the height, angle, and rotation of your creative display to draw and perform touch gestures in comfort.
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As the world's largest source of photography, video, and audio equipment, as well as computers, drones, and home and portable entertainment, B&H is known worldwide for its attentive, knowledgeable sales force and excellent customer service, including fast, reliable shipping. B&H has been satisfying customers worldwide for over 45 years.
Visitors to the website can access a variety of educational videos and enlightening articles. The B&H YouTube Channel has an unmatched wealth of educational content. Our entertaining and informative videos feature product overviews from our in-house specialists. You can view the B&H Event Space presentations from many of the world's foremost experts and interviews with some of technology's most dynamic personalities. Tap into this exciting resource by subscribing to the B&H YouTube Channel here. In addition to videos, the B&H Explora blog presents new product announcements, gear reviews, helpful guides, and tech news written by product experts and industry professionals, as well as our award-winning podcasts.
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